"Advancing potion-making… although still not enough to meet the lowest requirement to start refining the potion, but I can try…"
The words left his mouth quietly, more thought than speech, as he turned the notification over in his mind like a coin he wasn't yet sure how to spend.
The creator of All Heavens Mandate had been a figure of extraordinary foresight. Knowing that one day — perhaps thousands of years hence, in a world reshaped beyond recognition — a future heir might receive this technique with none of the original world's resources available to them, they had been careful to leave no explicit mention of fixed ingredients. Instead, the records spoke only of properties. Qualities. The essence of what was needed rather than the name of what was required....
It was, Lukas had come to appreciate, a remarkably thoughtful act of preparation.
"The main ingredient of the potion to speed up the fusion of two stars into a cosmos is something with intense, hot properties…"
