Kemo Strell passed through the town and walked towards the Chishui River.
Border Town is now a prosperous place, and it is hard to imagine that this outpost was only set up to detect the movement of evil beasts in the past. There is a black-gray hard ground beneath the feet, and the two sides of the street are neatly arranged bungalows. Unlike the residential buildings in the community, these houses are not used for living, and the space is much more spacious than the residences, which are somewhat like a warehouse of a smaller size.
Listening to His Highness, these houses will be used for sale in the future.
In front of the bungalow is a deep drainage ditch, covered with slate, as if to draw two boundaries for the black street. In addition, a large tree will be planted by the roadside at intervals, sandwiched between the two bungalows, and its branches are close to the center of the road, which not only provides shade and rain, but also gives people a pleasant feeling.
I have to say that the biggest feeling here is that it is neat.
Whether it is houses, roads, ditches and trees, they are all located in well-planned locations, and their level of care is no less than that of aristocratic gardens. The feeling of walking in Border Town is comparable to that of the main urban area of Chishui City. Although the scale of the latter is denser and larger, the extremely harmonious arrangement makes these unremarkable houses exude a unique beauty. This feeling overshadows the individual gigantic, and shows a higher level of grandeur as a whole.
Like those neat chemical formulas, he thought, that's the beauty of order.
Now that Kaimo is quite famous in the town, passers-by will nod and salute him, and respectfully call him Lord Sage. However, he prefers the title of Master of Chemistry to the sage. Unfortunately, His Royal Highness Roland said that he must comprehend "Middle Chemistry" before he can receive this honor.
Walking out of the central area, you can see the Chishui River running across the western border. The number of laboratories on the riverside has increased to four, but the latter two can only be temporarily idle because there are not enough manpower.
Kaimo was about to call a few apprentices to complete the task instructed by His Highness when a soldier in the uniform of the First Army came over.
"Your Excellency Strell, a sailboat came from the dock area with more than fifty... civilians on board," he said after saluting, "Because there were too many people and they didn't look like businessmen, the garrison stopped them. One of them said that he wanted to see you. He claimed to be an alchemist from Chishui City, and his name was "
"Chames!" Kemo excitedly grabbed the soldier's shoulder, "Take me to see him!"
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Pulling the soldier to the dock area, a familiar figure caught his eye, and it was Chamis.
"Master Mentor!" The other party also found Kaimo for the first time, and immediately waved his hands at him.
"These are the alchemists and apprentices I invited," he walked up to the garrison captain, "put them all in, I'll take them to the city hall to register."
"Yes, Your Excellency. But allow me to send a team to escort them."
"It's okay."
Said to be an escort, in fact, it is monitoring and control to prevent people from leaving the team and mixing into the central area of the town. However, these are the rules set by His Royal Highness, and Kaimo has no intention of interfering.
"Master Mentor, what's going on with them? Why is there still someone in a remote town looking after the wharf?" Chamis, who was released, hurried to his side and complained a little unhappily, "And Chad is better than a big city. The city guards are even stricter, even asking for their names and origins, and I didn’t make them change their minds by using the silver wolf.”
"Silver Wolf?" Kaimo asked with interest, "How many?"
"Of course it's one," Chamis was slightly startled.
"Hahaha," he stroked his beard and laughed, "Of course it won't work, you know that their salary is around fifteen silver wolves per month."
"Ten... fifteen?"
"Well, the First Army is much more comfortable than the city patrols that rely on extorting merchants and travelers to survive. But because of this, extortion, looting, or taking private money is strictly prohibited. Once found, he will be expelled from the army immediately, and he will be sent to the dungeon for trial." Although Kemo is not an official official of the city hall, but after attending several meetings on behalf of the Minister of Chemical Industry, he also has a certain understanding of these upper-level policies.
"Can they really control their hands?" Chalmers asked suspiciously.
"There are some that I can't control, but they are all allocated to mines." He pouted, "Did you not notice the uniqueness of this town when you came?"
"Uh... there are quite a few," said the young alchemist scratching his head. "For example, there seem to be many people cutting trees and building roads along the river. They are already so far away from Border Town. Where do they want to go? What are these iron towers on the river bank for? Do they store drinking water?" He paused, "Right! Before arriving at the pier... I actually saw an iron bridge under construction! It's not wood or stone. , I'm sure it's made of iron!"
"And the bridge is much longer than the one I've seen before, isn't it?" The chief alchemist smiled slightly, "So don't bring the life experience of Chishui City here, it's a completely different city, of course... Now it's It's just a town, but it's surprising enough. Like the stuff in Elementary Chemistry, you wouldn't have thought it was possible until you saw it with your own eyes."
For some reason, when he said these words to his former apprentice, he felt inexplicably happy and joyful in his heart. After thinking about it carefully, he realized that he had already regarded himself as a member of Border Town and enjoyed it as much as showing off his new home to guests.
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After completing the registration, the apprentices handed over to the city hall officials to arrange accommodation, and Camer Strell directly took Chamis back to his residence.
"Although I knew that you would definitely accept my invitation in the end, I didn't expect you to come so quickly."
"I..." Chalmers bowed his head a little embarrassedly, "I should have promised you before."
The chief alchemist smiled. He was obsessed with alchemy, but he was not ignorant of world affairs. Chamis did not choose to leave at first, probably because he had expectations for the lord, hoping to obtain the position of chief by the two-acid system. It was not until Capola became the new chief and had a lot of prejudice against him that he made up his mind to leave Chishui City.
However, Kaimo didn't care about this careful thought, yearning for the position of the chief of the workshop is the ultimate pursuit of every alchemist.
"Don't worry about the previous things. Alchemy is meaningless here, and the glory of an alchemist is also not worth mentioning. Here, there is only one thing worth pursuing: chemistry."
"I see." Chalmers took a deep breath.
"Although you can definitely get a separate house, but sleep here tonight, as before... We haven't had a good talk in a long time."
When he taught Chames alchemy skills, he dragged the young disciple for a long talk all night. If he was sleepy, he would squeeze into a bed to sleep.
The other party obviously understood what he meant and said excitedly, "Yes, mentor!"
After dinner, the two came to the study, and Kaimer Stryer carefully moved out the book of Elementary Chemistry.
"Is this the ancient book you admire so much?"
Chalmers solemnly turned to the first page and got serious. And Kemo stood aside, pointing out the puzzles for him. This scene seems to have gone back to a few years ago, and the other party has once again become his own disciple.
Now that there are more than 50 new apprentices and Chames, he has enough manpower to test the large-scale production of sulfuric acid, and the other two chemical laboratories can also operate. Kaimo smugly thought to himself, the most important thing is that His Royal Highness should also fulfill his promise and hand over "Medium Chemistry" to himself. (., Your support is my biggest motivation.)