The mont that Rey woke up and stood up, the room shifted yet again. However, this ti she had no idea where she was. She could only register the permanent ntal
enhancent potion in her hands and that the room was warm.
While she had the resistance that would keep her comfortable in any warm environnt, the fact that Rey 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 Rey 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. Rey 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?" Rey had thought that she would wake up and be able to leave or sothing 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 flas. "This is an alchemy lab!"
'The third trial has begun. Create a potion in the sa environnt as the first alchemist did.'
Now this was the trial among trials. Rey had succeeded in her potion and clearly, she was able to keep it. This ant 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 so 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 Rey'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 sothing 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, Rey 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 environnt that the first event alchemist had succeeded in and beco 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 Rey and ran at her. But to Rey, 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 fla 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 and make you a basic potion."
Rey 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 mont as she pulled the heat from everything using the alchemy flas. "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 flas. 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 flas just moved with her. She even noticed the resting alchemy fla in the stone furnace flickering with her movents. Proving it was the sa fla that was once there years ago. All alchemy flas were the sa, the people that sued them had just changed. Or at least that was what Rey believed. It was the alchemist that made alchemy special, not the flas.
Rey looked at the extracted ingredients then grabbed the permanent ntal enhancent 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 Rey make sothing good. It was just how she worked. She didn't brag just for fun anymore.
The flood of cooling and calming potion radiated throughout Rey'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 refinent that could allow it to better work in a potion. The impurities were small bits of different rocks firm with the earth elental monster's blood.
The dried twigs she had discarded had so use left. Without the moisture they had beco 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. aning she would not make it through this trial and get any other rewards.
But that's how all this started to co together better. Her mama controlled the alchemy fla better. Her breathing beca calr. Every part of Rey appeared to beco smoother in action and thought.
As the potion condensed and the materials were mixed, a soft yellow potion ca 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 consud imdiately it can degrade within an hour...'
The potion was not the best and Rey 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 Rey'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 fla. That's what I will give you. That's what you
deserve."
The dark space Rey was inside of flared with deep red flas. Not the sa as her fla 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 sa ti.
"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 dicines and other things. They saw 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 flas that had co in to contact with Rey. "You are the owner of the first alchemy fla. Treat it well and if you ever et 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 flas and shifting of space left Rey 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 sa ti.
"No... it's been over a month..." Rey watched as Walker's eyebrows furrowed he could sense sothing odd after hearing her words but he was unable to grasp it.
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