Alchemy Club
The place Leon and Vincent headed after school was over was none other than insolvent.
The insolvency of Philo Academy’s secondary alchemy club.
It is an alchemy club that only middle school students participate in, and Vincent is said to be the only member.
Until last year, it was a popular bad room full of talented 3rd graders, but as all 3rd graders went on to high school, it seemed that they had effectively become a ghost club.
“Well, thanks to that, I can freely use the alchemy materials left behind by my seniors, and I feel at ease because there are no seniors who instruct me to do this and that.”
Vincent smirked and explained.
Obviously, this was a good situation for Leon as well.
Still, students in the academy had to obtain an access permit to enter outside the academy grounds, but here, they can practice alchemy to their heart’s content without having to go outside the academy.
“therefore? The blueprints for the automata required for research on artificial spirits have not arrived yet, so what should we do today?”
“Mana Potion!”
Mary intervened next to Vincent’s question and shouted.
“Make me a mana potion!”
Vincent, who rolled his eyes as if it was bothering Mary, shouted.
“You’re not even a member of the alchemy club! Don’t disturb me.”
“why! You can sign up too! Starting today, I am also a member of the alchemy club! So, please make me a mana potion!”
However, Leon did not pretend to have heard of Mary’s aegyo and began to prepare for an experiment.
“Did you forget, Vincent? Our real goal wasn’t artificial spirits, but pure potions. Until the blueprints for Automata arrive, let’s start with the club activities with the goal of that.”
At the same time, Vincent couldn’t help but admire Leon’s hand as he slowly pulled out the medicines one by one from the drug storage.
“Did you remember all those ingredients after you saw it yesterday?”
Those were the ingredients for the Auror Doping Potion that Vincent made yesterday.
“My memory is a little more confident.”
Even if you are not confident in your memory, you should keep this in mind.
It is a precious potion that will be the starting point for the development of pure potions.
As Leon ignored her to the end, Mary eventually shut her mouth.
Instead, what she was interested in was the Pure Potion.
“So, what is the pure potion you are going to make?”
“A recovery potion without holy water.”
At that, Mary opened her mouth wide.
It is ridiculous that they would create a spirit, a fragment of the power that dwells in nature, with human power, but now that they are very openly reproducing the power of God, they wondered if they were sane.
But after thinking for a moment, Mary shook her head and said.
“Certainly holy water is too expensive. If you can produce recovery potions without using that holy water, it will certainly be possible to mass-produce recovery potions at a low unit price.”
And when Mary stopped talking, she got goosebumps for a moment.
Even though he thought that was impossible, he felt as if he had glimpsed the future of how the world would change if they succeeded in developing the Pure Potion.
However, it is still far from realistic.
Because recovery potions could only be made with the power of the sea goddess Primiti, who controls life.
But as soon as she watched Leon getting ready for the experiment, Mary had no choice but to remain silent.
“The Forest Fairy Reeves are learning their own special martial arts. Breath of the sun. The power of the sun god’s blessing is the ability of only plants and Reeves with those characteristics. However, I have analyzed their abilities and photosynthesis theoretically and have been able to reproduce that power through magic.”
With that said, Leon started using the blackboard to organize the chemical formula of photosynthesis.
“Vincent. have i told you before? All matter in this world is made up of atoms. The pictures I’ve written on the blackboard now show the chemical reactions of those atoms in an easy-to-understand way.”
At those words, Vincent opened his eyes and looked at the blackboard.
Although I had heard it before, I could not have imagined that the theory was not a vague concept, but a well-organized theory that was interpreted in such detail.
“If this chemical formula is magically realized, even humans can perform photosynthesis, the ability to generate bio-energy from the sun, and if you add the breath of the sun to it, the blessing of the sun god will be revealed.”
At that, Mary couldn’t stand it any longer and asked.
“What does that mean now? Can a human body receive the blessings of the sun god?”
Leon did not dare to answer Mary’s question with her mouth.
Anyway, in order to develop a pure potion, it was necessary to analyze the blessing of the sun god corresponding to that principle.
Leon immediately deployed a photonic boost and breath of the sun and drew his wrist against the beaker he had prepared beforehand.
A blood stream that spurts out.
“What are you doing now?!”
Mary screamed in amazement at the terrifying sight, but her wrist, which had shed some blood, recovered on its own and was healing in an instant.
Only Leon’s blood in the beaker, shimmering with a bright red magic light, proved that the scene had just not been a lie.
“What we need to do is to find out what principle this sun god’s blessing can heal a person’s wounds in an instant.”
This will never be an easy experiment.
Fortunately, Leon had already been able to express the blessing of the sun god with his body, and by extracting the blood and studying it, it was a fact that one day he would be able to analyze the principle as well.
“It can’t be like this…….”
Until recently, I thought it was a dream-like story lacking reality.
As I watched the two students busily moving in the office and starting their experiments, reality began to come to life.
As she watched the scene, all of the common sense she had built up throughout her life collapsed and she had to repeat the process of building it up again several times.
It was a moment that truly changed her worldview.
“…I will pay for the research.”
“What?”
“Look, all of the lab tools in this lab are outdated, aren’t they? Besides, now, research is conducted using drugs left behind by seniors, but isn’t this going to be exhausted someday? So I will give you financial support.”
