Once the Mana Obstrusion was completed, Siderius moved on to the important thing, the enhancement of the salt.
Siderius placed a pouch of pure white salt onto the ground. This was not salt he gained from Jude but salt he had purified himself. Then he placed the two jugs of blood and urine on either side.
Period blood of a virgin woman contained pure negative energy of the living. The urine of a virgin man contained the pure positive energy of the living.
There were cases when virgin urine was used to repulse evil spirits back in the day, when the alchemy of Siderius’ old world was still very underdeveloped. But soon, with time and alchemical advancement, people knew that it wasn’t the urine that was effective, it was the positive energy inside it, or more precisely, the Proton Energy.
As for the period blood of a virgin woman, it contained Eschaton, the most negative energy a human could produce. This negative energy wasn’t evil nor harmful, it was very different from the type of energy like Necron.
Eschaton represented the other side of the coin, the opposite of Proton.
Because of its nature, Eschaton was used many times for evil rituals. Evil men sacrificed virgin women because of their Eschaton, even though they didn’t know the process behind it.
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The nature of this process was similar to concocting a tonic. The core idea was to strengthen the power inside the salt, making it elevate to another state. Therefore, Siderius drew a Salt Directing Seal on the floor for the process.
The final ingredient needed was the spirit of salt, or in other words, acid hydrochloric. Siderius had gained quite a lot of these from the stomach acid of the ghouls.
Ghouls had a very high concentration of acid hydrochloric because of the need to break down the hard components of raw flesh. When Siderius dealt with them, he had known that the spirit of salt would come in handy very soon.
It was the most important ingredient to create yellow salt, the upgraded version of the usual salt.
Proton and Eschaton created a loop that allowed normal salt to pass through and elevate itself. The spirit of salt was the catalyst, it would start the transformation of the salt and turn it into yellow salt.
"I still have some mercury left. Let’s hope it is enough to create an amount for what I need to do.
Activate Manual Mercury Overdrive."
[MANUAL MERCURY OVERDRIVE ACTIVATED]
Mercury leaked out of the tip of Siderius’ left finger. He used it to draw a sub transformation seal inside the Salt seal. The goal for it was to accelerate the transformation process. Without the seal, it might take hours for Siderius to complete this process.
[Mercury Extract: 0/150]
"There. That should be enough." Siderius gently wiped a little bit of sweat off his forehead. He had officially run out of Mercury.
"Salt Directing Agent is ready. Mercury Transformation Catalyst is ready. Now. Only the process left." Siderius mumbled. He called upon the formula of yellow salt inside the Library of the S.Y.S.T.E.M.
- Official Alchemical Name: Aureosalis Excelsa
- Hunter Association/Common Name: Yellow Salt
- Holy Order Name: Exorcism Salt
- Transforms ordinary crystalline salt into an exalted golden form, amplifying all aspects.
- Strengthens suppression, turns defensive wards into enhanced versions, and heightens the body’s receptivity to alchemy.
Spirit of Salt (Base) + Normal Salt (Main) + Female Period Blood (Sub) + Male Virgin Urine (Sub) = Aureosalis Excelsa (Product) + Erythraeus Balsam (Residue) + Yellow Acrid Mist (Byproduct)
- Base: Spirit of Salt (HCl)
Element: Salt Prime (🜔) + Fire Element (🜂)
Description: The essence of salt, able to dissolve and reforge crystalline bodies. Provides the corrosive and restructuring power that transcends ordinary salt.
Element: Salt Prime (🜔)
Description: One of the primes of Alchemy. Representing the body and crystallization.
- Sub Reagent 1: Period Blood of a Virgin Female
Element: Water Element (🜄) + Eschaton Energy
Description: Supplies the negative polarity.
- Sub Reagent 2: Urine of a Virgin Male
Element: Water Element (🜄) + Proton Energy
Description: Provides the positive polarity.
- Product: Aureosalis Excelsa (Yellow Salt)
Element: Salt (🜔) + Fire Element (🜂)
Description: Golden-hued tiny crystals. An enhanced version of normal salt with all aspects amplified. Provide access to Crystallized Suppression.
- Residue: Erythraeus Balsam
Description: A dense red oil, the alchemical fusion of blood and urine’s remnants. Retains properties of both eschaton and proton energy. Applied in a barrier or ward to strengthen its power.
- Byproduct: Yellow Acrid Mist
Description: Shimmering yellow-white vapor, lightly metallic in scent. Causes dizziness if inhaled unsealed.
Siderius clasped his two hands together. Immediately, the directing agent on the floor lit up in blue. The salt inside the seal floated up into the air. With it, the acrid spirit of salt turned into a vortex and spun around the cloud of salt.
The blood and urine reached out like living tentacles. They touched each other and formed a second vortex beneath the salt and spirit of salt. In the middle, a bright illuminating white light was formed.
The salt shot into the white hole and the spirit of salt followed right after.
The vortex of red and yellow pulsated like a living heart, producing gusts of winds that swept off the dust inside the room.
More salt and more acid slowly joined together inside the white hole of Proton and Eschaton. And then, the mercury finally acted. It crept into the vortex from below and climbed upon its body, adding the third color into the red and yellow vortex.
Siderius took out one empty flask and put it on the floor. He closed his eyes and waited for the process to be completed.
Even with Mercury Transformation, this process should take at least an hour to finish. In the meantime, Siderius accessed his mind space and forged a new Aether Sphere from the Light Aether and Dark Aether he had collected.
The manifestation of his soul held the Light Aether in its right hand and Dark Aether in its left hand. It breathed out a cloud of True Aether. Then the three combined. The gold dust of truth, the silver strands of light and the ever-changing matter of dark. They formed into one sphere of aether.
This Aether Sphere was much bigger than his last one. His soul opened its mouth and swallowed the entire sphere, storing it in the stomach. The light of the Aether Sphere exuded outside to the dark mind space.
After that, he also began to digest it slowly. Until the reaction in front of him came to an end.