80: Chapter 80: Potions Course Concludes, and Advancement

At present, Ross was already able to brew three kinds of Potions.

After mastering the familiar steps and techniques, he also wanted to find some time to finish his Potions course as soon as possible.

Therefore, after he proposed to take the assessment to Evelyn, the Level 2 Wizard who was the professor in charge of Potions, this female wizard once again focused her gaze on him.

"You are that little fellow who took care of the sun-gathering flower for me back then. I didn't expect that you are already a Level 2 Wizard Apprentice."

At this moment, after looking at the magic cauldron and Materials prepared in Ross's hands, Evelyn spoke again, "Since you are already prepared, I will wait and see."

First was the simplest calming potion, then the crimson potion, and finally Ross also brewed the siling ointment together.

The finished products of the three Potions were all different, and Ross's skilled brewing technique quickly aroused discussion among quite a few trainees.

"This guy named Ross doesn't seem very famous, but I didn't expect his potion-brewing technique to be so skilled."

"Good heavens, did no one observe that he brewed siling ointment?"

"What is that siling ointment? Can it heal injuries?"

"Idiots, I don't know how you guys learned your Potions. siling ointment is a potion that can increase Mental Energy."

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Ross was not disturbed by the apprentices below; he just took care of every detail that he had long known by heart step by step.

After a display, he handed the finished products he had brewed to Wizard Evelyn.

Seeing this, the lord wizard simply placed a small amount of the potion to her nose and gently sniffed it for a moment before gaining an understanding of the quality and standard of the finished product brewed by Ross.

"The Materials were handled very skillfully; you must have put in a lot of effort."

At this time, watching the whispering among the apprentices below, Evelyn emitted a suppression of Mental Energy, causing the classroom to instantly fall pin-drop silent.

"You all took the Potions course at the same time, and by now you haven't made much progress yet you still have the nerve to disrupt the class."

"Each generation is really worse than the last."

Although these Wizard Apprentices had been deterred and dared not talk nonsense anymore, some clear-headed apprentices had already engraved Ross's name in their hearts.

They were wondering if they could ask Ross to brew Potions for them.

If it worked out, they could save a lot of magic stones.

Unfortunately, Ross did not have such a warm heart to act as a Saint and brew Potions for others.

Amidst bursts of envious gazes, Ross also obtained the course completion certificate for Potions and five academy points.

As for Ross right now, the courses he had already completed already amounted to three major courses.

This also met the academy's basic requirements for cultivating Wizard Apprentices.

As long as Ross could become an Official Wizard, he could basically become a qualified wizard.

However, Ross knew very well in his heart that these courses he studied served more to assist Wizard Apprentices in gaining a preliminary understanding of the wizard Domain.

However, at least Ross could mentally liberate himself a bit.

Moreover, with the support of the siling ointment, over the past month since returning from Boulder Town, coupled with the effects of various Potions, his own Mental Energy had reached 2,508.

Currently, with the harvest from Ross's self-sufficient cultivation of the Water Lily Magic Plant, he also had a savings of 1,500 magic stones on hand.

Originally, these magic stones would only buy about 15 bottles of siling ointment, but he already had the recipe for brewing the potion.

These 1,500 magic stones could brew almost 35 bottles of siling ointment.

This was also what Ross was going to do for the next period of time.

After all, the most important thing was for him to first break through to become a Level 1 Wizard Apprentice, and only then consider how to further accumulate magic stones to accelerate his Breakthrough speed.

Brewing these Potions was not easy either; brewing a single bottle of siling ointment took nearly three hours to finish.

Even if Ross organized the Materials in advance and performed pre-processing, he could still only speed it up by about 30%.

Coupled with the fact that Ross also needed rest—Wizard Apprentices had not yet reached the stage where they did not need rest.

It was just that through the absorption of magical power, they could avoid eating, but they still needed sleep to replenish the needs at the Soul level.

In fact, without good sleep, the rapidly increasing Mental Energy of the Wizard Apprentices would likely lead to a mental breakdown for the wizards.

Severe cases might even cause some wizards' Souls to ulcerate, and the solution was to rest well.

At the very least, this was something Wizard Apprentices could not resolve; perhaps the powerful Souls of Official Wizards did not need to worry about the effects of not sleeping.

As for these 35 bottles of siling ointment, Ross brewed and used them at the same time, and in about 12 days, the last 10 bottles also reached Ross's hands.

During these days, under the enhancement of the Meditation Method and the blood feast brew, Ross's Mental Energy increased by 180 points.

Under the impact of these 180 points of Mental Energy and the previous 25 bottles of siling ointment, his original 2,508 Mental Energy reached 2,938.

At this moment, with the use of these 10 bottles of siling ointment, Ross's Mental Energy broke through all the way from over 2,938 to 2,948, 2,958, 2,968... until at 2,998, Ross's Mental Energy elevation reached just below the 3,000 threshold.

Under the impact of the final medicinal effect of the siling ointment, Ross's Mental Energy also reached 3,008.

Breaking through the threshold of 3,000 Mental Energy, Ross also arrived at the standard of a Level 1 Wizard Apprentice.

Throughout the entire stage of a Wizard Apprentice, he could finally take a step closer toward the end goal.

Although a Mental Energy of 10,000 was still very distant, under Ross's "drug-popping" pay-to-win playstyle of enhancement, he had also become the highest Rank below Official Wizards in the Wizard Academy.

After Ross's wave of joy finally dissipated, Ross also remembered the matter of registering at the Rank registration office.

After arriving here, Ross discovered that it was still the same Wizard Apprentice who had registered him previously.

His rapid progress undoubtedly dropped the jaw of the Wizard Apprentice before him; it wasn't as if he hadn't seen apprentices whose wizard Ranks improved quickly over all these years.

But like Ross here, in less than two months—or if he remembered correctly, it should be less than a month and a half—he went from a Level 2 Wizard Apprentice to a Level 1 Wizard Apprentice.

It was still too astonishing.

So much so that the Wizard Apprentice in charge of registration before him couldn't help but suspect whether Ross had been subjected to Possession by a different-world creature, or had utilized some evil means.

Therefore, he even took out quite a few testing instruments, but Ross's Mental Energy was elevated by popping drugs.

Naturally, these testing instruments did not show any fluctuations.

Under the dumbfounded gaze of this Wizard Apprentice, Ross completed a series of procedures including signing a new academy contract and registering for related benefits, then left dashingly.

The academy's contract for Level 1 Wizard Apprentices was somewhat more complicated.