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Chapter 36: First attempt, potion?
"Deal!" Lucian looked at Carly, thought for a moment, and nodded seriously.

Carly breathed a sigh of relief.

"It's settled then. One magic stone a week is the basis. If you work diligently and don't make mistakes, you can increase the amount. This will also fully tap into your enthusiasm for work!" Lucian nodded, feeling that Carly's suggestion was very on point.

Carly: Σ()
That's really not what she meant...

"Okay, then don't waste time, and start today's assistant work." Lucian patted Carly, who was still a little confused at the moment, but he was in a very good mood.

After all, he just gained 50 points of reverence, which is much more valuable to Lucian at this stage than magic stones!
Then, Lucian pointed at the wizard robe and said, "This is 80 magic stones. Before that, I won't pay you a salary... er, a reward."

Carly stood there in a daze for a while, then slowly lowered her head. After hesitating for a moment, she silently took out her notebook, turned to the last page, and began to record a special "account book".

I owe mentor Lucian a magic stone..." Carly recorded quickly. At the same time, she looked at the many IOUs in the account book that had not been "crossed out" and felt a heavy heart.

Before, Carly had always maintained the mentality of "get on the bus first and buy the ticket later", but now Carly is a little doubtful whether she has the ability to get back on.

"Don't stand there like an idiot. The old rules still apply. If you drag your feet within the three hours, I'll have to extend the time." Lucian looked at Carly, who was still standing at the door stupidly, and reminded her with a smile.

Carly then trotted in as if she had just woken up from a dream.

"Let me teach you some basic pharmacy operations first. Later, when I prepare the potions, you will need to assist me in completing some of the mechanized work." Lucian looked at Carly and said after a pause.

"Once you are familiar with these tasks and your mental strength is up to standard, I will teach you some pharmaceutical processing methods that require mental strength to operate. However, by then, some material processing tasks will also be handed over to you."

Carly nodded slightly. After the ideological struggle just now, she now has a clear goal.

If possible, I must become an excellent pharmacist and do my best to truly help Mentor Lucian instead of hiding behind him all the time.

Thinking of this, a fire called fighting spirit began to burn in Carly's eyes.

"It seems that the feeling of not having to do everything myself is quite good." Lucian sat on the chair, watching Carly carefully cleaning the equipment needed to prepare the potion, while planning the arrangements for pharmacy in his mind.

"At this stage, the most suitable potions for me to improve my mental strength are the Tranquilizer and the Moon's Tribute." Lucian tapped his fingers lightly on the table. "But the preparation of these two potions is very difficult, and the price of the raw materials is also relatively high. If I fail several times in a row, I won't have enough magic stones. If I want to continue trying, I will need to sell the materials."

"So it's better to choose a relatively easy potion to practice with, accumulate some experience, and also earn some magic stones by using the potion..." Lucian thought, while sorting out the materials he had in his hand.

"Let's prepare a recovery potion. The original owner has practiced preparing this kind of potion before, so I have some references. I can also make a few with the materials I have, so I don't need to go to the trading area to buy them."

Lucian made a decision quickly. With a wave of his hand, he took out the three materials needed to prepare the recovery potion from his space ring.

Blue ring mushrooms, healing herbs and cold water plants.

"If there was no clear record in the recipe, who would have thought that the highly toxic blue-ringed mushroom was the core ingredient of the recovery potion?" After putting on his gloves, Lucian picked up a blue-ringed mushroom that was about the size of an adult's thumb. The surface of this mushroom had beautiful blue circles, and if you gently pinched its handle with your fingers, you could even squeeze out a translucent mucus.

Lucian took out a blunt scraper and gently scraped the translucent mucus from the blue-ringed mushroom, while being extremely careful not to let the scraper scratch the surface of the blue-ringed mushroom.

This mucus is highly toxic. Once it contaminates the effective parts inside the blue ring mushroom, the blue ring mushroom will be completely useless!
Moreover, because this natural toxin targets nerve tissue and can even pollute the wizard's mental power, it is impossible to use mental power to assist in the detoxification step. You must concentrate highly to ensure that you do not make mistakes!

After carefully peeling off the poisonous mucus secreted on the surface of the blue mushroom, Lucian quickly wielded a silver dagger and chopped the blue mushroom into pieces.

The cross-section of the blue mushroom is pure white at first, but as it is exposed to the air, the ingredients inside it are rapidly oxidized, causing the cross-section to gradually turn light blue, and the color becomes darker over time.

Lucian did not dare to hesitate and quickly poured the processed blue mushrooms into the crucible. Then he quickly grabbed the cold water grass beside him, squeezed out the light blue juice inside and poured it into the crucible.

Gurgle... As the cold water grass juice was poured in, a large number of bubbles emerged from the crucible, and the two different substances began to react violently.

Lucian picked up the glass rod and began to stir it. At the same time, his mental power used the glass rod as a medium to extend into the "boiling" liquid medicine, and began to act as a buffer between the two active ingredients, changing the reaction between the blue mushroom and cold water grass juice from the original mutual consumption to a slow and continuous fusion.

This process seems simple, but it is extremely taxing on the mental power. It not only requires the pharmacist's mental power to maintain high-precision fine-tuning for a long time, but also has a very low error tolerance rate. It may be just a tiny mistake that will lead to ultimate failure.

The fusion was still proceeding slowly and steadily. Bubbles were slowly coming out of the semi-finished medicine liquid in the crucible, and the color of the medicine was also slowly changing.

As time went by, tiny beads of sweat appeared on Lucian's forehead.

Suddenly, Lucian's temple throbbed slightly.

laugh--

As Lucian's mental power slightly lost control, the entire potion suddenly boiled. Then the potion's color quickly turned blue, and a puff of black smoke rose up. Along with it, there was also a foul smell similar to that of rotting objects.

"Failed." Lucian put down the glass rod helplessly, but did not clean up the failed product immediately. Instead, he spent 1 point of reverence to appraise it.

[Item]: Unnamed poison
[Potion]: Pharmacy and Poison
[Raw materials]: Cold water grass, blue mushroom

[Description]: This is a failed attempt by the pharmacist apprentice to prepare a recovery potion, and it smells like decay. However, due to the reckless operation of the pharmacist apprentice, the toxicity of the blue ring mushroom was greatly stimulated, causing it to have a micro-toxin that can cause mild diarrhea.

【detail】:……

Lucian looked at this extremely detailed appraisal report, and the corners of his mouth twitched. He felt that this appraisal report was a bit too insulting.

(End of this chapter)