Chapter 161 Alchemy and Chemistry


    The principle behind a DC Generator and its structure was very simple. During his childhood, Rnd had once taken apart more than a dozen four-wheel drive motors. From the ordinary stock motors, to the legendary golden panther, and also the build it yourself type hand rotators made out of copper wire. These motors were all considered to be regr DC motors.


    There was no difference in the structure of DC Generators and DC Motors, at their essence, they were all the same thing, their function was interchangeable. As long as there was another machine to help the rotator of the DC Motor rotate, and causing the wire to continuously cut through the maic induction line, it could continue to generate and induce an electrical current without end.


    With the help of Anna and Mystery Moon, Rnd needed only half a day to finish assembling a simple DC motor. All the parts of the stator were made out of wood and then given to Mystery Moon for her to maism them. The rotor was made of a wooden log withmotators embedded at the tip of both ends. The rotor would be connected by a shaft to the steam engine through a hole in the center. This structure was very convenient to produce, but at the same time it also ensured that themutators would be isted from each other.


    As for the new steam engine, Rnd and Mystery Moon just stood to the side and looked on as Anna performed her incredible processing techniques. If they needed to makerger parts, she would spread out her ck fire, wrap it like a cover around a bunch of ingots and let them melt within the cover. She would then mold the iron into the required sizes. Afterward, she only needed to cut out the right form.


    On the next day, when Rnd was ready to go to the calcining room in his backyard to test out the generator’s effectivity, the guards also brought him some very pleasant news. The Chief Instructor of Silver City’s Alchemy Workshop hade to Border Town, and also, there was more than one other person that hade with him.


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    Kyle Sichi acted in a very decisive manner, in the afternoon, on that very same day he took his family and more than a dozen disciples with him and boarded on the next merchant ship heading towards Border Town. Unfortunately, Chavez had ended up hesitating for a long time, but in the end, decided to reject Kyle’s invitation.


    Kyle hadn’t disclosed the contents of the letter to any of the other alchemists since the more people who knew about it, theter the departing time would have to be scheduled. Kyle worried that it wouldn’t take very long before the news about his sess in reproducing Crystal ss would reach the Duke’s ear, and if by then he still wanted to go out, now after bing known to have the ability to create high-profit luxury products, the Duke certainly want to keep him firmly under his control.


    He had written down the form for crystal ss and its firing method on paper, then stored it in the form cupboard of the refining room. This would in turn also give the Duke the opportunity to heavily invest in the production of crystal ss and in so doing also invest in the Alchemy Workshop indirectly. Butparing it with learning about the truth of alchemy, whether it was the recipe of crystal ss or the Alchemy Workshop in general, they both wouldn’t even be worth mentioning.


    Five dayster, Kyle finally had the opportunity to see the author of the letter, Rnd Wimbledon.


    Right now they were in the castle’s reception hall, and Kyle had just finished giving his greeting, but even before he had ced his butt on the chair, he couldn’t stop himself any longer from speaking out. “Your Highness, I would like to have a friendly conversation with your alchemist.”


    “My alchemist?” Hearing his question the Prince just grinned “Before you came to Border Town, we had no alchemist here, but from now on you are my alchemist.”


    “You mean ... those alchemical forms, were written by you?” Kyle suddenly thought of another possibility, my counterpart is a prince, who has received all his knowledge from private teachers and other mentors. So, if he knows about these forms, doesn’t this mean that King’s City Alchemy Workshop had already known about the essence of alchemy for a long time? And we, in our delusion thought we were finally getting ahead of them, now that seems to be just utterly ridiculous.


    “Not exactly,” Rnd said. “These forms came from an ancient book which were written more than four hundred years ago and were recently discovered by me. It seems that hundreds of years ago they called alchemy ‘chemistry’.”


    “What...” When Kyle heard that the forms didn’te from King’s City’s Alchemy Workshop, his heart suddenly felt a lot better. But the Prince’s answer still surprised him. An alchemy book that was more than 400 years old? One had to know that even the King’s City’s Alchemic Workshop only had a history of less than 200 years, could it be that theter generation will also look at our inventions?


