Reincarnated as a Genius Prodigy of a Prestigious Family - Chapter 81

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Reincarnated as a Legendary Talent Genius of a Noble Family Episode 81

 

 

 

44. Alchemy Genius Dane Sogress (2)

 

 

Droyan is also a genius.

A genius unrivaled in the Alchemy Department at that.

He receives abundant love from all the professors, serves as the Practical Alchemy Society president, and is evaluated as a talent who will lead the Empire’s future alchemy.

Therefore, in ordinary cases, if Droyan can’t accomplish something, other students can’t either. Droyan was so full of pride in his abilities that—

‘That can’t be right.’

He didn’t believe Dane’s words.

An antidote, he says.

Poison and antidote are separated by a hair’s breadth.

But Agnes Grass and Yellow Lightning Flower are a bit different.

Both are plants containing extreme poison, and if handled incorrectly, you could be poisoned just by touching them, let alone creating an antidote…

Moreover, since this was a situation requiring ‘combining’ the two to create an antidote, when Dane entered his research lab-dormitory room that was nothing short of a mess, Droyan said worriedly.

“Dane, if you’re just joking around, I’m fine with it, so you can go back to your room.”

“Ah, right. Let me go to my room for a bit.”

Just as I thought, Droyan nodded. Of course, that was only momentary.

Dane, who had headed to his room, returned in much more comfortable clothing and put on experimental gloves that happened to be visible.

“Are you really going to do this?”

“If you can’t believe it, then don’t.”

“It’s dangerous, that’s why!”

“It’s not dangerous if you just wear gloves properly.”

Dane said this while carefully picking up one stem each of Agnes Grass and Yellow Lightning Flower that were piled up like mountains.

Then he carefully crushed the two plants with the juice extraction stone that Droyan always kept on hand, extracting their juices.

‘It seems like he knows something?’

Alchemy experiments emphasize safety, safety, and more safety from the very beginning of learning. Because even the slightest mistake can endanger the experimenter’s life.

But Dane not only followed all those safety rules, his hand movements looked quite skilled, almost as good as his own.

‘A genius…? No way. That can’t be.’

Droyan shook his head inwardly.

He’s probably just trying it out.

“A dagger?”

Then Dane took out a dagger.

It had a blue blade, but didn’t seem particularly special…

Poke, poke.

When Dane dipped the tip of the dagger into each juice in turn, the blade’s color changed.

Starting from the dagger’s tip, as if poison was climbing up, it was red at first, then blue, and finally became purple.

“E, Etril!”

An ore that absorbs properties.

Droyan, who knew of Etril’s existence, cried out involuntarily.

Not only because it was an incredibly expensive ore.

“With, with that… an antidote?”

The method of combining antidotes using Etril is treated as an extremely advanced technique even in the pharmaceutical field.

Mixing.

Speed.

Precision.

Plus the difficulty of artificially channeling mana into Etril.

He’s going to do that now?

“Done.”

He says it’s done.

Holding the purple-stained dagger and doing something, the blade had somehow turned white.

Droyan, who had learned about ‘Etril Reaction,’ knows what this means.

“The, the antidote is…”

It means the internal toxicity has been broken down and finally become an antidote.

He doesn’t know how it was done.

No, even using Etril ore, he thought combining the two to make an antidote was impossible in itself.

“Want to see?”

Dane brought the dagger’s tip to an empty reagent bottle.

Then one drop, two drops of transparent liquid fell, and soon the reagent bottle was about 1/3 full and sloshing.

Dane held it out to Droyan, and Droyan carefully took the reagent bottle.

“Is, is this really an antidote?”

“Yeah. Test it. I made plenty on purpose.”

“…”

Droyan placed the reagent bottle down with a ‘no way’ feeling and carefully drew up one drop with a dropper.

Then with a trembling heart, he dropped it onto the Agnes Grass juice that Dane had just produced…

“This is crazy.”

Droyan showed an excited reaction.

It was being detoxified.

The moment the antidote touched it, the toxicity of the juice was visibly breaking down before his eyes.

“Huh.”

As if he couldn’t believe it even seeing it, Droyan again drew up a drop with the dropper and this time dropped it onto the Yellow Lightning Flower juice.

“…It was real.”

The result was the same.

The poison was broken down identically.

This is a major incident.

Droyan put down the reagent bottle with trembling hands, then suddenly approached and grabbed both of Dane’s hands.

Just as Dane was wondering if he should shake off this fellow’s arms.

“I’ll call you Master! Please teach me the decoding method!”

Dane had suddenly become a master.

