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52.77% Genshin Impact: Reborn Engineer / Chapter 32: Chapter 32: Alchemy and New Domain

章 32: Chapter 32: Alchemy and New Domain

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Hello everyone, just warned to pop in at the start of the chapter, what do people think of me including dialogue on other languages that Carman doesn't understand? For example if people of Liyue were taking into their regional language, would anyone mind if I just used Google Translate to convert English to Chinese? I know that it's not 100% reliable and that it likely won't fully convey what I am trying to say, I am open to advice, just wanted to know if people would be interested in being able to know what Carman doesn't or would rather not potentially have some plots forshaowed if not spoiled by the dialogue between other characters in other languages. Of course there will also be some benign small talk or references to other works for kicks, just wanted to get everyone's general opinion.

Thanks,

ParaDoxxed.

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After eating the dinner Ryuzu had prepared, carman talked to her about helping him translate the contents of Nicolus Flamel's Research notes.

Upon reading through the book, Ryuzu noted that it was very similar to the French in her world. The key difference being it used many outdated words that hadn't been entered into her memory. Thankfully, the context in which the words were used helped convey the meaning.

With the mentioning of spells and wands, Carman was fairly sure that this was from the Flamel from Harry Potter. There were many alchemical creations and their recipes noted in the notes, it was surprisingly in the first quarter of the book that Carman found the alchemical creations he was most interested in.

There were many spells and alchemy circles that were mentioned but due to how interdependent the Philosopher's Stone's creation process was with other disciplines there was no way Carman would have been able to make one any time soon. However while the steps needed to make one were highly advanced, the basic principles of the process weren't. From what Mr. Flamel had described, the main component of the Philosopher's Stone was potential lifespan.

Nicolas in his research had found the existence of a person's potential lifespan as a tangible energy. Every living being with a soul has a potential lifespan. The length of this span varies with the species, with small animals and insects having the smallest and immortal creatures like Phoenixes having an almost infinite amount.

While he could not find where this energy came from, he was able to observe that the energy of this potential lifespan was consumed by the soul over time in order to produce vitality in the body. After a person died and their soul moved on, the potential lifespan typically dissipated. However after some expirementatuon he managed to create a circle that managed to collect and maintain the potential lifespan of deceased individuals. He managed to use it to great effect during the Bubonic Plague.

The stone itself was an alchemy creation originally used to house the collected lifespans, however as the energy was compressed, as millions of people and animal's lifespans were crammed into the same space the underent a reaction and became something else. It took him over a century to study this energy that was slowly generated and he dubbed it energy τ. Eventually he was able to redesign the original lifespan storage to make it intentionally and more efficiently generate energy τ.

Once he had his hands on enough of it Mr. Flamel found that this energy broke the almost universal law of equivalent exchange, one can not make more of something than they put in, be it from energy to matter, energy to energy, or matter to mater, energy τ broke the rules as when broken down into potential lifespan, it exhibited a ratio of 4:8 with it requiring only four units of potential lifespan to create but creating eight in return when broken down.

Using this principle, Nicolas created a design to create a perpetual cycle where the stone would continuously break energy τ into eight units of potential lifespan, and use four units to create a new energy τ particle.

However the stone, which had been a simple magic imbued ruby at the time failed to contain the exponentially growing amount of lifespan and energy τ.

Eventually, Mr. Flamel found that he would have to make a sacrifice of his own to make this alchemy creation. One component to house the functionally infinite energy was fate, but it had to be a powerful fate inorder to contain the condensed energy just waiting to explode. The second ingredient was emotions, they acted as the buffer and the heat resistant material that shields the main walls from the heat of the core of a reactor.

Due to the nature of the invention, Nicolas sacrificed part of his own fate, the ability to die of old age, meaning that no matter how old he got, he would not die of natural causes, he would either need to catch a illness capable of infecting and killing him or to die via other external means. The toll the stone took his emotions however were much steeper. Just as the internal shields and coolant on a reactor needed to be changed out regularly, the stone would also siphon off Nicolus's emotions over time. At first while he was still somewhat young, new experiences kept his emotions vivid and powerful enough that the stone only needed a small bit of his emotions to maintain itself, however, as he lived longer and started to repeat experiences, his emotions grew duller and the stone required more and more of his emotions to repair its self. Eventually Mr. Flamel noted that it was eating up almost all of his emotions, with only the strong feeling of love he had for his wife still able to be felt.

Carman's face paled slightly imagining what it would feel like to have almost all of his emotions being drained away only to perpetuate an existence that has long become dull.

Closing the book he thanked Ryuzu and bid her goodnight.

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The next morning, Carman officially had the day off and spent his time following Ryuzu for the day as she did her adventure's commissions.

As he was piggybacked by Ryuzu who was running around on the cliffs of Chenyu Vale, Carman spotted a puzzle. It brought up memories of ones he had solved when playing Genshin so he asked Ryuzu to Circle around and take a look.

It was nestled in a cave that seemed to have been recently exposed by a landslide. Inside he saw a few familiar mechanisms, a few large stone tablets with words etched onto them, and behind an archway with a glowing barrier within it was a familiar looking structure with a pair of double doors.


章 33: Chapter 33: Khaenri'ahn Domain

In order to see, Carman had to light a troch that he carried around with him as he went towards the center of the ruins.

