Following Andrew's footsteps, fifteen teenagers walked towards the depths of the island.

Purgatory Island is an irregular circular island with a diameter of about eighty miles. More than two-thirds of the island's area is covered by pristine jungle.

Large tracts of pristine jungle extend from this end of the island coastline to the depths of the island.

This jungle is like a product of the Jurassic era on Earth for hundreds of thousands of years. There are huge jungle trees everywhere. The tall trees tower into the clouds, and the tall canopy is like a big umbrella covering the sky. Even three or five people can't hold it together. The ground is full of bulging roots, vines and plant roots.

These tall trees are the most important tree species on Purgatory Island - Fog Fir.

Fog fir is a magical plant of water attribute. By absorbing water elements in the air, it releases a large amount of formed water mist to regulate the humidity of the surrounding environment. They are mixed with the rotten air above the Sea of ​​Death, producing a larger white smoke, thus covering the entire island. Only at noon when the sun is blazing, Purgatory Island will be freed from the fog and reveal its hideous face.

Due to the fog steaming, people's vision was greatly hindered. Therefore, after walking into the jungle about 500 meters, the teenagers discovered that there was a castle standing in the jungle in front of them.

The castle covers a large area, and is a tall tower standing like a sharp sword in the center, which is surrounded by a look of overlooking the world.

He brought the teenagers to the castle. Two teenagers, about sixteen years old, came up at the door. One of them stepped forward, put his right hand on his chest, bent down respectfully and said, "Mr. Andrew, you are back."

Andrew said coldly: "Sacre, did anyone make mistakes when I was not here?"

The boy named Sac hurriedly said, "No one dares to go against your will, Lord Andrew."

"Very good, Siser, tell them what this place is and the rules here."

"As far as you are told, Lord Andrew."

Another young man named Siser answered respectfully.

Listening to Xiser's statement, Gong Hao finally understood where he had come.

To understand the existence of Purgatory Island, we must first understand the history of magic development in Fengming Continent.

Since someone in Fengming Continent accidentally discovered the existence of magic elements and successfully resonated with the surrounding magic elements through their own strength, thus creating the first human magic and becoming the first human magician on Fengming Continent, the history of the use of magic in Fengming Continent has been developing for six thousand years so far.

In the six thousand years of history of human magic development, more than 3,000 kinds of spells have been created, dozens of factions have been divided, and the subdivision of magician types and levels has gradually moved towards a systematic level, making the entire Fengming Continent a typical magic continent.

However, not everyone can learn magic. No matter how hard a person works, he cannot become an excellent magician. Through thousands of years of research on the Fengming Continent, people have found that almost every 10,000 people can learn and use magic power. However, only one in every 100,000 people can have excellent talents and master advanced spells. People who can invent and create new spells may not necessarily have one in a million.

Bloodline has become an important criterion for determining whether humans have the ability to learn magic. The probability that the descendants of magicians can become magicians is much higher than that of ordinary people. The concept of bloodline is therefore deeply rooted, and the aristocratic spirit is deeply rooted in the hearts of everyone on this continent.

People believe that the world is born with hierarchy, and anyone with magician blood is a natural noble.

However, human beings have never lacked rebels. There are always people trying to break through the shackles, break the conventions, and break through their cages.

About a thousand years ago, a man named Georgie Lambon was still pursuing the mystery of magic without having the power of communication elements. Through tireless efforts and research, he found that resonance with magic elements and borrowing their power is not the only way to use magic. Humans also have many ways to borrow elemental power, so that ordinary people can also have the power to use magic.

This discovery caused a sensation at the time. Many people who were eager to possess magic power continued to study by Georgie Lambon and finally formed a systematic and huge magic project, which was the origin of alchemy.

Unlike magicians, alchemy does not use its own power to use spells. They use their rich knowledge to collect various rare materials and make various magic props to achieve their goals. If magicians are powerful personal abilities, then alchemists are a great engineer. They design and manufacture various magical instruments to fulfill people's continuous pursuit of quality of life......

If the existence of a magician is the pinnacle of primitive force in the magic world, then alchemy is the mainstream direction of technological development in the magic world. The latter is far more socially meaningful than the former. It allows ordinary people to master the power of magic and enhance the rapid development of the entire society.

Whether it is material technology or magic technology, its common feature is to continuously deepen the understanding of the world in which one lives, and use this understanding to transform it into inventions that can serve human beings. When civilization develops to a certain extent, it becomes a competition between humans and other organisms for natural resources.

A bottle of ordinary magic potion may require destroying at least ten magic plants and killing five monsters to make it. People only use the part that is useful to themselves, and abandon the part that is useless to themselves.

In the madest era of alchemy, a large number of primitive jungles were cut down by people and monsters were killed. Except for a few extremely dangerous areas where top monsters survive, people almost never let go of places where human footprints can reach and destroy them.

They ask for it as much as they want, but never give.

