The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 496 Analysis of the Felixir

When Ryan pulled Hermione out of the common room, he found that many students were working hard on their homework. This was completely different from what Ron had imagined before, where they could freely use their time during breaks. Except for a few students who might have a family background and only chose one or two advanced courses, most students needed to work hard to complete the after-school academic tasks assigned by the teacher.

These academic tasks were only slightly easier than last year's exam preparations, and Ryan found that every classmate he knew was working hard on writing something.

"Ron, Hermione, what are you going to do?" Ron, who had just cooked a pot of asphalt in the potion class, was having a headache about today's potion homework, and found that the help he could ask for help was moving away from him. Just as he raised his head to ask his question, Harry also raised his head and looked at them with hopeful eyes.

"We need to study a very important problem." Hermione said, "You know Ryan got the right to use the school's alchemy laboratory from Professor Dumbledore this year, so he can go there to study some problems. And I am his research assistant, because some research projects require help."

"Oh, it looks like I have to spend all my time before dinner doing homework. I thought I could still practice Quidditch." Ron said dejectedly, while Harry made a sympathetic expression.

"You need to learn to study on your own and can't always rely on others. Otherwise it will be difficult to get the desired results in future exams." Hermione raised her eyebrows and raised her voice, then pulled Ryan out of the common room under the eager eyes of Harry and the others.

Following the familiar path, they came to the door of the alchemy laboratory on the fifth floor, opened the door and went in. As soon as the door was closed, Hermione turned around excitedly and looked at Ryan: "I really can't believe that just some ordinary raw materials and potions prepared by ordinary methods can change people's destiny. The entire production process did not touch the rules of this world at all, but the final product can trigger some of the world's rules. This is simply incredible."

"Yes, that's why we are doing research here now." Ryan said as he took out the Felicity Potion and the bottle from his arms and placed them on the alchemy table. Then he asked Xiaoqing to take out all the alchemy equipment he had previously placed in the Wanjie Grocery Store.

Many of these alchemical equipment were made by Ryan under the guidance of Teacher Luo Zhen, using precious materials collected from multiple worlds. If you use magic to observe, you can find that these alchemical equipment are all high-level alchemical products. After arranging these special alchemical equipment, Ryan began to study magic.

He nodded to Hermione first, and Hermione waved her hands in understanding, releasing a layer of black shadow. The shadow quickly spread and covered the entire alchemy laboratory, with a faint smell of death in the middle. This shadow with the power of rules is used to isolate the entire laboratory from the outside world. It can prevent magic from splashing and injuring other people after an accident inside, and naturally it can also prevent people outside from prying into the inside. The most important thing is that the potion that can make people lucky is likely to involve rules, so it is very important to isolate the influence of the outside world at this time.

After the shadow with the breath of death completely blocked the laboratory, Ryan took out a handful of pinball-sized fluorite balls and placed them on the energy nodes of the alchemy array, and then touched them one by one. Each fluorite ball that was touched emitted a faint blue light, which instantly illuminated the entire laboratory covered by the shadow.

"Let's begin." Ryan said as he directed the elixir in the bottle to float above the alchemy array in the middle of the instruments, and then quickly started up the alchemy instruments one by one.

The instrument began to rotate, glow, vibrate and make a buzzing sound. A large number of parts started to work, and colorful lights and runes surrounded the small pool of felicity in the middle. Soon, a large amount of data flowed through a silver mirror placed in front of Ryan, and the first round of analysis was out.

"Too fast." Ryan muttered to himself, and then looked at the analyzed data. The data showed that this thing was a special neurodepressant that could suppress people's emotions to the greatest extent, allowing people to face everything they encountered in the calmest state. It was similar to the mechanized mind magic that Ryan learned from Luo Zhen.

"This - the Felicis shouldn't be that simple, right?" Hermione said after looking at the analyzed data. "If it were that simple, the Felicis wouldn't have become such a precious potion."

"Of course not." Ryan said, "I am only analyzing the basic effects of these potions now, and it does not involve the rules. But I must admit that this basic potion is very helpful in achieving the goal." Looking at Hermione's inquiring eyes, Ryan paused and explained: "The potion of Felixir is believed to be effective if you drink it occasionally, but taking too much will cause dizziness, recklessness and dangerous arrogance. Too much dose will be very toxic. At the same time, it cannot make people defeat powerful magic, but can only make people succeed in doing things within their abilities. In other words, this potion can allow you to maximize your abilities, but you can't do things beyond your abilities. What does this mean?"

Ryan habitually kept the question a secret, but Hermione, who was already on edge, slapped him on the arm. "Hurry up and tell me."

"Okay, okay, I'll continue." Ryan rubbed his arm and said, "This shows that the Felixir can reduce the user's ability to regulate emotions, allowing the user to enter a state where they are not controlled by emotions and can take accurate actions in extreme situations."

"So, this thing actually affects the brain?" Hermione squinted at the golden liquid floating in the air.

"Of course, didn't the professor say that? Overdose can lead to dizziness, recklessness, and dangerous arrogance, and too high a dose can be highly toxic." Ryan shrugged. "As far as I know, there are similar methods in the ordinary world. It's called transcranial magnetic stimulation, which has been used in the treatment of mental illness in the past two years. It uses magnetic signals to penetrate the skull without attenuation and stimulate different neural areas of the brain, achieving different effects on the brain through different frequencies."

"According to the feedback from the users, after certain parts of the brain are stimulated, psychological repression begins to disappear mysteriously, subjective morality begins to waver, and an absolute self-confidence will dominate all of their actions. In this case, they will complete the tasks at hand with extremely high efficiency, and the success rate of doing things is much higher than usual. Do you think this is similar to the state described by Professor Slughorn after drinking the Felixir, except that the effect of the potion is stronger and more perfect."

"Don't tell me that Felicis is a psychiatric drug that affects the brain." Hermione looked a little depressed. She couldn't believe that the principle of this legendary drug was so simple.

"Of course not." Ryan said as he used all his strength to activate the red ball of light in his mind, and then used countless runes to form an alchemical field to cover the pool of liquid. After the entire field was closed, complex patterns of the same color appeared on the golden liquid.

"This is the power of a part of the rules of fate." Ryan said after carefully examining the pattern. "Although there is only a small part of the potion that touches the rules, the luck effect will be magnified to an extreme if combined with the purpose of the potion itself. No wonder this potion is called the lucky potion."

"But the success rate of making the Lucky Potion cannot be too high, because the lucky rules in the last step are random. In other words, the potion selected by luck in the last step is the Lucky Potion."

"During the production process, there are not many semi-finished potions that can be successfully brewed after half a year, and they still have to go through the selection of fate in the end. It can be said that every successful potion is a miracle, and the lucky potion born from this miracle can also bring miraculous effects."

From the analysis of the Felixir, Ryan further understood the rules of change that he mastered by analyzing the rules related to fate. He also knew that in the world he was in, in some cases, low-level power could be used to pry high-level power. This also opened a new door for him in the study and mastery of magic.

When isolating the inside and outside of the laboratory, Hermione also used the shadow barrier to block the techniques that might have an impact. This brought her one step closer to mastering the integration of shadow magic and the rules of death, which was also a gain.

After finishing their research, they packed up everything and walked out of the alchemy laboratory. It was dinner time, so they went downstairs to have dinner.

(End of this chapter)