Chapter 119: Why Is It So Complicated Pt.2

Chapter 119: Why Is It So Complicated Pt.2

After Nancom dumped the dirt like mixture that they were apparently going to use as the catalyst. Lake saw Master Nancom start to throw new powders. Lake could tell he wasn't just throwing them in haphazardly like he did either. There was some fancy technique he was using to get the powder to fall in very specific places, and Lake was pretty sure he was using mana to do it.

It was something most people that had any skills could probably do, and if he ever wanted to learn how to use Alchemy to make non-poisonous things he would probably have to do it as well. He didn't really need to ever learn how to make non-poisonous things though because of Poison Taster. Continue reading on No_veLbIn

If he wanted to make a health potion he could just make a poison that dealt damage to health and drink it instead. He didn't really like Alchemy enough to ever waste his time getting good at making regular potions just cause, he would need an actual reason.

After Nancom added three powders in his fancy throwing style Lake saw him start to mix the dirt around once again in a fancy technique. Lake guessed this was how normal people would control the speed of any reactions they didn't want to get out of control. He could see how much superior his skill was to this technique though.

At this speed it would probably take an hour to finish with there still being more ingredients that had yet to be added. Lake could now see what Lucas wanted from him. If Lake was to take control of the reactions he could probably speed it up without there being a chance of it getting out of control.

Lake had already known this was what he was here for but did not understand how much of a difference he would be making. Master Nancom didn't want him to help yet though just watch, and figure out where he could help in the future. Lake was expecting there to be a conversation at the end where Nancom asked him what he thought he could help with.

This meant Lake needed to do his best not to let his mind wander, so he could give a satisfactory answer. It wasn't going to be easy though with how little was happening moment to moment.

After some time Master Nancom finally added more powders to which Lake was excited about at first until he saw how they had been added. It was the fancy throwing technique again meaning he was in for another round of slow stirring. Doing his best to focus as the stirring started, Lake finally saw something new.

Seeing it only had three buds compared to the four or five the other plants had, Lake assumed he had guessed right. "It's still within tolerance, but I'll need to readjust the amounts of every ingredient we will be adding before we do another run." Lake remembered that this was a new recipe that Nancom had made himself and it seemed he was still working on it but only small tweaks here and there.

After a while Lake saw the flowers were starting to open and got his face real close to the glass to try and get a better look when a glob of brown liquid came flying towards his face. Pulling his face back from the sudden attack Lake saw the liquid hit the glass, and slowly slide down until it hit the dirt.

Once it made contact with the dirt, Lake saw smoke rise and heard a sizzling sound. Only one thing came to mind, Acid. He guessed this was the acid part of the name he had been told earlier, Nine Element Acid, oh and the nine element part would probably be the nine different colored plants.

After the fist glob of acid that had hit the glass right in front of him it wasn't long before all different colored acids were being shot towards the glass in front of him and Nancom. It seemed the plants understood they were supposed to target living things, but not the concept of glass.

After a while the amount of smoke that was rising from the acid meeting the dirt the plants were growing from made it impossible to see the plants any more. The only way he could still tell they even existed was the amount of acid being shot towards the glass, but after a few minutes it too stopped.

This made Lake wonder if they had somehow dissolved even themselves with the acid they had been spitting. He would think that they would be immune to their own acid but then he remembered that there had been nine different types of acid and that had probably been why they had been susceptible.

Once all the acid had run down off the glass Nancom started to lift the top off. Lake moved back to let the smoke pass without touching him, and saw all of it was being sucked upwards towards the closest of the purifying crystals.

Once all the smoke was cleared Lake moved forward to get a good look at what was left. Nothing but a dark pool of liquid was left in the vat. "This was a good run, after we dilute this we will have about twenty vats this size filled with poison." Lake still had a lot of questions but this answered why Nancom was making such strong poison, he planned to dilute it.

This was actually them making twenty vats of poison, not just one, so Lake could actually see it as a huge time saver that allowed them to still have a strong product as an end result. Now for the next question. "Master, where did the plants come from?" He had never seen any seeds that weren't ground into a fine powder being added so he wanted to see if there had been another source he hadn't known about.

"I can see why you would be confused even though you were the one to add the seeds. Nisysis is an extremely tenacious plant and its seeds can survive even being ground into a fine powder. They also absorbed the elemental energies that we added with the various monster parts we mixed, well you saw, just know if you ever come across Nisysis in the wild you should turn back."

Lake was starting to see Nancom wasn't the type to waste his time explaining things to others and it was too bad. He was very interested in what he had just seen and wondered if this might be Nancom's specialty within the guild. It seemed he would have to figure that out on his own because it seemed Nancom had already gotten back to work on tweaking the recipe.