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Chapter 98 : Formula Analysis! Successful Alchemy!
Chapter 98: Formula Analysis! Successful Alchemy!
Leo quickly began cutting and grinding.
Then, on the scale, he weighed and portioned all the raw materials according to the prescribed ratios.
In 《General Knowledge of Alchemy》, the formulas and production methods for these basic potions were all recorded in detail.
However, for a potion like Sedative Potion, which Leo had seen before, all the formula steps were directly entered into his mind under the effect of the 【Formula Analysis】 trait.
When making it, it was as if there were an instruction manual inside his head, making it extremely convenient.
At this moment, Leo was fully focused, concentrating all his mind on the alchemy process.
With a Spirit Attribute of 1.6, Leo’s mind remained focused and clear at all times.
Leo had already prepared all five solutions in proportion according to the formula.
That process alone had already been very time-consuming and labor-intensive.
After completing that step, the final stage was heating and mixing.
This was the most crucial step of all.
It was just like when Leo had done experiments in the chemistry lab at school in his previous life—the temperature of the solutions, the order of addition, and the amount added all had extremely strict requirements.
This required the Alchemist to constantly watch the markings on the thermometer, control the intensity of the heating, grasp the timing of when to pour in the solutions, and stir and mix them promptly.
This process was the moment that best reflected an Alchemist’s skill level.
Right now, Leo was still only making the simplest ordinary Tier 1 potion.
If it were a complicated Tier 2 potion, the raw ingredients and solutions added during mixing could even reach dozens of types, each with extremely strict requirements for concentration and preparation temperature. If even one thing went wrong, all previous effort would be wasted.
Therefore, training a mature Alchemist required a large amount of repeated potion-making practice and refinement.
All of that experience had to be built up with precious medicinal ingredients.
For example, with Leo now making a Tier 1 Sedative Potion,
even this simplest Tier 1 potion required two silver coins’ worth of materials per batch.
Once the experiment failed, that batch of materials would be wasted outright.
However, Leo was not worried about that. At this moment, his eyes were fixed tightly on the thermometer. The instant the reading reached eighty-five, Leo directly poured in the final solution.
The instant the solutions mixed, a great quantity of bubbles surged up inside the glass container.
It was like beer just opened from a bottle—those bubbles continued swelling and rising, eventually piling up on the liquid surface, almost overflowing from the mouth of the flask.
However, those churning bubbles soon slowly subsided.
Leo’s eyes steadied, knowing that the most dangerous hurdle had already passed.
All the raw materials had now been fully mixed, and what remained next was a long wait.
This process required prolonged heating, and it was also the most exhausting stage.
The Alchemist had to keep a constant watch on the thermometer and maintain a stable temperature. If impurities precipitated out, they also needed to be scooped away with a filter net in time to prevent crystallization and sedimentation from affecting the quality.
In this process, a formal Alchemist would usually have an assistant helping until the entire potion was completely finished.
But Leo had no assistant right now, and this process alone took him more than two hours.
The waiting was the most tormenting part. It required enormous patience and willpower.
Being able to endure loneliness was also the most crucial quality of an Alchemist.
But Leo had never been an impatient person by nature.
In addition, his Spirit Attribute far surpassed that of ordinary people. Those two hours passed quickly enough for him.
Leo did not waste that time either—he used it to practice the Breathing Technique.
In the end, as Leo extinguished the flame, a bottle of pure azure liquid appeared before him.
“It’s done!”
Within the panel,
【Alchemy (Green) Level 1 1→2/100 (Spirit +0.1, basic mastery of potion formulation)】
Alchemy experience had increased by 1 point.
Although the experience gain was not especially fast, Leo was extremely excited. As long as it could increase, that meant it could be grinded.
As long as he continuously invested time and effort, he could slowly grind this skill to the very top.
Excitedly, Leo took a sealed bottle from the other side of the table and prepared to pour his first completed potion into it.
At the same time, he began summarizing this alchemy process.
First was meticulousness. The weight and proportions of all the raw ingredients had to have their margin of error controlled within an extremely small range.
Second was patience. The temperature had to be controlled with precision, and no major deviation could occur. Otherwise, at best the quality would be affected, and at worst it would be ruined directly.
