Chapter 1166

Chapter 1142 Opening a Potions Shop, Alliance with Gungnir (Bonus Chapter)

Sera licked his lips. He saw that he was in the territory of a mortal empire. Because the Serpent Clan would actively attack wizards, there were no living people in this area who knew magic. Therefore, he did not hide himself, but directly waved his hand and resurrected tens of thousands of Serpent Clan corpses on the ground.

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The witch, wielding a gilded peach tree adorned with seven different colored gemstone ornaments, slightly changed her expression. She had just fought and killed these venomous snakes, expending a great deal of magical power in the process. Her ultimate spell was now filled with the venom spewed by these snakes. If she could return to Golden Crown Mountain to recuperate, it would be fine, but if she continued fighting, the venom might corrode her ultimate spell, destroying its crucial spell model.

Suddenly, flesh sprouted from the snakes’ bones, and they charged towards the witch.

The witch could only wield the Golden Peach in her hand. The Golden Peach was cultivated using grafting and finite element single-analysis techniques on a Seven Treasures Pear Tree and a Crimson Gold Peach, further enhanced by a spiritual energy cultivation method to increase its overall magical pressure and spiritual energy. The Golden Peach could absorb the magical energy of gems; the more gems suspended on it, the stronger its magical pressure became through a series of complex mechanisms.

At this moment, she hung seven precious star-ring gems on the Golden Peach, maximizing the power of this magical plant.

She wielded the Golden Peach, using the botanical star-ring spell model: [Gem Leaf].

One after another, leaves adorned with different magical gems on their veins shot towards the venomous snakes, decapitating them as soon as they revived.

“Hmm? Not resurrected through venom?”

the witch Susan exclaimed in surprise. “If it were truly the serpent race of the Venomous World, they should be able to resurrect through venom by now and inject me with it. This is—”

The flesh and blood of the thousands of serpents killed by her Star Ring spell dissipated, turning back into skeletons. Then, these serpent bones flew away from their bodies, transforming and recombining in mid-air. Segment after segment of the serpent bones joined together, forming a gigantic serpent. Flesh and blood began to sprout from the massive serpent bones, and soon the gigantic serpent was resurrected, its pair of green snake eyes staring eerily at her.

“This is—the Undead Reconstruction Spell?”

The witch Susan immediately sensed something was wrong. She recognized it as a high-level necromancy spell, crafted using advanced undead techniques—far superior to the beast-like swarm of venomous snakes she had encountered earlier. She quickly searched her surroundings, trying to locate the necromancy wizard hiding in the shadows.

The enormous serpent demon slithered towards her at incredible speed. She brandished the gilded peach and used the Gem Leaf spell, unleashing countless gem leaves at the serpent demon. The demon, however, opened its mouth and spat out a torrent of venom from the Great World of Venom. Its fangs gushed forth a special venom like a magical fountain, corroding the gem leaves upon contact.

Sera couldn’t help but burst into laughter as several enormous shadowy figures of undead mages appeared around them.

He planned to use the special venom from the Venomous World to attack Susan, paralyzing her, then steal the special venom and snakes she had collected. After that, he could walk away without a care in the world; there were so many psychic wizards, he could just blame it on a dark wizard.

Of course, he couldn’t kill anyone. If he did, the Demon Hunters and Golden Crown Mountain would investigate thoroughly, and he would lose his status as a white wizard.

The enormous venomous snake flashed past Susan like lightning. Susan raised the gilded peach in her hand to block it, then looked down at her left shoulder, only to see a snake fang embedded in it.

The most troublesome thing about these venomous snakes was their ability to regenerate from their venom; they could only be killed by exhausting their venom.

The second problem was their extremely fast attack speed; they could inject a deadly poison into your body in an instant. Even a wizard could be killed instantly if caught off guard, their permanent defensive force field breached.

Even more troublesome was the fact that this venomous snake had clearly been enhanced by the Necromancer’s necromancy, its combat power estimated to be several times greater than its combined strength in life.

The witch Susan pondered, “I can’t pinpoint its exact location, but even if it’s a dark wizard, they’re just after money. Aside from the most vicious and insane dark wizards, who would want to kill? If I die here, the repercussions will be enough to get the White Wizarding Guild’s demon-hunting forces to locate this place.”

The witch Susan acted decisively. She sensed her permanent defensive field shell beginning to decay in a highly toxic substance, and she started to feel dizzy. Therefore, she immediately threw away the Astral Ring in her hand.

The next moment, she saw a skeletal dragon extend its claws and snatch the ring she had thrown. But when she turned around, she saw the enormous venomous snake turn around and continue its attack towards her neck.

“Hmm?

“

Susan the witch was horrified to discover that the other party’s character was so vile that simply robbing him was no longer enough.

