Within the Platinum-Iridium Alchemy Laboratory, water mist brimming with icy-blue starlight flowed and drifted, making even the entire Platinum-Iridium Workshop gleam with visible radiance in the night.
The active Origin Matter fluctuations made the faces of the other employees waiting outside change drastically.
—What potion was that lord refining?!
These Origin Matter fluctuations simply did not resemble those of an ordinary elite potion with an energy level. They seemed more like a superior potion of an even higher tier!
If they had not known perfectly well that their alchemy laboratory lacked the necessary conditions, they might even have suspected that Ian was attempting to refine quasi-master-grade—the very finest superior potions.
Origin Matter activity capable of affecting the surrounding environment perfectly fit the definition of a superior potion!
Or...
Had the refinement failed?
But before long, the abruptly emerging Origin Matter fluctuations subsided. The process was incomparably steady, and everyone who had worried that Ian's refinement had failed breathed a sigh of relief.
Not long after, the doors of the alchemy laboratory opened, and thick Origin Matter mist surged forth.
Then, a path parted through the hazy white mist, and a figure strode out.
It was Ian, his expression somewhat weary, yet bright psionic halos gleamed in his eyes.
Although the youth was encased in armor, the silver-blue radiance flowing over his cheeks and loose hair, like streaks of dyed color, made it clear that he had just consumed an exceptionally powerful water-aspect potion. His white hair, once bearing a steely sheen, now possessed an icy, translucent texture.
—Frostflow Potion? A superior potion that could permanently improve one's affinity for water-aspect and freezing elements?
Thinking of Ian's bloodline and the preservation case sent over from the Imperial Capital earlier, this guess sprang into every employee's mind.
—Of course. How could the