Alchemy Mishap

Sucrose took her studies very seriously. She read every step in every textbook, and made sure to triple check her math everytime. She once heard the Inazuman proverb “Measure Twice, Cut once” meaning to ensure you do it right the first time. With her nervous nature and diligence to the craft, Sucrose believed she had to go above and beyond to ensure the best standards for her work. After all, how else could she ever catch up to master Albedo at any other rate?

This of course carried over to the strange old book she discovered fallen behind a bookshelf in the knights of favonius library. Judging from the wear and tear, it was definitely on the older side. The spine was torn, the cover dirty, and the pages barely holding themselves together. After careful observation, Sucrose found that some of the pages remained intact, and had strange recipes listed within for various alchemical crafts. Browsing the page, Sucrose read through the contents carefully; super fish bait, fire defense armor, Plant fertilizer for some native plant for sumeru, and lastly some sort of trash eating slime.

Sucrose took interest in the last one immediately. Sitting up from her chair, she peered down looking closely at the words inscribed on the tattered page. “If I can get this working, Mondstadt will never have a trash problem ever again!” Sucrose ran across the lab to her workstation and hastily prepared the materials listed on the page. Thankfully, despite the aged page, the instructions and ingredients remained mostly legible to the young alchemist, all except a torn off section at the bottom, but surely that was a project to tackle another day. Sucrose filled her arms with vials, and small boxes, and pouches of various fluids and materials from all across Teyvat, and set them down at the lab station, organizing them neatly into rows for use in the trial run. Lighting a small flame beneath a cauldron, Sucrose started mixing the ingredients one after another until they melted into a silvery broth. Carefully lifting the hot pot from the burner, Sucrose slowly brought the silvery fluid over to the alchemy bench, and started to slowly pour the mixture into the round basin.

Sucrose set down the cauldron and tossed aside her safety gloves, setting her hands onto the basin. “Earth, Wind, and Fire, Craft for me what I desire” Sucrose chanted, breathing elemental power into the work station. The silver liquid glowed brightly upon the power of anemo channeling into it. The light grew brighter and with a sudden flash and a puff of smoke, the liquid coalesced into a small slime like state. Sucrose looked down at the shimmering blob with curiosity. It seemed to resemble an elemental slime, which were a fairly common creature, but this color was unique and one of a kind as far as she knew. Sucrose turned to examine her notes, and the tattered page’s description seemed to align with the small pocket sized slime that lay before her on the table. “I suppose there’s only one way to test if the recipe worked.” Sucrose mumbled aloud as she wrote down notes in her notebook. The apprentice alchemist, grabbed an empty box from the ingredients pile and tore it into several small pieces, before scattering the pile across the alchemy bench. As the pieces of the box fell, the parts that came into contact with the slime, melted into the silver mass, and the slime stretched outwards, enveloping the whole pieces into itself. “The trial test is a success.” Sucrose noted in her book, pacing back and forth. “Subject has dissolved the box scraps into nothing and has- grown?” Sucrose looked at the bench, the slime after assimilating the box, had absorbed its mass, growing larger in size. Sucrose placed a glass jar over the slime, halting its spread on the workstation. That was for a second before the slime absorbed the glass and grew larger yet. “That’s not good.” Sucrose noted aloud. “Now how to destroy the slime.” Sucrose nervously laughed, backing towards the desk to review the notes in the page. “Where is it, where is it.” Sucrose hastily scanned the page looking for answers, but the bottom of the page cutoff right at the section labeled “Disposal”. Sucrose felt a weight in her chest, if she couldn’t contain the slime what was she going to do to stop it from eating everything? Just then, Sucrose felt something touch her leg and looked down to see the slime on her feet, melting her shoes and the bottoms of her leggings into thin air. “Ahh!” Sucrose squeaked, stumbling back away from the desk, but with her feet stuck in place, all she succeeded in was tumbling over onto the carpet. Sucrose looked towards her legs, as the slime crawled up further, eating her thigh-highs with every growing inch. “Take this!” Sucrose yelled and blasted the slime with a strong gale of wind, sending it off her and into the wall across from her. This did little to save her thigh-highs as the creature and held onto them tightly, and taken them with when separated from the distressed alchemist. Sucrose looked at the creature sitting disorientated and, back at herself to take inventory of her current outfit. Her pale legs were on full display, and her dress seemed unscathed for now. The real issue now stemmed from how she was going to escape this mess. Surely Albedo could deal with this creature effortlessly, but the creature lay between herself and the door. Maybe if she made a break for it she, could tarp the creature inside here, and get help to deal with it. Before it eats mondstadt whole.