Looking at the puzzle, the solution was quite obvious there was a large circle underneath a controll mechanism that needed to be lit up. After Ryuzu translated the Khaenri'ahn text on the stone slate using a book she had purchased she and Carman learned that one needed to complete the following steps,

1. Light all the Pyro torches in the surrounding area of the cave.

2. Activate 3 elemental pedestals in the surrounding clif face.

3. Once the controll mechanism was unlocked 2/3 of the way, they would have to defeat a field tiller tasked with guarding the structure.

Looking at the partially lit up circle Carman felt a chill run down his spine. Field Tillers more commonly known as Ruin Guards were tough enemies to new genshin players. He briefly had a flashback to the first time he had to face one in the Mondstat Archon Quest. If memory serves they had a minor resistance to all elemental damage but a significant amount of resistance to physical damage. Fighting one with just him and Ryuzu would be foolish, the only element they had at their disposal was Hydro, and Ryuzu was purly physical in her attacks. Even if she used her Mute Screams ability, Carman wasn't sure if she would be able to bypass the machine's heavy armor before she reached her limit.

Tugging on her sleeve Carman said, "Ryuzu, we should leave, as we are now we are not going to be able to defeat that "Field Tiller" they are very resistant to physical damage.

"How resistant? I hope that you are not doubting my combat compenetentsy. While I was not made purely for combat like my younger sister, surely some rusty overgrown machine would not pose a threat to you while I am by your side, Carman I request that you let me prove that these "Ruin Guards" are mere Cannon fodder compared to my capabilities." Said Ryuzu, her usual deadpan showing slight curiousity and a large amount of self confidence.

"Ryuzu, please let's just fall back for now, while I would like nothing more to go digging around those ruins, I know our capabilities are not a good lineup against this opponent." Said Carman.

"Carman, do you not trust me? If there were to be any potential harm that would come to you, I promise that we will retreat immediately." Ryuzu said.

Sighing, Carman agreed to stay for a bit, his elemental skill should be able to help protect him and deal a little bit of damage to the guard. Ryuzu lit another torch and swiftly searched the cave to find and light all of the Pyro torches. The last one was a bit difficult as it was a fixed to the ceiling of the cavern and Ryuzu had to use her sythes as springs to launch herself up there before using them like claws to clamp down and scale to ceiling like a spider to the torch that she then lit before dropping back down to the ground.

As the Pyro torches synched and the second 1/3 of the circle under the control panel lit up, there was a loud blaring noise as red lights flashed from the embossing on the pillars and walls within the cave. A unassuming section of the ceiling split apart revealing a chute and an inactive Ruin Guard fell out of it.

After it hit the ground, the Ruins Guard's "eye" flashed and the pistons on its back started moving. An unpleasant grinding noise filled the cave as the powerfull pistons scraped away the build up of rust, dust and organic matter as the lights of the machine flickered to life and it slowly stood up uttering a loud shout too garbled to understand.

Ryuzu charged forward, her sythes ready to sink into the Guard's stony looking armor.

When she got within range, she didn't hesitate, she slashed with her sythes, however, unlike everything else she had fought so far her sythes failed to cause more than shallow scratches on the material.

Widening her eyes, Ryuzu had to jump back as the guard took a swing at her. As it missed, Ryuzu attacked the same spot again, maybe she hadn't put enough effort in, again it only left a shallow scratch. Having been used to figting enemies with human like physiology, Ryuzu was caught off guard when the Field Tiller used it's tentacle like arm to take a swing at her, she didn't have time to dodge, instead she had to use one of her sythes to block the attack, and she was launched backwards, fortunately she was able to stay rooted to the ground using her other sythe. Looking at the one that had blocked the attack, Carmen's face paled as he saw the large deformation done to it and the way the joint was forced out of alignment.

Activating his elemental skill, Hydro elements gathered and swirled around him forming a ring made up of various mechanical parts. As the Ruin Guard was taking another swing at Ryuzu, a large crossbow formed in front of Carman along with a panel with cross hairs and aiming mechanism. As the Guard started rotating it's upper body while walking towards Ryuzu, a large bolt made of water smashed against bits eye, stunning it for a few seconds.

"RYUZU, MOVE!" screamed Carman as the Ruin guard started to stand back up.

As Ryuzu stood back up she and Carman were both surprised when the Ruin Guard ignored her and started waking slowly in another direction. Towards Carman.

-To be continued


クリエイターの想い
Blasopher Blasopher

hello everyone,

I'm sure someone is going to comments how stupid this was for Ryuzu and Carman. While I agree, here are a few reasons why I chose to have things play out this way. First is that Ryuzu has yet to actually face a difficult opponent in Teyvat and she has a known superiority complex in the Manga/anime of Clockwork Planet. This means she wouldn't see any danger in other enemies and be in even more trouble later on. it should also be noted that while Ryuzu has superhuman speed and strength compared to normal people, she is currently only around a 3-4 star level compared relative to the power of other characters.

While he would initially be against fighting the Ruin guard, Carman would have drawn the same conclusion that Ryuzu doesn't take Teyvat enemies seriously, and he would rather fight a Field Tiller than an Abyss Mage, since the former is easier to flee from.

This fight also gives Carman a actual reason to spec up Ryuzu since she now needs a new sythe, why not make it out of elemenally imbued materials?

The next few chapters will also be revealing more of how Carman was reincarnated into Teyvat.

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