The contract with the Bakers has been concluded, which ans it's ti to do alchemy. He's running out of ti.
First, Kyon studied all the recipes of dicine in the Russells treasury and took a lot of ingredients from there, then he settled down in a lonely mansion on the edge of the city, where no one would interfere with him for sure. Making dicine in the palace would be stupid.
The task is the following: to create the transformation dicine of "Frozen Heart" of at least excellent (4) quality with an imperceptible trick inside. To do this, he will have to master the previously unknown branch of alchemy responsible for developnt – the manufacture of transformation dicine, breakthrough and acceleration of developnt. But how long will it take?
For example, it took Kyon two weeks to fully understand the working principle of the field of alchemy concerning unique bodies. The reason is simple: the quality of the ingredients in it did not play any role. Even the earwax of a field mouse makes the sa contribution as a drop of phoenix blood. What matters is the amount of active ingredients and how stably they are fused with each other. Moreover, only 100 slots are given.
diocre bodies have 5 active ingredients in the core at best, and even those are fused disgustingly, and in the unique bodies found in the tomb, there were up to 25 of them, which is an incredible amount. They served as the basis for creating the body of the Void from 100 active slots. Otherwise, he would have wasted years on creating a decent body, because there is no reliable way to find out what property this or that ingredient will give to a unique body, and there are an infinite number of them.
As a result, Kyon managed to make a unique body of the "SSS" rank due to the thod of fusion developed by him – "The Cycle of the Universe", thanks to which even ingredients with different polarities do not conflict with each other.
Now the situation is different. The ingredients contain explosive energy, and even 1% of the imbalance of the energies of different elents will break the glue called "The Cycle of the Universe". After all, no matter how good this principle is, it will not allow a drop of water to reliably exist inside the ocean of fla.
{Let's get started.} – Kyon decided to start small: with the dicine of transformation into the advanced phase "Upstream", but it is of the "А" rank, which ans that it is many tis better than its low-ranking counterparts. Only an alchemist of the 2nd rank can make it. It is worth noting that the "A" rank dicine for transformation into higher phases will be much more difficult to make and, equally importantly, more expensive.
Half an hour later, a slight glow lit up the room, signaling success. Taking the pill, Lovr imdiately determined its purity: a asly 10%!
{And what am I wrong about?} – Kyon frowned, carefully examining the ball in his hand.
It is easy to set the necessary set of actions (to key in a code) of energy inside dicine. He honed this art to perfection long ago. He can even create a pill that will turn the nail on the ring finger of his left hand green. So it's sothing else… Of course, this is a terrible balance of energy inside! The alchemical kit would be torn apart without "The Cycle of the Universe". He needs to figure it out.
The day flew by.
Kyon was now able to make "Upstream" with a purity of 90%, which is undoubtedly amazing, but he didn't look very happy because he realized that it was impossible to create this pill with a purity of 100%.
The reason lies in the binding ingredients. They, under the weight of the energy load, cannot cope with their task even with the support of "The Cycle of the Universe". As if a donkey with a huge vat of water on his back was walking along a wooden bridge. Even if the bridge does not break, it still wobbles, causing the water from the vat to splash.
What's the way out? Obviously, it is necessary to build not a wooden bridge, but a tal one, replacing ingredients of rare (2) quality with unique (3), or even exceptional (4). That's the problem… So analogues are absurdly expensive because of their rarity, and so are not found in nature at all.
{Does everything really rest on a banal lack of ingredients?} – this state of affairs disappointed Kyon. He has always strived for perfection, and the fact that it is simply impossible to achieve it is depressing.
Lovr had to accept reality and continue his practice. The very next day he switched from the dicine of transformation to the dicine of breakthrough, and by the evening to the dicine of accelerating developnt.
As it turned out, all three types of dicine are very similar to each other.
The dicine of accelerating developnt gently helps the soul to make cycles at the expense of its energy.
Breakthrough dicine roughly pushes the soul to one, or even to several stages.
Transformation dicine by brute force makes the soul shrink as it evolves.
If breakthrough dicine is a bomb, then acceleration dicine is a stove that uses TNT as fuel. But transformation dicine is a controlled nuclear reactor with a built-in transforr.
A week passed unnoticed, a total of 9 days.
Kyon hardly slept, but achieved great success. Now he could flawlessly make the dicine for practitioners of the noble (4) phase. But even the skills honed to perfection did not allow him to make the dicine with 100% purity due to the lack of binding ingredients of high-quality. It also happened that it was simply not possible to create a pill with a purity above 65%, which was very depressing.
Finally, the empress sent a ssage with a list of ingredients that make up the dicine of "Frozen heart". After reading it, Kyon frowned in displeasure. All the ingredients are extrely rare and expensive, but another thing is even sadder: there are no good binding ingredients for all of them in nature.
{Excellent quality… Can I handle it?} – thought Lovr.
Shaking his head, he first sent the list to the Golden Pig guild, and then continued to conduct experints and practice his difficult task.
2 weeks flew by. There was a week left until the end of the month allotted by Elsa. Kyon was very stressed by the deadlines pressing on him, but he convinced himself not to be nervous.
Over the past ti, Lovr has learned to create dicine for accelerating developnt, breakthrough and transformation for practitioners of the royal phase. Each sample obtained during the experints was incredibly expensive. If he had resold them through the guild, he would have earned a hundred billion, but the cunning old fox Bazhen decided not to accept paynt in dicine, but ca up with his own paynt thod…
Kyon has honed his skill of making developnt dicine almost to the limit. He should also experint with dicine for imperial phasers and sovereign phasers, but it is too expensive – there are no resources and recipes. And this ans that it's ti to move on to the most important thing: to figure out how and what kind of trick to shove into the dicine of "Frozen Heart" and, of course, to make this very dicine.
