Beast Slayer Online: Initialization
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Chapter 188: Dragonbone Alchemy Awakens Hidden Growth
Mana-based alchemy unquestionably possessed a higher ceiling than the witchers’ traditional craft.
Throughout countless advanced alchemical treatises, Lannor had seen records of great masters infusing concepts such as love, courage, and countless other intangible qualities into potions and rituals.
That was the convenience of magic.
A technological approach would require a complete understanding of dragonbone itself, its biological structure, perhaps even the physiology of dragons as a species, before anyone could confidently identify and isolate the substance responsible for their endless growth.
And even then, the answer might not lie in the bones at all. It could turn out to reside in the brain, the organs, or some entirely different tissue.
Magic cared little for such limitations.
If dragons truly possessed the trait of perpetual growth, then whether one held a fossilized bone, a scale, a strip of flesh, or a vial of blood, each carried traces of that concept upon the mystical level.
More importantly, that concept could be used.
Alchemy could seize that invisible force and turn it toward another purpose.
The only requirement was a complete and functioning alchemical process.
In ages past, discovering a new material and creating an original alchemical recipe around it had been one of the surest paths to immortality in the annals of scholarship.
Lannor had already completed that step.
The process for dragonbone existed.
“White Hellebore, Hornwort ... prepared.”
“Crucible, mana-conduction runes ... prepared.”
His movements flowed without pause as he arranged instruments and ingredients around the workstation.
As for proportions and procedures, those had already been calculated countless times during the design phase. Mentos and the Biological Intelligence Core had simulated every step repeatedly until the process reached an acceptable level of reliability.
“Ready?”
Margarita leaned nearby, curiosity plain in her voice.
Lannor snapped his fingers.
A miniature Igni Sign ignited beneath the crucible.
“The process already started.”
The witcher worked methodically, adding specially prepared ingredients one after another.
Their medicinal properties were only part of their purpose.
The methods used to process them carried mystical significance of their own.
Those layers of symbolism would guide the extraction, ensuring the Growth Force hidden within the dragonbone emerged at the end of the procedure.
At sufficiently advanced levels, alchemy and ritual ceased to be entirely separate disciplines.
A great alchemical brew was often nothing less than a ritual performed inside a crucible.
Margarita lacked both talent and interest in alchemy.
That did not stop her from being one of the most formidable sorceresses on the Continent.
Every ingredient Lannor added, she identified almost instantly.
Every symbolic meaning.
Every mystical association.
And it was precisely that level of perception that left her staring in disbelief.
At first she had assumed Lannor had merely found some obscure formula involving local dragon remains and modified it.
The same way he had improved Maribor Forest and Stammelford’s Philtre.
An adaptation.
A refinement.
That alone would have been astonishing.
Yet the longer she watched, the more a realization settled into place.
This wasn’t a modification.
This entire process was original.
The blonde sorceress blinked as firelight danced across Lannor’s profile.
She had thought she understood his limits.
Instead, she kept discovering new ones.
Every day seemed to reveal another impossible talent.
And, frankly, she found herself liking him even more because of it.
“So that’s why you called me here?” she asked, stepping closer to the crucible. “You want me supplying mana?”
Along the rim she spotted a familiar arrangement of runes.
A circular rune-band wrapped around the vessel.
One deliberate gap interrupted the formation.
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