Chapter 271: Nilos Request (1/2)

Ning spent the next 3 hours of the lecture explaining about cabbages. He told them what you could make with them and why they worked the way they did in those pills.

The alchemy students who hadn't even heard of cabbages being used in alchemy were beyond shocked to listen to Ning tell them so many uses of it.

”And when you mix a little bit of cabbage with Sun Pears, you can get the juice known as the Poor Man's Elixir that you can later use during alchemy. You can use it to make a pill called the Grasping Free Pill which can be used to elongate your limbs to your desired length,” Ning said.

”That is the 40th pill you can make with the cabbages. Any questions?”

The students were pretty surprised once all of the lectures was out and it was time to leave. A lot of students raised their hands.

Ning chose one on random.

”Teacher, you explained everything gracefully, and I feel like I at least understand the gist of it,” the student said. ”However, How can we be sure that you are telling the truth at all? After all, I have never seen a pill made with cabbages before, or have heard of other teachers talking about it.”

”Hmm… how about this?” Ning said. ”I gave you 40 pills, you can choose 3 of the pills and I will give you the recipe. Why don't you try and see if it works or not?”

The student thought for a bit and nodded. ”That's fair. Can I choose?” he said.

”Sure,” Ning said.

The student chose 3 pills based on their effects and Ning gave him, and the rest, the recipe. Once that was done, he looked to the class and spoke.

”I hope you all learned from today's lecture,” he said.

”Yes, Teacher. Cabbages truly are great; we never knew about it,” one of the students that was truly happy to have chosen today's lecture spoke out loud.

”No!” Ning said. ”That was not the point of today's lecture. It's not about the cabbages.”

”…it's not?” the student asked.

The other students looked in confusion. How could the point of a lecture about cabbages not be about said cabbages?

”No, the point of today's lecture was to make you realize that there are many everyday alchemy ingredients that you ignore just because you see it every day,” Ning said.

”Cabbage is not the only thing. Tomatoes, potatoes, long beans, apples, oranges, berries— There are so many everyday foods that you simply ignore, even when it has hundreds of uses in Alchemy.”

”It's not just you guys. The other high-grade alchemists ignore it too, and it's just ignorant. There are a million things in the world that can help you make pills and you guys only focus on one that's rare.

”Try to switch it up. Use an everyday item and see how it can produce a similar type of pill. It might not have the same amount of energy, but when mixed together with other ingredients, it will certainly step up to at least be an average pill.”

”Making an average pill with everyday items, you would call that a massive success, wouldn't you?” Ning smiled.

”What you learned today was just the beginning of what I can teach you. If you want to learn more, come to my class tomorrow under the name of Ning. I hope to see most of you then, goodbye.”

With that, the lecture ended, and Ning walked out of the door, leaving behind nearly 3000 students who didn't know what to do or think.

”That… was a weird lecture,” a student said.

”It all sounded so… real. You guys think it's real?” another student asked.

”We can try, right? He did give us 3 of the recipes after all.”