Chapter 109
Ahh~, today’s lovely~. Prolly not for the slaves being sold today.
I’m sitting in my room in the hotel and was reading one of the books I had bought yesterday at the "Book & Grimoire" auction. It’s a work that tells about Necromancy and Alchemy, and the connection between the two fields.
It’s one of the many books written by the Necromancer "Jill Jimson", a famous guy in the field of necromancy, including the "Undead: Walking corpses or those who refuse to die?", "Necro Arts: the battle style of the Necromancer", "Flesh Golem: A Zombie or a mechanical creature?", and the most interesting "Dracolich: The worst of Dragons". The one I’m reading now is called "Alchemy: The root of necromancy". You could guess the author just by the naming sense of the titles.
Yesterday’s auction was simply part of Blot’s plan to lower people’s impression of Filyn by buying several unpopular books, but I may have focused too heavily on the necromancer-genre. Sorry for that, but you can’t stop the thirst for knowledge!!
I also bought some books for the others, like cooking books for Revi and story-books about legendary swords for Mira and Flint. One copy each. Since the point of having "Filyn" buy stuff at the auction was to fool everyone to think she’s lacking the brains for a decent purchase, and that she’s not aiming to increase her war power, grimoires and other useful stuff were off-limits. Tch...
Let’s stop thinking about what I could have gotten and rather focus on the book I did get to buy. Hmm, so that’s how you can improve the Undead Servants. They never had levels, so I was unsure how I could power them up...
I made some space on the floor and unraveled a large rug I had taken outta my storage. A large magic circle was written on the rug, with three smaller circles on the outer ring of the main circle. It’s an Alchemy Circle, one of the most basic items an Alchemist needs. Well, that’s not completely true, as there’s a beginner-version that’s only got two outer circles.
Normally, you place a single item in at least two of the outer circles, match the aether-waves that are generated from the items, and voila! A new item appeared outta nowhere in the circle in the middle to replace the ones in the outer circle that had disappeared~.
Well, that’s Alchemy in a nutshell. It’s not that easy to synchronize the aether-waves, as every single item has its own wave-pattern, making each attempt different from the last, even if you’re making the same item outta the same materials as you did before.
Theoretically, anyone can perform Alchemy, but they won’t be able to "feel" the aether-waves unless they have the [Alchemy] skill, or something similar. My old [Magic Sight] wouldn’t work for that, so you would need something even rarer if you want to skip [Alchemy]. Not that I recommend it, as the skill also acts as a proficiency-boost in the same manner as [Swordsmanship].
Then there’s the "Circle"-skills that the Alchemist class provides. They allow you to instinctively know what kinda item you can create from the combination of items and also act as a proficiency-boost for the type of Alchemy they represent.