pertwk Chapter 100 : Tier 3! Golden Potion!
Chapter 100 : Tier 3! Golden Potion!
Chapter 100: Tier 3! Golden Potion!
“So, Lady Manta, that Mr. Green…” Leo had just seen through the Dragon-Elephant’s perspective that Lady Manta had been cursing Green for quite a while, and only shifted her target to him after seeing the Dragon-Elephant.
That meant the root of the problem lay with Green.
“He fainted.” Lady Manta let out a sigh.
During this period, Lady Manta and Green had been in seclusion making a Tier 3 Body Tempering Potion.
At first, everything had gone fairly smoothly.
However, as time passed, the mentality of that Tier 1 Alchemist, Green, had changed.
After the last failure, he had borne tremendous psychological pressure.
Although Lady Manta had barely blamed him,
he knew how great a loss his mistake had caused her.
He had kept that pressure buried deep in his heart the entire time.
So he had wanted to give it everything he had. No matter what, this time he had to successfully help Lady Manta complete this alchemy process.
But that psychological pressure had not disappeared. Instead, it had slowly fermented in his heart.
Especially when the process drew closer and closer to the stage where he had made a mistake last time.
The immense pressure finally collapsed on him like an avalanche and completely crushed his mental defenses.
His eyes rolled back, and from sheer nervousness, he fainted on the spot.
That scene had completely caught Lady Manta off guard.
She had never imagined that halfway through the alchemy process, her assistant would faint outright.
That was equivalent to directly sentencing her second alchemy attempt to death.
Without Green, that Tier 1 Alchemist, assisting her, it was impossible for her to complete the Tier 3 potion.
The time for the next operation had been drawing closer and closer.
Just as she came out, filled with pent-up anger and anxiety, to catch her breath,
she saw Leo’s remote feeder, the Dragon-Elephant.
That only added fuel to the fire.
However, everything had just changed.
She had discovered that Leo had actually succeeded in making a Tier 1 potion.
That meant Leo already possessed the technical skill of a Tier 1 Alchemist.
Lady Manta slowly recovered a bit of her rationality.
She looked at those meek Beastkin.
It seemed each of them had been raised quite well.
Nothing appeared to have gone wrong.
Then she looked at Leo, the one who had given her hope.
“Leo, let me test you. What is the key to cooling crystallization?”
“To keep the temperature dropping steadily, while also maintaining the stability of the solution during the process…” Leo answered almost without thinking.
“What is the order for mixing multiple potions?”
“According to the temperature points, the solutions are added one by one. At the same time, attention must be paid to how different solutions may affect the overall temperature after being added, so one must prepare in advance…”
Leo’s answers came with almost no hesitation.
Moreover, his answers were not just rote memorization from the book, but included his own understanding.
Lady Manta nodded. Leo’s answers just now had proven that he had already fully mastered the operational knowledge required of a Tier 1 Alchemist.
But to become a true Tier 1 Alchemist, it still had to be tested through practice.
At this moment, Lady Manta was like someone clutching the final life-saving straw.
She no longer cared about noble etiquette. Grabbing Leo by the arm, she hurried inside.
On the way, the two of them directly stepped over Green, who was lying stiffly on the floor.
Lady Manta brought Leo to the alchemy table.
She did not have one hundred percent confidence in Leo even now.
After all, he had succeeded in making a Tier 1 potion purely through self-study.
But at this point, a dead horse could only be treated as if it were alive.
Stopping now would only mean failure anyway, so why not let Leo try?
She clenched her fists and braced herself. “Alright, Leo. What you need to do next is very simple. Don’t be nervous.”
“I’m not nervous,” Leo answered calmly.
He could see that Lady Manta was under tremendous pressure right now.
So the only thing he could do was stay calm, and at the same time give her confidence.
“Good.” Lady Manta let out a long breath. “Watch carefully. From here on, all you need to do is follow my order and instructions, and add the corresponding solutions according to this list. The temperatures and amounts to add are all written very clearly on it.”
Leo looked at the list Lady Manta had prepared in front of him.
As expected of a Tier 3 potion, there were more than one hundred twenty steps, and some of them were repeated.