He was definitely not a professional dark wizard. He acted so sloppily and ruthlessly. I didn’t even see who he was before he was willing to hand over my Astral Ring and attack me. He was either an enemy of Mount Golden Crown or an enemy of mine, or a white wizard posing as a dark wizard. “

Only a white wizard posing as a dark wizard, having broken free from the shackles that suppressed his true nature, would have such a strong desire to attack.”

Sera continued to laugh heartily, feeling incredibly relieved. The frustration he had suffered at Mount Golden Crown felt like it had all been released. Frustration is conserved; if someone suffers, someone else rejoices. His current rejoicing meant that someone else had suffered.

It was that simple.

This giant serpent demon was constructed using his Great Magic, Hundred Thousand Corpse Demons. He had no talent in potion-making, but he inherited the Death Witch Doctor’s talent and ability in necromancy, constructing a whole set of special Great Magic that absorbed the talents and forms of others.

Because this immense magic possessed the ability to manipulate the undead and corpses, interacting with them in various ways, his talent in necromancy surpassed that of ordinary wizards. At this moment, the giant serpent demon suddenly burrowed into the mud, then circled behind Susan the Witch. Susan, however, remained unaware of the anomaly behind her, failing to recognize it as a two-headed serpent demon. She merely used the Golden Peach to cast a defensive spell, attempting to resist the serpent’s giant form.

Facing the attack from the serpent heads, Susan suddenly sensed something amiss. Turning around, she was so startled that her movements faltered. She didn’t know when, but two serpent heads had appeared in front of and behind her.

“How can this wizard’s necromancy abilities be so powerful?”

Just as Susan decided to rely on her soul strength to withstand the attack and find an opportunity to unleash a second spell in retaliation, she was unsure if she could withstand the combined assault of high-level necromancy and the deadly poison of the Venomous World.

The next moment, a Sea Gold Sand appeared before her.

The witch Susan froze, her first reaction being, “Huh? This is Sea Gold Sand?”

The next moment, a Sea Gold Sand pierced the snake’s head, instantly destroying the entire giant snake, along with all the necromancy and all the snake bones. Even the second snake head was instantly destroyed by a burst of Geng Metal magic.

Susan’s eyes widened in astonishment. “Have I been away from home for so long, missing too much? Is this still the Sea Gold Sand I remember?”

The wizard Sera, lost in his joy, was startled by this sight and stopped laughing. Then he saw the White Tiger Sea Gold Sand turn its spear towards him. He summoned three high-level undead bone dragons in succession, but in an instant, all three were reduced to bone fragments.

Sera tried to cast a spell. How could this be? He couldn’t sense any of the vengeful spirit fragments anymore, even the precious bone dragon bodies were pulverized. What level of mystical meaning did this hold? “

What kind of magical plant is this?” Sera

saw a white vortex appear before him, and then this magical plant pierced through his permanent defensive force field, directly breaking through it.

He immediately chanted a spell, trying to share the damage with summoning magic, but the next moment, his remaining three Star Ring Bone Dragons were instantly destroyed.

Wizard Sera was utterly horrified.

“This spell destroyed six of my Star Ring Bone Dragons, and I actually lost thirty million magic stones. This Sea Gold Sand is truly too ferocious.”

At this moment, thanks to the protection of the Four Saints and the advanced mystical meaning of the year Xinwei, the Sea Gold Sand had already directly wiped out most of Sera’s fortune.

With a sudden inspiration, Sera removed all the star-ring rings from her fingers, then crushed one. From it, countless modified undead rained down. Some were skeleton kings, modified with precious magical metals; others were death knights, their armor adorned with valuable magical artifacts; still others were three-legged winged demons, created by capturing and transforming Outer Gods from the evil spirit plane.

This million-strong undead army was powerful enough to conquer a medium-sized world.

For a medium-sized world, this would be a catastrophic disaster. Sera, sensing the threat of death, fled in panic, throwing away all her treasures, especially the ring containing snake venom. She also crushed her star-ring-level magical artifact, summoning her Death Kingdom and unleashing her ultimate magic, “Hundred Thousand Household Demon,” in a desperate attempt to fight Locke to the death.

She herself rode a death dragon with peak star-ring magic power, disappearing into the distance.

Just now, Locke’s magic had allowed him to guess Locke’s identity, and he was currently the suspected dark wizard who had just attempted to ambush the Golden Crown Mountain wizard. He suspected that Locke might forcibly kill him.

It would be normal to kill him if he didn’t know his identity, but knowing his identity—judging by his own mind, killing him seemed even more normal.

He was caught red-handed by Locke while doing something bad.

