Chapter 38 Refining Agents

After Laren was pulled away by the scar, Star began to take a looked at his laboratory. The long table of the upcoming experiment is neatly filled with transparent bottles and cans, covered with notes, indicating the names of various required drugs.

On the other side of the room, there are various materials that were rudely brought in by Laren and Scar. They are all put together in a mess, and several models of crucibles are placed in front of the table, which can be ignited and heated with magic flames at any time.

This room looks dirty and messy.

For good, Starr has brought the flesh and blood puppet over, and these simple and trivial chores are not very difficult for him. Moreover, the cleverness of the flesh and blood puppet and the sharp performance of doing things are far beyond Star's imagination. He can even do some simple and repetitive work independently. He can even simply talk to himself, and he can understand some esoteric words.

Star is a little happy about these things.

After finishing these trivial things, Star is ready to start refining pharmaceuticals. In fact, the biggest mystery of alchemy lies in the unknown. For Star, who has mastered alchemy, it is not so complicated.

For example, the bottle of therapeutic medicine that Sta often brings on his body, which is the most commonly used medicine. The material formula, production sequence, and matters that need to be paid attention to for this medicine are not much different from the experiment you are about to do. The only difference is that the dosage required for the material is different from the material. The next thing to do is to make and allocate according to the recorded content. Starr had seen the manufacturing principle of many potions in the library, and he also knew a lot about it when he became Alice's assistant.

At least when you touch it, Star knows how to do it.

Just like the first raw material on the list, it requires the rhizomes and leaves of seventeen plants, six bones and saliva, and the wings and tentacles of three insects to complete. And it takes at least 30 processes to complete, such as refining, distillation and even purification. The process is so-called tedious and monotonous. If the alchemist hadn't had a puppet, these single processes alone would be enough to make people collapse!

Star has absolute confidence that these monotonous jobs, as long as the flesh and blood puppet does not make mistakes, the next experiment will become extremely easy.

"I'll make it for you now. I hope you don't need me to teach you more than twice. Star casually picked up a flask from the long table and said to the puppet. There are a total of twelve crucibles of different sizes, and the flames under each crucible are different. So you don't have to worry about the waste of materials caused by the excessive flame.

Starr is now making the one with the largest dose required for the human body to refine, a tranquilizer called 'puppet liquid'. He casually lit the magic flame, and Star slowly injected a kind of blue glue** into the flask in his hand.

"Remember, this is the original liquid made of 'magic grass' and 'seal gum'. There is a corresponding dose on each flask. Star pointed to a red line at the bottom of the flask, "Remember, don't let the potion exceed this red line, otherwise it will fail due to excessive doses."

"Yes, my lord." The puppet couldn't see any expression on the spliced face.

"And here it needs to be diluted with twice the water, and then add the powder of the roots of these plants to the flask in turn." He paused and pointed to the small balance on the table. You have to weigh these powders every time. You don't need too much. A cup of powder is enough. Then add it to the flask.

Star shook the flask in his hand and added powder one by one. Then the raw material in the flask that has almost become paste was poured into the crucible.

"Remember, the fire of the first crucible is the smallest. After pouring in the raw materials, heat them slowly. Wait until there are air holes on the surface of ** and then stir slowly... Remember to stir constantly."

"Yes, my lord."

"Also, you can only stir in one direction, and you must pay attention to even force during the stirring process. Slow down, just like me." Star pinched the stick in the crucible and stirred it slowly, signaling to the puppet.

"Yes, my lord!"

Star nodded with satisfaction, and the puppet had this advantage. He will never say no to you or betray you forever. The only thing that can be said is - 'Yes, my lord.'

"Also, you should pay attention to the changes when putting in materials. The raw liquid will become thicker and thicker during the heating process due to water evaporation. At this time, pay attention to adding a small amount of water, otherwise they are not potions but blocks. Don't worry about the amount of water. It's also in the beaker next to it. And in the process of adding water, you must also remember to let the water melt into the original solution and keep stirring at the same time.

"Yes, my lord."

In fact, this step is determined according to the temperature. There is no thermometer in this world, so if you want to determine the temperature, you can only use visual measurement, or I can only rely on experience and infer the heating time. Although it's easy to become a pharmacist, it's not easy to be a good pharmacist.

