57 Enemies Crossing Paths

"HAHA!" Laughter resounded throughout the chamber. It was childish, but also seemed somewhat sinister.

Arnin's eyes regained their clarity, and he couldn't help but mock the person's stupidity. 'Whoever wrote this letter is extremely dumb. The Body Return Pill is a pill specially made for people with the Human Pill Body.' Arnin couldn't stop laughing.

The Human Pill Body was extremely rare, almost one in one hundred trillion. However, the Body Return Pill was over a million times more rare. The formula for this pill was lost, and couldn't be found throughout the whole universe, and there were almost zero Body Return Pills left.

The function of the pill was very well known to Arnin, since he had tried to find this pill for his own interest in the past.

Body Return Pill: A pill handmade for anyone with the condition 'Human Pill Body'. Once swallowed by a person with such a condition, transformation into a pill will completely halt, returning the body back into the previous state. Taking two pills will allow one to then transform the body from Human Pill Body into Heaven Pill Body.

If one takes the pill without having the condition, Human Pill Body, their bodies would be able to advance in their pill making skills, however if another pill is taken, then their body would deteriorate and become the Hell Pill Body.

Arnin went through the information that he knew about the pill. He mocked the person who took two Body Return Pills. If he hadn't, then he would have been able to increase his pill making skills, but now the person would slowly die in anguish and pain.

The formula for the pill was lost, so Arnin running into the pills at such a time was really lucky, however there was one thing that confused him greatly. As the creator of the world, he didn't place the Body Return Pills in Afloria, so he wondered how they got in.

'I need to find out who the person that wrote the letter is, and what formula he has in his hand.' Arnin would luck out if he could get his hands on the Human Pill Body formula. Since he had the Body Return Pill, he could become the greatest Alchemist. He just needed the formula so he could create himself the body.

'Seems like I need to pay a visit to the mysterious continents, but which one did the person go to?' Arnin knew that the person was at one of the two continents, but he didn't know which one.

Arnin placed the bottle of pills in his interspatial bag, and then burned the page. He didn't want anyone else reading the information if they ever entered the basement. Arnin decided to quickly check out the remaining eight rooms. He quickly went through them all, and found something extremely weird in each one. The first two had two dead bodies that had yet to decompose, plus herbs began to form on their missing fingers.

The third and fourth rooms had similar chains, and new herb stashes, however this time the dead bodies were a little different. They had full limbs turned into countless herbs. This went on until the last room didn't have a dead bod; it was just filled with herbs.

'So, is this the failed experiment? Does this mean that the other bodies will actually turn in to herbs?' Arnin pondered for a moment, and came to this conclusion. It seemed that the former's failure in creating the pill turned a person into a herb.

'Is this truly a failure? What if this is a part of the formula?' Arnin had worked with various types of pill formulas. Some were extremely weird, and had abnormal requirements. Sometimes the pill formula was a two step process, where one would need to create an object through the formula and then reuse that object to form the actual pill.

In simpler terms, the formula that the person had said to sacrifice people, and those people eventually turned into herbs, so maybe the herbs that were created were the ones to be used for the pill?

Arnin came to this conclusion and decided that it was possible. Maybe he could really do this. Arnin went over and grabbed the ten different herbs, but then he then stopped. 'Wait, the mysterious person had tried to add these herbs into the cauldron with the child too, so is this really possible?' Arnin stopped what he was doing. The dried herbs that were in the cauldron were exactly the same asthe herbs in each room. This meant that herbs created from through the sacrifice of each person was already added into the cauldron and still came out as a failure.

He sighed and stopped doing anything else. Of course it wouldn't be so easy to figure out, or there would have been many before him to do so.

'Since I can't make it right now, I can use the cauldron for my own pills.' Arnin thought. He didn't have a pill cauldron, so he could use the large one. Although it would expend more energy, it was still a very good quality cauldron. Arnin nodded his head and decided to go with this decision.

Quickly, Arnin took out the Flames of Neutrality, and began to remove everything inside the cauldron.Since his flames didn't burn, but instead, made them vanish completely, Arnin found it very easy remove everything.

After the cauldron was cleaned, Arnin nodded and headed back to the first floor. He didn't have any herbs to create any pills with, so he could only come back later, and plant some when he got seeds.

Arnin began to look for the hexagonal hole so that he could go out of the dimension. He wanted to go and bring Akig and Vilis over to this world. Plus, he also wanted to begin making the cultivation manual so he could start Mark making.

The sooner he could begin making cultivation stones, the sooner he would be able to start making some academic points. That meant he could start to earn gold and send some back to his family.

Arnin looked around the house and finally found the hexagonal hole in one of the bedrooms. He inserted his sphere and slowly he began to vanish.

He appeared right in front of the Academic building that held the dimension. Arnin smirked, before moving towards his home in the Moth residential area. When he got to his house, he found that Vilis and Akig weren't home.

'Seems like they either went out to hunt, or to take a walk.' Arnin quietly sat down in the middle of the room. He took out the dozen books that Fae had handed to him. If he was going to create his own cultivation manual, then he would need to learn about the different cultivation methods.

The first manual that Arnin looked at was related to cultivating blood components. It discussed cultivation around a large pool of blood, and the path the blood essence should take in his body.

Arnin nodded his head, and engraved the information in his mind. The next manual he picked up was related to ice essence. The one after was for withering, the next…

Arnin read through all of the manuals, and finally had a general idea of what he wanted to do. The main purpose of the cultivation manuals in Afloria was to create a path for the essence to travel from the orb and through the threads. Every element, however, had its own path that differed from others, which was why Arnin would have to read through the many different types of methods, so he could create his own.