Just as Sera was escaping, Locke used the Four Holy Blessings to strengthen the White Tiger Sea Gold Sand, and at the same time used a star ring spell model he had recently learned from the library, [Star Moon Fern Spear]. A star fell, followed by a crescent-shaped black magical pressure appearing on the ground. The next moment, a million undead soldiers were all destroyed in an instant.

His great magic, a huge ghostly corpse demon, attempted to manipulate soul fragments and undead bone materials, constantly modifying the undead to increase their resistance to the Star Moon Fern Spear, but those high-level undead were still destroyed one by one by the Geng metal fire of the year Xinwei, and all undead and negative energy turned into flowing fire and disappeared.

Sera’s ultimate magic was severely damaged by this spell. He spat out a mouthful of blood and then turned around to see the horrific scene above.

This area was a desert created by the Serpent Clan.

The power of the White Tiger Sea Gold Sand had erupted throughout the surrounding area.

Sera clutched his chest; his ultimate magic and permanent defensive field were severely damaged. What puzzled him most was why Locke had suddenly appeared here.

“That’s it. He was also catching snakes,”

Sera thought. “I didn’t use my signature spell just now, and I was wearing the magical artifact, the mutated cat’s eye necklace, which can change the frequency of magical pressure. Therefore, he shouldn’t recognize me. My ultimate magic, Hundred Thousand Corpse Demons, can also exist in countless forms by changing itself.”

In the past, the demon-hunting teams of the White Wizard Association often failed to detect me. So, what happened just now can be understood as Locke being catching snakes nearby when he encountered his junior sister, and I suddenly attacked her, running right into his line of fire.”

Sera clutched his chest, feeling the terrifying Sea Gold Sand magic surging wildly within his body.

“Damn it. A single sea elm has beaten me up like this. How could a roadside weed be so powerful? At the most crucial moment, I was severely injured, and Locke snatched the snake and its venom from my hand. I won’t be able to catch snakes for a while.”

“If I can’t catch snakes, won’t I be unable to perform the spirit summoning spell on Locke before the second round of the competition begins?”

“What should I do?”

Sera quickly found a hideout he had set up nearby. He entered the wooden hut, which was enchanted with an illusionary magic circle, and rummaged through it, searching for potions he had stored there beforehand. Then, he found a magical wardrobe with a hole cut out of it.

Sera was almost speechless. “My luck has been a bit bad lately. Did Locke Augustine cast a divination spell on me?”

He tested his luck with a remaining magic ring in the hideout, confirming that his luck was perfectly fine.

“Someone broke into my hideout and stole the magical artifacts inside. Who did it? Oh well, there are many dark wizards in the Cloud Marsh Wetlands. I think it was a dark wizard from the Twin Demon Realms who accidentally discovered my hideout and took it. He was even kind enough to leave me something.”

Sera felt that his bad luck had reached its peak. A wizard who roamed freely in the Southern Wizarding Capital had suffered repeated setbacks in the Cloud Marsh Wetlands.

At that moment, he even began to doubt himself. “Does that mean I can run rampant in the Southern Wizarding Capital because I’m immoral while others are? Do I have an advantage because I lack morality? And while the people of Yunze Wetlands aren’t as hardworking as those in the Southern Wizarding Capital, is the capitalist world here even more corrupt than I imagined?”

“The power dynamics here are too chaotic.”

Sera had recently had his resume rejected by Solas Barefoot. It seemed Solas Barefoot looked down on wizards other than magic shoemakers. He didn’t understand the industry rules of magic shoemakers, assuming the shop alliance could hire wizard employees at will, unaware of the incredibly complex relationships involved.

His resume format was wrong from the very first line.

He was rejected without even reading it.

Sera chanted a magic incantation, summoning a bipedal skeletal dragon hidden within his stronghold. Then, using powerful magic, he added some remaining magical materials from his stronghold, such as obsidian that could enhance magic resistance, to the bipedal skeletal dragon, transforming it almost into an obsidian dragon.

He then gave the dragon commands. “Go out and capture the snake race of the Venomous Great World.”

Now, to complete the necromancy, Sera had no choice but to bite the bullet and go.

“I must obtain Locke Augustine’s power; just that power alone would be enough to make me invincible. That terrifying magical power that can destroy countless undead with a single spell—”

On the wilderness, Locke tossed Susan a bottle of potion. “I only carried one bottle of the antidote, Holy Spring Dew. Use it to alleviate your injuries. Don’t worry, I am Locke Augustine.”

The witch Susan wasn’t too surprised. After drinking the potion, she smiled wryly, “I already guessed it. The only wizard in the world with such a powerful Sea Gold Sand magical plant is the Eye Wizard, Mr. Locke Augustine. Others’ Sea Gold Sand is at most crystallized; yours is exceptionally different.”

