Chapter 4552: Assistant

I woke up once more with the uneven sleep, filled with dreams and nightmares.

I didn’t dally on the bed, even though I very much didn’t want to get out. I quickly freshened up and walked out of my room, and sat down on my usual seat by the window.

There are three people today, but thankfully, nobody sat by it.

The view is not that special, and some cold is also leaking out of it. So, most people prefer to sit by the small fireplace, where it is not cold.

I ate the breakfast the young girl served me before walking out of the inn.

A few seconds later, I appeared in its back and opened the door. Its clean and smells fresh. It put a smile on my face as I looked around before entering the second room.

There are boxes in there, and I opened them to open them and place them carefully on the table, including the ingredients that I had brought.

In the next few days, my plan was to make the medicine. It will be a Grade I medicine that I will use treat Primary-I and below.

The healing Marina taught me, and one I developed later, depends more on my own energy than the medicine, but in this continent, medicine is used more than average.

Which is kind of confusing.

It’s a secluded island with limited resources. It’s not a continent where they could gain all types of resources.

Usually, in such places, the technique is focused on, with resources used as support. Here it is opposite, and the reason for it is the same as the seclusion.

Due to this, it cannot access the quality of methods available on the continent.

I looked at the tools in front of me. Even when I first started alchemy, I used tools a hundred times better than these in front of me.

There is a mortar and pestle, a simple distillation apparatus, a crucible, measuring scales, flasks, glass bottles, and a few other things.

All of them are carefully laid out, along with the resources.

"Let’s begin," I said, and picked up the resources and washed them cleanly with the water. While I was doing that, the door opened, and the young girl walked in.

She didn’t say anything and watched silently.

I wished it carefully, before rinsing it dry with the energy. Not all needs to be washed; many need to be dry as well.

I took twenty stalks of velys grass, thirty seeds of jalus, and seven haldit flowers. I put them in a mortar and begin to use the pestle to grind them.

It is not a standard mortar and pestle, but unenchanted. All in place, the formation on it is wildly inefficient, but it will do the job.

"Are you an alchemist too?" she asked finally. "Every healer should know how to make their own medicine," I replied, without answering her question.

I have given the young girl enough shocks. I don’t want to give her more; it might affect her.

She didn’t say anything further, but she came close and watched me. I didn’t mind and continued with my movement, smooth and practiced.

It may be long since I did something like this, but my movements are smooth and practiced.

I am also using my energies to manipulate the energies within the paste. Using only Primary-I energies, but control that makes the Prime envious.

"Its colour is changing," she said, seeing the dark green paste turning pale.

"The energies are combining together and its affecting the colour," I replied, and her eyes widened.

"Are you manipulating the energies while turning it past?" she asked, understanding the roots of what I had said. I didn’t reply, but I smiled.

It took me a little over fifteen minutes before it turned pale green with little blue in it.

I collected it into a flask, added three drops of solosal oil, placed it in the distillation, and then lit the fire.

It needs a specific temperature, but doesn’t need me to control it constantly.

Once that was done, I moved to the other resources. I cleaned, separated, and chopped before adding them into the pot and lighting them with fire once more.

"Want to help me?" I asked, and she nodded like a lost puppy who just found its owner.

She appeared beside me in an instant.

"Keep stirring it slowly," I instructed her as I handed the stirrer. "For how long?" she asked. "Until a red oil started to come out of it," I replied.

With that done, I moved to the other things.

I have a lot of things, and it is going to take days before I finish crafting them all. It might seem excessive, but I want to be prepared.

Minutes passed, and soon it was an hour. The girl is kept stirring.

She didn’t ask any questions, nor did she say anything. I could tell it had tired her, but she is still doing well.

I looked at the distillation, from which steam is coming out and settling into another vessel, where it condenses—turning into a blue palm.

The pot, on the other hand, remained mostly unchanged, except that it was boiling and the girl was still stirring.

Another hour passed, and she is still doing it. Changing her hand and now and then, but not uttering even a single word of complaint from her mouth.

"Would you like to work for me in your spare time?" I asked her. It surprised her so much that she stopped what she was doing.

First time, two hours.

"Yes," she replied enthusiastically after a moment of silence.

"I wouldn’t be able to pay you more than one las crystal a day," I said. "That is more than enough," she replied quickly.

I smiled and didn’t say anything further.

A few minutes passed, and finally, the red oil had started to come out. I took over from her; the red is harmful to her; it is highly poisonous.

I extracted it all and put it in the flask where the balm is. It bubbled before it sent.

Now it is fully transparent and ready to be packed and used when the clinic opens. It is only one medicine; there are more to craft.

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