Reincarnated With A Glitched System: Why Is My MP Not Running Out?

Ruby attentively heard Felicia’s words as she taught her how to do her first Alchemy Synthesis. The first spell for all alchemist, was, always, this one.

“Synthesis is the art to use Mana and control the Elemental Properties of materials and unify them together into new forms through magical and chemical reactions,” she explained. “Of course, it always requires tools… most of the time. However, when you reach far enough and have hundreds or thousands of Alchemy Runes, your own body can be used as a substitute for such Alchemy Tools, like this.”

She held a piece of silver and also a green jewel, placing them together with her hands and -closing them until…

“{Synthesis}”

FLUOSH!

Ruby felt it, her eyes saw it. Rivers of colors, the very essence of these materials converged as the Mana from Felicia fused them together into one, the materials seemed to meld into one as Felicia lifted one of her hands, revealing something new in the palm of her hand.

It was a cute silver-colored pin with a small emerald attached to it, which she gifted to Ruby. “Woah,” Ruby glanced at the pin, blushing a bit.

“It’s yours, you can keep it,” Felicia said. “I’ve enchanted with some Alchemy Boosting Runes too. So it’ll help you learn faster. Your long hair might get in the way though, Ruby, so I would recommend using it to make your hair into a ponytail.”

“Oh yes, thank you,” Ruby nodded, doing as she was told. “Is this better?”

Felicia nodded, giving her a thumbs up. She looked rather different than before, her long blonde hair that ended on a pink-colored tip was very extravagant and dazzling, but once she tied it up into a ponytail, she looked a bit more… well, tidy.

“Very cute. Now let’s begin.” Felicia said. “Ruby, you can conjure spells, right? You know how to do the Runes and Circles and…”

“Yes, yes, I know, don’t worry,” nodded Ruby. “The school I went to when I was a kid had magic classes, so I learned the basics and slowly improved upon them. Let me try.”

Ruby opened her new alchemy book and read the info in each page, then went to the first few pages, the Synthesis Alchemy Spell Circle wasn’t easy at all though.

“It’s pretty complicated, huh? It contains… three inner circles already? And over thirty different runes. Master, you said Alchemy was a natural element, but no natural element spell requires this many runes and circles unless it’s a city-destroying spell or something…”

“Haha, it’s that so? I’ve grown so accustomed to Alchemy that it is something normal to me,” said Felicia. “Now, try it anyways. You can do it, the pin I made for you shall assist you in the beginning steps of learning alchemy.”

“Uh-huh, got it,” Ruby nodded. “Here… goes… nothing!”

She scribbled the runes using her own Mana in the empty air, closing them with one circle, then two, then three circles. It was as if she was writing with her fingers, the “Mana Ink” as they called this primal way of magic conjuration, was something every person knew.

Eventually, just with some thought, you would be able to conjure large magic circles instantly, but when you’re learning new magic, scribbling it is the only way to do it properly until it gets either engraved into your internal magic circle or you learn it from memory. “T-There!”

FLUOSH!

The green-colored triple-magic circle spell was conjured, as the magic circle spun with all of its runes, at the same time, Ruby pointed at the two objects in front of her, a fire spirit jewel and a gold nugget.

“{Synthesis}!”

FLAAASH!

Her Mana flew out of her hand at a much larger amount than she imagined, as the two items began to converge with one another, sparkles of mana echoed, and then fire…

Yes, fire.

BOOOM!

“Uwaaaggh!”

Ruby panicked as the entire thing exploded when she was synthetizing it. A Magic barrier appeared around her and protected her, made through bending space itself through Alchemy, Felicia’s spell.

“Hmm, looks like quite the mess!”

Felicia sighed slightly, as she glanced at what Ruby ended making.

The synthesis only went halfway through, the fire spirit stone was shattered into pieces and mixed with the gold nugget, which was melting in the ground.

“I-I’m sorry!” Ruby cried. “I-I didn’t intend to mess this up so much… I really thought… Ah, I got to cocky.”

“Hm! Indeed you did, you went ahead and tried using Synthesis directly without tools to assist you,” laughed Felicia. “Were you really trying to do what a master of alchemy does? Ruby, you must know your limits. I told you to use the Magic Cauldron right by your side!” “Sorry… I’m sorry,” Ruby sighed. “I-I’ll do that! And I’ll pay for the materials I screwed up -and-“

“Don’t worry, at least you learned what will happen if you try doing it without a proper foundation and experience,” said Felicia. “Sylphy, Celica, and Celeste might seem young, two of them are younger than you at least, but they have much more experience with alchemy, as they’ve been practicing it since a young age for several years in a row. So they’re indeed very advanced compared to you. You’ll have to work hard to catch up!”

“I-I’ll do my best! So how do I do the whole cauldron thing?” Ruby asked.

“Oh that’s easy,” said Felicia. “First, touch the cauldron with your foot, gently.”

“My… foot?” asked Ruby.

“You don’t need to get your shoes out or something, just touch it with your foot and imbue it

with Mana,” said Felicia.

“Okay…” Ruby nodded, doing as she was told.

FLUOSH!

Then, rivers of blue Mana entered the Cauldron, its empty interior bubbled with a strange liquid inside, as it was rapidly produced and created.

“Ooh? What is this? It feels like… my Mana is being liquified?” asked Ruby.

“Yes, this is an Alchemy Cauldron’s ability, they can create Liquified Mana,” said Felicia. “It creates a perfect environment for materials to be synthetized and created inside! This is how every little Alchemist begins their journey… usually. I did not need it to do alchemy, but I am the exception.”

“Woah…” Ruby was fascinated by the tool. “Okay! What’s next?”

She was growing to like Alchemy, despite her previous failure.

It was a whole new world to explore.