Extreme Cold Era: Shelter Don't Keep Waste-Chapter 804 - 33: Analyzing the Formula
The mere task of replicating a Warmth potion formula poses no difficulty for Perfikot.
After all, if someone like Don Quixote, who lacks any foundation in Alchemy, can achieve it, there's no reason the Empire's top genius Alchemist couldn't.
Indeed, Don Quixote discovered this Ancient Alchemy formula to be exceedingly simple, so simple that it almost doesn't require any alchemical process.
By simply boiling a pot of water according to the formula, then sequentially adding the ingredients, bringing it to a boil, stirring in the prescribed order, and finally adding a few drops of nettle oil, the potion is complete.
When Don Quixote crafted it himself, due to basic conditions, he improvised and compromised, resulting in a potion that wasn't very effective, yet functional.
Perfikot found this utterly astonishing.
Alchemy is inherently a precise science; although its predecessor was rudimentary and shrouded in mystery, with years of development, Alchemy now stands just a step away from the chemistry of the original world.
The base rules of this world are somewhat different, the effects of Alchemy are genuine.
However, science never denies some things while affirming others.
As long as it can be replicated and falsified, then its existence is scientific.
Thus, science is not about any specific discipline but a method of scholarship. Even Magic and Divine, as long as it truly exists, then it is scientific.
This is why Perfikot always treats Alchemy with rigor and seriousness, viewing it as a sophisticated discipline.
After all, she has tested, and many alchemical formulas entail almost obsessive precision regarding temperature, dosage, even stirring posture and angle, where the slightest deviation leads to vastly erroneous experimental results.
The more effective an alchemical formula, the higher the demand for precision!
This is why Alchemists develop methods to perform delicate operations through Alchemy.
Beyond the limitations of Alchemists' Spiritual Power, which prevent large-scale operations, and being confined to tiny arenas, it also facilitates better variable control becomes.
But Ancient Alchemy is different.
Back then, research into Alchemy was very shallow. People only knew that adding certain things resulted in certain effects. As for why it worked, no one researched or contemplated.
In reality, not even ancient Alchemists pondered this, and the Wisdom God that Perfikot sacrificed also merely spoke of formulas without understanding principles.
As a Divine, He indeed possessed powerful alchemical skills and formulas but only knew how to create certain effects.
Regarding why it must be done this way, why it generates such effects, or how to achieve other desired effects, He cannot answer any.
Thus, once Perfikot almost exhausted His knowledge base, He became useless to her.
This is precisely why this Wisdom God, initially valuable to Perfikot, was eventually sacrificed as alchemy material.
After all, besides providing explanations on Ancient Alchemy techniques that Perfikot deemed less valuable, this Wisdom God's greatest role was to act as an Artifact Spirit of the Eye of Omniscience and offer criticism.
But does Perfikot need such a critic? Clearly, she does not.
Like the Warmth potion formula before her, does Perfikot need this formula? Yes, but she needs to dissect and comprehend its underlying principles, crack its core elements, not merely knowing it makes Warmth potion is sufficient.
From this perspective, this Warmth potion formula is practically useless, at least not highly useful.
Essentially, failing to research and decipher the principles of Ancient Alchemy, there's no need for Perfikot to intervene personally; simply appoint an adequately skilled apprentice to undertake the task.
In any case, it's merely formula analysis. Modifying with traditional modern Alchemy and Imaginary Alchemy is achievable; though not anyone can handle, within the current Northern Territory, locating someone in Chernobyl is feasible.
But since Perfikot personally addressed the issue, she naturally seeks results.
She does possess Ancient Alchemy formulas, yet they mostly need precise control over variables; only this Warmth potion formula seems overly redundant. Even if Perfikot deliberately uses rough methods for brewing, as long as the main steps and ingredients are correct, it results in Warmth potion, with merely potency variations.
At first glance, this seems unremarkable, with the formula seeming pedestrian since everyone can replicate it following instructions; what is there to focus on?
Quite the contrary, precisely because everyone can make it, this expresses its distinctiveness.
If Perfikot penned a similar formula yielding comparable effects to Warmth potion, she could produce dozens casually. Yet making one replicable by everyone, Perfikot believes she'd spend months analyzing before employing the Jade Record to complete such a formula.
Moreover, Perfikot can't guarantee close adherence to the formula will consistently produce comparable products.
Her formulas might be low-threshold but still impose strict demands on materials and steps, with stringent variable control.
This isn't a limitation of Perfikot's capabilities, rather her knowledge framework prohibits crafting a formula with vast redundancy.
Because modern Alchemy's basis is equivalent exchange, Perfikot's Imaginary Alchemy also leverages the Philosopher's Stone to bypass restrictions without overturning these principles.
And while Perfikot breaks equivalent exchange with Imaginary Alchemy and the Philosopher's Stone, how do others employ Imaginary Alchemy?
Perfikot cannot list Imaginary Alchemy's procedures in formulas; this complicates excessively, unlike the straightforwardness of the Warmth potion.
Thus, Perfikot desires to analyze this formula's core approach, understand how it's achieved.
If she could extract this formula's core construct concept and apply its framework across other potions or even modern Alchemy, it greatly benefits Alchemy proliferation and advancement.
