Chapter 19: Personal Physician Examination (5)
I continued using Enhancement, and in the process, I came to understand its skill mechanism to a certain degree.
Originally, enhancing a substance through alchemy boosts one specific property by a single tier.
For example, iron is hard. Once enhanced, it becomes harder. Enhance it a second time, and it becomes truly sturdy.
But here's the catch—if the first enhancement took an hour to cast, the second might take ten.
Higher-tier enhancement inherently required significantly more casting time.
Another thing: it depends on the material.
The rose medicine, which carried the trait of stamina recovery, couldn't even be enhanced to the second tier.
It seemed to be a limit imposed by the properties of the ingredient itself.
Willow bark, on the other hand, appeared to have more potential as a medicinal component, allowing for a second-tier enhancement.
However, it required an absurdly long casting time.
What I’d produced by cutting back on sleep just to experiment—was this pain-nullifying medicine.
Medicines meant to relieve a patient’s pain could be categorized by potency: from mild painkillers to analgesics, then to pain-nullifiers, and finally anesthetics.