9 THRONES

CHAPTER 21: FIREWOOD

Hasel did not care at all about Vann's thoughts that were in front of the class, he just continued to explain "Making Medicinal Qi doesn't require a lot of ingredients, you only need to bring a piece of Light Spirit Grass and Snow Flowers. Even so, all these materials are not something that you can get easily.2 The plant only grows in the monster area that is a pillar or a place with a lot of other energy such as a special monster territory, as you know that special monsters are monsters that are not under the control of the pillar holders".

"It's impossible to get it with your power now, unless you're ready to die. How to make it a-".

Vann who was standing at the door kept listening to Hasel's explanation. According to his explanation, the way to make the Qi Medicine was not too complicated. But what made most of the people fail was the control of fire when making the Qi Medicines.

Making this drug throw all the ingredients into the medicinal furnace for 1 hour, then the fire that burns the furnace must also change every 10 minutes.

At first the fire should be very hot about 150° C, but the next 10 minutes the fire should turn again into less arrows, the next 10 minutes again then the heat of the fire should be raised again.

Therefore, it was almost impossible to make Medicinal Qi without cultivation strength because it was difficult to change the temperature of the fire with just 10 minutes.

Not to mention that the temperature of the fire must be accurate, if it is slightly hotter or cooler, the medicine made must have failed.

Hearing all these explanations, Vann sighed. It seemed that it was true, only cultivators could make medicine as they could use their energy and form their own flames to burn the furnace. Although the hotter the fire, the more energy was spent. But it's still a lot better than they are because they can control the temperature of a fire a lot easier.

When Vann thought he couldn't make medicine for now, Hasel who was in class again explained "Although many people say it is impossible to make cultivation medicine without having sufficient cultivation strength in our bodies, but it is a different thing for basic medicine like Medicinal Qi. The chances were indeed small for someone without cultivation to be able to make this medicine, but if they controlled the temperature of the fire precisely then the medicine could be successfully made. The problem is, can they control the temperature of the fire as quickly as possible using firewood? It was almost impossible, at least there were already even people who gave up halfway to make Medicinal Qi use firewood without the slightest cultivation energy".

"Then in fact the failed ingredients could still be reused to make the Qi Medicine, but one had to gather 100 failed medicinal ingredients from the furnace before being able to try to make the Qi Medicine as much as 1 time".

At first the disciples were excited when they heard they could still make medicine from failed ingredients, but knowing that they had to gather the 100 ingredients of already failed Medicinal Qi as well, they gave up.

Why bother wasting their time and energy gathering those 100 failed ingredients? Wouldn't it be better to wait until tomorrow where the academy will give them new materials to practice? So all the disciples shook their heads, 1 time making Medicinal Qi was simply not valuable enough for their time and effort spent.

Different from the disciples, Vann has shining eyes because he knows he has a chance.

"Okay, explanation is over! You can make preparations to make medicine now" Hasel said unconcernedly about the opinions of the surrounding disciples, the purpose he said was not for the disciples but his purpose was Vann at the door.

Vann knew that Hasel's explanation was complete, so he left the school building and returned to the warehouse that was his home during the academy.

Since this place was a warehouse, Vann felt that the thing he was looking for should be here.

Carrying the axe, Vann made his way to the forest beside the barn, in search of firewood before nightfall.

Vann continued to collect firewood until it became a little dark. Fortunately he had trained his body for several months, so Vann could carry a pile of firewood on his back that had been shaped like a bag without any problems.

Walking back to the barn, Van finds Foltra's whereabouts resting there "Vann, what are you doing? I've been looking everywhere for you when class is over. Wait, why are you carrying so much firewood? At most we only need 2 to 4 firewood to cook, it doesn't need that much".

Vann put the axe back in the corner of the barn before saying "I need it for something else, then I'll go first".

"Vann, now that it was almost night-" seeing Vann who had already left before hearing his warning, Foltra could only shake her head "Forget it, Forget it, after all, he had only just come here so it was not strange that the boy had become excited about going around in the academy. Rather than continue to pay attention to the boy, I better start making dinner for myself".

Foltra started making a fire near the barn and cooked her dinner.

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Vann had arrived back on the 4th floor of the teaching building, but it was dark and there was no one else in the building.

When Vann arrived at Hasel's previous class and thought that the class might have been locked, Vann found the classroom door still wide open to his surprise.

Vann walked to the classroom and found a piece of paper on the table.

"You can use the grade as well as the furnace here, but do not forget to clean after use. You can also go to the other alchemy classes and take the ingredients of making the failed medicine from the disciples today, at least as long as you collect the failed ingredients from the entire class, you can try making the Qi Medicine 5 times tonight. Don't try to take away the furnace in class to sell it, as long as you dare to do that, you won't be able to stay in the academy anymore".

This message must have been left by Hasel, but Vann was a little speechless to the last words in the message.

Surely the furnace in the Wood Sword Academy was not a normal furnace, but rather an artifact weapon that made the fire easier to control although in the end it was still very difficult to make medicine.

Even without the help of this furnace, Vann could not possibly make Medicinal Qi only use firewood. No matter how good Vann's strength was, it was impossible to control the temperature of the fire just by adding and disposing of the firewood, in the end he still needed the help of a special furnace.

Despite the help of the furnace, it was still difficult for Vann to succeed because he did not have any cultivation power. Those with cultivation strength still ended up failing, let alone Vann who was not cultivating.