The Right Tool for the Job

Flesh of the Great One.

Just as grand as the name sounded, the items that could be made from that material were highly prestigious.

Among them were disposable reincarnation devices, quills capable of manipulating reality as they were used, daggers that could cleave space, longswords that forcibly extracted souls and absorbed them, and receivers that allowed one to speak with Outer Gods without any mental contamination.

In addition to those, the grimoire recorded countless other bizarre and extraordinary things. Most mages would probably go into convulsions and rush after them just from reading the descriptions.

But Ian had never once made an alchemical item containing the Flesh of the Great One.

That was only natural. He didn't have any Flesh of the Great One, so how on earth could he make them?

Trying to force it without the most essential ingredient would only end in failure.

Nothing had changed in that regard, even now.

‘I've got the flesh, but that doesn't mean I'm done. I still need a lot of other ingredients.’

For example, say he wanted to make a reality-manipulation device, commonly called the ‘Finger of God.’...