Chapter 59 Dawn Potion
One month later.
Herage was lying on the bed, the sixth star in his mind about to solidify and shine brightly.
Just before sunrise, Herage opened his eyes.
"Dark Blue, check the current physical condition."
"Herag Merlin: Strength 8, Agility, Magic 100%.
"Various data have reached the genetic limit."
Herage looked at the data and thought silently: "5's mental power has exceeded the promotion requirements of most second-class wizard apprentices. Is it because of the starry sky meditation method?"
Generally, a first-class wizard apprentice must be promoted to a second-class wizard apprentice if his mental strength reaches 8 or higher.
Herage already has a mental power of 5 before he has been promoted. If he tells it, he will probably be sliced up and studied.
Various physical data have also improved a lot, but it has reached the genetic upper limit.
Herage did not rush for promotion, but spent five days to stabilize his mental strength and strive to maintain a stable physical condition.
"The next step is to refine the magic potion." Herage prepared two materials and borrowed another material from Larry.
If you succeed the first time, you can return the material.
Herage heard that to advance to become an official wizard, you need multiple portions of magic potion. If one portion is not enough, drink another portion. If you fail to advance, you will die. ♙♕
The promotion of a first-class wizard apprentice is not that difficult or dangerous, and only requires a potion.
"Devil's flower rhizome, ancient tree sap, 30 grams of obsidian, dust of Saturn..."
Herage was counting the potion materials in his laboratory. The main difficulty of the Dawn potion lay in the processing of the devil's flower rhizomes and maintaining the activity of the ancient tree sap.
The ancient sap needs to be kept in a beaker to maintain a temperature of 83 degrees. It cannot be too high or too low. The status here needs to be monitored at all times.
The rhizome of the Devil's Flower is highly toxic and needs to be handled carefully to filter out all the toxins. This is the main ingredient in the Dawn Potion.
The Dawn Potion is essentially a poison. Ordinary people will die immediately if they drink it, and first-class wizard apprentices who are not mentally strong enough will not survive if they drink it.
Herage took out a black sunflower-like plant from the space ring. Unlike the sunflower, the original flower disk position became a human face.
Judging from the facial features, it looks like a woman's face, with her eyes closed tightly and two sharp and cute tiger teeth at the corners of her mouth.
"Let's call it cute..." Herage didn't understand why he used the word cute.
Suddenly, the woman opened her eyes and looked at Herage with a seductive look in her eyes.
"Dark energy shield! I almost forgot! Damn it, there was almost something wrong with the first step." Herage was frightened for a while. The devil flower has a charm effect and can absorb the emotions of animals.
If the Devil Flower absorbs emotions, its venom will be mixed with impurities, and the potion material will be useless.
The dark energy shield has a certain defensive effect on these dark energy spells, and it is not a problem to block the small spells of the devil flower.
Herage took out a pair of scissors and placed it where the Devil's Flower disc and rhizome were connected. Dawn potion only needed the rhizome, and the disc could be saved as a material for other potions in the future.
"Deep Blue, shield your hearing." Herague issued the command in advance as if he had predicted it.
The next moment, Devil Flower felt the cold scissors below, with humanized horror on her face.
With a sudden force, Herage cut off the flower disk cleanly, and at the same time sealed the incision with magic power to prevent the slurry inside from bursting out.
"Ahhhhh..." The Devil Flower opened its mouth wide and began to scream. The dark energy contained in it was blocked by the dark energy shield, and the sonic attack was also ineffective against Herague.
With his current physique, this level is not enough to cause damage to his eardrums. After all, this is just a harvested potion material.
After screaming for about a minute, the devil's expression became weak and he looked very sleepy. He closed his eyes after a while.
Herage soaked it in a glass jar that had been prepared in advance, and then put it into the space ring for storage. It might be needed in the future.
The next step was the key and difficult step. Herage placed the rhizome of the devil's flower that sealed the incision with magic power in a large beaker, then input magic power into it to control the toxins inside, and used magic power to squeeze it out.
This process requires extra care. If you don't pay attention and break the internal structure of the rhizome, there will be no need to continue the subsequent experiments.
The black-purple toxin slowly dripped into the large beaker. The entire laboratory was silent, with only the sound of water dripping, and time slowly passed.
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Herage spent eight hours completing the preparation of the Dawn Potion. He took out an oak cork and stuffed it into the mouth of a test tube. Inside the test tube was a lavender solution.
"Huh... I'm so exhausted." Herage breathed a sigh of relief and wiped the sweat from his forehead.
"Remaining magic power: 11%."
In addition to a lot of details that need to be paid attention to, refining the Dawn Potion also consumes a lot of magic power.
Due to the double consumption of physical strength and energy, Herage was extremely exhausted at the moment.
"Fortunately, it was successful. I don't want to do it again." The nervousness of walking on a tightrope without making a single mistake enveloped his heart. Herage felt cold sweat on his back just thinking about it.
"The pressure on me to complete this potion is too much now. No wonder Mr. Larry insisted on lending me a copy. It seems that he is not optimistic that I can succeed in one go."
Deep Blue can only help him deduce and calculate how to proceed with each step and the timing of the next step, but in actual operation, each step needs to be completed by himself.
The normal human brain is no longer able to perform such high-precision and high-intensity tasks. Only wizards with mental strength far beyond ordinary people and sufficient concentration and endurance can complete it.
After Herage finished this, he went downstairs to take a bath, and was still meditating while soaking in the bathtub.
Although his mental power has reached its limit now, it has become a habit, not to mention that meditation can speed up the recovery of magic power.
The six stars were connected together in his mind, and only four positions of the dot matrix were left unlit.
"It takes ten stars for a second-class wizard apprentice to advance to the third class, which is exactly the same as the number of dots. There may be some connection between the two."
Herage lay in the bathtub, ignoring the passage of time while meditating. He didn't even notice that the bath water had turned cold.
"Remaining magic power: 100%."
After one night passed, the magic power was fully restored again, and Herage's physical and mental fatigue was swept away after he opened his eyes.
He still wasn't in a hurry to drink the potion and get promoted. Instead, he planned to adjust his physical condition for a few days and review the knowledge related to promotion during this time.
"You succeeded in refining it in one go?" Larry was very surprised when he learned the news.
"I almost failed many times. It was so difficult." Herage sighed.
Larry looked at Herrag as if he were a monster: "You know, I have prepared the Dawn Potion for you, because I never thought you could succeed."
