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Chapter 47: Production of the Red Potion
To create a Red Potion, I increased my magic power dispersal from once a day to twice a day. Once in the morning and once in the evening.
Following Akira's recommendation, fences and security cameras were installed around the fields. The effort being invested was so serious that they had even rented an empty house in Akane Village and stationed security personnel there full-time.
“Is this what magic power looks like?”
A cross-shaped path had been laid out through the rose farm, allowing access to its center. As I walked along it, I spread my magic power across the surrounding area.
Though not every day, researchers working under Chairman Ryugen frequently visited to film the phenomenon of my magic dispersal or observe it using experimental detection equipment. Akira also came all the way from Tokyo to Gifu two or three times a week to oversee things herself.
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After about a week, the roses throughout the plantation began reacting to my magic power, emitting a faint glow.
For Akira-san, who couldn't perceive magic power, it was the first time she had witnessed an actual magical phenomenon.
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...I wish I could learn some actual magic and show it off, but I've never managed to pull it off successfully. I still need practice.
As the days passed, the effect grew stronger. Even on cloudy evenings, a single burst of magic dispersal would cause the entire area to shine with a lavender-purple light.
“Do you think they could analyze this and figure out how to detect magic power?”
“I’m not an expert in that field, so I couldn't say. But the researchers who came today were extremely interested in this luminescent phenomenon.”
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When Akira glanced to the side, I saw a group of grown adults peering into large camera-like boxes, shouting excitedly while furiously taking notes. To anyone unaware of the circumstances, they looked completely suspicious.
“...Despite appearances, those are some of the Saioji Group’s finest researchers.”
Even though I hadn't said anything, Akira offered what sounded suspiciously like an excuse while looking at the obviously suspicious group.
When people think of fantasy-world potions, they usually imagine the pinnacle of magical technology—complex concoctions requiring intricate formulas and procedures. In reality, what I was doing was closer to making 100% fruit juice. I simply crushed the prepared Magic Roses and extracted the liquid.
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Apparently, Asphial did have refined potion-making techniques, but most of the best methods were closely guarded trade secrets. The commonly known methods involved heating medicinal herbs to concentrate or separate their components. Honestly, it wasn't much different from a middle-school science experiment.
However, because Asphial lacked convenient laboratory equipment, potion craftsmen needed to gather an entire set of specialized tools themselves. As a result, potion-making was considered a profession with a fairly high barrier to entry.
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“Is it... red?”
“Probably.”
After a little more than two weeks of cultivation, I successfully transformed all four thousand roses into Magic Roses. Some of them would be sent to Chairman Ryugen's research facilities, but judging from my first few extraction attempts, I had a feeling I wouldn't actually need all four thousand.
Harvesting four thousand Magic Roses by myself would have taken forever, so just like during the planting process, a large group helped collect them.
The researchers who had been regularly visiting the farm somehow started voluntarily picking Magic Roses as well. Since they seemed delighted to do it, I decided not to question it.
Two days before the deadline, the harvest was complete. Then we fed the roses into an industrial press and crushed them all at once. The four thousand Magic Roses were flattened beneath the machine's metal plates, and a dark-colored liquid poured out from the edges.
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The extracted liquid was collected in a tray beneath the press before flowing through a spout into a single container. From there, the potion extract was run through a centrifuge to remove sediment created during pressing and further isolate its active components. Additional processing steps followed, gradually increasing its purity.
A powerful odor like industrial-strength air freshener filled the area. Everyone wore masks, goggles, and full-body protective suits while observing the extracted potion concentrate.
Compared to when I had made Purple Potions before, the cultivation period had been much longer, and I had dispersed magic twice each day. Perhaps because of that, even the raw extract gave off an aura that prickled against my skin. No one else seemed capable of sensing it, but because the liquid itself glowed faintly, everyone observed it with obvious excitement.
“Science and technology really are amazing.”
“Well, there's a famous saying: ‘Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.’ Perhaps people from that world would see our technology as a kind of magic.”
One of the most famous science-fiction writers in history was the British author Arthur C. Clarke. He was not only a renowned novelist but also a skilled engineer whose work influenced generations to come. Among Clarke's Three Laws is the famous statement Akira had just quoted, “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
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It was a phrase familiar even to people outside scientific fields. I'd known the quote long before I ever learned who Clarke was. And now, I felt I finally understood why Akira had brought it up.
“Yeah... at this point, it really does seem like magic.”
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Not long ago, pressing just fifty Magic Roses had taken me an entire night. Now, four thousand Magic Roses could be processed in less than an hour.
The process wasn't merely faster—it was better. The potion extract produced by the machinery was smoother and purer than anything I had ever managed by hand.
Looking at the results before me, I felt I had finally grasped the true meaning behind the phrase, Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
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Magic is only ignorance of the mechanism. Understand it, and it becomes science. Apply it, and it becomes engineering.
