Chapter 368: Speed and Temperature (1/2)

Alex thought for minutes on end through the different things he had read regarding the alchemy books, but all he found was the books saying that the direction of the motion was important.

Every single one of the books failed to mention why. He wondered what he should do, and decided to log out.

He went onto his computers and started searching about alchemy on the internet. Unfortunately, there wasn't much information regarding alchemy on there. He knew more than what was available on there.

”Is no one that far ahead on alchemy? Or are the talented ones just reluctant to share information?” Alex wondered. It would make sense that just like him, there were others that didn't like sharing any information they gain onto the internet.

”Sigh, I guess I will just have to ask the master. Hopefully, she knows the answer,” Alex said and went back into the game.

He set everything back up and decided to continue his experiment. Now that he was done testing the direction of the motion, he was now going to check the speed of the motion.

He decided to use the Silver Grass again. Once the cauldron was at the same temperature as last time, he put it in the grass and started moving it in a clockwise direction.

At first, he moved it at a speed of half a rotation every second, which took him 4 whole rotations to fully turn it into powder.  Then he went a little faster.

This time, he moved it at 1 rotation every second speed. He thought that it would still take it 8 seconds in total, but surprisingly, it far exceeded his expectations and actually took 16 seconds.

”Hmm, what if I went slower?” he thought and decided to go so slow that it would take him 4 seconds per full rotation. He tried it and as he expected, the ingredient turned into powder in just 1 rotation, or 4 seconds.

”Hmm… if I go even slower, will it turn to powder faster?” he wondered. That would surely help him cut down on the time a lot.

He decided to take 8 seconds per rotation this time and dropped in the Silver Grass. He started to slowly move the ingredient around, but not 2 seconds in Alex stopped.

He couldn't help but facepalm himself when he realize what had just happened.

”Of course, If I take too long to move it, it will obviously burn,” Alex thought and laughed to himself. He cleared the cauldron of the burnt Silver grass and tried a few different variations.

After a while, he had a grasp of how much the speed slowed down or sped up the energy release process as well as the powder forming process.

'The temperature probably plays a big role as well, but I will have to wait until then,' he thought. Now that he was a little more knowledgeable in this, he decided to make the same pill as before, only this time he would change the speed entirely to have it release energy at the fastest rate possible.

He made the pills and ended up finishing making the pill in under 7 minutes. However, he could see that most of the energy had been rejected by the powder.