At night, in my room.
　I was training in magical control.

　I placed a pile of stones on the table by the window.
　Each stone was about the size of a knuckle.

　Take one of them and fill it with magic.
　You are training to remember the direction you want to go and the amount of magic needed to change it.

　If you just pour your magic power in without thinking, you'll be the best at this kind of change, but of course you can change in other directions as well.
　I'm training for that.

Oops, another failure.

　The stone in the palm of your hand has become metal.
　From the luster and texture, it seems to have turned to copper.

　It's a mistake, considering what I'm trying to change.

　I have a tremendous amount of magic left over.
　I'm being driven around on a wild horse without the reins.

　I want to be able to control an unprecedented amount of magic, one of the strongest in history.
　No, you have to become one.
　You've got a huge amount of magic and if you have too much of it, you'll have a problem if you lose control.
　That's what I'm training for.

　Take the stone and put your magic in.
　The stone is now iron, and you've failed.

　Pick up the next stone and let it work its magic again.
　A little adjustment and now it's silver. You failed again.

　And so on.
　Eventually, you created the gold you wanted.

　I scavenged some random stones from the garden and turned them into gold by magical transmutation.
　Gold of the exact same size.
　You put it down and take a new stone.
　I did the same thing, and it turned out to be gold.

　By changing things up a bit, you now take the silver and add magic.
　Yes, it's now gold too.

That's right, you have to learn to do it the other way around.

　Now the successful one, the gold created from the stone is enchanted.
　The gold is now back in stone.

　I got the hang of it, I took all the stones on the table and turned them into gold.
　The gold piled up on the table could buy a few houses or hundreds of slaves.

　It comes from a pile of stones--for free.

I'm home, Master Alec--huh?
Welcome home Angel. You're wearing pink pajamas today. It's cute.
"Thank you, Mr. Alec.

　Angel smiled happily.
　She was slightly uptight from the hot water, and had changed into a pair of loose-fitting pajamas to sleep in.
　Normally, she'd crawl into bed afterwards and sleep until morning.

　Angel naturally noticed the gold piled up on the table.

Can I get you something to eat, Alec?
No, I was just practicing my magic.
"Practice magic?
"Yeah, like this.

　I took a gold one and put it in the palm of my hand and held it out for Angers to see.

　Then I put the magic in.
　Let the gold transform into matter.

First a stone.
"Wow, the gold has turned to stone.
"Then lead, copper, iron, silver and also gold

　The original stone on the palm of the hand changed dizzyingly.
　Each metal shines differently, but the shape remains exactly the same.
　I thought it was a strange sight, but it seemed to me that the stones were blinking in different colors.

Wow, that's great, Mr. Alec!
It's not enough to have high magic power, you have to be able to control it.
"Yes!　That's right!

　I smiled and put all the practice objects on the table back from the gold to the original pebbles.
　I'm getting used to it, and in no time at all it will be all turned back to stone.

Why are you turning to stone, Mr. Alec?
"It's not a very good thing to make gold out of stone,

　Ordinary magic can't do it.
　Creating gold from base metal has been dreamed of by various wizards throughout history.
　They managed to do it with SSS-ranked magic.

So this is a secret between me and Angel. Don't tell anyone that I can do this.

　Then, with a wink, Angier clenched his fists adorably with both hands and said, "Yes!

"Yes, sir!　I will not tell anyone, ever.
"Thank you Angers
"Oh, Master Alec, there's one more gold left in there.
"Let's see which one is true." ......

　In the lump of a stone, there is one gold that was forgotten to be put back.
　Gold is rarely in the form of a stone.
　It's usually in the shape of a gold coin, a gold nugget, or some accessory.



　This is the kind of form that, if you let it exist, a person with good instincts will notice.

Thank you Angier, that was really helpful.
"Ehehehe ......

　With a beaming grin, Angel.
　I worked my magic to turn that gold back into stone.
　Suddenly something flashed in my head.

　A flash, even to myself, a flash of inspiration, but I don't know what it was.
　But the word "wow" was the only word that remained clear in my head.

......

　I tightened my grip on the stone again.
　I was transformed in the palm of my hand, but I returned to my original intentions and wrapped my hands in a praying gesture to put the magic in.

　Pack in magic, pack in and change.
　Unlike the daytime, when you didn't know what to do, you put an enormous amount of magic power into it, but you're careful not to make the original substance disappear.

　A rampaging horse and very complex reinsmanship.
　Like saying "go" and "stop" at the same time.

　Be meticulous in keeping the pebbles from vanishing.
　The stone was like a sponge that kept sucking in my magic.

　My palms grew hot in my hands, as if I were holding a small sun.
　Eventually, weakness and dizziness overtook me.

　A sensation I had in a previous life, the weakness of exhausting my magic.

　It's one of the strongest, SSS-ranked magic in history.
　I poured it all into the stone and transformed it.

　Open your palm and there is a stone with a strange color and an overwhelming presence that you've never seen before.

"Master Alec, is that ......?
Maybe, but

　I'm skeptical myself, but it could be so.
　No, it must be so.

　In the same moment I had an epiphany, I remembered the name of this stone.
　Perhaps this is the legendary--

"Philosopher's Stone, I guess.

　I may have made something amazing.