Translator: SumTLMan
Gurgling, gurgling——
The green light solvent in the melting pool incessantly produced bubbling and steaming sounds. As Boil Gentleman approached, these sounds grew louder, as if a magical creature was shackled at the bottom of the melting pool, struggling furiously to break free.
Faced with this phenomenon, Angel couldn’t help but glance back at Boil Gentleman.
He still couldn’t discern anything from Boil Gentleman’s invisible face, but the emotions surrounding him were constantly surging. With the increasing bubbles in the melting pool, the surging emotions intensified. Clearly, the changes in the melting pool originated from Boil Gentleman.
Angel had intended to inquire about the truth of the melting pool from Boil Gentleman. However, seeing his agitated state, he refrained from asking immediately and quietly waited for the next change in the melting pool.
The wait wasn’t long. After a minute, the sound of the bubbles suddenly changed, accompanied by a swishing sound of liquid parting. At the same time, ripples began to appear on the surface of the solvent, emitting a green glow.
“It’s coming.” Angel thought to himself, focusing more intently on the melting pool.
When something luminous began to rise from beneath the surface.
It was then Angel had seen it——
A bright object without form or substance, a pure and dazzling light source.
It resembled a miniaturized sun, hovering in front of them, lighting up the steampunk-style laboratory as if it were bathed in the intense summer sun.
However, this “sun” had no heat. It brought only light, and… madness.
Yes, madness.
As Angel was immersed in this light, he felt an inexplicable agitation in his heart. The dark sides of his memories, which he didn’t wish to forget, were now immensely magnified. Wild thoughts of slaughter, like rampant weeds, spread uncontrollably.
With all his self-control, Angel barely managed to suppress these wild thoughts in his heart.
Even so, his eyes inevitably revealed a trace of emotion. Fortunately, Boil Gentleman’s attention was entirely on the light source and didn’t notice Angel’s anomaly.
“What is this?” Angel asked calmly, after regaining his composure.
“This is the core energy of the dynamo, which I call——Chaos Source. As long as slaughter exists, as long as nightmares continue, the energy of the Chaos Source will persist!” After saying this, Boil Gentleman burst into insane laughter.
In the vast laboratory, apart from the roaring and clanking sounds from the iron pipes, only Boil Gentleman’s unrestrained laughter remained.
This mad laughter ravaged for a full half minute.
When the space quieted down again, Boil Gentleman remembered the main purpose of returning to the modification laboratory——to show Highness Shava the latest dynamo.
He paused, then, like a changed person, began bustling about the messy laboratory. At each stop, he threw some materials into the melting pool, creating parabolic arcs of materials traversing the air above the laboratory.
Angel watched all the materials thrown by Boil Gentleman. Unlike the utter confusion in the melting pool, through the “server” leaking data, he could identify most of these materials. Even for those he couldn’t recognize, he could deduce a general summary.
These materials were mostly metals, which Angel found somewhat special, but not to the extent of drawing his particular attention.
Angel was curious, what did Boil Gentleman plan to do with these materials? Creating a container for… the so-called “Chaos Source”?
When Angel thought of this, he glanced at the “Chaos Source”, but quickly looked away. The more he looked directly at the Chaos Source, the stronger the feeling of irritation that arose from the bottom of his heart, so even though he was full of curiosity about the Chaos Source, he dared not stare at it for long.
While Angel was filled with doubts and guesses, Boil Gentleman had already walked back to the side of the smelting pool.
Angel did not see Boil Gentleman make any movements, and the bubbles in the smelting pool, which had already begun to quiet down, started to rise again.
Angel sensed for a while, Boil Gentleman did not have any energy fluctuations, could it be that he was controlling the smelting pool with his mind?
This question was not important for the time being, Angel did not think much of it, but focused his attention on the smelting pool.
Angel could not see the situation under the smelting pool, but he guessed that Boil Gentleman was probably processing the materials he had previously thrown in.
Boil Gentleman: “Okay.”
Angel was stunned for a moment, okay? Is it done, so quickly? Could it be that he was wrong, and Boil Gentleman was not processing the materials?
Soon after Boil Gentleman’s words, the glowing solvent surface began to ripple, and a Metal Sphere covered with gears and fine pipes floated out of the smelting pool.
As soon as the metal sphere floated up, it immediately split into two halves, revealing that the inside of the sphere was hollow, also filled with small pipes.
“This is the dynamo’s shell, the container for carrying the Chaos Source…”
Boil Gentleman began to talk incessantly about some functions of the dynamo’s shell, such as the energy connection between pipes, the gears’ guidance of the power of Chaos Source, and the effects of various materials on the mind…
At this time, Angel was completely shocked and did not listen to Boil Gentleman’s words.
All his attention was focused on the metal sphere.
The melting, fusion, and shaping of multiple materials… all of these tasks were done in the blink of an eye. Angel only saw Boil Gentleman throw the materials into the melting pool, and the next second, this thing floated up!
This speed was simply beyond Angel’s imagination.
Knowing that Angel is an enchantment alchemist, which is already the fastest branch in the science of metal and stone alchemy, if he were to do this series of work, even at the fastest, it would take a day.
And Boil Gentleman could do it so quickly?
If it weren’t for Angel’s perception that there were traces of those materials on the metal sphere, he would even think that Boil Gentleman had placed a complete metal sphere under the smelting pool in advance, instead of refining it on the spot.
How did Boil Gentleman do it?
Is this alchemy?
Because it involved Angel’s profession, his doubts completely overrode everything else, and he didn’t even listen to Boil Gentleman’s explanation of the dynamo, but directly asked the biggest question in his heart.
“How… how did you create this?”
Boil Gentleman was taken aback: “Is Highness Shava also interested in crafting?”
Angel lowered his eyebrows to hide the involuntary surprise and doubts, and said indifferently, “Somewhat interested.”
Perhaps because Angel appeared so calm, Boil Gentleman did not suspect anything and simply explained the refining process.