Super Righteous Player
Chapter 386 - 383: Eight Luminaries and the Celestial Chariot_1

Chapter 386: Chapter 383: Eight Luminaries and the Celestial Chariot_1

On the corner of Nicholas II’s desk, three test tubes had been set up ready.

He sat at the desk, thinking while slowly and carefully writing and drawing on paper, continuously revising the proportions and rituals.

Since it was still in the development phase, Nicholas II hadn’t produced a particularly large quantity... after all, "Hermes Faction poison dust" wasn’t like the Philosopher’s Stone, which could easily be sold once made.

Although "poison dust" was very effective in killing Otherworld creatures, it was not a commonly used transformation product. Not everyone would encounter Otherworld creatures.

It wasn’t that Nicholas II was short of money at the moment.

The materials he lacked couldn’t necessarily be bought with money—

"I’ll have to use them sparingly..."

Nicholas II sighed.

If he could move freely, he would just make something and auction it off; he wouldn’t be facing such a scarcity of resources. But after all, he was an activated homunculus, under the supervision of Stone Father... Not only his actions but even the scope of his movement was restricted.

This meant that he didn’t have many key resources on hand.

They could even be considered scarce.

—What he lacked the most was the "demon’s blood" that was supposed to be delivered at this time.

They had agreed that at least two dozen would be brought in.

But the amount had been cut in half...

With insufficient materials, Nicholas II could only calculate precisely before attempting again.

If it weren’t for the fact that "poison dust" could only be produced in the ritual grounds of the Royal Capital, he would no longer want to stay in Royal Capital. The logistics checks here were just too strict.

Nicholas II had also inquired with Stone Father as to why they couldn’t contact the Silver Baron Church to directly transport the required materials here... but he received no answer.

Stone Father did not directly address his question.

This caused Nicholas II great distress.

...Could it be that they don’t trust me? Even if that were so, they shouldn’t just assign a Stone Father that hardly interferes with anything and keep me in the capital, should they?

If I really wanted to do something, poisoning or blowing up these millions of people wouldn’t be difficult at all...

As the successor to all of Nicholas’s memories and knowledge, the strongest great Sage who should not exist in this world, the pinnacle of Alchemists, "Nicholas II" indeed could do such a thing.

"—Let’s try again!"

After resting, Nicholas II revitalized his spirit and stood up.

This was Nicholas’s fourth attempt at creating poison dust for the day.

He casually lifted his hand, tapped thrice in the air, and dark ripples began to spread.

On the narrow basement walls, red runes lit up, flipped to black, and then flipped back to white. Then, the entire room was enveloped by a white glow.

This was the barrier of Silence, Lady of Stillness. It could isolate potential explosions or material leaks within, and also function as a sound barrier. It would protect against prying eyes and allow one’s state to be more stable, unaffected by external noise.

This time, Nicholas II chose a brass material astrological chart.

He reached out and pointed in the air, and a hexagonal prism-shaped amethyst began to float, standing in the center of the astrological chart.

Then he pointed twice more in the air, and two boxes—one containing pink pearl powder, the other containing red gemstone powder—opened up. A specific quantity flew out, evenly scattering onto two special areas of the astrological chart, outlining strange shapes.

Afterward, Nicholas directly took a bottle of Holy Water and carelessly poured it into the air.

As the pure white liquid left the crystal bottle, it began to sparkle with a white glow.

The Holy Water drifted down slowly, like a feather, onto the star plate. After rapidly soaking and wetting the two types of dust, Nicholas took out a glass rod and quickly started to scribble something over the powdery surface.

A great number of complex, deep-red patterns emerged on the dust soaked with Holy Water. But the moment the Holy Water came into contact with the brass star plate, heat surged up and rapidly dried the dust.

The dried dust on the star plate became a peculiar powder cake, engraved with hollowed-out patterns. Based on the star plate, the Ritual Plate had already been directly crafted.

Because he needed to modify the ritual content, he had to start from scratch — this was not simply a matter of deconstructing and optimizing the routine but rewriting it from the beginning.

He then placed three vials about the size of perfume samples and a thumb-sized golden bottle on the drawn circles of the Ritual Plate. These three glass bottles quickly began to transmute on their own, their contents rapidly changing and circulating inside.

He also opened a flat and curved bottle, resembling both a flask and a lighter, made of metal.

If Gourmet Goose saw it, he would immediately recognize... this was indeed the demon’s blood he had seen before.

As Nicholas opened the demon’s blood,

An immediate, angry and sharp roar, bellowed from the bottle.

The roar was not loud and could only be heard clearly when one’s ear was pressed close; otherwise, it would be as indistinct as the sound of the wind.

Nicholas ignored it and let it roar slowly.

He took out a new glass rod and opened a bottle of Holy Water. He first dipped the glass rod into the Holy Water, which emitted a white mist, gently stirring and lowly chanting mystical knowledge that meant "purification."

"... The sixth light of the sun, is the light ever churning and continuously dividing and merging within the sun; the seventh light is seen by the Transcendent soul during the ascension ritual, carried by the Charioteer to the realm of light. And the eighth light is from the sky before the earliest sun rises."

— This was a fragment of mystical knowledge pertaining to "the Secret of the Eighth Solar Daylight."

All mystical knowledge within the domain of the sun is more or less related to the "Eight Daylights," which constitutes the core power of Mr. Radiance. Even the very birth of "Mr. Radiance" is with the eight daylights, which is why he is named "Mr. Radiance," and his sacred number, along with his chosen month of patronage, was selected as "8."

As Nicholas chanted, the Holy Water gradually turned into a substance similar to cotton candy, wrapping around the glass rod.

When he pulled the glass rod out, its clear tip was now covered with a layer of pure white, shining with stable radiance, fluffy material. It looked like a giant cotton swab.

And Nicholas plunged the cotton swab into the demon’s blood—the roar within the demon’s blood quickly became filled with pain and significantly weakened.

But he only soaked up a small part of it.

The pure white and shining "cotton swab" now turned a dark red. It resembled a blood-soaked cotton swab.

Afterward, he concentrated and moved the swab through the three bottles at a specific frequency and with extremely stable movements.

Each time the bloodied glass rod dipped in, the glass bottle emitted a fierce "sizz" sound, after which the original transformation was interrupted and started metamorphosing; then a ray of light would flow out toward the other two glass bottles in the Ritual Plate. For the third glass bottle, a ray of light would flow into the little gold bottle.

Although it appeared very complicated, if Nicholas had designed a detailed synthesis process, the intermediate ritual steps could be completely automated by machinery.

About ten minutes later, Nicholas finally relaxed.

The material within the three small bottles had been completely consumed.

The golden bottle had become significantly heavier.

Nicholas, full of anticipation, poured the scorching red powder, slightly cooled down, into a glass test tube.

... He wondered if it was successful this time.