Chap 16-Alchemy Class 2

 

Arietta seemed to think I was bluffing, so I showed her a small gold bar from my Subspace Pouch.

“This is one of the things I made back then.”

“You know how to use an Alchemy Table?”

As expected, the sight of gold seemed to surprise the princess.

She might have seen a lot of ordinary gold, but creating it with an Alchemy Table was different.

“I worked hard to make gold somehow, and this is what I came up with.”

From the outside, it was a glittering, golden lump that looked perfect for selling.

No, it wouldn’t be strange to use it as currency right away.

“Oh, so you really can…”

“No. It’s a fraudulent discipline. I can’t make real gold. It’s just gold-plated. I can make gold plating, though. I barely manage to extract gold dust.”

Ultimately, the gold plating I created was different from the exaggerated alchemy that was known.

It was simply pouring the gathered stones into the Alchemy Table, extracting gold dust, and using it for plating.

Unlike ordinary gold-plated items, it was made with an Alchemy Table, so it was indistinguishable from the real thing.

I had actually sold it a few times.

“When you think about it, this alchemy is similar to building a sandcastle with sand on the beach.”

“Oh.”

“And then that sandcastle crumbles back into grains of sand, and then it’s reborn into something new.”

“What’s the principle?”

“Listen to the professor for that.”

I’m the type to just bump into things and learn, so I can’t teach the theory.

I turned my head towards Reivan.

That crazy professor was answering a student’s question.

“This alchemy is not about ‘transmuting gold’.”

“Then why is it called alchemy?”

“It was initially developed as a discipline for actual alchemy, and if you only consider the theory of ‘making gold,’ it’s not entirely impossible. Of course, you have to pour mana into gold dust like this, so you can’t realistically create the gold you want.”

Reivan trampled on the students’ dreams and hopes.

The method of making gold that everyone had thought of was immediately buried, and the students quickly lost interest.

Whether the students lost interest or not, Reivan diligently did her job.

With a light wave of the magic wand in her hand, the Alchemy Table that the professor had brought was set up in front of the podium.

“It looks similar to a furnace.”

“You throw the ingredients in there and adjust the mana injection through the various devices attached to the Alchemy Table to mix them.”

“The Alchemy Table itself is a magical tool.”

There were various colored rods attached to the Alchemy Table, which were used for ingredient extraction, component decomposition, mixing, and mana injection control.

You could use these to create various miscellaneous goods, but if you didn’t adjust them properly, it would fail.

“This means that with just one Alchemy Table, even potion makers can do it easily. Now, let’s use a simple combination today.”

Reivan waved her magic wand a few more times, and several crude boxes she had brought burst open, and miscellaneous materials poured out.

“Today, we’re going to make an ordinary red potion. Red potions have the effect of healing wounds. It’s the most basic of basics.”

“How do you do it?”

“The combination method is usually to put two red herbs and one root of magical herb into the Alchemy Table, operate this control panel to decompose the ingredients, and inject mana with this mana injector to mix them.”

Pshhhhhhh!

Reivan showed the students how to make potions.

The ingredients that were put in first turned into powder in an instant and then changed back into liquid as Reivan used the component extraction and decomposition device on the control panel.

That wasn’t the end of it.

She moved the blue rod on the control panel again to inject mana.

Mixing was easy, but that was the most important part.

The quality of the potion changed depending on how much mana you controlled there.

“It’s easy, right? You can all do it. In the end, a sense of touch is important. A sense of touch for injecting mana! A sense of touch for component decomposition, extraction, and combination! It’s all about a sense of touch. Timing is important. Now! There are plenty of materials, so take one of these personal magic Alchemy Tables and try making one.”

This time, dozens of magic Alchemy Tables were lined up on the floor of the lecture hall.

The students took them one by one.

Wow, they even lend out personal Alchemy Tables for studying?

They charge expensive tuition, so it seems worth it.

Should I sneak one out?

How many people would know if I stole a few?

Schperen, who spends money like this, wouldn’t check the number one by one.

Huh?

While receiving the Alchemy Table, a good idea suddenly came to mind.

“Oh, I’ve got a good idea.”

“What is it?”

“A way to screw over Ailia.”

“Are you just planning to torment people all day long?”

She was looking at me with those blue eyes, filled with all sorts of colorful emotions, as if I was pathetic.

It couldn’t be helped for a peaceful academy life.

I had to harass Ailia somehow.

Who cares about star signs or anything else? I had to turn the target of the other royals to Ailia.

To do that, Ailia had to look ridiculous.

It would be more profitable for the other successor candidates to step on Ailia, who had the power of the stars but was still being criticized, than Arietta, who had no support base or the power of the stars.

“It’ll be the same for you.”

“So what?”

“Even though there’s no evidence left and they’ve blocked everything, you were almost poisoned by Ailia’s tricks.”

They were quite skilled.

They didn’t use a common poisoning method, but a method that touched on mana dehydration and runaway mana.

Unlike other poisonings that required an open investigation, that side could get away with it with just a little cover-up.

We had to match them at least once.

“Fight them back in reverse?”

“Yes. Since we have an Alchemy Table, let’s make something.”

There was no need to take risks outside and bring in poison.

“Can we feed it to her?”

“There’s no need to feed it to Ailia. You can feed it to Edenberun, or to the maids. Why do you think I’m using the Alchemy Table?”

