Nen Ability X Potions

The boundless sky was a brilliant blue.

An Airship cut through the white clouds, cruising beneath the blue sky.

Kevin sat in his seat, took a sip of the coffee before him, and looked out the window at the scenery.

To be honest, before looking into it, he had never imagined that this world's air transportation would be Airships—something completely obsolete in his previous life—instead of the airplanes he knew.

Ground transportation, on the other hand, was exactly the same as in his previous life.

Sigh, perhaps that was simply the difference between worlds.

"Dear passengers, we will soon arrive in Saba City. Passengers whose destination is..."

Hearing the announcement,

Kevin got up and prepared himself. He had brought quite a bit of luggage, packing up all the strange items from the Jeep and bringing them back with him.

Only the Jeep itself had been sold.

After getting off the Airship, he collected his luggage, hailed a taxi, and headed all the way to his "Home."

To be honest, this location was rather remote for the city, practically at its outermost edge.

Commonly known as the suburbs.

Still, he was very satisfied with this detached house.

"Take a look around. Give me some memory fragments, brain! You were a top student, so don't act like an idiot."

The building appeared to have three floors, with white exterior walls and a yard enclosed by a wall roughly two meters high.

Beside the yard was a separate garage.

After wandering around inside and out for quite a while, Kevin relied on scattered memories to find a basement underground.

It was extremely spacious, seemingly covering half the area of the building, including the yard.

Apart from the partitioned area by the stairs, the entire basement level looked just like a laboratory.

Not some evil laboratory, but a place for researching chemical compounds.

There were all kinds of droppers and flasks, along with vast quantities of materials he did not understand at all.

A dedicated storage room was filled with biological materials soaked in unknown liquids: unidentified animals, massive limbs, brain matter resembling human brains, eyeballs, and internal organs.

"Looking at this, I really wasn't a very good person."

Kevin could not help but mock himself.

This looked far too sinister. Yet after exploring the house for so long, only here did fragments emerge in his mind—fragments of himself brewing something at the Alchemy Table.

Now he understood why there had not been much in the Jeep, aside from various Grass Leaves powders sorted into categories.

However, he had also discovered something in his personal file.

This body had graduated from the Royal Medical Academy of the Kingdom of Ganyou. Kevin had looked it up; it was practically one of the top medical schools in world rankings.

He had undoubtedly been an outstanding student, though his major had been pharmacology.

He had indeed just seen several potions lined up inside a small refrigerated cabinet.

"Wait, if I was doing experiments, there should definitely be experiment logs if I was being rigorous, right?"

Kevin suddenly brightened at the thought. He hurriedly began searching and quickly found a large number of experiment logs in a cabinet nearby.

The experiment logs had all been neatly organized and contained every kind of experimental record.

The records were not particularly rigorous, with plenty of notes and writing that resembled flashes of inspiration.

Then he saw some absurd words in those documents.

"Life energy, Aura, Nen, soul..."

As he continued digging through the files,

the deepest memories surfaced in his mind, memories so ingrained they were nearly instinctive—on the same level as common sense, language, and writing.

A superpower that had seemed almost innate after graduation.

It was deeply ingrained, like an instinct.

From the memory fragments, he could clearly sense only the emotions spilling from them: joy, madness, pride.

Kevin raised both hands. This time, even without using the simple technique Jin had introduced before, he could clearly see his Aura pouring out.

The Aura gathered together, forming tangible matter and condensing into a solid entity.

A set of Scales.

But unlike ordinary Scales, these had three weighing pans arranged in a triangular formation. The main structure was crystalline, while only the pans differed.

In clockwise order, they were gold, silver, and bronze.

Below them was a base around ten centimeters thick. The base was hollow, with a circular opening in the center.

"Moment's Dream."

Kevin murmured the name of this thing.

And he knew exactly how to use it.

It looked like Scales, but it was actually a potion-brewing machine, like a witch's cauldron.

An [Alchemy Table].

Each use required placing three different [Materials] on the gold, silver, and bronze weighing pans.

Then, an appropriate empty potion bottle had to be placed in the hollow opening below.

Once he activated the ability, it could brew a potion with a certain degree of randomness.

Wait.

"No, no."

Kevin rubbed his head as his memories began to conflict with his knowledge.

When he activated his ability, the item called "Moment's Dream" had already told him how to use it.

But the method in his memories differed from what he now knew.

Why? Could he deceive himself? What would be the point?

In his original memories, the [Materials] that could be used to make potions could only be physically existing biological products.

But now there was another option—minerals.

Of course, they all had to be things he owned, things that belonged to him.

In his original memories, he would only learn a potion's effects after brewing and drinking it. Now, merely placing the materials on the Scales allowed him to gain a rough understanding of its effects.

He could perform what was called an [Estimation].

No matter how he looked at it, that counted as an enhancement, right? Why? Was it because he had transmigrated?

Honestly, he did not understand. He did not even know much about the specifics of Nen abilities.

Still, he now roughly understood why people who used Aura were called Nen users.

The thing before him had undoubtedly been created from Aura. Honestly, it somewhat overturned his worldview.

Something like Aura could actually become a tangible object and possess the power of creation, rather than merely being energy that strengthened the body or fired blasts.

Was that reasonable?

Whatever. Maybe that was just how another world worked.

Kevin readily accepted the premise. After all, transmigration, body-snatching, possession, and all that had already happened. This did not sound quite so absurd anymore.

Then he began gathering information while tirelessly experimenting with his "superpower."

For someone from an ordinary world to gain power that resembled a superpower, the temptation was simply too great.

If Kevin had not been worried about encountering others with the same power on the road and causing some kind of trouble, he would have started using and training it everywhere long ago.

Now that he had returned to this "Home," he finally felt a trace of reassurance.

Even though he was nervous inside, his body naturally relaxed.

He was already becoming somewhat proficient at controlling Aura as it flowed through his body. Perhaps it was muscle memory; it felt incredibly smooth.

He used Aura to strengthen his body. Since it was the power of life, he felt that this should be the most basic application.

He accomplished it easily, and it felt very natural. Was that muscle memory too?

Throwing Aura outward, however, seemed somewhat difficult.

Time passed amid such training and experiments.