Large puppets used for war were made, and various puppet warriors appeared like mushrooms after a rain. Each weapon was attached with the power of magic. Warriors used scrolls and potions to fight... Any great invention was always the first to be used in war, consumed, invaded, plundered resources, destroyed production, and annexed land. For example, a large number of fine gold or mitril mines were found in a certain place, and the country would compete for it. While mining, refining, and consuming various resources through war, waving all kinds of resources to the fullest.

During that crazy Hundred Years War, alchemy became the standard for determining national strength. Huge magic war puppets were much easier to use and affordable than those unruly magicians. However, after the Hundred Years War, people discovered that the once rich continent had been broken into ruins by war. There were fewer and fewer materials that could be used for alchemy production, a large number of magic plants died, and various monsters disappeared from people's sight. Primitive jungles disappeared from the surface, and replaced by large ruins composed of abandoned puppets, golems, magic puppets and other alchemy items.

People have never spared no effort to destroy ecological resources, whether in the past, modern, or in the future. To a certain extent, it represents the level of scientific and technological development in a world - the greater the damage to natural ecology, the higher the scientific and technological achievements.

However, as resources were exhausted, alchemy, which lacked materials and could not conduct a large amount of experiments and production, gradually lost its former glory. People found that magicians were still irreplaceable powers in this continent, while alchemists began to be useless.

From then on, alchemy gradually declined, and some powerful alchemy were also lost.

Although alchemy has declined, some countries with strong expectations are unwilling to give up their yearning for recreating the glory of the past alchemy...

About twenty years ago, a merchant ship belonging to the Kingdom of Reims accidentally entered the Purgatory Island hidden in the mist when entering the Sea of ​​Death.

On this island, they discovered the long-lost primitive jungle and various rare monsters.

They found that Purgatory Island is home to about 8,000 creatures, including nearly 2,000 magical creatures and plants. Since Purgatory Island has been hidden in fog for many years, this island is rarely known to the world, and the environment here has almost never been destroyed by outsiders. And about 300 monsters that live on this island have disappeared from the Fengming Continent.

The leader of the caravan reported this great discovery to the king of his country, and a huge plan was born.

King Strick V of the Kingdom of Lance personally invited Patrick Hines, the most outstanding alchemy master in the country at that time, and asked him to go to Purgatory Island immediately to build an alchemy castle, and to place the sea of ​​death under the Kingdom of Lance as a forbidden area on the grounds of protecting the lives of the fleet.

On Purgatory Island, Hines received the help of the entire kingdom and developed various war puppets for the Kingdom of Lance. Due to the extremely scarce resources, war puppets are already extremely rare on the continent today. The existence of Purgatory Island gives the Kingdom of Lance a chance to revitalize.

From this day on, Hines devoted himself to his favorite alchemy research. On the one hand, he provided a large amount of war equipment for the Kingdom of Reims, and on the other hand, he studied various lost alchemy through the help of the Kingdom of Reims.

Ten years later, the Kingdom of Lance successfully defeated two neighbors that were originally stronger than him and became one of the three major powers in the northern continent of Fengming Continent. Strick VI was crowned and became the Lance Empire.

Twenty years later, Patrick Hines has become the most terrifying alchemist on the continent, and he has mastered at least thirty types of lost alchemy.

"So this is the empire's alchemy experimental field?" A young man exclaimed, but his tone was filled with excitement.

I believe every young man will be excited to do things when he is able to come to the core secret place that makes a country become rapidly stronger. Everyone whispers. Some people even fantasize that they may learn some profound alchemy magic, and from then on, they can also become successful.

But Gong Hao's heart sank in an instant.

After all, he was not those simple teenagers, but from the information age of the explosion of information. His understanding of human nature is much stronger than these children.

Coming to such a important place usually only means one result - they will never think of getting out of this island again in their lifetime.

Did you travel through this world to be a prisoner?

And for some reason, he felt a little more unpleasant in his heart, but he couldn't say it for a while.

Sisser said: "Master Hines is the supreme master of the alchemy castle, and his will is our destiny. Below Master Hines, there are two assistants, Lord Andrew and Lord Pier. You have seen Lord Andrew, he is mainly responsible for managing servants. Lord Pier is mainly responsible for managing apprentices."

Pointing to the tower behind him, Sisser said, "Master Hines and Lord Pier live in that tower, and they usually don't come out. Generally, you can't see them both. All instructions are issued by Lord Andrew, so we just need to follow Lord Andrew's instructions to do things."

"What is the difference between an apprentice and a servant?" a teenager asked curiously.

"Apprentices are assistants responsible for participating in the experiments, design and manufacturing of masters. They have a much higher status than our servants. There are not many people, about ten, and they are all the best alchemy apprentices selected from all over the empire to participate in it. The servants' work is people who do all kinds of miscellaneous work and are assistants to assistants. There are about sixty servants in the castle, and each of them has a lot of work to do. Sach and I are the servant leaders, and you are usually commanded by us."

