The Wizarding Age: I Can Explain Everything

Chapter 22 Senior sister, I want to learn medicine
The sudden episode did not affect Pei Ze's arrangements.

After separating from everyone in Xingling Society, he went straight to Medicine Garden No. 8.

Routinely inspect the plants in the responsible area and water all the plants that need watering.

After finishing his work, he came to the hut where Yin Xue usually stayed and knocked gently on the door.

Not long after, the door opened with a creak, revealing Yin Xue's delicate and pretty face.

When she saw it was Pei Ze, a smile appeared on Yin Xue's face.

"It's my junior fellow student. What do you want from me?"

"I have something to ask my senior sister."

Yin Xue nodded slightly, stepped aside and said, "Come in first."

Entering the hut, Pei Ze immediately smelled a spicy, sweet smell, mixed with a smell similar to disinfectant, but fortunately it was not unpleasant.

There was a huge table in the center, occupying almost half of the room. On it were large and small glass bottles, test tubes, beakers, and other tools that Pei Ze could not recognize.

Obviously, this is where Yin Xue usually makes potions.

As Pei Ze had guessed before, she was indeed a pharmacist, or a pharmacy apprentice.

Seeing Pei Ze looking at the utensils on the experimental table curiously, Yin Xue smiled and said, "Interested in refining medicine? After you are promoted to the second-level wizard apprentice, huh?"

Halfway through her words, Yin Xue suddenly realized something was wrong. She stared at Pei Ze with her silver jewel-like eyes for a moment, with a look of surprise on her face.

"Have you been promoted to level two wizard apprentice?"

Pei Ze nodded: "I just broke through yesterday."

Yin Xue took a deep look at him, and said with emotion: "Junior brother, you really surprise me every time."

As someone who has experienced it, she naturally understands what it means for Pei Ze to be promoted to the second-level wizard apprentice at this time.

What surprised her even more was that Pei Ze's family was not well off - otherwise he would not have needed to take on the task of taking care of the medicine garden - and without sufficient resources to support him, he was still able to break through so quickly. His outstanding qualifications were simply amazing. People are amazed!
Pei Ze didn't know Yin Xue's inner sigh and went straight to the topic: "Senior sister, I came here to ask you about magic pets."

"I plan to contract a magic pet, but I don't know which animal to choose. Do you have any good suggestions?"

Yin Xue came back to her senses, pursed her lips and said, "It mainly depends on what requirements you have for your magic pet."

"Different types of animals have different abilities after being transformed into familiars."

"For example, a cat, after being transformed into a magic pet, usually awakens the stealth ability, and moves quietly. It is a good helper as a scout. If it is cultivated well, it can also awaken the shadow stealth ability."

"Toad, after transforming into a magic pet, it usually awakens its poisonous ability."

"Bats are super-wide-range acoustic positioning capabilities."

"Frogs tend to grow to huge sizes."

Yin Xue gave examples of more than ten kinds of animals in one breath.

"Of course, this is just a normal situation. Depending on the physical differences of the contract partners and the level of the wizard's mental power, the ability of the magic pet to finally awaken will also be different. In rare cases, very rare abilities may even be awakened."

"In a sense, contracting a magic pet is actually a kind of gamble, and the outcome largely depends on personal luck."

Pei Ze nodded to express his understanding.

To put it simply, the process of transforming a magic pet is actually a bit like drawing a card in a mobile game. You will never know whether you have drawn SSR or NR until the end.

Suddenly, Pei Ze thought of the flock of crows he saw this morning, so he asked, "Senior sister, what abilities do crows have when they transform into demon pets?"

"crow?"

Yin Xue stretched out her fair and slender index finger, and tapped her chin lightly, her movements were inexplicably playful and cute.

"I don't recommend you choose a crow as your familiar."

Pei Ze was startled: "Why?"

"Because the common awakening ability of crows is to control a group of crows."

"To rule the crowd of crows?" Pei Ze was stunned for a moment and had a bad feeling. "This group of crows refers to ordinary crows?"

Yin Xue nodded with a smile.

Really
The corner of Pei Ze's mouth twitched.

This ability seems useless, at least for wizards.

You can't expect a group of ordinary crows to play any role in the wizard's battle, can you?

"Doesn't the Crow Demon Pet have other more useful abilities?"

"That's not the case."

Pei Ze perked up and asked quickly: "What ability is it?"

"For example, creating fog, releasing attacks similar to spell missiles, shadow sneaking, etc. Wizards refer to these as spell-like abilities."

"A crow that has awakened its spell-like abilities can be considered a very excellent familiar with high potential."

"However, the chance of a crow's familiar awakening its spell-like abilities is very low, not even one in a thousand."

"Considering that each time a contracted magic pet consumes the upper limit of one's own spiritual power, generally no wizard is willing to gamble, and very few people choose crows as their magic pets."

Pei Ze was a little disappointed when he heard that.

In this way, the crow is really not a good choice.

At this moment, Yin Xue turned her wrist, and a book appeared in her palm.

On the dark leather cover, there are four bold and black words surrounded by many animals and stars.

"Encyclopedia of Demonic Pets"!
"Don't be too anxious about your demon pet. Go back and read this book carefully. It's not too late to learn more about this before making a decision." Yin Xue handed the book to Pei Ze.

"Thank you, senior." Pei Ze did not hesitate to be polite and accepted it generously.

After putting away the books, Pei Ze glanced at the utensils on the experimental table, and asked seriously: "Senior sister, if I want to learn how to refine medicine, what should I do?"

Yin Xue thought for a while, and with a flick of her finger, a piece of paper floated out of nowhere on the table not far away, and landed on her palm.

There was a little silver light on her fingertips, and she wrote and scratched on the paper.

After a moment, she handed the paper to Pei Ze.

"This is a list of knowledge you need to know to learn how to make potions. You'd better understand and master them first before trying to make potions."

Pei Ze took the paper and looked at it. It was filled with dense book titles, including elementary pharmacy, medicinal botany, advanced identification of extraordinary materials, pharmaceutical identification, etc. It was visually estimated that there were at least fifty subjects of knowledge.

Pei Ze was secretly speechless.

No wonder pharmacists are so rare.

Just getting started requires learning so much knowledge, how amazing is the breadth and depth of knowledge that needs to be exposed later?
"In addition to learning a lot of knowledge, refining pharmacy also consumes a lot of resources. It can be said that every qualified pharmacist is piled up from a huge amount of resources. You have to be mentally prepared for this."

Pei Ze nodded solemnly.

As we all know, each of the wizard's four major side jobs is a gold-swallowing black hole.

Among them, refining pharmaceuticals is the most expensive.

The resources consumed by a failure to refine a medicine are often worth tens of hundreds of gold coins.

And a novice pharmacy apprentice often needs more than ten failures to refine a bottle of qualified pharmacy.

Even if you are an official pharmacist, the success rate of refining medicine is not too high.

More than 40% is considered to be the best among pharmacists at the same level.

This has also led to high drug prices.

However, Pei Ze is different. He has all-seeing eyes. He can analyze the formula of the medicine and accurately grasp the ingredients of the medicine, thereby greatly reducing the mistakes in the process of refining the medicine and improving the refining efficiency.

(End of this chapter)