Dawn of the Grey Tower

The expression on Cheese's face became more and more serious when he operated the alchemy dice, because he realized the circumstances under which his fellow students would equip his creation with this function that almost destroys its existence.

　　 The alchemist was totally unsure. He had no expectations about his future and the things he was studying. He didn't know what would happen after his dice was thrown down, so he was afraid to let this dice have the function of reversing. This is of course convenient for the current cheese. He only needs to stick his hand here to let the instrument fade away by itself.

　　 But it is also hurting the heart of cheese, because as a researcher, what is more cruel than this?

　　 Maybe the puppeteer didn't intend to expand the influence of alchemy, maybe he was like but didn't know what to do, the instrument left by the gray robe did not have a large-scale impact as initially thought.

　　 It just changed the structure of the workshop and some trivial things. These cheeses can be learned from the backward steps. And he also saw the research and results of the puppeteer here through the recovery of the instrument. This was another thing that made him feel sad.

　　 In the beginning, the research direction of the puppeteer was human imitation, and the main products were prostheses and prostheses. This is a very hot commodity on the rushing streets where the rush is serious. A good prosthesis needs to be tailor-made by artisans, but what can be done is only slightly assisting the basic daily life of the disabled.

　　Alchemy prosthesis is not the case. The magic of alchemy allows it to make fine parts that artisans can't imagine, and then make fine adjustments to the prosthesis user's condition. At the same time, the side effects of alchemy can also enable prosthetics to have magical functions that conventional creations cannot, such as the oil lamp built into the arm, or the finger that can ignite.

　　 Although this level of application is not worth mentioning for cheese, it is not an abuse. Moreover, by imitating prostheses, the puppeteer must have accumulated a considerable degree of human tissue knowledge, which may not be regarded as an alternative teaching method of anatomy and structure.

　　 But gradually, his research direction has deviated. The first is that the parts of the alchemy prosthesis gradually shift from the limbs, joints, and bones to the organs. This is a very dangerous thing, because the organs are directly involved in the internal circulation of the human body. This is not a simple question of replacing wherever they are broken.

　　 As expected, in the report recorded by the instrument, the research and development of alchemy organs was very difficult, which directly led to the shift of research on the puppeteer.

　　 It’s not difficult to understand what it turns out to be. When a person simply defunctionalizes the human body, and then finds that a replacement organ that looks exactly the same at first glance can’t really replace the human organ, what would he think is the mistake?

　　 He is bound to consider that there is an insurmountable sky between life and non-life. It is this invisible sky that prevents his creation from functioning, because they are dead and have no vitality. So, where does the vitality come from? Or how should we break the barrier between the dead and the living?

　　This is the beginning of the misguided path, because this question is enough to make magic researchers including the gray robes difficult to die.

　　Spellcasters are very pragmatic, as are people who study spells. When faced with a problem that cannot be dealt with, finding another way out naturally happens. If it is impossible to penetrate the boundary between life and death, then use living things to extract vitality. Is this idea natural? At least for most people in this era, yes.

　　 So the puppeteer’s research goals changed again, from alchemy organs to life extraction devices, and his results were those weaving machines and murderous puppets. It sounds like something is wrong. If it's just life extraction, shouldn't it be a textile machine? What do those dolls have to do with this?

　　 Actually, including the cheese before, I didn’t think about a problem clearly. Dolls need motivation. But cheese has not been able to crack the real mystery of their power, and the answer is precisely the product of those textile machines. But it’s not that simple. It’s not that the cloth of life woven by the textile machine can directly supply the energy of the doll. It’s just the first step of extraction. There are many steps to go through to convert the vitality into usable. Energy is injected into the doll. The conversion efficiency is horribly low.

　　 This has to make Cheese think of the female mage of the City of Ten Thousand Magicians, Wei Ya, whose energy-shaping spells can directly invoke human life energy. I just don't know which of the alchemy life extraction technology or the direct use of energy as a medium to manipulate life is more cost-effective.

　　 In fact, there is no need to carefully consider, because they all involve the intolerable part of cheese, the desecration of life.

　　 is not a blasphemy of the soul, but of life. Cheese himself knows the difference, and he also knows why he hates the way of manipulating life.

　　 Therefore, he felt that the puppeteer was very sad. A person whose original intention was to save people, in order to save people better, became an executioner responsible for countless lives that died early. Is it the possibility brought by alchemy that made this man degenerate? Or is this person crazy?

　　 I'm afraid they complement each other.

　　Mage is a person who knows the mystery. It is an individual who brings about changes with knowledge. Before that, it must be remembered that knowledge comes from changes, and so do people. No one or knowledge can exist beyond change and stand above all else as the answer to everything. If there is, it is the truth.

　　Alchemy cannot be regarded as truth, because it is in the process of change. It is the learning of change. When you break away from change or think you have mastered the law of change, it will lose its meaning. But throughout the ages, on the path of a mage, he has either sought power but never knew it, or sought power without knowing it, or thought he was in control of everything.

　　 Therefore, spellcasters cannot have a good end, and they will not be able to escape the fate of being swallowed.

　　 Therefore, to a certain extent, the alchemist who left his knowledge in such a conservative manner is the same as the gray robe master who chose to disappear. They both chose a path other than the roads above. What about yourself? Which path will his cheese take? Will he one day be afraid of himself, so afraid that he has to end his life to escape the coming bad ending?

he does not know. It is true that the future is full of hope, but hope is contained in a box, which also contains all the suffering and torture. The most tragic thing is not not seeing the future, but looking at the past at a glance, the future is full of mud.

　　 But the most miserable part can often give birth to the greatest ~ www.readwn.com ~ this has been the case throughout the ages.

　　 As the rolling of the dice in the instrument gradually stopped, this dark room also became dilapidated. Its prototype is probably just an unused cellar. With a complex expression of cheese, he raised his hand, and the sticky object on the console was transformed into an alchemy dice and fell into his hand.

　　 On the other side, the big dice has quietly fallen to the bottom of the instrument, as inconspicuous as an uncut rock. This may also be the revelation left by the same school. After the man-made transformation is at the end, the things created are the creations that can be seen everywhere in nature, and this is not the reason for the insignificance of manpower, but it is using the wrong direction of effort.

　　 Cheese put away the small dice, walked to the big dice, and stared at the thing.

　　 After a long time, he let out a sigh, and then pointed his finger on the stone.

　　 With a creaking sound, the big alchemy dice that can turn decay into a magic shattered into a handful of powder, without restoring the original ability. It's nothing to be a pity, he can't take this thing on the road, besides, as long as he has the knowledge in the small dice, it is only a matter of time before the big one is copied.

　　 patted his cheek lightly with both hands and sorted out his expression. Cheese stretched his hand under the instrument, and then pulled it hard!

　　 Only a piece of gray cloth was pulled out from the gap under the instrument by him, shook in the wind, and turned into an identical gray robe. It's just that it can no longer reveal the original emblem, because the person that the emblem symbolizes is no longer there.

　　 "Rest in peace, my brother. Your knowledge and research will be continued, and your discoveries and accomplishments will last forever in the library."

　　 After he finished speaking, he shook his hand again, and the gray robe turned into a piece of cloth again, which was tucked into the inside of the clothes.