My Wife and I Became Sages in Another World-Chapter 51: Reinar’s Alchemy

The day after Reinar arrived, everyone woke up early in the morning to get some breakfast before Vespera, and I could teleport everyone to the tree house.

I had plenty of responsibilities to take care of, so while everyone slept throughout the night, I planned out my commitments so that I wouldn’t get overwhelmed.

I had to tutor both Reinar and the princess, craft potions, shampoo, and soap, hunt down dangerous monsters, help train the knights, check on the farms to make sure the soil was still good, export goods with my delivery tablet, and deal with any other random problem that could come up.

However, since it was Reinar’s first day, I decided to focus on him for the time being until he was able to keep training without me being present. So, I told the rest of the group to hunt and gather with the princess while I stayed in the tree house workshop with Reinar practicing alchemy.

Needless to say, we spent the entire day brewing potions as I taught him the process while showing him the ingredients. The rest of the group didn’t come back to the house until the sun started setting.

Opening her void pocket, the princess pulled out a dead redback boar and the body of a giant black snake that was at least 8 meters long.

<Black Snake

Rank B

Extremely poisonous creature.

White delicious meat.>

From the inspection, it seemed like the snake was edible, with the description even going as far as to say it was "delicious." I had never eaten a snake before, and although I wasn’t against the idea, I didn’t have a clue how to cook it.

The princess asked me for help when it came down to the butchering since she had no problem doing it with the boar, but told me that she didn’t even know where to start with the snake.

I didn’t know either, and the only place I could think of that could butcher it without a problem was the adventurers guild. However, we couldn’t bring our monsters there since we were not registered yet.

Nevertheless, I stored the snake in my void pocket and told the group that I would try asking them the next time we went to the town.

That night, we had some fried boar cutlets for dinner, accompanied by french fries. I taught the maids how to cook it, which was extremely easy for them, considering they had been cooking more complex dishes.

Everyone loved the potatoes, but I couldn’t help but feel like they tasted somewhat bitter.

The potatoes we used were the ones that the villagers brought with them, not the ones grown on our own farm since those had been planted mere days before. Confirming my suspicions that the potatoes hadn’t been properly farmed in their last village.

The next day, we did the exact same thing. The princess went out with the group while I stayed in the workshop with Reinar. I had already given him an introduction to all of the ingredients that we had, and I was excited to teach him how to brew the potions.

("The more alchemists that know how to make these potions, the less I have to make myself...") I thought as I clenched my fist and wondered how I wanted to retire at the age of 14.

We started with Healing Potion(+), which used greeberries and a herbal base, along with a good amount of MP that had to be infused into the mix.

Before I gave him the ingredients, I asked for his permission to inspect him since I wanted to make sure he had enough MP to infuse and was also curious to see if he had any strange skills.

<Name: Reinar Sephyr

Age: 14

Skills: Magic Metabolism

MP: 7,000 freēwēbηovel.c૦m

Titles: - - - >

Just as I suspected, the Sephyr’s all seemed to have some sort of special skill. I focused my eyes on it to prompt the information to pop up.

<Magic Metabolism: Speeds up the person’s MP regeneration and permanent growth. Can heal their own wounds and illnesses by spending MP.>

("Seriously, what is up with this family!?") I thought before clearing my throat and telling Reinar how his skill was pretty awesome, but all I got in return was a somewhat sad smile.

He told me that while his skill was undoubtedly good, it didn’t always make him feel that way. It happened five years ago when the kingdom was hit with a strong and highly contagious disease.

From what he told me, the kingdom managed to quarantine the infected away from the other citizens until the illness subsided. However, the damage was too significant, and thousands of people died due to it.

While all that happened, Reinar was one of the few people that could get close to the sick since his skill would cure him if the infection got into his body. But he was just a child and believed it was unfair for him to have such a skill while other people were dying.

He also said that it was primarily nobles that survived the infection because they were the only ones able to afford the potions for the treatment, which only made Reinar even more unhappy with his position. He had money and power but couldn’t share it with the people around him.

After the conversation, my respect for Reinar went up by a ton. All this time, I thought he was just a shy noble kid that wanted to learn alchemy to help people. But it turned out that his aspirations were aiming much higher than that.

("I might as well turn him into the best alchemist in the entire world...") I thought with a smile as I told him that we would brew our first potion right away.

I explained the process to make the Healing Potion(+) and brewed one for demonstration. Then, I told Reinar to recreate it, and he happily obliged.

However, the potion that he created seemed to be a much darker shade of green.

<Failed Healing Potion(+)

Not enough MP was infused during the mix phase.

Useless tar.>

("It’s the first time that the inspection window is... rude?") I pondered as I gazed at Reinar, who had a defeated expression.

I grabbed his shoulder, and with a commanding tone, I told him to try again. Reinar seemed like the type of kid that would hang on to their mistakes and never let them go, eventually making them quit or surrender what they were doing.

I refused to let him quit, so I decided to change my tone to a more military one.

"Until you successfully brew one Healing Potion(+), we are not leaving this goddamn workshop!"

Reinar kept trying his best for hours, wasting dozens of potions in the process and completely exhausting his MP, only for me to give him an MP(+) potion and tell him to keep trying.

The problem wasn’t that Reinar didn’t have enough MP to make it, but the fact that he couldn’t expel all of the required MP in the allotted time. From my experience, after the ingredients had been added to the mix, the infusion had to be done in less than a minute, or the potion would come out as "failed."

Reinar’s MP pool was half of my own, but I was sure it was enough to make the potion. All he needed was practice, guidance, and lots of MP potions.

During our intense training session, I heard the rest of the group had returned from their hunt, bringing with them lots of ingredients for potions and two more terror bulls.

I picked up the potion ingredients and told them not to disturb us since Reinar had been working hard. They all happily agreed and said that after butchering the monsters, they were going to take a bath, eat dinner, and go to bed.

Just as I went back into the workshop, I saw Reinar holding a perfect, light green potion in his hands. He had a surprised expression on his face and a drop of sweat dripping from his temple.

"I did it!" he exclaimed with a big smile finally showing, making the rest of the group run upstairs excitedly to congratulate him.

Now that he had completed the mission I gave him and had successfully brewed a Healing Potion(+), I told him that we deserved a moment to relax. So, I stepped outside and walked toward the bathtub, then used magic to raise a wall next to it.

I quickly ran and took down a few trees, then used nature magic to mold them into a smaller tub. Before, I couldn’t justify the creation of a men’s tub since I was the only one who would be using it, but with Reinar’s success, I had the perfect excuse.

The group watched me as I worked intently on the tub, a mixture of disbelief and confusion on their faces, but I was just happy that I could finally take a bath.