Chapter 13: THE MAGE'S GUILD ALCHEMIST LABORATORY
THE MAGE'S GUILD ALCHEMIST LABORATORY
The barrel on my Thunderbolt was a smoothbore because the ironsmiths in the town of Abiru couldn't make grooves inside the barrel.
So, I asked Pittel to etch a particular pattern in the internal surface of the barrel with the machines in his workshop. Pittel was curious about what I was trying to do so he went along with me.
"Alright I want to see what this thing does", Pittel commented as he started to work.
Pittel fixed my gun's barrel onto a lathe machine and ran a cutting tool through it, which cut and edged the pattern I requested and created perfect rifling patterns inside. With the rifled barrels, the precision, and power of my Thunderbolt increased tremendously.
"Now wanna give it a try?" I teased Pittel.
"Why not?" he replied to me.
"Bang..Bang..Bang"
Pittel tested the Thunderbolt by firing the rifle at a stack of iron. The iron plates were all broken by my powerful weapon which shocked and at the same time fascinated him.
"Holy cow. What is this magic weapon?" Pittel asked me.
"Thunderbolt. The greatest weapon in this world and you would help me craft it", I replied to Pittel.
Pittel stroked his face as he thought of the glory of making that.
With the skills of an Engineer and some almost modern machines and tools, Sara redesigned my Thunderbolt which included magazines for repeated fire. It was a difficult project, but a challenging one for Engineer Pittel who cherished the opportunity to try something new.
Ultimately, he upgraded my primitive Thunderbolt into a magazine-fed repeating firearm which was functionally almost modern.
There was one more thing that needed an upgrade.
"I need to cook up more propellants for my cartridges", I told Pittel.
"There is exactly a place in Kotonia where you can find everything you need about chemicals and alchemy", he replied to me.
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I needed to improve my cartridges too, so Pittel took me to the Magus Guild's Alchemy Shop which sold all kinds of ingredients, rare metals, and materials and it also had an alchemist's laboratory for hire too.
We were led into an alchemical laboratory, a space that combines the mystique of magic with the marvels of technology. Daylight filtered through stained glass windows, casting vibrant colors and patterns across the room, illuminating an array of peculiar apparatuses and arcane symbols carved into the walls.
In the center of the chamber stood a large, intricately designed alchemy table, its surface crafted from a blend of polished oak and shimmering crystal. The table was adorned with an assortment of beakers, flasks, and vials, each containing brightly glowing liquids of various hues. Elaborate machinery and delicate circuitry interweave with enchanted runes, forming a mesmerizing fusion of mechanical and mystical elements.
Hovering above the alchemy table was a shimmering holographic display, showcasing complex diagrams and equations that constantly shift and evolve. This hologram serves as a digital interface, allowing the alchemist to manipulate and control the intricate processes of magical fusion.
At one end of the table, a Magus in flowing robes stood in focused concentration, his weathered hands gracefully manipulating delicate glassware with precision. A faint blue aura surrounded him as he taps into the arcane forces, channeling his magic through a series of vials that refined the concoction within them.
"What is he doing?" I asked Sara to observe the alchemist Magus.
"He is refining elements from a concoction of chemicals to derive new elements", she replied to me.
"Can they produce propellants?" I asked Sara.
"More than that, they can even make explosives here with the correct guidance", she replied to me.
I took some time here in the Magus Guild Alchemy Shop to study the various processes available in their lab as Sara designed a program that could make use of the processes here.
"What are you looking for?" a stern looking magus in white robes asked me.
"I need you to produce some materials and compounds for me", I replied to him.
"Go away, we are busy here", the alchemist tried to shoo me out of the laboratory.
Suddenly, I brought out a pouch which contained a thousand gold coins inside and gave it to the alchemist before I asked him, "with these you can make some time for me?"
The alchemist's face changed the moment he took my coins. I was a rich customer and not a busybody who came to disturb his laboratory.
"What potions will you like us to make for you?" he asked me.
"I have a diagram for you to follow", I said to the alchemist and gave him a diagram of specific processes in the making of chemicals.
