Chapter 88

Kyon and his newly acquired student returned to the treasury to continue exploring the family heritage.

Kyon took a cloudy green stone that contained the medicine instructions and infused it with pure energy. The fog seeped through his nose into his mind, creating quite legible information about the ingredients, methods of production, properties, including all sorts of nuances and subtleties. Also, there appeared a set of ​​incomprehensible neural connections in his brain that described how to make the medicine (or rather how to use the elements to make it). Any medicine was created mainly with elemental energy. The alchemists handled the ingredients using the elements.

The same thing happened with the unique body instructions. They also contained information for the future owner on how to grow the body properly and what features the body would grant with each next phase.

When Kyon picked up a cloudy stone that contained a technique, all the necessary information entered his head: about the attribute, energy consumption, power, weakness and much more, including all the nuances and subtleties, after which the same obscure set of neural connections that had yet to be deciphered appeared in his brain.

Even special formations such as searching marks or directions for enchanting things created a new bunch of neural connections in his brain. Kyon would have to reflect on them later.

All this information had one thing in common: he needed to analyze the neural connections and reach enlightenment.

Kyon wondered: {Why should it be so complicated? Wouldn't it be easier to give clear directions on how to make things, how to shape the channel so that the technique runs properly, or how to make medicine without a hitch?}

The answer was quite obvious: every channel worked in its way and set specific parameters for the outgoing energy. There were no two similar channels.

Studying a nephrite, the practitioner received a set of neural connections that they had to decipher on their own, translating them into the language of their channels. It was the way of acquiring any technique, grade of elements, formation / unique body instructions, correct dose of medicine.

For example, everyone sees different shades of blue, but it doesn't matter... It's all about blue, not any other color. That's how neural connections are deciphered. Through enlightenment.

There is no common language to read the keys. It cannot possibly exist. When a master teaches a student, they use the original nephrite or a copy. The vibrations emanating from the master, along with hard practice, help the student find common ground and finally reach enlightenment.

It was impossible to teach anything without a nephrite. Only the masters could create the nephrite (the base), not the ordinary students who had reached enlightenment, getting the knowledge without really understanding how and why it all worked.

Kyon summed it all up:

1) Stealing the original nephrite was pure madness. It required a high level of access and a free path to the family heart (the treasury) to get the nephrites. Copying nephrites was impossible on the physical level.

2) It was impossible to copy the knowledge gained by enlightenment as it was the basic level of understanding. Only masters could create the original nephrite as they understood the point of the instructions/techniques. For example, you can do somersaults, but you can't understand all the details of your movements. However, the way of understanding things with Synergy (complete analysis of information to the smallest detail) allowed Kyon to copy any knowledge as he pleased.

All this was quite interesting. Kyon rejoiced at another advantage over others: he could copy the heritage.

Kyon wondered: {Can the brain process the whole book at once?} - However, he immediately refuted this idea. The duration of short-term memory is only some seconds, the period of long-term memory is limited.

Only his compartmentalized brain could easily absorb huge amounts of information without sleep. It's not for ordinary people. They could end up with the worst headache possible. Nosebleeds and fainting were pretty common, too.

Meanwhile, Juno had finished granting access to all the nephrites and was staring at her servant with eyes wide open. The upper treasury contained no nephrites that created neural connections in mind, but this one was full of them. Her "master" had been studying the nephrites for more than ten hours, but it had no effect on him. {Why?! How can he still stay upright? Is he human after all?!}

Juno knew that her servant would never pretend to impress her. He couldn't care less about her opinion. Something unimaginable was going on.

Kyon was engrossed in studying the family heritage: a lot of techniques for different elements, each with their own requirements and character, hundreds of different medicine instructions, an endless number of unique bodies, a few dozen enchantments, as well as lots of other formations. He would hardly ever bother to learn them. There was no need to. He was already a formacist of a divine rank if such existed at all.

Kyon was over the moon when he came across the advanced grade of all elements. He could now upgrade the ether, the darkness, and the light to the advanced level, thereby enhancing them (and removing some of the heavenly restrictions). Kyon knew, or he had a hunch, that the lightning wouldn't intend to fry him next time. The elements were under his control, he just had to unleash their true power. Well, the proof of the pudding is in the eating, after all.

However, Kyon was disappointed by the poor collection of unique bodies in the Stone treasury: all of them were of a "C" rank.

«Master, there are two "B" rank bodies in that secret compartment.» – Juno tried to sweet-talk him, seeing the bitter expression on his face.

Kyon picked up the two instructions and carefully studied them. He frowned as he finished reading. Judging by their features, those were peaking "C" bodies, not "B" rank. Their seller had tricked the patriarch.

