The Red Dragon Just Wants To Do As It Pleases

Thanks to the favor and arrangements made by his teacher, Attilicia—who had been "arrested" by the Drow in the Gloomy Region right before he left.

In the half-month following David’s own perceived "distraught and sudden departure," he had initially faced a series of daunting questions: How to steal Century Aroma pollen? Where to find a suitable temporary Alchemy Workshop? How to complete the potion configuration within the three hours before the pollen’s pharmacological effects wore off? And how to do so without being discovered by the Public Order Officers patrolling the city, alerted by odorous alchemical waste gases? These, and many other problems, had loomed large.

Later, David was somewhat dumbfounded to discover that none of these were problems anymore.

With the temporary authority granted by Priest Attilicia, David could come and go freely in the Duke of Silver’s Alchemy Workshop.

Although the alchemists naturally couldn’t allow his "three Drow" and Barbarians under his command into the Alchemy Workshop, David, having utilized three Authorities to completely memorize the entire process of Master Attilicia’s creation of the Sobering Potion, was fully qualified to start making the Sobering Potion and even the Anger Potion on his own.

Hence, in the following half-month, David, upon returning from the luncheon at Silverfort, went straight into the Alchemy Room that had been Master Attilicia’s private space.

Then, in this fully equipped room with abundant fresh ingredients, separated from the group of alchemists by only a wall, he began his potion smuggling endeavor.

Of course, even though he had entirely replicated the production process, for a novice like him, who hadn’t learned any alchemy, it was a significant challenge to get straight to work.

One of the main challenges he faced at the beginning was operational...

Master Attilicia was a High Elf, while he, David, was a Dragon. Although in his current juvenile form, he was only about two sizes larger than an adult Northeast Tiger, the difference in operational stability and precision between a Dragon’s claws and a humanoid’s hands was still significant.

This was even considering that when David initially evolved his Heavenly Intelligent Dragon template, he had also evolved his claws, making them better suited for grasping items like weapons and scepters.

He couldn’t possibly de-evolve his claws back to those of a mammal just to mix a potion, or even transform into a humanoid using Jealousy, could he? Wouldn’t that be putting the cart before the horse?