“Thank you, Senior Augustine.” The witch Susan was also a member of the Red Dragon lineage and had participated in the farewell banquet; she greatly admired Locke.

The witch Susan breathed a sigh of relief. “That necromancer’s sudden attack caught me completely off guard. Judging from his skillful movements, he seems to be a veteran.”

“Do you know who he is?”

Locke asked. “I don’t need to know who he is.”

The shadow beneath his feet transformed into an abyssal dragon, one eye open and one eye closed. Locke used the Encapsulation Bloodline Essence technique, sealing the dragon’s bloodline essence within this essence, ensuring that his two Star Ring-level bloodlines wouldn’t affect each other.

Since his teacher required him to repeatedly undergo pseudo-forging, these two Star Ring bloodlines needed to quickly become Moon Ring-level bloodlines.

Locke grasped a fleeting wisp of ritual power in the air.

“It’s only polite to reciprocate. You used a ritual on me, which means I can use a ritual on you. It seems the psychic wizards’ understanding of ritual magic is also superficial, lacking any protection techniques like the Sacred Circle.” “

A ritual is a channel for communication. As such, it must be bidirectional.”

“This guy doesn’t even understand what false forging is. All my magic power was stored in my false forging before, my magical pressure was under my control, flawless. How could such a low-level psychic spell possibly work on me? Only if I deliberately left a loophole could it work on me.”

Locke shook his head, finding this Sera wizard utterly absurd. He seemed to know everything, but in reality, he only had a superficial understanding of everything, only good for scaring those who didn’t understand, making them think he knew a lot, or for scaring those who were only vaguely knowledgeable, making them think he was truly powerful.

In truth, his magic was laughably ridiculous.

The witch Susan bowed to Locke a second time in gratitude, her face extremely weak. “Senior, I need to return to Golden Crown Mountain as soon as possible to find a potion master to heal myself. I can’t stay here any longer. See you next time, I’ll thank you again.”

Locke nodded to her. Unfortunately, all the potion-making skills he currently possessed were related to breeding, either Nero’s potions that created clones, or the reverse potion-making method. However, because the reverse potion-making method turned external alchemy into internal alchemy, it couldn’t produce potions that other wizards could drink.

Therefore, his normal potion-making skills still needed improvement.

After the witch Susan rode away on a vine dragon, Locke looked down at the 97 kinds of snake venom in his hand. These were all the venoms that the witch Sera and junior Susan had collected. Presumably, to thank him for saving her life, the witch Susan didn’t ask for the venom she had painstakingly collected back, considering it a reward.

Locke smelled the venoms, his eyes brightening slightly.

“Hmm? Judging from the spiritual power and magical pressure of these venoms, it’s possible they can be treated with Archangel potions. And we can even make corresponding snake venom serum. If we were to open a potion-making shop alliance and target the entire Cloud Marsh Wetland, it would be very promising.”

Locke summoned the Great Ming Dragon Sparrow and headed towards the White Wizard Association.

Sera, that guy, had spent half a day painstakingly collecting snake venom to imitate him, and now it was all in his hands.

Locke pondered his next step in establishing a shop alliance, whether Sera would follow suit, and whether this would be advantageous to him.

At Golden Crown Mountain, in the Saffron Peach Orchard, the Mario brothers, Wizard Wood, Celt, and Gordon saw the evaluation sheet from Locke’s report.

First place went to Wizard Wood, followed by the Mario brothers, then Gordon and Celt.

Wizard Celt wasn’t surprised to see himself at the bottom, because he could sense the vast difference between these wizards and those from the True Knowledge Institute during his work; he was definitely the worst among them all.

The average level of this research group far surpassed that of most wizards in Yunze Wetlands.

Gordon’s heart skipped a beat.

Wood, however, wore a smile. “I’m number one. And next, the group leader wants us to work together on preliminary experiments according to my proposed technical approach. You guys are here to help me first.”

The Mario brothers seemed somewhat resentful. “We didn’t expect to lose to you, Wood.”

Wizard Wood coughed, seemingly a little guilty. “You two are definitely stronger than me. It just so happens that I’m interested in mushroom-type magical plants, and I also happened to read a high-ring wizard’s discussion on this topic. It’s all just a coincidence.”

The Mario brothers met everyone’s gazes with intense competitiveness.

Next time, they definitely wouldn’t lose again.

Rankings are a great way to ignite a wizard’s competitive spirit and motivate them to work harder. Wizard Wood, meanwhile, tried to ease the tension with a smile.

The Celtic wizard, somewhat hesitantly, said, “Then let’s do as the group leader says. The most important task now is to conduct the mycelial fusion experiment. We need to select strains and find a way to remove specific plant factors from the mycelia so that they can fuse automatically. There are three steps involved. Just these three steps alone require a lot of work.”