Finally, the most crucial factor of all was time. Leo was still only making a Tier 1 potion, and the entire process had already taken him half a day.
If he were making a Tier 2 potion, the whole process might take several days or even more than ten days.
As for a Tier 3 potion, Leo did not know yet, but it might perhaps take even longer.
Looking at it this way, Alchemy was a profession that consumed enormous financial resources, manpower, and mental energy.
No wonder Alchemists were so valuable.
Leo stoppered the bottle and carefully admired his first work.
It was extremely perfect. There was almost no visible—
But right at this moment, Leo suddenly froze. He turned the bottle over repeatedly and discovered that there seemed to be a faint grayish shadow inside.
“That’s impossible.”
He had cleaned all the bottles meticulously, and had even boiled and sterilized them with hot water.
Leo frowned and picked up the other sealed bottles for careful inspection. At first glance, nothing could be seen.
But once he activated Hunting Moment, he could tell that the light transmission of these bottles seemed to differ ever so slightly from ordinary reagent bottles.
“It seems there’s a problem with the quality of these sealed bottles.” Leo looked toward the servant outside the door.
Leo deliberately knocked over one sealed bottle, then spoke to the male servant outside. “Dorian, come here for a moment.”
“Ah, oh. Yes, Sir Leo.”
Looking at the servant’s shrinking, trembling manner, Leo already understood everything.
Under Leo’s questioning, this servant quickly confessed his little trick of passing off inferior goods as better ones.
This lesson had come at a very timely moment.
Alchemy was an extremely precise profession.
As an Alchemist, not a single detail could be allowed to go wrong.
That was not only a matter of one’s own standards.
It was also a matter of standards for one’s assistants, and even the person purchasing equipment could not be treated carelessly.
Fortunately, this incident had not affected Leo’s grinding of experience.
Leo felt that spending two silver coins to buy this lesson had been very worthwhile.
“So, how should this matter be dealt with?” Leo stared straight at Dorian across from him.
At this moment, the male servant named Dorian had weak legs, his entire body soaked with sweat, trembling like a quail.
He had not expected that the Quasi-Knight he served would be so sharp. Buying a few cheap bottles to earn some difference in price had actually been discovered.
“I’m sorry! Sir Leo, I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I didn’t think something like this would happen. It was my greed, I deserve death…” Dorian’s knees gave way and he knelt directly on the floor.
Dorian’s head slammed heavily against the ground. After all, the person before him was a lofty Quasi-Knight.
A single sentence from him could cost Dorian his life.
If the other party told the steward Dover, then that newly appointed, vigorous new steward would absolutely make an example of him in order to curry favor with this Quasi-Knight.
“Please, I beg you…”
Just as Dorian was pleading, Leo tossed the bottle in his hand to his side.
With a thud, Dorian jolted in fright.
“I will tell my teacher Eve Sova about this matter, but I will ask her to hand you over to Steward Dover for combined punishment the next time you make a mistake.” Leo waved his hand. “Go replace these bottles.”
Leo had investigated this male servant’s situation and knew that he depended on each other with his blind elderly mother.
Although, for the sake of a small profit, the man had caused him to lose two silver coins,
on second thought, it had also exchanged for an absolutely loyal servant.
Although Leo would not entrust important matters to him in the future, in anything else he did afterward, he would absolutely give it his all.
Leo looked at the servant who had just picked up a spared life and now regarded him with deep gratitude.
This was the law of this world: the strong held the power of life and death over the weak.
Although he himself had now become a Quasi-Knight,
above his head, there were still lofty nobles and the royal family.
Only by continuously increasing his own strength could he keep his fate in his own hands.
Very soon, Dorian returned with a batch of brand-new sealed bottles.
Over the next few days, Leo devoted almost all of his energy apart from the Breathing Technique to Alchemy.
With the support of the 【Formula Analysis】 trait, along with the alchemy knowledge Leo had previously studied in 《General Knowledge of Alchemy》,
Leo very quickly succeeded in making several of the other Tier 1 potions he had already mastered.
At the same time, the experience of the 【Alchemy】 skill also steadily increased.
【Alchemy Level 1 23/100】