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"Only alchemists can design alchemical items and props!"
"Sorry, we only recruit alchemists!"
"Want to join us if you're not an alchemist?"
Lars Brown suffered countless looks at him in some military industry workshops and official research institutes, which made him fully understand the threshold of this world, but he was unwilling to work as an ordinary master in those small workshops. Even with his knowledge, he can live a very nourishing life.
While Lars was conducting his own experiments, he was looking for sponsors everywhere, tricking them into sponsoring his experiments, saying that he was designing and improving their products for these small workshop owners, but instead he used their money to based on his own experiments.
Lars is studying a project that can use the power of nature to drive industrial development, just like wind power and water power. However, this is a large-scale siege that involves all aspects of knowledge and requires a lot of manpower and material resources to conduct experiments. .
And Lars could only rely on deception and deception to get funds for his experiments. After many years, he wasted in despair. At the age of thirty, he still accomplished nothing. On the contrary, he became infamous near the city of Tephes, which made him famous. He could not survive in the city of Tephes.
Finally, he found his big sponsor, a shipyard owner, in a small city far away from the city of Tephes. He manufactured small and medium-sized merchant ships. Lars Brown pretended to be As an alchemist, he forged the badge of an official alchemist and used his eloquence to convince the owner of the shipyard to invest in his research on the production of alchemical items.
He discovered the existence of steam for the first time and felt the power of steam, just like the power of wind and water in nature. Lars Brown promised that he would create a device that would allow ships to move without the help of sails and wind. A new type of alchemy ship that can sail on the sea.
"This is a ship that can definitely change the world, a real alchemy ship. It will replace all the old ships and make sailing ships faster and more powerful!"
“Think of it being able to propel a bigger ship forward, carry more cargo, and go faster at sea!”
"When the time comes, think about it, people from the entire Sheen City-State Alliance will come to order ships from you, and you will become the owner of the largest shipbuilding workshop in the City-State Alliance. Everyone, whether at home or abroad, will come here because of your reputation! "
"Then all this, with just a small investment now, you can get an infinitely better future!"
Lars Brown obtained the first big investment in his life, established his own experimental workshop, and used his knowledge and abilities. For the first time, he felt that his life was full of meaning, even though You don't have to be an alchemist, but you can still design alchemical items that influence and shock the world.
However, a few months later, Lars Brown was discovered to have pretended to be an alchemist. No matter how he explained it, the owner of the shipbuilding workshop arrested him as a liar, and the city-state's sheriff sentenced him to death. He served half a year in prison.
After the Akkad Alchemy Academy learned that he was deceiving in the name of an alchemist, it announced in the school that Lars Brown was deprived of his student status. The infamous Lars Brown received a man full of ridicule. The title of Fake Alchemist Lars.
After half a year of imprisonment, Lars Brown left the city-state of Tephes in despair and returned to his hometown of Finnlit amid a lot of ridicule and contempt.
However, when Lars Brown returned to his hometown, he discovered that his parents had already died of illness. After wandering for nearly twenty years, all he saw when he returned to his hometown were tombstones, empty houses, and dismantled clocks. workshop.
Everything changes with the passage of time. Time changes everything and takes away everything. The pride and arrogance of Lars gradually wear away the edges, leaving only empty dreams.
And Lars discovered that his story had also spread in Finnlit City. The circle of alchemists was very small. Everyone knew about the reputation of the fake alchemist Lars, and in this way he became famous throughout the world. The circle of alchemists was something Lars Brown never expected.
He lost everything. Lars shed tears of pain in his empty hometown, which made him feel miserable. He remembered what his father said to him when he left his hometown.
"The heart is as high as the sky, but life is as thin as paper!"
Lars wandered around the empty rooms and attics, recalling the first half of his life, holding a portrait of his family, sitting on the stairs, crying and laughing at the same time.
"The heart is as high as the sky, but life is as thin as paper!"
"Hahaha, my heart is as high as the sky, but my life is as thin as paper!"
This proverb seems to be a portrayal of his life. His unwillingness to be ordinary is always surging. He has a lofty dream to change the world. He longs to become a legendary alchemist like Akkad and Marina. However, Reality dealt him a heavy blow. He could not become an alchemist, he was just a fake alchemist.
"Hahahaha, father, you are right!"
"But I'm really not willing to give in! I'm not willing to give in! I'm so unwilling to give in!"
"Why? Why is this happening? Why is fate so cruel? I want to be an alchemist. What's wrong with me!"
"Is it wrong for me to have dreams? Is it wrong to have dreams?"
Lars roared crazily in the room. He felt desperate, disappointed, painful, and finally his eyes gradually lost their luster. He decided to leave here again, give up everything, and go to the countryside to be an ordinary person.
At this time, an unexpected person knocked on the door of his hometown. His childhood rival, the Fat Mike, found him, but this time he was not here to laugh at him, but to invite him to join him. laboratory.
Fat Mike, who was mean in his youth and laughed at and excluded Lars, has now become mature and stable. He has become an official alchemist, but Lars met him at this most depressed time. Lars was at a loss and felt like he wanted to find a hole in the wall to crawl into.
"If you are really so unwilling, are you willing to try again?"
"Come on, join my Alchemy Research Institute, we are working on a project to create a hot air balloon airship!"
Lars looked at Fat Mike in disbelief: "Why? Why did you choose me? I'm just..."
Lars said this with a sad smile on his face: "A fake alchemist, fake alchemist Lars!"
Fat Mike nodded and said: "I know, but so what? Even if you are not an alchemist, your intelligence will not be concealed!"
"I believe you, Lars! Believe me, I know you better than anyone else!"
Fat Mike's words brought a huge turning point and change to Lars' life, making the dark sky suddenly filled with light.
They sat together and talked about some crazy things in their youth and childhood, blaming and canceling each other. The jealousy, hatred and disgust from back then seemed to have become precious memories at this moment.
Lars talked about his life over the years, his frustrations and the various blows he suffered. In the end, the two of them got very drunk. The next day, Lars joined the Mike Alchemy Research Institute, and from here, he started his career. A different life.