No wonder Green had made a mistake.
This was definitely not a task that could be completed casually.
And on one of the lines—add violet flower juice—a large red circle had been drawn around it.
‘That should be the step Green got wrong last time.’
Leo also calmed his mind completely at this moment, casting aside all distracting thoughts.
He focused all of his spirit entirely on the current alchemy process.
Meanwhile, Lady Manta operated as she explained the details and key points to watch for.
Although Leo had already mastered Tier 1 Alchemy techniques very thoroughly,
the experience of Lady Manta, a seasoned Tier 2 Alchemist, was also extremely valuable.
Inside the spacious Potion Laboratory, time seemed to slow down.
Lady Manta and Leo followed the process step by step, as though the two of them were walking on a tightrope.
Every single step, both of them took with extreme caution, as though there were a bottomless abyss beneath them.
The water clock on the wall ticked steadily.
Along with the dripping of water,
time slowly passed second by second.
Leo carried out the operations one step at a time according to the contents of the list.
He seemed to be especially suited for this kind of work.
The prepared solutions on the operating table in front of him steadily decreased.
And inside the large flask on the boiling rack, the color of the solution slowly changed from light blue, to purple, and finally to red.
Gurgle gurgle, a string of bubbles slowly rose from the bottom of the flask.
After an unknown amount of time, the solution inside the flask finally turned completely transparent.
Then Lady Manta, her steps steady, took out a small bottle she carried with her.
Using a dropper, she dripped several drops of a very strange mysterious solution into the transparent liquid.
Inside that solution, currents of air seemed to churn continuously.
“This is a catalyst,” Lady Manta explained to Leo.
After that step was completed, what followed was an even longer wait.
The two of them watched the solution after the catalyst had been added, guarding against any sudden accident in this final step.
Because until the very end was reached, an accident could occur at any point during alchemy.
The final waiting period was the most agonizing process of all.
The two of them remained inside the Potion Laboratory, taking turns watching it, replenishing their energy with nutrient solution at the side.
Neither of them knew how much time had passed when, all of a sudden, Lady Manta, who had originally been sitting in a chair, sprang to her feet.
Her eyes were fixed tightly on the solution inside the flask before her.
That gaze looked as though it wanted to see straight through the liquid.
Just now, she seemed to have seen a trace of golden light appear within the solution.
At this moment, Leo also looked toward the bottle of solution before him.
There really was a trace of golden light.
And the threadlike golden light was still continuously increasing.
As the solution kept boiling under the high temperature, the golden light inside it wove itself denser and denser, until it ultimately joined into a single whole.
Using a special clamp, Lady Manta removed the flask from the rack.
She was so excited that for a moment she could not even speak, and even her hands were trembling somewhat.
Only several seconds later did she pour the solution from the flask into a sealed bottle and tightly stopper it.
Lady Manta’s lips trembled slightly. “It worked, brother.”
But before Leo could even react, he felt Lady Manta’s lips land heavily on his forehead.
Muah muah muah muah muah~
“It worked! It succeeded!” Lady Manta, her emotions nearly out of control, had completely lost her composure, launching a fierce barrage against Leo’s forehead.
“Ah, madam.”
“Thank the Father of Light for his blessing! My Tier 3 Body Tempering Potion succeeded! Damn it, it really succeeded!” Lady Manta looked at the golden potion before her.
She could hardly suppress her feelings at this moment.
For this day, she had prepared for years, only to suffer repeated failures.
But fortunately, Leo’s appearance had ensured that her efforts had not been wasted.
Although Leo could not fully share the kind of extreme grief and joy Lady Manta was feeling,
he was also sincerely happy for her.
He glanced at the water clock on the wall. It seemed that since entering this Potion Laboratory, two days and two nights had passed.
He had not felt it at all.
During those two days, Leo had hardly practiced the Breathing Technique, nor had he done anything else.
He had been wholly focused, as though he had entered another world.
But Leo’s two days had not been spent in vain.
It was not only Lady Manta’s recognition.
During those two days, Leo’s Alchemy experience had risen like mad.
【Alchemy Level 1 87/100】
In just two short days, this skill had surged by 85 experience points.
It was about to reach Level 2.