Chapter 505: The falling star and the rising sun
"Victor. My boy. Remember, when you truly desire something, the whole world will unite to help you!"
──Fairy tale world. "Grandma's Teachings"
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The new moon is in the sky, the stars are shining tonight, and the winter girl hangs high in the sky.
The newly installed cauldron in the atrium of Kaer Morhen was burning in the cold wind, and the fire burned Angouleme's cheeks red.
More than ten hours have passed since he started refining in the afternoon. Seeing that it was cold and dark in the middle of the night, Victor sent everyone back to their rooms, leaving only the deputy leader as his assistant.
However, the seemingly smooth alchemy process is facing a serious crisis in her eyes.
"Wick, what should we do now? We have the essence of the sun, but the essence of the moon is obviously useless. There is no moon at all today!" The girl was worried as she brought dry firewood from the storage room.
Victor stood on the platform with a stick in his left hand and continued to stir the cauldron, but his expression remained unchanged, "It's okay if there is no moon essence. Look up, don't you see that there is a better star essence being injected into it? That is the Winter Maiden. The gift!”
"...Hey, don't fool me! Alchemy materials can be changed at will? Why do I feel that you are talking nonsense again?"
"Be confident and get rid of the feeling. I am just talking nonsense. If you think about it carefully, you will understand that even if there is indeed the essence of the moon, it will not be obtained by basking in the moon."
With the unexpected answer, Angoulin's expression suddenly collapsed, "No way! You can fool around at times like this!? So what are we going to do now?"
"Hahahaha, of course it's a prosthetic limb. I'm not bored enough to joke about this kind of thing." Victor stuck out his tongue, "The people who talk nonsense only have material. Without some mysterious nonsense, others can't accept miracles with peace of mind. ”
"...I see, that's good." The girl put aside her worries and squatted back in front of the fire to warm herself up. "But speaking of it, we relied on Ciri to go crazy this time to reverse the victory. If the Wild Hunt comes again next time, What should I do? I can’t let you or anyone else get stabbed again.”
Stirring paused for a moment, "Other people will naturally know about the things that worry you, and will try various methods to prevent the tragedy from happening again." At this point, he shook his empty sleeves, "For example, Xili and Geralt left without saying goodbye and ran to avenge me. "
"Revenge!? How do you know? Is it an image of the future foreseen by the prophet?"
"Well! Among the elves who attacked me that day, there was a guy named Ilerith with a big hammer and shield.
He has a connection with the three witches in the southern swamps of Willen. Every year around this time, he goes to Balder Mountain to attend the carnival party they hold.
The goal of Geralt and Ciri's trip was to assassinate him and try to cut off Eredin's right-hand man. "When it comes to rave parties, Victor talks about them with great enthusiasm.
"Then why didn't they say anything?"
"It seems that Ciri ran away in the middle of the night, and Geralt caught up with her after finding out at the last moment. And the reason why she left alone, I guess, may be because of the missing elf guest."
"Avallac'h? It was thanks to him that he prevented Ciri from going berserk. It should be quite credible. Why did he do this?"
"Because the positions are different. In short..., he is not an enemy, but he is not a friend."
Angoulin nodded to express his understanding, "You don't seem to be in a hurry, so their attack will be successful?"
"Theoretically, this is true, but this Illerith, I have a debt to settle with him!" Looking up at the stars, Victor's calm tone contained a certain determination, "It caused me to lose my precious right hand. , I will not let go of anyone who participated in the Wild Hunt that day.”
Angouleme was not surprised at all when she heard what he said. The leader she knew was such a magnanimous person.
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They talked and talked, and before they knew it, the night was ending and it was the darkest time before dawn.
Victor tapped the jar wall with the stirring rod, making a dull sound, "It's almost time to heat up. Throw the final ingredients in now, and you'll be done in no time!"
After receiving the instructions, the assistant stepped forward and lifted the basket and dumped it. The pile of things was extremely heavy. The only things she could recognize were black steel ingots, meteorite silver ingots, dragon scales and tanned leather. The rest were simply unrecognizable in appearance and unknown in origin. piece of metal.
And listening to him talk about the imminent completion, looking back at the evolutionary history of this pot of "stew", Angoulein suddenly felt a little worried about gains and losses.
The soup base, which is simmered for the first six hours, is based on distilled dwarf spirit, with the addition of rubebab, cypress stem fruits, hellebore petals, mistletoe, honeysuckle, datura root, yam and snakehead. Hemp heart, then cinnabar adds color and alum precipitates.
Next, add bear fat, Stanford Dust, elemental essence, crystal powder, red phosphorus, calcium, sulfur, colloidal base and alchemy soil...cook for another six hours and stir well.
There are a dazzling array of items, all of which are “the best of the best.”
Asking yourself, it seems that the essence of the sun and the essence of the moon are more like the hope of success for this pot of summer cake stew.
So she clasped her hands together and said, "Bless me Meritelli, I hope the production can be successful!"
At this moment, a meteor suddenly fell, seeming to answer the girl's prayer.
"boom!"
The majestic and magnificent beam of light suddenly shot straight into the sky, and the brilliant aura centered on the cauldron made Angoulême so blind that he couldn't even open his eyes for a moment.
She knew that this phenomenon was the "Wheel of Truth", which meant that something was going to be very powerful, but it was the first time she had seen a three-dimensional column stacked from a flat surface.
Moreover, the incredible "Pillar of Truth" was not static, it continued to radiate outward in circles, rumbling and expanding until the entire square was included in the domain.
