Chapter 384: Meridian Tempering 1st Realm (1/2)

Alex left for breakfast at around 7 am after learning about the shapes and structures of the powder for nearly 2 hours. During that time, he realized a few more things.

First thing was that the direction in which the ingredients were moved affected the powders in a way that created some threading-like pattern on the powder particles, threading that was similar to a screw or the inside of a nut bolt.

When moved clockwise, the threading would be protruded like that of a screw, and when moved counterclockwise, it would become sunken like that of a nut. The threading was so small that it nearly cost Alex half of his spiritual sense to focus on that small of a level.

When he just checked the powder particles on their own, the threading was actually practically invisible aside from giving a slight bit of texture to the powder.

Once he was done with those, he started making different pills to understand how the structure and composition helped with the different pills in what way.

Before he knew it, 2 hours had passed away and he had barely learned a thing.

”What's wrong? Are you nervous about something?” Emily asked at the dinner table.

”Oi Alex, you better not be regretting asking Emily out now,” Sarah teased from the side.

”What? Oh, sorry. It's nothing. It's just some things inside of the game that got me thinking mindlessly,” Alex said.

”You better not be thinking about that conspiracy again. Honestly, I thought you got it out of your system,” Hannah said.

”Huh? No— ”

”What's this about?” Sarah cut off Alex.

Hannah explained what Alex had done with the helmet a few days ago, without missing a single piece of information.

Alex cringed a little when he heard what he had done out loud. ”That's not it,” he said.

”That's not what I am thinking about. It's related to alchemy,” he explained.

”Oh, then that's good. You shouldn't think like those conspiracy theorists. So, what's there is an alchemy to make you think this hard?” Hannah asked. ”Isn't it just putting ingredients in a pot and cooking it until a pill comes out?”

”Uhh… it's way more complex. I wouldn't expect you to understand my problems,” Alex said.

”Why not search the internet then? They have everything,” Hannah said.

”I've tried. There's nothing. No blog post or video. Not even the forum has a single post about anything above basic level alchemy,” Alex said.

”Hmm… if there is no post about anything…then why don't you post one yourself?” Emily asked. ”You can ask people what you have problems with.”

”I… had never thought of that. You're right, we can do that. Huh… I'll go make a post right now,” Alex said and quickly finished his meal.

He went to his room and opened the forum on his laptop. He searched for information about what he wanted once more and couldn't find anything at all.

”Sigh! Alright, let's make a new post,” he thought and clicked on the 'create a new post' button.  The website led him to the login page. He needed an account to interact with the posts aside from just reading them.