Miranda was utterly confused and didn't understand at all.

"Is there a problem with that?"

Anticipating this reaction, the skeleton took a swig of the alchemical potion, smiled smugly, and continued mysteriously.

"Put simply, it's not just the six basic elements, including the metal you just transmuted, as well as the metals you can't transmute. Fundamentally, they are all composed of even smaller particles! Even the so-called six basic elements can be further subdivided..."

"How is that possible?!" Miranda exclaimed in shock, saying eagerly, "I can understand that all things are composed of elements, but the six basic elements are already the smallest units constructing everything. How could they be broken down further?"

For example, the brass he had just condensed was a combination of Earth Magic and Water Magic, evolving into a metallic variant.

All things in the world are made up of six elements, except for life and death, which belong to separate systems. That's what every magic book says!

However, the skeleton standing in front of him shook its head and said with a smile,

"Too few! Have you never thought that pure water could be subdivided further?"

"You mean water vapor? That's water element combined with Fire element—"

"That's just an appearance," interrupting Miranda, the skeleton continued, "What I'm talking about is a more direct form of splitting... breaking down the water element into oxygen and hydrogen elements."

"What are those?!" Miranda was completely stunned, hearing these incomprehensible terms, and felt like he was a student.

Though he was indeed an apprentice at the academy.

"They are among the elements that make up the world," the skeleton continued, "When they exist independently, they often appear as gases."

Miranda blurted out,

"Isn't that just Air element?"

The skeleton said with a smile,

"You could see it that way, but have you ever considered that a gas and gas could be completely different from each other? If we use your theory, how would you differentiate between one Air element and another?"

Miranda was at a loss, unable to answer this question... mainly because he couldn't imagine why one gas would be different from another.

"Some gases can make fire burn, while others can extinguish it... you should figure that out on your own, it's too tiring to explain it to you."

The skeleton paused for a moment and then continued,

"Anyway, in the Great Graveyard, we have arranged the common elements into a chart, called the 'Periodic Table of Elements'. This chart contains a total of 118 elements, divided into 7 periods and 16 groups."

"Based on the characteristics of different elements, for example, when copper is burned in the fire, the electrons in the copper atoms absorb energy, jumping from the low energy orbit to the high energy orbit, and when they return to the ground state, they emit light of a specific wavelength... and this light is the green light you see."

Miranda looked at him blankly, his eyes first filled with astonishment, then skepticism, and finally self-doubt.

He had been at the academy for so many years and had never heard of such astonishing theories.

This completely overturned his understanding of the world!

"...118 elements?"

The skeleton shrugged its shoulders.

"There are 118 known, the others... theoretically are infinite, as we don't know their limits."

Miranda immediately asked,

"Then how do you prove the existence of these 118 elements?"

The skeleton was taken aback.

"There... of course, there is a way, it's just rather complicated."

Damn it!

This guy didn't expect him to demonstrate it, did he?

How the hell do you demonstrate that in a game?!

He had intended to fob the question off, but unexpectedly, the spirit in front of him seemed eager, staring at him intently.

"Please, enlighten me!"

Confronted with that thirst for knowledge, an ominous feeling arose from within the skeleton—

it seemed to have been ensnared by a serious problem.

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