45 Pill refining (1/2)

Now that he finished the preparation he started the process of refining his first pill.

First he used his mana to from a sphere which held one set of ingredients. This sphere would replace the normally used pill furnace. It was quite an elegant solution to the problem of a missing furnace, besides the problem that it used up way to much mana to be used under normal circumstances.

Besides the set of herbs he added a bit of water from the pond. Then he used some more mana to create a small flame.

In theory one could use any flame for refining, but the only other source of fire he had available would be a wood based fire which would be much harder to control. So even though his mana flame used up lots and lots of mana it was much more suitable for refining.

He then used the fire to heat up the ingredients until they split up into their medical components, which was the first step of pill refining. He then quickly checked his mana and saw that he had already used up one tenth of it.

The next step was to use mana to separate the medical components and then select the ones he needed while discarding the others. This step was called purification and was one of the hardest parts since even though the herbs had already split up into their medical components, these components didn't just separate on their own but intermingled. He had read that good pill refiners could remove around 80 percent of the impurities. Of course he was far away from that and he could only hope to even manage to remove 20 percent, since that was the lowest purity where the pill could still successfully form.

He carefully used his mana to pull out the impurities from the mixture and let dem evaporate through the sphere. When his remaining mana was less then a quarter he had to stop the process or he would be unable to form the pill.

Now he went on to the next step wich was forming the pill. Using the mana sphere as a container made this process quite easy. He just needed to shrink it until only a hard little pill remained. During the shrinking process the pressure on the medical components remaining would fuse them together. Of course this was a very primitiv way to do pill formation but it was good enough for low grade pills.

Since the components resisted against the merger he had to use more mana on the smaller sphere than the bigger one but he managed to slowly shrink it until it had a diameter of less than two centimeter. And the pill had reached a solid state.

Once the pill became solid he removed the mana sphere, which he couldn't keep up anyway since he had run out of mana, and the small pill dropped down on his hand.

It had a dark murky color and looked more like mud than anything else, but it had a solid feel to it which was a good sign. Ivan didn't dare to be happy just yet since it was highly unlikely that he was successful on his first try.

<< Failed Small Pill of Detoxification, Unranked

A failed product. It was supposed to be a Small Pill of Detoxification but it ended as a undefinable mixture. Consume it to find out it's effect.

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