Chapter 120: Down To A Science Pt.1

Chapter 120: Down To A Science Pt.1

After a short period of time where Nancom had readjusted the amounts in the recipe they had done another run where the fire plant had four flowers with four being the most common number with only two of the plants having five instead Nancom seemed to be satisfied. Lake wasn't sure what he had done, but he felt like he could get Nancom to tell him as long as he timed it right.

Nancom came off like he was a little temperamental, so Lake was trying to not get on his nerves with how little he actually knew. Lake would have no business being in the master Lab if it wasn't for his skill Poison control, and he was sure if Nancom thought he was an idiot he would be switched with the two servants back to the grinding room until the servants messed up and they were switched out for him again.

This was just a guess and Nancom might have more patience, but there was no reason to find out if he didn't have to. Once the second round had finally finished Lake saw the same dark brown liquid, and he couldn't tell any difference from the first round he had helped with, but Nancom seemed very pleased, so Lake saw this as an opportunity to ask a question.

"So how did what you did this time make it better? I understand the final product is probably more stable with the amounts of the different acids being closer, but wouldn't that really only increase the amount of time it would affect whoever it is used on?"

"That's a very important thing when you plan to dilute it as much as we do. The dilution will make its active time fall drastically, so the higher it starts the better, but there is another reason. Nisysis gains effects like any other ingredient so they need to hit a curtain level and the fact that the fire plant only had three flowers meant it didn't have enough energy to absorb to hit level forty which meant I needed to add more fire element rich resources for it to be able to grow to forty." Continue reading on No_veLbIn

"So when they dissolve it isn't just killing the plants, but giving the poison more effects. I thought the acid they produced was the final ingredient and never even considered they were the icing on top." Lake knew this made him sound a little inexperienced, but he was also complimenting Nancom's work, so he was sure it was fine.

"Ok I'm about to add the powder. Do you want me to spread it around like I have been or just dump it in and let you take care of it." Lake wasn't confident he would be able to control whatever reactions would start if Nancom just dumped it all in one spot so he said. "Do what you normally do. I just want to help you stir faster for this first run."

"Good choice if I can stir even twice as fast we will save 20 or so minutes during this run." Lake was happy Nancom wasn't being too pushy, and letting him decide how much he could handle. It seemed Nancom didn't really care how much time they shaved off this run, but instead wanted Lake to get used to helping him while still succeeding.

Nancom really seemed to hate failure because he had been treating his servants like they were useless for a 60% success rate on something he would treat as really difficult if it wasn't for Poison Control. Seeing Nancom start to add the powders, Lake got ready by activating Distill and Poison Control.

Taking control of every poison he found in the vat Lake could tell almost instantly which ones were reacting with which. He let them do their own thing until he saw Nancom start to stir. Seeing this as a go signal, Lake started to control the reactions by slowing them down. This might seem counterintuitive if they were going for a good time, but with him controlling the reactions Nancom was free to stir faster.

Lake would worry about speeding up the reactions once all the powder was stirred in because this would let him see what kind of strength he was dealing with. "You can stir faster, but be ready to slow down." Nancom did just what he asked him to and after most of the powder was mixed in Lake was surprised to find the strength of the reactions he was controlling were all underwhelming which wasn't what he was expecting.

It was more of the same kind of reaction he had controlled during the process of making the catalyst which he now understood as the seed powder reacting with the monster part powders that contain elemental mana that the seed powder would use to grow later. This explained why the two servants had been failing, what they had been doing was already as difficult as this first step they were doing now.

If that was the case, Lake wondered why Nancom wasn't doing it himself. Once the reactions had pretty much finished Nancom said. "The second reaction between the seed powder and the troll blood is about to start." Lake didn't know what Nancom was talking about; they were already bonded, so how could there be another reaction?

He also couldn't feel anything from them to signal that anything was about to happen. Right when he was about to open his mouth to ask what Nancom meant, Lake felt something he had never felt inside a potion that was being brewed. Something that was already bonded was trying to do something again with nothing new being added to it.