Arkhen heard a bunch of notification sounds and was surprised. 'Is this Immortal Idol Alchemist? Damn, that's awesome. Learn all!'
Suddenly, Arkhen felt a burst of knowledge infusing into his head about all the recipes he had learned.
"Come on, man. Do it," Shasha said as she crossed her arms under her boobs.
Arkhen nodded as he knew what to do and grinned. He picked up ingredients one by one and prepared them.
Red Fury Potion:
- Five drops of Bloodshot Ape (2nd grade).
- Five strands of Blood Vein Grass.
- Moon Flame crystal.
- Orcular Plant leaves x 3.
- Chi Energized Water.
First, Arkhen cleaned the strands of Blood Vein Grass and infused them with chi energy to clean and refine them. After he put them inside the cauldron, he took the Moon Flame crystal and crushed it into powder.
He created a bowl made of chi energy and put the crushed powder in it before slowly heating the powder by conjuring a flame below the bowl made of chi energy.
Once heated, he put the powder into the cauldron and slightly lowered the flame intensity below the cauldron.
Afterward, he took the Orcular plant leaves and took a deep breath. After slightly infusing chi energy into the leaves, the leafy patterns on the leaves protrude.
'This is the tough part. Let's see how you do it,' Shasha thought as she observed Arkhen's hand. To prepare the Orcular Plant leaves, one needed a high control of their bodily prowess so as to not damage the leaves while extracting the inner essence by pressing the points of leafy patterns.
Arkhen took the first leaf and hovered it above the cauldron before squeezing on its protruding pattern points from both sides using his thumbs.
This step also needed to be done at a perfect time. If one took longer and kept the leaf above the cauldron, the heat could reduce the essence potency of the leaf.
However, Arkhen had Absolute Mastery over his bodily prowess!!
Shasha's jaw almost dropped to the ground as she saw Arkhen managing to extract the shiny green drops with a perfect red hue from the leaf.
"That's perfectly extracted…" Shasha muttered.
Soon, she saw Arkhen doing it four more times as he perfectly extracted the essence from all five leaves!
In the last step, Arkhen took the five drops of Bloodshot Ape and put them in the cauldron before raising the heat.
After ten minutes, the potion was ready!
A burst of sparkling shot out from the cauldron along with a unique aura that indicated that it was a perfect-grade potion.
"Perfect! And you said you've never done alchemy," Shasha exclaimed before she adopted a speechless expression.
"I am still not lying, hahaha. This is my first time crafting a potion," Arkhen said with a grin.
"Yeah, whatever. So, what star of the alchemist are you?" Shasha asked after rolling her eyes.
"I don't know. Give me the highest grade of ingredients available for this Red Fury potion. Let's see if I can craft a higher class of Red Fury," Arkhen said with a smile.
"Red Fury only goes until 4th class. But there's another potion that uses the blood of 9th-grade Bloodshot Ape's blood. It is the Rage Burst potion. Let's see if you can craft it," Sasha said with a smile. She walked towards the cauldron and dumped all the liquid of the cauldron into five potion vials.
"I'll be taking these potions you crafted. Just so you know, if you craft potions using our ingredients, we keep the potions and sell them. You don't get a penny from them," Sasha said with a grin.
"Your place, your rules," Arkhen shrugged.
After putting away the potions, Sasha took out the 9th-grade ingredients needed to craft a class-9 Rage Burst potion.
"Here's the recipe. Take a look," Shasha also took out a recipe after that and showed it to Arkhen.
[Rage Burst potion recipe detected. Do you want to learn it?]
Arkhen replied instantly in his mind as a burst of knowledge entered that showed and told him how to craft this class-9 Rage Burst potion.
The effect of the Rage Burst potion was truly powerful. It could increase all physical stats by literally 50% and increase Chi energy-based skill damage by 20% for thirty minutes.
However, Arkhen was a bit nervous. From the knowledge he received, it was not that easy to craft this potion even though he got the knowledge on how to craft potion.
"What if I failed to craft the potion and wasted the ingredients?" Arkhen asked before he started.
Shasha tapped her cheeks with her right hand as her right arm's elbow rested on her left arm, which was crossed on her chest. "If you failed and wasted the ingredients, you can just craft enough perfect-grade Red Fury potions until you make up for the loss, haha. Or, of course, you can just pay for the ingredients if you got money."
"Fine. Let's do it," Arkhen said as he pulled his sleeves and rubbed his hands.
…
*Boom!*
The cauldron in front of Arkhen exploded, creating a loud boom.
Both Arkhen and Shasha were splashed with the hot failed liquid of the cauldron.
"What the…" Sasha looked at Arkhen with a blank expression as she muttered, "You really failed…"
"I told you I am a newbie. Never crafted potions before today," Arkhen said as he grinned, showing his white teeth.
"Damn… Ahem, so you got money or want to craft potions to pay for the loss," Shasha said as she sighed.
"I will craft potions. Give me a bunch of class-2 potion ingredients and their recipes. Hmmm, give me five different class-2 potions. After that, give me class-3 potions ingredients and their recipe. All different once again," Arkhen said as he cracked his knuckles. 'I'll use this opportunity to learn more about Alchemy.'
[Good Idea, my lord]
"Alright. We'll both benefit this way if I am guessing right, haha. You want to use the facility and ingredients here to get better, right? Because I have a feeling that you are saying the truth about not doing any alchemy before today," Sasha said with a smile as she chuckled.