As Ishtar’s voice fell, Ereshkigal’s heart immediately rang alarm bells—bad!
If she didn’t do something quickly, she might no longer be Grimm’s only best partner.
More importantly, it was impossible for Ishtar to miss any opportunity to snatch precious things from her!
“I…” She originally wanted to speak, but the Goddess of the Underworld suddenly fell silent.
Her vessel, Tohsaka Rin, although a very excellent magician and a wielder of the five elements.
However, she happened not to be an Alchemy expert, at least not qualified to be mentioned in the same breath as the famous Einzbern family, such a millennium-old Alchemy prestigious family.
Facing Grimm’s request, she could do nothing, and could only grit her teeth, watching helplessly as Ishtar thrust herself into the matter.
Incompetent Goddess of the Underworld.
Grimm looked over in surprise twice.
He had thought that Ereshkigal, being able to set up a safe house with an effect comparable to Cassell College’s alchemical matrix, was the authentic Alchemy master.
Turns out there was an even higher expert?
Ereshkigal’s silence at this moment undoubtedly equated to corroborating the truth of Ishtar’s statement.
I see.
I originally thought Ishtar was purely useless, but who would have thought she had such a wonderful use?
Did I misjudge her earlier?
Today’s victory or defeat—
Ereshkigal’s defeat.
Ishtar temporarily transferred from a useless goddess to a “temporary Alchemy teacher”.
As for whether she could become full-time, that was another story.
…
“First of all, Alchemy is a technology concerning ‘material transformation’. It has a long origin and is closely related to previous metal smelting and elemental theory…”
“In early theories, the process of sublimation from ‘base metals’ to ‘precious metals’ was repeatedly expounded. This sublimation technology can be seen as a major essence of Alchemy realizing material transformation…”
Ishtar talked eloquently with full confidence, directly spilling out the knowledge of the body’s original owner, Philia Einzbern.
Nor did she care whether the host Philia herself agreed or not.
Things that the goddess fancied and found useful belonged to her!
And this was Ishtar!
As for Grimm, he propped his head with both hands the entire time, zoning out.
How should I put it, it wasn’t that he couldn’t understand.
Rather, he felt…
that this course of Alchemy didn’t seem too difficult either?
At least, it was much easier than Odin’s gungnir, which he had failed to figure out for decades.
He basically understood all the Alchemy basics after listening to them once, and even started spacing out because he found Ishtar’s teaching progress too slow, falling into his own thoughts…
As for things like the materialization and sublimation of matter, he actually understood similar concepts.
In the novel “Dragon Raja”, Cassell College’s description was “killing metal and regenerating it”, thereby obtaining new substances with superior and stronger performance, namely regenerated metal.
Combined with the experience and insights Grimm had gained over the past few decades by randomly carving dragon scripts on weapons and groping around, as well as his scrutiny of Alchemy in “Dragon Raja”.
Those scattered, patchwork, and unsystematic memory fragments actually gradually gathered at this moment, as if piecing together into a complete framework.
Suddenly, a sense of sudden enlightenment and thorough understanding rushed straight from his forehead to his crown!
Grimm felt as if he had attained sudden enlightenment.
“Ishtar, stop for a moment, I have a bold idea.”
“Eh?”
The white-haired goddess only then snapped out of her enthusiasm for lecturing.
She actually wasn’t very interested in teaching itself, but she enjoyed the gloomy girl’s powerless and incompetent deflated expression so much during the teaching.
It was simply high beyond measure.
“Can Alchemy be applied to the human body? I mean, like making alchemical props, can the human body also be regarded as a prop and refined?”
Grimm raised his hand and said.
The first thing that came to his mind at this very moment was the “Nibelungen Project” led by Master Flamel in the original “Dragon Raja” work.
—Since he had agreed to benchmark against this legendary alchemist, he could not leave out a single one of the same configurations.
The “Nibelungen Project” did not mean building a Niflheim world like Odin’s.
Rather, it was to reinforce the bloodline of hybrids by implanting micro-alchemical matrices and precious auxiliary materials into the body.
