After parting with Kraken and her two daughters, Jiang Han leaped into Ice Bear's paw, her mind wholly focused on completing the formula.
After going to Chen Ligu's agency to help handle the commission and calculate the cut from her modeling pay, Kraken's materials bag had already been delivered to the agency. So she simply picked it up, left Ice Bear in Chen Ligu's care, and headed out onto the streets to find a suitable alchemy workshop and reserve a time slot.
In 1895, a witch raised the question: "Why has modern witch research advanced so much further than that of ancient witches?" After conducting social surveys, several witch scholars arrived at an answer that matched reality.
[Communication] and [Numbers]
In Europe, hailed as the birthplace of witches, alchemy workshops were built with great care and fitted out at enormous expense. Almost only witches with noble titles could afford such costs!
But now, specialized buildings had risen one after another, and alchemy bases had emerged alongside them.
Even witches unable to produce vast sums of money could reserve fully equipped alchemy workshops at relatively low prices. This allowed all witches with a talent for alchemy to put it into practice, and their numbers naturally far exceeded those of ancient times.
And since they used the facilities in the same workshop, alchemy witches naturally had plenty to talk about. The frequency of their exchanges was thousands upon thousands of times greater than in ancient times.
Alchemy Street lay right beside the office district and Hunter District, precisely because both areas had an enormous demand for alchemy!
Potions to heal wounds, exceptional weapons, tools capable of producing special effects under all manner of circumstances.
High-quality papyrus, spell-recording scrolls, magic-infused ink, and a great many strange tools that allowed agency members to complete