Demon's Virtue

Chapter 785 Potion Brewing

785 potion brewing

"alright, so, what can that eye actually do?" partax leaned forward with a curious grin, taking a closer look at the demon's third eye.

"well, frankly, basically all the things a regular eye can do, and a few more. i can basically turn different 'functions' on and off," eiro explained, "beyond the regular light receptors, it has a sensory organ that turns the mana in its field of view into visual information. the eye also has a double-layered lens, and the lens in the front can be moved forward slightly, so that causes a telescopic effect to help me view things a bit clearer, though it's not like i really need that. and then there's of course the mirror of duplication that's built into one of the lenses, which has an effect that i can just trigger whenever i want to anyway."

the halfling listened curiously, jotting down a bit of information, "do you think you could get me a copy? to study."

eiro let out a slight sigh. he pushed his fingers onto the eye on his forehead, carefully placing his fingers around its edge. as if he was plucking it, he pulled the eye out of its socket, though of course that wasn't the real eye. instead, he had pulled out a duplicate of the eye, which he then quickly gave to the old man in front of him, "happy? just don't do anything weird with it or i'll take it away. oh, and you only have a couple more hours, i'm heading over to the monster town in a bit."

partax, who was almost salivating in excitement as he was looking at the orb laying in front of him, snapped his head toward the demon, "wh-what? but i can't make any progress in a mere few hours! shouldn't you stay here, for your... uh, for your classes?"

"it's friday afternoon, all the classes are over. even most afterschool societies are over by now, so stop complaining. i can make you a new one when i'm back tomorrow, but i just have to bring some of the stuff boju asked me for when he gave his last report," the demon explained, and partax grumbled slightly to himself. his spider-like mechanical mount moved over toward one of the nearby tables, and partax quickly grabbed a clean scalpel.

with a loud groan, the demon flicked his wrist and scooped up the shards of glass. if these were anything but potions, he would have just put the spilled liquid into new bottles after getting rid of any dirt, but the impurities immediately destroyed the potion integrity.

"great," erio sighed, rubbing the bridge of his nose. he had all the materials that he needed, but the potion-brewing process took literal hours. at this point, he might have to delay the journey to the monster town, but he promised that he would come at this date. plus, he had plans on sunday that he promised the kids he would be there for, so he didn't want to postpone that either. of course, eiro could just bring a second batch of potions later on, but this was still quite annoying.

the demon glanced to the side at the system log. just in case, he kept it open all the time. scrolling through, eiro had noticed quite a few messages that gave him hidden information, often related to the other royal monsters or even the monster king, so that wasn't anything eiro wanted to miss out on again. but as he looked at the window, eiro wondered about something.

he already knew that it was possible to move items in and out of what was effectively his soul; that was his treasury. plus, he knew that the system windows were connected to his soul and could directly access that same space, that was proven through the card binder function that eiro added the other day. so... what if eiro was able to just brew potions inside of his soul, using the system as a conduit? it would definitely make things easier. plus, maybe he could use the stopwatch's power to increase the brewing speed a bit that way too, even if it wasn't instant.

"alright..." eiro let out a deep breath. he had analysed things a lot more recently, and particularly the patterns that came from the invisibility potion's card could be useful for this. curiously, eiro opened another faux system window, summoning the author's pen. he quickly started drawing the symbol for potion and then brewing, and continued the patterns on naturally and instinctively. a few moments later, the symbols dissolved into the arcane screen, and a message appeared in front of him.

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[new personal system function has been created – potion brewing]