Chapter 382: Composition and Structure (2/2)
In the end, he couldn't see anything wrong. He was about to put back the pill when he remembered something. The gesture he was making right now, taking a pill up to his face to check it, was something he had seen another person do as well.
'Didn't the royal alchemist do the same thing?' he thought. He remembered back to the day when they had met him. The man had taken his pill and looked at it in just the same way.
Except… he hadn't. 'He couldn't see anything so he had to eat another pill right?' Alex thought. He remembered seeing the Royal Alchemist's eyes go wide after eating that one pill.
'Could it be that pill amplified his visions and allowed him to see something?' Alex wondered. Then, he thought back to the remark he had made.
'He talked about my temperature controls, my cauldron, and my ingredients. However, he also talked about something else,' Alex thought.
'Structure and Composition of the powder and pill.'
Alex's mind raced as he tried to make sense of those words. 'Structure? Composition? Am I supposed to know these things by now?' he wondered.
There was nothing in his lessons from his master regarding this. As for the different books in the libraries… he checked again.
”Oh, there is something,” he was surprised when he did indeed find a little information. It didn't tell him anything at all, but somewhat vaguely explained what the Structure and Composition of a pill meant.
”I see… ” he thought when he finished reading it all. He felt like he comprehended a new aspect of the alchemy process that he just didn't know about before today.
”So, composition refers to the ratio at which the powders from the different ingredients are mixed. The Royal Alchemist seemed to care about it, so if I manage to make pills that will use all the powder in a cauldron, or at least the proper ratio of it, then I'm guaranteed to have a much higher level of pill huh?” he thought.
It would take a long time, but if he could learn enough to tweak the ratio around, then presumably, he wouldn't even need to use all the powder to make a perfect pill, just the right amount.
”Structure on the other hand looks to be much more important. Isn't it basically telling me that the shape of the individual powder impacts how much energy I can store in it?” he wondered.
Structure referred to the shape of the minute individual particles of the powders.
”So… the direction in which the ingredient moves and the speed at which it moves must determine the structure of the powder that is formed, and that powder determines whether it can hold the resulting energy of the pill or not.”
”So, if I want to make my pill better, then I will have to make sure that their powder ratio is the best, and that the structure of the powder is also the most accepting of the energy.”