Sac took a step forward: "Okay, now everyone will report the number, from left to right. Follow me with the double number, and follow Siser with the single number. We will take you to the places where each needs to do things. From now on, you must work hard and not make the adults unhappy. Do you understand?"

"I understand." All the boys shouted at the same time.

After explaining some things to be paid attention to, Siser and Sach divided the new boy into two teams and brought it into the castle.

In the center of the castle is a large open space. Countless young servants wearing white clothes are busy with their respective work.

Their goal of work is to those unknown creatures locked in cages.

A creature that looked like a mantis was waving its sickle-like arms, making a sharp scream at the people outside in the iron cage, and the sword arm was waving, and the magic barrier on the iron cage shone out from time to time.

A huge snail was like a hill, lying lazily in the cage, accompanied by its breathing, and a fog of freezing cold fog appeared.

A three-eyed cat-you jumped up and down in the cage, and the howling sounded like thunder, but it could not penetrate the sound insulation barrier arranged outside the castle. In the iron cage next to it was a dragon-shaped creature covered with thick and thin scales, spewing flames, which made people frightened.

What surprised Gong Hao was that he did not find any information related to these creatures from Shuiglair's memory, that is, most of these monsters were endangered creatures.

Around the castle are puppet warriors wearing iron armor, exactly the same as the middle-aged man behind him. The main defense force of the entire castle is composed of these puppet warriors. They are not real lives, but they are very powerful and always faithful to their masters.

After arranging other teenagers to do things, Xiser took Gong Hao to a flower shed where some strange potted plants were planted that Gong Hao had never seen before. Some of the plants even swayed around, as easy and easy as human hands and feet.

"Glair, from today on, you will be responsible for the material collection work in Area 13." Siser said to Gong Hao.

"What should I do?" Gong Hao asked.

Xiser pulled out a plant from the flower pot beside him. The roots and stems of the plant actually grew like a doll, with hands and feet, and a face full of facial features. At this moment, it was pulled out of the soil and immediately burst into tears.

"This is called crying grass, its crying sound is very annoying." Siser said, then gently pinching the cheeks of the doll with his fingers. There was a row of sharp teeth in his wide open mouth.

"The saliva of the crying grass is an excellent dissolving solution. Pinch its face and then drop a few drops of saliva, just like what I do now, but be careful that its teeth are highly toxic. If your fingers are bitten by it, you will die. Don't drip too much every day, otherwise the crying grass will die." As he said that, Siser took a few drops of saliva in a bottle, stuffed the crying grass back into the flower pot, shoveled it onto the soil and covered it, and the crying sound stopped.

Next, Xiser explained the characteristics and precautions of various magic plants to Gong Hao one by one.

There are about forty plants in area No. 13, each plant is very unique, and each has its own purpose. In addition to the crying grass, at least five magical plants are extremely lethal and need to be very careful when fiddling with them.

"Okay, I have told you all the uses, maintenance and methods of these magic plants. They are not complicated or simple. Have you remembered them all?"

"Yes." Gong Hao nodded.

"Okay, every morning, an apprentice will come here to collect the materials you collected the day before. You can give them the materials to him. At the same time, he will tell you what the materials you need to prepare the next day. You will continue to prepare the supply for the next day as instructed to be considered as completing the task. Your room is No. 13, which is in line with your management area. As long as you do what you have done, you can arrange the remaining time yourself. There is a canyon to the east of the castle and a lake to the west. Both places are forbidden areas. In addition, only apprentices and a few adults can enter and exit freely. In addition, you can go to other places, but it is recommended that you do not walk out of the castle, because the castle is protected by barriers, and there are many terrible monsters outside the castle. Don't think about running away, just concentrate on your work, do you understand?"

"I understand." Gong Hao nodded.

After thinking about it, he suddenly said, "Cisser, can you ask you a question?"

"Tell me."

"I remember you said that the servants here are kept at about sixty people all year round, is that true?"

"Yes."

"But I heard that the Empire sent a group of servants to Purgatory Island every month."

“That’s true.”

"Where did so many people come out?"

Siser said: "There are often some people who make mistakes. Andrew will take away those who make mistakes and never see them back again. Andrew said they don't work hard, so they don't want them to work here and send them to other places to do things."

Gong Hao's heart fell to the bottom in an instant.

Every month, I send a group of young servants who are not working hard to do things elsewhere? Then I send a group of new people here every month? Such lies may only deceive these children who are inexperienced.

Gong Hao said in a low voice: "So, fifteen people were taken away by Andrew last month?"

"Yes, so fifteen people have been added to this month."

“How many people will Andrew usually take away every month?”

"This is not sure. I have only been here for four months, and the number of people is different every month. Last month, a servant chief made a mistake and was taken away by Lord Andrew, and then I took it over." At this point, Siser frowned: "You said you only asked one question, Seiglaer, you have asked too much, do your best."

"Okay Siser, I will do things well. Hopefully, too."

"What does it mean?" Xisse was stunned and didn't understand what Bai Gonghao said.
Chapter completed!