A milky white sphere formed inside the cauldron as it gave off a medicinal scent. Its surface was covered with runes and magical lights that prevented the essence from spreading and making it less potent. "Finally I got it! Hahahahahaha."
Nicola rose from the meditation pose to celebrate. He knew this was a small step, and for each combination of pills and formations he would have to create a different mana circuit depending on their needs. But the initial key had been turned. Only time could predict the future achievements of such an achievement.
Normally the different professions would work together in the formation of magical tower cores, but not in the same sense, it was like creating a computer, where alchemy and forge were responsible for creating the hardware, which here would be the crystal. While the wizards and formation masters would be responsible for the software programming, that is, the spells and formations necessary for the development of the AI.
In Nicola's case, he had developed something similar but totally different since its creation, the same items used to create something applied in different ways could produce very different results. Nicola was not waiting long in calling Tyris to test his new creation, he still felt guilty that she had lost his hand.
The snake woman was not long in arriving at the alchemy section inside the artifact's land. "This is a healing pill, I recommend you take it and let me record the results. But get your prosthesis out first, for sure someday I'll rebuild your arm."
Tyris just nodded before removing the prosthesis from her arm, the explosion had destroyed half of her forearm and her hand completely, only the prosthesis kept her from becoming disabled. She had gotten the hang of manipulating the mechanical arm and was doing super well with it, but she still took the pill.
After the pill was swallowed by her the stump in her arm started to show changes, the pill could identify the damage but it didn't know how to rebuild an arm without a proper mold, so what formed in Tyris's arm was just a small growth of skin where it was short. So the pill stopped emitting healing power.
"Master, there is something strange about this pill, even though it doesn't show any effect anymore I still feel its energy inside me." Tyris announced as soon as she noticed.
Nicola jotted something aside and asked her to voluntarily hurt herself to confirm that the effect could really still heal her. That's what she did whitout even think a second time about it, she unsheathed her sword and ran it across her arm skin, opening a cut that was quickly covered by the energy of the pill and healed completely without leaving any scars as the effect of the pill drained from her body.
"Very interesting. The effect of the pills can be kept inside the body for later use, avoiding wasting the pills in minor situations and building up the preventive effect for future damage. How great!" Nicola celebrated. The formation remained active inside the body until there was no more energy to use, after which it would break apart, turning to dust.
After figuring out how to fuse these two skills, his both professions reached the top rank of the Silver Stars rating. His rune engraving ability developed very quickly.