Free Web NovelChapter 803: Elixir-making Comparable to Mysticism
Mei Linde's Office
“How was it? Personally, going to the inner ring area of the Wizard Academy, did the information collected by the Destiny Gazing Technique help you lock onto the position of the Umbilicus Mundi?”
Cheryl's voice echoed in the office.
Clearly, she was questioning Mei Linde before her.
“You're too reckless.”
“It looks like there wasn't much of an effect then... then let me ask this way? Can the possibility of it being within the Wizard Academy be ruled out?”
Cheryl continued to ask.
It seemed she was truly curious, but she immediately spoke to supplement another piece of intelligence.
“I went to that Aphrodite Academy to take a look for you. Below that World Tree offshoot is not the Umbilicus Mundi. That's a nesting structure. Without some means, one would really think that's where it is... but actually it's not. Truly touching the Aphrodite Forest Elves are even willing to use their most sacred Aphrodite World Tree offshoot as bait just to provide cover. These few Transcendent races truly have deep brotherly affection.”
“You even ran over to the Aphrodite Academy?”
Mei Linde asked with a bit of a headache.
“Yeah are you regretting that I didn't cause some commotion over there as well?”
“I'd prefer it if you could be a bit more well-behaved. Acting like this will sooner or later disrupt our plans. Your behavior is simply too radical.”
Mei Linde evaluated this, “And I don't think you stirred things up at the Wizard Academy just to help me. What else did you do?”
“Heavens... an Anti-Witch like me is helping you out of the goodness of my heart, yet I still suffer suspicion? Did you feed my sincerity to the cats?”
“......”
At this moment, Mei Linde was once again rendered speechless by this Anti-Witch before her, but she had to face this fellow who annoyed witches.
Granted, this incident happened suddenly, and Cheryl's unauthorized action indeed brought her an opportunity to personally collect Destiny Gazing information data, but this explanation felt too far-fetched.
Normally, she indeed couldn't enter the inner ring of the Wizard Academy.
Even the last time she went directly to the Wizard Academy to demand an explanation, she was greeted outside early on.
However, Mei Linde had ample reason to suspect that Cheryl had definitely done other things.
But in such a short time, was there really any extra time for her to achieve some special purpose?
This was destined to be a question that could not be answered at this moment.
What truly made Mei Linde feel resistant toward Cheryl before her was her inability to see clearly what the other party wanted.
Many of the other party's behaviors appeared very chaotic, lacking even a clear goal.
Therefore, this was very likely to lead her to make wrong judgments based on these behaviors.
This was also a common method used by Anti-Witches to bury the truth.
An Anti-Witch's actions definitely have a most basic starting point, and subsequently, all her actions will revolve around this goal.
However, she cannot possibly tell this to other witches openly.
This was one of the reasons why Anti-Witches were dangerous.
If one were to make a reasonable guess based on the current situation... with this Anti-Witch coming to this Main World, Mei Linde had ample reason to suspect that she was interested in the Main World itself, and might even use relatively radical methods to thoroughly incorporate the Main World under the name of the witch race.
This was the Main World, after all—the most special form of world existence within the Void.
Because it existed on the main trunk of the Void Earth Vein, the Main World had the ability to influence the entire Void to a certain extent, or rather, the ability to influence "the birth of worlds in the entire Void."
Such a world was many times better than those worlds harvested from Void development.
Even a large world cluster could not compare.
Moreover, the Main World had an almost infinite growth upper limit, provided that this Main World hadn't been wrecked until only a single Core Realm remained...
But once they mastered the world restoration technique, for the witch race, this Main World was once again elevated to a value height equivalent to a complete Main World!
So now Mei Linde guessed that a large group of Anti-Witches might arrive at the Main World next.
At this time, she was even somewhat fortunate that the Main World was shattered, resulting in an upper limit for carrying Transcendents.
Otherwise, the scene of these Anti-Witches swarming in would likely make her breathless.
But even so, she needed to guard against Anti-Witches entering the Main World through other ways.
Cheryl before her eyes had sneaked in just like that.
Therefore, she felt it was very necessary to conduct a deep verification of the Transcendent Witches entering the Main World next.
If a second Anti-Witch was let in, it wouldn't just be a problem of which Transcendent Academy in the Main World would have a hard time, but even the Witch Academy included would have a hard time!
