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Their conversation started off superficially, but it gradually delved into business, and they eventually went together to the study at Malfoy Manor to sign several initial business contracts.

Merchants from Eurasia were very interested in the elegant shampoo, as they desired shiny hair.

However, in Africa, apart from merchants from the region near Central Asia, the local men seem uninterested in shampoo, because the women there generally have naturally curly hair.

Furthermore, in some regions, women still have a tradition of shaving their hair as if it were unclean, so they don't have much need for shampoo.

South America doesn't have many requirements for hair; they value a hot body more, and South American businessmen are even vaguely interested in buying Niang Ni Quan (a type of fountain).

In fact, merchants from several other regions also wanted to buy the Niangniu Spring; they had a strong interest in this special potion.

Even though the British Ministry of Magic has announced several cases of men being knocked unconscious, forcibly given drugs, and brutally raped, they don't care at all. Some dark wizards would be willing to empty their coffers to buy such a powerful potion that can give people endless pleasure of revenge!

Scarcity drives up profits, with some merchants offering prices as high as 8,000 Galleons per bottle.

Brewing a pot of Mother's Drowned Spring can sell for 32,000 Galleons. Brew a few more pots, and Jimmy will become invincible with his in-game purchases!

But doing so is too risky. It's much safer to make money with Blaine's potions and Raccoon Alchemy's products, and the profits are just as good.

He published Niang Niquan's paper early on; if a similar case had happened elsewhere in the world, he would have been in deep trouble.

In the end, Jimmy did not agree to sell the Niangniquan Spring, but only reached a few basic contracts with various merchants.

Blaine's potions shampoo is sold to other regions, while Jimmy sources their magical materials.

It was a mutually beneficial arrangement; Jimmy made a lot of money, but they also made a considerable amount.

Lucius even voluntarily gave up most of his profits to Jimmy as an apology, buying materials from Malfoy Pharmaceuticals at almost cost price.

After a month, when they exchange goods, Jimmy will earn at least seventy to eighty thousand Galleons.

If the shampoo sells well overseas, the next order will increase accordingly, and the future looks promising!

The relatively mature Blaine potions products can be handed over to distributors, but for products produced by Raccoon Alchemy Workshop, Jimmy needs to personally take samples and run around to find business if he wants to sell them.

After all, auto chess has a strong regional style, which may not be suitable for wizards from other countries to play.

There shouldn't be any problems in Europe and small towns, but there might be issues with adapting to local conditions in South America and Africa.

Chapter 171 Peeping

As he left Malfoy Manor, Lucius quickly caught up with him.

With a wary look on his face, Lucius pulled him into an empty corridor and solemnly warned, "You have to be careful of Karaktakus Burke. I can't say too much! He's very influential among the dark wizards."

"Will he attack me?"

Jimmy looked at Lucius with slight surprise.

He spoke with great caution, almost as cautiously as when he talked about the Earthshakers. “I don’t know, but… the Burke family prospered greatly when the Mysterious Man appeared, and even now, they haven’t declined.”

This means that the Malfoy family's reputation might not be enough to intimidate the Burke family, who are the largest suppliers among British dark wizards and whose black and gray businesses almost monopolize the British wizarding world.

Jimmy knew this day would come sooner or later. "I know it was bound to happen sooner or later, and I'll be careful."

The next day, upon returning to the Raccoon Alchemy Workshop, Jimmy immediately gathered the idle employees and gave them a lesson in alchemy.

The textbook was Old Deng's alchemy notebook. In order to teach alchemy to these young people who were generally eight or nine years older than him, he spent another 8000 Galleons on alchemy and raised his level to 70.

A level 70 alchemy skill encompasses enough knowledge and ability to qualify someone as an alchemy master.

Jimmy's little class captivated the employees, and the various Muggle-inspired futuristic concepts showed these young wizards what truly terrifying monsters were!

His small classes are more like academic exchanges, but he mainly lectures while others offer their opinions or ask questions.

