Chapter 220: The Next Level Elixir (2/2)

Ran nodded but Achan called out.

”Hm?”

He made a low moan sound, seemingly asking her 'what's the matter?'.

Then, Achan told him all that they were hiding about the current situation. Yman did not expect that it only took this early for them to blurt out their secrets.

”An experimental specimen?” Yman repeated Achan's words in disbelief.

She told him that their alchemy department had made an elixir that forcibly evolved a person's magical energy.

When he heard it, he remembered the Body Tampering drink of Airi. The next word she said had made him understand why they were making identical elixirs.

She said that the academy was promoting a contest to all Alchemy Departments, and the theme was Evolution.

Back to the topic, Achan and her group succeeded in making the elixir which they called Next Level Elixir.

To verify the usefulness of the Next Level Elixir, they used a worm as their subject for experimentation.

Yman slightly widened his eyes upon hearing it. Then a hypothesis formed in his mind. He guessed that it was related to those weird worms.

But he didn't interrupt her as she continued telling him.

At first, it was a tiny worm as big as the smallest finger of a person's hand.

When they dropped a little amount of Next Level Elixir onto it, there was no sudden reaction. They thought that the elixir was a failure. Since they made it at night, they decided to transfer the worm to the garden where they were keeping their other specimens.

However, when they came back in the morning, all of them were shocked.

The garden was in a mess.

All the magical plants and herbs that they took much time to take care of— had their leaves gone.

Then they saw in the middle of the garden, a plump creature. It was a worm that was supposedly as big as the shortest finger in a human's hand.

It had grown into size as big as the pig!

Everyone was stunned. Soon, they rejoiced. Everyone got excited. Although it wasn't the expected effect they originally planned, the result was still a good start for their Next Level Elixir.

A few days ago, they had taken it with them to the mountain. Before leaving, they had given it a name. They called it Devourer. The name was of course for fun only.

They left it that day and they came back the next day.

Then they noticed that most of the magical herbs and plants around the mountain had their leaves suffered the same as what happened to the magical herbs in the garden.

No need to guess who was the suspect of it as they already knew the cause of it.

Every hour they record Devourer's growth. Not only its size and also its magical power. No doubt, it had tremendous growth. They could even say that the Next Level Elixir was half success. But they soon realized a big problem. If things continued like it was, the whole academy would suffer a lack of resources if Devourer continued devouring the magical plants and herbs in the mountain— and all the resources that could produce magical energy.

After all, any resources that could produce magical energy were the most important resources for alchemy.

They started to feel worried about it and their professor demanded a meeting with all the department members.

Their meeting took a long time because of some disagreements from the other members. Especially seniors.

In the end, they decided to end Devourer's life; otherwise, their whole department would be in danger of getting disbanded if the higher council or even the student council would know about it.