Gacha Sovereign
chapter-80

The dean who was watching him all of this time, stood there stupified. He saw the new refining process that Alex used. It was very different than the usual way. He thought Alex only need a few minutes to a half-hour to finish the pill. But now, he took over two hours.

When he watched Alex refining the ingredients one by one. He thought that Alex was going to waste the ingredients. After all, usually, they refined all of the ingredients at the same time. But when he saw the light gray vapor, he knew what that is. After all, he had seen that thing, that was the impurities. But he never saw that much impurities. He thought that the ingredients might be special so the impurities were a bit too high. But when he saw the other ingredients impurities, he was stupified. The process was the same. Now he questioned himself, its seem that the impurities that he used to expel were nowhere enough. That's why it was rare he managed to make a peak-grade pill. He understood all of it when Alex used his flame to cover the complete refined ingredients.

He also thought of another factor, that is Alex's flame. because of its pure element, the rate of the peak-grade pill was also higher. Well, he is true about that. Now he wondering what the use of the rank 6 monster core. After all, he never saw Alex give pill recipes with a monster core as an ingredient. When he saw Alex started the refinement of the monster core. He stared intently on the process. He was very surprised when Alex tossed the other ingredients and refined them together.

The monster core seems to be a catalyst to merge all of the ingredients. True, soon enough all of the ingredients started to merge with each other. He frowned when there is fluctuation of energy and the soon-to-be pill started glowing. He never saw this phenomenon when Alex or he refined pills. The phenomena were not long, but his jaw dropped when the pill formed to a big size. Even when his jaw dropped like this, he had no way to eat that big pill. He thought that Alex wanted to kill himself if he eats a pill with that size. But he understood when Alex separated the pill to four. The soon-to-be pills now have the same size as a regular pill that they used to make. He relieved, all of his thought proven to be wrong.

But even though he was relieved, he just can't close his dropped jaw. This whole process was very shocking to him. He looked toward Alex stupified.

...

Back to Alex,

After confirming the pill, he scratched his cheek when he looked at his teacher's state. He then stood up and walked to his teacher.

"Teacher"

"Ah...ah... cough...Alex, what is it?" the dean took a while to get his bearing back.

"Let me explained to you the new refining process that I just learned"

The dean wanted to say 'No need' but he instinctively nodded his head.

"Well, the refinement was as such. You refined the ingredients. You can refine them together or separately. I don't have enough confidence to go through that arduous process together yet so I refined them separately. Then I used my flame to cover the finished ingredients to keep it from contamination. If you don't have the complete ingredients, you can refine the ingredient first and keep it in the jade bottle though you need to coat the jade battle with your flame, though this is a risky move, after all, if the bottle break, all of your effort will go to waste.

The second process was removing the impurities in the refinement process. The amount we expelled before was nowhere enough. That's why we rarely can produce a peak-grade pill. This time, the expelling process used flame control, not the flame types, this might be the reason why I can produce more peak-grade pill. That also means I and teacher can have the same result if our flame control was at the same level. Of course, a special flame can also make the process easier.

The next step was using the monster core as one of the ingredients. There a few pill recipes that needed a monster core as one of its ingredients. The higher the rank, the more pills will need monster core as its ingredients. At first, I don't know what is this monster core, after all, when I killed the monster there is no core or whatsoever. I thought it did not exist. But when I killed the monster in the dungeon. I know, the crystal that dropped when I killed the monster must be the monster core.

We used the monster core as a catalyst to assimilate the energies from each ingredient. After that, the ingredients will start to merge and form a pill. Oh right, when I used a monster core as an ingredient, the pill size always big. That was a failure, so I separated them into a few pills with the regular size, this Quenching Fire Pill was the example."

The dean took a while to process all of the information that Alex just revealed. But there is one thing that caught his attention the most. "Flame Control?"

"Oh... I practiced this technique to train my flame control. The process..." Alex explained the technique in detail. The dean tried all what Alex just explain, he was too shocked.

