Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 251 Mana 750 and Three Months
Three months later, in Locke's laboratory.

Locke lay in a wooden tub, soaking in the spinal fluid of the Tartarus Cave Worm, which was absorbed into his body through his skin. As he enjoyed this, Locke also took Fission Potions, Eye Demon Potions, Star Tears Potions, Bloodthirsty Dragon Sunflower Potions, and Energy Potions.

He lit the incense of seasonal fruit pits and used advanced meditation techniques.

Inside the wooden tub, the spinal fluid quickly diluted, turning into clear water after half an hour.

Locke opened his eyes, and a bright blue magical light shone from them.

Locke pressed his palm onto the amethyst matrix, and immediately the amethyst matrix displayed that his mental power had reached 750.

"Having consumed two-thirds of the cave worm spinal fluid I had previously acquired, and using a large amount of magical resources over the past three months, I have exhausted all my savings. My mana has reached 750!"

Locke currently has only a pitiful 500 magic stones left, which is the least amount of money he has since becoming a first-class wizard apprentice. He also needs to use magic stones to maintain the operation of various projects, so it is actually very dangerous.

If there's a project that encounters a problem and requires a sudden large amount of magic stones, Locke won't have any savings to withdraw and will have to sign a loan agreement or borrow from others.

But the benefit of Locke's risky approach was that he used three months to increase his mana from 600 to 750!

My mana increased by 50 points every month, and by about 2.5 points every night.

There are two reasons for such rapid progress. First, the physical constitution of ancient creatures, which is strengthened by their bloodline, can withstand more drugs and has stronger drug resistance.

The second reason, and the most important one, is that Tartarus spinal fluid is truly the best resource for enhancing mana, with almost no side effects and an extremely fast rate of enhancement, while the rate at which resistance develops is relatively slow.

I've been taking it for three months now, and only now have I developed some noticeable drug resistance, which is why the rate at which the cerebrospinal fluid is improving my condition has slowed down.

However, he still had a small portion of the cave worm spinal fluid left. While it was unlikely that he could break through the final 50 points of mana with this fluid, it should be enough to bring him close to 800 mana.

Locke said, "This adventure was very worthwhile, saving me at least ten years of effort. The adventure was worthwhile, high risk, high reward. If I hadn't taken action this time, I wouldn't have had any other fortuitous encounters, and it would have taken me at least ten years, or even more, to reach my current level of magical power."

"Although this has led to a high level of drug resistance in the potions I currently use, even common apprentice-level potions that enhance mental strength, making it extremely difficult to break through the final fifty points of mana."

"But... as long as we synthesize and continuously test special drug formulas, we can make up for this problem and still allow me to reach 800 mental strength as soon as possible."

Locke pondered his current situation. "Over the past three months, I have indeed synthesized a special potion recipe."

"I used a Tanaris demon's finger, which I bought on the market for 350 magic stones, and two bottles of eye magic potion to synthesize this potion. I originally just wanted to try it out, since they are all creatures from the Endless Abyss plane, but I didn't expect that it would actually produce a special synthesis formula. It's just that the side effects are a bit hard for me to accept."

Locke looked at its description: 'Level 7 crafted item, Eyelord's Potion. Even among apprentice-level crafting recipes, it's one of the most complex, with a difficulty level very close to that of a first-tier potion. It requires two types of negative energy particle magical flames—Dark Magic Flame and Night Magic Flame.'

'A new Abyssal potion is created by incorporating the standard Tanaris demon's finger and the abyssal plant [Calamity Flower] into the traditional Eye Demon potion recipe, and processing them under special conditions...'

'Using the Beholder Lord's Potion grants the spiritual vision of a high-ranking Beholder Lord, thus acquiring a higher level of sensory abilities. The enhancement of advanced meditation techniques is so powerful that it can rapidly increase a wizard apprentice's mental strength to its limit.'

'Side effects are unknown, as this potion is used to obtain the world through the eyes of a high-ranking beholder lord; therefore, side effects vary from person to person.'

Locke looked at the vial of potion in his hand. "I finally came up with a special synthesis formula, but I'm hesitant to use it right away. It's best to find a test subject and test its effects first." "My potion-making skills have improved quite a bit in these past three months."

During this period, Locke determined the direction he wanted to develop in pharmacology, mainly focusing on enhancing mental strength.

This direction is actually consistent with that of memory ointment.

If I work hard in this direction, I can prepare my own potions when I advance to each level in the future.

Moreover, it doesn't mean that once you've invested your energy in this area, you're powerless in other areas.

Having a synthesis cube makes obtaining new potion recipes much easier than for ordinary potion makers. Moreover, one can even enhance the effect of a certain potion by synthesizing magical plants.

Therefore, for me, the key is to identify a primary direction for development, followed by secondary directions such as antidote and healing potions, and then research on other functional potions.

Locke flipped through his apprentice-level potion encyclopedia, as well as the three potion-making books he had been reading over the past three months: Abyss Potionology, Abyss Botany, and a compilation of common side effects of Abyss potions.

These are three foundational books for studying Abyssal Pharmacology.

Unlike magical plants, potions need to be taken regularly. If you want to obtain the Eye Lord's Potion by synthesis, the cost alone is thousands of magic stones per vial.

Therefore, the best way is to learn how to prepare it yourself!
Once you learn how to brew Eye Demon potions, you can learn to brew even more advanced Eye Demon Lord potions.

However, to master the Eye Demon Potion, a highly difficult potion, I still need a long period of study.

But it doesn't matter. Anyway, there's a formal wizard, a dark wizard, watching over me every day outside Lilith's cabin. I have plenty of time. I can stay in the laboratory and never go out, even if it kills me.

If you can't learn it all at once, then learn it slowly.

"By the way, the auction house sent me a message today saying that they have news about the Eye Demon Potion formula that I asked them to find three months ago."

Locke closed the book. In the past three months, he had finished studying three introductory books on Abyss Potion, but there was still a lot of advanced knowledge to learn, and he also needed to do some practice.

Potions is a category of magic that combines practical application with theoretical knowledge.

He's just short of money lately, which is why he hasn't been practicing a lot.

Locke thought, "Moreover, the official wizard of the Raven's Nest Brigade seems to have recovered from her injuries and is preparing to thank me today. I wonder how she will thank me. I hope she can give me some magic stones. Oh well, she doesn't have much money herself, and it seems she has signed several loan contracts."

"Therefore, she recently owes money to the academy's higher-ups and is temporarily unable to leave Lilith's Hut. I think the academy intends to take advantage of her completely."

For an outsider wizard to enter the academy's treatment center and leave without spending money, that's not an easy task.

(End of this chapter)