Chapter 251

Chapter 251: Mana 750 and Three Months

Locke was lying in a wooden barrel tub, soaking in the Tartarus cryptworm spinal fluid, which was absorbed by his body through his skin. While enjoying it, Locke took the fission potion, the eye demon potion, the star tears potion, the weeping nightshade potion and the energy potion.

He also lit the Four Seasons Fruit Core Incense and used advanced meditation techniques.

The cerebrospinal fluid in the wooden barrel quickly became lighter, and after half an hour, it turned into transparent water.

Locke opened his eyes, and a blue magical light shone in his eyes.

Locke pressed his palm on the amethyst matrix, and immediately the amethyst matrix showed that his mental power had reached 750.

“I’ve used up two-thirds of the Cryptid Spinal Fluid I obtained previously, and in the past three months, I’ve used up a large amount of magical resources, completely draining my savings. My mana has reached 750!”

At present, Locke only has less than 500 magic stones left. This is the least money he has since becoming a first-class wizard apprentice, and he still has to use magic stones to maintain the operation of various projects, so it is actually very dangerous.

If a project encounters a problem and a large amount of magic stones are suddenly needed, Locke will have no savings to take out, and can only sign a loan contract or borrow from others.

But the benefit of Locke taking such a risk was that he used three months to push his mana from 600 to 750!

The mana increases by 50 points every month, and the mana increases by about 2.5 every night.

There are two reasons for such rapid progress. The first is that the ancient creatures have a strengthened physique with blood, which allows them to withstand more medicines and have stronger drug resistance.

The second reason, and the most important reason, is that Tartarus spinal fluid is really the best resource for increasing mana. It has almost no side effects, the improvement speed is very fast, and the speed of developing drug resistance is relatively slow.

I have been taking it for three months, and have only now developed some obvious drug resistance, and the rate at which the cerebrospinal fluid improves me has slowed down.

But he still had a small amount of cryptworm spinal fluid left on hand. Although it would be unlikely to break through the last 50 points of mana with this cerebrospinal fluid, it should allow him to get close to 800 mana.

Locke said, “This adventure was well worth it. It saved me at least ten years of hard work. The adventure is worth it. High risk, high reward. If I hadn’t taken action this time, I wouldn’t have had any other adventures. To reach my current level of magical power, it would have taken at least ten years, or even more.”

“Although the resistance to the potions I’m currently using has become very high, even the common apprentice-level potions that increase mental strength generally have a very high resistance, so breaking through the last fifty points of mana is very difficult.”

“But… as long as I continue to synthesize and test special potion formulas, I can make up for this problem and still allow me to reach 800 spiritual power as soon as possible.”

Locke pondered his current situation. “In the past three months, I have indeed synthesized a special potion formula.”

“I used a Tanari Demon’s finger that I bought at the market for 350 magic stones and two bottles of Eye Demon Potion to create this potion. I originally just wanted to try it out since they are all creatures from the Endless Abyss, but I didn’t expect there would actually be a special formula for this combination. However, the side effects are a bit too much for me to decide.”

Locke looked at its entry. ‘Level 7 synthetic item, Beholder Lord Potion. It’s considered the most complex refining formula among apprentice-level items, very close to the difficulty of a first-level potion. It requires the use of two types of negative energy particle magic flames—Dark Magic Flame and Dark Night Magic Flame.’

“A new Abyss Potion has been created by adding the standard Tanar’ri Demon’s Fingers and the Abyss Demon Plant [Calamity Flower] to the traditional Eye Demon Potion formula, then processing it with a special heat…

“Using the Eye Lord Potion grants the spiritual vision of a high-level Eye Lord, thereby gaining a higher level of perception and enhancing advanced meditation. The effect is very powerful, enough to quickly increase a wizard apprentice’s mental strength to the limit.”

‘The side effects are unknown, as this potion is used to obtain the world as seen by a high-level beholder lord. The side effects may vary from person to person.’

Locke looked at the potion in his hand. “I finally came up with a special synthetic formula, but I’m afraid to use it right now. It’s best to find a test subject and test the effects first.”

“In the past three months, I have made great progress in Potions.”

During this period, Locke determined the direction of his pharmacy development, which was mainly to enhance mental strength.

This direction is actually consistent with that of the memory ointment.

If you work hard in this direction, you will be able to prepare medicines for yourself when you reach a higher level in the future.

And it doesn’t mean that after investing energy in this direction, you will be powerless in other directions.

Having a synthetic magic cube and obtaining a new potion formula is much easier than that of an ordinary potion master. Moreover, one can even improve the effect of a certain potion by synthesizing magic plants.

Therefore, for me, I just need to confirm a main development direction, and then the secondary development direction is the curse-breaking and healing potions, and then the research of other functional potions.

Locke flipped through the apprentice-level potion magic book at hand, and also flipped through the three books on potions that he had been reading continuously in the past three months – Abyssal Alchemy, Abyssal Magical Plant Science, and A Collection of Common Side Effects of Abyssal Potions.

These are three basic content books for studying Abyssal Pharmacy.

Magic potions are different from magic plants. They need to be taken regularly. If you synthesize the Eye Demon Lord potion yourself, the cost of each one will be thousands of magic stones.

Therefore, the best way is to learn how to make it yourself!

As long as you learn how to make the Eye Demon Potion, you can also learn how to make the more advanced Eye Demon Lord Potion.

However, to learn how to make a difficult potion like the Eye Demon Potion, I still need a long time to study.

But it doesn’t matter. There is a formal wizard, a dark wizard, outside Lilith’s hut who is watching her every day. She has plenty of time and stays in the laboratory, and would never go out.

If you can’t learn it right away, just learn it slowly.

“By the way, the auction house sent me a message today, saying that they have found the formula for the Eye Demon Potion that I asked them to find three months ago.”

Locke closed the book. In the past three months, he had already finished studying three introductory books on Abyssal Alchemy, but there was still a lot of advanced knowledge to come, and he also needed to do some practice.

Potions is a category of magic that combines practical and theoretical skills.

It’s just that he’s been short of money recently, so he hasn’t been practicing much.

Locke thought, “Besides, the official wizard of the Crow’s Rest seems to have recovered from her injuries and is planning to thank me today. I wonder how she’ll thank me, but I hope she can give me some magic stones. Anyway, she doesn’t have much money herself, and it seems she’s signed several loan contracts.”

“So recently, she owed money to the academy’s higher-ups and is temporarily unable to leave Lilith’s cabin. I think the academy wants to take advantage of her completely.”

It is not easy for a first-ring wizard from outside to leave the academy’s treatment center without spending some money.

(End of this chapter)