Desire to win
Ethan Brave, professor of magic and pharmacology at the Philo Academy Secondary School, looked around the first-year secondary school students in Class A and said:
“This class will take the time to actually make a magic potion using the medicinal herbs prepared here. It is time to check the results of how hard you have been studying in elementary school and to understand your level, so there is no need to feel burdened.”
Professor Ethan said so, but the students’ faces hardened in an instant.
It is also because they took a theory class on magic medicine in elementary school and were promoted, but they had never actually made a potion before.
Alchemy is a more dangerous science than you might think.
Some of the medicines handled in alchemy are very toxic, or there are substances that react violently with acids or other medicinal substances to cause an explosion, so it is easy to get hurt if you handle medicines without knowing it.
That is why even in the academy, only theory is taught in elementary subjects, and potion making is taught only in secondary subjects.
Of course, students who are well aware of that fact can only be nervous when Professor Ethan says that he actually manufactures magic potions.
Soon, Professor Ethan’s gaze turned to Leon.
“By the way, Leon student skipped elementary school and got into secondary school, right? If so, then you would not have learned the theory of magic and pharmacy, so why not take this class as an apprentice watching other students make potions?”
At that suggestion, many students looked at Leon with envy.
But Leon shook his head.
“Please treat me equally with other students. The reason I was able to get into secondary school was because I had already been judged that I had the skills and knowledge appropriate for that.”
At Leon’s reply, Professor Ethan shook his head with a satisfied expression.
At the academy, magic medicine classes are despised.
It is also true that most of the students were wealthy aristocrats, so if you need a potion, you can buy it with money, but you don’t have to make it yourself.
However, even as they deal with dangerous substances such as poisons, acids, and explosives, they had no choice but to be the first to be avoided by students.
However, Leon insists that he be treated equally with the other students even though he has had the opportunity to skip the class.
Professor Ethan, who heard the rumors about Leon, did not have a good impression of him, but seeing him face to face like this, he was so special that he thought he was the arrogant genius in the rumor.
“good. However, there are many dangerous substances in the ingredients of the potion, so please get help from other students. let’s go okay. Vincent Bionell? Can you guide Leon?”
Vincent Bionell is the eldest son of the Baron Bionell family.
Although Bionel was also a member of the mage family in the Philo kingdom, it was a weakly powerful family that no one recognized as a mage family.
That’s because Bionell was a family specializing in alchemy, which the aristocrats despised.
After he developed the Pure Potion, he became famous all over the continent, but he was still just a low-ranking nobleman in the local territory.
“···Yes. All right.”
As if to prove it, Vincent’s eyes looking at Leon had nothing to do with anxiety.
Even though Leon was a bastard mixed with the blood of the common people, he came from the Marquis family of Parostel, which was sad if he was the second in power.
Of course, since Vincent is the eldest son, he will inherit the title of baron and become a legitimate nobleman, but at least at this point in time, there was bound to be a huge gap between Leon and Vincent’s status.
“Thank you.”
But Leon spoke sadly to impress him as best as possible.
Even Vincent’s expression on that expression seemed to loosen his vigilance to some extent.
“You can speak comfortably. Even though I am older, I am a classmate.”
“Then you too. You are my classmate.”
Vincent, who had a bewildered expression on his face for a moment at Leon’s prompting to put it down, burst into laughter.
“okay. I am Vincent Bionell.”
Leon couldn’t help but exclaim with joy when he saw Vincent reaching out his hand first and asking for a handshake.
He grabbed her hand and shook it vigorously.
“This is Leon Farostel. Please.”
“There’s something I’ve been curious about for a while, how did you know that?”
“it? Is that?”
“The relationship between water and fire. You shook the foundations of the temple novel.”
Leon thought for a moment.
The water electrolysis experiment that Leon demonstrated in the element understanding class proved that there was a problem with the existing temple novels.
Leon’s remarks telling him to forget the gods became a hot topic, and the denomination that served the gods in charge of the four elements reacted the most violently, but in fact, the place that had the greatest influence was alchemy.
Alchemy is a natural philosophical science.
In traditional oriental medicine, Lee Won-hyeong’s experience applied the theory of yin-yang and five elements to the human body, providing a hot medicine when the body is cold and a cold medicine when the body is hot.
In a similar way, the temple novels of alchemy used the natural philosophical method of temple novels to deal with not only the human body but also matter.
Leon said that the current alchemy was wrong, so the alchemists who have studied alchemy for many years might not like Leon’s remarks.
However, Vincent’s reaction was different from Leon’s.
