Chapter 56

Chapter 56 Chimera Market

Witch Sophia sat at her desk, crossed her arms, looked at Locke, and said, “My good student, what do you want?”

“As long as it’s a reasonable request, I can help you once.”

Locke thought for a moment. He already had a meditation method, so this favor obviously wouldn’t be enough to exchange him for an advanced meditation method.

As for other study matters, even if I don’t mention it, Teacher Sophia has already arranged it for me. I just need to study step by step.

Therefore, Locke thought of the materials he had recently obtained. He took out a vampire heart from under his wizard robe and said, “Teacher, this is a vampire heart. I want you to help me refine a bottle of Scarlet Echo Potion.”

The Scarlet Echo Potion is a potion that can be made by a first-class wizard apprentice, but it does not reach the level of a magic potion.

But it is already considered the most difficult among the apprentice-level potions.

Its effect is very strong and can accelerate the advancement of wizard apprentices to the greatest extent at the apprentice level.

If it is made by witch Sophia, the effect can be further improved and the side effects will be greatly reduced.

For potion masters, the publicly available recipes are just standard recipes.

Every potion master has his or her own little tricks when refining potions, as well as some secret formulas that he or she has fine-tuned.

Locke had observed this when he was working as an assistant to the witch Sophia.

Witch Sophia took a look at the vampire heart in Locke’s hand and said, “The Scarlet Echo Potion is indeed suitable for you.”

“The main ingredients for the Scarlet Echo Potion, besides a mid-level vampire heart, also require 10 grams of Blood Moon Epiphyllum, 15 grams of Twin Serpentine Fruit juice, and a drop of a mermaid’s tear to balance the potency. Otherwise, the side effects will be too severe.”

Locke looked at Witch Sophia in confusion, because the public Scarlet Echo formula did not mention mermaid tears.

Witch Sophia explained calmly, “The tears of female mermaids are a small innovation of mine. They can minimize the side effects of the Scarlet Echo Potion.”

“It can also improve the efficacy of the medicine a little bit, raising the original 10% increase in mental strength to 15%, which can increase it by an additional 5 points.”

Witch Sophia said, “Okay, then I’ll help you refine it and I’ll also help you get the remaining materials.”

“Locke…” Witch Sophia hesitated for a moment, then said to Locke, “You’re thoughtful.”

“But now you just need to focus on your studies.”

“The best consolation for a wizard mentor is that his student, under his guidance, grows rapidly and becomes a wizard who can stand on his own.”

Witch Sophia picked up the certification information with her thumb and index finger. “Here, this is my certification. You can take the Super Mandrake Vine to the Chimera Market. You will need this certification.”

“If you have time, you can set up a stall and sell them yourself. If you don’t have time, you can entrust the magic plant shop to do it.”

“I recommend the latter. Our wizards’ time is very valuable. Also, some things are best left to professionals. If you rely on yourself, you might not be able to sell the Super Mandrake Vine well. You won’t be able to fetch a high price.”

Witch Sophia said, “By the way, remember to keep the original seeds of the Super Mandrake Vine in your own hands.”

“Sometimes, magical plants cultivated through grafting will degenerate and distort over time. If the original seeds are not kept, things will become very troublesome.”

Witch Sophia said, “That is a tool used to define what a Super Mandrake Vine is.”

“If the offspring of the Super Mandrake vine degenerate, the seeds of the original species can be used to reverse the degeneration trend.”

Locke nodded. “I understand, teacher.”

“This pot of Super Mandrake vine is not the original one. The original one is in my house. I will give it to you, teacher. It is a small gift from your student.”

In fact, I don’t have many original species, so I can just use the Mandrake vines to synthesize them all the way to level four.

There is not much difference.

When the time comes, you can just pick up a pot of level 4 Mandrake vine, point at it and say that it is the original species.

Witch Sophia didn’t refuse. Instead, she curled her lips slightly and said, “I’ll give you the Scarlet Echo Potion in a few days.”

“I’m going to be busy, Locke.”

Locke left her office. “Goodbye, teacher.”

…

After leaving Witch Sophia’s cabin, Locke went straight back to his residence in Upside Down Lane, and then took out from his residence thirty pots of Super Mandrake vines that he had synthesized in his spare time over the past year.

This number is also consistent with the relative speed of cultivating new varieties of magic vines using grafting and fast-growing gel.

Locke ordered two gray dwarves to push a wooden cart and covered the thirty pots of Super Mandrake vines on the cart with black cloth. Then he left Upside Down Alley and went along the street to the Chimera Market on the next street.

At this time, Locke was wearing the academy badge representing that he was a second-class wizard apprentice, the certification badge of the breeder’s assistant, and the badge of the law enforcement wizard apprentice on his chest. Therefore, when he walked into the barrier entrance of the Chimera Market, he did not encounter any obstruction.

Some people in the Chimera Market looked at him a few more times. After all, he was relatively young among the breeder’s assistants.

There are rows of shops on both sides of the Chimera Market, including potion shops, alchemy item shops, transportation shops, magic pet shops, and even a spell model shop that specializes in selling spell models. The entrance of the store looks like a library.

The shops here have a wide variety of categories and quantities, making it the largest wizard market in the vicinity.

Therefore, not only wizards from Lilith Hut will be there, but also wizards from many other schools will enter this street through different channels.

Locke saw in the distance that there was a section of the street where a large number of wizard apprentices were setting up stalls.

The Chimera Market is divided into two parts. One is the regular shops on both sides of the street, and the other part is temporary stalls that sell magical resources that cannot be used up or cannot be used at the moment.

“Buzz~”

Locke heard a long, rhythmic, and special sound. He looked up and saw a place in front of him that looked like a circular altar. Rays of light were falling like meteors, and some figures appeared in the meteor-like light, transforming from illusion to reality.

Locke knew that it was one of the seven large teleportation arrays set up in the Chimera Market. It was an ultra-long-distance teleportation array that took a lot of time to set up by the official wizards of the Alchemy School. It consumed a large amount of magic stones to activate it once.

It is the crystallization of the magical technology of the alchemy school!

It is suitable for wizards in remote areas who use the teleportation array to reach the Chimera Market.

The wizards who come from afar will enter the Chimera Market, probably for the Lilith Hut Potion Auction in the market.

That was the largest auction of magic potion resources in the surrounding area.

Even ordinary wizard secret realms do not have so many alchemy resources, so they can attract many wizards from outside.

After all, Lilith’s Cottage is the dominant potion school in the area, which is enough to attract other potion school wizards in the nearby areas to come here from far and wide, through untold hardships, to collect resources or to study.

Locke stopped in front of a plant magic shop on the street. He looked up at the shop and saw a sign with the words “Li Jin Secret Magic Plant Shop” outlined with magic moss and magic flowers hanging on the wall.

Locke said, “Stop.”

“Here it is.”

The two gray dwarves immediately stopped moving forward. It was the first time they entered a place with so many wizards. The two gray dwarves looked extremely pale, with no trace of blood on their skin. They were trembling all over and were very scared.

Only by looking at Locke, their master, from time to time could they alleviate this fear from the soul level, which was an instinct left over from generations of enslavement by magic.

“Great Master Wizard, your command… is our oracle.”

(End of this chapter)