"What is the most fundamental pursuit of a wizard in alchemy? Is it the transformation of matter? Is it giving life to inanimate objects? Or is it the creation of life?"

At the very front of the square table, Jimmy stood before a blackboard and spoke eloquently, “The universally accepted ultimate answer to alchemy is: to imbue it with powerful imagery. We usually translate this answer into something easier to understand: to give things magic.”

This isn't exactly a mistake, but if we take this answer as a fundamental pursuit of alchemy, we'll end up like headless flies, completely lost.

Ten employees sat upright on either side of the long table, taking out their notebooks and taking notes.

They were the first batch of trainees, and the notes they took will be shared with others who still need to manage the store and production.

"Teacher, do you mean we should find a goal?" A young man wearing square glasses raised his hand. "But I already have a goal. I want to make a pair of glasses that can let people see death and mystery."

Jimmy gave the young man named Pace a thumbs up. "Good goal. But what I mean is, you all need to find your sense of direction in alchemy, which depends on your understanding of the discipline."

For example, I believe that alchemy is a kind of knowledge that can create infinite possibilities.

He turned around, raised his hand, and waved it on the blackboard, whereupon all sorts of cartoon images appeared.

Pointing to a picture of a ship, Jimmy said with great emotion, "A ship! I can use alchemy to build a ship that can travel in space, sending me to the sun and the moon, bringing life and vitality from beyond Earth."

Then he clicked on the next mirror-shaped icon.

"A mirror, or a communicator—alchemy can help me create a communication tool that connects wizards all over the world!"

I can use it to call friends on the other side of the world instantly… This alchemical product already exists, but perhaps it could have even more functions.”

Jimmy then pointed to two Earths, one black and one white, "Or we could use alchemy to create a virtual world, through which we could establish connections with reality and achieve cross-regional teleportation, shopping, and learning..."

Having said that, he turned to look at the thoughtful group and said, "Or to put it simply, my alchemy aims to create a powerful weapon? Think about it, what do you want your alchemy to achieve?"

Like other knowledge related to magic, alchemy involves the involvement of idealistic forces at its most fundamental level.

As long as they believe that alchemy can create certain types of things, alchemy will eventually surprise the wizards in some way.

Just as Pace's ultimate goal was to create glasses that could see life and death, he first had to believe that alchemy could do it.

There are things in this world that are so mysterious that they are incomprehensible. They often appear abruptly, carrying an influence that makes people instinctively resist their existence.

The Department of Mysteries stores many similar items: the Curtain of Death, locked rooms, and the Time Hall.

Those things so mysterious that they cannot be understood by human wisdom are one of the origins of magic.

Alchemy is the most powerful and mysterious manifestation of magical power, so even if someone suddenly created a portal to another universe, Jimmy wouldn't be surprised.

After reaching level 70, he gained a new understanding of alchemy and learned how to improve a person's alchemy skills in a short period of time.

What Jimmy is doing now is helping this group build the mental power of alchemy. As long as they understand and firmly believe in the extent to which their alchemy can be achieved, their alchemical skills can improve significantly in a short period of time.

In addition, every point Jimmy explains in his mini-classes is designed to reinforce this concept.

What you think is what you get.

The employees benefited greatly from the training.

After that, Jimmy went back and forth between the rebuilt Blaine Potions and Raccoon Alchemy. Running Blaine Potions was not as troublesome as running Raccoon Alchemy; the employees just needed to make potions according to the recipes.

Innovation in potions is a high-cost, high-risk endeavor, so few potion masters innovate in major directions.

Jimmy used two more deduction opportunities to create a soap containing bird and snake egg yolks that could make people's skin moisturized and shiny.

The soaps, also from the elegant series, are priced at 20 Gallons per box, and will be sold after 20,000 boxes are stocked.

Blaine Potions' high-end strategy was very successful, thanks to Jimmy's high investment in advertising. When the soap went on sale, the store was once again packed with customers, and the 20,000 bars of soap in stock were sold out in just 12 days.

