Chapter 338: Chapter 338: Alchemist Fuchk (2)
"Hey, fucker, why are you still standing there dumbly? Can't you see how busy we are? Choose your station and start removing the impurities of the spirit plants! You can at least do that, right? If not you might as well fuck a donkey!"
Despite the fact that the two of them didn't know each other in the slightest, the fucker... I mean, Alchemist Fuchk still didn't hesitate to throw profanity at Rezen as if that was the most natural thing in the world
"This fucker... does he not know the meaning of the word polite?" Rezen thought while the side of his lips twitched uncontrollably
He glanced at the two guards that seemingly brought him to a devil while memorizing their faces. As a petty man, Rezen will definitely have these guards pay for not having the decency to warn him
As for the two guards, they can only turn their heads on their side with a guilty look on their faces. They can't help it. The Alchemy Workshop is in great need of more alchemists. The alchemists are barely able to reach the quota and consumption of the academy
After all, the academy accepts students every three months. Even if they don't accept a lot of students at a time, there are still a huge number of them. If not for the fact that the students who showed lacking progress were expelled, the academy would be overflowing with even more students
The alchemists in the workshop always have a hard time barely keeping up with the academy's consumption and demand. If not for the generous compensation, many of them would have already quit
As Rezen roughly grasped the attitude of Alchemist Fuchk, he didn't say anything and chose one of the vacant stations
The alchemy workshop has a long rectangular table divided into multiple stations. Each station has the necessary tools and ingredients for potion making including cauldrons and spirit plants
There were also Spirit Rejuvenating Potions which surprised Rezen. Although this potion is not necessarily that rare, it was still a surprise that the alchemists here were given these potions
"Are they generous or do they just want the alchemists to continue working no matter how tired they are?" Rezen thought, not moved by these potions at all. After all, just how many spirit plants he has?
Even if one spirit plant is inferior to a potion, what if there are ten, hundreds, or even thousands of them?
Rezen sat down on a stool and did as he was told. He grabbed the ever so familiar vismian grass, a spirit plant that is widely used for mana-recovery potions
With a flick of his hand, invisible threads of soul power appeared and broke the spirit plant into smaller pieces However, he wasn't exactly destroying this spirit plant to turn it into waste. What he was doing instead was removing the impurities contained in them so that only the pure essence would be left
His new physique mainly gives him the ability to resist poison and also enable him to consume spirit plants at a higher level than himself but overall, it also greatly improved his talent in various fields
Despite the fact that removing impurities is Rezen's weakest point in alchemy considering that he has a large number of spirit plants with almost no impurities, his purification skills are already a level higher than before
The vismian grass broke down into smaller and smaller pieces until only a drop of its essence remained. Of course, this drop of essence is not yet 100% pure. This drop not only contained the spirit plant's essence but also its impurities!
As such, Rezen did the next step of distillation as he used threads of soul power to remove the impurities
In the past, Rezen was only able to distill the essence until it had a purity of 60% and that is in fact not a constant value. Sometimes, the purity level will be lower than 60%, and if he was lucky it might reach slightly higher than 60%
After all, there are no identical spirit plants and Rezen's state is also not constant. It was natural that the purity would vary
However, now that Rezen has his Unsullied Physique, his talent soared and this time, the purity reached 67%. This is just short of 3% to reach 70% purity!
The common potions have a purity of around 60% and those with inferior qualities are lower than 60%. As for 70% purity, although the increase was only 10% there was a lot less than them. Of course, there were still a number of them, and at most, these potions were of medium quality but still, it was not something that anyone just could do!
As the workers are busy doing the various steps of creating potions, these alchemists don't pay attention to Rezen except for the person at the head of the table
Alchemist Fuchk left the distillation process to the other alchemists as he focused on creating the potions themselves. He was the best alchemist in this workshop and naturally, he also had the highest success rate while also being the fastest
If it's the common potions, he would always have the other alchemist do the preliminary steps while only being responsible for the creation process. Only when the potion was of a higher difficulty would he start from scratch
However, despite the fact that he was busy creating potions, he still has the energy to pay attention to other alchemists to prevent them from slacking and also curse... scold them when they are making mistakes, showing how 'great' of an alchemist he is
His attention was especially on Rezen as he was someone new and Alchemist Fuchk still didn't know the level of this new alchemist
As such, he watched the process of Rezen's distillation and placed the essence on a special container after he was done just to start the process again
Upon witnessing that, Alchemist Fuchk's expression brightened as if he had just seen the most dazzling slave... I mean gem. He hurriedly finished the potion he was making as he called Rezen
"Hey, you, the new fucker. Come here" Fuchk said, garnering the attention of all the alchemists and he immediately glared at them
"What are you all fucker looking at? Do you think you are skilled enough to be distracted like this?!" He roared causing the alchemists to hurriedly place their attention back on their work
"M-me?" Rezen asked while blinking his eyes rapidly. What did he to do this fucker... alchemist?
"Is there any other new fucker here?" Fuchk asked back sarcastically and Rezen grumbled internally before he stood up from his stool to unwillingly approach the alchemist
"Get out!" Fuchk said to the alchemist working at his side. His loud voice causes the alchemist to fail in the last step and the cauldron explodes. He failed in concocting the potion he was making
"Fuck, you waste another batch of ingredients!" Fuchk said angrily and the poor alchemist could only hurriedly apologize before moving away
"Sit down and distill these spirit plants!" He said as he waved his hand and threw pieces of roots at Rezen
"Spiritual Roots?" Rezen muttered as he looked at the roots that he caught. These spiritual roots are one of the spirit plants that can be used to create the Spirit Rejuvenating Potion
In the realm of alchemy, formulas are not absolute. The most important thing after all was the essence as it dictates what the potion's effect would be
If the essence has the ability to replenish soul power then it can create potions related to that. How is it possible for such an essence to be able to turn stone into gold?
As such, there are many spirit plants that can be used to create potions with similar effects. Of course, there would be common and more popular ingredients since even if two spirit plants have the essence of soul power replenishment, there are bound to be differences
"Fail the distillation or give me one with a purity lower than 60% and your face will have the word fucker on it" the alchemist threatened and Rezen had the urge to raise his middle finger
Are all spirit plants the same? While 60% purity is the common potion on the market when it comes to mana recovery potions, 60% is already at the medium level if it's a Spirit Rejuvenating Potion!
Different Spirit Plants have different levels of difficulty when it comes to distillation! All alchemists knew this yet this Fuchk actually wants Rezen to distill such a spirit plant to 60% purity?
Although this is not impossible but it was hard even for the current Rezen! He has to focus on the process 100% and even the smallest mistake can vastly increase the essence's impurities!
This is no doubt challenging!
However, looking at this fucker that was warning him not to complain with his eyes, Rezen can only swallow the words he wants to say and with a defeated look on his face, started the distillation process