Chapter 51 – Guiding Naaza

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Regarding why the Medical God, Miach, would have his Familia members come to Aston to learn alchemist, there is a reason for it.

Miach's potion-making abilities are strong, and his knowledge of alchemist is extensive.

However, Miach has a drawback.

When he was in the heavenly realm, he used divine power to employ various alchemical techniques in potion production.

Now, in the mortal world with his divine power sealed, he can't use these alchemical techniques at all.

Moreover, Miach is not a war god like Ares, a deity with a robust body even in the mortal realm. Therefore, he cannot rely on his own strength to reproduce these alchemical techniques.

Many of his alchemical knowledge requires specific techniques, such as extracting special medicinal properties from precious herbs, and he is unable to perform these techniques currently. Consequently, many aspects of his knowledge cannot be passed on to Naaza.

He can only teach potion-making methods that do not require special techniques.

So far, Naaza has only learned some basic potions.

Miach himself faces the same situation.

Otherwise, as the God of Medicine, even though the maintenance cost for Naaza's prosthetics is high, it wouldn't lead to Miach's Familia falling into such a state.

After witnessing Aston's dazzling alchemical skills yesterday, Miach shamelessly made the request to Aston.

Aston agreed.

Apart from becoming a mentor due to the inheritance relationship, Aston agreed for another reason.

That reason is to deepen the relationship between Hestia's Familia and Miach's Familia.

If the relationship between the two families deepens, they will prosper together or decline together. In this way, Aston doesn't have to worry about Miach shifting the blame away from himself, exposing him to the scrutiny of other gods.

Guiding Naaza in potion-making is also an easy task for Aston.

Think about it.

Aston, as an alchemist master, comparable to a god of medicine in this world, guiding Naaza, who is barely an alchemical apprentice. How could it require much effort? Just a bit of potion-making knowledge and alchemical techniques from Aston would be enough to keep Naaza absorbed in study.

After finishing dinner and resting for half an hour, Aston voluntarily took charge, giving a brief guide to Naaza, who had just finished washing the dishes, and started his own work under Naaza's admiring gaze.

Enchanting. Today, Aston went out to buy materials to enchant his armor.

Using magic for enchantment is temporary. For a permanent effect, various materials need to be combined with enchantment techniques.

The initial steps of enchantment are no different from those of an alchemist. Extract various properties from herbs, match them with special enchantment techniques, process the properties into various auxiliary magics, and then add them to the item to be enchanted.

Although it sounds simple, it's not easy to perform.

Without enchantment magic, you can't add it to anything.

Speaking of it, the magic swords in this world have a similarity to enchantment.

However, the blacksmiths in this world can only make various offensive weapons and cannot make defensive equipment with various auxiliary magics.

Aston's blacksmith inheritance also has a subtle connection with the enchanter.

At the beginning, Aston's inherited blacksmithing was normal forging. When the blacksmithing techniques became advanced, each blacksmith would generally learn one or two enchantments to enchant weapons and equipment, thereby enhancing their performance.

However, each piece of equipment could only be enchanted with one type, and it couldn't be enchanted with a second type.

Enchantments' effectiveness depends entirely on the strength of the blacksmith.

Enchanters are different.

Enchanters specialize in enchanting and are absolutely superior to blacksmiths in this regard, and the difference is not small.

Blacksmiths can only enchant one type, but enchanters have no such restriction.

As long as the equipment material can withstand it, enchanters can enchant the equipment to the limit.

For someone like Aston, who is both a blacksmith and an enchanter, there is abundant information in his inheritance.

There are even fewer who are masters in both.

It can only be said that all professions eventually converge, and there are always some similarities.

Just like the other two master-level skills Aston has.

The Beast Tamer uses herbal medicine to make various incenses to tame various animals and monster techniques.

The Dragon Chef also has various medicinal diets.

Without thinking too much, Aston focused on the requirements for enchantment.

Various herbs were turned into colorful potions under his concoction.

 In just half an hour, Aston processed the herbs he had prepared for today.

With one hand releasing the enchanter's magic and the other pouring various prepared potions onto the armor and knight sword.

 As soon as the potions fell on the equipment, they instantly disappeared under a faint light, indicating that they had been enchanted onto the equipment.

Clean, breathable, lightweight, anti-counter, hard, repair, indestructible, sharp, and other properties—Aston enchanted all of them onto the armor and knight sword.

In less than five minutes, Aston's first set of enchanted equipment was completed under his hands.

At the moment of completion, a faint fluorescence appeared on the surface of the equipment, but these glows were fleeting. If you didn't pay attention, you wouldn't see them at all. However, everyone present saw it.

Whether it was Hestia, who was idling by the side, or Naaza, who was captivated by the enchanter used by Aston, they all witnessed the momentary glow after the enchantment was completed.

"Did it work?" Looking at the armor and knight sword without any apparent changes, Hestia raised an eyebrow, somewhat skeptical.

Naaza also cast a puzzled gaze.

In response, Aston just smiled faintly, then picked up a teacup containing red tea and smiled, "Ah, it worked."

As soon as he spoke, Aston poured the red tea from the teacup onto the armor.

This move startled Hestia and Naaza. They didn't know what had gotten into Aston to do such a thing.

However, the next moment, their attention was drawn to the armor.

The red tea that fell on the armor seemed to be blocked halfway, just sliding to both sides without touching the armor, falling straight to the ground.

"This is just one of the effects, called 'cleaning,' which will keep the armor forever clean." Watching the two bewildered expressions, Aston smiled slightly and explained.

After that, Aston demonstrated several enchantment abilities that could be tested here, leaving the two spectators stunned.

After coming to their senses, Hestia was so excited that she pestered Aston to enchant various auxiliary abilities on all the clothes in her wardrobe. This immediately left Aston in silent shock.

However, Hestia only did it on a whim, and Aston had no idea what significance the "cleaning" enchantment ability held for girls. Even goddesses could not ignore this ability, especially now that goddesses in the mortal realm couldn't use divine power. Only girls who didn't mind being dirty would ignore such enchantment abilities.

When Hestia realized that she had gone too far and felt embarrassed, Aston, aware of her excessiveness, enchanted only a few pieces of clothing for Hestia before stopping.

Afterward, with nothing else to do, Aston began to turn the herbs brought by Hephaestus into potions and continued to guide Naaza.

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