50: Chapter 50 Microscopic Analysis

Seeing that the Magic Array had already been activated, Byron did not continue standing outside his residence and walked inside.

Entering the residence, Byron walked straight to the room at the very back.

He looked at the basic experimental equipment placed on the table in the room, such as beakers, distillers, crystallization dishes, and sublimation devices.

Byron's expression remained calm; since these items were called basic experimental equipment, it meant they were not expensive.

Given Byron's current financial resources, he could afford to treat them as consumables.

Of course, Byron would not do that; after all, he felt he was still a very frugal Wizard.

Finding a clean and stable table, Byron carefully took out his prized experimental equipment from his spatial bag.

It was an extremely precise high-end microscope used for observing biological cell conditions, macromolecules, and the microscopic structure of matter...

It was crafted entirely from mithril and crystallized glass, with fine perspective runes engraved on the body and multiple layers of energy-gathering crystals embedded within the lens barrel.

Once activated, it could magnify cells, molecules, the movement of potion molecules, and the microscopic structure of objects invisible to the naked eye, clearly presenting their morphology, arrangement, and the distribution of Impurities. It was an important tool for Wizard experiments.

This high-end microscope was something Byron had purchased by emptying out most of his savings, specifically to further his potion experiments and other research.

Furthermore, this was only because Mentor Isolde had purchased even more precise equipment and discarded this one; otherwise, given Byron's current status, just getting a glance at it would be a stroke of good fortune.

Let alone using it, even touching it would have been a luxury.

The reason Byron spent such a high price to purchase this instrument was partly because he knew clearly that if he missed this opportunity, buying it later would not be such a simple matter.

A more important point was that he knew clearly that to pass the Potion Master assessment, he would definitely have to try improving potions later, or even create his own potions like Mentor Isolde.

Whether improving potions or creating new ones, the help of this instrument was necessary.

Although the Eye of Omniscience could help Byron with observations and quickly provide conclusions and answers, the Eye of Omniscience was, after all, just a tool.

If he did not see the molecular movement of those potions, the effects of the potion's properties, and the structure of the objects with his own eyes, how could he make targeted improvements?

Although the Eye of Omniscience could provide answers directly, missing the process was ultimately imperfect.

Raising a question is often more important than solving one.

Moreover, if he had not seen the process with his own eyes, how could he make the corresponding adjustments?

Furthermore, some of the necessary functions of the Eye of Omniscience required his eyes to see in order to operate.

In fact, the only reason Byron brought it in was because this thing was just too damn precious. Leaving it all alone in his dormitory made Byron uneasy; he just wanted to carry it with him.

He hadn't expected that by this stroke of luck, he had brought it in, which would better assist him in observing this plane that was so different from the Wizard World.

Byron carefully set up the high-end microscope and, after repeatedly confirming it wouldn't be damaged, continued to take items out from his spatial bag or his chest.

First, he took three test tubes from his chest, which contained the potion to dispel crystallization erosion; the potion was a pale silver, translucent liquid.

Then, he took out the energy crystal from his spatial bag that he had seized from the belly of the Worm Race, which had been materialized by the Crystal-Light Floater.

The last item was a remnant Byron had found while traveling through the Desert Forbidden Zone.

Of course, Byron's spatial bag was not large enough to take the entire remnant, so through the analysis of the Eye of Omniscience, he had only taken the most important part: the entire chest plate.

Byron had also seen living members of this remnant's species.

It was precisely because of it that Byron had almost died in the Desert Forbidden Zone.

That thing was three meters tall, and its entire body was composed of extremely dense, dark blue crystals; not a trace of flesh and blood could be seen.

It had no face, its chest plate was a hexagonal closed crystal lattice, its arms were sharp crystal blades, and eight long, thin, transparent crystal whiskers grew from its back.

According to Byron's speculation, this thing should already be a pure energy organism.

However, based on its body, Byron judged that it should also belong to the Crystal Cave Worm Race, only it had undergone some kind of mutation.

After all, they were both half-human, half-insect in appearance, but the crystals of ordinary Worm Race were neither as thick as the crystal armor of this mutated Worm Race, nor as pure.

When Byron encountered this thing, he had only glanced at it from afar and was almost detected by it, which would have triggered a fierce battle, or rather, a one-sided slaughter.

Byron belonged to the side being slaughtered.

Because according to the detection of the Eye of Omniscience, this mutated Worm Race had a higher life level than ordinary Worm Race, and it was not just one Rank higher.

It was even estimated that this mutated Worm Race was equivalent to a Third-Rank Wizard Apprentice, or even a Limit Wizard Apprentice.

Of course, without detailed data, it was impossible to detect its true strength based solely on surface data.

And it was precisely because he had seen a living one that Byron insisted on bringing it out, even though it occupied most of the space in his spatial bag.

Looking at the torso lying quietly before him, which presented a hexagonal closed crystal lattice, Byron suppressed the excitement in his heart and used 'Mage Hand' to move it to the side.

One must eat one bite at a time, and walk one step at a time; this mutated Worm Race chest plate would be researched last. For now, the focus remained on analyzing the marrow-cleansing potion and the energy block formed by the Crystal-Light Floater.

Thinking this, Byron took out some human limbs from his spatial bag that had been completely crystallized.

These limbs were obtained by Byron from the bodies of deceased students that had been affected by crystallization erosion.

Even though those people were already dead, the crystallization erosion had not stopped or receded; it was still continuously eroding the apprentice's flesh.

Adhering to the principle of not wasting, Byron had taken a small portion from them.

If not for the selfless contribution of these kind people, Byron would have had to study his own body.

But now that there were others', Byron naturally wouldn't be foolish enough to insist on using his own.

After taking some powder from it, Byron placed it on the molecular microscope to observe.

Looking at the regular hexagonal energy crystal cells that appeared in the microscope, which showed not a shadow of flesh and blood cells.

Byron was slightly silent, then opened the potion and took a little to add it in.

After confirming the instrument was calibrated and turning on the recording of the Eye of Omniscience, Byron removed the object separating the two, allowing them to come into contact and fuse.

At this moment, in Byron's line of sight, the potion and the crystallized cells were like two armies, the former attacking and the latter defending.

The moment they began to make contact, the crystal cells that had presented as regular hexagons after crystallization erosion were instantly adhered to by the molecules in the marrow-cleansing potion.

After the hexagonal crystal cells were adhered to, under the continuous neutralization and catalysis of the potion, the regular bonds between the crystal cells were severed and dismantled into even finer free molecules, which were expelled from the body.

In this way, the abnormal crystal lattices existing in those cells completely disappeared, turning into flesh-type cell structures.

At the same time, Byron also played back the macroscopic naked-eye perspective of his personal experience in the workshop earlier for comparison.

That was the moment the marrow-cleansing potion was dripped onto the skin that had appeared as pale blue, translucent ice-like bodies after crystallization erosion.

The marrow-cleansing potion immediately began to boil silently, emitting a very faint white cold mist.

Throughout the entire process, Byron did not feel any burning sensation or pain, only a cool sensation of melting.

As the pale blue crystals disappeared, the eroded skin recovered to normal at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the stiffness also completely dissipated.