Chapter 83

Actually, Falo did not know that when he and Haus walked out of the alchemy laboratory, Lin Yun also knew that the people from the Dual Moons' Radiance had come...

While Lin Yun was studying the stone tablet, he suddenly had a new idea, so he wanted the old butler to call Raymond back. However, when the old butler came up, he didn't have time to mention Raymond, but instead brought up the Dual Moons' Radiance, saying that they had sent an alchemist to want to conduct a technical exchange with the Gilded Rose.

When the old butler said this, there was a hint of worry on his face.

Rog Merlin had been in the alchemy business, and the old butler had seen so much of it. How could he not know what such a technical exchange meant? It was nothing more than alchemy shops trying to outdo each other, aiming to dominate the market by surpassing their rivals in technology.

A technical exchange sounded good, but in reality, it was just a way to come and smash the reputation and humiliate the other party.

"Hehe, as expected, they came." Lin Yun was not at all surprised. When the Mengqi family held the alchemy release event, Lin Yun knew that this technical exchange would eventually come.

If the Mengqi family wanted to intervene in the alchemy market of Thousand Sails City, they could not bypass the Gilded Rose. The appearance of the Hope Potion had directly made the Gilded Rose one of the best alchemy shops in Thousand Sails City. Once the expansion of the shop was completed, it could even be the best. Although the Dual Moons' Radiance of the Mengqi family had a grand momentum, in the eyes of many people, it still lacked a signature work like the Hope Potion.

Now, the Mengqi family had held an alchemy release event, announcing the Void Potion and the Bloodlust Potion, giving them the confidence to surpass the Gilded Rose in technology.

If they didn't come for a technical exchange at this time, Lin Yun would have to doubt whether the Mengqi family's intelligence was the same as Mason's...

However, to be honest, Lin Yun was not worried at all.

Lin Yun could even guess that the so-called Void Potion and Bloodlust Potion were actually imitations of the Volcano Potion and the Ghost Potion.

When Mengqi spent four million gold coins to buy the Volcano Potion and the Ghost Potion at the Black Horn Auction, Lin Yun knew that it was likely that some alchemist had taken a fancy to the technology used in them.

But what if someone took a fancy to it...

Alchemy technology was not like cabbages on the street, which you could take away just because you liked them.

Any alchemist of sufficient level, as long as they were willing to spend time, could analyze some technology from alchemy items. These technologies could be about the processing of magical materials, design ideas, or operational techniques...

However, in the long history of the Noscent world, had there ever been a great alchemist who successfully copied a master's work?

Not to mention a master...

Even the mutual copying among great alchemists had never appeared in the history of the Noscent world.

Analyzing an alchemy item could only obtain the simplest and most superficial technology. Slightly more core content could not be obtained through analysis.

Therefore, the knowledge inheritance among alchemists was always through master-apprentice relationships.

Because there were some things that only your teacher could tell you, and only then would you know and understand them.

Those things were the true core of alchemy...

To obtain everything through analysis, unless you were the creator yourself, analyzing an alchemy apprentice's work, you could indeed see everything at a glance, but this was a result of knowledge and level superiority, not the analysis itself.

What analysis could bring was only inferior imitations like the Void Potion and the Bloodlust Potion.

One second of physical immunity, a brief state of madness...

Lin Yun didn't even bother to look at such things.

...

At this moment, Falo had already brought Haus to the Gilded Rose's hall. At a glance, there were many people inside, all of whom had heard that the Dual Moons' Radiance and the Gilded Rose were going to have a technical exchange, so they came to watch the spectacle. Some came from the adjacent Sage Tower, some from the nearby Mercenary Guild, and some were even the owners and alchemists of other alchemy shops...

Anyway, when Falo entered the hall, there were at least a hundred people inside!

"How so many people..." Falo cursed inwardly. These guys were really bored, hearing there was a spectacle to watch, they ran faster than anyone else. Damn it, the Silver Moon Mercenary Group was on a distant expedition to Razor Cleft, why didn't you go and watch that? Afraid of getting covered in blood?

After a moment of inward grumbling, he looked into the crowd and couldn't help but frown.

"It's actually Hawking?" Standing in the middle of the crowd was a middle-aged man, looking to be in his forties, with an ordinary appearance and a somewhat worn-out robe.

But Falo knew that this was a great alchemist.

A great alchemist from the Black Tower!

Before Falo entered the Black Horn Auction, he studied alchemy at the Oakland Academy, which was in the traditional territory of the Black Tower. At that time, Hawking already had a considerable reputation, being a great alchemist in his thirties, and had even been invited by the Oakland Academy to give a class to Falo and his classmates.

Not long after, he was recruited by the Black Tower, and Falo also knew that besides being a great alchemist, Hawking was also a very powerful high mage. When Falo went to Thousand Sails City, Hawking was already a fifth-level high mage, and his current strength was probably sixth or even seventh level...

"A bit troublesome..."

"Let me introduce myself first, I am Hawking, a great alchemist of the Dual Moons' Radiance. I believe everyone has heard that a few days ago, the Dual Moons' Radiance held an alchemy release event, and the Bloodlust Potion was my work." When Hawking spoke, his gaze swept over the crowd, but did not linger on anyone, because Hawking felt that none of the people present were worthy of his attention.

As a great alchemist from the Black Tower, Hawking believed he had the right to be proud.

Even if you looked at the entire Thousand Sails City, there were only three people Hawking would consider worthy of his attention: one was Soph, one of the three major figures of the Sage Tower; one was the president of the Alchemists' Guild, Les; and one was Cadgar of the Black Horn Auction. The first two were because they were close to being masters, and Cadgar was because he had the backing of the Black Horn Chamber of Commerce. Apart from them, the other great alchemists in Thousand Sails City were nothing to Hawking...

Because he was a great alchemist from the Black Tower!

As for the small Gilded Rose, it was even less worth mentioning...

Even if the Gilded Rose had introduced the Hope Potion, apart from the cost factor, the Hope Potion was not a particularly outstanding alchemy potion. In the end, the Hope Potion was only aimed at magic apprentices, and the alchemy knowledge involved was only at the alchemist level. As long as you had the formula, any ordinary alchemist could complete it.

If it weren't for the repeated requests of the Mengqi family and the promise of various precious magical materials, he probably wouldn't have come to the Gilded Rose.

What technical exchange...

A group of ordinary alchemists, do they deserve to have a technical exchange with me, a great alchemist?

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