If there was also some conflict in philosophy between two Anti-Witches, then the situation would become even more uncontrollable.
***
Laboratory.
Because Tan Han had business and didn't come in the morning, I had no choice but to do my own thing first.
Regarding the "Perfection Ritual" for Self-generating Magic Power, the current me was quite confident.
The only question was how high the final efficiency of the perfection would be.
As for the concept of "Prototype Self-generating Magic Power" I proposed, I didn't have much energy to delve deep into it at this stage.
After all, things had to be taken one at a time; one must avoid being impatient.
And even if derivation was truly possible, I had no clue right now, so I naturally wouldn't waste time on it.
So the morning time was slightly relaxed for me.
Even when I wasn't very busy, I ran over to the group doing elixirs to drop by.
After all, I myself was very interested in the technique of Elixirs.
This technique mastered by witches used magic power as a medium, Transcendent materials as a carrier, and the finished Elixir product as the ritual itself.
It had to be said that it was very interesting.
Although I didn't quite know Elixir-making yet, I knew a lot of theoretical knowledge about Elixir-making; I just lacked practical experience.
If ordinary alchemical potions focused on ratios, pharmacology, and so on, then Elixirs mainly focused on blending and rituals.
And magic power was the best medium for blending.
Actually, this usage was very common.
For example, the healing potions blended with the power of nature mastered by Forest Elves had better effects than simple healing potions; the curse stock solution blended with sorcery power mastered by wizards was such that even ordinary dispel spells couldn't drive away the curse effects.
And Elixir-making blended with magic power was likewise a major field of study!
With magic power being the highest energy-level Transcendent energy that life can currently master, Elixir techniques were simply the most brilliant business card of the witch race.
It wasn't that Transcendent energies with a higher energy level than magic power didn't exist in the Void.
But for Transcendent energies that can be utilized and used for Transcendent system advancement, the energy level of magic power was the highest.
Moreover, other races didn't dare covet this power; otherwise, they should be prepared to have their entire race assimilated into a branch of the witch race.
But then again.
Although Elixir-making looked very high-end, for witches, this technique... was probably as easy as making dark cuisine on a daily basis.
Furthermore, one didn't necessarily have to become a Transcendent Witch.
One only needed to be a reserve witch whose mental power could interfere with magic power to start learning Elixir-making, and could even directly start hands-on practice.
Elixir-making was a typical technique with an extremely high upper limit and an extremely low lower limit.
Therefore, this resulted in situations where witches blending elixirs would frequently experience explosions.
After all, the energy level of magic power was so high; encountering even a tiny bit of something wrong, a simple explosion might be the best outcome.
In the content of the basic Elixir-making books I understood, there were descriptions of various situations one might encounter if an explosion occurred during Elixir blending.
For example, being stained with waste liquid, or being affected by an unknown curse shaped by a special ritual—such curses that couldn't be systematically traced back were difficult even to dispel.
Therefore, for witches with poor skills, Elixir-making could even be classified as an unrecognizable field of "Mysticism."
But even so, this couldn't block my curiosity about Elixir-making.
So for a period after finishing work on the perfection ritual, I was constantly observing those few girls performing elixir blending.
Looking at their "crude" methods of handling Transcendent materials, I once doubted whether these were truly professional students who had studied Elixir-making...
But after understanding, I realized that this behavior was classified as part of an "Action Ritual."
Similar to behaviors like prayer rituals.
This wasn't something where it worked if you believed it and didn't if you didn't.
After all, the existence of rituals could be confirmed, so if there was no effect, something must have gone wrong with the ritual.
Regarding their optimistic attitude, I expressed that this was something I could never learn.
However, over the course of a morning, I also learned quite a few useful things, such as special hand techniques during Elixir blending, preparation rituals before blending, and so on.
Many things and details were techniques that had never been recorded in books.
According to them, everyone's cognition of Elixir-making was different, and the ritual mini-techniques they mastered would also be different.
Even the effects of the blended elixirs had distinctions.
This resulted in the classifications within Elixir-making being extremely mixed, with all sorts of styles and factions.
Regarding this, I could only express respect.
Time quickly reached the afternoon.
The time agreed upon with Tan Han was also nearly here.
I was looking at the results from the morning in the laboratory, and in my heart, I was also planning how to communicate with Tan Han next.
In any case, Tan Han was a living person; communication was inevitable.
