Chapter 293: Wound Healing Alchemical Potion

“Alright! Be serious now!”

After giving Betty a good talking-to, she finally regained her composure.

It seemed that the academic pressure on senior students at the Witch Academy was also quite high.

Many of them might have reached the age where they were called seniors, yet there were still many things they didn't know.

However, this situation was very normal.

The academy system within the phone provided by the academy had too many functions.

It could be said that most of the apps on the phone were related to it, and even the academy system icon couldn't be deleted.

After all, even I knew that there were a large number of functions that I hadn't figured out.

For example, if it weren't for Big Sis Bai, I wouldn't even know that I could select courses on it, like the alchemy and runology courses that required extra payment.

Although it cost money, it was also a channel to learn and acquire knowledge.

“That's great… I can just read books on my phone instead of taking the long bus ride… But if my mentor finds out, I won't have an excuse to use the library to put her off anymore!”

Betty exclaimed as she looked at the newly opened online library on her phone, then she realized.

“Think on the bright side. With this, you can directly find the detailed steps for this potion, so you won't have to spend a lot of money on materials and go through constant trial and error. It'll save you a lot of money.”

I couldn't stand it anymore and said comfortingly from the side.

“That's true… Forget it, let's start trying this potion recipe.”

“Mm.”

I nodded.

During the time Betty was dawdling, I had already memorized the process for the wound healing potion.

Now I was looking at the second document, which had a detailed explanation of the principles behind each step.

“By the way, Betty, where do you get your materials? Or have you already prepared them?”

I put down the documents in my hand and looked up at Betty.

I didn't see any materials here, nor did there seem to be a place to store them.

However… if Betty hadn't bought the materials, I would strongly suggest she buy some pre-processed ones.

After all, for things like alchemical potions, the goal wasn't to use the freshest raw materials, but to achieve good effects.

Therefore, many potion masters who pursued efficiency used "pre-made products" as their starting materials, which had undergone rough processing.

This method saved a lot of time, and the price wasn't much higher than the raw materials.

But for us who were just starting with alchemy, this kind of thing wasn't necessarily needed.

After all, what we needed to practice was our own skills and way of thinking, not speed.

Perhaps this was the intention of Betty's mentor in giving her this simple recipe, hoping she could figure it out on her own and get more practice.

“This… I remembered yesterday and bought them. I even bought several portions. Because I was a bit short on cash, I got… about six portions. Um… we'd better not waste them.”

“Six portions? That doesn’t seem like a lot.”

I nodded.

Doing six portions separately would indeed take a lot of time, but a lot of that time was actually spent on processing the materials.

There were many things you couldn't just use without processing.

Since alchemical potions were already separate from ordinary medicinal products, it was naturally due to their transcendent properties.

If ordinary medicines relied on chemical reactions, extraction, and other methods, then alchemical potions relied on transmutation techniques.

Betty also took out a pile of materials from her storage equipment.

Most of them were sealed in special ways.

After taking them all out, Betty thoughtfully divided them into six portions.

“How about we don't divide them so clearly? After all, we're trying this together. What's the difference between that and each of us doing our own thing?”

“That seems to be the case…”

Following my suggestion, Betty nodded and began her first alchemy attempt with me.

However, since it was our first time and we were not skilled, we made quite a few blunders.

After stumbling through to the end, we finally set up the required transmutation formation.

And when processing some of the materials, incantations were also needed.

Finally, after much effort and wasting more than one portion of materials, we finally obtained a complete set of "pre-made" auxiliary and main ingredients.

“We’ve finally reached this step. We wasted so much… why is it so difficult… The next step is the final fusion transmutation ritual, right?”

“Mm.”

I nodded, checking against the information flow in the documents.

However, my gaze was still fixed on these semi-finished products.

The so-called purity in the documents did not simply refer to the impurities in the materials, but to the purity of the specific transcendent energy contained within these materials after transmutation.

But before filtering, this purity and impurity content were positively correlated to a certain extent in the data.

Therefore, before filtering, the impurity content was indeed the most convenient and visually discernible method to determine purity.

The subsequent filtering was to remove unnecessary impurities, but it did not mean that the transcendent purity of the liquid would increase after filtering.

That was self-deception, and it was also the most serious area of "purity fraud" in current pre-made materials.

