The liquid in the crucible was rolling, making a gurgling sound, and white steam had already enveloped the ceiling.
Maka stood in front of the material preparation table not far away, using a shining silver knife to gently cut the rhizome of a certain plant into thin slices. Each cut was as precise as if it had been measured in advance.
After a while, when he heard the boiling sound in the crucible gradually stopping, he immediately waved his backhand at the sliced roots piled at hand. The next second, a certain amount of flakes automatically flew into the mouth of the crucible.
"Chi—"
Accompanied by a sound like iron being quenched and a large amount of steam emerging, the gurgling boiling sound came from the crucible again.
Yes, Maka seems to be preparing some kind of magic potion, but no one knows yet what kind of potion he plans to make.
And it was at this moment that someone knocked on the door of the potion preparation room.
"Maka, Uncle Blois said you were here... In fact, I have something very important to discuss with you. Do you have time?"
"come in!"
The door was behind Maka, but he didn't look back. He just raised his hand and slightly curled his fingers behind him while opening his mouth to respond.
Immediately afterwards, the door opened with a sound.
"By the way, remember to close the door when you come in, and then grab a mask from the shelf next to the door and put it on yourself—if you get poisoned and fall down, don't blame me for not warning you first."
"poisonous?"
Hearing a flurry of commotion behind him, Maka couldn't help but shake her head slightly while cutting the materials.
After he breathed a sigh of relief and became quiet again, he saw a fat figure walking from the aisle next to him and glanced cautiously towards the crucible.
"Maka, what is that you cooked?"
"Don't worry about what you're cooking. It's useless if you know it anyway." Maka said without raising her head, "Just tell me! Noah, I specifically asked Mr. Blois and came to me to discuss it." 'What?"
The fat man saw that Maka was acting like she had something to say, and seemed really busy. Then he scratched his head and moved his gaze away from the steaming crucible.
"Well," he looked at Maka's slicing action and hesitated for a moment before saying, "I want to say that I might...maybe...be able to help Miss Lovegood who suffers from magic imbalance syndrome. "
"But you also have to pay the price."
Maka's hand movement didn't stop at all, as if she had already expected that Noah was going to talk about this. And this obviously surprised Noah.
"You...how did you know?" He said in astonishment, and then he said hesitantly, as if he remembered something, "Based on what I mentioned in the living room before?"
Noah naturally still remembered that he did say something about the inheritance he had received at that time. However, he did not explain it in detail, because even he himself only vaguely understood many of the contents.
But of course Noah didn't know that among the three people sitting next to him at that time, two had the ability to sense magic. Regarding the rough embryo of the magic stone in his body, it had been exposed to the eyes of Maca and Mr. Blois as early as the beginning.
And more importantly...
"I have also done some research on the magic stone," Maka said casually, "Although it is just a magic stone that has been damaged and lost its original characteristics, at least it was once intact, and... it has been truly 'completed' The magic stone."
"The finished magic stone? Oh, is it Mr. Nico Flamel's?" After hearing this, Noah's eyes suddenly lit up involuntarily, "Can, can you let me have a look?"
"Well, it's not my thing... and of course, it's not here with me." Maka said, "You should have heard that Nico Flamel destroyed his magic stone - you know this. There are quite a few of them!”
"Oh, yes, I heard it from my dad." Noah shrugged. "He also said that this was a rumor that Dumbledore and Mr. Flamel released together, just to make some Man's mind is completely cut off from any attempt to seize it."
After hearing what Noah said, Maka paused her work for a moment, and then put the silver knife on the table with a click.
"Your father is right, but... I think that can only be regarded as one of the reasons, right?" He picked up the cotton cloth and wiped his hands and said, "To be honest, I don't know much about alchemy, so I have always been I haven’t figured out how the magic stone’s effectiveness comes from, but now I finally know something—”
As Maka said, she suddenly dropped the cotton cloth she had wiped her hands with, turned around, and pointed at Noah's chest.
"The Philosopher's Stone can indeed be called a 'wonder'. It can convert base metals into gold, and it can also refine elixirs that can extend life. However, although it cannot be said to be a 'poison', it is The human body is harmful, right?”
"Well-"
Noah looked at Maka, hesitated for a while, and then nodded honestly.
But Maka continued:
"Unfortunately, the truth is not just that! I don't know how to convert other metals into gold, but the refining of the so-called 'elixir of life' must be carried out in the human body. The magic stone can interact with the magic power in the human body. The source forms a special cycle, whereby impurities in the human body are extracted and transformed into substances and energy that provide the human body with regeneration. I dare not say whether this principle is correct or not, because the latter sentence is also pure speculation on my part, but the previous sentence But it must be correct.”
At this point, Maka pointed towards Noah's chest... to be precise, his heart position, and then said calmly:
"After all, this is the best proof."
Maka's meaning is actually very clear - since the magic stone is harmful to the human body, and the refining of the elixir of life must be carried out in the human body. So when the user of the Magic Stone tries to extend his life, the Magic Stone will inevitably have an impact on his body.
Even Maka doesn't know exactly what the so-called "harmful" is, but it's definitely not a good thing anyway!
After listening to Maka's call, Noah, who was already hesitant, looked obviously more hesitant.
"Yes, you are right," he couldn't help but nodded after a long time, "or, at least based on my current understanding of the Sorcerer's Stone, what you said is absolutely right - the Sorcerer's Stone, It’s probably not as wonderful as the legend describes it.”
But after saying this, Noah suddenly turned around and said:
"However, at least it is very likely to help Miss Lovegood cure her magic imbalance. And perhaps the more critical point is that I am still just a 'crude embryo'."