The Wood wizard echoed the Celtic wizard, “Yes, we should prioritize the interests of the research group right now. We can discuss other things later. I’ll be responsible for finding a way to remove the specific plant factors, the Mario brothers will be responsible for selecting the strains, and the third step is simpler, belonging to the experimental verification stage, which Mr. Celtic and Mr. Gordon will handle.”

The group exchanged glances; their greatest consensus at the moment was the common interest of the research group.

Therefore, these inherently self-centered wizards could only cling to this common interest; otherwise, they would easily act independently.

In the Cloud Marsh Wetlands, Locke traveled in a magical carriage to the White Wizard Association headquarters in the Boniface region. He entered the association building and quickly registered a Potions Shop Alliance with the Commercial Management Department, which oversaw the management of the shop alliances.

As a Moon Ring Archmage, he was qualified to establish three shop alliances covering the entire Wizarding Lands.

At the same time, Locke also had his staff upgrade the Augustus Shop Alliance from one covering two regions, including the Golden Crown Mountain region, to one covering the entire Cloud Marsh Wetlands.

Although Locke had voluntarily lowered his magic pressure to 25,000, his Moon Ring Wizard status was still recognized by the White Wizard Association after forging the Fake Forge – Small Leather, at least by the local White Wizard Association.

As for participating in the competition along the Tianjiang River, as long as the local White Wizard Association didn’t object, there shouldn’t be any problems.

This was a kind of local protection strategy.

The second-ring wizard staff member respectfully handed Locke two second-ring magical artifact badges inlaid with gold edges. “Lord Augustine, I’ve completed the registration for you.”

“This is the new magical artifact badge of the Augustus Shop Alliance. It means your Augustus customers can be reached throughout the entire Wizarding Lands. I checked the records; you already used this permission when you sold the Starry Golden Dragon Claw, achieving sales of nearly two hundred pairs. According to our regulations, orders from the Academy can bypass this sales region restriction, such as the wizard shoe orders you sold during the Five Great Wars.” “

This sales region restriction means that you can only open a shop in a specific region, or on platforms like Arthas, the shop interface is only displayed to wizard customers located in a specific region.”

Locke nodded. In other words, as long as someone is willing to temporarily leave a certain region, they can purchase his Augustus wizard shoes without any obstacles.

Previously, during his Star Ring Wizarding stage, the sales scope of his Augustus Wizard Shoe Shop Alliance wasn’t strictly limited to regions like Golden Crown Mountain.

Now that the shop alliance has been upgraded, his Augustus is qualified to compete with Solas, at least within this wizarding land, for the qualification to become a top-tier wizarding shoe shop alliance. His Augustus can become a formal, large shop alliance within the wizarding land.

His Augustus income alone should increase, though he doesn’t know by how much.

Currently, Augustus is his main source of income, while Silver Peach Garden is in its investment phase. The construction of the Great Green Leaf Dragon Sparrow service stations alone costs a lot of money, and the construction of these stations is related to his performance in the Tianjiang River competition, as all academic defenses along the Tianjiang River revolve around local development.

Therefore, building more Great Green Leaf Dragon Sparrow service stations is essential.

However, this means that the income from Silver Peach Garden will at most be self-sufficient, and he may even need to continue investing.

The Aladdin Flying Magic Plant Shop Alliance is in the same situation.

The only stable source of income is Augustus.

As for his businesses during his time as a first-ring wizard and apprentice, the income is rather small, better than nothing.

Therefore, it seems he really needs to find new and more sources of income to support the expenses of the Grand Wizard of the Moon Ring.

After all, his research group, while he doesn’t have to pay salaries, he has to handle all the reimbursements for consumables and equipment himself.

It’s an expensive business.

Just rewarding those unruly wizard geniuses alone would probably cost him a considerable amount of money.

Although he could choose not to pay them, the problem is that it’s unrealistic to expect people to work diligently without tangible benefits.

In addition, he hasn’t finished his special grant and key sub-projects, and there are a bunch of projects his professor has given him, all of which require money.

Locke calculated that he really has too many expenses and too few sources of income.

The second-ring staff member addressed the recently renowned wizard, saying, “Lord Augustine, there’s something I must tell you. Your Augustus Wizard Shoes Shop Alliance is naturally without issue. However, your newly opened Potions Shop, [Gungnir], requires not only the certificate and badge from our Commerce Department, but also a series of other certificates and badges. This differs from your Augustus Shop Alliance. There are a series of related legal provisions.”

Locke picked up a book.

The second-ring staff member opened the book, expertly memorizing every page and line of this thick, dictionary-like volume.