"These are strange powders you are trying to make, what are they for?" he asked me.
"Be careful not to blow up your laboratory when working with the materials", I warned the alchemist without telling him the use of my requested commissions.
"Whatever, its your money", he replied to me.
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"Was your trip to the Alchemy Guild successful?" Pittel asked me.
"Yes, they have everything that I want", I replied to him.
"Good, what other improvements are you planning to put on the Thunderbolt?" Pittel asked me.
"Well, I need your help to modify the Thunderbolt more", I told him as I gave him the schematics for grenade launcher attachment that would be attached to my rifle.
"These launchers can launch projectiles, but they are much less effective than the cartridges on the rifle", Pittel said to me.
"That will depend on the kind of cartridges I put into the launcher", I replied to him.
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While exploring the city and looking for signs of Kay, Sara started analyzing Cartelles's amulet and space locker.
With the success of wiring and incorporating a magic item, the Eye of the Seas, into my chest, Sara hoped to attach the magical amulet to me.
But instead of manually inserting the item into my chest like the Eye of the Seas she planned to up the game.
"I have been studying the circuitry in the magic amulet. I think it is possible to rewrite the wiring to cast the magic from the amulet directly", Sara told me.
"Do you mean I can cast the spells from the amulet without using the amulet?" I asked her.
"That is what I've been hoping to bloody do", she replied to me.
"Fine, go ahead", I replied to her.
With experience from working with the Eye, Sara hoped to recreate the amulet's magical circuitry in my body using the components from the amulet as the wiring.
This would be a radical attempt to manipulate magic with technology and if successful I could cast spells just like Cartelle and the Magi just by crafting the spell circuitries inside of me.
I held the amulet to my chest, as my nano-bots reached into it, and drew out components from the amulet, and reconstructed the same circuitry inside me.
"Kaboom"
Suddenly a loud Bang sounded from my chest, as the amulet exploded, and the whole street around us was filled with dust and ashes, and within the haze, all the corpse statues of people from the Obelisk space and all the other stuff that were stored inside my space locker were strewn around the street.
Sara's experiment destroyed Cartelle's amulet and threw out all its contents.
"Damnit! You destroyed the locker amulet", I complained to Sara.
"Obviously, otherwise how can I retrieve the elements inside the amulets", she told me without any hint of responsibility for the damage that she caused.
The space locker was of great utility to me thus far and being able to carry so much stuff helped save my life more than once and without it I would never be able to carry five boats with me on my travels for sure and not to mention that it may be a very expensive item.
"Now what am I going to use to carry all my stuff?" I asked Sara.
"Shut up, I'm linking the final wiring", she told me.
"Poof"
Suddenly, the statues and belongings that were released into the street disappeared.
"Where the hell did all my stuff go?" I complained to my AI controller, Sara.
"Don't be a bloody nag, they are all back in the locker space", Sara replied to me.
"Really, what happened?" I asked her.
"My experiment succeeded. I can now access the locker space from the circuitry in my chest", she said to me.
"I don't understand, didn't we bust the amulet?" I asked her again.
"The locker space is a mini-dimensional space created through some unknown technology and it isn't a magical space contained inside the amulet. The amulet rather is merely a spell that opened a portal to the locker space", Sara explained to me.
So, destroying the amulet wouldn't destroy the locker space but without the amulet, I lost access to the space locker which was equivalent to losing the storage space. But Sara managed to reconstruct the amulet's magical circuitry within me, and she could create the portal which accessed the locker space through a recreated magical circuitry within me.
"So, in other words, the amulet became a part of me", I told Sara.
"Yes, idiots will explain it that way", she replied to me.
"Why do you even want to fuse the amulet in me if I can already use it?" I asked Sara.
"There are more that I could do with the locker space if I controlled it", she replied to me.
With my new spell circuitry, Sara instantly created precision portals that teleported all the items I dropped from the space locker back into storage and she could control the teleportation much more efficiently than if I were to use the amulet myself.
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