Chapter 94: Sensing the Myst (2)
“You look like you haven’t slept,” Ketal remarked, looking at the dark rings under Arkemis’s eyes.
“I mean, how could I sleep after you handed me something like this? I’m still so excited, I can barely sit still,” Arkemis replied.
“Sounds like the orb is quite captivating.”
“That word doesn’t do justice,” Arkemis muttered, shaking her head as she walked inside.
She sat down and picked up a small glass vial, gently swirling it so the iridescent particles inside rolled back and forth.
“This little thing doesn’t have any distinctive properties of its own. It doesn’t hold Myst, doesn’t have any unique traits, nothing,” she explained. However, it was pure material in the truest sense. “But when it reacts under certain conditions and touches another substance, it changes its nature. If it contacts gold, it becomes gold. If it contacts diamonds, it takes on the properties of a diamond. If it comes in contact with Myst, it gains Myst.”
There seemed to be no limit to this transformation. Throughout the night, Arkemis had tested it on a total of 124 different materials, and in each instance, the particles transformed accordingly.
“I tried using worthless junk you’d find on the street, as well as catalysts worth three times the same weight in gold. It replicated all of them,” Arkemis said in awe, staring at the iridescent particles.
Even if one only had a tiny speck of some precious substance, one could replicate it in proportion to the amount of these iridescent particles.
“Is this not basically the Philosopher’s Stone?” Arkemis remarked.
It could turn into any substance, which made the comparison apt.