Master Of None

Chapter 2409: 2409. First Lab

The moment that Remey woke up and stood up, the room shifted yet again. However, this time she had no idea where she was. She could only register the permanent mental

enhancement potion in her hands and that the room was warm.

While she had the resistance that would keep her comfortable in any warm environment, the fact that Remey could sense that it was warm made things truly strange. The dim lighting also made it clear that an area behind her had a lot more heat than what it should.

Just walking to that light Remey saw a vast sea of sand dunes and endless sun. Not a single cloud in the sky was around that could bring shade to the area. Remey was smack dab in the middle of this sand in a small cave made of rock and barely piled up sands.

”This place is... a third trial?” Remey had thought that she would wake up and be able to leave or something else. The two trials had been to choose herbs then to make a potion or at least she believed it was more important that through making a potion whether it was a failure or success, that she showed off her skills. This proved she was an alchemist worthy to be there. Then again, now she was back to looking around the room and she found that crude tools were made of rocks. There was a small stacked stone box, no, a furnace made holding alchemy flames. ”This is an alchemy lab!”

’The third trial has begun. Create a potion in the same environment as the first alchemist did.’

Now this was the trial among trials. Remey had succeeded in her potion and clearly, she was able to keep it. This meant that she had gained a massive advantage over others who might show off their skills and still pass but failed their potion process.

The rough stone table, or more like a stone placed on a pile of sand, showed that some herbs had been collected. Dead dry branches that held slight amounts of water that could be extracted. The tiniest amount of leaves showing hints of green, and even a few small scales form what could have been a remnant left behind by a monster’s hunt.

A shaking of the stone made Remey’s head snap toward the entrance where she saw sand flying in the air. She knew that it wasn’t wind that was causing this. It wasn’t nature. No, she saw something similar to the scales she had just noticed.

”So that’s the deal? Hunt an ancient monster and get my alchemy ingredients?” As much as she knew that most alchemists lacked battle abilities unless they made poisons or explosive potions, Remey was not at all like them. She would not have to hide or bury her hand to make sure that she could gather ingredients in a rough place like this.

She could take things to the next step and battle for her ingredients. It had to be another hidden piece of these trials. Proof that she could gather materials in the harsh environment that the first event alchemist had succeeded in and become the god of alchemy now being restored to the world after so many years.

Stepping in to the sand, the yellow scaled lizard with spikes all over its body saw Remey and ran at her. But to Remey, this monster was not much other than just an easy target. Her defense breaking fist took the ambient heat and fire mana toward her and broke through with a vicious punch that delivered a harsh spark of flame sin to the lizard’s body.

She didn’t have to look at what species of lizard it was. There had been no threat to her. She was powerful and could fight literal dragons if she wanted. This monster would not be her match. But it would be her alchemy ingredients. ”That’s all you have? Then I will take the gift you gave me and make you a basic potion.”

Remey and analyzed the leaves and little dried bits of plants. She saw the scales and the monster’s body here. Extracting water from it took only a moment as she pulled the heat from everything using the alchemy flames. ”These leaves are actually an ancient bit of mint. Desert mint, which has a slightly cooling effect to help resist the heat and even bolster your affinity with the colder desert night air.”

She knew the herbs because she had researched so many. She removed the water because she knew the alchemy flames. She could extract the important parts of the monster’s blood to balance the water mana and lock it in place using the natural earth affinity within the lizard’s body. She could do all this because it was what she had trained for and learned from the old master alchemist.

The alchemy flames just moved with her. She even noticed the resting alchemy flame in the stone furnace flickering with her movements. Proving it was the same flame that was once there years ago. All alchemy flames were the same, the people that sued them had just changed. Or at least that was what Remey believed. It was the alchemist that made alchemy special, not the flames.

Remey looked at the extracted ingredients then grabbed the permanent mental enhancement potion. ”I’ll take my advantage and show off a little.” Her smirk would have told Walker and Ingus that they were about to watch Remey make something good. It was just how she worked. She didn’t brag just for fun anymore.

The flood of cooling and calming potion radiated throughout Remey’s body. Her mind felt less chaotic and everything she saw felt clearer. It was like she had just woken up from a long nap more refreshed than before. An ideal position to be in as she noticed different impurities that she had not noticed before.

She could tell that the monster material she had extracted was missing refinement that could allow it to better work in a potion. The impurities were small bits of different rocks firm with the earth elemental monster’s blood.

The dried twigs she had discarded had some use left. Without the moisture they had become perfect ground binders she could use to hold the potion together. If she hadn’t paid attention now, she could have had a much rougher potion.

Or she could have failed entirely. Meaning she would not make it through this trial and get any other rewards.

But that’s how all this started to come together better. Her mama controlled the alchemy flame better. Her breathing became calmer. Every part of Remey appeared to become smoother in action and thought.

As the potion condensed and the materials were mixed, a soft yellow potion came together in

a small storm bowl with a poorly carried water rune on it.

’Sun resisting potion.

This is the lowest tier of fire resistant potions which can only help resist the heat of the sun. It can help survive the heat of the sun for a whole day while alleviating thirst as well. If not consumed immediately it can degrade within an hour...’

The potion was not the best and Remey knew she was capable of better. She even started grabbing the remaining herbs and monster parts to try again as everything shifted yet again. ”Not bad child. You didn’t even have any trouble with what I did. So many years ago...”

It wasn’t a solid voice. It was more of an echo. More of a whisper that still resounded in Remey’s mind.

”The alchemy god’s disciple is a class I’ve waited to hand down. But you are not that one. You are qualified to wield the first alchemy flame. That’s what I will give you. That’s what you

deserve.”

The dark space Remey was inside of flared with deep red flames. Not the same as her flame or the alchemy fire she used. It was purer. More innocent but also more careful. It felt like it was young and old at the same time.

”My race chased after immortality. I followed the path o felt was right. I tried to turn plants and monsters in to health and life. Instead I found a way to create medicines and other things. They saw me as giving up on the true path to immortality. My soul survives though. Beyond them as one with all alchemy and dreams of it.”

A deep old laughter shook the flames that had come in to contact with Remey. ”You are the owner of the first alchemy flame. Treat it well and if you ever meet my successor in your life, please guide them as well.

Make sure they do not chase immortality as sole alchemists attempt to do.”

A flash of flames and shifting of space left Remey standing outside of the dungeon. She

looked around and found Ignus and Walker looking at her confused.

”How are you outside already?” They both asked at the same time.

”No... it’s been over a month...” Remey watched as Walker’s eyebrows furrowed he could sense something odd after hearing her words but he was unable to grasp it.

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