Hogwarts wizards who signed in to Middle-earth.

Chapter 30 Mandrake
After confirming the efficacy of the medicine, Dui returned to the room with satisfaction and put the pot of shrinking potion into a bottle.

The Shrinking Potion not only shrinks large monsters, rendering them less threatening, but also shrinks the body so a person can hide. It's a very practical potion.

After successfully making the shrinking potion, Dui continued his efforts and tried to make other potions in the following days.

And successfully produced forgetfulness potion, relaxation potion, and hypnotic potion.

At the same time, he used two pots of ripe white mulberry to make white mulberry essence. Anyway, Dui never had too little of this magical potion that was so effective in healing wounds.

However, compared with the two pots of white mulberry that matured early, the other two pots of poisonous eggplant did not change much. Even though Dui used magic power to water them every day, they still accepted all the seeds, but there was no sign of them transforming into mandrake grass.

Dui was a little skeptical about whether the poisonous nightshade could eventually turn into a mandrake, but with the idea of ​​not giving up halfway, he continued to water them with magic power every day, wanting to see what it would eventually turn into.

In the blink of an eye, it was early spring in Shire.

It has been almost a year since Dui came to Middle-earth.

One day, Dui was studying the contents of "Curse and Counter-Curse" when he was disturbed by the noise outside.

Bilbo knocked on Dewy's door and stood at the doorway hesitantly.

Dewi turned his eyes away from the curse book and looked towards the door. "Bilbo, what's wrong?"

Bilbo hesitated for a moment and then said, "Dui'er, I think Bag End is haunted!"

"Haunted?" Dewi was surprised and tried to find any trace of laughter on Bilbo's face.

Bilbo's expression became more certain, and he nodded, "Yes, it's haunted. These past few days, when I was tidying up the garden, I could vaguely hear crying sounds coming from it. It sounded like a baby crying, very strange and scary!"

"The sound of a baby crying?" Dui was confused for a moment, but suddenly seemed to remember something, and hurried out of the room and came to the front yard.

Bilbo followed closely out of curiosity.

Dui came to the two pots of poisonous ginseng in the yard and looked at them carefully. In recent days, apart from watering the two pots of poisonous ginseng with magic power on a regular basis, he had not paid much attention to them.

Now, after a closer look, I didn't find anything unusual except that the branches and leaves had grown a little taller.

But Dui did not give up and continued to check. He used his magic wand to gently push away the soil, revealing the roots buried in the soil. He saw that the roots were a human-like tissue, like an ugly baby with complete limbs and facial features.

Dui was surprised to see that the root of the poisonous nightshade looked like a human figure.

His Mandrake cultivation was actually successful!
Mandrake has powerful medicinal value and is a powerful restorative agent that can restore people who have been deformed or cursed to their original state. It is also an essential ingredient in many high-level potions.

Even in the magical world, it is a very precious and rare herbal plant that requires a specific magical environment and care to thrive.

These days, seeing that the poisonous ginseng eggplant had not changed for a long time, he had lost some confidence.

I didn't expect that he would get such a surprise now.

Just when Dui was happy.

The mandrake that was dug out of the soil was very unhappy. It twisted its body in restlessness and opened its mouth to let out a sharp and piercing cry.

Dui only felt that the back of his head was hit hard by a hammer. He suddenly had a splitting headache, and the head was spinning. He was about to faint at any time.

Oops, forgot about Mandrake's cry!
Dui was so happy that he turned to sorrow. He resisted the urge to faint and quickly cast a spell on the mandrake.

"Petrify!" The Mandrake's crying stopped instantly.

"Phew!" Dui had just breathed a sigh of relief when he heard a thud behind him. Turning around, he saw Bilbo lying unconscious on the ground, his eyes rolled back.

Dewi covered the mandrake roots with soil again, and then quickly helped the unconscious Bilbo up.

Fortunately, the mandrakes are not yet mature and are only in their infancy, so their cries are not fatal. At most, they can make people unconscious for a while.

Dui had a high tolerance for Mandrake's crying and did not faint immediately.

But poor Bilbo was affected and suffered.

Dewi carried the unconscious Bilbo into the room and waited for him to wake up.

Two hours later, Bilbo finally woke up. He covered his head with his hands, looking a little confused. "Hiss, what happened to me?"

"Drink the potion first, it can relieve your discomfort." Dui took out a cup of soothing potion and handed it to him.

Bilbo knew the magical effect of the potion made by Dewy, so he didn't refuse and drank it in one gulp.

His expression suddenly frowned, revealing a look of pain. "Ugh, what a weird smell!"

But the effect was also obvious. Bilbo recovered quickly and also remembered his coma.

Bilbo's face was filled with fear and surprise. "Dui'er, what on earth is that? Why do the roots of the nightshade look like humans and make a sound that makes people faint?"

"I'm sorry to have caused you so much trouble. That's the magical plant I cultivated—the Mandrake," Dui explained apologetically. "I originally thought it had failed and didn't pay much attention to it. I didn't expect it to have already metamorphosed in the soil. The crying sounds these days are caused by it."

The kind-hearted Hobbit felt a little embarrassed by Dewi's apology and quickly waved his hands, "It's not your fault. Besides, I'm fine now!"

But Bilbo was still a little frightened by the sound of the mandrake crying, and asked hurriedly: "Doyle, does the mandrake still make that kind of crying sound?"

Dui shook his head and smiled, soothingly, "Don't worry. Mandrakes usually like to sleep in the soil before they mature. Unless you dig them out of the soil, they won't make a crying sound that would make people faint."

"As for the noises it's made these past few days, it's probably because it needs a new soil. Once the soil is changed, it will calm down again." Dui speculated, recalling the contents of the herbal textbook.

Mandrake needs regular soil changes. After Dui transplanted it, apart from watering it regularly with magic power, he forgot to change the soil.

Now that the transformation has been successful, in order for it to thrive, it needs to be nourished with fertile soil.

In the wizarding world, Herbologists often use dragon dung compost to grow Mandrakes.

But here in Middle-earth, there is a dragon in the Lonely Mountain, but it is not realistic.

So Dui could only choose to compost animal manure. To do this, Dui endured the stench and first cast two petrification spells on the two mandrakes, and then changed the pots and soil.

After finishing the work, Dui felt that he was smelly all over.

What’s even more despairing is that such tasks will have to be carried out many times in the future.

The only consolation is that once the mandrake is fully mature, he can make a powerful recovery potion and the voodoo doll he has been longing for.

Just as Dui was waiting day by day for the mandrake to mature.

One day, another wizard came to the Shire.

(End of this chapter)