Alex had started the competition by figuring out just the ingredients that worked with the given 3 ingredients and figuring out which ones he had.
Then, he went through each one of those ingredients to see if any of them could work as a main ingredient, or even work with each other at all. He also had to compare them with the rest of the ingredients he had.
It had taken him a while before he realized that doing so was going to take too much time. With over 20 thousand ingredients, trying to match each and every ingredient wasn't going to work at all.
He would have to look at things in sets and groups. That was when he recognized the fact that most of the ingredients that worked with the 3 initial ingredients had water energy in them.
After finding that, Alex started checking the properties of those ingredients and matching them to each other. It didn't take him long after that to start getting ideas for pills, but most of them weren't good enough for a competition like this. He needed something more.
It took him a day of doing so before he saw something in those ingredients that surprised him a little.
If he tweaked a few things here and there, he could use some more Water ingredients that he had already used in another pill and make it work like that pill.
'Can I do it?' Alex wondered. He had about 5 days remaining, so he had to start thinking very hard to go through his mind and focus on how the effects of the various ingredients would affect each other.
One ingredient had a small healing capability, another was filled to the brim with water energy so pure that it nearly made the ingredient Immortal rank. Another one affected one's body, making them slightly more aware of the water-energy around them.
Alex had to also include a metal ingredient to empower another water ingredient that he needed more effects out of, and two wood ingredients to weaken the effects of two other ingredients.
As Alex simulated what it would be like to make a pill out of those ingredients, to see how the effects would end up interacting with each other in various orders, he finally ended up on a permutation that left him with a stable energy combination.
And the effect of the resulting energy was exactly what he had wanted.
After all the mental work was done, on the 8th day, Alex finally opened his eyes and began making the pill.
The first pill was a test. There were multiple ingredients he hadn't used before, but he had some idea of how they could function, so he jumped straight into pill-making.
It took him merely 10 minutes to create a pill that had about 40% harmony. He didn't worry about the quality of the pill just yet. For now, he needed to make sure the effect that he had simulated was the one that he had managed to make.
The resulting energy was most definitely the same. As for the effect? He would have to check.
Alex ate the pill without hesitation and let it dissolve in his body on its own. As the energy dissolved, it started showing its effect.
He waited for a few moments it took to fully show the effect. When that happened, Alex couldn't help but open his eyes wide in surprise. 'I can't believe something like this can actually exist as well,' he thought.
But he had heard from the senior back in the Central Continent that pills only got more and more ridiculous in effect the more energy they had, so maybe this wasn't that bad.
Once he confirmed the pill worked, he ate a pill to nullify the effect of the previous pill and got to work.
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