Chapter 97
{The Soaring Angel medicine. Increases the speed of development…}
The boy realized that something amazing got into his hands. Yegorka must have spent a fortune to buy it. Development medicine isn't cheap in this world. There was nothing like that even in the Stones' treasury...
Kyon resolutely swallowed the pill.
A moderate heat ran through his body, concentrating at the area of the keys. It penetrated the channels and went straight to the soul. Kyon closed his eyes in pleasure, it was like soaring in the sky. Rapid development is never superfluous. He wished it would last forever.
He could see the effect in the next three months. At the moment, Kyon had to study the section of alchemy. He needed to improve the recipe for the unique bodies and lay the unique foundation for himself.
He was averse to any bodies from the Stones heritage and had the same att.i.tude to the ancient unique bodies. Although all of them were incredibly valuable - the whole families were destroyed for the sake of rank unique bodies - none of them was fit for his purpose.
The imperfection of the recipes he studied (an "A" rank only) had greatly depreciated them in his eyes. He was going to do everything himself and use them as a tryout for his future creations.
He really appreciated only the strange nephrite sphere he found in the tomb. It strengthened his attribute of light by half and granted him an additional grade.
The morning was over before he knew it.
Kyon finished studying all the books on alchemy in the library and had a relevant and comprehensive foundation. All he needed was to confirm and hone the knowledge in practice.
Taking advantage of Juno's "services," Kyon took the alchemist's kit from the treasury and brought it to the library. The kit consisted of flasks and tubes; filters and distillation mechanisms; stoves and elemental containers; containers for energy with money and keys inside.
To produce medicine, he needs understanding the elements, recipes, and alchemy; personal talent; ingredients; spheres and keys. The last two items will get converted into vaporous energy, which is the main component of the medicine creation. It's rather costly to create something. It requires resources that not everyone can afford. But Kyon can... He had kindly borrowed the ingredients, money, and keys from the Stones' rich treasury. The day will come when the theft is revealed, then he will have to act according to the circ.u.mstances. But now his main goal is to ensure his successful future, and the Stones are an ideal springboard to do it.
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The afternoon was over.
Thanks to the deep immersion in theory and practice, Kyon realized what complex science alchemy was, how demanding it is to the alchemist, their skills and knowledge, to the ingredients and other parameters:
1 – only one person can create each medicine. Otherwise, it will be incompatible due to the different frequencies of the alchemists' energies.
2 – the number of elements the alchemist can bend limits their possibilities. You can have expertise only in that medicine that is within the range of the elements you bend.
3 – every ingredient has unique qualities that can significantly change depending on the way of extraction, storage conditions, production method, and age... Age determines its saturation with purer energy, the power of its properties. A thousand-year-old herb will be hundreds of times more effective than that which has been just plucked.
By its nature, an ingredient belongs to one or more of the nine elements. For example, the flint petal has a fiery essence inside. It is possible to create relevant medicine with its help. If a person does not have an element of blaze there is no way they can create any medicine where this ingredient is involved. Each component interacts with different elements, which is important to consider when creating medicine. Also, the ingredients regularly conflict with each other. The skill of combining ingredients is fundamental. You won't get anywhere without knowing the principles.
The alchemist doesn't only combine the series of ingredients in the correct way, they must change the internal memory of energy in them.
The medicine of unique bodies does not involve exceptionally valuable ingredients, such as a phoenix feather or a qilin horn, it does not even require high grades of elements. All it takes is understanding alchemy as such.
Instead of fuel for heating the stove, the boy used the element of fire, thereby eliminating unnecessary errors. First of all, he decided to create one of the well-known unique bodies.
Kyon put the ground skin of the purple viper into the container, poured clean water over the powder and added the necessary ingredients: the fur of a big-horned buffalo and blue citrus juice mixed in
Gradual heating changed the color of the mixture from gray to blue, then to green and purple. At the same time, the boy added to the container 150 basic spheres and five keys of pure energy in the form of an energy fog.
At the crucial moment, Kyon released a stream of electricity, which instantly combined the energy and the brew into a bright purple ball.
He created a pill of the Motley Purple Snake unique body on his first try. Its purity was 55%. Not every alchemist can boast that their very first attempt was successful, all the more at creating unique body medicine.
The purity in unique body medicine does not affect its final properties, it only influences the chance of its a.s.similation and that's where problems with installing the rudiments of the body usually arise. A lot of bodies have certain requirements from the pract.i.tioners, from talent to some character traits or physical parameters. Purity greatly increases the chances of successful a.s.similation.
It is believed that there is a chance of an uncontrolled failure in the process of creating medicine. However, after Kyon's detailed a.n.a.lysis of all processes, it's out of question.
The boy decided to hone several ways of cleaning and integrating the ingredients or his abilities will be greatly limited. Ideally, he needed to create his own method of cleaning and integration. He was a little annoyed by the fact that the ingredients with the nature of fire and cold, or darkness and light are never integrable. The bender of all the nine elements, he couldn't wait to create a unique body containing all the nine elements, but... The fundamental principle of the alchemists stated it was impossible which was like a stake in the heart.
It's been five days. Curious Marina visited him a couple of times and told him stories about Flitz and taciturn Juno...