Therefore, general master alchemists or potion masters disdained buying these pre-made products and felt most at ease doing it themselves.

And the materials we had just finished making clearly showed a huge disparity.

Although they looked free of impurities after filtering, my Spirit Vision could clearly distinguish the purity of the transcendent energy.

The chaotic mixture and conflict of that energy might be invisible to Betty, but to me, it was "visible to the naked eye."

But even my portion wasn't that pure.

After all, it was the first time, so it was inevitable to be clumsy.

And I had also witnessed Betty shatter a beaker with my own eyes.

I finally understood why Betty had so many experimental accidents.

It was because she "couldn't see."

My Spirit Vision gave me the perspective to stop losses in time, so the mistakes I had made so far were basically salvageable.

The next step was to mix them together in the prescribed order.

“Um… Little Han, how about you go first this time? I feel like you’re much better at alchemy than I am.”

“This task was assigned to you by your mentor, and you bought the materials. You should go first,” I said.

Of course, this wasn't me being humble, although there was a bit of that.

I was more concerned about the data regarding the final fusion part in the documents.

I needed to observe the specific phenomena to match the correct process.

If I did it myself, I might not be able to compare the data so smoothly.

“Alright then, I’ll start right away.”

After hearing my words, Betty didn't push it back and forth anymore and started directly.

And I was watching this step very carefully from the side.

“Hmm… first this base liquid… heat it to this temperature and maintain it…”

Betty was also concentrating on the operation.

The last step required it to be done in one go, without stopping to check each step.

So Betty needed to memorize the steps completely.

And I was directly using my Spirit Vision to observe the underlying principles of these data, such as why it was this temperature, why it needed to be maintained for so long, and what was the relationship with the concentration of the base liquid, the purity of the transcendent energy, and the amount…

I quickly recorded this information on my Memory Bookshelf.

This was a more convenient method than writing notes by hand.

Some data was so fleeting that if you were distracted by recording it, you might miss it in the next moment.

The potion was being mixed bit by bit in Betty's hands, and I had also collected a lot of data.

Until Betty made a mistake, and she didn't seem to have noticed it herself.

I didn't remind her.

This was the result of comprehensive consideration.

We didn't have many materials now, so we naturally needed many experiments to collect enough information.

If I interrupted, it would undoubtedly interrupt this attempt.

Even if there was a mistake this time, at least we could know how much of a flaw this mistake would cause to the whole.

But when Betty reached the final step, I realized I seemed to be wrong.

This could no longer be described as a "flaw."

In that instant, I felt the conflict of energy within the semi-finished potion.

This premonition on the energy level was more direct than the phenomenon seen with the naked eye.

When the potion showed the strange phenomenon of shaking on its own, it was already too late for Betty to throw away the thing in her hand.

Bang—!

“Ah!”

A muffled sound accompanied by the sound of shattering glass echoed in the laboratory, followed by Betty's piercing scream.

But fortunately, a reverse shield enveloped Betty's hand holding the potion bottle, as well as the shattered glass fragments and the potion.

Otherwise, this explosion would have affected a much larger area.

“Uh… huff huff”

Betty, still in shock, was panting heavily.

She was completely relieved when she saw the shield in front of her.

The moment of the explosion, she knew she had caused trouble.

This explosion, even if not powerful, the waste liquid would probably contaminate those instruments.

If her mentor found out about this, her butt would really be beaten black and blue!

“Thank… thank goodness… no! Thank you, Little Han, your reaction was too fast, wasn't it?”

“It’s nothing. I was observing from the side, so I naturally have to be responsible for some other things. Is your hand okay?”

I looked at Betty’s hands, which were stained with waste liquid and glass shards.

It seemed the explosion was quite powerful.

Blood flowed from the wounds, but I didn't see Betty crying out in pain.

“My… my hand… hiss… it hurts… it hurts so much! I'm going to die, I'm going to die…”

Looking at Betty's violent reaction, alright… I had overestimated her.

It turned out her reflex arc was too long.

“Let me heal you,” I said to her with a sigh.

“Little Han, you have healing spells? Oh… I remember… right, thank you, Little Han, you’re so nice.”

“It’s a small matter.”

I extended my hand to cast the Flesh and Blood Healing Spell.