“Your Augustus is a general weapon and plant shop alliance, so there are few restrictions. However, if you want to sell food seeds, you’ll need a qualification badge from the Agricultural Management Department. Similarly, your Gungnir, which I’ve reviewed, is a shop alliance covering the entire wizarding world. According to your application, your Gungnir requires potion formula research, production of new and existing potions, qualification to conduct three phases of experiments on new potions, and the right to sell them.” “

Furthermore, you even plan to produce potions that are restricted from sale, research, and production by the White Wizarding Association.”

“Additionally, you are a Moon Ring Wizard, so your potion shop can, strictly speaking, produce three types of potions: orange, blue, and gold.”

“Potion shop alliances already require many qualifications.”

“And for your Gungnir, you need the rights to produce, sell, and design potions, as well as the rights to produce three-limited potions—basically, almost all potion-related qualifications. You’ll need to apply for the relevant certificates.”

Locke asked, “Wait a minute. I want to ask, you said I want to obtain the entire potion supply chain, which is correct. I also plan to design and produce three-color potions, but how do you explain that I’m producing three-limited potions?”

The second-circle wizard staff member flipped through a book and showed it to Locke.

“The selling methods for second-circle potions are completely different from first-circle potions. If you just open an ordinary shop, or only provide a small-scale potion shop alliance in a region, then the White Wizarding Association can turn a blind eye. Even so, they are still violating wizarding law, and if the White Wizarding Association investigates, many potion makers will be fined.” “

However, if a wizard like you opens a shop alliance, because you are dealing with the entire wizarding land, in addition to this list of potions that are not restricted from sale, each potion you concoct may require a separate license. This is to ensure that the potions sold in your shop alliance meet the standards. For a second-circle potion maker, it’s far too easy to maintain quantity by reducing the potion’s potion potion’s effectiveness and then selling it at the original potion potion price.”

“Look, your Archangel Potion is a restricted potion—restricted in sale, research, and production.”

Locke took the book, read it, and found the other person was right. He had casually mentioned in his application that he might sell Archangel Potion in the future, and this wizarding potion book listed it as a restricted potion. The reason was that Archangel Potion was an important high-level standard healing potion on the front lines, possessing the magical ability to remove all curses and heal all injuries. Even without injuries or curses, taking Archangel Potion could temporarily increase a wizard’s magic pressure limit and enhance the effects of all spells.

It was a strategic resource.

Production and sale were too sensitive, and the research ban was to prevent the potion from being modified, leading to many altered Archangel Potions entering the battlefield supply chain.

Therefore, if he wanted to produce this potion, it would attract the attention of the White Wizarding Association and greatly increase the difficulty of applying for the Potions Shop Alliance.

Locke was speechless. “I’ll delete this now. I want to apply for the production of the Archangel Potion, is that alright?”

The second-circle wizard was a little guilty. He stood up and bowed apologetically to Locke. “Well—sir, please forgive me, but our association doesn’t have the concept of withdrawing a request. You’ve already registered, so you need to refer to the application form you submitted and complete the relevant application.” “

I can help you organize the different departments you need to go to and the different application qualifications you need to submit. You can have your students do these chores for you.” “

These departments are located in different places in Yunze Wetland, and their opening hours are also different. Going back and forth does take time. Magic potions are indeed different from magical plants. With magical plants, anyone can tell if a plant is generally normal after testing. Even if there’s some counterfeiting, it’s concentrated on the seeds or seedlings. Even if some magic artists will ‘make up’ magical plants, passing off inferior goods as superior ones, or even fake them, they are ultimately external things, and in most cases, it only results in the loss of some magic stones.” “

But magic potions are different. They’re ingested, whether by magical creatures, wizards, or apprentices. Magic potions inherently have many side effects. If their quality isn’t ensured at the source, it can easily lead to major disasters.”

The wizard took out another thick, dictionary-like book.

“You see, these are some incidents caused by the instability in the quality inspection of potion sales channels over the past three thousand years.

These include the mass withering of magical plants in a region, or the rampant spread of magical fungi in a certain area, leading to almost all plants and animals being parasitized by those fungi. The most serious recent incident was when a potion master modified an orange potion called the ‘Firebird Potion,’ a potion that enhances fire elemental resistance, allowing a large number of wizards to enter the Fire Elemental World without hindrance. However, because someone privately modified the formula, a modified Firebird Potion flooded the market. That potion had a defect in its formulation, causing a small number of wizards to develop a special heat plague, which could then be transmitted to other wizards.” “

This triggered a heat plague that can be described as catastrophic.”

“So if the potions are just for personal use, there won’t be many checks or scrutiny. But if they’re for sale, the licensing requirements will be very strict.”