During his practice, Kyon ascended to the sixth stage of the base phase. It would have taken him a week without the Soaring Angel pill. He was so obsessed with work that he didn't rejoice at his success in development. His mind was absorbed in inventing his own method of integration.
It's extremely exciting to explore and develop such an interesting science as alchemy. Kyon adored everything complicated where he could challenge himself and achieve results. However, programming will remain his favorite hobby forever.
The last five days hadn't been going smoothly. He often made mistakes during the experiments, burned seven alchemical kits, threw a large amount of valuable medicine to the waste bin and, as if that weren't enough, he spent too many spheres and keys. The Patriarch will shed bitter tears when he finds out about the loss.
However, Kyon was sure that he would never make the same mistake twice. After the first medicine, the second will be better and purer. Once he has done something right, it will always turn out right.
He concluded that the ingredients are a whole universe that requires a special approach. The finis.h.i.+ng touch is a great art. It is essential to steer all the separate processes to a successful conclusion and unify them in the right way at the same time. It is important to estimate the exact amount of the spheres and keys, as well as their nature. It is crucial to use the elements with perfect accuracy to control the processes inside each vial. It's like controlling the endless universe, making it suitable for combination, adjust to changing circ.u.mstances and requirements.
It is not surprising that alchemists are so valuable and always in demand. In alchemy, development never ends because there are almost no limits. However, the practice requires significant resources which not everyone can afford.
Kyon's hair disheveled, his eyes turned red. But he continued to "conjure" over the alchemical set, making gestures with his hands, sending the energy of the elements.
In the evening, nine containers were emitting a multi-colored radiance. Two thousand spheres and fifteen keys had been turned into a fog of energy and placed in the appropriate container.
He seized an ideal moment when all the production processes entered the active phase and activated pure energy. All the liquid from the nine containers moved with lightning speed through the tubes to the central one. The energy of keys and money underwent a similar process.
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~ Flash ~
A bright multi-colored rainbow lit up the library. The unique body pill appeared in the container. Kyon named it "Mom's pet."
Judging by the successful finis.h.i.+ng touch, the s.h.i.+ny fragrant ball, blue like a bolt of lightning, will work correctly. Its properties are impractical, it was created for practice only.
The point of this body is that the owner dies of pleasure after the first s.e.x. An epic finale of no less epic body. The funny thing is that despite anything the owner will always be in a state of arousal and experience irresistible attraction to the opposite s.e.x.
«I did it!» - Kyon couldn't hold back a cry in admiration. His method worked. After numerous attempts, he managed to work out the subtlety of each attribute and find the very key that created the chain turning into a cycle. He called the method "the Creation cycle". The name is fully justified.
The method has five huge advantages over the rest.
1 – perfectly suitable for mult.i.tasking, the production process is simple and relatively safe with minimal risk of being killed.
2 – multi-element capability. You can take any feature of the unique body and connect it with what you want, regardless of the conflict. No restrictions.
3 – the Creation cycle is the environment that increases the ratio of the integration of the ingredients in ten times. It means that the additional ingredients serving as "bridges" can be removed.
4 – any feature enhances about twice as much while the requirements drop below. For example, if applied to the body of the divine flower of development that he got from the tomb, the requirement to be a 12-year-old virgin will expand to the 11-13 year range.
5 – it is possible to combine incompatible ingredients, which is contrary to the fundamental principle of alchemy. For such attempts of ignorance, the alchemists tend to beat their students on the head with a large stick, sometimes to death.
Kyon dared to challenge the principles of alchemy and won. He proved to himself that in this science, nothing is impossible. If other methods comprise maximum 4 elements and are strictly limited, his method can simultaneously engage all the nine of the elements, whereas the structure of medicine can be adjusted at will! It does not grant you absolute power, but if you make an effort, you can do what other alchemists can only dream of.
For example, the ingredients of light and darkness, cold and heat are incompatible and reject each other. However, if you arrange the components of the remaining seven elements in a chain the cycle closes, and the properties of the opposites combine and multiply twice (as mentioned above) whereas the requirements reduce proportionately. That's how his Creation cycle, inconceivable for the rest, works.
Any master of alchemy would kneel before such a dishonestly powerful method that no one else is destined to use.
As for other skills... Kyon is already at a different, more effective level of alchemy understanding. It all came down to basic knowledge, five-day practice and nine elements.
Any complex concept is only a factor of many simple ones that he has already honed to perfection. With his computing power, he can improvise and create on the go complex concepts one after the other.
Here's an a.n.a.logy: he's mastered a course of basic mathematics and progressed to the next level. It's a matter of effort to get to the calculus from there.
Kyon was convinced that he was ready to bring any recipe of unique body medicine to a new level. That is, to accomplish what others will never do.
However, it is too early to rank the boy as a master of alchemy. He'd studied in detail the section on creating unique bodies. Nevertheless, he lacks knowledge about the rest of the medicine types. It takes a lot of practice and tests to create something new. And a lot of resources and time. And source codes.
Kyon hid the priceless and useless Mother's Pet pill in the ring. There would hardly ever be any use of it but he did not want to throw away his first successful medicine.
And now the time has come to a.n.a.lyze the source code that he is going to improve.