Chapter 20: Ways to Become Rich, Part 1.

Ron, who was listening to Franz's proposal, thought he was listening to a madman.

- You say you have a way to create alchemy recipes? – A skeptical Rum asked, creating alchemy recipes was not easy at all, even his teacher who had been in the trade for more than 30 years, had only been able to create 2 alchemy formulas without much use, that should already give anyone an idea about the difficulty of creating alchemy recipes.

- Yes, at the moment I can only create recipes capable of curing some diseases –

- Like which one? – Ron asked, who hoped not to have to listen to something nonsense from Franz.

- Mana deficit and zombie beast because of prions and other things - Franz said confidently.

Ron didn't say another word and got up from his seat with the intention of leaving, however, Franz stopped him and said.

- Oh come on, the recipes are functional, give me at least one chance, I've already got a client, I just need someone capable to carry out the recipe –

Ron looked at Franz who at least looked confident, Ron thought of Alek who had spoken so highly of Franz, however, he found it hard to believe that someone who had no record of having touched alchemy, could create a recipe in the first place.

- You say you have a few recipes with you, right? –

Franz didn't say much, instead he handed him a piece of paper on which he had written down the ingredients and procedure for the potion beforehand.

Among the recipes he had collected, he chose the one that could cure the mana deficit, the reason was simple, to cure such a disease you needed rare treasures that could only be found outside the territory of humanity, the lowest price for such a treasure would not be less than 30,000 credits and if it could cure said disease completely, it was an enigma.

There were also skills such as mana reserve, capable of curing said disease, however, it was a skill that could not be taught by common methods, there were tamers who could teach such skills thanks to an innate talent, which is why Franz was not afraid to use his mysterious ability without raising some kind of suspicion from the press that harassed him or from the researchers who from time to time insisted on invite him to an "examination".

Ron finished reading the recipe and the method of preparation, the ingredients were actually quite easy to get and Ron estimated that his expenses would not be more than 10 thousand or 12 thousand credits which could leave a large profit margin if the recipe really worked, the procedure was not difficult either.

Ron sighed after thinking about it for a while and looked at Franz who was anxiously waiting for an answer.

- I can try to prepare the potion, but the expenses will come out of your account, in terms of profits and so on, we will talk about that after seeing if your recipe is successful –

Franz smiled and said, "Sure, but you'll have to help me buy the materials."

Now that Ron was temporarily in agreement with Franz, all that remained was to get some alchemy materials, such as third-grade mana stones and soul wood, which would have to be purchased by Ron himself since alchemy materials could only be legally acquired by wizards and alchemists. Unless, of course, you could collect these ingredients yourself.

Franz and Ron promised to see each other the next day after Franz gave him the money needed to buy the ingredients, he wasn't afraid that Ron would run away with the money since it wasn't an amount that a second-grade alchemist would tarnish his name for and also because he trusted Alek enough who made this meeting possible in the first place.

Despite that, Franz hoped that everything would go well, because there went his last savings, making him feel down and want to cry.

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The next day, the two met again inside the alchemy shop belonging to the moonflower association, the reason being that this establishment also had sufficient facilities for alchemists.

Of course, like everything, you had to pay, luckily, Ron paid this time, causing Franz who was now poor again to breathe a sigh of relief.

On the way he also greeted the guy who sold him the trailer artifact, he also returned the greeting and continued reading what seemed to be a superhero comic.

Once inside one of the rooms, Franz looked at several machines and instruments whose use he did not know, luckily he had Ron for that.

- I usually work alone in the alchemy process, but since we will probably be partners in the future, I will have to count on your help as my assistant –

Seeing that Franz had no problem with being his assistant, Ron nodded and began to read one last time the process of making a potion that would cure mana deficiency.

Once he finished reading the process, the first thing he did was give Franz a molcajete-like or bowl-like utensil, along with a grinding stone.

- Grind a piece of soul wood with this until it becomes a powder and try not to use mana when doing so or you will end up spoiling the healing properties of the soul wood - Ron said as he began to light what looked like a small oven, in it he put the cloud spray grass and began to burn it with a flame that he summoned with his own hands.

Franz did what Ron asked and began to grind the soul wood, but while he was doing so he realized that the soul wood itself began to suck its own mana, luckily Franz was already an expert in this type of situation so he did not have many problems to control that his mana did not get out of control and was sucked by the soul wood.

Ron nodded satisfied to see that Franz was not having any problem with the task, the reason why he had asked Franz to prevent his mana from touching the wood of the soul was because of the strangeness of the mana itself, since it could be filled with impurities very easily and one way was to transfer mana to another person or thing, That's why you had to be quite careful when working on alchemy or all the ingredients could spoil by a simple oversight.

Once Franz turned the soul wood into powder, Ron, who had also finished with the cloud spray grass, took the bowl and placed it inside a strange machine.

When he pressed a button, the machine began to make a strange noise and after a few seconds it shut down again.

Ron took out a bowl with the wood soul powder, this time the powder was a light tone, almost white as snow unlike before that it looked gray with black spots.

- This machine is used to clean impurities, as you can see, the powder has acquired a lighter tone, now let's continue with the other steps, I am done with the grass too - Ron said.

Franz nodded brightly, as he wasn't really understanding anything.

Ron took the bowl of wood soul powder and dropped a few drops of cloud dew grass on the dust, acquiring a magical and sacred glow on it.

After waiting a few seconds, Ron asked Franz to pass him the bluestone stones and mana stones.

This time, Franz had to scatter a pinch of earth with the essence of nature whenever Ron asked for it, the earth would serve to make stable the fusion between the mana stones, the azulite stones and the wood dust of the soul.

The sprinkling of the cloud dew grass would serve to purify all the impurities that the mana stones and azulite stones might bring into the mixture.

Once everything was cleared, Ron placed all the azulite stones in the bowl, in fact these stones were the size of a pinky so they could fit perfectly inside the bowl.

- The azulite stones serve so that the soul wood dust cannot absorb the mana from the mana stones so quickly, otherwise the dust will become impure very quickly and the cloud dew grass will not be able to keep up making it useless as a purifying material - Ron said.

- I see - Franz said in understanding.

Ron took a mana stone and began to burn it with a fire that he himself summoned out of nowhere, the mana stone began to become liquid as if it were melting ice.

While doing so, he was also in charge of mixing everything with a long spoon, making it easier for the ingredients to melt.

When the mixture began to take on a strange tone, Ron would ask Franz to add some earth with the essence of nature and after that the mixture would return to its original light tone.

Once the last mana stone was about to melt completely, the azulite stones began to fuse with the mixture as well, at this point, the mixture had actually become almost completely liquid.

It wasn't until Ron finished melting the last mana stone that the mixture became completely liquid, taking on a bluish-white hue.

- We're done - Ron said who was wiping the sweat from his forehead, although what he did seemed simple, in reality it was not, because one wrong step and all the ingredients would have to be thrown away.

Taking a few test tubes from his storage clock, Ron poured the mixture very carefully into the tubes, the end result being two test tubes that they could use.

Ron gave the test tubes to Franz and said "Now it's your turn to test them with your customers, the potion is already made but we don't know how much it needs to make, I'm not sure if they will work either," Ron said.

- ah, come on, you are very pessimistic, just leave it to me and prepare more with the ingredients we had left over - Franz replied.

Ron just smiled and motioned for Franz to call him as soon as he tasted the potion to see if they were really effective.

Franz nodded, this time addressing the Chimera association to see his first client, as for the price of the potion and how the profits would be divided, that they would discuss later.