Chapter 73 Soul Splitting Potion
In the dormitory, there was a gentle white mist emanating from the cup. This was a special landscape formed by crushing and mixing some special herbs and then heating them.
It took Meka Anders more than half an hour to carefully complete this step. Seeing the scene of the white mist, he immediately smiled.
"Finally, the herbal mixture is made."
In the 'Soul Splitting Potion', this step is a step that is difficult for ordinary potion masters to control. There are many pharmacological factors involved, including more than 20 herbs, including white face grass, silver moon petals, honey grass roots, etc.
Some of these herbs are main medicines, some are auxiliary medicines, and the other part is simply to reconcile the secret medicines with conflicting pharmacological factors.
The potion master must not only reconcile the above relationship, but also strictly control the efficacy of each herb. Even a slight mistake will cause all the foreplay to be in vain.
Therefore, even this first hurdle is enough to stop all potion apprentices, including geniuses with high potion talents, and most potion masters.
"The hardest part is almost done." Meka concentrated.
For him, the herbal mixture was not difficult, but the difficult part was the next step of blending the two mixtures.
Meka once again mobilized his "vitality sense of smell", and a heat current flowed through his nostrils. Suddenly, a wisp of invisible smell was smelled, and his mind instantly formed the amount of medicinal effects of various materials, as well as whether they conflicted or not.
He added two ounces of dark spider venom, three needle-thin human head rat hairs, and half a purple-eyed bee wing to another cup, then crushed it, heated it in a crucible, and finally turned it into black mucus.
"Now it's the most thrilling part." Meka took a deep breath.
This is to add the black mucus to the herbal mixture, but it must be considered that the ratio of each medicinal effect in the mucus and the mixture cannot be deviated.
The difficulty lies in that some of the heated biological materials have a volatile effect, so every time it is heated more or less, even for a while, it will cause problems with the medicinal effect ratio.
Meka knew the difficulty of this step because he had failed here many times. Once, he almost blew up his expensive potion container given by Eva. Later, he was afraid and changed to ordinary potion containers. He also blew up several sets and filled them with countless gold galleons.
"This step is also the reason why Ole Bullock, the potion master, dragged it out for many days."
Meka carried out it very carefully. He had Ole Bullock's complete memory about this part and had seen him fail here for a long time.
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On the other side, outside Professor McGonagall's office, Harry and his friends returned empty-handed. They left the office with helpless expressions.
"Professor McGonagall doesn't seem to trust us." Harry sighed.
They were surprised to learn that Professor Dumbledore had left. They realized that someone might want to transfer Professor Dumbledore away from Hogwarts to facilitate the theft of the Philosopher's Stone.
So, they immediately went to tell Professor McGonagall to prevent the Philosopher's Stone from being stolen, but Professor McGonagall did not listen to them. Instead, she sternly warned them to spend more time on studying and not to worry about the Philosopher's Stone.
"Professor McGonagall may be very confident about the mechanism to protect the Philosopher's Stone." Hermione also frowned:
"But she may not guess that there is an insider in Hogwarts, so the mechanism set up by the professors will most likely not work for that person."
"What should we do now?" Ron also asked.
"Now..." Harry frowned and thought: "We have to think of a way to protect the Philosopher's Stone."
Hermione looked back at the office and suggested:
"Let's talk while walking. If Professor McGonagall hears our conversation, I'm afraid Gryffindor's score will be drilled again."
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"Finally done."
Near dusk, Meka finally harvested the first complete bottle of 'Soul Splitting Potion'.
He smiled, feeling that his body and mind had been tense for too long, and he could finally relax.
"What a hard-earned achievement."
Meka counted them carefully, but he had already forgotten how many days and nights he had spent on this bottle of potion, but now, all his efforts have paid off.
He picked up the potion bottle on the table, and there was a black solution rippling in the bottle, like a black mist, with some brilliant light in it, as if dark clouds covered the sunset.
Especially in the sun, the black mist of this potion was illuminated by the sun, and the sun and the light in it bordered each other, really like a small piece of gorgeous sky in it.
"Intoxicating smell."
Meka could smell that there was still a clear and elegant smell in the air, with a little wine and fruit aroma, as if it was a jar of fine wine. Just smelling it would make people feel drunk.
This smell is very unique and really good. Even Meka, who doesn't like wine, likes this smell.
"Next, just wait to soak the magic stone in it." Meka smiled.
As long as this potion borrows the power of the Philosopher's Stone, according to Ole Bullock's conjecture, the potion will completely form the effect of "soul splitting".
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Not long after, Maka put away the black potion and walked out the door to relax. As a result, he met Harry and his group on the road. They were whispering about something and looked a little depressed.
"Why are you frowning?" Maka asked with a smile.
"Some bad things happened." Hermione spread her hands and said helplessly: "We were just kicked out of the office by Professor McGonagall."
"We are worried about it." Harry added, "Professor McGonagall doesn't want us to get involved in the Philosopher's Stone, but if we don't care about the Philosopher's Stone, we are worried that it will cause bigger problems."
"However, how did you know that Professor Dumbledore would leave?" Harry was very curious.
"I just guessed." Maeka shook his head and laughed:
"If someone wants to take something away from Hogwarts, then the best way is to transfer Professor Dumbledore away from Hogwarts."
"So that's it." Ron was about to comment, but suddenly he caught a glimpse of something and stopped talking.
Maeka followed his gaze and saw Professor Snape striding over and blocking their way.
"Professor Snape." He greeted with a smile.
Professor Snape hummed and nodded slightly at him.
"You guys..." Professor Snape glanced at Harry and the others, and said in a cold tone: "What are you doing here?"
The few people looked at each other, not knowing how to answer for a moment. Should they tell the person in front of them that they are thinking about how to destroy the other party's plan?
"I..." Harry finally opened his mouth to explain, but was interrupted.
"You guys should be careful." Professor Snape's eyes were full of warnings,
"Always sneaking around, others will think you are doing something bad."
He stopped for a while, just said a few strange words in a cold tone, and then left, which made Harry and the others puzzled.
"Is he warning us?" Harry looked at his back.
"Maybe." Hermione was thinking,
"Maybe because we have seen the wound on his foot and the blood of the three-headed dog, he judged that we know something about his plan, and he is afraid that we will hinder him?"
Harry frowned, thought for a while, and told the three of them his thoughts:
"I think we should go to the abandoned professor's secret passage to take a look at the Philosopher's Stone to prevent it from being taken away by someone with ulterior motives."
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At night, birds flew over the lake outside the window, and there was a sound of water.
"We should set off." Harry actively woke up Maeka and Ron.
"It's a dark and windy night, it's a good time indeed." Meka glanced at the night outside the window.
He quickly changed into a black robe, took a bottle of compound potion with him, and walked out of the dormitory, going to the secret passage of the abandoned classroom with a few others to see the Philosopher's Stone that he had never seen before.
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