59 Alchemy VS Magic Medicine Part 2 (1/2)
Aini couldn’t hold back his laughter. That was right. He didn’t even have any magic chords left and could only use Grade 0 magic or perhaps Grade 1 magic by force. Even if he had the thorough knowledge, he could only create some simple alchemy props.
”Saleen, I’m so sorry to have led you into danger,” Aini told Saleen when no one else was around.
”Aini, things are already like this. Let’s think about how we’re going to live first. How about we do a comparison between your alchemy and my magic medicine to determine which is better?” Saleen decided on a friendly competition and surely enough, Aini was still young and immediately got worked up. His worries about the black mages faded.
”Sure, but there must be a prize.” Aini scanned the bag on Saleen.
”Sika, stop touching things. This place is dangerous.” Saleen stopped Sika from throwing a metal ball that she had just picked up. He was glad that he hadn’t brought Nailisi to the laboratories. If not, he wouldn’t have had the focus to create magic medicine.
”Then what should I do?” Sika was bored, tiredness flashing across her clear eyes. It seemed like she was of no help to Saleen despite having followed him.
”I am competing with Aini. You will be my assistant. When I ask you to do something, you will do it.”
”Sure!” Sika smiled.
”Aini, even though a mage should not gamble, we are both mages. Between us, this is only a friendly competition to learn from one another. As for the prize, what do you want?”
Aini wanted the bracelet back badly, but he didn’t have anything of similar value in hand. He winked and said, ”Do you have any black crystal?”
Black crystal was a type of crystal that could increase a mage’s control. At the same time, it was something a death mage needed to have. Black crystals could store death magic and among the gemstones that Aini had received, there were no such crystals.
Saleen laughed, Aini was a decent friend and would not make any preposterous demands. He nodded and said, ”No matter the results, I’ll give you a piece of black crystal. I want to know, what is the criteria for this competition?”
”Quantity. The two of us cannot create any high-grade props or medicines. The best way to kill a black puppet is to create an arrowhead using alchemy. If this arrowhead also has magic medicine on it, it can instantly kill a black puppet. I will create an arrowhead while you create five grams of Magic Flame Medicine. If I lose, I will accede to one of your request.”
Saleen couldn’t hold back his laughter and said, ”You’re sure to lose this.”
”We shall see.” Aini lifted his eyebrows, a hint of pride on his sickly face.
Saleen did not think that he would lose either. Back in Ceylon City, he had created so much low-grade magic medicine that it had taken up almost all of his free time. Magic Flame Medicine happened to have been his main source of income and was one of the magic medicines that he had the greatest rates of success with. Even though the success rate was not a hundred percent, he had no problems achieving eighty percent.
”Anyone, anyone!” Aini started shouting. Very soon, a soldier answered at the door. Aini opened the door and said to the soldier, ”Tell Baron Cook that I want to create a large number of alchemy arrowheads. He can send for how many arrowheads he wants.”
Baron Cook rushed over excitedly upon hearing the news. He commanded the soldiers to bring the arrowheads over from the warehouse to the magic laboratories. Saleen felt that something was amiss. In creating his Magic Flame Medicine, he could produce at least five hundred grams each time. It should be able to be used on a hundred arrowheads. However, Aini’s alchemy was evidently not the same, as he was going to use premade arrowheads and modify them. If that was the case, so long as Aini had a fixed alchemy array, he just had to put the materials in and he was done. If his alchemy array was big enough, with such low-grade equipment, he would be able to make a few hundred of them at once.
The problem was that it took a very short time for the alchemy array to create props while his magic medicine needed more time and any small mistake would render the entire batch useless.
At this moment, Aini took out a metal box from his bag and opened it. Walking to the metal table in front of him, he started assembling it, and it was almost as if the alchemy tool had been taken from the table in the first place.
He had been conned…
Saleen was not familiar with alchemy, but he knew that no two alchemy arrays could be pieced together to form a new alchemy array unless the two alchemy arrays had been one piece from the beginning. This table was specifically used to create alchemy arrows and had just been missing its core. What was most surprising was that Aini had actually carried the core of the alchemy array that was used to create alchemy arrows with him.
Aini inlaid six magic nuclei on the holes around the table and started throwing materials into the alchemy array. Saleen could only gather the ingredients needed to create the Magic Flame Medicine from all the magic ingredients before separating and weighing them.
He chose an ingredient and handed it to Sika, saying only two words: ”Crush it.”