Chapter 321 Perfect Pill{1}



[Ace POV],

"You don't realise how difficult something is until you actually start it,"

This was one of the few proverbs in previous world that I agreed with, and by a strange twist of destiny, I came into contact with it as I created the rank 1 mana pill.

For starters, rank 1 pills were more valuable because they were more potent than unranked pills, but also harder to concoct because of the steps required to create them.

The pill itself must possess a particular characteristic in addition to the procedures and methods utilised to create rank 1 pills.

I'll start at the beginning of my concocting session for this.

The first thing I did, intended to be done in the first place in any pill-making session before I began creating any pills after deciding to create all of  them in the end, was to process the herbs.

Here, processing the herbs simply involved cleaning them and chopping them into the various sizes required for the concocting process. Depending on the value of the processed herbs, this was a crucial step.

Depending on the situation, improper processing of the herbs will either have an impact on the process of creating pills or result in herb waste, some of which may be too valuable to discard.

This was another aspect in which rank 1 pills were similar but not identical due to the value of their herbs.

Despite the fact that each herb used to make a pill was precious, there was always one herb that was more valuable than the others. This was also true for rank 1 and unranked pill herbs.

For the latter, the cost of the herbs was sufficient to demonstrate their value since their components could be acquired with the bronze coin, the lowest coin value, but when it came to rank 1 pill herbs, the cheapest herb was priced in silver coins.

Naturally, since it was a ranked pill, some rank 1 herbs would be required too, and these herds were very expensive.

Even one was just ten silver coins away from becoming a gold coin.

In summary, the more I learned about ranked pills, the more I realised that everything that was connected to them was a step beyond unranked pills.

The other alchemlist products may have been so pricey for this reason.

If I were to base this on my standards from the old world, alchemy would be comparable to science in that only the gifted could participate. 

It's possible that national level scientists will struggle with the matter.

Due to the cost of production, if I were to successfully produce anything now and sell it, my costs would probably be comparable to the first alchemist I first saw. However, when I look at things from a different perspective, even the cost of the things I produce is not even close to the profits I would make from selling them.

Alchemist is a highly profitable job.

Of course, this is only true if I am able to create more things than I fail to create.

In the end, I took some time to collect my composure after spending a "fortune" on several sets of ingredients for the rank 1 mana pill.

However, before I began creating anything, I first confirmed in my head how I should begin formulating the pill and whether the beginning of a ranked pill was the same as an unranked pill.

Fortunately, it was the same and I didn't have to go through any strange methods to create the rank 1 mana pill from scratch.

This did not imply that the entire process of creating the mana pill was identical to creating an unranked pill, as there were a few techniques that had to be used in order to effectively create a ranked pill.

This set of techniques originated not only from evolving but also from the basic alchemy knowledge I brought as my foundation.

The two had different levels of expertise, with one being more explanatory than the other.

If techniques not a factor, then the materials used would be the only distinction between a ranked pill and an unranked pill.

As I started to prepare the rank 1 mana pill, these were the thoughts that were going through my head.

Since the initial steps of creating the rank 1 pill were the same as those of an unranked pill, which I was familiar with, everything went without a hitch.

It also helped that my job seemed to serve as a teacher who was directing my steps.

Although the impact was not as great as when I was creating unranked pills, it was still present.

As I learned more about the glories of my job, the more I felt that the effort I had put in to get here had been worthwhile.

In any case, I was certain that there was still a lot more to my job or a change it had brought about that I hadn't utilised.

Since none of this could be rushed, I chose to put it off for now and save it for the future, when everything would likely start to slowly come into place.

At least, that's what I believed.

When I eventually encountered a problem, it was when the methods to make a pill diverged from the usual route used to make unranked pills.

Finally, the time had come to create a pill using a variety of methods and the knowledge I had in my mind.

The procedure of creating ranked pills needed the employment of a lot more approaches than the process for creating unranked pills, which just required the pill-forming technique.

The higher the rank of the pill, the more techniques were applied or the greater the quality of the techniques used.

On the other hand, it was the former for the rank 1 mana pill.

In addition to the pill-forming method, there were two more techniques: extraction technique and purification technique.

I initially got into trouble when the formulating process got to the point when these techniques had to be applied. Obviously, having a 70% success rate guaranteed doesn't mean that the less impressive-looking 30% failure percentage was meaningless.

Personal mastery is ultimately important in the end as well.