THE LIGHT OF THE SUN

“But, professor, he does not drink the mutagen. How is it that he is able to change his physical characteristics so quickly without ever consuming the mutagen?”

Luciana had inquired. For a brief period, the professor next to her was lost in thought. He regained his composure and turned to Luciana.

“He employs a method that is both unpleasant and effective. When an alchemist drinks a potion or ingests a mutagen, he does it in order for the potion to enter his body quickly, and the same is true when breathing a gaseous potion. The potion only has to come into touch with your blood to activate. The mutagen takes roughly five seconds to reach your blood, which is a bit slow for the combat in this situation. So Norval grabs the vial in his palm and breaks it. The glass slashes his hand open, allowing the potion in the vial to quickly combine with the blood on the wound, allowing him to perform these quick transformations.”

When Luciana examined N