“The idea was great. I wonder if water, which I thought was pure, was a chemical made by mixing two substances with different properties.”
indeed.
Leon could understand why he had to be a genius at Vincent’s reaction.
Vincent accepts and accepts what he sees, denying that it is impossible for anyone else to do so first.
I thought it was too early for the world to accept the atom theory, but maybe Vincent would be able to accept it?
“I think that all matter in this world is made of atoms.”
“Atoms?”
“If you break up and split up a substance, isn’t there a minimum unit that makes up a substance? It is the concept that all matter in this world is made of such atoms.”
“Then the chemical reaction…”
“It’s the process of transferring those atoms to and from each other and combining them into different forms.”
Vincent Bionell’s eyes widened.
Leon’s remarks were so surprising.
It was like lightning struck my brain and goosebumps all over my body, making my body tremble.
“Hey, who the hell would come up with such a theory….”
The concept of the atom has existed since B.C., but it was probably the British chemist John Dalton who proposed the law of conservation of mass and the law of constant proportion who established it as a solid scientific theory.
But John Dalton does not exist in this world.
“I just figured it out on my own.”
“I heard he was a genius, but…”
I didn’t think it would be like this.
However, Leon couldn’t help but admire Vincent as much as Vincent felt for Leon.
Not surprisingly, what Leon told Vincent was only the very basic concepts of atomism.
By the standards of this world, stories in the realm of sci-fi on Earth.
However, Vincent did not suspect that the theory was vain, even after hearing Leon’s words.
He instinctively understood Leon’s theory deeply and intuitively realized that it was correct.
“Come on, stop chatting and start making potions.”
The two geniuses began to realize each other’s existence and started making potions respectively.
When it comes to alchemy, Lyon has been practicing alchemy since he was 8 years old, so he didn’t think he was falling behind anyone else, but Vincent’s skill had already reached the level of art, and he only admired it.
He skillfully handles alchemy tools in a relaxed manner, distilling medicinal substances, extracting the necessary ingredients, weighing, mixing, and making a decoction.
The whole process was being done within a thorough time calculation with a clear membership fee, so aside from the theoretical part, it was impossible to follow in the footsteps of Vincent in his dexterity.
However, Leon soon felt something uncomfortable.
Vincent, realizing Leon’s gaze, asked.
“Did you notice?”
“The recipe is unfamiliar.”
“yes. It’s a unique potion I’m developing.”
“…are you developing a potion?”
Leon already knows that he will succeed in developing a pure potion within 5 years, but he asks, as if he doesn’t know anything.
“I always think of that when I make potions. The potion’s recovery ability only depends on the effect of holy water, and the other medicinal materials used are to subsidize the effect. Then I’m wondering why it’s called a sacred potion, or a magic potion. So, my dream is to make a potion made of pure medicinal herbs without holy water.”
When he had finished speaking, he shyly scratched the back of the head and continued.
“Besides, if you don’t use expensive holy water for recovery potions, you can use recovery potions at a cheaper price. Then I wondered if it would be possible to reduce the number of victims of war. haha. What am I talking about, really…”
Vincent muttered that it was just a child’s delusion and began to concentrate on making the potion again, but Leon had no choice but to stare blankly at Vincent.
Because Leon was also one of those who benefited from Vincent’s way of thinking.
In the end, the magic potion to cure magic was too expensive, so she turned into a demon and was beheaded, but until she became contaminated with magic, she survived countless battles by living day by day with Vincent’s pure potion.
“I want my dreams to come true. You can definitely do it.”
At Leon’s support, Vincent looked at Leon for a moment, then became embarrassed and snorted his nose and smiled heh heh.
Even the people of the Bionell family, a master of alchemy, used to dismiss Vincent’s promise as a kind of delusion, but it felt good to see a genius like Leon seriously considering his words and cheering him on.
Looking at Vincent like that, Leo also felt like he was somehow stimulated to win.
Originally, I was going to skip secondary school and take classes for the time being and build connections.
However, after confirming Vincent’s genius and way of thinking, Leon could not stand still.
Let’s be honest.
Leon’s magic and pharmacology skills can never match Vincent’s.
But in theory, Leon had no intention of falling behind Vincent or any other alchemist in the world.
Soon, Leon looked at the medicines prepared for the class and shook his head.
‘The material seems to be sufficient.’
And the potion that Leon started making was a new concept potion that could not even be imagined in this world.
Professor Ethan, who was worried about Leon’s progress, came to check on Leon’s potion and was astonished.
“Hey, how the hell did you get such a potion…!”