Chapter 97

Chapter 97: Potion Master’s Assistant Examination!

Inside Locke’s house.

Locke looked at the two gems in front of him and fell into deep thought. There was a gem on the table. It was a dark blue diamond. This was a diamond he made by combining two level 6 dark blue gems and a level 6 diamond.

Locke saw its entry—

[Deep Sapphire is a variant of Deep Sapphire, found deep within the depths of underground mines. Deep Sapphire devours diamond ore, creating a mutated version of Deep Sapphire. Its mana filtering performance is over ten times that of Deep Sapphire, and its durability far surpasses Deep Sapphire. A single Deep Sapphire can stabilize its owner’s mana and generate filtering effects, reducing the user’s mana fluctuations to an incredible degree.]

Locke used a diamond necklace to hide this special gem. He placed the gem in a special space inside the diamond necklace.

Unless you actively inject magic power into this kind of gem, it is impossible to find anything special about it. After all, it is like a magic filter container.

So, Locke doesn’t need to worry that someone will find it.

Locke tried to mobilize his mana, his expression changing slightly. “With this deep sapphire, my mana’s stability has increased several times over. I can practically control it.”

Locke tried to use the magic flame technology. The greatest difficulty for a Potions Assistant is how to skillfully use the magic flame and smoothly switch between various elemental fire sources during the refining process. At least one must be able to skillfully switch between five types of magic flames to be able to skillfully refine potions at the Potions Assistant level.

In this process, the stability and accuracy of mana are the most important things.

Locke snapped his fingers, and first there was a 1,400-degree wood element magic flame, and then a ball of blue flame burned and swayed at his fingertips.

The nature of wood elemental flame is the softest and it is the most commonly used flame by potion masters. If you can’t even do this, then you can’t say that you are studying potions.

Next, Locke’s fingertips turned into a thousand-degree fire element magic flame, and the blue flame turned into a red flame.

The fire element has explosive flame properties and is often used when extracting medicinal ingredients.

The temperature of the fire element flame is relatively low, but this makes it easier to extract the special ingredients in the material, otherwise the magic flame will destroy the medicinal materials.

Locke’s expression remained unchanged as he continuously transformed the flames on his fingertips into water element flames – blue magic flames, wind element flames – pale magic flames, and earth element flames – khaki magic flames.

The flames of the wood element, the earth element, the fire element, the wind element, and the water element, these flames are all magical flames, magical flames that cannot be easily extinguished by ordinary water.

Each has its own characteristics.

The water element flame has the lowest temperature, making it suitable for low-temperature extraction of internal components of medicinal materials.

The wind element’s flame has the highest temperature and is suitable for obtaining certain ingredients by force.

The temperature of the earth element flame is only 800, and its nature is mild, suitable for neutralizing polar magic flames, accommodating extreme components in medicines, eliminating drug toxicity, and reducing the toxicity of refined potions.

These five kinds of magical flames are the five kinds of flames that an assistant in potions should at least master first. Locke originally learned very slowly, and if he wants to be fully proficient in their application, it may take him five to ten years to fully learn them.

But now, with the blessing of the deep blue gem, the stability of his magic power has been further improved.

The magic flames at his fingertips transformed faster and faster.

Locke stared at the magical flames, lost in thought. “With the Deep Sapphire, it would speed up my journey to becoming a potion master’s assistant.”

“At the Potion Master’s Assistant stage, the most important talent is still the stability of mana, because at this stage, the Potion Master only needs to follow the recipe step by step to make potions.”

“There is very little demand for identifying medicinal properties and developing formulas.”

Locke said, “As long as I can compress the switching speed of the five kinds of magic flames to less than 3 seconds, I can start to officially refine the medium difficulty potion.”

Medium-difficulty potions, that is, potions at the potion master’s assistant level, generally have quite complex medicinal properties and may require proficient switching of three or more magical flames.

Of course, during the assessment, the switching speed and mastery of the five common magical flames will still be assessed.

This is the basic skill.

Confidence appeared in Locke’s eyes. “If I become a Potions Assistant soon, I can prepare my own high-grade fast-growing gel, high-grade nutrient soil, and nutrient solution, saving me a lot of money.”