Locke picked up the forms he’d prepared and glanced at them. He realized he needed at least six different certificates for production, sales, and design. And because it involved three-limited potions, he even had to apply for three different certificates from three different departments: one for production, one for sales, and one for improving Archangel potions.

Locke immediately realized something was wrong; he needed to hire a contract master.

There were just too many applications and certificates involved. In such a complex situation, even a slight procedural error could be used against him, leading to a lawsuit. Therefore, his Gungnir needed a contract master to ensure it was free of flaws in wizarding law. Otherwise, if someone found fault, he’d be facing financial ruin.

Locke realized this potion-making shop alliance was much harder to establish than other types of shop alliances.

He nodded to the staff member. “I understand, thank you for preparing the application forms for my certificate,

“

the staff member said with a smile, finding Archmage Locke remarkably humble and polite.

Most Moon Ring Archmages held high positions, possessed great magical power, and enjoyed high academic reputations; they weren’t as easy to talk to as Locke. Some Moon Ring Archmages, if they found their wishes weren’t being met, might become less accommodating.

Locke glanced at the staff member, understanding that humility and politeness were only useful when one possessed a far superior status or power. Otherwise, the humility and politeness of the weak would be seen as cowardice.

He had heard colleagues say that some wizards in the White Wizarding Association were reluctant to do things, treating it like begging a lord.

But his experience was indeed excellent. The reason was simple: he was a Moon Ring Archmage, and a direct student of two Throne Wizards.

Therefore, displaying humility and politeness was essential; otherwise, even a slight outburst of anger could cause others to tremble with fear, earning him a reputation for arrogance.

Even though he thought he was speaking normally,

Locke quickly left and found his wizard student Planknia, who was at the vaporization stage, and his wolf giant student. He instructed them to apply for qualifications in different departments. Julian and Nika, however, were still studying in public classrooms, one a second-class wizard apprentice and the other a third-class wizard apprentice, and it was inconvenient for them to leave Golden Crown Mountain, so Locke didn’t contact them.

A week later, after Planknia and the wolf giant had applied for a bunch of certificates in various places, Locke personally went to the Potions Management Department of the White Wizard Association in the Boniface region. With his current status, the other certificates and badges were easy to obtain. The most important one, the Potions Research Environment Qualification Certificate Badge from the Shop Alliance, required Gungnir to prove that he had provided the venue and laboratory equipment to grant potions masters the qualifications to research and develop new potions, was extremely difficult to obtain. His two students couldn’t apply for it at all, so Locke had to go himself.

Within the Potions Management Division, which has its own independent building, the wizards here are clearly different from those in other departments of the White Wizarding Association. They show no admiration or reaction to the celebrity effect of the Moon Ring Archmage and Locke Augustine, and the entire unit is filled with a businesslike atmosphere.

Locke arrived at the office of the Director of the Management Department. The director said to Locke, “We need to verify your identity before we can issue the production license badge and sales license badge for Gungnir. We saw that two of your students applied for them for your Gungnir three days ago.”

“Please sit down.”

Locke sat opposite him. “So, Director, how long will it take?”

The director pondered for a moment, glancing at Locke.

“Mr. Augustine, are you in a hurry? A few more months shouldn’t affect your plans, right? We’re short-staffed, and verifying the authenticity of your application materials will take a long time. Also, although we require Gungnir to prepare the corresponding potion-making equipment and production site in advance, it seems you don’t have a second-ring potion master certificate, a star-ring potion master certificate, or a moon-ring potion master certificate.”

“The other certificates are fine. But these are necessary for you to apply for the potion research environment qualification certificate badge.”

“Furthermore, we have reasonable grounds to doubt your eligibility for the Archangel Potions’ three-limit certificate badge.

Usually, such things require a high-ring potion master’s guarantee before we even consider granting them. These aren’t things that can be obtained overnight; some people apply for twenty years without success, which is understandable.”

The head of the Sun Rings raised an eyebrow, glanced at Locke, and said, “Also, does the Augustine wizard lack a corresponding Potions lineage? Is that right? Did you learn it yourself from books? Or did you apprentice under some unknown master? This part isn’t in your application materials.” “

If that’s the case, whether you can apply for your Gungnir certificate requires careful review,”

Locke said. “Recently, the Venomous World has passed through the Wizarding World, and it has many toxins that trouble our wizards. I want to apply for a shop alliance to produce antiseptic serum.” The head of the Sun Rings

seemed impatient, his face showing signs of barely suppressed frustration. After all, every year there are wizards who, without any formal apprenticeship, dare to apply for a large number of certificates simply because they can concoct some potions themselves.

