Rise of the Alchemy God

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With all the time he wanted at his disposal, Ethan got ahead with some of the tasks he needed to do.

Time here flowed almost 100 times faster than in the outside world, so he could spend 4 full days here, and less than an hour would still have passed in the external world.

There were several things Ethan had planned to do, and one of them was to unlock the recipes in the system's alchemy lab.

Initially, he had thought of producing these pills in the little time he could spare in the coming days after refining his daily pills, but now that wasn't necessary anymore.

Now he had almost all the time in the world.

Without wasting any, he began refining 10 perfect-grade Basic Recovery Pills.

At the moment, it was the only recipe available to him that had reached this grade, so he didn't have much of a choice.

[You have created a Level 1 Basic Recovery Pill of Perfect Grade]

[You have received 20 QI]

[You have created a Level 1 Basic Recovery Pill of Perfect Grade]

[You have received 20 QI]

[You have created a Level 1 Basic Recovery Pill of Perfect Grade]

[You have received 20 QI]

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[You have gained 5 system points] (x10)

A little over 3 hours passed, and he finished refining all ten pills.

In just these three hours, he had earned 200 QI and 50 SP, which wasn't bad considering he was refining very slowly.

After finishing the pills, Ethan accessed the system and immediately went to the shop screen to check if he could use the recipe.

Going to the laboratory section, Ethan pressed to choose a recipe, and a screen opened in front of him.

The screen was just like last time, with almost all the recipes he had learned grayed out, except for one that was no longer locked.

Seeing it, Ethan smiled and pressed it to choose it.

The screen changed, taking him to the alchemy lab, where in the leftmost box, he could now see an image of the Basic Recovery Pill displayed.

Ethan also noticed that, apart from the recipe box, the material boxes had changed too.

Now, instead of being empty with a '+' in the middle, three of them displayed images.

In each of them, he could see the image of a different herb.

Ethan immediately recognized these herbs, which made sense since they were the three needed for producing the Basic Recovery Pill.

'So that's how it works?'

Ethan thought, and then seeing that the list of materials included only these three items, he frowned for a moment.

'Strange, why isn't water included?'

Water was a fundamental element in pill refining.

Seeing that such an essential element was missing, Ethan wondered if he was supposed to add it somehow himself.

This thought crossed his mind, but he then dismissed it.

He doubted the system wouldn't alert him if something vital was missing for producing these pills.

He noticed that the three herbs pictured in the boxes also had small numbers in the top right corner.

Seeing them, Ethan immediately understood what they represented.

'So it takes the elements directly from my dimensional space?'

Indeed, Ethan stored most of his alchemical materials in his dimensional space, with only a few in his dimensional ring.

Yes, he had finally acquired a dimensional ring.

With his high income, earning him more than 20 low-grade spirit stones a day, he decided it was best to get a dimensional ring as well.

At first, he thought it would be a waste of money to buy one, especially since he didn't need it with his [storage], but he later realized it was necessary to own one.

He understood that he couldn't just pull things out of nowhere every time he needed something, especially when he was outside the sect.

If he did, he would eventually be discovered by someone, so for security reasons, he decided to get one.

After confirming there didn't seem to be anything else, Ethan pressed the [Start] button and waited for something to happen.

Right after pressing it, the 3D cauldron displayed in front of him came to life.

A flame ignited beneath it, while what seemed to be the herbs he used were tossed inside one by one.

The order was correct, but Ethan wondered if this animation was just for show or if it was actually throwing in the herbs as they were.

If it was the first case, he wouldn't pay much attention to it, but if it was the second, then he would question the outcome since, as far as he knew, the herbs were supposed to be prepared first and then placed in the cauldron.

On the [Start] button, the text was now replaced by a 5-second timer, counting down.

Ethan waited for these 5 seconds, and finally, the process ended.

Right after the process finished, he saw a system screen appear in front of him:

[Congratulations, you have refined a Level 1 Basic Recovery Pill of Perfect Grade]

[You have received 18 QI]

[You have gained 4 system points]

Seeing these system messages come up, Ethan finally understood a bit more about how this alchemy lab worked.

'So that's how it works.'

Ethan had already predicted that there would be some sort of cost to using this system function, but he wasn't sure what it would be, so he decided to produce only one pill and no more, just to see what would happen.

Indeed, he could produce more than one pill at the same time.

He had noticed earlier a small box below the cauldron, displaying '-' and '+' signs with a '0' in the center.

Having had experience with games in his previous world, Ethan knew this indicated the number of pills he wanted to produce.

He increased the number by one because for now, he just wanted to see how it worked and didn't want to risk losing too many materials if something went wrong since this wasn't his usual production method.

There were so many elements, however small, that made it different from a traditional method, and the lack of water was just one of them.

For example, he couldn't control the dosage or even the temperature.

All of this led him to make the choice he did, and it seemed the results were better than he expected.

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FRANK_LEE_JUNIOR:

Here's today's chapter. I hope you enjoyed it.

As usual, if you have any comments, suggestions, or errors to report, you know where to do it.

See you tomorrow.