As it soon turned out, it is not so easy to install the invisible trap in the dicine, because it should organically fit into the very essence of the manufactured dicine. You can't just stuff the pill with toxins, poisons, or change the "code" of the energy behavior inside the pill. Of course, he would really like to instantly kill this bitch or, for example, turn her into a whore, which the world has never seen, but no. All these manipulations will be easily detected by a competent alchemist, and Lanatelle is probably just like that.
{The dicine of "Frozen heart", what kind of trick will it be convenient to hide in it?} – after a minute of reflection, Lovr's eyes shone: ice fla extract! It perfectly combines with dicine, the basis of which is the elents of darkness and cold. The defect of the aboventioned extract is that it causes an outbreak of uncontrollable bloodlust. Since complete calm is necessary for the dicine of "Frozen heart" this outbreak will undoubtedly lead to failure and to the most serious recoil by several stages. But for the success of this venture, the thirst for blood must appear in the final stage of transformation… And how to delay its activation until the last mont?
{I'll just seal the energy of the fla into the energy of "Eternal Ice"!} – Kyon snapped his fingers in satisfaction. Lanatelle will be overco by a thirst for blood just at the most crucial mont. It will spoil her transformation and thereby permanently block her access to the overlord phase. And all this will be possible to notice only when it is too late.
With a fanatical gleam in his eyes, Lovr continued to experint.
4 days have flashed by, and there are only 3 days left before the deadline.
Kyon has made significant progress. He managed to create the dicine similar to the original with a fatal trick inside, which even he could not have noticed. Now it's ti to move on from experints to the main thing.
Just today, Lovr received the latest missing ingredients necessary for the dicine of "Frozen heart". Everything would be fine, but there were only two samples of "The Ice Root of Millennium Tranquility" on the market. The Bakers found another sample in their treasury. This ans that if the guy fails in 3 attempts, then everything is gone.
Kyon decided to spend the first attempt on making the pill without the trick, because he didn't have the exact recipe, just the list of ingredients. However, because of his alchemical skills, he already knew what should interact with what, what to focus on and what the result should be.
ntally prepared, Lovr cracked his fingers and began to make it… His every action was honed to automatism. Even 1st rank alchemists would be dumbfounded. All of them would faint if they saw only the principle of operation of "The Cycle of the Universe".
Many of the ingredients that Kyon was dealing with now contained so much energy that in case of the slightest mistake they could easily leave a hundred-ter funnel. In a sense, Lovr felt like a sapper trying to defuse a nuclear bomb.
The manufacturing process had already lasted 6 hours, and his forehead was sweaty.
Finally, the room was lit up with an azure glow, signaling success… The air was filled with mighty energy capable of strangling an ordinary person to death only by its manifestation. If the alchemist showed at least so emotion now, as the energy imdiately bit sharply into the mind, causing a headache, thereby hinting that any feelings now are her worst enemy.
Grimacing, Kyon took the ball in his hands and frowned sharply: the purity was 40%!
Any of the three legendary alchemists of the 1st rank would have gone crazy to find out that the ssenger of the goddess managed to make the dicine of such a level and of such high quality on the first attempt, without the recipe, having only the list of ingredients. Lovr, however, was not at all satisfied with this result. In two attempts, he must not only create dicine with a purity of at least 66%, but also set a trap.
{Why so little? Is it really because of the binding ingredients again?}
During the manufacture of the dicine, Kyon used the best binding ingredients that can only be found all over the world, and even so he achieved only 40% purity. However, he noticed a few minor mistakes made due to the fact that he was dealing with such unique, rare and energy-intensive ingredients for the first ti.
Getting rid of unnecessary hesitation, Kyon put away the first pill and started making the new one, this ti intending to avoid previous mistakes. He decided that two of the three dicines of "Frozen heart" would be without a catch, that is, trial and suitable for sale in order to maximize the purity of the final sample.
6 hours later, a new azure flash lit up the room…
{Fifty percent…} – Lovr realized with despair, ignoring the headache attack. It seems that this is a theoretically possible maximum, because there are simply no sufficiently high-quality binding ingredients. So he made a blunder?
There are 2 days left until the end of the month allotted by Elsa, and Kyon suddenly realized that he would not be able to cope with this. Only if he once again does not go against the basic principles of alchemy and does not co out victorious… He must perform a miracle!
Lovr set himself the following task: to make "Upstream" dicine with a purity higher than 90% at any price.
Kyon plunged headlong into experints. He used Synergy, tried to fuse two binding ingredients into one, practiced enchanting and more. He was failing all the ti. Ti after ti, he received 90% purity, as if it were so kind of indestructible ceiling. Well, you can't build a skyscraper with wooden planks! He needs other materials.
Lovr was gradually overco by despair. There is a little more than a day left, and Juno is talking to herself, trying to hint at sothing. I'm busy, you lustful fool! Even if he wanted to, he still couldn't because of Elsa.
Obviously, over the past month, the blonde only miraculously did not go crazy. Every day she unsuccessfully tried to satisfy herself with thoughts of Lovr. Perhaps anyone in her place would have long ago broken down and gone to seek satisfaction elsewhere.
Frowning and tired, Kyon leaned back in his chair and thought: {The foundation of the bridge cannot be changed. I'm not a god to turn wood into tal. But then how am I supposed to transport a heavy vat of water over a flimsy bridge without spilling the contents? Can I sohow divide the water into parts, or even lay a pipe? No… It's impossible. The mont of rging occurs strictly in a second, and this period cannot be increased. This is the fundantal principle of alchemy. Stop… STOP!}
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