Creations of Black Earth

He could organize the system later, once his learning progress had advanced a little further. For now, he would make his first attempt at Alchemy.

Between this world's Alchemy and the Alchemy granted by the Skill Panel, Manus chose to try the Skill Panel's version first. After all, this version of Alchemy required the fewest materials.

This world's Alchemy required specialized materials and equipment alike. Moreover, because fewer and fewer people studied true Alchemy, these things were not something he could simply buy with a trip to Diagon Alley.

Gathering the Dead Matter in his hands, Manus let his gaze go blank and shifted his full attention into the Dead Matter, searching for information amid that state of chaos—this was the Black Earth Technique, or rather, the sole threshold of this Alchemy system, as well as its greatest threshold.

Within this chaos lay the mysteries of the world. All life could be created from it, so long as one could uncover them.

"Hmm?"

Having caught some information, Manus was just about to act when he suddenly stopped. Light returned to his eyes as he looked at the black earth cradled in his hands.

"Within this chaos lay the mysteries of the world. All life could be created from it, so long as one could uncover them..."

Manus repeated the foundation of this Alchemy art, but it reminded him of another saying about Alchemy that he had read before:

"As above, so below?"

This line came from this world's Emerald Tablet. Another translation rendered it as, "That which is below is like that which is above, and that which is above is like that which is below." Regardless of the version, the principle it revealed was the same.

The ultimate mysteries of the world existed within all things. The truth followed