Hearing the mention of Silver City, Naimus froze, for silver did not exist.
In alchemy, a few substances were quite special: silver, gold, and mercury.
Yet in this world, silver was a special concept, and even the concept itself was known to very few.
The reason for this boiled down to the fact that the substance of silver did not actually exist in reality.
People merely used the principle of "as above, so below" when practicing alchemy, combining it with the deduction of earth, water, fire, and wind to calculate the existence of a substance naturally endowed with "mystery."
Yet for unknown reasons, they had never been able to manufacture silver using alchemy.
To the extent that "silver" gradually became a conceptual symbol that had never been fully proven.
In some alchemical arts, silver could be invoked as a concept to participate in alchemical reactions.
However, major problems occasionally arose, and it always appeared rather unstable.
Therefore, even some master alchemists could not be certain that silver truly existed.
Naimus had previously studied alchemy and had found this somewhat strange.
Yet because his own mastery of alchemy was not particularly proficient, he had cast the matter aside.
Until this very moment, Naimus experienced a flash of realization—silver was right here.
At the same time, a doubt that Naimus had harbored long ago was partially resolved.
Black Stone, steel, gold, myth.
Having just transmigrated and been reborn into this world, and having understood its tiers of supernatural power, one thing Naimus had cared about deeply was: where was silver?
Where had the silver gone, stuck as it was, unable to rank either high or low?
Later on, however, he simply assumed that the rules of the different world were different, resulting in some deviations.
Judging from the present situation, silver might