Chapter 1406.

Old Jack left decisively. He had invested his entire life’s time and energy into alchemy, and for this reason, he had not hesitated to lose his family’s fortune, and even nearly lost his reputation.

However, once he decided to give up, he did not have the slightest regret and cut cleanly!

After completing the formalities for the transfer of the property, Old Jack set off on the train to the south.

He would spend the rest of his life in the place where his ancestors had once lived.

And Luo Nan did not move to the new home that already belonged to him after sending Old Jack away.

Because this side of the old harbor area was far from the police academy and the surroundings were not good, he continued to live in his original apartment.

He took out quite a bit of time and used it to study Von. Bryant’s alchemy notes.

This notebook, which was hundreds of years old, contained a great deal of the legendary alchemy master’s experience and insights, and even included the confusions and agonies he encountered during his pursuit of the truth.

The so-called truth was actually the laws of the world.

Through this notebook, Luo Nan’s mastery and understanding of alchemy went straight from the depths to the essence.

He thus realized how much he had taken advantage of it.

Without this alchemy notebook, Luo Nan could certainly grasp the laws of this world through long-term study and research.

But the price paid was bound to be great.

The time and money saved was truly immeasurable!

Compared to that, Old Jack’s house and alchemy lab were nothing at all.

Of course Luo Nan also knew very well that this notebook was actually Old Jack’s gratitude for saving his life.

He spent half a month studying the notes and then started using the lab to refine his first transcendent work.

As the bearer of the first work, Luo Nan chose a dagger.

This dagger was not an ordinary item, coming from the hands of the skilled craftsmen of Celes, it was forged using tungsten-titanium alloy steel, counting it as the current highest achievement of the Kingdom of Invia in the manufacturing of cold weapons.

Its surface has a very beautiful pattern, and its texture is tough and sharp, capable of piercing through thick armor.

Its selling price was as high as 100 gold pounds!

But as beautiful and sharp as this dagger was, it was merely a mortal product.

What Luo Nan wanted to do was to give it extraordinary characteristics.

First he engraved fine and complex alchemical runes on the blade of the dagger.

Alchemical runes were the soul of alchemy, each rune had a unique nature, and then through different combinations of the runes, one or several transcendent characteristics were woven.

The transcendent characteristic that Luo Nan had given this dagger was: sharpness.

The Sharpness Rune Set had three alchemy runes in it, and engraving these three complex runes on the hard surface of the dagger was a very difficult task, even with a specialized engraving knife.

Any little mistake could lead to a failure in the final refining.

In fact, there was another simple and tricky way to etch the alchemy runes, and that was transferring them.

Alchemical runes were first written on transfer paper, then pasted onto the item and coated with a special potion to cause it to corrode.

However, compared to engraving, the alchemical effect of etching would be weaker, and the duration of action would be much shorter.

Despite this, most alchemists used etching to add alchemical runes.

Ronan, on the contrary, was much easier and more convenient for him to carve than to etch.

Strong will, extraordinary control, could allow Luo Nan to use a small carving knife to carve out alchemical runes on grains of rice, not to mention a weapon like a dagger.

The sharp rune set was completed in a single stroke, without the slightest defeat or broken stroke, and was perfectly engraved within the dagger.

Next, Luo Nan coated the entire dagger with alchemy potion.

This alchemy potion was extremely expensive, a small bottle would cost one or two hundred gold pounds, and its function was to protect the artifacts to maintain stable properties in the alchemy spell and better incorporate transcendent properties.

After the potion dried, the next step was the last and most crucial step.

Luo Nan placed the dagger on the alchemy table.

The alchemy table was the most important tool of an alchemist, with alchemy spell formations set up on the surface of the table, which required mana in order to be stimulated, thus completing the final process of transforming ordinary items into transcendent items.

Old Jack, as an ordinary man obsessed with alchemy, had mastered all the pre-conditions of alchemy, except for his inability to complete this final step, which resulted in wasting decades.

This descendant of a pirate certainly didn’t just take the bull by the horns, and he tried to adopt scientific methods over the years to solve the problem of not being able to activate the alchemy spells without mana.

These methods include, but are not limited to, using fire, electricity, sound waves, and chemicals ……

The results all failed!

Luo Nan similarly had no mana and was unable to activate the alchemy spell formation by the means of a spell caster.

However, Luo Nan was different from Old Jack, the dimension he stood in was much higher than the latter, and of course he would not use his head to break the situation by hitting the iron wall like the latter did.

Luo Nan combined his knowledge of the laws he had mastered to analyze the alchemy spell formation, and after studying and understanding its principle of action, he then used spiritual energy to replace the mana.

In fact, at this point in the research, whether it was mana or spiritual energy, or any other transcendent power, or possibly even a non-transcendent power, all of them could realize the same purpose.

Understanding the laws and gaining insight into the truth was the reason why Luo Nan had spared no expense in investing a large amount of money and time in the study of alchemy.

On the alchemy table, one by one, the runes were lit up, and they intertwined and connected with each other to become a complex and incomparable web of light, completely wrapping the dagger placed on top of it.

The surface of this weapon forged from tungsten-titanium alloy steel began to glow red and bright, and the alchemical runes engraved on it gradually faded away until they left behind shallow imprints.

Suddenly, a light golden glow bloomed, illuminating the entire laboratory!

The next moment, all the light converged.

And the dagger on the alchemy table, as if it had been transformed, not only did its color change from black and grey to dark gold, but the texture on its surface disappeared cleanly, appearing deep and introverted.

Successful!

Luo Nan smiled faintly and reached out to pick up this re-refined weapon.

He could feel that the dagger contained a trace of strange power and had a subtle connection with the external space.

It was as if it was alive and breathing!

Luo Nan held the dagger in his hand and casually waved it.

The blade cut through the air noiselessly, leaving behind a faint residual shadow.

A silver coin that had just been thrown into the air quietly split into two halves before falling to the floor.

The break was smooth!

It was a bit interesting.

Luo Nan played with his first alchemical work, gaining another point of comprehension and mastery over the laws of this world.

He felt that he was not far from touching the source of the world.

Taking a box, Luo Nan placed the dagger into it.

It was then placed back inside the dark slot of the original wall.

This piece of work he would neither use nor sell, so he left it here as a memorial to old Jack!