Resources and Manpower

The plans that Blush had put in place were beginning to move forward with every passing day.

New experimental subjects kept arriving so her experiments could keep going and each person that had arrived had committed many crimes and were continuing to do so.

The influence of her three siblings was slowly spreading among the criminal underworld in the capital and a lot of their competition either fell under their command or were sent to Blush.

New people kept being recruited that had many different kinds of talents and were mostly from around the capital.

Old Smith still had a couple of connections and knowledge on how things worked in the capital and the different guilds so he was able to reach out to others and gather some information to the in the recruitment.

Blush used that information to recruit anyone that had some potential or could be used but may have been pushed out by the guilds or other households for various reasons.

Some may have been injured just like some combatants which had ruined their future so some were easier to put under a contract while others had been more interested in becoming an ordinary worker under Alchemi.

There were some more impossible tasks that had been in the medicine guild that had been left for a long time without being completed so Blush had acquired those too.

Anything that would help to further her wealth and influence had been slowly put into the grasp of her hands.

Blush was sitting in her room that had been turned into a place of research for her which was in the basement of her home.

There was several items laying around the ground which had been different kinds of plants and minerals.

All kinds of riches and resources that had been gained from her past experiences and the most interesting ones had come from the Dark Demon Realm and her families vault.

The fire seed had yet to ignite and grow even when her own magic was being used to nurture it so it seemed that it would be some time before it could be of any use to her.

There were calculations and runes drawn out on pieces of paper that had been scattered around her desk which had looked a lot like what was on the gate leading to and from the Dark Demon Realm.

All kinds of valuable records that had been kept by the family were all sitting on a bookshelf in another part of the room.

Many sparking jewels were scattered around on the ground in the pile of different ores and boxes of other resources.

Weapons, armours and even some magical tools had been included so Blush had taken some time to study them before passing them onto Grimwood who had more of an interest in them.

Any herbs that she had been researching further had been pushed onto the witches and herbalists that could study them using two different paths of medicine and poisons or magical potions.

It did help that there had been some documents or books that had let Blush know a little more about their properties and further information that had been discovered by those in the Dark Demon Realm so she was able to use those for reference.

Most forms of research and usages of different materials could be researched using ordinary means without the use of magic but she did not leave out the magical research of them too.

Anything that had helped to further one area of research was studied by her and was then passed onto those that had the capabilities to study and use it that were within her inner circle.

Several scholars, artisans, herbalists, doctors and many other people had been brought in and had been recruited more deeply into Alchemy so she had planned to make full use of their capabilities.

If she and others worked together to uncover all of the possibilities of one path while another worked on another that used the same materials then she would be able to completely maximise the potential of something she would create when combining both paths together.

An example would be studying a type of herb until everything was discovered about it from its properties and effects to how certain properties could be enhanced, changed or suppressed when introduced to other herbs and substances.

The magical path would go into studying what kind of herb would be used to create a certain potion and how it would be influenced by different energies and ingredients during the creation of a potion.

Magic and ordinary medicine may have had some differences in the way they produced things but there were still various patterns and rules that could be understood and made use of in order to get the best possible end result.

The most interesting things that Blush had acquired were some larger sized gems that were in several different colours.

There was some faint energy within each of them which varied in properties.

Some had been light based energies that had been stored within while others had contained more dark and sinister energies.

Blush was studying the book related to them and her red eyes glowed with curiosity and excitement. "So these are those things. To think that I would be able to get so many of them."

There existed some rare gems that could absorb a large amount of different energies so that the energy could be harnessed.

One existing gem was a diamond that was within the possession of a demon called Lucifer.

The Diamond was called the Sleeping Princess and it was under the same category of special items that Blush had already known of that had some magical properties or were very dangerous if put in the wrong hands.

Lucifer had been charging up the power within the Sleeping Princess with the goal of using that energy within a cannon that would be aimed towards the sun.

He would have spent thousands of years harnessing the power of the moon in order to build up enough energy needed for his plan but Goku was sent there to retrieve the diamond at the command of Master Roshi who had believed it to be a beautiful female and not a diamond.

His plan to blow up the sun and bringing about eternal darkness where the beings of darkness could come out and rule was stopped by Goku and Krillin during that time and Lucifer was destroyed by the blast.

The Sleeping Princess was one special item of resource that was on Blush's list to acquire and study since it would still be a long time until Lucifer would carry out his plan but acquiring similar gems had caused her to rethink her plans a little.

There were still many untapped resources left on earth that needed to be unearthed and studied but she already had more than enough to do already after she had gained a lot from her family vault.

The sparkling gems had varied in size and had contained different types of energy within so it had become clear to Blush that they were very similar to the Sleeping Princess and could be used or possibly be reproduced. "Hmm.. now that I think about it.

My magic artefacts could really use a little something extra to create a much greater effect or to lessen my magic output during combat. These will be perfect! Those previous gems are nothing compared to these. Ahahaha."