started his alchemy basic lessons from the siblings in earnest. He still could not use his divine formulas due to a lack of divine herbs and mana, and that is why he decided to play by the rules, quite unusual, considering he who once looked down on all beings as if they were bugs.
Regarding Alchemy, the branch Elena Hale practised was healing Alchemy, which was not forbidden, unlike necromancy, which involved refining living beings into puppets. He learned how to refine elixirs and pills that could provide nutrients using external sources of mana and healing potions and pills. Lucas and Mira were shocked on the first day as he comprehended the processes such as formulas, flame temperatures and herb amounts and even refined effective pills that they only managed when they were already three to five years in practise.
The mother finally took over, and she tried to raise hurdles for him, but he sneered and even optimised processes, shocking her since the insights shared by Austin, albeit respectfully, since he (feared) cough cough respected her, were from some old monster who had been refining pills for decades.
Austin then meditated in his room after taking some mana crystals as he broke into the first mortal level as he tried to sense his essences, he was shocked as his faint condensed essence was incomplete and had traces of many law essences: five elements, yin & yang, Light & dark, Life & death, Space, Time and finally the container holding them all harmoniously without having them conflict was an unknown incomprehensible familiar law essence.
He was shocked and incredulous as he remembered that all these were the laws he had comprehended before he failed to break through. The last law essence was very faint and only a sliver existed, but it seemed more powerful than all the other laws combined. As he broke through to the early level of the First of the seven mortal body shedding levels, within a radius of five kilometres, all mana surged and was attracted to him, as if the laws had abandoned them, and he absorbed greedily.