8mi Chapter 21 Improved Formula for Tranquilizing Herbal Ointment: Death Coil [Please, dear readers, scr
Chapter 21 Improved Formula for Tranquilizing Herbal Ointment: Death Coil [Please, dear readers, scr
The following day, at the Potions Masters Association.
Suen stood in front of the counter for a long time before she finally understood the certification rules for potion masters.
Besides selling potions to potion shops, most of the wizards in the Oak Crown cooperate through the Potions Masters Guild by signing contracts.
The association provides sales channels, and potion makers only need to focus on making potions to earn a stable income of magic stone coins.
After all, the potion supply for the entire tower is handled by the Potions Masters Association.
However, to sell potions through the official channels of the Potions Masters Association, one must obtain certification from the association and become a professional potions master.
"Mastering ten potion recipes isn't too difficult; the key is innovating or improving a potion recipe, which must also be approved by the council..."
Suen rubbed her temples, feeling a bit of a headache.
With his current knowledge and skills, it would be a pipe dream to develop a completely new potion. The only hope is to stand on the shoulders of the wizard Celsus and improve a potion formula.
Yesterday, Deitz also revealed that the midterm exams are approaching, and these exams will most likely take place in the Misty Forest Ruins of the Bewildering Wilderness.
According to intelligence, the monsters and magical beasts in this area are generally at the mid-tier of Tier 1, with some even possessing the strength of the advanced Tier 1, which is equivalent to a high-level apprentice.
For a wizard apprentice who has only been enrolled for half a year, facing a mid-level first-tier magical beast means that a slight mistake could cost them their life in the misty forest.
Most novice apprentices have only just completed building their spiritual body at this stage and have only mastered one or two zero-ring spells.
Even the few apprentices who are ahead in progress have no chance of winning in a head-on confrontation with magical beasts that are close to the strength of advanced apprentices.
With the sales channels for the calming herbal ointment blocked, the source of income from magic stone coins was cut off.
The other party's move was entirely intended to stifle him in the wilderness, completely cutting off any hope of further advancement in the future.
A chill ran through Suen's heart as she turned and walked towards the trade zone with all her savings.
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One week later, on the third floor of the Potions Masters Association in Mordor City.
Leonard yawned. This month, he was in charge of reviewing applications for apprentice-level potions, and the three-star badge on his chest showed the potion master's qualifications.
Although he was only an advanced apprentice, his potion-making skills were in no way inferior to those of a formal wizard.
Several application reports were spread out on the table in front of him. The most recent one was simply to replace a catalyst in the formula of the rune healing potion, which increased the potency by 10%.
The report itself was fairly well-written, but Leonard was too lazy to read it carefully.
This job is tedious and boring, and most wizarding apprentices are often filled with all sorts of unrealistic fantasies.
They always thought that by simply modifying the formula and having someone balance the reaction equation, they could produce groundbreaking results. In reality, most of these were just copies and compilations of previous research, with no innovation whatsoever.
The Council is one of the most important institutions in the Potions Masters Association, and it is responsible for the grading of Potions Masters.
Each wizarding apprentice can only submit one application per year.
Only after the review and evaluation are approved can one be eligible to submit a new application.
It didn't pass, so this year is over.
In addition, there are complicated testing procedures, including ingredient analysis, efficacy verification, and adverse reaction screening.
An application often takes a long time to go from submission to final review.
This process was originally designed specifically for formal wizards.
The assessment of apprentices is a completely different story.
Ordinary apprentices already exhaust all their energy just dealing with meditation, practicing witchcraft, and acquiring resources.
Even those who have the spare energy to study potion-making are either exceptionally talented geniuses or scions with family backgrounds to support them.
Only a handful of people manage to get to the point of improving the formula throughout the year.
Therefore, the council is perpetually polarized: the wizards responsible for vetting formal wizards are extremely busy, while those responsible for vetting apprentices...
Leonard picked up his teacup and yawned again.
He turned to the next report, and his gaze suddenly fixed on it.
The report was titled "An Improvement Strategy Based on the Formula of Tranquilizing Herbal Ointment," and the author's name was unfamiliar: Novice Wizard Apprentice, Ian Lister.
"A mere novice apprentice dares to attempt to improve the calming herbal ointment?"
Leonard put down his teacup and opened the report with great interest.
The Crown of Oaks is nestled in the moonlight, as clear as water.
Suen slowly opened her eyes from her meditation, sensing the changes in her mental energy and assessing the effects of the improved calming herbal ointment.
"Compared to before, the effect has only improved by about 5%."
Even with the aid of calming herbal ointment, his poor aptitude was once again exposed after he was promoted to junior apprentice.
To advance to the intermediate apprentice level, one must liquefy one's mental energy and reach a level of 10.
His current mental strength has just crossed the threshold of 2.0.
The calming herbal ointment he used was a version he personally improved. So far, the efficacy has not changed much, but the cost has been reduced by nearly 20%.
To complete this improvement, he spent almost all his savings to buy a batch of potion-making notes, most of which were apprentice-level potion-making notes.
Of these, only three notebooks offered any intellectual insights, barely enough to form the Sands of Time.
It was based on the experience gained from these notes that Suen became intimately familiar with the formula for the calming herbal ointment. Through repeated experiments, she optimized the reaction formula, reducing the amount of melancholy mushrooms and replacing them with the cheaper shadow flowers from the perspective of elemental balance.
A few days later, in the Oak Crown Combat Training Room.
The walls, constructed with anti-magic materials, isolated all external magical fluctuations.
Suen stood in the center of the training room, surrounded by a layer of ice-blue light that condensed into translucent ice armor on her skin.
On the opposite side, the core rune on the golem's chest flickered, and a magic missile pierced through the air.
The missile exploded in a ring-shaped shockwave the instant it struck the ice armor.
Fine cracks appeared on the surface of the frost armor, but it did not shatter and maintained its defensive effect.
Suen used his mental power to sense the changes and estimated that he could withstand about two more attacks of the same intensity.
However, if it's an attack involving a fire arrow or a wind blade, it can't withstand more than one hit.
At the same time, about 20% of the magic power in the body was consumed, which means that under full magic power, one can release Frost Armor four times.
Suen withdrew his mental energy, and the frost armor on his body turned into specks of light and dissipated.
Immediately afterwards, another emerald green rune on the four spiritual bodies in the sea of consciousness began to glow faintly.
Zero-ring sorcery: Thorn Entanglement.
As magic surged from his hands, a clump of dark green vines appeared at the golem's feet, quickly taking root and binding the golem's legs, rendering it unable to move.
"Too slow!"
Suen couldn't help but frown. The entire spellcasting process took about twenty seconds. If they encountered an enemy in the wilderness, the moment the magic was activated, it would probably be detected.
According to the records in the sorcery scroll, with practice, the casting time can be reduced to five to eight seconds.
Furthermore, if the seeds of enchanted plants are used as the casting material, the power of Thorn Entanglement can be increased by 30% to 50%.
"The control effect is quite outstanding, but its practicality is average."
After watching the vines persist for about twenty seconds before turning into green light and dissipating, Suen concluded the location of the thorny entanglement.
At this moment, he had only half of the magic power left in his body.
These two spells are all the trump cards he can currently use in the midterm exam.
After buying these two sorcery models, I was completely out of magic coins.
As for Morris's evil fire arrow, Wyatt's words alone are not enough to judge the true harm of the Curse of Truth, so Suen decided to leave it alone for the time being.
However, while waiting for the review, he could go to the Great Library to look through the materials.
Fortunately, I had saved some money from selling calming herbal ointment before, so I bought a monthly card, and now I'm not so badly unable to even read books.