The spell expelled the waste liquid from her wound, and the glass shards also fell out.

The healing process was indeed very difficult.

The pain from the wound and the regeneration of nerves in her limbs would also produce an extreme itch.

It was the most torturous to be both in pain and itchy, and she couldn't scratch it.

After Betty screamed for a while, the process finally ended.

“Hiss… this healing process is really painful…”

“Let's tidy up a bit. We’ll review what just happened later. I probably know the reason,” I said.

However, Betty's accident just now also made me understand one thing: alchemy was different from biochemistry.

Even just preparing a potion, even if there were no violent chemical conflicts, it could still explode.

Just like what happened just now, that was a conflict on the level of transcendent energy.

The potion only acted as an accomplice to the explosive force.

At this moment, I watched as the power of the waste liquid erupted due to the conflict of transcendent energy.

In this instant, it accelerated the movement of particles, which was heating up.

The boiling waste liquid was still bubbling and releasing a burst of water vapor.

“Eh? You already know the reason? You were just watching just now, that amazing?!”

“It’s just that the observer’s perspective is clearer.”

I organized the information from just now, all in my Memory Bookshelf.

But to show it to Betty, I naturally needed to organize the corresponding information.

“But it’s still incredible.”

Betty sighed as she cleaned up the mess.

It was unexpected that things went so badly from the start, which naturally hit Betty's confidence.

As for me, I felt it was fine.

After all, it was just a failure.

If you couldn't find the key to success in failure, then that failure was a real failure.

When everything was tidied up, I was also about done.

“Now, I will make a summary of what just happened.”

I opened the Earth Vein system here.

This kind of thing was already standard in laboratories, so I naturally knew how to operate it.

Then I took out the glasses that Teacher Ji Niang had given me back then, the one that relieved eye fatigue.

I felt that wearing glasses now would give more of a teaching and explaining feel.

And Betty was also watching very seriously at this time, because she was sure she had followed the steps just now.

She herself was a bit confused as to why the explosion had occurred.

“Replaying the experiment just now through the Earth Vein system, there were basically no problems in the early stages. Let’s fast forward to the time of the explosion. The problem is here.”

“Eh? At this time? Wasn't the potion fusing well at this time?”

“Indeed, from the outside, everything looked normal.”

I looked at the video recording.

Unfortunately, this was just a recording.

Just now, I had seen the transcendent energy within the potion begin to conflict at this time.

“At this time, look at the temperature detector on the side. Has it clearly risen? At this stage, it’s actually unnecessary to look at the deliberately maintained temperature, so you ignored this anomaly. The temperature rose abnormally, but the liquid did not react significantly. This can only be a conflict on the energy level. If this anomaly had been discovered at that time, adding this might have saved it, but neither of us with no experience reacted…”

After some explanation, Betty was suddenly filled with confidence and wanted to try again.

I naturally wouldn’t miss Betty’s self-recommendation.

I found that my observation might be more useful than practice.

And after the second attempt, Betty finally tasted the sweetness of success.

At this moment, Betty looked at the tube of clear, transparent liquid in her hand and was very excited, as if language could not express her joy.

And I silently recorded everything that had just happened on the side.

After all, this was just a wound healing potion.

However, even now, I still held a skeptical attitude towards this potion Betty had prepared, so I tactfully made a suggestion.

“How about we find something to test it on first? Like a lab mouse or something.”

“That’s true. I remember my mentor has a breeding cabin specially for raising lab mice! I'll go borrow a few!”

“There's that too?”

I watched as Betty ran out in a hurry.

It seemed that the joy of success from just now had still not calmed her down.

I felt a little sorry for her mentor.

This one was truly a spendthrift…

Or was that mentor just seemingly strict and even hit people, but in essence, she was still doting on Betty?

Otherwise, Betty wouldn't have developed such a habit of squandering her mentor's resources.

Without her mentor's doting and indulgence, how would she dare to do this.

Of course, the main reason was that I was also very curious about the effect of this potion.

Looking at it with my Spirit Vision, I really felt that something was not right, but I had no evidence.

Let the facts speak for themselves.

Instead of me questioning Betty, it was better to let Betty prove with her own hands whether she had a problem.

Of course, if there was no problem, then everyone would be happy.