 

 

As if I’d teach him.

Actually, even if I taught him, he wouldn’t be able to do it.

It’s not just about needing Etril ore, but requiring the mana sense to properly combine and make it into an antidote.

“Master! I’ll do anything!”

“Yeah. No. Go back.”

“Please! How on earth did you do it? Etril aside, how did you detoxify with it! You really are a genius! Even if you had taken the Autonomous Department exam with alchemy, you definitely would have passed!”

That’s right.

But that doesn’t mean I can teach him.

It’s a precious method that Mother taught me.

“I made you an antidote, didn’t I? So you pass the assignment, right?”

“Th, that’s true!”

“Then we’re good.”

Well, if someone asks how I made it, that’s for this fellow to figure out himself.

“Please, I can’t stand being curious! Should I knock on your door all night?”

I chuckled at the cute threat, and Droyan stomped his feet.

“What do I have to do for you to tell me?”

“No way.”

“…Damn it.”

I already made the antidote for him anyway.

So both his assignment and research are solved, yet he seems to have quite the scholarly passion.

Well, you’d have to be unable to resist curiosity to be called a genius in the Alchemy Department and earn the right to stay on the 9th floor of Danter Hall.

“I’ll definitely figure it out someday, Dane Sogress.”

“Go ahead and try.”

Whether he can actually do it even if he figures it out is a secondary issue.

If Mother is right, this is a method only Mother knows, and since I’m the only one who learned that method, it won’t be easy for this fellow to figure out.

Droyan is a genius, but….

Our Mother is also a genius.

An unparalleled genius in assassination, detoxification, poison combination, and such.

People just don’t know it well.

“Oh, and thank you. I survived thanks to you.”

Droyan didn’t forget to express his gratitude.

“I’m glad it worked out.”

“Yeah. I was really going crazy. I’ve rarely had something like this happen before.”

I think I know how he feels.

In this current life, perhaps because I was born with talent, I’ve been pondering and exploring things until they’re resolved ever since I was young if something didn’t make sense.

Thanks to that, I’ve fallen asleep countless times only after seeing the dawn break.

Thinking about how in my previous life I struggled to get even a bit of sleep to survive, I suppose it’s quite moving.

“But how did you get a dagger made of Etril ore? Usually it’s very difficult to process, so it’s often used as raw stone.”

“I received it as a gift.”

There’s no need to specifically mention that the person who gave it to me was Mother.

“Well, a family like yours probably receives incredible gifts. The Sogress family is different in every way.”

Fortunately, I could brush it off with the explanation that our family is different in some way.

“Here, take this.”

“What is it?”

“Payment for making the antidote.”

“I didn’t do it expecting anything.”

Even as I said that, my hand was already quickly grabbing what Droyan handed me.

Oh well, it’s instinct, so I can’t help it.

“Didn’t you say you weren’t expecting anything?”

“I don’t refuse what’s given to me.”

“That’s ridiculous.”

Droyan chuckled, and I checked what he had given me.

It was a stone.

“Philosopher’s Stone?”

Droyan was shocked.

“Don’t say things like that anywhere. Especially not in front of alchemists. That kind of thing absolutely cannot exist according to the laws.”

Is the Philosopher’s Stone like a trigger button for these guys or something?

“Then what is it?”

“Amplification Stone. It’s exactly what the name suggests. It uses the power in that stone as a cost to amplify reactivity in alchemy and various experiments.”

“Ah.”

Just from hearing about it, I can tell it’s a good item.

“They say it’s expensive, but I’m not really sure.”

His family must be wealthy too.

Well, they say alchemy is a field you can’t even start without money.

“It’s more that the qualification requirements to purchase it are incredibly strict. Since it’s used for amplification, it’s dangerous if inexperienced people use it.”

“Is it okay to give it to me?”

Droyan chuckled.

“After pulling off something so ridiculous just now, what are you worried about?”

He shook the potion bottle containing the antidote I made for him.

“In alchemy, combining poisonous plants to create detoxification is something you can barely learn the theory of when you reach 4th year. It’s dangerous, and the materials are strictly controlled too.”

I should be grateful to Mother.

“And I have several more of these. Well, I can’t make a single antidote myself… but I do have the qualification to purchase them. If you need more later, just tell me. I’ll sell them cheap.”

“Alright.”

With that, I left Droyan’s room and returned with the Amplification Stone.

When I opened the door, there was someone there to greet me.

“Kyirik? Kyirik! Kyiriuk!”

How long were you waiting there?

