Chapter 354 - Alchemist Test (2) (1/2)

After arranging every processed herb neatly, Auron began to take a position in front of the potion cauldron.

During the second stage of making a potion, there were two critical things. First, the flame. Each step would need a different level of fire. Some required a high degree of flame while the other step required only a low degree of flame.

The Second thing was to follow the recipe precisely. If the recipe stated to use a 5 gram of a herb, then you needed to use that same amount of the same herb. If you pour a 0.1 gram more then, it could affect the result.

[Pour out 5 liters of water]

[Add halves the amount of herbs A]

[Raised the flame to 180 degress]

[Stir until the water boiled]

There were several notifications appeared in front of Auron. It was the guidance provided by the system to help the alchemy process. Since alchemy was a long process, the system provided guidance for the players to help them.

With this guidance, the players didn't need to reread the recipe during the making process. This system guidance attracted several people to become an alchemist.

This system guidance ensured that the alchemist would have a 100% probability to create a potion. While this guidance gave a benefit, but it also had its own demerit. It made people became lazy and made them rely on this guidance.

When an alchemist relied on this guidance, they would have a delay in their movement. There would be a slight delay between reading the guidance until they did the action. This slight would mean nothing if it only happened once. However, many steps needed to be applied when creating a potion. Slowly, this little delay would become more and affect the resulted potion.

That was why, if you want to become a high-grade alchemist, even though there was system guidance, you would need to memorize the potion making steps and knew when to act.

Although you could apply every step correctly, if the delay between each step was significant, then the result would not be good. Usually, an average potion concocting would result in 5 - 10 potions for each batch of ingredients. But, if there was a massive delay between each step, then the result would be lowered, even it could result in a failure.

When an alchemist did it perfectly, they could get 15 potions at the end of the potion-making session. This would undoubtedly make their profit from the potion grew bigger.

The true alchemist would pursuit such perfection when making a potion. As for Auron, he was still a newbie in this alchemy world. So, of course, he would rely on the system guidance.

However, Auron had also read the disadvantages of relying on system guidance. But, he had no choices since he didn't memorize the step. He could only react quickly to minimize the delay.

Auron followed the steps quickly. In this potion-making session, each step would usually last for 3 - 10 seconds. The longest lasted for a minute.

Auron was busy following the guidance like a robot. He tried his best from raising or lowering the flame's degrees until putting the herbs inside the cauldron. Auron even had to stir the liquid counterclockwise.

[Take out the herbs, that were floating in the cauldron's liquid, out]