The Duke in the Spire of Thorns

Du Lian calmed down, he ignored Escrit's gaze, and focused all his attention on the table in front of him, and he didn't dare to look at Celeste, for fear that the other party's expression would make him lose the courage to speak .

"Alchemy can turn stones into gold. Stones are everywhere. If many alchemists know about Alchemy, they will make a lot of gold."

Mansfield remained silent, but Escrit asked, "What's wrong with that?"

Mansfield developed the alchemy technique a year ago. Before that, Escrit was the supporter of the family. He used a lot of pearls and precious stones to support Mansfield's pampered life. .Every once in a while he would go to the ocean to salvage the treasures from the sunken ship.

"The reason why gold is precious is that the amount of gold is small." Du Lian did not dare to look up, he knew Escrit's style well, "If there is more gold, gold will not be precious, but in a short period of time, everyone Unaware of this, they will buy what they want with endless gold, everything is bought, but there is a lot of gold left, and then those who sell things want to use the gold they have Buy something, and they'll find they can't buy it."

"In this way, what was originally bought with one gold coin can now be bought with ten or a hundred gold coins. When this happens, everyone will be afraid that gold will become less valuable in the future, and they will rush to buy it. Spend the money in your hands, and then everyone has no money, only goods, many workshops will close down, many people will have no jobs, no jobs and no money, they will panic, and then very terrible things will happen .”

Mansfield had never thought of this, and resting his chin on one hand, he began to think about what Durian had said.

Du Lian's words seemed to make sense, but it touched Mansfield's blind spot of knowledge. He had profound attainments in alchemy, but he didn't know much about other things.Now, Durian proposed an almost new theory, which was very interesting, and Mansfield was very interested.

He kept Du Lian.

Du Lian was trembling at the beginning, he didn't even dare to leave the door of his own room, but as time passed, he soon realized that Mansfield was not as bloodthirsty and cruel as the rumors said, nor did he eat human flesh and drink human blood habit.Du Lian's courage gradually grew.

Mansfield kept Durian in the castle just on a whim, just like keeping a small animal.Put him in a corner and ignore him.If he let Du Lian leave, those alchemists would definitely arrest Du Lian and force him to ask him about alchemy.They would torture Durian in various ways, which Mansfield didn't want to see.

After all, Du Lian was quite an interesting person.

On a warm afternoon, Du Lian mustered up his courage and stopped Mansfield who was about to go upstairs to take a nap.

"I...I have something I want to show you..."

Du Lian took out a puppet and placed it on the table. Before Mansfield could answer, he twisted the bump on the back of the puppet. He let go, and the puppet started to wobble.

This immediately attracted Mansfield's attention. He picked up the puppet with great interest and looked at it. There was no aura in the puppet. Technique doesn't matter.

Mansfield also made small puppets, he made many small puppets, and those puppets were responsible for cleaning the castle, but the puppets he made were all made of living wood, and then sealed the soul into the wood with alchemy .But Durian's little puppet was not like that.

It feels like holding a piece of lifeless firewood in your hand. How does such a thing move?

He was very curious, and dismantled the puppet into a pile of pieces, trying to find out its mystery, but he was so busy dismantling it that he forgot to observe the structure of the puppet, and encountered difficulties when he wanted to put it back together.

Mansfield stumblingly put together the puppet, but there were still many small parts that could not be put together. Escrit tried to help his master, but he failed.Finally, Mansfield took these things to find Du Lian, and Du Lian quickly assembled the small parts. He twisted the protrusion on the back of the puppet, and the puppet moved on the table again.

Mansfield looked at the puppet on the table, and then at Du Lian who was sitting across the table, showing an incomprehensible expression. He dismantled the puppet again, and this time he put it together by relying on his own memory. .

Du Li'an said very enthusiastically, "Actually, you can also use iron blocks!"

He took out a thick notebook from under the table, which was a book he wrote himself, called "The Mystery of Mechanics". Mansfield took the book and flipped through it, with an even weirder expression on his face.

Mansfield began to study Durian's mechanical theory in addition to alchemy, and then he spent half of his time studying machinery and researching alchemy, and then he spent much more time on machinery than on alchemy.The relationship between him and Du Lian gradually became better.

Du Lian spared no effort to recommend various books to Mansfield, of all types, most of which were history books. He tried to convince Mansfield that the study of alchemy had an end, but the study of machinery did not.

"Alchemy is coming to an end." Du Lian said, pointing to the text on the ancient book as he said: "Phil, look, how powerful the alchemists were hundreds of years ago, their strength is simply Just like the gods in the legend, but look at us now, we are not one percent as good as them, and alchemy is going downhill."

Mansfield began to dabble in various books, and he gradually agreed with Du Lian's statement.

Alchemy is indeed in decline.

Many materials needed for alchemy have disappeared with the passage of time, and alchemy consumes a lot, so it is doomed that alchemists cannot become the mainstay of the human population. Throughout history, alchemists do not seem to have any useful contributions. Alchemists The wizard usually appears in the history books as a conspirator, similar to a wizard.

The number of alchemists is also decreasing, because the number of people with alchemy talent is getting smaller every year, and there are not many people with high talent.Mansfield made a statistic at the suggestion of Du Lian, and the statistic result surprised him: If we look at the statistical trend, in another 1000 years, there will be no people with alchemy talent.

The science of alchemy is old, it will die in 1000 years.

But the subject of machinery is new, it is full of vigor, and there is no talent requirement, as long as the mind is flexible, it can be learned. What's more, it doesn't cost much money, and the results can bring benefits to people. Everyone can enjoy the benefits.

This shows that more and more people will learn it, and one day, more and more human beings will participate in the subject of mechanics.

It has a bright future and a bright future.Moreover, its subtlety is no worse than alchemy.

Mansfield pondered for a week, and then announced that he had given up alchemy.

Du Li'an was ecstatic, and he quickly shared all his research results with Mansfield. Mansfield's learning progress was very fast, and he quickly caught up with Dulian's progress.

"You are simply a genius."

Du Lian was about to give Mansfield a warm hug, but Mansfield took a step back: "You haven't showered for two weeks, don't touch me."

Du Lian: "..."

They were standing in an empty room right now. In the center of the room was a big iron bird with a strange appearance. This was Mansfield's creation after combining alchemy and machinery. It could fly up to 500 meters in the air.

Escrit stood beside Mansfield. Compared with Mansfield, Escrit disliked machinery very much. He thought that Du Lian had led his master astray and always tried to make trouble for him.

"Alchemy is timeless, and it cannot die," Escrit always said.

However, Mansfield had already made up his mind to devote himself to the machine, and Escrit couldn't change his mind, so he could only look at Du Lian gloomyly.