[Happy Birthday!]
[You are now 6 years old!]
[Please choose a gift:]
[1. at - 600]
[2. Bloodline Book*]
[3. Stat and Skill Points - 600]
[4. Surprise - Surprise]
Aiko stared at the shaless system. If she hadn't checked her age again, she would have been robbed of her birthday gift! She didn't like the fact that the system would conceal it from her.
'It's even more important since the second option is a one-ti-only kind of thing.' Aiko nodded slowly, but she was still glaring at the system's translucent panel.
Aiko picked the Second option, with that she would be able to slowly but carefully change her Bloodlines to what she wanted.
She did not expect that it would have all the information inside, but she should be able to find the Bloodline Tree that she liked.
[Receive a reward for reaching Level 450?]
[Servant Mark]
[Your servants will be loyal to you, if they try to betray you or harm you in any way, their 'Blessing/s' will be forcibly withdrawn, alongside the knowledge received from the User.]
[Receive a reward for reaching Level 500?]
[Ancestral Shop]
[You will be able to buy things lost in ti.]
[Receive a reward for reaching Level 550?]
[Servant Shop]
[You can buy various things for your servants.]
The only thing she cared about was the Ancestral Shop, since the others were of no use to her. She didn't have any servants and didn't want to test it on i...
'Thinking about how few Skill Points I have makes worry about my future...' Aiko whined in her mind, she didn't like the fact that almost everything used Skill Points. She had a limited supply of them, yet needed so many of them.
[Ancestral Shop]
[Number of Items: Unknown]
[Search: - ]
'So it's like that?' Aiko nodded slowly, she probably had to search for what she wanted to find. 'I hope I don't need the exact na of the thing I'm looking for...' Aiko sighed.
"Are you ready?" i asked, interrupting Aiko's thinking.
"Yes." That thing could wait, Aiko had different troubles incoming.
'Even if I know all the Herbs, working with them is a completely different matter!' Aiko felt like it was not a good idea to take these lessons.
i smiled. "Don't worry, we have enough Herbs to play around with." She smiled so much that a chill went down Aiko's spine.
It was obvious that Aiko would not be left alone until she mastered Alchemy!
"Let's start with the simple Qi Recovery Pill. It's a 1st Grade Pill that can be used on Beasts at the Beast Rank, but only for Foxes since we have a much smaller Beast Core compared to other Beasts." i explained slowly.
"The main ingredient is Weeping Vine." i picked up an ugly Vine with an ugly face.
It was a brown vine with tiny green stems on it. Its face was old and constantly frowning, but unmoving. It was around 30 cm in length.
Aiko had a really bad feeling about this...
"Now, you need to cut off all these tiny stems, they will poison the Pill if you do it incorrectly." i skilfully cut off all the unnecessary stems, leaving Aiko staring at her technique in admiration.
Aiko nodded in understanding. "I will try my best."
She picked up a Weeping Vine, but fortunately it didn't scream at her. She tried to demonstrate her skill but cut into the vine itself when trying to cut the 3rd stem, thus ruining the whole Herb.
Aiko frowned, it was much more difficult than she expected and even when she tried to copy the technique i showed, her body just wouldn't listen to her properly.
"It's fine." i stroked Aiko's hair. "Practice makes perfect." She placed another Weeping Vine in front of her.
...
Aiko practised this for a week until she was able to remove all the stems from the Herb, but even then there were tiny parts of the stems that were stuck to the Vine. Unfortunately for Aiko, if she tried to remove them completely, like i, she would ruin the Herb, as she was not as skilled as i.
The engraving was much easier since the material didn't move away from her each ti she tried to engrave it, unlike this Herb that wiggled and moved about.
"This Herb is the Green Leaf Flower." i picked up a flower whose petals consisted only of normal leaves.
"The urge to eat is because this Herb is packed with Qi." i explained when she saw the drooling Aiko.
"We need to cut off the leaves in a certain way so that they preserve the Qi inside them." She explained slowly, but her hands were already moving, stripping the flower of its green leaves.
Aiko was shocked at the ease of i stripping the Herb, but she was not fooled by it this ti. She would slowly and carefully do her best while hoping that she wouldn't waste too many Herbs in her attempts.
It had to be said that i was extrely generous, as most Alchemists that started would only be given 20 sets of Herbs in order for them to learn one type of 1st Grade Pill. With each Grade, this amount would decrease until they would get only 1 set of herbs and therefore have to concoct the Pill without errors!
As for Aiko? She spent more than 500 Weeping Vines learning how to cut them properly and even then she still wasn't perfect. It could be considered a great waste, but i didn't mind. She was happy as long as Aiko was willing to do Alchemy with her.
...
Another 2 weeks passed. Aiko finally prepared all 3 Herbs for the concoction. Of course, she had to redo the first two since they had already withered by the ti she finished with the third one.
Around them, there were hundreds upon hundreds of wasted, withered Herbs. Yet i was still smiling gently.
"Now we have prepared the Herbs. There are multiple ways to concoct this Pill, we will start with using the easiest one." i gestured.
