started his alchemy basic lessons from the siblings in earnest. He still could not use his divine methods due to the sheer immensity of power needed, 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 the necromancy branch of refining living beings to 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 a century.
Austin then meditated in his room after taking some mana crystals (crystals which mana is stored) as he broke into the first mortal level as he tried to sense an essence true body and alas, he was shocked as his faint essence true body 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 law.
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 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 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.