My Muscle System in the Mage World

"I hope I did it at the right time," Aur frowned as he felt the scorching heat from the two items: Lion's mane and Moon-shadow sage in his two hands.

Aur looked at the other container, which contained the blood of various beasts, all at least in tier one; that is why the price was so costly—almost half the money was for this blood alone.

After all, the most expensive things are those related to the beast, given its dangerous nature, and nobody wants to take on the job except for mercenaries. While mercenaries can become rich quickly, they also face a shorter life expectancy; at least nine out of ten mercenaries die before the age of thirty.

So, this isn't an ideal job, while the wizards have other tasks to attend to instead of dealing with this measly income. This situation has caused the entire market for beast meat and its valuable components to be empty. Of course, this applies only to mortals.

Aur could get all of this quite easily inside the academy.

He directly dipped both the scorching lion's mane and the moon-shadow sage into the blood.

After Aur dipped them in, he directly ignored them and returned to see the cauldron.

Without a care, he rotated the burner to the right, making the flame reach maximum capacity. A green light emitted from it as it cooked the cauldron.

After some time, the herbs strangely started to merge into one huge ball.

Aur's eyes lit up when he saw this; however, he still didn't stop the flame. Instead, he constantly changed the flames from high to low intensity. When a small black patch started to form in the huge ball, he changed it back to high flame again.

Just like that, Aur spent an hour just changing the intensity of the flame.

The giant ball slowly deflated as time passed, before it compressed into a palm-sized sphere. After it turned still, Aur didn't stop but continued carefully controlling the flames.

Finally, after a long time of waiting, his efforts bore fruit—the small ball started to turn golden. His eyes lit up when he saw this, and he patiently controlled the flame. Soon, the ball turned completely golden, which made him unbelievably excited.

But Aur didn't let excitement rush to his head. He calmly closed the flames and took out the golden ball that looked very similar to gold with its flawless texture. It wasn't too hard either.

"I hope this works," Aur took deep breaths and placed the golden ball in a huge metal container.

Sizzle!

The sound of melting metal echoed in the room as the golden ball touched its surface, but the metal container somehow managed to resist the heat.

"Looks like it worked," Aur heaved a sigh of relief as he turned his attention away from the golden balls and looked at the blood instead.

To his relief, the entire lion's mane and the moon-shadow sage had been entirely absorbed into the blood.

"Looks like it will work. No, I have to make this work," Aur sighed as he took the blood container and connected it entirely to the flask with the other end connected to the metal container containing the golden balls.

He started to burn the blood at a very low heat and carefully watched the process. As the blood boiled, it turned into water vapours, leaving the pure blood with the two mixed in.

Aur heaved a sigh of relief seeing this "success," he thought as he increased the flames.

The water vapour transferred to the golden ball and directly evaporated into thin air. However, its temperature strangely started to plummet the more the water vapour entered and evaporated from the golden ball. Eventually, it completely cooled off however a small patch of black was visible in the golden ball in its flawless golden texture.

Of course, the water wasn't simple water that evaporated. It carried a unique element from the blood which it separated from which made the water's cooling agent about a hundred times more.

Aur turned off the burner from the blood and carefully took the cooled off golden ball out of the container and looked at it with disappointment.

"I failed," he muttered while cursing, looking at the golden ball with a small patch of black.

Of course, it might not seem too significant, and it was a small mistake at most, attributable to Aur's timing. However, the entire golden ball had become useless, and he had to restart the process just because of this simple thing.

Aur directly crushed the ball with his strength and took a deep, calming breath again.

"Let's try again," he opened his crimson eyes.

Aur tried the process again and again; there were 50 batches of the herbs for the spell he wanted to try, so of course, he had plenty of them to try.

The dim moonlight faintly leaked out from his window, revealing a half-moon. His window glass was a two-way mirror.

"Well, I will be here for a long time…" Aur thought with bitterness. He wasn't unfamiliar with the term "all-nighter," but he only pulled an all-nighter when he was training his body. Making these things was undoubtedly boring for him.

But unfortunately, this was life, whether you enjoyed doing it or not, something you needed to do no matter what.

He brewed the herbs for another batch and carefully observed the process, checking for any mistakes.

As the night progressed, a subtle change began to unfold. The inky blackness gradually gave way to a hint of deep indigo on the horizon.

Soon, dawn began with the sun just below the horizon.

Aur was holding a stainless golden ball with a tired expression on his face, dark circles around his eyes, and unkempt white hair.

However, a small smile graced his lips upon seeing the stainless golden ball. It was cold and smooth to the touch, unlike after it had cooled off from the water vapor.

"I finally did it," Aur muttered in excitement.

He took out the container containing the blood of the beast with the two ingredients mixed in it. Aur casually threw the stainless golden ball into the container.

Gurgle!

The moment the golden ball submerged in the pure blood, a strange reaction occurred. The blood gradually changed into a golden color similar to the golden ball.

Aur looked at all this with an uncaring gaze; there was literally no way for him to fail this process.

The only step he could fail at was when he was brewing all these things, as everything had to be perfect and align with each other at the right timing to brew this palm-sized golden ball.

He failed at least five times before he finally succeeded, which wasn't a low number, neither was it high—it was an average number at most.

With the golden ball mixing with the blood, everything had been prepared, and a golden stainless solution was now present in the container.

"Now for the final preparation," he muttered to himself as he threw a droplet of his blood into the golden solution.

Boom!

A strange reaction occurred the instant Aur's blood mixed in, and the golden solution rumbled as if in an earthquake. It finally stopped after ten minutes or so of constant rumbling.