Since the Moltres Potion incident, the Wizarding Association headquarters has tightened its requirements and regulations in this area considerably, making it impossible for anyone to obtain such a qualification casually.

Even with connections, it’s impossible to get one.

Locke said, “I have a Potions apprenticeship.”

The Sun Ring Director raised an eyebrow. “Are there any third-ring Potions wizards at Golden Crown Mountain?”

Locke asked. “No, I have the Sea Queen, currently a guest professor at Rootcrown Court, as my teacher in Potions.”

The Sun Ring Director’s expression changed drastically; he had heard of the Sea Queen’s reputation.

Becoming a third-ring Potions wizard was far more difficult than other disciplines.

Becoming a Throne Potions wizard was even more extraordinary.

As a Sun Ring Potions wizard, he could see that mountain and knew he could never cross it.

The Sun Ring Director’s attitude immediately underwent a subtle change. “The Sea Queen? The most talented potion-making witch of the last thousand years?”

“I see. Wizard Locke, you—you—you—”

The head of the Sun Ring was pondering how to treat Locke. “Wizard Locke, you’ve become an apprentice of that potion master? Your luck is incredible. How did you manage that? So many people want to become her apprentices, but they can’t. I find it difficult even to meet her.”

The head of the Sun Ring’s eyes were filled with envy and jealousy towards Locke.

Locke blinked. “Is it really that difficult to become the Sea Queen’s apprentice?”

The head of the Sun Ring glanced at Locke. “It’s not difficult for those who can do it, but it’s difficult for those who can’t.

It’s the same principle as brewing potions. Similarly, understanding and researching spirit macros from a potion-making perspective is far more difficult than understanding alchemy or enchanting. From an alchemy perspective, at a beginner level, you only need to recognize and understand spirit macros to think about how to craft new magical materials.” “

The key is identifying spirit macros of metallic and magical materials, as well as the phase changes between metallic and magical materials.” “

That is, the phase changes of spirit macros. From phase changes, phase defects and phase structures are derived. Phase changes, phase structures, and phase defects—these three combine to form the overall structural design of spirit macros. This is the implementation of the theory of structural-performance changes in spirit macros.”

“Enchanting only requires the ability to depict spirit macros—the spirit macros of spell structures, the spirit macros of animal specialties, the spirit macros of the mystical meanings of magical plants. I’m not very familiar with the Enchanting school; it should mainly focus on the study of [spiritual macros of magical pressure fields]. But our Potions are much more complex. From the very beginning, we need to conduct a holistic study of the spirit macros of all things. Everything can potentially be a potion. This is an immense test of a wizard’s talent. If you can do it, you can do it; if you can’t, you can’t. The level of sensitivity to spirit macros determines the upper limit of Potions from the very beginning.” “

The requirements for a wizard’s soul talent are unimaginably high.”

“This is the study of the changes and recombination of spirit macros, the study of the complex changes in the interaction of various spirit macros.”

“If you can’t do it, you can’t do it; but for someone who can do it from the beginning, it’s as easy as drinking water.

“

The head of the Sun Ring became much more amiable towards Locke, even showing respect. He knew that the Potions Master who could become an apprentice of the Sea Queen must have a talent for Potions far surpassing his own.

The director of the Sun Ring suggested to Locke, “Wizard Locke, if you want to get these certificates as soon as possible, you might as well contact the Sea Queen. With her help, getting these certificates will be a piece of cake. By the way, I’m an admirer of hers; could you please pass on my greetings to her?”

Locke was speechless, never expecting his unreliable teacher to hold such a high position in this Sun Ring potion master’s heart.

He exchanged pleasantries with the director and then contacted the Sea Queen, hoping to get the certificates processed that day. Otherwise, by the time he could sell snake venom serum, the Venomous World would have already left the wizarding world, and where would he get the magic stones? The

Twelve Zodiac Games were about to begin, and the two hundred million magic stones he needed to collect were still a long way off.

The Sea Queen quickly answered his call.

On the other side, the arrogant director of the Sun Ring held his breath, as if a pilgrim had met his idol.

The Sea Queen quickly responded. “Hmm? I saw your message. You’re going to establish your own Potions Shop Alliance? I don’t want to vouch for your qualifications. That’s pointless. If you want to establish it, we can sign an agreement where you take 67% of the shares and I take 33%.

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‘You and I will jointly open a shop alliance.’

Locke was dumbfounded. He had never even considered opening a Potions Shop Alliance with a Throne-level Potions Master.”

Locke and Director Rihuan stared at each other, both lost in thought.

Locke asked, “This?”

Neptune said, “You disagree? But in terms of shares, you own 67%, which gives you absolute control of the shop alliance and the ability to make all important decisions alone. I can provide the money, and you provide the manpower, resources, and technology.”