After deducting costs, Jimmy netted 10 Gallons. He kept 5 Gallons for advertising and marketing, and the remaining 5 Gallons went directly into his pocket.

A week later, vendors from all over the world arrived in Hogsmeade with security personnel escorting the goods to complete the handover.

Jimmy paid for the materials, they paid for the shampoo, and each distributor also ordered a different amount of soap before leaving, bringing in another 7 Galleons.

They've become numb to making money, and the employees who make shampoo and soap have become numb too. Blaine Potions is in dire need of manpower.

Unfortunately, he still finds it difficult to recruit more employees, since newly recruited people are never as reliable as those recommended by Professor McGonagall.

The money he's made recently has made many pure-blood families and dark wizards jealous. Every time Jimmy walks in Diagon Alley, he can feel someone watching him.

Chapter 172 Meeting

The bustling Diagon Alley...

Jimmy, licking an ice cream he'd bought from Florin's Ice Cream Shop, walked among them, sizing up the ill-intentioned fellows.

He scanned the 20 people he saw with the Golden Eyes Mantra and found that at least 3 of them were hostile to him, and there were even more people with ill intentions gathered near the Overturning Alley.

After realizing that someone was watching him, he upgraded the Golden Eyes Mantra.

Now, this magical spell, while allowing one to see the magic of others, also incorporates some of the effects of Legilimency, enabling one to clearly discern who harbors ill will towards them.

Lucius could no longer suppress the lurking shadows that were watching Jimmy, so he sent Jimmy a letter full of warnings, telling him to spend some money to hire professional security or Aurors.

Besides collecting taxes, another business of the Ministry of Magic is protecting the property of the wealthy.

Wizards who follow the rules are actually the odd ones out; many wizards don't like to follow the rules.

The wizarding world is more primitive than the Muggle world. People here who want to rob can hide in Knockturn Alley or some corner, and the Aurors can't do anything about it, so some people have no scruples.

Jimmy, who earned a lot of money but didn't deposit it in Gringotts, was seen by those ill-intentioned dark wizards as a walking fat sheep, and a tender one at that, a sizzling fat sheep that had already been roasted.

Jimmy wasn't really keen on spending money to hire security, since his spell level was already 86, and he could reach level 100 by spending about 13 Galleons.

For him, maxing out his spellcasting skills might be a game-changer.

But look at it now, three out of ten people on this street are hostile to me, and I never know when they might start a fight.

Gallons are a necessary expense for protecting one's own property, and a considerable amount is required.

Jimmy isn't worried about the dark wizards targeting him; he's capable of protecting himself. However, he is concerned about the dark wizards targeting his employees and businesses.

Jimmy tilted his head back, stuffed the thick ice cream into his mouth, clapped his hands, and hurried back to the still bustling Raccoon Alchemy Workshop.

The reputation of Auto Chess has been established, and the marketing in the past month has been just as he expected, with sales exceeding those of the now-fading Suya shampoo.

However, since Auto Chess involves a share of the profits from other players, the rewards are not as high as those from Blaine's Potions.

Jimmy went to the front desk and said to Olivia, who was sitting behind the desk reading a magazine, "Close an hour early this afternoon. After closing, we'll have a meeting at the restaurant. Remember to inform the others."

"Okay, boss~!" Senior Olivia sat up straighter and gave a sweet smile.

Jimmy then used the fireplace to go to Blaine's Potions and Bar and gave the same message.

By 5 p.m., all the employees of the business group that had not yet completed the integration gathered at the casual dining bar.

Also, before the meeting, Jimmy made the signboard for the restaurant and bar, which was named "Mainland Bar".

Some might say, isn't this blatant plagiarism of the mainland hotel that gave me my life?

Jimmy really thought so. Anyway, there's no mainland hotel IP in this world yet, and "Give Me Back My Dog's Life" hasn't even started filming yet, so what's wrong with using it!

Besides, it would be better for him to start his own business than to leave Galon to those security companies that are 80% controlled by pure-blood families.