Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 169 Taking the Eye Demon Potion
After purchasing the Eye Magic Potion and the Fission Potion, Locke went to Lijin's Whisper and found Yuri Burns, where he spent 300 magic stones to rent a [Differential Magic Mirror].

The differential mirror is a device typically used by professional breeders.

It is mainly used to assist in the magic resonance cultivation method and the grafting cultivation method.

The Differential Magic Mirror does not display the reflection of the magical plant in the mirror, but rather the magical components and plant essence within the plant.

When combined with the Focus Technique Single Lens, certified breeders can use the Magic Colloidal Breeding Method to conduct more precise targeted mutation breeding.

Locke borrowed it mainly to speed up the breaking of the curse on the magical plant and to accelerate the cultivation of a variant of the mutated emerald iris lichen.

These devices can help create more variants of Emerald Iris lichen faster, thus better breaking the curse of the Blood Curse Court.

At the same time, he also prepared a data report on Emerald Iris to use in the finals of the White Wizards Association's Breeder Competition.

However, before participating in the finals, Locke felt that he should use Emerald Iris Lichen to make a Bear Spirit Bile Potion to verify the effect of this synthetic magical plant on the potion, and write a report on the experimental data of this effect enhancement.

Then, synthesize the potion yourself, find a special synthesis formula, and then release a new potion.

If this cycle continues, who knows how many articles will be published as a result.

Even if it's just doing some data summarization work, I estimate I could publish several B-level articles.

Inside the Lijin Secrets shop, shopkeeper Yuri watched with some surprise as Locke's gray dwarf servants carried the Difference Mirror onto the carriage.

She whispered to Locke, "Dear Locke, it looks like you're going to be quite busy lately. The Differential Mirror is a rather advanced breeding device, and it's only used when conducting very delicate breeding activities."

"Most breeders don't need the Differential Mirror at all."

Locke nodded slightly. "There is indeed a problem recently that requires its use."

Store manager Yuri chuckled softly, "If even you think it's difficult, then it must really be quite complicated."

Locke nodded. The curse of the magical plant was a curse carefully designed by the wizard seeds of the Blood Curse Court. Its profound and mysterious nature would indeed leave most of the first-class wizard apprentices in Lilith's Hut helpless.

It is estimated that even within the Blood Curse Court's Curse Technique Research Institute, the plant curse system is among the best in the apprentice-level curse system.

In the past month, another patient afflicted with the curse of the magical plant has joined his team.

Furthermore, because Lilith's Hut currently lacks interdisciplinary talent in potion-making and breeding, no wizard apprentices from the Healing Hand Clinic have come to solve this problem so far.

Since it involved the field of breeding, Anglong simply pretended to know nothing and didn't go to his so-called studio in the treatment center even once for a whole month.

He was afraid that Locke, Anglu, and Aisie would push the two patients in their hands onto him.

However, unlike Luckin Coffee, the people cursed this time were two first-class wizard apprentices, so although the curse on them could not be lifted, it was not a big problem for them.

Both individuals have now left the treatment center.

As long as they take a bottle of Lesser Emerald Elixir each month to remove the curse, nothing will happen. However, since the curse on their bodies is not completely eradicated, their strength is greatly reduced, and they have to live in constant fear.

Therefore, this plant curse is far less dangerous than Hussein's blood curse, which is why the four potion-making wizards in the academy were not urged by the academy to come and resolve this curse.

After Locke finished buying what he needed for his trip to the Chimera Market, he had his servant deliver the items to his residence.

That evening, in his study, Locke was in his bedroom when he opened a vial of Eye Magic Potion. Inside the vial, an eyeball was floating in a clear liquid.

The eyeball in the liquid seemed to still be alive, with the nerves around it dancing and twitching.

The moment Locke opened the vial of Eye Magic Potion, the eyeball inside the transparent liquid seemed to instinctively roll upwards.

Locke suppressed his nausea and poured the potion into his body in one gulp. Without even chewing, he swallowed the eyeball whole.

"This taste is absolutely disgusting." "But there's no other way to increase my meditation efficiency."

Locke felt his stomach churning. The eye potion he had just drunk began to take effect in less than a minute, and the world in his eyes began to turn colorful.

A string of eyeballs appeared before his eyes.

At the same time, his mental energy seemed to be affected by the potion, becoming unusually sensitive. The abyssal energy toxicity in the potion mixed with his mental energy, making his mental energy both unusually sensitive and unusually pleasurable.

It's a unique emotion, a mixture of sadness and pleasure.

Everything in front of me seemed to have grown an eye.

Locke roused himself, focused all his attention, and immediately took a bottle of energy potion and a bottle of Star Tear potion. He then lit the incense burner in front of him with the fragrance of seasonal fruit kernels.

He entered a meditative state, and this time he felt that his perception had become exceptionally sharp. The natural planes that he used to have to look at from afar suddenly became very close to him.

The dimensional power I obtained from the natural plane has increased by at least two times.

The only problem is that the distant phantom of that natural plane in the void seems to have grown a green eye in my eyes at this moment, and as time goes by, a red eye is slowly growing out of this green eye.

'This potion has at least doubled my original meditation efficiency!' Locke thought in astonishment. 'It's just that the effect is too strong.'

'I feel like my consciousness is about to split open. All I see are eyeballs, and they seem to be trying to communicate with me. No, no, that's all a hallucination. The side effects of this Eye Demon Potion are truly severe.'

My train of thought is getting completely off track.

Locke noticed that the magic power gained from meditating after taking the Eye Demon Potion was mixed with many impurities, some of which seemed to contain abyssal energy.

However, he possessed a deep blue gemstone that could filter out these magical impurities, and a deep purple jade that could purify the potion's toxicity.

So, after going through all that, these side effects completely disappeared.

The only problem is that the hallucinations and mental confusion caused by the Eye Demon Potion seem to be a side effect that one has to endure.

"If I could use the Eye Demon Potion every day, I could probably reach a mental strength of 600 within three years," Locke thought. "Of course, that's impossible."

"Even without the side effects of impurities in magic and the toxicity of the potion, the side effects of the Eye Demon Potion on my mind alone mean that I can't take it too many times."

"But I can take it more frequently than a regular first-class wizard apprentice, who takes it once every three months. I can take about five doses a month, which will shorten the time it takes for my magic power to reach 600 by about two years."

"In this way, I should be able to reach a mental strength of 600 in about four years."

Four years later, Locke was only 22 years old.

It still has a very promising future.

But that's not enough. We can actually try to speed it up. Reaching 600 mental strength in four years is still too slow.

I don't know how many more years it will take for me to reach a mental strength of 800, which is the threshold for becoming a formal wizard.

Locke looked nervously at the second potion in his hand, the Fission Potion. He pondered for a moment. "I'd better wait a bit. I haven't recovered from the side effects of the Eye Demon Potion yet."

"I'd better take the advice and find a magical creature to test the dosage safely before taking this fission potion."

"I don't know exactly how strong the physical fitness required for the fission potion is."

"If even after I activate the Earth Magic Rune of the Ancient Giant Bear in Orkni and enhance my defense, my physical condition is still not good enough to take the fission potion, then I'll be in trouble."

(End of this chapter)