Cassell College’s goal in doing so was naturally to create super hybrids capable of fighting Dragon Kings.
In the original Dragon Raja novel, Lu Mingfei participated in this project after the Dragon 3 storyline…
Yet until the beginning of Dragon 4, he had only been elevated to the level of an A-class hybrid.
Grimm felt that his performance as an ordinary transmigrator was at least better than the loser protagonist.
The Nibelungen Project used on him would definitely have room for growth far beyond just that little bit.
“…Indeed it is possible! And Alchemy involving human body refinement can be considered the main teaching content emphasized in the later stages.” After all, the Einzbern family itself was a huge alchemical doll workshop.
Their main business was using alchemical methods to adjust and modify various models of dolls.
Even to the extreme, having magic circuits all over the body was not a problem.
Without this bit of means, they wouldn’t be able to produce a humanoid lesser grail suitable for the Holy Grail War.
It could be said to be a true professional match.
However, Ishtar was stunned for a moment after she finished speaking.
Even if he was a genius, wasn’t Grimm’s speed of drawing inferences about other cases from one instance a bit too fast?
She had only been lecturing for ten minutes!
Yet in the next second, Ishtar deeply realized that Grimm’s level went far beyond drawing inferences; he was simply a superman with maxed-out execution skills.
He actually started working on himself directly!
Grimm saw—following the basic standard Alchemy techniques just taught—with techniques as proficient as a barefoot doctor practicing in Jianghu for decades—with a calm expression, he extended a merciless iron hand, sliced open wounds along his blood vessels and nerves, guiding the element flow toward regular convergence and divergence to begin refining…
Wait, are you using alchemical methods to modify your own magic circuits?
Is this to artificially increase the number of magic circuits or something?
No wonder he asked her if he could do human body refinement.
Ishtar seemed to understand a little bit now.
But vaguely she felt something was wrong.
According to the current state of the magecraft world she learned from host Philia’s memory, magicians’ talents were fixed from the moment they were born.
That was to say, the quantity and quality of magic circuits in the body determined an individual magician’s limit.
This thing couldn’t be broken just because you wanted to, otherwise the Clock Tower of the Mage’s Association wouldn’t have a bloodline disdain chain—
Millennium-old prestigious families with long-standing heritages intermarried generation after generation for eugenics, so descendants had a higher probability of having excellent magic circuits and being gifted.
Commoners whose lineages had only been passed down for a few generations were basically regarded as mud-legged peasants fit only for chores, because they were often mediocre in aptitude and barren in circuits, and even if resources were poured into them, it was hard for them to get ahead.
“Grimm, wait a moment. You must know that aptitude is naturally determined, and bloodline improvement normally requires generations of accumulation—”
This wasn’t modifying artificial life forms or alchemical dolls.
Dolls had service lives and limited expertise, so resources and materials could naturally be piled up for modification.
But living people were flesh and blood mortals.
To crudely use refinement—let alone that the technical types completely mismatched—ruining oneself in an instant would be the lightest outcome.
When she wanted to give a brief reminder, Grimm was bleeding while showing disdain:
“Superior bloodline? Predestined aptitude? Hmph, have you not heard that human effort can conquer nature?”
Speechless, I can’t talk to you; it’s a typical conservative old-antique mindset.
Could he not know what kind of virtues the dragon-slaying families in the Dragon Raja world had?
Being able to have a large number of high-bloodline hybrids was just barely maintaining the facade of prestigious families by breeding, gripping the glory of their ancestors while enjoying redundant resources.
“Looking at the powerful families and aristocratic houses of the world, all the nobles and high officials are decaying and mediocre! Heavenly mandate is not to be feared, ancestors are not to be imitated, public opinion is not to be worried about! My fate is in my own hands, not in the heavens!”
“Have you thought it through? Even if your recovery ability is strong, you might embark on a path of losing everything. If you waste time without progress, how can we contend with Odin?”
“It’s very simple, won’t I just become a supreme being?”
Having said that, Grimm’s aura was finally no longer concealed and was revealed!
Nine hundred alchemical circuits!