Waves of an Era

Over the next few days, Edwin devoted nearly all his time to testing the abilities of an "Alchemist."

He began with the most basic composition of matter.

Edwin extended his right hand, palm upward. A lump of gray-black lead appeared out of thin air, hovering silently above it.

Driven by his will, the internal structure of the lead began to undergo a violent reorganization.

It no longer followed the conventional processes of melting and vaporization. Instead, under the intervention of a higher-dimensional power, it underwent a direct transition at the atomic level. The texture of lead faded away, replaced by a heavy yellow hue with a gentle luster.

In just a few seconds, the lump of lead had completely turned into a piece of extremely pure gold.

But this was only the beginning.

The golden sheen shifted again, becoming the restrained, noble color of platinum, then bright silver-white, then the warm red of copper... Metals from across the periodic table took turns performing a silent dance of transformation in his palm.

He could even shape them into any form with ease—from precision gears to slender metal wires. With a single thought, the creation was complete. Then, he turned his attention to nonmetals.

He precisely separated and gathered the nitrogen and oxygen from the air, forming a crystal-clear sphere of liquid nitrogen at his fingertips that radiated an icy chill. He then extracted carbon from the desk and altered its molecular structure.

The pitch-black charcoal became a dazzling diamond, before turning into carbon fiber cloth.

However, when he attempted more delicate operations, the challenge followed.

"Still not precise enough..."

Edwin frowned slightly as he looked at the wafer in his hand, which had just been made from high-purity silicon.

He wanted to manually create a central processing unit—a CPU.

With the