Wizarding Age: I can analyze everything

Chapter 29 Huge Profits

"It's a success!"

Pei Ze's eyes lit up.

The first attempt at refining the potion was a complete success, a result that greatly exceeded his expectations.

Surprised, Pei Ze took a glass test tube, carefully poured the red liquid from the beaker into it, and then plugged it with an oak stopper.

Thus, a bottle of brute force potion was successfully completed.

"Omniscient, analyze this potion."

[Analysis requires 0.1 mental energy. Analyze now?]

"Analysis!" Pei Ze said without hesitation.

The next instant, the All-Knowing Eye returned the analyzed information.

[Strength Potion: Expected to increase strength by 25%~30% after consumption, lasting for 23 minutes. Effective only on organisms with a constitution attribute below 30. Shelf life: 185 days.]

Pei Ze's lips curled up slightly.

The brute force potion is considered acceptable as long as the increase in strength reaches 20% and lasts for more than 20 minutes.

The brute force potion he concocted far exceeded the acceptable standard, reaching the level of a top-grade product.

If it could go even further, it would be of the highest quality.

Overjoyed, Pei Ze pressed on and continued to refine the potion.

But the process that followed was not so smooth.

He failed several times during the process, and by the time all ten materials were used up, he had only managed to refine five bottles of brute force potion.

It includes two bottles of superior quality, two bottles of medium quality, and one bottle of inferior quality that barely meets the standard.

"It seems that there was a lot of luck involved in making a high-quality potion on the first try."

Looking at the row of brute force potions on the table, Pei Ze let out a long sigh of relief.

In any case, the result is not bad.

For beginners, succeeding once out of ten times when they first start making potions is considered quite good.

It usually takes dozens of materials to successfully refine a single bottle of qualified potion, and even then, it's only of low quality.

Pei Ze's 50% success rate is undoubtedly a terrifying number for beginners.

Even among seasoned pharmacy apprentices, this is already quite remarkable.

According to the standards for classifying pharmacists, as long as one can increase the success rate of refining a non-ranked potion to over 30%, one is considered a qualified pharmacist apprentice.

Pei Ze's current skill level is already among the best of the pharmacy apprentices!

And this is just the beginning.

With his all-seeing eye, he could master the potion formula quickly without wasting a lot of time and resources practicing slowly.

The only things that hinder his growth on the path to becoming a pharmacist are potion formulas and the analytical ability of the All-Seeing Eye (a mental attribute).

Coming back to his senses from his joy, Pei Ze began to ponder how to deal with the brute force potion.

The brute force potion increases strength, so most of its users are knights.

This potion is very popular at the Knight Academy.

On the contrary, wizards rarely used it.

Of course, the academy's logistics department also sells and buys brute force potions.

The brute force potion, which costs 100 contribution points, is offered for a purchase price of only 90 contribution points.

The prices at outside pharmacies are about the same.

Even with only 90 contribution points, a potion apprentice can still make a profit.

The cost for an ordinary potion apprentice to brew a bottle of Brute Force Potion is about 60 to 70 contribution points, and on average, a bottle of Brute Force Potion can earn at least 20 contribution points.

If you can refine three bottles of brute force potion a day, you can earn 1800 contribution points a month, which is much more profitable than any other task!

This is the main reason why so many people want to become pharmacists.

It's incredibly profitable!

This is even with a success rate of only 30%.

Higher success rate, more money earned.

"The cost of brewing one bottle of Brute Force Potion is about 40 contribution points, which is much less than other potion apprentices. I can earn 50 contribution points per bottle!"

Pei Ze felt an overwhelming surge of excitement.

With a production rate of at least five bottles of brute force potion per day, earning six or seven thousand contribution points a month is no problem for him!

Even more!

After all, 90 contribution points is only the price of a low-grade brute force potion.

The price of medium to high-grade brute force potions will only increase!

This is a huge windfall!

Pei Ze took a deep breath to calm the turmoil in his heart.

If you want to sell brute force potions, you definitely can't do it in the academy's logistics department.

He has only been studying pharmacy for less than half a month, and he only bought the pharmaceutical materials today. If he were to suddenly produce a large number of bottles of brute force potions, it would definitely attract a lot of attention.

After all, even the most talented potion apprentice could not possibly concoct a potion from scratch in half a month.

The same applies to pharmacies outside.

Although the possibility is low, it could still be quite troublesome if it attracts the attention of someone with ulterior motives.

After much thought, Pei Ze finally had only one solution left in his mind.

black market!

Where there is light there is darkness.

Especially in the outer city outskirts where the wizard's radiation is relatively weak, there are many dark corners where darkness breeds.

Pei Ze had once heard people from the Star Spirit Society mention a black market that existed on the outskirts of the outer city.

He listened to it as just anecdote at the time, never expecting that he would actually use it one day.

"If you're going to the black market, it's best to stock up on more potions before you go, so you don't have to make multiple trips."

Pei Ze quickly came up with a plan.

Then he began to consider something else.

"Omniscient, improved brute force potion formula"

[Task created to begin improving the brute force potion recipe; estimated time 153 days]

"That long?"

Pei Ze frowned slightly.

But on second thought, it's normal.

The brute force potion must have undergone countless optimizations over the years, and further improvement would be extremely difficult.

Rather, the fact that it can be improved again is enough to demonstrate the power of the All-Knowing Eye.

Pei Ze checked the improvement effects and found that the improved brute force potion increased strength by 26% to 52%, and the duration and preservation time also increased to varying degrees depending on the quality of the potion.

Overall, the drug's effectiveness was improved by about 30% compared to the original.

The required materials remain largely unchanged; the only difference lies in some steps of the refining process.

"Only 30%?"

Pei Ze shook his head, abandoning the idea of ​​improving the brute force potion formula.

With only a 30% improvement in effectiveness, the price will at most increase by about half.

It's not worth wasting more than 150 days of mission time on this.

It would be better to find a way to get high-level potion recipes as soon as possible.

The brute force potion, being a non-tiered potion, is ultimately just a transitional step. If you really want to make big money, you have to look at high-tier potions.

The latter's profits far exceed those of non-tiered potions.

That's real exorbitant profit!

When I came out of the pharmacy, it was already dark outside.

The gray stone lamps along the college road were already lit, their yellowish light casting a thin, pale yellow velvet on the road surface.

Pei Ze rushed to the logistics department and bought eighty sets of brute force potion materials in one go.

The skinny apprentice in the logistics department assumed that Pei Ze had failed and used up all the materials he had bought, and showed an expression of "I knew it," and even comforted him for a few words.

"It's common for beginners to fail, don't worry about it."

"Once you become a pharmacist, you'll be able to earn back all the money you lost."

That's what he said, but the skinny apprentice actually disagreed quite a bit.

There are countless apprentices who want to become pharmacists, but only one in a hundred actually succeeds.

Most people just waste their time and money.

This line of work really requires a lot of talent.

It's a good thing he didn't know that Pei Ze was carrying five bottles of his own concocted brute force potion in his pocket, otherwise his eyes would probably have popped out of their sockets.

(End of this chapter)