Kaer Morhen was illuminated as if it were daytime, and everyone in the castle was awakened and lost in the rare wonders of life.
The light column that penetrated the sky and the earth was filled with divine words and magical songs and music.
e^iπ+1=0
(f(x)+g(x))=f(x)+g(x)
dy/dx=dy/du*du/dx
F=MA,W=FS,U=IR
Δt=Δt′/√(1-v2/c2)
22m2x2Ψ(x,t)+V(x)Ψ(x,t)=iΨ(x,t)t
Ignoring the incomprehensible formula, "What is the name of the song that the angel sings?" Angouleme, who was deeply attracted by the melody, asked.
"Falling, The Star Light!" Victor smiled gently.
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North Tower. Victor's Alchemy Workshop.
Staring at the strange formula floating and shining outside the window, Keira realized that the situation was not trivial. There was no doubt that this was the abnormal phenomenon that occurred in "Zapopan", a suburb of Vizima, three years ago. At that time, Victor insisted that it had nothing to do with him. What a hateful liar!
Snapping her fingers, the sorceress tried to cast a spell from a distance, but the result was the same: the magic power disappeared without a trace after touching the light column.
She didn't reach into the magic circle until she saw Vesemir in the West Tower had stepped into the light column and approached Victor next to the cauldron, seemingly without any hindrance.
Her pupils suddenly dilated!
There was another set of rules running inside, and all entrants were clearly informed: "All extraordinary powers here are invalid, lives are prohibited from harming each other, and the judgment standard is determined by the "seekers of truth"!"
Hiss! Too scary, this is a "rule"!
She immediately ran downstairs.
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A few minutes later, the light column slowly shrank, and the luminance gradually dimmed, allowing everyone who rushed to the atrium to clearly see the wonderful scene in the cauldron.
The whole tank was clear and transparent, and only a ball of silver liquid was rippling in the central vortex, relying on some mysterious power to make it clearly separated from the outer circle.
Witnessing the unknown, the young witcher Leo narrowed his eyes and asked the first question in his heart: "Wait... Isn't it about making a prosthetic hand? Why is the finished product a pool of liquid?"
"Uh... This is normal. You know, the hand is part of the human body, and the human body is originally a pool of liquid!" Lambert clenched his fist and was straightforward to be a teacher.
Eskar, with scars on his face, rolled his eyes, "Go to hell! You are talking nonsense, right? Baldy."
"I'm not bald, I just have a high hairline!"
"So you admit that you are talking nonsense?"
"..."
Riso, as strong as a rock, did not speak. He folded his hands across his chest and remained silent, but there was a glimmer of expectation in his narrow snake eyes.
And Angulan and Vesemir, the two people who have the most confidence in alchemy, did not express their opinions, but paid close attention to Victor's actions.
He coughed, indicating that the discussion would be suspended, then took off his shirt to reveal the dragon pattern on his back, and moved the broken limb sideways to the furnace.
As everyone watched with bated breath, the silver liquid slowly moved closer to the edge of the tank like a living slime.
It suddenly splashed out of the water, turned into a sea urchin, stretched out countless spikes, and forcibly stabbed into Victor's broken limbs, and then began to wriggle and deform.
Woohoo!
This extremely tentacle-like performance was quite a test of reason. Eskar's eyes widened and Lambert couldn't close his mouth...
Fortunately, it didn't last long. In the blink of an eye, it was tightly closed, forming a lifelike right hand. Only the silvery and white color made people recognize it as a prosthesis.
Is this the silver hand! ?
So handsome! Love it!
No! It's not that simple. The next moment, the silver-white color also disappeared, and the pigment was covered with layers of paint, naturally fitting the upper arm skin, and it looked no different from other parts.
Reversing black and white, making the fake look real!
Although all the witchers present observed it with their most critical eyes, they could not find any flaws.
No matter from which angle, it was Victor's natural right hand, and there was no change compared to the past.
So the most qualified person to judge the authenticity, the sorceress Kayla Metz, stood out from the crowd.
She came to Victor, grabbed his right hand, touched the hard and strong skeleton, felt the thick and elastic muscles, and the warm and tight texture of the skin.
"This... this is incredible. When I touch it like this, do you feel this prosthetic hand?"
"Of course, I can even detect the slightest tremor in your body."
"Like! So much like!" Caressing the new limbs, the sorceress was overjoyed, and then she pulled the palm and stuffed it into the clothes from the collar, "Move it as usual, let me feel if there is any change?"
Resolutely obeying the instructions, he used the usual strength and angle to knead *****, and gave ******, and the result was remarkable.
As if she was electrocuted, Kayla quickly pulled her hand out, her eyes moistened, "Great! Wick, the production is very successful, so far the physical sensation is exactly the same.
Now come back to the room with me, we have to do further tests. "
Then the sun rose, and the light of righteousness filled the earth.
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[Name: My Right Hand - RX78]
[Type: Anti-personnel treasure]
[Quality: Legendary]
[Defense: Immortal]
[Features: Changeable, the grace of the sun, the protection of the stars]
[Main functions: Shape memory alloy equipment, nano-nerve fiber connection, full touch feedback.
Expanded function: Starlight \u0026 sunlight charging, five-stage variable frequency current, seventh-order super-speed vibration, flexible and flexible, soft and hard as you like.
First time limited: equipped with a digital music player, can play continuously for up to 124 hours, and provide additional space slots, up to five spare weapons]
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