Clue 3

The trail leads to the Nevermore alchemy lab, where Wednesday has unearthed a crumbling, sun-dried parchment. It speaks of a long, arduous stage in Amasis's creation: the drying process, involving a mysterious salt. 'This phase is vital,' Wednesday explains, 'but its purpose and duration are detailed in a fractured text. It speaks of cause and effect, of a beginning, a middle, and a very specific end.' The parchment is not only old but jumbled. Its sentences describe the purpose, the steps, and the outcome of the drying, but they are all out of order. Your task is to correctly restructure this explanation, revealing the blueprint of how this stage truly worked. Only when the full explanation is logically laid out will the number of days Amasis needed for perfect preservation be revealed.