6.58 - Something Below
Theo and Salire stood outside a set of barriers the alchemist had established. The lone centrifuge sat in the center. The pair had left the lab to take up a position in the fields behind Broken Tusk. He figured this would go one of several ways. The idea was to use centrifugal force to remove impurities from the mix. But that was a purely physical application. Most likely, they would need to run the resulting mixture through a still and a vapor pressurizer to get it to the second tier. But once they had that, he could make the potions they needed… Probably.
“Look at it spin,” Salire said, nodding with approval. And no explosions.”
“Yeah, I'm happy about the lack of explosions. Assuming we get this to the right level, I need you to work on something else.”
Salire withdrew a notebook, nodding along.
“I need some Intelligence Essence. I think we can use the old suffuse potions we have laying around.”
“Searing Regeneration and Intelligence…. Hmmm,” Salire tapped her chin. “I see where you’re going.”
Theo smiled to himself. As the days rolled on, he grew more proud of her. There was a point where he thought he was the only special boy deserving of Drogramath’s alchemy. Now he knew there were many people in the world who would excel if they just had the right tools. Salire’s curious nature did more for her alchemy than anything else, and the tenacity of a half-ogre didn’t hurt.
“We can expect the suffuse binding process to go wrong, though. Hard to say if Tero’gal would bind properties together the same way. And according to Tero’gal, the existing Searing Regeneration essence isn’t as good as it could be.”
“We won’t know until you blow us up!”