Mary’s suggestion is definitely helpful.
The amount of money Leon had earned in the meantime was quite high, but in fact, it was only a penny compared to the taxes collected by real nobles from their estates or the money earned by merchants.
Above all, it was true that the quality of the experimental tools was inferior to develop pure potions as facilities of the secondary school alchemy club.
As Leon guessed, the principle of the Pure Potion was related to stem cells, and in order to properly check it, a facility at the level of a modern biotechnology research institute was needed.
Based on this world, it’s a research center-level facility that is the backbone of the Water Magic Tower.
They were equipment that required a level of money that could not even be dreamed of with Leon’s wealth.
Of course, even if the quality of the facilities is poor, you can develop a pure potion if you take the time, but the development time of the pure potion will be delayed by that much.
“…why are you suddenly giving me research funds? Is it because of the mana potion?”
“Uh? It’s not like that!”
“Then what? Why are you suddenly giving me a research grant?”
“… just looking at you, I just wanted to hang out with you.”
Mary is an animist.
A very rare, rare existence in this world.
Of course, she didn’t do anything on her own.
Only because there were excellent animists among her ancestors, Mary, who inherited that lineage, showed the talents of animators.
Usually, through fateful encounters, they exchange emotional exchanges with the spirits and make contracts with each other, but even that was solved by Mary’s family money.
Countless spirit magicians came to Goldberg with a tremendous amount of money, and among them, they picked and sold the most suitable spirit with Mary, or actually paid money to purchase it.
Mary didn’t do anything in the process.
If only she trained her magic and got into the 2nd circle was all she did.
But if you look around, getting into circle 2 at her age wasn’t a very good result.
Of course, that doesn’t mean that Mary’s efforts were lacking, but isn’t the world the result?
No matter how much effort you put in, if the result is satisfactory, the value of that effort is only to the extent that it is respected.
Nevertheless, the people around them praise Mary.
Because as a result, Mary was a very rare, rare animist in the world.
Mary didn’t like it.
He worked very hard, but the part where he was evaluated was not that kind of effort, but only the results that had nothing to do with his efforts.
‘I want to achieve something too.’
I didn’t even know what that ‘something’ was, and I came here thinking that if I had Leon’s mana potion, I could become a full-fledged spirit magician.
And what unfolded before Mary’s eyes were events that turned her worldview upside down.
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Just because he was born into a wealthy family, he was enchanted by the fact that real geniuses, different from themselves, who enjoy everything, find value in their own actions, not in consequential values.
I also want to be with them.
The thought of wanting to collaborate on their achievements came to an end.
But she doesn’t know much about alchemy.
In the end, the only way she could help them, apart from her efforts, was the financial support given by the family.
“In return, share with me all the profits you get from pure potions.”
“Are you talking about sales revenue?”
“It’s not just money.”
Rather, what Mary wants is ‘something’ that has no form other than money.
“I mean, publicize the fact that I cooperated in making that potion.”
Leon burst into laughter at Mary’s amusing argument.
“Is it really the young lady of the wealthy? I have a great sense of investment.”
An ordinary merchant would have only paid attention to profits.
But that’s not what Mary wants.
As I had felt before, Mary didn’t seem to have much interest in the value of money, considering that she was born as the child of a merchant.
They’re just more interested in what they can achieve with that money.
Perhaps because he was born with such a wealth that he could not spend his whole life playing and eating, he was more interested in how to spend his fortune than to call it.
And it was consistent with Goldberg’s movements we saw before the return.
At least, the pure potion was only distributed through the Goldberg top, and even though it monopolized the pure potion, the price was very conscientious.
In addition, when the Temple of Water, which suffered great damage from the development of the Pure Potion, puts political pressure on the Baron Bionell family, it was also blocked at the top of Goldberg.
As a result, Goldberg’s top will form an image that anyone can trust from a top that has only a lot of money.
As a company that strives for world peace, you will get an opportunity to make a name for yourself across the continent beyond the Philo Kingdom.
Until now, I had never thought about it particularly deeply, but when I think back on it, I thought that it was the most conscientious top that I could trust and entrust to the things Leon developed, including the Pure Potion.
But that didn’t mean he was going to leave the job to Mary.
“Then may I try a test?”
“A test?”
Leon pulled out three items from the subspace pocket.
They were shampoo, conditioner and body wash respectively.
“Sell these. But, don’t get help from your family, only your abilities.”
If Mary’s abilities are good enough for Leon’s standards, it’ll be enough to leave it to her.
However, if her abilities were not up to that level, Leon decided to skip the middle bridge called Mary and arrange a direct meeting with Baron Goldberg.
The development of the pure potion was still a long way off, but the value of the mana potion alone was enough to attract Baron Goldberg’s attention.
Although such Leon’s proposal may feel unpleasant to Mary, who is an investor,
But for some reason, Mary could feel her heart beating fast.
Now Leon is about to test his abilities.
He is trying to evaluate his own efforts, not his family’s money or background.
“great. I will prove my worth on my own.”
Mary readily accepted Leon’s offer, and Leon held out her hand with a slight smile at Mary’s attitude.
“Welcome to the official alchemy club.”
Looking at Leon and Mary shaking hands, Vincent muttered blankly.
“Neither of you are members here yet…”
But no one cared about it.