The dry red mineral changed into moist purple sludge of sort in less than 2 seconds of appearing in the air.
Ning was surprised for a bit as to what had just happened, but it didn't take him long to understand it.
The Alpurite had immediately reacted with the moisture in the air and turned purple.
Suddenly, Ning felt a violent vortex of energy around him that threatened to destroy him. Energy from all around him and maybe even further away came rushing in towards him.
Ning got scared and instantly sent the powder back into his storage, and the massive airflow it had created finally stopped.
Ning breathed heavily as he looked around at the mess he had created. The bedsheet was all mangled up near him. The room was littered with dirt and leaves that had entered the room after the door had opened wide.
The chairs inside had also fallen from how strongly the airs were being pulled.
More than anything, Ning felt the extra dense Aether floating around him. More than just creating a lack of aether around him, the little incident just now had instead got him more aether.
'That's not right,' he thought. 'This is way too dense probably. I need to lower the concentration a little more.'
He got to experimenting like he had wanted to.
He looked at the metal bowl full of water, the one he had prepared before, and put about a gram worth of Alpurite in it.
It quickly dissolved in the water, and it slowly started turning purple.
However, it wasn't fast at all. If not for Ning feeling the slight flow of Aether, he wouldn't even be able to tell that the water was turning purple.
He could only see the change in the shade because he wanted to see that.
'This is too slow,' he thought and tossed the bowl of water outside. He then refilled the bowl for another try.
He could've just added another gram of the mineral, but that would hamper the test since the water had already gathered a bunch of aether.
He needed to continue from the start. For a split second, he brought out the sludge of purple powder to immediately attract a lot of Aether before putting it back in.
That would help restore the Aether in his house. Then he put in the 2 grams of mineral.
Ning spent the whole night experimenting with the liquid when at one point he finally reached a moment when he was successful.
Finally, about 22 grams of mineral onto the bowl's worth of water gave him the exact amount of the liquid mixture to gather Aether at such a speed that the refilling Aether would be gathered before it could linger around.
"I did it," Ning said and kept the bowl into his storage with a proud smile on his face.
He had come up with something after all that experimenting.
He sighed in relief and took out the purple sludge to restore his Aether once more. However, that was when he realized something was wrong.
Even when he took out the sludge, no Aether came flowing into the room as it would normally.
Ning got curious as to why that was and walked out. When he did, he finally realized what the problem was and nearly laughed out loud like a maniac.
By experimenting all night, he had ended up absorbing all the Aether in the mountain and the city. Ning slapped his face in embarrassment.
"I need to change location to try these out."
Ning spent the next 2 days of his free time going around the world at different spots to test out the liquid.
He not only tested with different amounts of Alpurite but also different types of water from different sources.
Finally, he successfully figured out what he had wanted to figure out.
The best mineral to water ratio was 0.76 grams of Alpurite per gram of water.
Also, the best water was pure water, with no minerals and other stuff mixed in it.
Meaning, Ning couldn't just use any water out there and had to either get distilled water from someplace or have the system create it.
He also learned not to make the liquid in a metal bowl, or a ceramic one either, and instead needed to use glass for it.
Ning made a small glass marble that was hollow on the inside of about a centimeter in diameter.
If he were to fill that marble with the solution of the distilled water and pure Alpurite in the ratio as he figured out, it could clear the Aether in the area in about 4 minutes in most places and would keep it that way for… well, he couldn't test that.
In the last 8 hours since he had figured it out, the glass bead showed no sign of stopping at all. Instead, he was now lacking in Aether in his house, so he had to keep it in his storage.
However, if the system were to be believed, as it always could be, that small bead would keep a place Aether free —or at least very low to the point where most couldn't absorb any in the surrounding— for at least 2 years in a place like the Freelands.
In places like the Serian empire where there were more people constantly absorbing the Aether, it could even go as long as 3 years.
This also came with an added benefit that Ning didn't even realize when he was in the process of making it.
Every 200 or so years, one could break the glass bead to release the purest of Aether liquid that would go on auctions for hundreds of thousands of Gols.
Here he was creating it from almost nothing.
Ning couldn't wait to get this to the general masses, but he might have to wait for that. He didn't want to create the same problem he had created from the scrolls he mindlessly distributed.
'I should consult with people,' he thought and went to the tower.
