Chapter 1404.

Old Jack’s house was at the innermost part of an alley in the old harbor district. It was a three-story house with a courtyard, and although it looked rather shabby nowadays, a few decades ago, such a house was not something that ordinary people could own, and it was very expensive.

Unfortunately, with the diversion of the Fenice River into the sea, the old harbor area rapidly declined, and its former status was replaced by the new harbor area.

The value of houses here has naturally been greatly reduced.

But no matter what, to be able to own such a house in the king’s capital where every inch of land was gold, it was still an enviable thing.

However, when Luo Nan went in, he realized that the inside could be completely described as a house full of people, with thieves coming in tears and rats going in and having to run away.

There wasn’t even a single piece of decent furniture!

Old Jack lit a kerosene lamp and smiled sarcastically, “In order to learn alchemy, I sold everything I could at home.”

There was only this house left.

In fact earlier in the Copper Anchor Casino, without Luo Nan’s relief, he probably wouldn’t have been able to keep this house.

Luo Nan frowned as he scanned the empty living room and couldn’t help but ask, “Is this where you learn alchemy?”

“Of course not.”

Old Jack hung the kerosene lamp on the wall and then triggered a certain mechanism.

Accompanied by a “rumbling” sound, a large area of the floor automatically lifted up, revealing a secret passage leading underground.

Old Jack’s alchemy laboratory was underneath!

Luo Nan followed the other party down the steps, and the scene in front of him made his eyes light up.

The underground secret room was quite large and was also equipped with electric lights, and it was filled with all sorts of large and small instruments and tools.

Melting furnaces, vaporization kettles, crucibles, blending tables, thermometers, beakers ……

and even a microscope!

In a proud tone, Old Jack introduced the names and uses of the many instruments and equipment to Luo Nan.

These instruments and equipment were purchased and customized one after another over the decades, costing him a large amount of gold pounds.

Moreover, they were easily damaged during the alchemy process, and it would be a huge amount of money to buy them again.

But compared to the alchemy materials, these instruments and equipment were nothing.

“Alchemy materials are really too expensive.”

Old Jack couldn’t help but spit out to Luo Nan, “Ten grams of secret silver would require two hundred gold pounds, which is only enough to complete three experiments, and if it’s transcendental materials, such as blood fangs and magical crystals, then it’s even more expensive…”

“As we all know, only spell casters can become alchemists.”

Luo Nan asked, “If you’re an ordinary person, why do you have to go down this path?”

This was what puzzled Luo Nan the most.

He felt that Old Jack’s stubbornness was beyond imagination, just for the sake of his childhood dream, creeping forward on a path that was destined to be impassable, even at the cost of his family’s money.

“Mortals, too, can create miracles.”

Luo Nan’s question caused Old Jack to clench his fists, and the corners of his eyes twitched a few times as he muttered, “This is the legendary alchemy master Von. Bryant’s aphorism!”

Luo Nan felt that Old Jack must have been fooled, and the words might not have been said by any legendary alchemy master.

But Luo Nan didn’t want to point it out, after all, he was here to seek learning.

“Then where do I start learning?”

In the Blood Moon world, alchemy was a discipline, and it was still extremely complex and esoteric.

A caster with talent would often need to put in a dozen or even decades of hard work and consume countless amounts of money and resources to become a true alchemist.

And the knowledge and skills one needed to master in order to become an alchemist were also very complicated.

Runic literature, physics, chemistry, math, material science, occult science ……

This was the alchemy knowledge system that Old Jack had summarized after spending more than thirty years.

He attempted to break the insurmountable rift of mortals and create a path of alchemy that was different from the traditional one, that of the spell casters.

Unfortunately, even though Old Jack had achieved some results, he was still a hundred thousand miles away from becoming an alchemist.

As a matter of fact, the current Old Jack was not even an apprentice alchemist, at best he was an avid enthusiast.

But he was more than enough to act as Luo Nan’s alchemy tutor – he had a wealth of theoretical knowledge, and there was also a specialized laboratory at home!

So in the following days, Luo Nan left his apartment in the early morning every day, rode a bicycle he had purchased and rushed to the old harbor area to learn alchemy knowledge from Old Jack.

It was only at sunset and dusk that he returned home.

Because Luo Nan had saved his life, and because he had paid the high tuition fees, Old Jack could be said to have taught him everything in terms of teaching, without the slightest reservation.

And Luo Nan’s learning ability also surprised the descendant of this broken merchant very much.

Luo Nan’s memory was extremely strong, any content he just had to watch or listen to once, he would be able to firmly memorize it in his mind.

In addition, his comprehension and understanding, especially his mastery in mathematics, science and chemistry, simply made Old Jack despair!

To put it politely, Luo Nan made Old Jack truly realize how big a distance there could be between ordinary people and geniuses.

His lifelong accumulation of knowledge had been dug up cleanly by Luo Nan in a very short period of time.

And in the process of learning alchemy, Luo Nan was gradually mesmerized.

Alchemy, undoubtedly, was the highest and deepest knowledge and skill in this world, and mastering it would allow Luo Nan to have a greater and deeper understanding of the laws of the Blood Moon Realm.

Of course, this kind of learning was not free, in addition to the tuition fees paid to Old Jack, the expenses of purchasing alchemy materials were also constantly consuming Luo Nan’s savings.

While studying hard every day, Luo Nan also gradually became familiar with his next door neighbor.

Delores was a very hardworking lady who had to work two or even three jobs every day to barely support herself and her daughter.

The descendant of a broken-down nobleman didn’t originally live here, but in another small, inexpensive apartment.

Only that apartment was located in the old harbor district, the environment was quite bad, and as a beautiful lady, she and her daughter were exposed to danger and lived every day with fear and trepidation.

With no other choice, Delores had to move into this expensive but much safer apartment.

Because of her hard work, she was not able to take good care of Janice Toland, who had to stay on her own. Toland and had to leave the latter at home by herself.

Out of sympathy for this mother and daughter, Ronan handed Blackie over to Janice . Tolan.

He said that he was letting the latter take care of her, but in reality, he was letting this little girl have a companion, no longer alone.

He also brought some delicious food back to Janice from time to time.

And Janice was very fond of Blackie, the big cat, grooming him every day and feeding him the cat food Ronan had purchased.

Delores was happy about this and was very grateful to Luo Nan.

The days passed like this day by day, and it was already more than a month later.

It was time for Luo Nan to enroll in school.