"First you preheat the Cauldron with Flas. You need this exact temperature." i dragged Aiko close to the Cauldron so that she could feel the heat.
Aiko didn't think this was hot enough as she thought she would be able to touch the Pill Cauldron with her bare hands, but she restrained herself and watched i.
"Once the preheating is finished you place the Weeping Vine in and wait for 34 breaths." i explained whilst simultaneously counting her breaths.
"Then you form this Rune and slap the Pill Cauldron gently." i demonstrated and what ca out was a strange kind of Powder.
She imdiately placed it on the tray with her Divine Sense. i then picked another Herb counted 24 breaths and the last one was 13 breaths.
The temperature and ti were different each ti which made Aiko's head slightly hurt. If every Herb had a different temperature it would soon turn into a ss even with her mory!
"You won't be able to do this for the ti being." i giggled at the dumbfounded Aiko.
"Why not?" Aiko tilted her head.
"Because you didn't even awaken your Divine Sense." i teased Aiko by nudging her nose.
Aiko frowned and massaged her nose. "Do you need Divine Sense for concoction?" It didn't seem like one needed it...
"How will you move the powders from the Pill Cauldron?" i narrowed her eyes.
"Turn it upside down?" Aiko lifted one of her eyebrows.
Wasn't that much better than this questionable 'Sense'?
i laughed heartily. "Then try it." She chuckled sinisterly.
Aiko looked around for so tong or towel that she could use to handle the Cauldron.
"So you are not completely senseless." i chuckled. "Even if you find sothing to protect you from the heat it will be useless." She shook her head.
"Why?" Aiko asked.
"While timing is important, most Herbs are very fragile once they are heated. If you jerk them around by the tilting, you might affect the quality. Not to ntion, the impurities that would be drawn out from the Herbs could return into them or make the whole clean up ssy." i explained slowly so that Aiko could understand.
Aiko nodded. That wouldn't be good since she didn't like cleaning things and she didn't have [Clean] like i did.
"What do we do now then?" Aiko asked staring at i.
"You will develop your Divine Sense." i said proudly.
"How?" Aiko stared at her suspiciously.
"I will nudge your mind with my own Divine Sense. This will agitate your mind and your mind will try to find a way to protect itself, thus you will develop the most crude Divine Sense there is." i explained.
"From there we will take our ti to slowly develop and nurture your Divine Sense until it's as strong as mine." i ended the explanation.
"Are you ready?" i smiled softly.
"Okay." Aiko didn't know what to expect, but she braced herself for the pain.
i nodded and humd. She used her Divine Sense to nudge Aiko's mind... only to find out it was more difficult than she expected.
'What the- How is her mind so powerful?!' i stared speechlessly at the innocently looking Aiko.
'I will try a bit more, but that would already be 2x more power than peers!' i frowned. She used her Divine Sense to nudge Aiko's mind again but found out her mind would just not budge...
...
A month later...
*Wheeze Wheeze*
i was panting with horror. 'What kind of monster did I make my Karmic Companion?!' She stared at Aiko in fear. Aiko's mind is already 25 tis more powerful than her peers! 'She could be considered an old monster with this kind of mind!' She huffed.
Aiko still stared innocently waiting for i to do her thing. She already spent more than a month with her, yet she didn't feel any difference.
"It's done." i suddenly said with an exhausted expression.
"Eh? Already?" Aiko asked with so worry, seeing i like that.
"It is, but we will have to train your Divine Sense first, otherwise you will crush the ingredients." i shook her head.
"Huh?" Aiko tilted her head and glanced at the system.
There was a new stat below Mind.
[Divine Sense: 18,800]
Aiko didn't know if it was good or bad, but she would listen to i.
"What do we do first?" Aiko asked.
"We need to draw out your full potential of Divine Sense and then control it." i said gently wiping her face with a wet towel.
"Why not the other way around?" Aiko asked curiously.
"Because it might hinder your growth. Your control might beco too strong and limit your potential of the Divine Sense." i warned Aiko.
Aiko nodded obediently.
'That will take a long ti, you should do other things now.' Suddenly a voice sounded in her mind.
"What should I do?" Aiko asked.
'Don't ask . I'm just warning you that it will take a long ti to draw out your full potential.' The Seed was much gentler than previously.
"The Seed said we should do sothing else, since it will take a long ti to draw out my potential." Aiko said to i.
'Is that true?' i asked the Seed through telepathy. She knew that Aiko's mind was powerful, but she didn't think it would take that long.
'It is.' The Seed said dismissively. 'You are comparing her to the normal Foxes. You should drop that motion and treat her like Heaven's Daughter.' The seed warned i.
'Heaven's Daughter, huh...' i thought about it deeply. 'This will be troubleso...'
'Tell about it, but at least she is feeding well, so I will help her later.' The Seed sighed, but it was still willing to help Aiko. Aiko was feeding it well with high-quality nature Qi, so it couldn't complain.
i nodded slowly. 'Then let's make her do sothing else and we will train her Divine Sense afterwards.' She didn't like the idea of postponing her lectures, but if it would take that long to draw out her full potential, then it wouldn't be a bad idea for Aiko to relax...
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