Using the Alchemy Table to make poison.

This was realistically impossible for students. No matter how much they were taught, they had to control the mixing and mana, and the alchemy subject wasn’t that easy.

Red potions were easy, but not poison.

In the first place, it was impossible to bring poison into this place.

“Aren’t you beating up Edenberun too much?”

“You have to keep beating up the easy ones. I only beat up one person.”

Especially if they were from a Marquis Family.

Wasn’t Marquis the title after Duke?

Ailia couldn’t kick out the Edenberun successor right now.

In any case, the name value of Edenberun was still high.

“What if your sister eats it by any chance?”

“We’ll think about it then. Time is on our side anyway.”

Maybe the other siblings would try to send Arietta to prison.

We could just cause a bloody incident then.

Could those comfortable guys who weren’t even on the front lines beat me in strength, who was a member of the hero party?

“How are you going to make the poison?”

“This.”

I took out an orange stone with flames from the Subspace Pouch.

This could also be used to make poison.

The princess tilted her head slightly and looked at me.

“What is that?”

It’s only natural to answer if asked.

This was a material that could be used to make the ultimate poison that no one would recognize even if it was used as poison.

“It’s lava stone formed by the breath of the Lava Dragon Bran. If you make it into a potion and drink it? The stomach will sizzle and melt-”

“You mean it melts down.”

Arietta let out a hollow laugh.

“Yes. The stomach melts down as it is.”

“Even so, that’s a bit much. The situation will get out of hand.”

I see.

Again, it was impossible to bring in poison.

No matter what we made here and fed to whom, the culprit wouldn’t easily be narrowed down to Arietta or me.

Now that our treatment wasn’t good, this was the only chance to screw over Alicia with poison.

“I’m kidding. If I were going to do that, I’d use a more sophisticated method. I’m thinking of making a different medicine.”

“What kind?”

I took out a moon-shaped flower from the Subspace Pouch.

Moonpetal flower. The flower itself looked like a crescent moon.

Unlike its appearance, the flower itself was poisonous, so it was dried and used as poison. Even a small amount could fatally catch people.

“Moonpetal flower. If you grind a small amount and eat it, you’ll suffer from abdominal pain for a while. If you eat a whole one, you die.”

“You’re the only one who makes poison in class. Can’t you do something simpler than that? Do you really have to see a corpse on campus?”

“That’s true.”

Arietta was asking too many questions, so I put the moonpetal flower back in.

“In the first place, it’s wrong to have such thoughts right away with an Alchemy Table.”

It was the fault of that professor Reivan who placed the Alchemy Table.

It wasn’t like there was no way.

A method using mana poison. When you think about it, it was a higher version of the mana dehydration and runaway method that Alicia was trying to kill Arietta with in a slow, long-term plan.

It had the disadvantage that mana evaporated after a certain amount of time, but that was why there was no evidence left.

However, in this case, it would be like giving back the same thing, not being able to force it on them, so it would be like putting a little in the tea that Ailia drinks.

The poison would be quite diluted.

“Let’s just drop it. Is there no other way?”

“You really ask a lot of questions.”

It was annoying.

I grumbled like that, but my hands were skillfully making a red potion.

I put the ingredients in the Alchemy Table, went through the process of component extraction, mixing, composition, and mana injection, and pushed in the golden ratio and optimal mana injection.

“No, isn’t it wrong to make poison with the intention of openly poisoning someone in the first place?”

While we were talking, a shadow appeared above us. Reivan was looking down at us.

She was smiling, but no professor would like students who were talking during class.

In fact, she was looking at our results.

“What are you talking about so loudly? Oh, it’s Princess Arietta. So, did you make it?”

“I made it, but…”

Before I knew it, Arietta was using a tool to put the red water made in the Alchemy Table into a potion bottle and handed it to Reivan.

Reivan, who received it, pushed up her glasses and quietly looked at the potion, then nodded.

“Hmm, it’s not bad for the first result, but let’s improve the perfection a little more.”

“Yes.”

“Then, where’s Bathory? How well did Bathory do to be so… huh?”

Before Reivan could nag, I handed over the potion I had made.

Reivan quietly looked at the potion bottle I gave her for a long time, then even brought a appraisal tool and started appraising it herself.

The students’ eyes also turned to this side.

“Why are you doing that?”

“Did Bathory really make this? Could you make it again in front of me?”

“Ugh, how annoying.”

She told me to make it, so I made it.

Grades were important.

“Unbelievable. How can you have such a perfect golden ratio at that age? Even the wizards of the Magic Tower can’t dare to follow the mana control?”

“Alchemy is a sense of touch, isn’t it? I just put the professor’s teachings into practice.”

The princess glared at me again for a long time.

Why? What? You should have made it well earlier.

The alchemy class went on like that.

Too absurdly. Reivan forgot that I had been talking just now and praised me enthusiastically.

“Hahaha. I didn’t know there was a student who was so knowledgeable in alchemy. Now, let’s finish today’s class here.”

Following the liberal arts class, even the alchemy class.

I was becoming a model student.

“Wow, the person who was saying all sorts of things about poison.”

“It’s good for the princess if I become a model student, isn’t it? The sidekick of a lacking princess is the best model student in Schperen? You can’t stand that.”

Maybe it would attract a lot of attention.

There would be countless guys who would pick a fight with me from all sides.

When that time came, let’s beat up Arnold again.