Old Jack's home is at the very back of an alley in the old port area.
It was a three-story house with a courtyard. Although it looks quite dilapidated now, a few decades ago, such a house was not available to ordinary people and was very expensive.
Unfortunately, as the Fennessy River changed its course into the sea, the old port area declined rapidly, and its former status was replaced by the new port area.
The value of houses here has naturally been greatly reduced.
But no matter what, it is still very enviable to own such a house in the royal capital where land is extremely expensive.
But when Ronan entered, he realized that the inside could be described as a house with four walls. A thief would shed tears when he came, and a mouse would crawl away after entering.
Not even a decent piece of furniture!
Old Jack lit a kerosene lamp and said with a smile: "In order to learn alchemy, I sold everything I could sell at home."
This is the only house left.
In fact, if Ronan hadn't come to the rescue at the Copper Anchor Casino, he probably wouldn't have been able to save his house.
Ronan frowned and glanced around the empty living room, and couldn't help but ask: "Are you studying alchemy here?"
"of course not."
Old Jack hung the kerosene lamp on the wall, and then pulled a certain mechanism.
With a "rumbling" sound, a large area of the floor lifted up automatically, revealing a secret passage leading underground.
Old Jack's alchemy laboratory is down here!
Ronan followed the other person down the stairs, and the sight in front of him made his eyes light up.
The underground secret room is quite large and equipped with electric lights. It is filled with various large and small instruments and tools.
Old Jack used a proud tone to introduce the names and uses of many instruments and equipment to Ronan.
These instruments and equipment were purchased and customized by him one after another over the past few decades, and he spent a lot of gold pounds.
Moreover, it is easily damaged during the alchemy process, and repurchasing it costs a lot of money.
But compared to the alchemy materials, these instruments and equipment are nothing.
"Alchemy materials are really too expensive."
Old Jack couldn't help but complain to Ronan: "Ten grams of mithril costs two hundred gold pounds, which is only enough to complete three experiments. If it is extraordinary materials, such as vampire fangs and magic crystals, it will be even more expensive..."
"As we all know, only spellcasters can become alchemists."
Ronan asked: "Since you are an ordinary person, why do you have to go down this road?"
This is what puzzles Ronan the most.
He felt that Old Jack's stubbornness was beyond imagination. Just for his childhood dream, he crawled forward on a road that was destined to be a dead end, even at the risk of losing everything.
"Mortals can also create miracles."
Ronan's question made Old Jack clench his fists, the corners of his eyes twitched a few times, and he murmured: "This is the motto of the legendary alchemist von Bryant!"
Ronan felt that Old Jack must have been deceived, and this sentence may not have been said by some legendary alchemist master.
But Ronan didn't want to point it out, after all, he was here to study.
"Then where do I start?"
In the Blood Moon world, alchemy is a subject, and it is also an extremely complex and profound subject.
A talented spellcaster often needs to put in ten or even decades of hard work and consume countless money and resources before he can become a true alchemist.
And if you want to become an alchemist, you need to master a lot of knowledge and skills.
This is the alchemical knowledge system that Old Jack spent more than thirty years summarizing.
He tried to break the barriers that were insurmountable for mortals and create an alchemical path that was different from the traditional one, that is, the spellcaster's.
Unfortunately, although old Jack has achieved some results, he is still far from becoming an alchemist.
In fact, the current old Jack is not even an alchemy apprentice, at most he is a fanatic.
But he is more than enough to serve as Ronan's alchemy mentor - he has a wealth of theoretical knowledge, and he also has a dedicated laboratory at home!
So in the following days, Ronan left his apartment in the early morning every day, rode a bicycle he bought to the old port area, and learned alchemy knowledge from Old Jack.
I didn't go home until sunset.
Because Ronan had saved his life and paid a high tuition fee, Old Jack could say that he taught everything he could without any reservation.
Ronan's learning ability also surprised this descendant of a shabby businessman.
Ronan has a very strong memory, and he can remember any content firmly in his mind as long as he reads or listens to it once.
In addition, his comprehension and understanding, especially his ability to master mathematics, physics and chemistry, simply made Old Jack despair!
To put it bluntly, Ronan made old Jack truly realize how big the gap can be between ordinary people and geniuses.
His lifetime of knowledge had been accumulated in a very short period of time, and was completely mined by Ronan.
In the process of learning alchemy, Ronan gradually became fascinated.
Alchemy is undoubtedly the most profound knowledge and skill in this world. Mastering it will allow Ronan to have a more in-depth understanding of the laws of the Blood Moon Realm.
Of course, such learning is not free. In addition to the tuition fees paid to Old Jack, the expenditure on purchasing alchemy materials is also constantly consuming Ronan's savings.
While studying hard every day, Ronan also gradually became familiar with his next door neighbor.
Dolores is a very hard-working woman. She has to work two or even three jobs every day to barely support herself and her daughter.
This descendant of a run-down nobleman did not originally live here, but in another cheap small apartment.
It's just that the apartment was located in the old port area, and the environment was quite bad. As a beautiful lady, she and her daughter were faced with danger, and they lived in fear every day.
With no other choice, Dolores had to move to this expensive but much safer apartment.
Because of her hard work, she couldn't take good care of Janice Tolan and could only let the latter stay at home.
Out of sympathy for the mother and daughter, Ronan would give Little Black to Janice Toland every time he left home.
It was said that the latter was allowed to take care of her, but in fact, the little girl was given a companion so that she would no longer be alone.
He also brought back some delicious food for Janice from time to time.
And Janis likes the big cat Xiao Hei very much. She combs his hair every day and feeds him the cat food purchased by Ronan.
Dolores was happy to see this happen and was very grateful to Ronan.
The days passed like this, and in the blink of an eye it was already more than a month later.