Wizard: Starting With Synthesized Gems - Chapter 279

Chapter 278 Obtaining the Promotion Potion

Chapter 278 Obtaining the Promotional Potion
Locke followed Harlan Vera’s previous instructions and came to the edge of the academy’s port city. There was an alchemy hut with a crucible on the roof. The crucible on the top of the alchemy hut was still steaming.

When these hot gases evaporate to the top of the alchemy hut, they form rain clouds, then turn into rain and fall back into the crucible.

In this way, the potion liquid inside the crucible on the roof will remain at a certain level for a long time.

Locke stood in front of the alchemy hut, sniffed it gently, and immediately raised his brow. “It seems to be some kind of potion that temporarily enhances magic power.”

“It shouldn’t be just one type of potion, but a mixture of more than a dozen types of potions.”

“And they’re all quite high-level. Mixing potions is the domain of a proper potion master. But this number is truly outrageous. Is this some kind of ornament made using potion evaporation techniques combined with alchemical equipment? It seems to be more than just a decoration.”

He looked up at the crucible the size of a swimming pool in the alchemy hut, which was filled with some special potion.

Locke suspected that if a battle had taken place nearby, the potion in the crucible decoration would have played some role in some way.

A slightly old voice came from the alchemy hut. “Please come in.”

“Student, what can I do for you?”

The door of the alchemy hut opened, and an old witch wearing a white wizard robe, who looked a little old, walked out. Behind her were some crucibles placed on iron racks, and various magical flames were burning under those crucibles.

Locke saluted the witch, who was one of the seven senior consultants of Lilith’s House, Claudia Forbes. She was one of the most powerful potion makers in Lilith’s House, and her representative work was Pure Blood Potion.

The main direction of her research in the field of alchemy is to study how potions can unlock special talents in the human body.

This direction of potions is almost the most difficult to produce results in the field of potions, so few people will study it.

As long as you study this direction, it almost means that you will not be able to publish any high-quality articles or produce any results for a long time.

You need to study day and night, or you will waste your whole life, or suddenly come up with something big one day.

Except for truly brilliant potion masters, no one would choose to study in this direction, and there are definitely quite a few geniuses who have been delayed because of this.

Locke saluted Claudia and explained his purpose. “Lord Forbes, I am Locke Augustine, a student of Wizard Harlan Vera. I am here to receive the potion for my advancement.”

“My mental strength has reached 800.”

“According to the academy’s regulations, I have come here specifically to apply for advancement to Potions.”

The old witch Forbes looked at Locke in surprise, a cunning look flashing in her eyes. “Locke Augustine, I remember you.”

“That Bear Spirit Green Gallbladder Potion you made is very interesting.”

“Didn’t I remember you being promoted to First-Class Wizard Apprentice in less than two years? Am I right? Are you going to apply for advancement to Potions so soon?”

The old witch Forbes looked Locke up and down, then nodded and said, “Yes, your magic power has almost reached that threshold, and it’s even slightly exceeded.”

She was slightly surprised and said, “There are very few students who can reach this level in such a short time. The last one was Witch Sophia.”

“Oh, that’s your teacher.”

Claudia Forbes invited Locke in. “Come in, then. Has your teacher explained the rules to you?”

Locke said to the old witch Forbes, “Yes, Teacher Harlan told me a lot of taboos, and I also have to sign a top-level confidentiality agreement with the association before I can get a bottle of promotion potion for free.”

“As a deal, I need to sign an agreement with the academy that if I become a formal wizard, I will give priority to this school. If I do not choose to stay, I must make corresponding returns to this academy.”

This is also relatively reasonable.

After all, I can only get so many resources through the Lilith Hut platform. If I choose to leave in the end, Lilith Hut is not a charity organization, and I will definitely need to make some kind of compensation.

Of course, the prices offered by Lilith Hut are basically reasonable.

The reason why Witch Sophia needed to kill an official wizard before she could leave was simply because she wanted to shorten the time of her departure.

Otherwise, an ordinary formal wizard can get the right to leave after working for the academy for thirty to fifty years.

The lifespan of a proper wizard is extremely long, so this doesn’t really matter.

Essentially, the academy will not take the initiative to break up with the formal wizards it has trained, and the two sides still have a relationship of mutual achievement.

After a formal wizard leaves the academy, his achievements can still indirectly increase the glory of the wizarding organization he came from and gain the right to recruit more outstanding students.

Claudia Forbes smiled strangely, looked at Locke and said, “Then sign these two contracts.”

“After you sign these two contracts, I’ll give you the advancement potion.”

“Locke, sit down.”

Locke sat down at a table and read through two contracts before signing the agreement.

After seeing him sign the agreement, the old witch Forbes turned around and walked to the back of the room. She searched among the messy potions on the floor and picked up a few bottles of potions. She looked at them, then turned around and took the [Sacrificial Potion] in her hand and handed it to Locke.
The old witch Forbes said, “Here you go, young genius.”

“This is the sacrificial potion that was supposed to be given to you.”

Locke pursed his lips and turned to look at the old witch Forbes and the pile of garbage behind her. He realized that this sacrificial potion was thrown on the ground like garbage and piled up into a mountain.

After receiving the sacrificial potion, Locke couldn’t help but say, “Lord Forbes, I thought… I thought this potion was very precious.”

“After all, the confidentiality level is so high.”

The old witch Forbes blinked and said in surprise, “How is that possible? Sacrificial potions are the simplest potions and are very easy to make. With your current level, if I patiently teach you for a few years, you might be able to make it yourself.”

“You don’t even need to be an official wizard.”

Locke was surprised and said, “Then the number of sacrificial potions is not small at all?”

Old Witch Forbes’s eyes darkened. “Yes, there are quite a few, but the real scarcity isn’t in the potion itself, but rather the wizards’ talent. This potion is so terrifying that the formula must be restricted, the people who can make it must be restricted, and the sales channels must be restricted.”

“The most terrifying thing about it is that its preparation is too simple, and the ingredients used are too common. The effects after taking it are too fixed, and the side effects are too clear.”

“And if the Association doesn’t restrict it, it will be able to directly destroy a wizarding land.”

Old Witch Forbes felt a touch of pride. “Thanks to the Association’s trust in me, I was chosen as one of the relatively rare Sacrificial Potion Preparers in the Southeastern Region.”

She proudly pointed to the distinctive emblem on her chest, symbolizing the Sacrificial Potion Preparer. “These memories are protected by the second-level magic of the Association’s School of Psychic Studies, the Psychic Secrecy Spell.”

“Therefore, no one can steal the formula of this potion from my mind; or take it away; or spy on it; or control me and make me actively tell him the formula using various methods; or occupy my body and read my sea of consciousness to obtain the formula; or deceive me and make me accidentally tell him the formula.”

Locke nodded in admiration. “That’s very thoughtful, Lord Forbes.”

Just by hearing what the old witch Forbes said, Locke felt that the defense was extremely tight.

I couldn’t think of any other way to force the formula from her.

Even the old witch Forbes herself couldn’t tell the recipe to anyone.

Moreover, it seems that the finished product of this sacrificial potion must have undergone a very high level of confidentiality measures at the formula level, and potion masters cannot reversely deduce its formula through its finished product.

Old Witch Forbes said, “Okay, now I’m going to tell you the true effect of the sacrificial potion. This damn cursed effect has harmed countless wizarding geniuses.”

“How many people have lost their entire future because of it.”

(End of this chapter)