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Chapter 29 Shrinkage Potion
"Armor protection!"

Dui was prepared and immediately added a layer of protective barrier to the pot as soon as he threw the porcupine quills in, covering the liquid in the pot and preventing it from splashing.

After the liquid in the pot calmed down, Dui produced a glass bottle and floated the highly corrosive liquid into the bottle.

Looking at the iron pot again, it was already corroded and riddled with holes, and was completely unusable.

Even if Dui tried to repair it with a repair spell, the iron pot could not be restored.

Seeing this result, Dui was not surprised but happy.

The potion book specifically reminded that when making scabies potion, you need to stop the fire before adding porcupine quills, otherwise the potion will dissolve the crucible and become a highly corrosive liquid.

But Dui had a different opinion after seeing it. Although this failed scabies potion couldn't be used on humans, it was extremely corrosive, far more powerful than sulfuric acid. If used on an enemy, it would definitely be a deadly weapon.

Bilbo, who also saw this scene, looked at the green liquid in the bottle in awe and didn't dare to get close to it, for fear of being contaminated by it and dying.

After making the scabies potion and the finished and failed products, Dui began to try to make another magical potion - the shrinking potion.

A shrinking potion is a magical potion that shrinks creatures or reverts them to their younger state. It typically appears as a bright green, acidic liquid. It can be used against large monsters that are resistant to spells, or to transport livestock—shrinking entire herds of pigs, cattle, and sheep into a wizard's pocket.

Similarly, if a wizard drinks a shrinking potion, his body will shrink rapidly, and the stronger the potency, the smaller the shrunken individual will be. This is often used by some bad wizards to shrink their bodies and sneak into other people's homes or vaults to steal.

The ingredients of the shrinking potion are not too complicated. The materials include shrinking figs, daisy roots, caterpillars, wormwood, leeches, mouse spleens, and poison hemlock essence.

Except for the poison hemlock essence which needs to be extracted from poison hemlock, Dui has all the other ingredients.

Dui first set up a silver crucible, then cut the hemlock into pieces and ground it into powder in a mortar, then poured it into the crucible and boiled it, constantly stirring with his magic wand, constantly adjusting and controlling the heat to ensure that the essence in the hemlock could be fully dissolved in the solvent.

"Separate left and right!" With a wave of the magic wand, the liquid and powder residue in the crucible automatically separated. The residue was filtered out and cleaned up, leaving only the medicine juice to continue boiling.

Eventually, the juice was boiled dry, leaving only a layer of grayish-white mud paste at the bottom of the pot. This was the hemlock essence needed to make shrinking potions and other magic potions.

With the hemlock essence, Dui officially began to make the shrinking potion.

The shrinking potion is part of the second-year Potions course. It is more complicated to make than the scabies potion, requiring ingredients such as shrinking figs, daisy roots, caterpillars, wormwood, leeches, mouse spleens, and hemlock essence to be blended and added one by one.

It also takes longer to make and requires more focus and care.

Dewy first squeezed the juice from the shrunken figs, retaining the skin and flesh, and added the juice to a crucible and simmered it over low heat for 20 minutes.

Add the daisy roots and caterpillars and let the potion boil until it turns dark green. Then, after the potion is concentrated to half, turn off the heat and let it cool for 30 minutes.

Once the cooling time is up, add 24 drops of wormwood infusion, one at a time, stirring with your wand in alternating directions after each drop. Before adding the last drop, stir vigorously to create a foamy potion, until the surface is covered with foam.

Dui stopped and did not continue, and started to do other things.

Because the potion needs to sit for 24 hours and wait for all the bubbles to disappear before you can continue.

The following day at the same time, Dui reheated the potion that had been left to stand, added leech juice, and then stirred it carefully and slowly. The color of the potion began to lighten. When the potion turned pale green, he added rat spleen and hemlock extract, and heated it over high heat for 2 hours.

After 2 hours, the potion turned bright green and took on the consistency of a thick syrup.

Looking at the potion in the crucible, Dui leaned over to observe it carefully, comparing it with the description in the book one by one.

"This should be a success, right?" He murmured uncertainly.

To know the effect, you need to experiment. Dui took a drop from the crucible, dropped it on a carrot, and then went out with the carrot.

Curious Bilbo followed closely.

Dui arrived outside Bag End and saw a pony grazing outside. He immediately shook the carrot in his hand at it and said, "Hey, Derpy, look here!"

The dwarf pony Xiaodai was a substitute tool given by the head of the Tuk family to Dui when he was in Tuk Town. Although he was very obedient, he always looked stupid and silly, so Dui called him Xiaodai.

After returning to Hobbiton, Derpy was basically taken care of by Bilbo. Compared to Dewy's irresponsible owner, Bilbo was more dedicated and treated Derpy like a third member of the family. He even built a simple stable for Derpy himself.

Seeing the carrot in Dui's hand, the dwarf horse Xiaodai's eyes lit up. He immediately gave up the fresh grass in his mouth, ran over happily, and then bit the carrot and started chewing it.

Bilbo was too late to stop him. He looked at Derpy with a worried look on his face and condemned the bad master Dui for testing the medicine with his eyes.

Dewi rubbed his nose guiltily. They were the only three living creatures here. Could it be that instead of using Derpy, he or Bilbo would be the one to test the potion? Besides, he was confident in his potion; it certainly wouldn't kill Derpy.

At the same time, his attention was always focused on Xiaodai, observing its changes.

After the dwarf pony Xiaodai ate the carrot containing the shrinking potion, Xiaodai's body began to change in less than two seconds.

"Whisp, whack, whack!" Xiaodai became panicked. In his eyes, everything around him, including his two masters, became huge.

In the eyes of Dewi and Bilbo, the dwarf pony Derpy was getting smaller and smaller at a speed visible to the naked eye, and finally turned into a palm-sized pocket pony, looking like a living figurine.

Dui picked up Xiao Dai and looked at the pony flailing its legs in panic in his hands with a look of surprise. "It seems that the potion is quite effective. One drop can shrink it to this size. If I add a few more drops, it should be able to get even smaller."

Bilbo looked at the potion in Dewi's hand and was so shocked that he couldn't speak. Although he had seen many of Dewi's magic, such a magical potion still shocked him.

Seeing that he was staring at Xiaodai, Dui handed Xiaodai to him.

Bilbo carefully took Derpy and held it in his hands. Feeling its weight and warmth, he realized he wasn't dreaming. He stared blankly, then looked up at Dewi and stammered, "D-Dewi, will Derpy always be like this?"

Dui shook his head. "Of course not. Once the effect of the drug wears off, it will return to its original state. So you have to be careful not to get crushed by the horse after the effect of the drug wears off."

Bilbo quickly put Derpy on the ground after hearing this. He didn't want to experience the feeling of being crushed by hundreds of pounds of weight.

After waiting for about fifteen minutes, the effect of the medicine on the shrunken Xiaodai wore off, and he quickly expanded and returned to his original size.

(End of this chapter)