406 Poison resistant pills
The six hours are completed. The host needs to wake up now.
"Ahh"
Unknowingly, Ajax had slept for more than 6 hours before waking up all of a sudden by a system notification.
'What? Six hours are already over? Didn't I sleep just now?'
Before going to sleep Ajax had set an alarm for himself to wake up after six hours; however, due to him being very tired he had a nice sleep and felt that it was very short.
Nevertheless, he didn't sleep as he had more important work to do now.
"Let's start the rank 2 pills refining,"
After waking up, he opened Mason's family alchemy handbook to look for some rank 2 pill recipes.
Unlike many rank 1 pills recipes there were only 5 pills recipes and they were very common that even Ajax saw those types of pills being sold in the Zrochester province.
"I should check for the availability of the herbs now for these recipes,"
Since there were five recipes, Ajax wanted to see whether he had suitable ingredients with him to refine them.
"What? Looks like ingredients for these common pill recipes are rare to five elemental world,"
It took a while for Ajax to check the ingredients for all the pills recipes. After checking each and every ingredient, he noticed that some of the herbs were not available in the space ring in which rank 2 ingredients were stored.
"Still, it's okay. There are complete ingredients for two pills recipes,"
Even though he doesn't have all the ingredients to refine the three pills recipes, he was satisfied with the other two pill recipes which had a complete set of ingredients to refine.
"Underwater breathing pill or Poison resistant pill. Which one should I refine,"
Among the five pill recipes, these two were the only ones that have complete ingredients. So, he thought for a second and muttered, "Poison resistant pill seems more useful than Underwater breathing pill.???
Filled with confidence from the previous successful pill refinements, Ajax looked at the dozen batches of ingredients which were placed in front of him in an orderly manner.
Slowly, he took the poisonous snake's gall and thunder grass-root in each of his hands and closed his eyes.
'Fire, come out'
After closing his eyes, he called out the fire from the basic alchemy fire refining technique.
Within seconds after he summoned the fire, a bright red flame came out from both of his hands and started refining both the ingredients in his hands at the same time and in a skilful manner.
Soon, Ajax refined half of the essence from both the ingredients which made Ajax excited as it was his first time refining two ingredients at two different temperatures and it was going great.
'It's easier than I thought. Just a little more and I can relax,' Just as Ajax thought it was going well, the thunder grass-root suddenly became black and turned into ash.
'What?'
When he saw that, Ajax's focus became unstable and the main ingredient in his other hand also turned black before becoming ash.
'Sigh...I let my emotions take control of me,'
Ajax doesn't need to ask the system to know his mistake as he already knew where he went wrong.
"I can do it. I can do it," Ajax became resolute and motivated himself before picking up the same ingredients from another batch and started refining them.
Just like last time, the separation of the essence from the ingredient went well until half.
When it reached there, Ajax fully focused on the two flames and maintained the stable heat.
This time, the refinement of the ingredients was successfully completed and in his hands, two small essence orbs were left behind after he retracted the flames back into his body.
'Fire Cauldron'
Without wasting any time, Ajax proceeded to the next step and made a cauldron from his flames which hovered in front of him.
He threw the two essences into the fire cauldron and closed the lid and started supplying heat to it.
'Phew....finally half of the refining is done,'
Heaving a sigh of relief he looked at the other two ingredients in front of him and muttered to himself.