Improving a Recipe

Alex had a recipe for the Nail Elongating pill. It was a recipe he had made himself and he was quite proud of it. 

However, he was never able to improve it past making 52% harmony pills and that bugged him a lot. There were too many permutations and combinations he could do with the speed of the ingredients in the cauldron, the rate at which they were heated, and the direction in which they were moved in. 

All of these things were very important to making the pill, but they were too many for him to properly know which to change to improve the pill. 

Now that he had his new skill unlocked, he was hoping that would automatically tell him what to do. 

The cauldron was hot enough, so Alex put in the first ingredient. He followed the recipe and did what was needed, but on the back of his head, he waited for something to happen.