An Understated Dominance by Marina Vittori

Upon returning to the villa, Dustin began to make the necessary preparations.

He had finally gathered all three precious herbs needed. The rest of the supplementary herbs were prepared beforehand. Next, it was time for the most crucial step—producing Sanctifix.

"Maximus, I'll be locked up in there for a day. You need to keep watch vigilantly. No one is to enter and bother me," Dustin reminded.

"Don't worry, Dustin. Not even a fly will be able to enter these doors!" Maximus guaranteed with a confident pat on his chest.

Dustin nodded before looking over at Brooke. "Dr. Busch, I'll leave Mr. Shaffer in your hands then. Nothing must happen to him before I come out of the room."

"Rest assured. I might not be able to cure Mr. Shaffer, but I'm fully capable of keeping him alive for some time," Brooke assured.

"Great. I'll leave things to the both of you then." Dustin gave them simple instructions and wasted no more time on words before entering the makeshift alchemy room.

He had all the herbs he needed. The furnace, coal, and all other required materials were already prepared.

things. Instead, he calmed himself down and meditated for a while. It wasn't until he was fully relaxed

no easier than producing Longevitum. But as they were

through the procedure in his head many times. Hence, he remembered every step clearly. There should

set up the furnace and put the cauldron in place. Then, he would have to go through the process of grinding up the herbs, roasting the sand, and settling

step was crucial, and there was no room for mistakes. Dustin did every

time slowly ticked by, Dustin focused on accurately controlling the furnace's temperature. The fire blazed and dwindled according to his

the furnace were repeatedly refined and combined. And just like that, time went by. The herbs went from a solid state to gaseous

steps several times, Dustin came to the most crucial part of

engaged his mystical pure

Sanctifix required mystical pure energy to increase the chance of success in its production. It will also ensure that the pill turns out

Dustin channeled more and more of his mystical

went on for about half an hour before Dustin suddenly struck the furnace

of the furnace flew off, and

lying at the