“By becoming a potion master’s assistant, I might even gain a new way to earn magic stones. The potions I brew can be further synthesized to improve their effectiveness. This should soon feed back into my mental strength growth and even my studies in the field of breeder.”

“In the later stages of breeding, a large amount of high-level potions will be needed. Many breeders can only go to the potion master to purchase them with magic stones.”

His monthly expenses are now less than three thousand, so he needs to actively expand his income channels.

In addition, whether it is meditation or breeding, a large amount of advanced potions are required. If you can refine them yourself, you can save a lot of costs and perform synthesis better.

Locke has always been concerned about what the so-called essential potion that witch Sophia mentioned is that is needed to become a formal wizard.

Perhaps, becoming a potion master’s assistant would allow one to get in touch with that field earlier.

Locke calmed down and prepared to go to the Chimera Market to buy a batch of materials for practicing the Concentration Ointment so that he could learn how to make it.

…

Two months later, the Potions Assistant certification exam took place at Lilith’s cottage.

Locke quickly filled out the questions related to Potions and handed it to the official wizard in front of him, Mr. Derek Jones.

Mr. Derek Jones is a first-level potion master, and his representative work is the first-level Thousand Faces Potions.

The Thousand Faces Potion even made its way into Sassari’s textbook for the Everything class. It was a potion that, after taking it, could permanently change one’s soul’s aura and physical appearance.

This type of auxiliary potion has many uses, and even many reclusive wizards will need to use them to completely cut off from their past.

Of course, I wasn’t the only one taking this certification. I applied for the Potions Assistant exam certification, and then waited for a while. I waited until the number of applicants reached three before I got the opportunity to take the exam.

Moreover, the fee for applying for the assessment is five hundred magic stones.

In addition to himself, the people who took the test this time included an old first-class wizard apprentice from Lilith’s Hut, and the last person was a first-class wizard apprentice from a small wizard organization nearby.

Those small wizard organizations are not qualified to conduct assessments, and the outside world will not recognize their assessment results.

If they want to take the Potions Assistant certification test, they must come to a larger wizarding organization like Lilith’s Cottage for the test.

In front of them, besides Wizard Derek Jones, there were actually two other wizards.

The assessment for Potions Assistants is already quite strict, so there must be three official wizards in charge of the assessment, and one of them must have a Potions Master Badge.

This is also the reason why many small wizarding organizations are not qualified to take the assessment.

Official Wizard Derek Jones glanced over the three answers and snorted. “You three’s foundations are a bit shaky. Forget it, just barely pass.”

“Next is the test on magic flame transformation.”

The two people beside Locke both looked very nervous. The passing rate of the Potions Assistant exam has always been not very high.

Many people privately claim to have the ability to pass, but once they arrive at the examination room, under the cross-eyed gazes of the three official wizards, some people become unable to calm down and are unable to display their full potential.

Then I failed the assessment.

Locke was not very nervous. Of course, his score on the test paper would not be very high, after all, he had only studied for a short time.

Generally, when first-class wizard apprentices come for assessment, they have already studied Potions for several years, but I have only studied it for more than two years.

However, the next two exams are my strong points. As long as I can pass this first round, the subsequent magic flame assessment and the actual operation of preparing potions will not be a problem.

Wizard Derek Jones and two other official wizards set their sights on the first first-class wizard apprentice of Lilith Hut who was to take the magic flame test.

After watching his magic flame switch, Wizard Derek Jones frowned, wrote down his results, and scolded him, “Bette, you are at least a student of our Lilith Cottage.”

“You’re taking the test at this level? You’re wasting your magic stones, and you’re also wasting our time…”

“Your magic flame switching speed is approximately 5.5 seconds. With this level of skill, you’re still taking the test. Aren’t you afraid your crucible will explode under your magic flames?”

Beth’s face turned pale as he bowed to the three official wizards. “I’m sorry, I can usually do this. I was just too nervous…”

“My latest job really requires a Potions Master’s Assistant certificate, and I need that job, so…”

Wizard Derek Jones snorted. “That’s not a reason.”

“You’re really bringing shame to our Lilith Cottage in front of outsiders.”

(End of this chapter)