My Muscle System in the Mage World

"Basics of Alchemy."

The title engraved on the cover drew Aur's attention immediately, prompting him to delve into its contents. This book, acquired from the second elder, seemed to be a resource aimed at encouraging Aur to explore the realm of alchemy, almost as an afterthought.

Becoming an Alchemist was a matter of talent, hard work, and resources, but talent stood above all. One could lack diligence or even materials, but without inherent talent, becoming an alchemist was nearly impossible.

As Aur pored over the pages, a vast sea of information unfolded before him. Though the book wasn't thick, its content was dense, comprising millions of words written in a language that was challenging.

"Hoh," Aur took a deep breath, absorbing the complexity of the text as he closed the book and rubbed his temples. Despite his efforts, he could barely comprehend the basics of it and potion making technique to it.

The thing he could understand was that the process of creating a potion was very similar to the creation of a spell, and in fact, in the end, potions were also spells, to be accurate, consumable spells.

"No wonder you need to have talent to learn alchemy," Aur remarked.

There were various requirements that must be fulfilled to do alchemy.

These consumable spells, made through alchemy, needed to have a very deep understanding of the slightest details of the spell, and comprehension must be high.

For an ordinary person, comprehending a normal spell might take months, and alchemies, which created consumable spells, were at least ten times more complicated than a normal one.

There was also a restriction on the mental space, as well. To be an alchemist, one needed to have at least middle-grade mental space to be able to do alchemy, as they needed to have keen awareness and manipulation of mana. Aur barely met the requirement.

The third requirement was that one must have a fire-attributed spell; Aur's Elemental Mastery spell easily satisfied these requirements.

And the last requirement was that the person must have at least light blue mana or higher!

That's why Aur had never looked into alchemy before; it was meaningless. It was better to increase his strength as soon as possible rather than doing something he couldn't do.

"Alright, let's get started," Aur finally muttered as he checked his stock of herbs. The old man, the second elder, had already given him all the herbs required to make the basics of the potion from this "Basics of Alchemy" book.

It only had one potion in this book, and it was relatively simple as well. Since he had some free time at hand, he wanted to do it immediately.

Body Refining Potion!

This was one of the rewards he had received from the academy, and although its value was much lower than a potion which increased the rate of refining mana, it was very basic and perfect for a person unknown in alchemy to try out.

Although increasing the intelligence attribute spell might increase his chances even more, Aur was running out of time currently.

There was only at most two years before that disaster struck, which created a sense of urgency in his heart.

Aur quickly took out a simple, black, lustrous furnace with a simple design, and started taking out herbs and plants one by one, grinding them manually.

The first lesson he learned from the book was that the herbs must not be tainted with other elements. That is why when he uses the other spell to grind and extract their essence, it will inevitably slightly taint the herbs, which would be counterintuitive and decrease his chances.

After grinding and preparing all the ingredients, he put them in a container.

Before he started, a flame in the furnace, this time his eyes glowed in a pattern of a big circle and four small circles surrounding the big circle.

Swish!

The air distorted as a fire immediately combusted under the cauldron, and Aur controlled the fire to be at a low heat.

Slowly, Aur started to pour the essence that he had extracted from all the herbs into it.

"Now, the blood of an ogre," Aur muttered while taking out a jar filled with green blood. The ogre was an evolution of the imp and, unlike the imp, it was extraordinarily strong and had robust vitality.

However, unlike imps, ogres weren't very common, and when Aur was a mercenary, he had never seen an ogre before simply because they were hunted down the moment they appeared.

Since ogre blood was a very important material used to create many potions and spells with attributes of strong vitality, and their skin could also be used to make artifacts and various items, even their hearts were valuable.

Wizards would scramble to get the opportunity to hunt ogres the moment they appeared in the vicinity of the village; after all, they were walking treasure troves.

Distracting thoughts flashed in Aur's mind as he directly poured the green blood into the furnace with a somewhat regretful expression on his face.

The ogre blood was actually a key ingredient and one of the last ingredients that he needed to refine his vigour spell; however, now he was wasting it in these potions. However there were several batches of the same ingredients.

Thinking of this, Aur could only console himself in his heart as he used the Calm Mind Incarnation to focus on the task at hand his crimson eyes glowed with a blue light and a stare-like pattern.

The moment the ogre blood and the essence started to mix under Aur's manipulation, he found himself needing to adjust the temperature. Sometimes, Aur had to raise it to prevent coagulation, only to lower it quickly before it could burn. When the temperature fell, he needed to maintain it at a medium heat.

On

Just like this, time flowed in a continuous stream as Aur controlled the flame, ensuring that all the materials remained in check and didn't burn each other in any way possible.