Chapter 387 My fingers cramped up
Alice was completely unaware that there was anything special about the flame she had summoned.
In William's alchemy book, everything was explained very clearly, except for the significance of different flame colors.
From a scientific perspective, a flame occurs because the atoms of a substance gain energy at high temperatures and release this energy during electron transitions.
This energy is emitted in the form of light.
Since different atoms or the same atoms in different excited states release different amounts of energy, the color of light emitted by burning different substances, or the same substance under different conditions, varies.
Hence, the same substance can produce flames of different colors at different temperatures.
Red and orange flames are typically around 3000 degrees Celsius, yellow and white flames are around 4000 degrees, while cyan and blue flames reach temperatures of 5000 to 6000 degrees.
Magic-induced flames, generated through magical gestures and channeling energy, are enormously powerful and even more intense than normal flames.
Alice's blue flame was a manifestation of her pure spirit.
William remained silent, observing quietly.
His gaze fell on Alice, piercing through to her core where a cyan energy nucleus, infused with the force of universal truth, resided.
He almost laughed aloud.
How did this innocent girl come to possess such incredible luck? It seemed she had caught the attention of some Cosmic Entity, a mysterious power woven into the very fabric of the universe.
Alice had become a true Chosen One.
Previous cases, like Lucien and Elliot, were merely individuals with good bloodline and talent who had caught the interest of the entity William expelled from his body and were granted some mystical powers.
Calling them 'Chosen Ones' would be a stretch,they were more of a common occurrence, with hundreds appearing in the same era.
However, Alice was different.
In his billion years of existence, William had encountered only a handful of individuals like her.
This includes figures like Zeus, Jupiter, Odin.
What is luck? This is what true luck looks like! Even Artemis, back in her time, didn't have such a fate.
"Is this Cosmic Entity trying to compete with me for my disciple?" William smiled, not so much at Alice's extraordinary fortune, but at the realization that this Cosmic Entity seemed to want to challenge him directly through Alice's body!
The most significant aspect was that Alice should have been a being of very ordinary talent. The sudden intervention by the Cosmic Entity indirectly proved that it possessed a complete self-awareness.
Other people weren't chosen, but it specifically chose Alice,isn't this like competing with William for a disciple?
For years, William had remained unconstrained by the cosmic laws of the Cosmic Entity. Could it be that the entity was driven to frustration by this?
Or perhaps…
William's eyes narrowed slightly, a smile curling at the corners of his mouth. The entity he had expelled from his body seemed to have some connection with the Cosmic Entity.
William remembered how those so-called gods loved their "games of the gods."
The world was their chessboard, and mortals, mere pawns. They manipulated others' fates, treating lives as pieces in their game, all while claiming it was for the welfare of humanity!
Back then, William was also seen as just another pawn on their board. With nothing better to do, he simply played along with their whims.
That was until Artemis died, and William shattered their chessboard into pieces, annihilating all the pawns.
At that time, William hadn't yet realized whether the Cosmic Entity truly existed or possessed self-awareness.
Billions of years later, and they're still playing chess?
William didn't want to interfere,this time, he would not get angry or upset.
As a civilized person, a 21st-century college student, a law-abiding young man, he wouldn't resort to such actions.
With the Cosmic Entity playing this card, William actually relaxed quite a bit. He decided to quietly watch Alice's path to divinity.
In between, he thought he might play some tricks, adding a bit of difficulty to the Cosmic Entity's game.
"To actually compete with me for such a foolish girl, this Cosmic Entity must be crazy," William muttered under his breath.
William observed Alice again with his divine powers, noticing a holy halo encircling her head.
Clearly, She was clearly beginning to manifest the state of a divine being.
Always winning the lottery, always finding hidden treasures when jumping off cliffs, and now alchemy...
William halted his prophecies, focusing intently on Alice performing alchemy.
Suddenly, there was a loud boom!
The alchemy furnace exploded with a tremendous roar, sending flames skyward, shattering all the glassware in the villa.
Shards of the furnace were scattered everywhere, with many metal pieces embedded in the villa's walls.
Alice was still standing there, dumbfounded, without any defensive measures.
Normally, standing right in front of an alchemy furnace during such an explosion would certainly result in injury without protection.
However, the fragments of the furnace seemed to have eyes of their own, all narrowly missing her as they flew past. Only the blast wind ruffled her hair a bit.
After all, being a mid-level Soulmancer, she wasn't going to be blown away by a mere gust.
"This... it exploded?" Alice was also terrified after the fact.
She clearly felt a scorching metal shard fly past her cheek.
Standing there motionless, if it had hit her, wouldn't she have been disfigured?
"The furnace exploded, but the pill was still successfully concocted," William said, glancing at the ruins. With a flick of his finger, a plump and glossy pill flew into his hand.
A Legendary-level pill!
William looked at the pill in his hand, smiling quietly.
Alice's alchemy operation was clearly flawed, leading to the explosion of the furnace. Yet, the pill was still created, and it turned out to be a Legendary-level one.
If that guy named Thaddeus saw this, he would probably kneel before Alice and beg her to teach him the art of 'exploding furnaces'!
Thaddeus had been concocting pills for hundreds of years, blowing up countless furnaces, and only managed to create three Legendary-level pills in the process.
Alice, on her first attempt at alchemy and even with a mistake, managed to produce one.
Isn't this comparison enough to infuriate anyone?
If blowing up a furnace could result in a Legendary-level pill, Thaddeus would probably be willing to blow up all the furnaces in his Pantheon Guild.
"Is it done?" Alice approached William tentatively, still shaken. She examined the pill in his hand and sniffed it.
"It doesn't seem as good as the one you used to exchange for the furnace." Alice pondered for a moment and said somewhat awkwardly, "Doesn't that mean it's a loss?"
The alchemy furnace was obtained in exchange for a pill from William, and now it blew up after just one use. Moreover, the pill produced from the explosion seemed inferior to William's.
If this wasn't a loss, what would be?
William continued to smile, not speaking.
If Alice could concoct a pill of the same quality as his divine medicine on her first attempt, it would be a miracle, as if the world of magic had opened a special door just for her.
Seeing William smile, Alice asked weakly, "It's a big loss, right? I didn't expect my first attempt at alchemy to end like this. The magical gestures for one of the incantations were too hard, and my fingers cramped up."
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