Hogwarts: From Selling White Peppers to Becoming a God

Chapter 103 Aphrodisiac Perfume

The method of having a wizard brew a potion from start to finish is too slow and can no longer meet the growing demand for beautiful potions in the Venus series. More importantly, the effects of potions brewed by different wizards vary, making it impossible to control the quality, resulting in slight differences in the effectiveness of each batch of Venus series.

To solve these problems, Murphy had long planned to industrialize the production of the Beauty Potion.

However, unlike White Essence, Beauty Potion involves numerous ingredients and complex refining steps, making it difficult to find the truly effective components and thus difficult to carry out de-wizarding industrial production.

Therefore, the only way to break down the refining process is through this assembly line method, with each person responsible for a specific step. Through standardized and simple operations, a more unified and efficient output can be achieved.

"How many beautiful potions can be made here every day?" Murphy asked.

"Around 600 batches. If we adopt a three-shift work system, we can produce an additional 200 batches."

Eight hundred pots, or more than 1,500 liters, is more than five times the previous daily output of about 300 liters.

Moreover, the quality is more stable.

"Let's hire more people and add another production line," Murphy said.

After inspecting the factory, Murphy and Isaac returned to the front.

"Isaac, do you know anything about aphrodisiacs?"

“Of course,” Isaac said. “Although potion shops are generally not allowed to openly sell love potions, almost every potion shop sells them secretly, and Aurors usually don’t care. Occasionally, the law enforcement team will check, but you can just hide the potion. If the inspection is really strict, you can just turn the potion into water.”

That's how the laws in the magical world are; there are many regulations, but their enforcement is generally weak.

"I want to build another aphrodisiac production line, not here, but in that shop in Knockover Alley. But they're not very familiar with this kind of production line, so I might need you to give them some guidance occasionally."

"Well, also, the workers... cough, I mean the pharmacists, need to be recruited through you before they go to work there, which will reduce some trouble."

"No problem, boss."

"Very good. Next time, just like with the beauty potion, break down the production process of the aphrodisiac. I've already spoken to them, and Ms. Zoreni will cooperate with you."

Zorini is the female owner of the Potions Master in Knockturn Alley, and the younger sister of Harima, the owner of Toad Cellar, a shop in Knockturn Alley that sells potion ingredients. Harima is now Murphy's ingredient supplier.

"Are the aphrodisiacs produced meant to be sold here, or exported entirely?" Isaac asked.

The so-called "export" was actually a term Murphy used to describe the store employees.

These large quantities of potions produced did not fill the shelves of the Supreme Potions store. Murphy explained that they were all sold overseas.

France, Germany, Italy, even the United States, Mexico, and so on—wherever you think it is—it was all bought up by foreign wizards.

The shop assistants were asked to keep it a secret. Although they didn't believe Murphy's claims, most of them just thought that Murphy was doing something like smuggling.

Nobody wanted to investigate. The boss paid them well enough, so who cared if it was smuggling? If something went wrong, the Aurors would only arrest Murphy, and it wouldn't have anything to do with the unsuspecting alchemists who were only focused on making medicine.

Only Isaac had heard some vague rumors and roughly knew the true whereabouts of these potions.

However, he still pretended not to know.

Whose money does the boss make? What does it have to do with him, an employee?

Didn't you see that even the Auror office director was brought down by the boss?

"Exit," Murphy said.

Developing chips in the future will require a massive amount of money, and even with the profitability of the protective umbrella, it may not be able to withstand the pressure.

Not to mention that having chips alone is not enough. In order to unleash the performance of chips, existing storage technologies and software systems must be phased out. He also needs to develop memory and hard drives himself, and even computer systems and basic applications.

What he actually wants to do is create a complete product line, from chips to desktops.

He's planning to take down Intel, Apple, and Microsoft all at once, and maybe even venture into the internet, taking down Google's future as well.

The amount of money he's going to burn is simply incalculable.

Simply listing two subsidiaries may not be enough to fill this huge hole.

Murphy has already begun preparing to open up several more ways to make money.

Aphrodisiac perfumes are one such example.

There are many other useful potions, such as wound cleaners, blood replenishers, and bone regenerators. However, the first two have good alternatives in Muggle society, and the application of bone regenerators is relatively narrow. Their combined value is unlikely to exceed that of white potion.

Other substances, such as the Water of Life and Death and the Truth-Emitting Elixir, are the same.

But the love potion is very different. Its effects don't exist in the Muggle world, and its secondary effect of "everyone will smell their favorite scent" is enough to make it a hit perfume.

Who in this world can resist the taste of love?

……

After arranging the production of the love potion, Murphy and the fairy Locke met.

The latter took him to see several shops that had already been purchased and gave him a stack of files.

"These are all applicants for the wizard security shop, most of them are from Hogwarts, and a few are graduates from Beauxbatons and Durmstrang."

"Approximately how many people are there?"

"Sixty or seventy, I guess."

Murphy casually flipped through the lists, most of which looked familiar, as they were mostly his juniors and even classmates who graduated in the same year as him.

"Recruit all wizards who have achieved a minimum of six OWL in the common wizarding exam."

The Wizarding Ordinary Level exams are just basic assessments; passing is enough to earn a certificate for one course. The requirement of six certificates is really not high, and most Hogwarts graduates can achieve it.

Then he selected thirty Transfiguration students from the list who had achieved an E or higher in Transfiguration. "After hiring them, we'll have them concoct Animagus potions."

"Animagus?" Locke was somewhat puzzled. He knew about that powerful shapeshifting magic; there weren't many wizarding societies in the entire magical world.

Murphy wants to turn more than thirty wizards into Animagus right off the bat?

"I don't expect them to succeed, I just let them start with the first step of Animagus potions. I will take their potions periodically to check them."

The Transformation Research Group needs to obtain the Animagus Transformation Potion before they can proceed to the next step.

Since the security store doesn't have much business right now, and these wizards are just sitting around doing nothing anyway, we might as well get them some work done.

Animagus transformation requires the preparation of a potion, and the first step of this potion is to keep a single mandrake leaf in one's mouth for a full month (from full moon to full moon).

Murphy wanted to know what changes had occurred to the leaves during this process, so he planned to periodically take a leaf from a wizard's mouth and send it to the Potions Lab.

"Keep recruiting. In addition to recruiting some retired Aurors as instructors, this time recruit some young wizards who are skilled in amplification and shrinking spells."

"Okay, boss," Locke agreed. "There's one more thing. What names are you planning to give these security shops?"

(End of this chapter)