And just like that, the feeling of proudness, that Sumiko had for herself, disappeared.
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"If you don't have further questions, we will start the lesson, now" the green haired woman smiled and started the lesson "So, since you already know its story, i'll skip it and go directly to potion making!"
"Today, in the morning, we started talking about how to make a Healing Potion, which we will continue right now"
"A Healing Potion is made of Incrementum (Im) and Gelida (Gi) atoms The first to increment the healing of the cells and the second to stop the wound"
"But it's not all" then Nao looked intensely at Seichi in the eyes "What do you think a Healing Potion is also made of?"
"..." Seichi fell in deep thoughts "If the Gi atoms freeze all the cells of the wound, it should freeze even the cells that needs to be healed, so no matter how much Im atoms are there, it will never work"
Silence fell in the room, Seichi thinking hard and hard about how to solve the problems, until he came to a conclusion "Master, we should somehow put more energy in the intern of a cell that needs to heal as to increase its heat, but not so much or it will unfreeze the external part of the cell too quickly, causing it to damage even more, so it will slowly heal thanks to the Incrementum cells, that will slowly take action as the cells slowly unfreezes"
"..." Silence fell upon the room, the eyes of the two girls widening in shock, especially the older one "...yes, that's right"
"Really?" Happiness shone through Seichi's eyes "Did i get that right for real?"
"Yes, Seichi-kun" Nao smiled at him, before activating a strange interface through voice comand "Virtual Board!"
Nao got up and wrote with her hand a strange formula on the floating board: Gi1Im2(Et)Ad1(It)
"As you can see the formula of the potion is this" She pointed at the virtual board "One atom of Gelida, two atoms of Incrementum, both multiplied by an absolute atom of Externum, and one of Ardor, multiplied by an absolute atom of Internum"
"It's just as you described it" Nao was happy that she had such an outstanding disciple like Seichi, who at her words, instantly, rose his hand "Master, what are Ardor atoms and those absolute atoms, like Externum and Internum atoms?"
"Ardor (Ad) is the atom opposite to Gelida, so it heats something" Nao was explaining it with so much excitement "While Externum (Et) and Internum (It) are absolute atoms, the first if multiplied by another atom applies the latter on the external part of a cell and the second on the internal part"
She was so happy to finally have such an outstanding disciple "Absolute atoms are atoms that if applied to other atoms, adds special properties to the latters"
"Interesting" Seichi rose his hand once again "So if I make a potion with an atom of Gelida applied with Et atoms and I drink it, my external body will freeze, but if I apply an It atom to it, my internal body will do so instead?"
Nao's eyes shone even brightly at his example "You even came out with the Freezing Potion recipe?!"
"You're such a genius! Even brighter than my little sister!"
"Ehi, he's nothing like me" Sumiko puffed her cheeks "I'm more intelligent than him"
A hit fell on Sumiko's forehead "You took three minutes to understand it, while he took only a couple of seconds. I guess this explains it all"
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Hours passed and Seichi was learning more and more about alchemy.
[Image of the elements discovered until now by Seichi]
"Master, is this the right formula for a 1 Tier Genetic Advancement Potion?" Seichi rose once again his hand, showing her a formula: Cp (Om (Im1(Et) Im1(It)))
Nao widened her eyes in shock "Y-yes, Seichi you keep to surprise me"
"You came up with one of the most complex Tier 1 potions!" Nao continued to get shocked and shocked due to Seichi's great talent and intelligence in Alchemy, other than his curiosity in it.
"Master, when will we start the practicing it, instead of doing only the theory?" The majestc boy couldn't wait about brewing potions. He was having a lot of fun by coming up with new alchemical recipes and his hunger for knowledge grew with time.
"It's early for that"
"Why?" Seichi's hunger for knowledge wanted to do it right now, but her master didn't think he was ready "Well, it can be pretty dangerous if you mess up with the amount of ingredients that you have to put"
"One day, Sumiko blew up half of the entire mansion when she messed up the amounts of Ardor in an Anti-Burn Potion!" Nao said, laughing, while the little girl blushed from the embarassment.
"Then will I be ready?"
"When your eyes become particularly attent to the amounts and the differences between substances" she then pointed her eyes with her finger "After all, you don't have a Uniqueness like mine, Subatomical Eyes, that makes you able to calculate amounts without a slight margin of error or recognize any susbstance in matters of second!"
"Such a great ability!" Seichi thought, but soon his head was filled with darkness "So If i rob her Uniqueness, I should be able to start brewing potions immediately"
Suddendly, Seichi's eyes turned blood-red "Potions, here I come!"
As the Glutton Aura was about to exit Seichi's body, it was stopped by Seichi's consciousness "What am I doing? This ability of mine really is messing up with my mind in a negative way"
Seichi's eyes returned to his pitch black normal color "I should be careful when I use this ability... in the... futu..re"
Seichi lost consciousness and was falling to the ground.
"Seichi!" Nao rushed to him.
"Onii-chan" and Sumiko did so as well.
...to be continued
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I hope you enjoyed this chapter.
By the way, the name of the alchemical atoms are in Latin, so if you want to know abour what they mean, just traslate their names.
I hope all of you are having a good and amazing day.