Chapter 27 Blue Moonlight
"Roger, you'd better not make us homeless." After Jessica finished speaking, she returned to the living room and turned on the TV for the first time to listen to the Muggle BBC news.
A few days ago, she took the agreement to a Muggle bank, and the Muggles spoke a lot of financial terms. At the end of the speech, Jessica didn’t understand a single word. However, she knew that she would not be able to get the house back for the time being, because her son already owed hundreds of millions of Muggle coins.
Hundreds of millions... Jessica was shocked at the time. She had never seen such a big number in her life. She pretended that nothing had happened and returned home, tidying up the house and taking care of her son as usual.
However, she secretly swore in her heart that no matter what the result was this time, she would never let Rogge touch a gold galleung at home again. So scary! By the way, my monthly pocket money will be cut in half from now on.
"Huh..." Rogge didn't realize this yet. He ran back to the laboratory and took out the bottle containing the dragon's head flower leaves.
Dragon head flower leaves are picked three days before and after the full moon. When using them, you need to use a silver knife to cut them into evenly sized pieces. Starlight bearberries and other materials are also ground or sliced as required, and then placed in stainless steel containers or dark glass.
Rogge carefully handled most of the materials and picked up the most critical moonflower dew. This kind of dew collected on full moon nights can balance the terrifying power contained in the dragon's blood, and also allows the little wizard to sense the magic power of the moon.
It is also the most expensive material in the entire formula, and its use is extremely strict: you only have three seconds after opening the lid. Once this point passes, the moonseed water in the bottle, which is priced by the gram, becomes worthless pure water.
Rogge once again carefully and carefully checked the other prepared materials, looking at the last piece of Yuehua Dew for a long time, unsure whether to pay attention to it.
He always suspected that there was an important link or variable that he had overlooked in the production process of Blue Moon Flower. This thing was probably related to time.
Roger stared at his watch and started the simulation on time at 6 p.m.: "Start simulation."
【1】You start to make the potion, and the moonflower dew successfully extracts the starlight contained in the bear fruit;
【2】You extinguish the fire source, and the silver-blue potion suddenly explodes just before it crystallizes;
"Stop the simulation." Rogge opened the notebook and wrote down the simulation results.
At 18:01, the simulation showed that the potion exploded just before crystallization. Judging from the color, the agent has reached the ideal silver-blue state at this time, meeting the prerequisites for crystallization in the formula.
"Before cooling, all operations are fine. The problem always lies in the final cooling crystal." Rogge wrote this text repeatedly and drew a circle on the cooling crystal.
After many comparisons and verifications, the simulation function of the panel is extremely helpful for refining magic potions. The difference between the simulation results and the test results is very small, and almost all of them are caused by deviations in actual operations. Since the simulation results showed failure, there was no need to waste the last material.
Roger picked up the original formula again and checked it carefully to confirm that no information was missing from the formula. After spending nearly 1,000 gold galleons, you won't get nothing, right? He threw the formula aside and looked through the previous test records for analysis and comparison.
"There have been no major problems in the last few operations. The only difference is the time." Rogge drew a straight line on the notebook, divided it into small line segments, and then marked the hourly time.
Then he roughly estimated the degree of completion for each experiment and expressed it on paper as a histogram. The simulation results are on the top and the test results are on the bottom.
"Sure enough! The black potion is the brightest silver, the 12-point potion is the worst...it even stopped reacting as soon as it turned blue." Rogge clenched his fists excitedly, and he finally caught the fox's tail.
"Since the completion rate is high at night..." Rogge removed the daytime experiments and started counting from the beginning, and a curve that increased with the date appeared in front of him.
"Exactly related! I finally know what you are hiding!" Rogge raised his head and looked out the window. The afterglow had not yet faded, but the bright moon had already risen.
"The better the moon phase, the higher the degree of completion. No wonder it's called Blue Moonlight!"
Rogge said depressedly, "I'm really confused. Why didn't I find such an obvious thing?"
In fact, it's no wonder that he is not the only potion master who will disclose the formula without reservation. In an inconspicuous word in the recipe, the key secret to success may be hidden.
From this point of view, magic medicine is not something that ordinary people can learn. Talent, willpower, Galleons, and a reliable teacher.
"Damn, what a rip-off! You have to look at the moon phase to make a potion, don't let me catch you!" Rogge hated the author with all his teeth. The key was that he couldn't find the other person's name.
"August 8th is the first quarter moon, and the 16th is the full moon." Rogge found the calendar and counted, but he didn't expect that today was the Chinese Valentine's Day.
"What's the point of celebrating Chinese Valentine's Day if you're single? Make good use of the magic potion."
Roger took a deep breath to calm down, let himself go, forget about those unpleasant emotions, and then operated the process virtually in his mind. The moon outside the window was completely exposed. Roger opened his eyes and started actual production.
The shiny silver crucible was filled with all the ingredients of Noctiluca powder, moonlight dew and starlight bearberry. He waved his wand and stirred the glass rod counterclockwise 7 times.
Then increase the heat to boiling, then reduce the heat evenly and continue boiling for 5 minutes. until the liquid inside turns dark blue.
"Yingadim Leviosa." Rogge waved his wand and took the crucible off the fire. After stirring clockwise 3 times with a glass rod, add luminous insect powder and stir quickly and vigorously counterclockwise 10 times.
Then control the crucible to return to the fire and continue to cook slowly. Stir occasionally until blue-silver steam emerges.
Roger counted the bursts of steam, his eyes focused on the full moon outside the window. There are no clouds tonight, and the moonlight is bright and beautiful.
"6...5...1"
"Now!" Rogge quickly opened the moonlight dew and poured the starlight bearberry fragments into it.
Moonflower Dew is extremely penetrating, extracting the starlight contained in the bear fruit in less than one breath. The moonlight in the glass bottle changes from silvery white to silvery blue, so gorgeous that you can even see stars floating in it.
Roger didn't have time to look at the beauty of the moonflower dew in the glass bottle. He poured the moonflower dew into the crucible smoothly without leaking a drop!
"Beautiful!" Roger turned off the fire source in a matter of seconds, turned over the hourglass on the workbench, and waited for the reagents in the crucible to cool down.
Three minutes later, the crucible shone with silver-blue light, mysterious and charming. Rogge waved his wand and looked at the reagent that was gradually crystallizing inside with excitement and anxiety.
Under his unblinking gaze, the silver-blue potion crystallized completely, and then miraculously turned into a viscous and smooth fluid.
"It's done!" Rogge jumped up ecstatically and took a long time to calm down. He carefully put the blue moonlight into the test tube and tightened the cap carefully. At the same time, the panel has also changed, with a new column for potions.
Roger Travis
Magic: 0.6/2.3
Mental strength: 12
Talents: Dark Affinity, Strong Will, Night Vision
Skills: Wandless spellcasting, advanced potion making
Potion: Blue Moonlight
Magic spells: Fluorescent Blink lv3 (36/50), Invoking Guardian lv2 (1/10), Flying Feather Curse lv4 (17/100), Clean Up lv4 (17/100), Transformation Curse lv1 (0/1) …
"That's it! It finally worked!" Rogge raised the medicine bottle, and the moonlight filtered through it, making the whole room glow with silvery blue.
Starting from scratch, many days of hard work finally paid off with sweet fruits of success. This is not only a priceless blue moonlight, but also the first milestone in my potion journey!
He couldn't wait to try it out and feel the boost it would bring to his own magic. But now, there is one last step to the perfect blue moonlight.