“Eh Tan Han is here. You haven't visited us once these days. Our relationship is going to become distant.”
At this moment, I heard the voice from the laboratory's main entrance.
Tan Han had arrived about ten minutes earlier than the time she had agreed with me.
Hearing Tan Han's voice asking where I was, I also casually picked up a piece of data and pretended to read it.
Until a silhouette appeared in my vision at this experimental cubicle where I was.
“Tan Han, you're here.”
I put down the data and stood up accordingly.
“Mhm, sorry. I truly had business in the morning. I shouldn't be too delayed, right?”
“Of course not. Rather, you've come at just the right time.”
I said with a smile, then led Tan Han inside.
“By the way, you should have been practicing Body-transformation spells these days, right? How does it feel?”
I looked at Tan Han with great expectation.
After all, I was also very much looking forward to Tan Han's perception of this technique.
“A very novel technique. It's a completely different experience from using a spellbook to release spells, but it can't stump me yet.”
Tan Han spoke very confidently.
“That's good. Has anyone come looking for trouble with you these days? If so, tell me in time and I can go settle it for you. I don't want you to have your energy distracted by other things during the experiment.”
“Don't worry, no one has come to find trouble with me.”
“That's good. Then I'll start getting straight to the point, how about it?”
While speaking, I pulled up the information data summary page of the Great Tree of Knowledge.
This was the analytical data of Tan Han's physical condition during these days.
I had organized it slightly, making it into a more intuitive table.
“I'm fine with it, of course.”
Tan Han shook her head to indicate no problem.
She had long grown used to this habit of Xiao Han's to get straight to the point.
“The perfection ritual I gave you to try before—have you been persisting in trying it?”
I looked at the line graph and found that the total amount of magic power self-generated by Tan Han within a limited time was increasing bit by bit.
Moreover, this increase was not regular but intermittent.
So I had reason to believe that many of the previous versions of the perfection ritual still had some effect, but the effect was small, and there were even a few nodes where it dropped back down.
“Mhm, I've been trying them all. Because I felt the change in magic power birth was small, I thought a longer time was needed to observe a change.”
Tan Han said truthfully.
“Then you probably don't mind me accessing some of your more private data from this period, right? I only want to collect what kind of ritual you tried at which time segment and what effect it produced.”
“That is naturally as you please.”
“Thank you.”
I nodded and then directly accessed the information data, subsequently merging it into the current line graph.
What I was doing now was a very formal experiment.
If I wanted to explore someone's privacy in their life, I naturally still had to ask for their opinion.
Of course, this was merely going through the motions, and also to save trouble.
“It's fine. By the way, can you see anything from this?”
“It can be seen that the perfection rituals you were asked to try before all had effects, but the effects were limited.”
I said with some regret.
Up until now, Tan Han's progress in Self-generating Magic Power could only be described as infinitesimal.
This wasn't because she didn't work hard, but just that the previous techniques weren't mature enough.
Of course, it was also my fault for not having enough understanding and cognition of Self-generating Magic Power.
If one were to say that the magic power condensed by Tan Han's Self-generating Magic Power before hadn't even reached one standard unit strand, then now her Self-generating Magic Power just barely met the standard to reach the level of one strand.
“Is that so......”
“Why has your mood dropped? This is clearly my problem, right? It shouldn't have much to do with you.”
“It's nothing. But let's not mention whose responsibility it is at a time like this. We are both participants in this experiment now, and we both hope it can be better.”
“You've started comforting me now?”
I chuckled, and with a wave of my hand, I dissipated all that data.
“Don't lose heart. These past few days of mine haven't been for nothing either. Next, we'll perform another attempt, but this time... I will personally preside over the perfection ritual.”
“Do I need to do any preparation?”
“No. I've cleared a large enough empty space; you just stand there. Just stay in the same state you usually use when trying the perfection ritual. Oh, right...”
While speaking, I pushed a light screen in front of Tan Han.
“This is the initial perfection ritual we are going to try next. I will continuously correct it based on the effects it has on you. This process might last for a long time—perhaps half a day, perhaps a day or two. You should be able to hold out, right? You need to maintain a high degree of mental concentration during this time.”
“That's no problem, of course.”
Tan Han took the light screen and looked at the perfection ritual on it.
She found that this perfection ritual had a huge gap compared to every one she had tried before.
This inevitably made her wonder whether Xiao Han had overturned all the previous theories and started over.
