When Siderius woke up again, the night was once more. No psychosis point had been lowered this time.
He crawled out of the shelter to check the crystal sphere. Inside, there were no longer crystal needles, instead, it was a bright yellow cube of rhombic crystal.
Siderius smiled. He used a simple sign to disintegrate the salt barrier. In his hand was now a cube of pure sulfur, one of the three primes of Alchemy.
First he got mercury from the system. Second he got salt from the rock salt. Now he had sulfur. All the main primes of Alchemy had been collected.
Siderius would need to find a new source for Mercury soon but he still had some left in the Mercury Extract.
Siderius crushed the crystal cube into fine powder and stored it in a different pouch than salt.
Then he began the usual meditation routine.
[PSYCHOSIS LEVEL: 55/125]
Two hours passed and one point of Psychosis was lowered.
"Now. About the cure for Carsten."
Siderius suspected that the Gray Death was some kind of cursed disease produced by the witches. He didn’t know why they do it or how, but he was very confident that no ordinary disease could do such a thing.
So if it’s a magic related disease, you must use unconventional ways to deal with it. Simple herbs and medication wouldn’t be able to do the job.
Siderius needed something more powerful. Something that had an Alchemical origin.
The only cure that could help Carsten was ’Spirit’.
Spirit as Siderius was thinking of was not human spirit but rather alcohol concoction that could yield very beneficial results.
This was the third ’S’ of Alchemy, standing after Signs and Seals.
"Access Spirits Library. List the information of the Blightburn Tonic." Siderius said.
[ACCESSING SPIRITS LIBRARY...]
[SEARCHING FOR: BLIGHTBURN TONIC]
- Official Alchemical Name: Cindrox Tonic
- Hunter Association Name: Blightburn Tonic
- Common Name: Fire Antibiotics
Incinerate infections. Kill bacterias. Purify wounds. Nullify cursed diseases. Googlᴇ search novel·fire·net
Rum (Base) + Embercoal Root (Main) + Ironmint Leaves (Sub) + Smokevine Resin (Sub) + Phosphorus (Binding Agent) = Blightburn Tonic (Product) + Slagbark (Residue) + Fumeoil Vapors (Byproduct)
Light brown to deep amber alcohol. Smooth texture, sweet smell and taste. Primary solvent. Conductor of the concoction.
Embercoal Root: 🜂 Fire Element
A.k.a. Cindra Ignisonir. Root of Embercoal tree. Thick, black and has a rough texture. High combustibility. Volatile flame essence. Natural antibacterial properties.
Ironmint Leaves: 🜃 Earth Element
Leaves of Ironmint plant. Deep green in color, metallic smell. High absorption. Naturally attracted to tissues. Ease inflammation. Anti-inflammatory properties. Protect healthy tissue from being burned.
Smokevine Resin: 🜁 Air Element
Thick, gray resin produced inside the Smokevine plant. Natural carrier for fire properties. Enhance fire element delivery. Able to convert excess fire aspect to vapor.
White or yellow powder. Garlic-like smell. Elemental binder. Extremely high combustibility. Stabilize fire destruction, enhance purify effect. Naturally drawn to negative aspects. Guide the tonic to purge the tainted parts.
CAUTION: PHOSPHORUS IS HIGHLY TOXIC AND FATAL. HANDLE WITH CARE. DO NOT COME INTO DIRECT CONTACT. DO NOT INHALE NOR INGEST. DO NOT LET IT COME INTO CONTACT WITH FIRE NOR AIR.
Blightburn Tonic: 🜂 Fire Element
Deep red-orange solution. Bitter, metallic, with a sharp peppermint taste. Causes a controlled fever. Burns out bacterial, infections and mild cursed diseases.
Slagbark: 🜂🜃 Fire + Earth Element
Dense black crust with red veins. Side residue of the fusion between Embercoal fiber and Ironmint leaves. Can be stored for a long time after drying. Easily combustible and burned for a long time. Metal friendly.
Fumeoil Vapors: 🜂🜁 Fire + Air Element
Thick brown vapors. Mild disorientation if breathed in. Can be condensed into a brown liquid. Easily combustible into a thick brown fog. Ideal for creating a smoke bomb.
Cindrox, also known as Blightburn Tonic, was a very commonly used Spirit. It contained infections, destroyed bacteria, and cured low-rank cursed diseases.
Considering the large amount of times a witch hunter got injured. This spirit was essential. It was a concoction that almost every witch hunter knew and the first thing they would learn.
Aside from witch hunting, Blightburn was also common amongst healers and herbalists. Its medical properties were irreplaceable.
Its core ingredient, the Embercoal Root, held a huge amount of Fire element, which was fatal for many bacteria and diseases.
Rum boosted this aspect and condensed it into something ingestible.
The Ironmint leaves protected the body while the Smokevine resin spreaded the Fire element evenly.
Phosphorus was what guided the Fire to burn what was evil and bad.
Of all the ingredients in the formula, only Phosphorus was irreplaceable. Without it, any Fire Antibiotics Tonic would kill you instantly.
In this new world, Siderius obviously would have a hard time to find these ingredients. He wasn’t even sure these plant species existed.
But it didn’t matter.
He could find replacements for each ingredient. A volatile Fire plant to replace Embercoal. A protective Earth plant and a carrier Air plant to replace Smokevine and Ironmint.
Siderius didn’t have any Rum, but still had the bottle of alcohol that he looted in the prison. It wouldn’t be as perfect as using Rum and would hinder the process significantly. However, it would still be possible.
As for Phosphorus, he didn’t have any at the moment but he could easily extract this element from the bones of his hunted prey.
That was the reason he had kept the rabbit and buffalo bones all this time.
Siderius gathered the bones for the upcoming alchemical process.
He drew two Alchemy Seals, one inside another. The small circle was drawn by pure sulfur while the outside circle was drawn by salt.
Siderius calculated the amount of Phosphorus he could make then placed the according amount of bones inside. He estimated them by weight.
Then, it was time for the extraction.
Finding Phosphorus in nature was hard. He needed to find a mining location with Phosphorus inside. That would take forever. Instead, extracting them from the bones of the animal was much easier and quicker.
Sulfur acted as the combustion initiation. It would separate the Phosphorus inside the animal bones.
Salt would crystallize the Phosphorus and condensed it inside a vacuum barrier, making sure its toxicity wouldn’t leak out to the environment.
Siderius grabbed his scarf and wrapped it around his face. This protection was far from enough but he had no better option for now.
Then the process began.