Isekai Journey Of The Magic Archer

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On the ground, Miss Mia was standing before her workstation with a number of the stumbles set up on the burners, some glass tolls of chemistry placed in the place to create some complex chemical compunction, and the process that was happening inside of these test tubes filled with strange colored fluids was the center of attention of many of the people present in this place. 

 However, the one doing these alchemical processes, the Alchemist of Silver was lost in her own Zone. She knew she had to win this competition and she had to do well this time if she wanted to succeed in what she was doing, so she needed to be completely forced on what she was doing.

She knew what she was doing was neither simple nor something that one could accomplish just because one wanted to. 

She was improvising on many of the methods of the people of the past since the technology and the resources they used at that time weren't completely possible to obtain in this day and age, so, she was under strain as well.

Her driving force was her faith her herself, her abilities, and the person who had taught her these techniques, and, for her, that much was more than enough.

She was approaching her first stage, however, as she was doing it, loud applauses that almost managed to break her attention filled the ground.

-WHAAAAAAA!

Someone had completed their core, she could hear that much, but, she didn't care about them.

She just continued with what she was doing and gathered her attention back her the task before her.

(Stage-1) of golem production, the creation of a core that can sustain the foundation and bind it with the base of the golem that one wanted to create.

It was a difficult process that required more of a fundamental understanding of the alchemy and the nature of the golems that are born in nature. 

One needed to create a certain structure that was made to work like a human brain or at least a structure that could accept and execute commands.

Just like how computers and artificial intelligence work on the modules of 0 and 1, the golem would have to be capable of understanding these commands, receiving them from the creator or the person that they were allocated to, and executing them after accepting them in a certain set way.

And, the core did all that in a golem.

After this stage came the foundation, (Stage-2) of golem production.

If the foundation is weak, even the strongest castle and the greatest fort would fall to the weaker forces. It was a well-known fact in this world. And, the alchemists knew the importance of these foundations better than most of the other beings of this world.

They understood without a foundation to support the structure, there would be no structure itself. Without a good foundation to support the main body of the golem, even the smartest core would be useless.

Even the golem with a good foundation a better core and a better body would not be able to handle the whole of the weight of the golem if they weren't equipped with an equally strong foundation.

That was the main reason people with a good understanding of the basics focused on the creation of the best possible foundation after their core and a strong base were finished. In (Stage-3), if they managed to create the perfect base for their golem under the criteria that were required for the competition, they could pass easily.

Most of the alchemists in this competition were doing just that at the moment. And that certain companion of the first prince of Roxanna empire seemed to be doing better than anyone else in all these three stages that she was executing simultaneously in the larger empty field.

She was the second person who was attracting the most curiosity in the area at the moment, Miss Mia still being the first one.

What she was doing was certainly amazing, however, not as amazing as seeing those many colorful test tubes with bubbling liquids present all around her large workstation.

And she was perfectly focused as well so, she looked even more attractive than the other participants…

Even though they did not understand what she was doing, none of them including the judges did, they knew they were seeing something for the first time in their lives, and, this gained the curiosity of the so-called masters and the grandmasters present in this place.

"Huuuu…"

She wasn't creating a typical single-core golem. What she was creating was more special than any of those simple golems could hope to be.

She was creating a life, a true artificial lifeform, and, it could not be done in mere three stages.

She needed a harmonic chemical structure that was comprised of all the required materials which one could understand as the core of a coreless golem.

Getting that right harmony of the fluids would have been difficult for her if she had not known the techniques of this lost civilization, however, by following the unique techniques of what those people used to call [Chemistry] a word related to the branch of magic that was connected with the substances of which the matter is composed of, their properties, and their reactions independently or as the base to form new substances.

They could decompose chemicals through simple processes, synthesize new things by breaking and rebuilding the chemical compositions of a material, could trigger the basic unit of a matter directly as well, and though doing so required their unique summoned creatures, they were able to turn wood into gold, and turn simple rocks into the most explosive and dangerous thing possible.

They used heat, flames, electricity, environmental factors, and such uncertain things in their processes, defined things that are just concepts in alchemy, and went to the core of the matter, and beyond them, and ultimately, they came up with an answer. A truth few could understand.

"Woah! Miss Mia is going to use her skill again!"

"Wow! Already?!"

"Is she going to create her core using her skill?! Or the base~?!"

"She has been doing something interesting looking this whole time. That child must be up to something interesting this time as well."

She had finished what she wanted to do and had the final [Harmonic Organic Compound] in her hand, however, that was just one part of her final product.

-Oooooooooooong!

She needed equipment that could reproduce what those people of the past so effortlessly did with their large labs and special creatures.

And, she made that equipment with her [Equivalent exchange] skill and summoned a giant testable, or a container, or something made of a strange diamond-like glass with her skill with strange Rune-like patterns present all over it and surprised everyone present in the arena.

