12: Chapter 12 Fundamentals of Potions

Since he was already in the Magic Plant Garden, Ross still chose to take a walk outside the magic field of the sun-gathering flower where Evelyn was located.

By the way, he would do a ten-consecutive draw.

After all, Evelyn's juanyang flower liquid was simply too amazing.

It was comparable to a high-grade mental magic potion of the Wizard Apprentice stage.

It could steadily enhance Ross's mental power.

It was the mildest material Ross had ever encountered.

Moreover, the taste of the juanyang flower liquid was quite good.

It tasted sweet, and after drinking it, his body felt warm and comfortable.

Nectar like this was said to also have the effect of preserving one's appearance.

It was hard to tell whether it was true or false.

Although Ross didn't care much about issues like appearance, it was immensely important for the enhancement of mental power.

When Ross arrived outside the magic field, he gently rubbed his hands together.

Draw, ten-consecutive draw!

Swish, swish, swish—ten cards popped out from the virtual card pool.

[Material Card * 3] juanyang flower liquid...

[Material Card * 3] sun-gathering flower pollen:

Precious pollen powder produced by mature sun-gathering flowers, which could be used for sun-gathering flower pollination or cross-pollination.

[Material Card * 4] Elues Magic Stone * 5...

It hit gold.

"Not bad, not bad." Ross looked at the juanyang flower liquid.

Drawing magic stones was basically the most common and worthless thing.

Drawing things like Spell Models and juanyang flower liquid could be considered very precious rewards.

A single drop of juanyang flower liquid could increase mental power by about 10 points.

And 3 drops of juanyang flower liquid were roughly equivalent to a bottle of mental magic potion.

The price of each drop was around 30-plus magic stones, which was equivalent to about 6 times the amount.

The price of Spell Models encountered during the apprentice stage was about the same, like ordinary level-zero cantrip-type Spell Models.

The price sold by the academy was around one hundred magic stones or ten academy points.

The price of a single Spell Model was roughly about 3 times that of a drop of juanyang flower liquid.

It's just that no matter how many Spell Models there were, mental power was still needed to carry them.

Although constructing a Spell Model during the apprentice stage could also increase mental power, it was much more complex.

Therefore, the value of things like juanyang flower liquid naturally increased as well.

Both belonged to rare resources.

Over the past three months, Ross had noticed that the progress of mental power growth brought by practicing his Meditation Method had indeed slowed down significantly.

It was not as fast as when Ross had just transitioned from the mortal stage to a Level 3 Wizard Apprentice.

At that time, Ross could increase his mental power by almost a dozen points, or even twenty-plus points, every day.

But after breaking through to a Level 3 Wizard Apprentice, the enhancement of mental power seemed to be locked by an invisible iron chain.

Averaging out over these three months, it increased by about 5 points daily, reaching a certain limit.

Ross guessed that this was already a manifestation of his relatively good talent.

For some Wizard Apprentices with mediocre aptitude, averaging an increase of three points might already be considered very high.

After all, as far as Ross knew, a batch of Wizard Apprentices from the same period had already been dismissed, but at least the academy debts they needed to repay would decrease correspondingly.

If they waited until advancement to a Level 2 Wizard Apprentice, yet still couldn't see the threshold of a Level 1 Wizard Apprentice...

If they were dismissed at that time, they would have to work for the academy for fifteen years to be able to repay it.

After consuming and absorbing three drops of juanyang flower liquid, Ross's mental power increased by another 30 points.

Currently, Ross's mental power had reached 380 points.

It was still less than halfway to the 1,000-point threshold of a Level 2 Wizard Apprentice.

As expected, enhancing a wizard's mental power was not an easy task.

Lately, he had spent a bit too much time in the magic field.

The cultivation of magic plants was the source of Ross's future income, as long as this path of magic plant cultivation could work out.

Ross would be able to quickly shake off the plight of lacking magic stones.

He could also purchase some mental-type enhancing magic potions to accelerate his own mental power enhancement.

But Ross understood that while magic stones were certainly important during the Wizard Apprentice stage, the enhancement of mental power was equally crucial.

But even more critical was laying a solid knowledge foundation during the apprentice stage.

For now, Ross's own grades in Magical Botany and Wizard History were already passing.

However, he had yet to touch upon corresponding courses such as Pharmacy, Alchemy, and Elementology.

Although these fields might only truly begin to display their terrifying power during the Official Wizard stage.

But if these accumulations were lacking during the apprentice stage, it would obviously be disadvantageous for the future.

It was also possible that when encountering bottlenecks in mental power enhancement in the later stages of apprenticeship, he would lack the corresponding wizardly means.

Ross therefore signed up for Potionology. When Ross arrived at the Potionology classroom...

...he discovered that the lecturing wizard on the podium turned out to be none other than Evelyn, whom he knew.

Indeed, a Level 2 wizard like Evelyn was already a core force within the Elues Junior Wizard Academy.

Having her teach apprentice-level Potionology was naturally the most suitable choice, which was an unquestionable matter.

As for Magical Botany, that old wizard was taught by a First-Order Wizard.

The First-Order History class was taught by Wizard Ian, a newly advanced First-Order Wizard.

They either belonged to young but still shallowly experienced wizards, or marginal wizards with limited talent.

But Evelyn was different; she not only possessed the strength of a Level 2 Wizard, but her age was also quite young.

Potionology was one of the most important branches of knowledge for wizards.

Before the wizard civilization stepped into the multiverse and came into contact with and learned from various world races...

...before stepping into the Official Wizard stage, Potionology was almost a necessary means for a wizard's advancement.

There was no wizard who was not good at refining magic potions.

Magic potions were even a necessary condition for spellcasting back then.

Preparing spiritual materials to make magic potions was used to assist in spellcasting during battles.

Compounding and modifying magic potions, including the renowned wizard advancement magic potions, were also necessary means for almost all wizards to advance back then.

"Potionology has a long history. That is how the preface of 《Basic Potionology》 in your hands is written."

"All transcendence stems from magic potions."

Evelyn's voice reached the classroom.

"There are many factions that split off from Potionology, which is also an inevitable development."

"For example, the Alchemy Faction. Wizards who believe in alchemy separated from Potionology, researched the art of turning stone into gold, reversed the concept of entropy increase, and believed in making all things tend towards perfection, and so on."

"Another example is the Bloodline Wizard Faction. Early wizards who wanted to try integrating the bloodlines of other creatures generally refined magic potions to swallow them. Of course, nowadays they have more bloodline transplantation methods."

"However, the one that separated most cleanly among them is the Elemental Faction. During the early enlightenment period of wizard civilization, casting spells basically required magic potions to assist in spellcasting."

"Nowadays, spellcasting is done more through Spell Models, and the Elemental Faction even transforms their body into an elemental form, able to pull upon elemental forces with every move."

"Of course, this also led to the consumption of quite a few spiritual magic plants. Later, some wizards, through profound research into elements, discarded and replaced this primitive method of spellcasting."

"Therefore, Potionology covers quite a few branches."