Fanatics of the Magic Academy

Chapter 104 Silent Thunder

It has been a month and a half since Rose last attended a party.

In the dimly lit basement, Rose sat motionless in a chair, his eyes closed, surrounded by mountains of empty cans and torn packaging bags, almost reaching his calves.

After an unknown amount of time, Rose slowly opened her eyes. Her pair of gilded vertical pupils suddenly lit up in the dim basement, flashing two beams of light.

Then, those gilded vertical pupils transformed into round blue pupils. Rose rubbed his temples and muttered to himself, "According to the book 'The Basics of Pharmacology for Ancient Dragon Followers,' the reason for the last failure was a problem with the material processing and the timing..."

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Before he could finish speaking, a thought struck him.

An invisible force of reason spread out like ripples on water, skillfully infiltrating the machine's specific rune nodes with its rational intervention capabilities, and then the runes of the entire machine began to shimmer with blue light.

The sound of gears meshing broke the silence, and the liquid inside the glass bottle began to churn, thus beginning a new round of preparation and research.

For more than a month, Rose has been working almost day and night to concoct [Silent Thunder] and immersing herself in the Dream Library to study the basics of pharmacology.

With the Dream Library's nearly 10-fold learning speed boost, Rose managed to thoroughly master the pharmacology principles of [Silent Thunder].

He has already become proficient in using the two pharmacy-related machines he now possesses.

Subsequently, the two alchemical analysis machines, under the intervention of reason, acted like docile servants, thoroughly analyzing all the alternative materials he had found, eliminating countless branches, and finally selecting the three combinations most likely to be used to prepare the potion from the analysis results.

"There shouldn't be any problems with the raw materials this time."

Because the alternative materials that Rose chose before were not all usable. Some materials only looked similar in properties to the materials required for [Silent Thunder], but in reality, their medicinal properties were very different.

This requires Rose to screen the raw materials, and several previous failures were due to this reason.

The next step is to design the material processing flow based on these three combinations.

For example, the previous [Silent Thunder] required a plant as a raw material, but in this era, the closest medicinal properties were found to be ground powder from a special part of a certain animal.

As a result, the entire process, from extraction to quenching, had to be overturned and started all over again.

Based on the theoretical foundations he had learned over the past few days and the equipment he currently had, Rose sat down at his desk and began to redesign the entire process.

Rose occasionally used the time acceleration function in the dream library to think and design, but even so it took Rose a whole day. This is because [Silent Thunder] is a relatively basic potion, and some of the work can be done in the dream; otherwise, it would take even more time.

Then Rosey followed the pre-designed process and carried out a new round of allocation.

Rose restarted both machines, and the liquid inside the glass bottle began to churn. Rose then began to process the materials one by one and put them into the glass bottle.

Gradually, the color of the liquid in the glass bottle began to change, from a mixed color to a dark red.

Well, this color wasn't in the reaction recorded in [Silent Thunder], but Rose had no other choice. She continued to record the experimental status and continued the previous process of mixing.

The prepared materials are precisely placed into the bottle at a specific moment.

As the last ingredient was added to the surging liquid at the precise moment, the color inside the glass bottle gradually changed from a murky dark red to a clear pale gold.

"Um?

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Holy crap, this time it seems to be actually working. Although the intermediate reactions may differ, the final product seems to be similar to what is described in the [Silent Thunder] recipe.

A glimmer of hope welled up in Rose's heart.

Rose uses reason to guide the machine to continue intervening, prompting this reaction to continue and merge.

Fine bubbles began to appear on the surface of the liquid, and the materials inside began to undergo intense fusion and reaction, eventually gradually stabilizing.

Then, Rose immediately deactivated his [Materialism] state, his blue round pupils were stretched into gilded vertical pupils, he stretched out a finger and placed it on the mouth of the bottle, the current from the ancient dragon flowed and gathered at his fingertip, and finally poured into the bottle, tempering, catalyzing and endowing the potion in the bottle with extraordinary properties.

The potion in the glass bottle began to react violently, churning and bubbling incessantly. Under Rose's observation, tiny sparks actually began to flash on the potion.

This is the success sign recorded in the formula!

However, at this crucial moment, he suddenly sensed something was wrong.

These reacting agents unexpectedly produced a secondary reaction at the last moment, a situation never recorded in the formula.

Rose's face showed no surprise; she appeared very calm.

In reality, Rose's seemingly calm demeanor actually stemmed from a lack of options.

Because Rose could only use substitutes for all the materials, and even the machines were different from those listed in the recipe.

In those 40-plus days, Rose had never seen anything quite like the situation described in the recipe.

That's seriously amazing.

Ultimately, the impact of this reaction exceeded Rose's expectations.

The pale gold liquid inside the glass bottle gradually faded, eventually turning into a translucent grayish-white.

It was clearly a failure.

Rose retracted her finger, casually activated the [Materialistic] mode, and used the machine on the table to analyze the liquid in the bottle.

Let's see which step went wrong and whether this major reaction could have been avoided.

Rose ultimately redesigned the process to minimize the occurrence of this level of reaction.

Then, a new round of allocation will begin according to the new process.

Rose had a feeling that this time it might actually work.

Therefore, Rose began processing and dispensing materials again with precision and method.

With the experience from last time, this time the preparation went quite smoothly, and soon Rose arrived at the final step of using the ancient dragon's lightning to catalyze and bestow extraordinary power.

Rose broke free of her "materialistic" state and applied ancient dragon electricity to the potion.

This time, things went much more smoothly than Rose had expected. Under the catalytic effect of the ancient dragon's current, the entire potion was sparkling with tiny bolts of lightning.

The secondary reactions that occurred in the previous final step no longer interfere with the final product thanks to Rose's process optimization.

Finally, the pale golden solution settled quietly at the bottom of the bottle, and a faint electric arc flickered deep within the liquid before finally subsiding, like a tamed thunderstorm.

But Rose knew that this silence was not a failure, but a sign that the formulation recorded in the recipe was successful.

Rose stared at the vial of potion, her gilded vertical pupils reflecting the fine crackling electricity.

Successful.

The moment this realization surfaced in his mind, he felt it was somewhat unreal.

After more than forty days of working day and night, a mountain of failures, and countless times flipping through those pages in the dream library, in the end, it actually worked?

He reached out and picked up the bottle of medicine. The glass bottle was slightly warm, and through the bottle, he could see the electric current inside the liquid flickering in a strange rhythm. It was not a chaotic surge, but an orderly flickering, like breathing.

This is the "Silent Thunder".

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