The next day Bev made four daggers and delivered them before noon. Which absolutely freaked Sidera out. She expected it to take at least a couple days. After that Bev simply took a well earned rest, and perused her list of runes. Kennon spent the first half of the day making salves, stamina boosters, and mana potions. And the rest he worked on non medicinal alchemy.

  With a proper fume hood Tutor was excited to show him how to turn a poison into its antidote. As long as he used the weakest non mundane poison he could find. He also learned the basic process for concentrating poison. Tutor made sure he had plenty of antidote available first.

  After that came something a little more unique.

  Alchemy was the act of magically transforming ingredients into more than the sum of their parts. Usually by bringing out their natural properties into a new, or more potent form. This was common in medicine. But that was hardly its only use. The creation of acids was another. Some forms of metal refinery also technically counted. Though that was generally relegated to metallurgy along with creation of composite materials.

  However, explosions were also alchemy. You took materials with volatile properties, mixed them properly, and came away with something that put a fire ball to shame.

  Kennon had already done the other things. He had a strong poison, and its antidote. He had the world's weakest T1 acid. Barely capable of cleaning a copper. Now he had to make a bomb.

  I will be teaching you how to make a rather complicated explosive. It is unique in that it only produces light. Meaning that even if it detonates prematurely the only difficulty will be temporary blindness. You will succeed. Or you will not see for a week.

  Kennon acknowledged the warning and started working. As with all of Tutor’s lessons it started with cleaning and preparing the workplace. Honestly half the work time had been spent cleaning. He was seriously considering getting an enhanced self cleaning enchantment placed on the room.

  This recipe only had three ingredients. Aequus leaves, lux berries, and water. It was an incredibly simple recipe. But moving even a little too fast would set the whole mix off early.

  He started by grinding the aequus leaves. Then he put them in a bowl of water. Normal mundane water. Next he added the berries and started to mash them. Slowly, carefully, it was mixed with the leaves.

  He gently stirred the mix, then let it settle. Then he poured the liquid portion of the solution into a beaker, and placed the beaker in the distiller.

  He set it to boil at exactly one hundred degrees celcius and waited.

  Gradually the water evaporated away. And he turned off the heat. He was left with a minute amount of a brilliant yellow powder.

  Congratulations. Appraise it.

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  Lux powder - raw explosive - T1

  This is raw lux powder with stabilizer. Without any sort of binder it is at full potency, and easily ignited. Ignite via exposure to a spark, heat, or a sharp impact. When ignited a great deal of pure white light is emitted.

  When raw, even small amounts can cause serious eye damage. It is suggested to dilute the powder, or create a means of remote detonation.

  This explosive was made by an initiate.

  Kennon smiled. He had done it. He was an initiate!

  Congratulations. I knew you could do it. Usually the capstone project is a person's first healing potion. But you insisted on going out of order. You can now view all available recipes. Although the more dangerous ones only have the name, description, and ingredient list.

  Now that you are both initiates, progressing to journeyman will take time. A journey man is expected to either produce a masterwork of one product on demand, or a great variety of products. The profession “initiate alchemist” has been automatically applied.

  Kennon grinned ear to ear. And took a look at his recipe library.

  It was insane! There were so many things he could make! Some of the ingredients would be expensive, or just plain hard to get. But superior healing potion and basic regeneration potion were listed. He didn’t know much about the secrecy of runes. After all the almost had to be visible to be used. But alchemists liked their secrets. Basic regeneration potion’s recipe was a closely guarded secret. And he had it. Sure it required T2 ingredients. But he did have it.

  He could make money simply by selling the recipes.

  He shook his head at the thought. That would likely get him in trouble. Still. The list was massive. He decided to spend the rest of the day simply perusing it.

  Potions, acids, poisons, explosives, and more. It would take him weeks to read through them all.

  Then he saw it.

  Elixir of life - potion - T3

  Invigorate the body with persistent vitality. Your flesh absorbs the long lasting essence of life, and uses it when damaged. Causes most damage to be healed in seconds. Though missing extremities regrow at a radically reduced rate.

  The life energy in the potion does not degrade over time. Though its use on otherwise unnoticed injuries, including those caused by aging, limit its effective use time.

  Only one dose of vitality can be stored at a time. Though it can be renewed before depletion by consuming more.

  Ingredients and recipe.

  At this point Kennon felt he should stop being so surprised. Naturally the growth system gave him the recipe for a mythological potion as an initiate.

  It literally handed him the recipe for eternal life.

  Sure, there was probably some catch. It said nothing about preventing damage. And it didn’t exactly define “damage”. But it was already well known that several potions extended life span when drunk regularly. And this one explicitly said it helped with aging.

  What interested him the most though was the fact that it was a healing potion that you consumed before injury.

  A lot of people died simply because the time and effort to uncork the bottle and drink was too much in battle. Bev could drink this a week before battle and survive being stabbed through the heart.

  The ingredients were all T3. and he had heard of none of them. And while the recipe was doable, it would be difficult. And would require new tools.

  It was not something he could make today. But one day, he would. He looked forward to that day very much.