Kyon put the instructions back, leaving Juno disappointed, and continued to study the unique bodies of a lower rank.

"A powerful master body: any weapon in your hands will strike faster than lightning." "An accumulation body allows you to charge any element for three seconds to make a powerful blow." "A magician body transforms the vibrations of the energy you release into a different element, giving your opponent an unpleasant surprise." "A berserker body significantly enhances the pure energy and your body for a while." "An advanced fire body enhances your element of fire." "A usurper body will help you to acquire the wind and the ether. In the future, both of these elements can be combined into a storm." "A lapis lazuli body allows you to release destructive azure light."

The bodies could grant a variety of skills, some of them being completely at odds with logic, going beyond the nine elements. They could enhance, accelerate, conceal their owner or help him study specific sciences. There were bodies for alchemists, formacists, executioners - a hell of a lot of unique bodies, each with its own unusual features. Kyon's eyes sparkled with excitement. The unique bodies could give him anything he could think of. Only, their features were pathetic and weak... The two peaking "C" bodies were something, but the rest, to be honest, were total crap.

Kyon wasn't going to build a foundation of wood that wouldn't let him create a magnificent skyscraper later. No way! Kyon's heart was boiling from unfulfilled ambitions and deceived expectations. His inner perfectionist was ranting and raving.

A unique body of a "D" rank wouldn't grow beyond the fifth phase. It had a certain limit of cultivation.

A "C" body had a higher limit, but it didn't make things any better. Kyon was not going to build his foundation of low-quality stuff, even being the master of all elements and the owner of Synergy. Sooner or later, he would reach his limit and envy those who could rise higher. It gave him a brilliant idea to dig into alchemy and create something unique with essential useful features.

{Yeah... That's what I am going to do.} - Kyon had made his decision, but he was still worried about something... Alchemists created medicine with elements: pure energy, water, earth, wind, ether, heat, cold, darkness, and light. The number of the elements available to the alchemist imposed restrictions on production, methods of production, ways of purifying the medicine.

For example, you can't create Magma grain without heat or the Northern Star without cold.

Magma Grain can be purified with light and water, but if you do not have them, you have to be content with other elements (methods), which would affect its purity.

Kyon wondered why not take a group of alchemists who had all the nine elements? Indeed, it would make available all types of medicine, all methods of purifying and production.

The answer wasn't reassuring. Each practitioner had an individual frequency of elemental energy, both in the soul and in the body. If more than one alchemist created medicine, it would either explode or go off. Heaven had made the science of alchemy extraordinarily valuable. High-ranking alchemists wallowed in money and farted through silk, living happily for the rest of their days.

{Pure energy, ether, darkness, light... Four elements are not enough to create a nice unique body. What do I do…?}

It all seemed futile... But Lovr knew one thing for sure: he was going to lose himself in alchemy until he created something of value.

It was about one o'clock in the morning.

Suddenly, Kyon heard someone sniffing behind him. Juno was leaning against the wall, sitting on the floor in her tight training outfit, her head drooped, her knees bent: the spitting image of a stray kitten. She couldn't leave him alone in the treasury.

Kyon approached the little angel with an insidious smile on his face. He was a little too carried away by her charm. It felt too good to take her to her room last time. He should do it again. But as soon as he touched her, Juno opened her eyes and stood up quickly, frowning.

«Master, I'd rather die than let you take me to my room once again. It's too humiliating.» - Juno murmured with a clear threat in her voice and turned towards her room.

Kyon snorted scornfully, grabbed her little hand, pulled her to himself... And there she was in his arms, like a bride in the arms of a groom. He did not give a damn about her opinion. If he wanted to carry her up, he would do it.

«Aaaaaaaaaaah! What are you doing?! Let go of me!» – Juno screamed, struggling in his arms.

«Shut up. I will teach you self-discipline. Never let anyone influence your emotional state, or else you will lose.» – Kyon calmly lectured her, carrying the writhing bird to her nest.

«What the hell are you talking about?» – Juno turned red from embarrassment and anger. – «You... That's not what you must teach me! Let me go immediately! Or else... I…» - Juno didn't even know how to threaten the vile servant who had overstepped the boundaries. His touch on ​​her back and under her knees made her tremble. He was repulsive.

«Master, let me go! And I... I will show you a secret place! Very, very secret! Just let me go…»

Kyon unceremoniously dropped her on the floor.

«Tell me.»

Juno flopped on the hard floor, made a painful grimace, and stood up angrily, rubbing her bottom.

«Master should learn good manners! You are rude and uncouth. You are not worthy of teaching me!»

«You are really going to get it.» – Kyon threatened in a murderously calm voice, stepping toward her.

Juno swallowed hard and stepped back.

«Follow me, master.» – Juno briskly went somewhere only she knew.