Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 219 Taking the Fission Potion
Locke nodded. “Okay, but I can’t wait a week. I have a lot of magic paintings that I need you to paint, at least six basic magic paintings, and I may also need you to make magic painting traps and magic painting maps.”

"Afterwards, depending on the situation, there may be more needs."

Locke concealed his true needs within a large number of seemingly dispensable ones.

"If you can't come right away, I'll have to find someone else."

"Anyway, there should be a lot of quick sketch artists here."

Upon hearing this, Elagabalus was immediately excited; he clearly didn't want to miss out on such a big project for him.

"Etc., etc……"

"I can put the other scattered drawings aside for now. Anyway, those people aren't in such a hurry. Even if I wait a few more days, it shouldn't be a big deal. Waiting for a draft is quite common."

Elagabalus laughed and said, "Compared to that, I would prefer to work on the project you have in mind. I think it is more artistic and artistically challenging."

Locke nodded in satisfaction. "Alright then."

"I'll give you the address. By the way... that magic painting you put on your door, did it hypnotize me the moment I came in?"

Locke had long noticed that his mental fluctuations were somewhat abnormal. The moment Locke pointed it out, he immediately saw the true nature of the entire gallery.

The gallery had no exquisite decorations whatsoever, and there were no luxurious red carpets hanging on the walls. It was just a rough gallery that looked like an unfinished house.

While Elagabalus was indeed adorned with gold and silver, he wasn't wearing any expensive magical gems; they were just cheap stones.

Illusions cannot be exposed; once exposed, the entire illusion will collapse.

The illusion will automatically dissipate once you become aware of it.

Locke learned this concept in the All Things class of the Dark Elf Sasari; it's a universal solution to magic from the Illusion school.

Elagabalus, caught off guard, gave an awkward laugh and sighed. "Life isn't easy, my guest."

"The rent at the Chimera Market is just too expensive, so I try to save money wherever I can. But you know, artists like us need a proper storefront, otherwise people will doubt our talent."

"Therefore, I could only place several magical paintings with a collective hypnotic effect at the entrance, so that everyone who entered my gallery would not see the real face, but a magnificent gallery."

Elagabalus smiled guiltily.

Locke didn't say anything, only that "this is indeed a good way to save money. It also allows you to demonstrate your skills as a sketch artist to your guests."

The act of simply hypnotizing customers who enter this gallery is a double-edged sword, and some people are very wary of such things.

When Elagabalus heard Locke praise him, he immediately beamed with joy, "My guest, you truly understand me."

"That's certainly true..."

Elagabalus smiled at Locke and said, “It is a pleasure to work with a customer who respects art as much as you do.”

After exchanging a few polite words with him, Locke left the shop and headed home to return to his three-piece suit.

In the evening, in the simple laboratory, one of his three essential items.

Locke mixed a drop of fission potion with water and injected it into a white rat. The rat exploded in less than a second.

Meanwhile, Locke incorporated the reaction time into a drug reaction formula he had developed over the past two weeks and performed calculations. "After two weeks of careful calculations, the fission agent is indeed extremely potent. If I had taken it before, given my physical condition at the time, it would have been somewhere between safe and dangerous."

“But with my current physique, according to my calculation formula, as long as I activate the Three-Eyed Tiger Cat bloodline in my body with magic power during the period of taking it, I will be in a state of absolute safety.” Locke said, “After my repeated calculations, my calculations should be correct, and the formula is basically accurate.”

"That way, I can publish an article about taking the fission drug."

"This formula for calculating physical strength is my original research. Of course, it is quite difficult to meet the physical strength conditions I calculated. It should be impossible to achieve through ordinary bloodline modification methods."

Locke took out a bottle of fission potion, and without hesitation, drank it down in one gulp. The orange-red potion entered his throat.

In an instant, his eyes filled with a golden-red light.

He felt streams of magical power appear out of thin air and converge towards him, his body was in an extremely high temperature, and in the mirror, his body was even faintly glowing.

This magical power that appeared out of nowhere was the fission potion, which caused elemental fission within his body. Some of the food he had eaten was constantly splitting into fire element particles and light element particles.

The energy generated by the fission of these elements is the source of his magical power being increased out of thin air.

Essentially, this requires treating one's body as a reaction vessel undergoing a violent reaction.

If the body lacks sufficient strength, even instantaneous death is possible.

Under this extreme pressure, Locke directly activated the Three-Eyed Tiger Cat bloodline within his body. A demonic eye appeared on his forehead, while tiger stripes covered his entire body.

Its robust physique allowed it to withstand the elemental fission reaction directly, and even when its entire body glowed and heated up, it didn't cause any major problems.

More than twenty minutes later, the element fission reaction disappeared.

Locke deactivated his bloodline activation and used the Amethyst Matrix to check his mana, finding it to be 505.

Locke wiped the sweat from his forehead; he was now drenched in sweat, as if he had just climbed out of a swimming pool, and his clothes were soaked through.

"Sure enough, this method can quickly increase my magic power, and the quality of the magic power is actually very high."

"The resulting drug toxicity can be eradicated with deep purple jade."

"Taking one dose of this potion will increase my current mana by 5 points. Although it does cause some harm to my body, even now, I can only take two doses a month. The effect will likely weaken with subsequent doses, and I won't be able to increase my mana by 5 points every time."

"But it's much better than before when I couldn't take even one dose."

Locke pondered, "With my current physical condition, I'm afraid I can no longer take more than three Eye Magic Potions per month."

"Even if I don't participate in the teacher's operation to obtain the spinal fluid of the Tartarus Cave Worm, I should be able to reach a mental strength of 600 in six months to a year."

"This speed far exceeds my previous estimate of four years, even with the Eye Magic Potion and other resources at their maximum."

Locke said, "This is all thanks to the fact that I strengthened my physique with the bloodline of the Three-Eyed Tiger Cat, which gave me more drug resistance."

"But I still have to participate in the undercover decapitation operation. If I can obtain a large amount of Tartarus cave worm spinal fluid, it can significantly shorten the time it takes for me to reach the mental strength level of 800 when I am about to become a formal wizard."

"Moreover, this matter is very important to Teacher Sophia."

(End of this chapter)