Pillar of Yita Chapter 1288 - 176: Ancient Combat Artisans2

"I have studied your Elf Alchemy, and I've also seen Rolin's. I discovered that in essence, they are the sa. They both use contemporary Alchemy to express the ancient Alchemy Array. After careful contemplation, the difference lies in the magic itself, doesn't it?"

Fang Hong nodded. Alchemy was born in the Era of Aithelin, invented by the Nulin Elves. This is no secret — it's ntioned in the first lesson on the basics of Alchemy during the overview of its history.

The original intention of Alchemy's inception was simply another ans to supplent forces during the cataclysm when the second Star of Calamity 'Verdant' descended, aid at combating the Dark Giant Dragon.

It is well known that the Nulin Elves excel at controlling extraordinary spells, but this doesn't an every Nulin Elf is a Great Arcanist (a term for spellcasters in the era of magic, roughly equivalent to today's Archmage), much like how not every human renowned for Magic Guided Engineering is an Alchemist.

During that great war, the Great Arcanists, who were always on the frontline, were often the most easily depleted forces. The Nulin Elves are a long-lived race, but reproduction is not their forte, and among their limited population, the number of Great Arcanists was even fewer.

As the war progressed, it beca increasingly difficult for the elves to bear the casualties caused by the war against the Dark Giant Dragon. Thus, the birth of Alchemy had an unavoidable reason.

The earliest Alchemy allowed the 'ordinary elves' among the Nulin Elves to also have the opportunity to go to the battlefield to fight the Dark Giant Dragon. By the end of the war, Alchemy had gradually split into two paths — one aiming towards the high-end, seeking ways to supplent the high-end combat strength of the elves.

The other path was geared towards the masses, bringing humans, dwarves, and half-persons into this war which was closely tied to the destiny of the continent.

The forr is known as Giant Construct technology, which later beca the precursor to Dragon Knight technology. Its purpose was to universalize the extrely scarce high-end combat power among the Nulin Elves — the Sky Knights. And the main adversary of the Sky Knights in the war was the Dark Giant Dragon itself.

Therefore, with the ergence of the Dragon Knights, they were given this na. The Dark Giant Dragon had perished, and the Dragon Knight technology, after thousands of years of further advancent by mortal craftsn, has now long beco the pinnacle of strength in the human world.

It also bids farewell to the era it was born into and the historical destiny specially endowed upon it —

The latter path beca the beginning of the Nulin Elves imparting magical skills to humans, dwarves, and half-persons. With Magic Guided Reactor technology passed down by the Great Elf Alchemist Ade, it was converted into a set of technical standards that are still in use today — the Magic Guided Reactor.

The invention of this piece of Alchemy even marks the starting point of the contemporary Eteliria Alchemy civilization a millennium later. Subsequently, both the Dragon Knight and Magic Guided Reactor technology routes, despite their different paths, have converged, becoming part of what mortals have gained today.

This is the history of Alchemy.

Yet the history of Nulin Elves' Alchemy is different.

Ancient Alchemy was intended to allow more 'ordinary elves' among the Nulin Elves to beco expendable forces in the 'Dragon's War.' However, the so-called 'ordinary' here is vastly different from common understanding. Magic is prevalent in Nulin Elf society; not every Nulin Elf is a Great Arcanist, but almost every Nulin Elf can wield magic, differing only in their proficiency.

So, the basis of ancient Alchemy was established on top of a magic civilization, which is the biggest difference between it and contemporary Alchemy.

Because it involved the use of magic, the Alchemists of the Nulin Elves could accomplish many operations that contemporary Alchemists could not, as they had spells for elent gathering and material identification that could be synergistically used with Alchemy.

As non-magical human beings did not have these benefits, mortal craftsn, to popularize Alchemy among humans, built an entirely new system over the centuries, setting aside many of the thods used by the Nulin Elves, creating contemporary Alchemy more suited to humans.

However, the Silver Tower's research on ancient Alchemy did the opposite. Utilizing a more robust contemporary Alchemy system to simulate the spells used in ancient Alchemy with the Magic Guided Reactor, to reenact the ancient Alchemy of the Nulin Elves.

The debate over which is superior has no definitive answer.

The 'Alchemy Magic' of the Nulin Elves is very efficient, but the Alchemy from their era was very rudintary and couldn't compare to today's well-structured system that classifies thousands of types of contemporary Alchemy.

Yet when the two are combined, they can shine brightly, just as Fang Hong previously demonstrated in the Continental League. This is precisely what Linen ant — using contemporary Alchemy and the magic power provided by the Magic Guided Reactor, allowing humans, a 'non-magical species,' to simulate ancient Alchemy that could only be mastered by ancient magical races.

But this is a clear matter; when teaching Dill, Cui Yu, and Eis, Linen was always observing. Fang Hong did not believe that soone who had experienced the Hall of Thousand Doors would not understand the constructs behind this. He also didn't know why Linen raised this concept at this mont.