Krafft's Notes on Anomalies

In the past few days in Solace Port, the news that a certain ship had returned with treasure was known to everyone from the port area to the cathedral.

When everyone's poor thinking was still limited to going to the northern ice fields and panning for gold in the hands of barbarians, a ship returning from the south pioneered a reverse thinking.

William stood at the stern of the boat with his arms folded. The cheering sailors praised the captain's wisdom and generosity, which dispersed into the light mist of various colors of inferior glass, like an old fisherman casting a large net into the floating waters.

A few unlucky guys who got short-term lottery tickets stayed behind on the ship and watched with envy as their colleagues rushed into the building with an ambiguous sign with double their salary and gold coins.

This is the second batch of sailors to disembark. They will take the news to the city's taverns, special service venues and churches, which are the favorite high-traffic places for news dealers. The gold coins in their hands are circumstantial evidence of the news. There is no need to give any more instructions. The captain knows the habits of his sailors very well. It is impossible for a person who can brag about any trivial matter in a tavern for several days without showing off the gold coins he has obtained.

"Aren't you going to relax?"

"No, I don't want to go ashore. If it weren't for the hidden customers waiting for us, I wouldn't even want to enter the harbor and let these boys row their own boats." William took a deep breath of the sea mist mixed with the smell of wine and makeup, which was as thin as There was a layer of light veil that made him want to lift it up to reveal the hidden contents.

In fact, he tried it. The moment he stepped onto the stone slab of the dock, a slight hallucinatory tremor gave him a seasick-like discomfort, stemming from psychological rejection, even if the vibration only came from the wooden wheels of the carriage or the drunken sailors. Stumbling steps.

Maybe he will have to ask sailors to buy him alcohol in the future, and he will no longer be able to visit certain "reliable special service places". The former can still be solved, but the latter is much more difficult.

It is curious that sailors generally believe that taking a woman on board a ship is bad luck, a belief that is as widespread as belief in our Heavenly Father. Although neither of them is too firm, for example, Yvonne's status as a "child" and a passenger can barely be considered a borderline, but this is destined to cause serious dissatisfaction among the crew if she breaks the convention with personal needs.

Given that no one has invented the industry innovation of moving the venue onto the ship, I'm afraid captains will have to say goodbye to one of their two hobbies for a long time to come.

"Heavenly Father, why is this happening?" William picked up the small wine bottle and uncorked it. The strong smell suddenly overcame the faint smell of alcohol mixed with powder and sourness on the dock. Father Adrian's craftsmanship has improved again, and the fine wine made him feel a little better.

The view today was not very good, and the brilliance of Heavenly Father on earth could not be seen at the port through the fog in half the city, but he knew that the building was running, as was the double-story annex behind it, and the wine in his hand That's where it came from, Kraft had just brought it to him yesterday.

"Speaking of which, why don't you go?" After two sips of wine, the topic developed in an open direction. William carefully recalled the trajectory of this guy's actions since he met Kraft, and found that this made no sense at all, "At your age, even if you don't drink, you are not interested in it."

"It's not enough just with this face, right?"

After taking off the bandage, the scar that gradually healed did not damage the face that had not been taken away by the thing that took away the face. It only added some mature or hard style from a special angle. The overall impression changed from a soft scholar to a contemporary one. Knightly tilt who is popular with the opposite sex. Even without stroking the sleeves of the scholar's robe, others can tell that the sword is not just for looking at.

With this appearance, it's not a problem to get a 50% discount on door-to-door purchases.

William, who had frequent contacts with the church, believed that Kraft's living habits were much stricter than those of most moralists, and even his need for money was quite limited.

"So what else are you interested in?"

"That's too much." Kraft brushed away the smell of wine on the tip of his nose, sweeping away the decadence of lack of sleep, "Too many to finish."

Yesterday, after visiting and confirming that Father Adrian had implemented the abstinence plan during his absence, the two went to the Witcham Workshop together, asked for an ordinary glass retort, and started experimenting with great expectations.

In order to eliminate any possibility of leaks before the transaction was completed, they not only did not purchase the green crystal powder, but also purchased many irrelevant alchemy materials, including lizard heads, herbs, dried mushrooms, animals, plants and fungi, which was extremely confusing. . The real test materials were appropriated from the batch that William's friends gave him to add to the chart ink.

The testing process was less than ideal. As the light green powder began to change color, Craft, who had a keen sense of hearing, heard a small popping sound.

Adrian may have thought there was something wrong with the heating candle, so he prepared to take a closer look, but Kraft saw an ice crack near the flame that was inconspicuous among the flocculent impurities from a distance.

"Back off!"

He didn't dare to touch the bottle. He only had time to push Father Adrian's overly strong body under the table, and the explosion turned into an explosion.

The bottom of the seemingly solid retort exploded completely, and the hot glass shards caused a blister on the priest's buttocks that had not been tucked under the table. As a result, the priest could only sit on half of the chair for a week.

The next step is to clean up the mess, clean up the glass fragments and mineral powder all over the floor. Now I can feel the fine particles under my feet digging into the soles of my shoes. It would be best for the priest not to get into the habit of feeling the wooden floor with bare feet.

After this incident, Kraft understood the reason why the alchemist wanted to use pottery that could not observe the internal conditions.

Although it meets the requirements for corrosion resistance, the quality of glass in this era is really not trustworthy under high temperature tests. In comparison, pottery obviously has higher cost performance and performance advantages.

Well, I seem to know why that face has such severe chemical burns.

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"That's roughly it. Before the next experiment can produce that kind of alchemy potion, we need to customize a piece of pottery. Witcham will take care of it."

In fact, the craftsman was more eager than Kraft, and expected that they would have the finished product within two days.

"When this is over, I'm going to buy a big ship, a three-masted one." William corked the wine bottle. The new wine after the improved distillation process was so strong that even he couldn't adapt to it for a while. "Where's you? I feel like you It’s not like you came to this muddy water purely for money. So the alchemy potion itself is very useful to you?”

"Yes, but it's not just useful to me." Kraft admitted generously. There was nothing to keep secret. "As for money, I want to find a place to open a surgery clinic first."

"I thought you were the kind of elegant doctor who doesn't do rough work." William smiled. "It's the same as swinging a sword, causing bloodshed and screams, but with exactly the opposite purpose?"

"Soon it won't be."

"By the way, since you are the one who found this alchemy potion, you have the right to name it. Have you decided what to call it?"

"Uh..." Choosing a name is not an easy task. Kraft scratched his wet and fallen hair and first ruled out the chemical name.

"Why don't we call it green vitriol? The product will look a bit like oil, so we'll call it green vitriol oil."

"What a weird name. Is it too simple?"

"You don't understand. Many people will thank me in the future." They will not have to curse an unmemorable name on the eve of the exam.