    “Yes, in the book, those schrs had formted a hypothesis, which they called, “The Theory of the immortality of matter.” It states that matter which is the source of all things in the world will neither disappear nor will it increase. It will only transfer from one form to another. But in the end, they are all a piece of the same cake,” Rnd pointed to a cake ced on a nearby table, “If you eat that, it will enter your stomach, from there some of the parts of which it’s formed will be absorbed by you, bing a part of your body, while the rest of it will be excreted. So, if you now would take the integrated parts and the expelled parts andpare them with the former cake, the quality of the matter should still be the same.”


    “Hold on... Your Royal Highness,” Kyle expressed his thoughts, “If I take a piece of wood, cut it and burn it to ashes, no matter how much it previously weighed, the weight of the ashes after the fire will be lighter than that of the former piece of wood. If the matter didn’t disappear, then where did it go?”


    “These problems are also exined in the books,” Rnd saidughingly. “The missing matter was turned into gas and water, and the water was heated up so much that it turned into gas as well and evaporated. So, in the end, you can only see the residue from what was left behind.”


    “Gas?” Kyle got an unexinable feeling in his heart, “Do you want to say that the air also has a weight?”


    “Of course, the air also has mass.” The Prince nodded in confirmation, “It is also very easy to verify this point, just put a pile of sawdust into a bottle, then cover the bottle and ce it on a scale. Afterward, you set the sawdust in the bottle on fire and weights it again. you will eventually discover, that the weight of the bottle hasn’t changed. This is because the gas had no way out and still remains inside the bottle.”


    “This... was this also written in the ancient books?” Kyle eagerly asked, “Could you let me see that book?”


    “You can, if you ept a few of my conditions first,” Rnd gave him a piece of paper.


    “You only have to name them.”


    “First of, if you want to work for me, your sry will be calcted ording to the regr payment of Silver City’s Alchemy Workshop. Secondly, once you ept this job, you mustply with the confidentiality regtions. That means, everything you learn has to remain a secret to other alchemists. Thirdly, if you agree to the terms, you have to sign this contract.


    “The dealsts for a period of five years and when the five years are over, you are free to go on to choose your own fate. Furthermore, your alchemy discoveries won’t be ced under the confidentiality restrictions any longer. You will be free to show your discoveries to your colleagues at the Alchemy Workshop. If you ept these three conditions, ording to the contract, Border Town will provide you with free housing and a chemicalboratory. Andstly, I will lend you the book title “Elementary Chemistry” to study, and if there is something that you don’t understand, you can alwayse and ask me.”


    These doesn’t seem to be very harsh conditions, Kyle thought, although those words such as confidential regtions, chemicalboratory and so on are really hard to pronounce, I think I was able to grasp the general meaning, also, a five-year contract also isn’t that long. Kyle had previously thought that the Price would make it a requirement that he would have to stay in Border Town forever.


    And... even if he had demanded harsher conditions, Kyle would still have wanted to see the book with his own eyes, the book on which was recorded the essence of alchemy.


    After he had thought it through, Kyle got up from his seat and bent his waist: “I’m willing to serve you, Your Royal Highness.”


    “Excellent, now we have a deal,” the Prince did not seem to care about the etiquette, “Your workce will be directly beside the Chishui River. After signing the contract, I will take you with me and have you familiarize yourself with theboratory I will introducing you to the usage of the ssware and informing you about the workce’s rules.”


    Hearing all this, Kyle felt that there was something wrong with this situation, how can it be that the Prince is so skilled in alchemy, making people think that he is always keeping another card up in his sleeve? Shouldn’t he be just some ordinary noble that found an ancient book and simply brushed up against alchemy?


    However, these were all only minor details, he suppressed his doubts and asked, “Does Your Highness need me to refine something for you?”


    “I do, I need a highly-concentrated acid. The higher the concentration, the better.” The Prince replied.