It looked like some strange equipment that one couldn't understand with simple logic however, what she did after that shocked the others even more.

-Ooooooooong!

She created steps with earth magic and reached the top of this vat and first filled it with water created with her skill completely, and then, added the compound into this vat. And then, she just came down after closing the top of it with some other command.

The others had thought she would do some amazing work inside this large thing she had created with her unique ability but, this simple action of adding a green potion-like substance into the water confused them a little.

They couldn't understand what she was doing with this, and the confusion intensified when the thing she had added to the water just completely disappeared.

The audience couldn't understand her actions, and judges or the experts could not either.

They had questions like where was the Core, and when she would start with the Foundation or Base and the biggest question was what this vat resembling the ones they used in the creation of Homunculus or advanced Chimera was doing here.

However, the one that had triggered these questions was still focused on her work.

She had added the main compound but, it was nothing if she wanted to create a coreless golem.

She had only added an initiator but to complete the process much more was needed so, she quickly got to work and created many small test tubes filled with colorful or colorless materials and gathered them all in one side she had created beforehand. A preservative space that the alchemists used to maintain the state of their important materials.

She created many test tubes filled with these materials throughout the next hour through various strange reactions and techniques that the other alchemists were seeing for the first time, however, even after many of the participants were done with their work, by the end of time limit approaching, she was still creating these strange and useless materials instead of working on the main things.

Some of them, mainly, her housemates were all worried for her for a while, however, after she finished creating the last of the purple fluid tube with some strange electrical current stimulation, she had everything she needed. 

So, with many people focused on her actions again, with many participants who were done with their work looking at her alongside their various golems, she went up to the vat channeled some Mana on its surface and, the patterns that were present all around it, lit up with silver light and were replaced with holes that didn't let the liquid in the inside out.

They were unique holes however, the water she had added inside of the vat was still the same normal transparent liquid, nothing had changed in all that time.

People had expected something would change, however, no. The thing inside was the same, and, even after she placed the tens of test tubes with those strange things all around this vat, and the substances had become one with the water present there, nothing still changed.

The thing inside of it was still just a transparent fluid, or, perhaps not.

The audience perhaps couldn't see it, but the alchemists present on the ground with good eyesight could see how the color of the water had become a little darker. 

It was very subtle so it was hard to distinguish it from the previous one. However, in the world of alchemy, even the most subtle change to one thing meant large changes to the other.

The final product could change or get ruined completely if the precision was off just by a small margin, however, they could tell from the positive smile on Miss 

Mia's face that she had achieved what she had been hoping for.

Only one thing remained for her now, and, to achieve that, she placed her hand on the giant magic circle that had been present under the vat since the beginning, and channelled her Mana as sparks filled the whole thing.

-CRACKL! CRACKL! CRACKL!

And in an instant, these sparks intensified to such a degree that the people around her had to step away from her.

-CRACKKKKL!

-BOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

Then, out of nowhere, a sudden lightning fell from the sky on this vat, shocking not only the audience but also the judges present.

Even the rulers and experts in the balcony above the people were shocked by the sudden appearance of lightning in the middle of a fine afternoon without any dark clouds above them.

They did not understand what had just happened, however, they saw the lightning hit that vat on the ground, so, when their eyes returned to normal after that sudden flash, the first thing they looked back at was that strange tank full of water and some strange fluids.

They knew Miss Mia had caused this phenomenon, and, they were right as they, as when everyone present there looked at her or her image on the floating screens, they all could see her smile. A kind of smile she was making for the first time in her life.

She was happy. Perhaps the most happy she had been in her life according to that expression.

And the reason for that smile…

"W-what is that?!"

"T-that! That!!"

"It… is a golem. Is it a golem?"

"Monster! A monster!"

"Grandpa! Grandpa! Look at that thing! It's hugeeeeee!"

"Wow…"

She succeeded.

She herself wasn't sure, however, she did it.

"Hello there."

She created a coreless golem. A being that the people of this era were seeing for the first time.

However, the creature was unexpectedly a little too big.

"Can you shrink down a little?"

Like, was so big that only the people on the higher seats in this area could see the end of his head.

"Gluglug?"

There was a creature before them they had not expected to witness in a safe competition like this one, a place protected by the divine powers. 

It wasn't doing anything however, it was there, and just its existence in this place was a trigger of fear for the adults who perceived it as a threat, an exciting entity for those who looked at it as nothing but a very big water balloon, and for the alchemists present in the ground… this creature was the proof of something believed to be impossible.

"Yes, just shrink down. Compress yourself and shrink down."

"Gluglugu?"

-Oooooooooooong.

"Good girl."

However, they still questioned its existence even though it was right before their eyes.

It was absurd this thing could even exist in the first place but, it was here?! They couldn't understand how!

They didn't know whether they were dreaming or what, however, if this was real… then the one that had created this thing, was going to be in for a very, very long night. Perhaps, her life was going to change from this point forward…