Nikolai can analyze any object, machine, or stucture and instantly visualize its blueprint in his mind. This includes its components, how it works, and possible improvements or repairs. This also works with concoctions and gases. Thes blueprints are only created from what he understands, complicated designs take longer and cause mental fatigue. unfamiliar materials or mechanisms cause incomplete blueprints
This allows Nikolai to manifest or assemble small tools, parts, or materials instantly from his blueprints/ imagination. He uses tis to build gadgets, weapons, or healing devices. Larger and complex creations takes more time, energy, and resources.
Nikolai can accelerate growth of plants, manipulating them t provide necessary resources for his concoctions or machines. He needs seed and only works with plants he's familiar with.
He can transmute basic materials into more useful forms or combine them to create new resources, this does not include the living or magical objects. He's skilled at mixing plants and magic to create fuels, gases, or explosives. rare or complex materials takes time, skills, and specific ingredients. It drains energy, especially eith larger quantities or rare materials. volatile substances requires precision and concentrarion