Chapter 385: Immortal (1/2)
Alex felt something change within him.
”… Eh?” Alex was dumbfounded for a few seconds. Then, he read the notifications once more. As he read, his eyes widened when he realized what it meant.
”Wait wait wait wait wait… did I just get a Superior Metal Spiritual root? Wait, no… it says Supreme. What's that? Is it better than Superior?”
He didn't know what was going on. Only his metal root was suddenly upgraded, instead of all of them.
”Wait, did my spiritual roots change and I no longer have all 7 energy roots?” he thought and quickly opened his status page again to check. Thankfully, his spiritual root hadn't changed.
”Phew, thank god,” he said. Just then, another piece of notification popped up.
<Detecting…>
”What? What the hell is detecting this time?” he cried out loud.
<Discovered: Supreme Metal Spiritual Root>
”Huh? But it should have already discov— ” another Notification arrived at the same time.
<You have discovered a hidden function of [Alchemy God's Knowledge]>
Alex's eyes went wide. ”Is it going to level up?” he thought with hope in his eyes.
<You can now command all free Metal energy as you wish>
His technique didn't level up, but he wasn't disappointed at all. If what he understood from this statement just now was true, then…
”Woah, isn't my alchemy going to be better?” he thought.
He waited for more notifications to appear, but nothing did. So, he took out his cauldron and decided to try what he could.
He took out ingredients for a single pill. That pill was the same pill he made for the 3rd-day competition when he created a 60% harmony pill.
That pill alone had created chaos in the crowd when he revealed it, and even the Royal Alchemist himself had praised him later on.
Now, he was going to make the same pill, but with much greater knowledge and control of the Alchemy process.
He started simply by heating up his Golden Jade Cauldron. Once it was ready, he put in the first ingredient. He followed the recipe, but also at the same time absorbed all that was happening in the cauldron.
He tried to understand why the alchemist who created this recipe made the instruction this exact one. Did he also have many failures before he was successful with this one?
Alex couldn't help but think that. 'Focus,' he told himself and made the pill.
The process was surprisingly very simple for him now that he had practiced these things so intensely. When all the ingredients were put in and the final resulting energy was metal, he started to use Elemental Guidance to pass that metal energy into the powder that was formed into a pill.
He didn't worry about the composition or structure of the pill at the moment and only focused on the energy aspect.
He guided the metal energy to the pill, and surprisingly it followed what he wanted it to do.