Dan lit the candle, and the scene in the secret room deeply shocked the two of them: gold bars were piled up in the secret room, almost filling the entire room from bottom to top, leaving only a narrow passage in the middle. The huge gold bar
The quantity even makes people feel the insignificance of the measurement unit of "ton". Although Dan and Ella were silent, a reasonable guess emerged in their minds at the same time: Could this Mamelkus have already
Mastered the ultimate secret of metal transmutation and made a philosopher's stone that can turn base metals into gold?
This conjecture made Dan ecstatic, but made Ella worried. Once Dan obtained the method to refine the philosopher's stone, Ella would no longer be of any use to him. With an uneasy mentality, she followed Dan into the passage and turned.
After a few turns, an alchemy workbench appeared in front of them, with a thick notebook on it.
Dan almost rushed to the alchemy table and held the note in his hand. When Ella approached her, he kicked Ella to the ground:
"This is mine!" he yelled at Ella, "You can't take it away from me!"
Then, he opened the notes with trembling hands and read the words above:
"Lime, one-sixteenth of an ounce, and sulfur, powdered, in equal quantities. Let the two be together in the same room, stimulate their passions with the urine of the young man, and urge them together with fire. After that, filter
From the blood of the Virgin, this holy blood, which can turn silver into gold.”
Dan looked around and found lime and sulfur on the workbench. He ground the sulfur into powder and put it into a container with the lime. Then there was the young man's urine. Dan looked at Ella intentionally or unintentionally.
Blushing, he covered his skirt and shook his head vigorously. Dan also found it troublesome and muttered to himself: "I should be pretty young, right?" Then he mixed the urine in in front of Ella. Then, he acted like nothing was wrong.
He also lit a fire and heated the bottom of the container. After a while, the liquid in the container took on the color of blood. Dan filtered out the sediment, leaving only the liquid, and then put the silver pieces in with slightly trembling hands.
In Ella's surprised eyes, the silver piece quickly turned yellow-brown, and then gradually began to show the color and luster of gold. Dan took the silver piece out of the solution and exposed it to the air. After a long time, it
Still maintains the gold color stably.
"Silver... turned into gold?"
"Not necessarily, let me test it with saltpeter. The hands of philosophers have told us that saltpeter is a crown and a mill. It grinds everything, and only real gold can withstand its test."
Dan rummaged around on the workbench for a while and found a bottle of liquid. He put the discolored metal into the liquid. After a while, the entire metal dissolved in the liquid.
"As expected, transmutation did not really happen, it just gave the surface of silver a layer of hypocrisy. This is probably how the gold bars in this room were produced. This is not the skill of Hermes, but the devil's.
Seduction.”
Dan threw the note to the ground in disgust.
"I don't need these things. If you want them, I'll get them for you."
Ella was so shocked that she couldn't speak for a moment.
Five hundred years ago, the Qiqiu Empire's monetary system collapsed under the impact of a large number of counterfeit currencies. During the most severe period, the silver content of the silver coins circulating in the Qi Qiu Empire market dropped from 52% to less than 5%. It was stable.
Currency, a certain generation of Basileus named Diocletian issued new coins and at the same time ordered the abolition of alchemy.
If these counterfeit golds continue to flow into the market, the currency system of the Seven Hills Empire will definitely be in a more serious crisis than five hundred years ago - no, they must have flowed into the market in large quantities, otherwise Mamelkus would not be so wealthy.
Is this the secret of the sudden revival of the Aemilius family?
After realizing the vulnerability of the Qiqiu Empire's army, not even half a day passed before Ella felt her hands and feet go cold again because of the empire's economic situation.
At this time, Dan picked up another stack of paper from the alchemy table. He glanced at it, said "hum", and then casually threw his finger to the ground. Ella picked up the paper scattered on the ground, and then
Asked: "What is this?"
"A list of customers. It is impossible for him to digest so much fake gold alone. And once discovered, it is easy to trace the source. So he has a group of customers who know the actual condition of the gold. He
He did not use the gold directly, but sold it wholesale to his customers at a lower price, allowing it to flow into the market in small pieces. Judging from the list, he has quite a number of customers."
Ella flipped through the list page by page with dignified fingers. This document, which Dan dismissed with disdain, made Ella feel trapped in an ice cave - the list was full of names that Ella was familiar with.
The royal family, nobles, governors, generals, cabinet ministers... She made a rough estimate that more than one-fifth of the nobles in the Qiqiu Empire appeared on this list.
"It's really unlucky. Boss Hestein thought the Seven Hills Empire was rich... This kind of shabby place full of fake gold, if you ask me, it's better to rob those small tribes that don't even have city walls..."
——Even the pirates are starting to dislike the Qiqiu Empire?
An unprecedented anger surged into Ella's heart. She suddenly picked up her sword, abandoned Dan and ran outside.
The prisoners were being gathered in the hall on the first floor. Amy, who was only wearing a piece of cloth, was holding a knife, sweating, and smiling "hey hey" under the frightened eyes of the captives and the shocked sight of the pirates.
, while stripping off the prisoners' clothes one by one. Ella didn't have the mind to pay attention to this. She searched for the location of Mamelkus with all her strength. After finally finding the location of Mamelkus, she jumped directly from the second floor.
, using the force of the fall to pierce the sword deeply into Mamelkus' body.
"What are you doing? These prisoners can be exchanged for ransom!" The pirate on the side wanted to pull Ella away, but Ella broke free from his hand, pulled out the sword hard, and then stabbed Mamei with the sword again.
Erkus's body!
Mamelkus's company was twisted due to severe pain. "Baselisa, you..." Before she could finish the sentence, Ella suddenly snatched the dagger from Amy's hand and stuffed it into Mamelkus.
In Si's mouth, with a spurt of blood, Mamelkus's entire tongue was cut off by Ella.
"It was the shield girl who took the lead in conquering the city gate..."
The pirates nearby were whispering like this, so no pirates stopped Ella anymore.
Ella did not kill Mamelkus immediately. Her sword avoided the vital points and stabbed into various insignificant parts of Mamelkus' body again and again, then stirred and cut inside, from the instep to the calf muscles.
, from the abdomen to the chest, from the palms of the hands to the eyes. The bloody scene made many pirates unable to bear to look directly at it, and Mamelkus' silent and shrill wail made everyone's hair stand on end.
After a while, Mamelkus lost his voice. So, Ayla began to cut off the flesh of Mamelkus's body piece by piece. One knife, one knife, and another knife. Just one Mamelkus couldn't do it.
For Ella to carry such huge hatred, what she vents is her resentment towards the entire decadent empire!