Star looked at the dull expression of the puppet's suggestion and smiled helplessly. He has a feeling of talking to himself.

As he explained for the puppet, his potion was about to be finished in a blink of an eye. The raw materials in the crucible have begun to become pure and transparent **, and large pieces of sediment have fallen to the level of the crucible, and the top of the rolling bubbles back and forth.

extinguishing the magic flame, Star gently took out the potion from the crucible and put it into the medicine bottle. It was not until this time that the raw material process was over, and Star took nearly two hours. However, the rest of the production of this raw material can be handed over to the puppet.

The production of these potions looks extremely simple, but before the alchemists perfect the formula, it is the perfect formula that has been tested by countless alchemists. If there is a slight error in the process, there will be a big deviation. For example, the maid who followed Agarish was like this.

If Starr remembers correctly, the medicine they originally wanted to refine should be 'rejuvenated'. Although the maid was successfully restored to her youth, the remaining consequences to be accepted were that she had to face the embarrassment of shrinking her body.

Just like the experiments carried out by Starr himself now, there are many things that need to be paid most attention to. The first is the mastery of temperature, and the second is the order of material delivery and the amount of material delivery. If there is no balance, it can't be done accurately at all. Otherwise, it is likely that what Starr made by himself is not a bottle of therapeutic medicine, but a bottle of poison.

Looking at the medicine that had become clear in his hand, Star hesitated for a moment and took a big sip of the medicine with his head raised. Don't learn this step. Put all the refined potions in a bottle and put them on the table and wait for me to test.

Next, what Star hopes is that the puppet will not make mistakes, otherwise the good situation he arranged will be ruined, and the saddest thing is that he will die at the hands of the puppet he made in the end.

Although many things of refined pharmaceutical agents can be used by themselves, many of them are only possible to test the safety of pharmaceuticals. Even if it is not in this castle, the whole continent uses this method. Even if you have a hundred ways to prove the safety of the medicine, you can't escape the fate of drinking your medicine. The puppet was taught the simplest job, and Starr will be busy with the rest of the work next.

He doesn't know whether the medicinal herbs piled up here are all the weight. Star doesn't want to delay his time to enter the 'Gate of Heaven' for such trivial things. Even if you can't practice, at least try to unlock the secret of the magic box.

After sorting out his ups and downs, Star began to prepare for his next experiment. But he is not a skilled pharmacist, and even the most experienced alchemist will often fail to make the potion. This is why there are many different crucibles in the laboratory. If the alchemists are not absolutely sure that the experiment will be successful, they can only use small crucibles. In this way, even the loss caused by failure will not be too great. But if you have absolute confidence, you can use the large crucible placed in the corner.

In order to get rid of this tedious work quickly, Star took the risk of using a giant crucible, but he didn't expect to fail because of his distraction!

Quickly restrained the uneasy in his heart, and Star began to work on the remaining potion.

At present, there are more than hundreds of potions that have been mastered in alchemy, of which only ten are used for recovery, including mana recovery potions, magic stimulation potions, and the therapeutic potions that Starr has been wearing on his body, etc. In addition, there are more than 30 kinds of poisons, each of which has a corresponding antidote. For the civilians in Hastan, there is no most deadly poison for the time being. Of course, some alchemists may have made other poisons. But if you don't register in the guild, it's hard to say.

Due to the unique ** of pharmaceutical refining, Starr quickly became familiar with this operation, which is equivalent to a chemical experiment. Including the speed and success rate, even Sadek was surprised.

When Star put all the refined potions in front of Sadek, he couldn't even believe it. The preparation process, which he originally expected to take five days to complete, was ended in only two days by Star. And the remaining raw materials are far beyond his imagination.

"Your talent really surprised me. In order to reward you for preparing the raw materials so quickly, I can agree to any request you. Sadek was pinching his finger, and he calculated that it was impossible for Star to make a request to leave the castle. Even if he puts it forward, he has a way to deal with it.

"The refining agent is really too troublesome. I want to have a good rest for a few days." Star said. If I don't cheer up for the experiment in a few days, I think it will be difficult for me to understand other truths from your tutor's experiment.

I'll let you go to hell... Star said in his heart.

Sadek laughed. Good boy, I promised you. You look very tired. Go and have a good rest. In the morning five days later, I will ask the other servants to wake you up.