Does philosophers stone really exists?
The philosopher’s stone is silver ore (or so sources say. Google it). It is believed to hold the key to alchemy. As in the anime, alchemy is the study of change. It follows similar teachings to other magic, such as a “tier” of existence from lower forms to higher forms. Alchemy takes two primary routes based on its goals. . . Western alchemy was primarily for profit, turning lead into gold and the like, and had some emphasis on health and medicine. Eastern alchemy, on the other hand, had a high emphasis on healing and immortality, with some emphasis on profit (as a historical note, it was a Chinese alchemist who invented gunpowder. He mixed honey, sulfur, charcoal, and potassium nitrate together and heated them, in an effort to make a potion for immortality. He narrowly escaped death by immolation from the resulting fire.) Alchemy is not my area of expertise, but it’s about inducing the evolution of a lower form to a higher form, be it a simple stone transforming into a diamond, or a m