My Servant System

Chapter 1162: Chapter 1161: Casual Blood Magic

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"It's just that easy..?"

"It's just that easy. The way my Mother and Aunt Igna described it made it seem a lot more complicated and difficult than it really is, but in reality it's just like cooking. You're making some kind of... soup? Broth? Some kind of liquid based meal with a myriad of ingredients. Put 'em all in the water, heat it up, send your mana into it and then voila! You made a potion!"

I stared at the orange liquid for a few moments before sloshing it around, it's consistency somehow remaining just as free flowing as water despite having pastes, herbs and sap swirling around inside of it to create something new.

It was like an energy drink but better since it was all natural and healthy, and one that healed you alongside the boost in energy; the taste though wasn't anything better, instead being rather bitter and pungent, but when you're in desperate need of healing... that doesn't really matter, now does it?

"That is rather simple... and it took no time at all. I suppose it is like cooking, though that only makes me wonder..."

Staring at Leone, I raised a brow as I left that question unspoken, the Vampire blushing again before coughing as she continued to siphon out more of the potion from the vat and place them into the many vials we needed to distribute amongst the soldiers.

"Ahem! This is why I was confident you wouldn't need long at all to get accustomed to alchemy; it's just a recipe that someone follows before 'cooking' it with their mana as well as heat. The harder part is knowing what an ingredient does and how it reacts to other ingredients, which is what you need to study up on if you want to be pretty good at alchemy."

"Well... If you could give me a general guide on how to discover what does what I might memorize that, but otherwise I won't be doing much studying on this; I have my own things to be brushing up on, like enchanting, invocations, swordplay..."

She nodded at that and scooped out the rest of the potion before asking for me to refill the vat, and this time as we added the ingredients back in she went ahead and did another step, one that was... a tad disgusting even for me, and that was when Leone took my knife from me and cut open her palm, letting her blood drip down into the water.

Not a lot of it though, but enough to tinge the water red as it mixed with the other ingredients to create a darker potion, one that was going to be the basis of Leone's experiment; I wanted to ask if she had heard me earlier when I said to not experiment with so much liquid, but it was already done by this point, so I could only hope she got it right this first time.

Like before, she placed her hands on either side of the cauldron and closed her eyes, focusing her mind before taking a deep breath as she tapped into her other innate magic that lingered within her, one that was far more sinister.

Perhaps it was just my imagination, but the moment there was a single strand of that deep scarlet swirling around the fingers of my Vampiric lover I felt a shiver travel down my spine as she began to cast her magic, connecting her mana to the blood that was still dripping from her palm and then sending it inside of the cauldron, connecting it all together.

Opening her eyes, Leone stared intensely at the potion and controlled her magic as best she could, before she smiled as the blood inside of the potion began to glimmer, giving the dark orange liquid a shine as it was gradually empowered.

It only took her a few seconds before she pulled her hands back and nodded, her eyes reflecting her creation as she filled a vial and showed it to me, saying "That's easier than I thought it'd be... but the question is whether or not this is capable of being taken another step forwards..."

"Most likely it could, but whether or not you can make it better without turning it into blood with a side of potion is the better question. However, I think it can be achieved with a reasonable balance."

Placing the vial on the table, Leone nodded and allowed a few more drops of her blood to splash into the potion before she resumed her spell, the more anticipated way of casting spells when I had come into this world being displayed by my lover as she continued to strengthen the potion.

Presumably, anyways, since we weren't certain of the effects just yet, but the likelihood of it working were rather high all things considered, especially since I could feel the difference in mana strength between the untouched vials and this one.

When it came to a close a few seconds later, Leone glanced at me and asked "Do you think it's been worth it..? Because surprisingly, this spell is quite draining when done on these ingredients. The pushback from being empowered is more than I thought it'd be...", to which I just raised a brow and offered her my arm, not saying anything as I let her get back to it with full power.

There was no way to know for sure just yet, but the easiest way to test it was to give us something to heal, and that was to deplete my blood and then go ahead and give myself a few cuts for the other potion to heal first before testing it again with the newer potions.

It was a bit of an unorthodox way to do so, but it worked rather well for what we needed right now, and although Leone glared at me, she accepted this as we spent the next few hours putting these potions to the test and brewing even more.