Sixth Ring Wizard

Chapter 59 Dawn Potion

A month later.

As Herag lay in bed, the sixth star in his mind was about to solidify and shine brightly.

As sunrise approached, Hrag opened his eyes.

"Deep Blue, check your current physical condition."

"Hrag Merlin: Strength 2.8, Agility 2.9, Constitution 4.0, Spirit 10.5, Magic 100%."

"All data have reached the upper limit of the gene pool."

Herag looked at the data, pondering silently: "A mental strength of 10.5 exceeds the advancement requirements for most second-tier wizard apprentices. Is it due to the Starry Sky Meditation Technique?"

Generally, a first-class wizard apprentice's mental strength is capped at 8 or 9; to increase it further, they must advance to a second-class wizard apprentice.

Herag already has a mental strength of 10.5 even before advancing in rank; if word got out, he'd probably be dissected and studied.

Various physical indicators have also improved significantly, but they have already reached the genetic limit.

Instead of rushing to advance, Herag spent five days stabilizing his mental strength and striving to maintain a stable physical condition.

"Next is to brew the potion." Herag prepared two sets of materials, and one set was borrowed from Larry.

If it succeeds on the first try, the material can be returned.

Herag heard that to become a full-fledged wizard, one needs to drink multiple potions; if one isn't enough, one more must be consumed. If one fails to advance, one dies.

The advancement to a first-class wizard apprentice is not that difficult or dangerous; all that is needed is a potion.

"Devil Flower Roots, Ancient Tree Sap, 30 grams of Obsidian, Saturn Dust..."

In his laboratory, Herag was taking stock of the potion ingredients. The main difficulty in making the Dawn potion lay in processing the Devil Flower roots and maintaining the activity of the Ancient Tree Sap.

The ancient tree sap needs to be kept in a beaker at a constant temperature of 83 degrees Celsius, neither too high nor too low, and its condition needs to be monitored at all times.

The roots and stems of the Devil Flower contain a potent toxin and must be handled with care to filter out all the toxins, which are the main ingredients that make the Dawn Potion effective.

The Dawn Potion is essentially a poison; ordinary people who drink it will die instantly, and even first-class wizard apprentices with insufficient mental strength will find it difficult to survive.

Herag took out a black sunflower-like plant from his spatial ring. Unlike a sunflower, the original flower head had been replaced by a human face.

Judging from the facial features, it is a woman's face with her eyes closed and two sharp, cute canine teeth at the corners of her mouth.

"Let's just call it cute..." Herag didn't understand why he would use the word "cute."

Suddenly, the woman opened her eyes, looking at Herag with a seductive gaze.

"Dark Energy Shield! I almost forgot! Damn it, the first step almost went wrong." Herag felt a wave of fear. The Demon Flower has a bewitching effect and can absorb the emotions of animals.

If the demon flower absorbs emotions, its venom will become mixed with impurities, rendering the potion ingredients useless.

The Dark Energy Shield offers some protection against spells that rely on dark energy, and it's more than capable of blocking the minor spell from the Demon Flower.

Herag took out a pair of scissors and placed them at the junction of the Devil Flower's flower head and stem. The Dawn Potion only needed the stem; the flower head could be kept as material for other potions later.

"Deep Blue, shield hearing." Herag issued the command in advance, as if anticipating something.

The next moment, the demon flower felt the cold, hard scissors below, and its face showed a human-like fear.

With a sudden burst of strength, Herag cleanly and efficiently cut off the flower head, simultaneously sealing the cut with magic to prevent the sap inside from spurting out.

"Aaaaaah..." The demon flower opened its mouth wide and began to scream. The dark energy contained within was blocked by the dark energy shield, and the sonic attack was also ineffective against Herag.

Given his current physique, this level of damage wouldn't be enough to harm his eardrums, after all, it was just a harvested potion ingredient.

After screaming for about a minute, the Demon Flower's expression weakened, and it looked very sleepy. Soon after, it closed its eyes.

Herag soaked it in a glass jar he had prepared beforehand, then stored it in his spatial ring, thinking he might need it later.

The next step was crucial and difficult. Herag placed the demon flower root, whose cut had been sealed with magic, into a large beaker, then channeled magic into it to control the toxins inside, squeezing them out with magic.

This process requires extreme care; if the internal structure of the root is damaged, the subsequent experiments will have to be abandoned.

The dark purple toxin slowly dripped into the large beaker. The entire laboratory was silent except for the sound of water dripping, and time slowly passed.

……

Herag spent eight hours preparing the Dawn Potion. He took an oak cork and plugged the mouth of a test tube containing a pale purple solution.

"Phew... I'm exhausted." Herag finally breathed a sigh of relief and wiped the sweat from his forehead.

"Remaining mana: 11%"

Besides requiring attention to many details, brewing the Dawn Potion also consumes a significant amount of magic power.

Exhausted from both physical and mental strain, Helag was now extremely tired.

"Thank goodness it worked, I don't want to do it all over again." The tension of walking a tightrope, where not a single step could be wrong, enveloped his heart, and just thinking about it made Hrag break out in a cold sweat.

"The pressure of completing this potion with my current mental strength is still too great. No wonder Mr. Larry insisted on lending me a copy. It seems he doesn't think I can succeed on my first try."

Deep Blue can only help him deduce and calculate how to proceed step by step, as well as the timing of the next step, but in actual operation, he still needs to complete each step himself.

The normal human brain is no longer capable of performing such a high-precision, high-intensity task; only a wizard with mental strength far exceeding that of an ordinary person, and sufficient focus and endurance, can accomplish it.

After finishing these tasks, Herag went downstairs to take a bath, and continued meditating while soaking in the bathtub.

Although my mental strength has reached its limit, it has become a habit, and meditation can accelerate the recovery of magic power.

Six stars were linked together in my mind, and only four positions in the dot matrix remained unlit.

"A second-class wizard apprentice needs ten stars to advance to the third class, which is exactly the same as the number of dot matrix diagrams. There might be some connection between the two."

Herag lay in the bathtub, lost in his meditation, oblivious to the passage of time, not even noticing that the bathwater had cooled down.

"Remaining mana: 100%"

After a night, his magic was fully restored, and when Herag opened his eyes, all the fatigue in his body and mind was gone.

He didn't rush to drink the potion to advance his level. Instead, he planned to adjust his physical condition for a few days and use that time to review the knowledge related to advancement.

"You succeeded in refining it on your first try?" Larry was very surprised when he heard the news.

"I almost failed so many times, it's so difficult," Herag exclaimed.

Larry looked at Horag like he was a monster: "You know what? I've already prepared the Dawn Potion for you, because I never thought you could succeed."

(End of this chapter)