After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 1459

Chapter 1459: Other Usages of the Skills

A/N: Another case of "could’ve been 2 Chapters if I added a few paragraphs"~ The day job is just so busy I couldn’t extend it more, even if it’s just a hundred words or so.

Anyway, on the bright side, as mentioned, this is much cheaper for you guys~ xD

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Back in the Pharmacy Department in the Research Center, Hoffen was giving compliments to his favorite apprentice.

"Interesting, so very interesting..."

They were now looking at an extremely interesting set of potions there. There were four, in transparent beakers, and they all had interesting, sublime differences from each other.

These were all originally the same Beast Attracting Potion that they usually produced. However, three of them had been changed using Althea’s [Elemental Integration], creating different effects for each one.

The first one was the control sample, and the ones next to it were the altered ones. She infused the three samples with an element of hers: wood, earth, or water.

It was fascinating how it changed or improved according to the element, and she had a clearer idea of what each of her elements could do. For one, the principle that ’similar things attract’ applied here.

The wood and earth elements could attract the ones in the potion, making its effect more... intimate and difficult to wash out.

The water element could also help spread it out farther, strengthening its effect.

Then, when mixed together without doing anything else, these effects would combine without decreasing, simply because the ’base’ potion was the same!

In theory, this Beast Attracting potion should have an effect several times better than the control sample, and she didn’t even have to do much!

"This is really impressive," Hoffen said, very sincerely. "Have we tested it yet?"

She shook her head.

"I only made two bottles of each and gave them to Sir Gregory for testing," she told him. They were going to a City anyway, and she wanted to see how that would go.

"I wonder how it went..."

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Ever since she had the skill, Althea had been practicing it nonstop, as she usually was when she was obsessed.

Her only breaks were a bit of time with family and, of course, sleep, which only extended a few more hours than required because of her husband’s needs.

The past couple of weeks, she has been practising it in its intended form—potions.

It was how she found out it worked fastest when applied to existing formulas.

She just had to master the amount and timing to bind the elements—though it was much more potent when it was integrated from the start.

The past week, after the Beast Attracting potions, she also started working on the Beast Repelling potion.

Next up were Healing Potions and Mana Potions, which hadn’t made much progress yet because it was much more difficult to handle.

The former two were one of the easiest because they just depended primarily on different strata of scents. Basically, it was not that integral to the potion if she changed things up.

Health and Mana Potions, in contrast, had actual effects on the body.

When she varied it, the effects were reduced in some way rather than improved, and thus, leading to her stagnancy.

She tried different things: different elements, different combinations, and different timings.

While she had seen some success with the goldleaf elixir, earth core elixir, and the like, she was taking much too long and wasting too many materials every time.

For them to truly become valuable, she had to be able to produce more so that most of her fighters would have it in their spaces.

She wasted quite a few bottles of potions in her experiments. Some ’failed’ products were still usable though, so they were sent to the pharmacy as ’experimental potions’ with some estimates on what they would do.

The citizens could get it for free as ’clinical trial subjects’. However, they were required to tell the Research Team of its exact effects and side effects.

To be safe, she limited the sale to those with the same affinity as the potion. For example, only those with earth elements could take the earth-infused healing potion, and so on. There was still a lot of testing involved and they didn’t know what it’d do if there was an elemental clash.

After tons of wasted potions and raw materials, there was little progress with the latter two cases. At the same time, because her control over the elements had really improved, she believed that it wasn’t exactly a waste of time.

Anyway, she had been stuck in this for days, and it was difficult for others to help simply because their skill sets were completely different from hers.

Even Hoffen, because he was not an Elementalist, could only help so much. As smart as he was, his advice on the subject was limited.

In the end, she decided to put that aside for now.

While she was endlessly trying out the skill on her potions, she had begun to wonder how to apply the elemental liquid into a path.

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