Arnin needed to create a cultivation manual that took all of his elements into consideration. Once the elemental seeds were created, and the cultivator broke through into Elemental Formation, then the seeds would sprout and allow a person to use the element as they pleased. However, they would have continue absorbing the specific element to strengthen the sprouted seeds.

This was one reason Arnin needed to create his own manual, the other reason being so he could begin mark making. Although he would use his unorthodox method in the future, it would take too long to master his saber. The cultivation manual method would be quick, and allow for Arnin to strengthen his control over the saber over time.

Arnin sighed. He had gone through a lot of things, and still had yet to begin proper mark making. He made a mark on his first try in the past, but for some reason, he was unable to do it again. This had bothered him, but he still maintained his calm.

"Now, let's begin." Arnin took out a stack of papers from a box. He had an ink pen, and started to scribble on the pages. Arnin didn't have a main element that was superior to others. Instead, he had many elements that he focused on equally. This meant that the cultivation manual that he would create would have to have an equilibrium with all of the elements.

The first thing Arnin did was draw a diagram of each element that he would focus on, and their circulation. Even though elements would have various types of circulations, Arnin only needed to know a single circulation to create his own.

He drew one for the essence components of fire, darkness, light, withering, death, space, blood, and even life. He had yet to cultivate life, but he planned ondoing it soon. Life and death went hand in hand, so Arnin wanted to combine them together. The only element that Arnin wanted, but did not have, was the time element.

There were no books on time, so he could only create a partial cultivation manual until he figured out the circulation for time.

Although it may cause problems in the future, Arnin had to take the risk. The cultivation manual was important, but so was the time essence. It might have an effect on him later on, but if he could find a time manual quickly, then this problem would be solved.

Arnin drew all of them and found something extremely weird that he didn't notice before. Elements that were considered pairs had the same circulation pattern, just in reverse. Death and life were pairs, and so were light and darkness, and also… space and time!

Arnin thought that he might be able to create something suitable for time if he reversed the cultivation circulation, but he wanted to first make sure that this was the case for every other element too.

Arnin then began to draw all the circulations for each pair. One page had life and death, while another had light and darkness, then, there was fire and water. He looked through all of the pairs, and found that his theory applied to each one.

Then, Arnin began to create a new calculation method from the space's circulation, however it was in reverse.

Every element would start from the orb and end back at the orb. The space element would go from the orb and enter the threads in the arms, then it would return to the orb, then enter the threads in the legs… this would continue until all the threads were covered.This would be a single circulation for space essence.

Arnin created the circulation for the time essence by using the reverse, however there was one problem. If he wanted to test it, then he would need to find a place that had time essence. He began to think, and then it hit him. The Essence Tower.

He wasn't able to get time essence on the first floor, but what about the higher floors? He had some academic points, which allowed him to get onto at least some of the higher floors. Not only that, but he also had five water pills which he could sell for some points.

With his mind made up, Arnin rushed towards the Alchemy department. The tanned girl was still in front of the counter, and when she saw Arnin, she smiled and waved at him. She still didn't know that he was a Orange Alchemist, so she didn't show him the respect someone his rank should have received.

"Hello, young man. What are you back for?" She asked Arnin with a smile.

"I want to sell some pills for academic points. Can I do that here?" Arnin spoke quickly. He wanted to finish things up as quickly as possible, so that he could rush towards the Tower.

"Of course. Let me first get the head of this place. Only she can appraise pills, and then give you the proper payment." Arnin nodded his head and waited.

The girl rushed off and came back a few minutes later with an old woman. Arnin looked over curiously, but when he saw the woman, his expression became somewhat ugly.

Arnin was usually very expressionless, but he needed to get a good amount of points as quickly as possible, however judging by the appearance of this old woman, Arnin felt as though his goal would be much more difficult to achieve.

His face became sinister as he began to have evil thoughts.

The tan girl brought the old woman over and pointed towards Arnin. "Teacher, this is the boy who wants to sell some pills. I have other matters to attend to, so you can speak to him here." The old woman nodded and waved her hand, gesturing at the girl to leave. The girl then left the front counter and began to sell the items at a different desk.

"So, may I se--" Right as the old woman was about to continue speaking, she finally got a good look at Arnin. Before, she wasn't paying much attention, but now that she saw him, she couldn't help but feel shocked.

Arnin smiled wickedly towards her. 'Seems like she still remembers me. If this old woman causes me any problems, then I will make sure to take care of her later on!' Arnin's thoughts became ferocious.

"So you are the boy who wants to sell some pills? Well, we don't buy them here, sorry. You should go and find a different place to sell your pills." The old woman spoke with some mockery and a hint of anger, before waving her hand as though trying to wave off a bug.

Arnin was irritated by such actions. "Old hag, I know you buy pills here. If you don't want to buy some, then let's see what happens to that girl. Monifa is her name, right?" Arnin had a cold smile on his face when he spoke.

The old woman was none other than Teacher Zesiro. She was the one who wanted to cause Arnin trouble after he beat Monifa up for her house. She had threatened him, but was eventually stopped by Xillar, who had her leave.

Her hatred for Arnin was deep. Both because he beat up her young mistress, and because he was extremely rude to her.

"Little brat, you better watch your tongue. I am only sparing you because of my status as a teacher. If not because of that, I would beat you until you couldn't ever get out of bed." The old woman looked at Arnin threateningly.

"I'd like to see what you can do, wrinkly old sl*t!" Arnin spat out vulgarities that caused Zesiro to become extremely red with anger.

She walked out from behind the counter and slowly moved towards Arnin. "Let me teach you what the word respect mean, brat!" Her teeth were gritting together as she spoke.

Arnin was still smiling with mockery. "Make sure you know how to spell 'respect'. With your single brain cell, I don't think you are capable of such a feat."