"Haiz... I thought my Flame control was at a very high level. But after I listen to your technique, I just noticed that I did not even go in the right way. Thank you"

"Eh... No..." Alex was flustered when the dean said 'Thank you'.

"Wuu"

Alex wanted to explain but can't explain. At that time, Sherry noticed the energy fluctuation, especially since Alex used his flame so she followed the direction and found Alex.

"Sherry"

Alex stroke Sherry's fur, but he didn't notice that Sherry's eyes remained on the pills in his other hand. He felt Sherry's move her head. But before he knows it, Sherry already ate one of the Quenching Fire Pill.

"Eh...The pill" Alex was shocked.

"The pill was for Firia, Teacher, and princess Mi..." before Alex completed his sentence, the dense fire started to rushed out from withing Sherry's body and engulfing her body. Alex was too shocked by this. "a...aaahhh... forget what I said"

He immediately jumped back. The dense pinkish flame seems burning Sherry's body and its surroundings. It was like all of the flames within Sherry's body was out at this moment.

The dean was very shocked when he watched this phenomenon. Because he can feel the flame in his body was suppressed with this pinkish flame. "Alex...this..."

"Umm..." Alex knew what happened, after all, he is the cause. He embarrassedly scratched his cheek and said "Sherry evolved when she ate my flame back then. Her flame become like this after that"

"..." the dean facepalmed.

He then saw Sherry's process. The tyrannical flame that gushed out from Sherry's body was very blazing. It burned the ground within 5 meters from Sherry. This fiery flame gradually becomes smaller and smaller.

"Wuu!" Sherry screamed in pain. From when the flame shrinking, Sherry started to scream in pain. Alex wanted to help her but he held himself. This is the refining process of the pill. He waited for the flame gradually come back to her body.

When the surrounding flame got back inside of her body. Sherry stop screaming, Alex relieved. But he suddenly shocked once again. The flame suddenly got out from her body once again. This time, the flame was even more tyrannical. Because of this, Alex immediately regained his bearing. This means the process was successful. He felt Sherry's fire become stronger. But what shocked him the most is that he felt Sherry's strength rise sharply. He felt Sherry's strength become the bear at that time. The rank 6 Bear. This might mean that Sherry completely becomes rank 6 monster.

Soon enough, Sherry opened her eyes. "Wuu"

She leaped joyfully toward Alex. The tyrannical flame in the surrounding had been retracted by Sherry leaving a few black spots on the ground. "Wuu"

Alex stroke her head, "Good, you got stronger now."

"Wuu Wuu" Its seems saying 'It's because of Master'

After enjoying this joyful moment a bit, Alex stood up and awkwardly looked toward the dean. "Teacher, your courtyard..."

"Don't mind about this, I can easily fix them" Then he continued, "You can give the other two pills to that lass Firia and that quiet girl Mia. I don't need them, even if I wanted them I can make them. after all, I'm the same as you, an alchemist, I'm fine with the thought alone. Alright, its time for me to go back. Tell those lasses if they wanted to eat the pill they can use this courtyard. I will fix the courtyard when all of you finished taking the pill. Alright, then it decided. I will go back first and practiced this flame control technique. Oh yeah, that lass Alicia will jealous you know"

The dean heard when Alex said who he will give those pills. He was happy when he heard Alex will give him the pill. But after Sherry ate one of the pills. He already decided about that. After all the future was for the youngster. Even he gets stronger, it won't be too much. If Alex can strengthen them from a young age, they will achieve much greater from him. That's why he decided about this.

"Teacher" Alex was moved by the dean, he then gave a pill recipe to him "This is the recipe for Crystal Pill"

Alex already predicted this, he knew Alicia will get jealous if he didn't give anything to her. Alex already prepared the recipe which similar to his Quenching Fire Pill. It also boosts the power of Ice in the user body. Though, for this, he was wrong. After the previous accident. Alicia already didn't care about that, as long as she can be with him, that's enough for her.

The dean took the recipe and nodded, "Alright, I will inform you when the ingredients arrived" As he said that, he walked away and left the courtyard.