I burst into laughter at the sight of Karnas running toward me as soon as he saw me, wagging his tail and crying pitifully.

“Aww, sorry.”

When I picked up Karnas, he rubbed his face against me and made quite a fuss.

I left him behind because chemicals might have gotten on him in the laboratory, but I wonder what I’ll do later.

Surely he won’t make such a fuss even when he grows to wyvern size, right?

“Training will be necessary.”

I placed Karnas on the bed for now.

Just like before, he settled on the pillow and started sleeping again.

Watching him fondly, I placed the Amplification Stone that Droyan had just given me on the desk.

The blue stone held a mysterious light.

The light wasn’t strong, so it might work well as a night light if I put it by my bedside when sleeping.

Still, since they say it’s valuable, I should try using it, right?

“Amplification Stone….”

Just in case, I rummaged through the bookshelf.

There it is.

 

[Introduction to Alchemy].

 

It’s one of the books I brought from home.

When I opened the book and looked for the category related to Amplification Stones, it said this:

“Depending on how the stone is made, it amplifies experiments, combinations, various reactions, etc. Generally amplifies by about 20%….”

That’s a considerable amplification amount.

“Hmm.”

I opened my subspace to see if there were any suitable materials to test with.

I needed some mana stones to store mana in advance anyway.

Mana stones are essential tools that must be made when training in magic.

You can store mana in advance to use in future experiments, and though the efficiency is somewhat low, you can quickly draw from them when you’re short on mana.

Or you can sell them.

Of course, mages generally don’t personally make and sell mana stones.

Mana stones made that way are too inefficient for other mages to use unless they undergo separate refinement.

The reason is that each person’s mana has different properties.

“Usually magic towers mass-produce them.”

Instead, magic towers collect residual mana from mages and small amounts of atmospheric mana, refine it, then make and sell mana stones.

It’s something only possible because they’re magic towers.

“Should I try making about three?”

Since it doesn’t look like I’ll need to use mana for anything else today, I’ll leave just enough mana for unexpected situations and use the rest to make mana stones.

I took out about three empty mana stones.

Then I also took out three dried Draug Fruits to use as catalysts.

After that, I finished arranging everything to infuse mana into the mana stone, then slowly drew up my mana.

Whooom.

And then-

“Huh?”

Crack.

The mana stone shattered before I could even put in the amount of mana I had expected.

“What the hell is this.”

This is absurd.

I had finished my calculations properly.

I had factored in everything, including how one circle was created from the ancient mana concentrator at the fountain.

“I didn’t even put in half of it.”

But before I could even put in half the mana I had calculated, the mana stone couldn’t handle the capacity and burst.

With a “what if” thought, I placed a new mana stone and this time tried flowing only 1/4 of the mana, not half, through the amplification stone.

Whooooom!

Then this time, the mana stone vibrated severely, just barely holding on.

A mana stone had been created.

However, unlike typical transparent mana stones, this one was green.

I recalled when I first entered the Hanston Building.

Back then, the barrier’s color was also green, wasn’t it?

Does that mean my mana’s color is green?

No, more than that.

“Huh.”

This is strange.

Did he give me a good amplification stone?

After thinking for a moment, I headed to Droyan’s room and asked the fellow.

“That thing? Well, it’s a decent item, but when I used the same one, it was about 22%?”

“Really?”

“What’s going on?”

“Nothing. Just curious.”

Returning to my room, I made some assumptions.

This amplification stone’s amplification rate is about 22%.

However, the mana stone was completely filled with just 1/2 of the mana I had calculated.

That means…

“The amplification rate is at least over 50%.”

It was so ridiculous and unbelievable that I let out a hollow laugh.

So ancient mana gets a greater effect from this amplification stone?

An efficiency that would only increase by about 20% with regular mana increases by more than half?

Because it’s such high-purity mana?

“This is completely broken.”

After thinking for a moment, I opened my subspace again, took out all the mana stones I had, and drew up my mana.

And after some time passed-

Two mana stones lay before my eyes.

“Phew.”

This is no ordinary matter.

Now I understand why they can only be made in the Magic Tower.

My mana was almost completely depleted.

If I had made one more, my mana probably would have backflowed and caused serious trouble.

“I should set aside specific days to make just one or two consistently.”

And the amplification stone had also almost lost its light.

Amplification stone.

Mana stone.

And efficiency beyond expectations.

Plus one more thing.

The nature of this high-purity ancient mana that doesn’t discriminate between people.

After running through my head and finishing rough calculations, I reached one conclusion.

“With this, I won’t have to worry about money anymore, will I?”

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