Urban Sims

Chapter 596 Enchanting
After the instrument was moved to the apartment.

Zhou Ming's work every afternoon shifted from studying magic to researching the configuration of potions.

For magicians, potions are still very important.

It is an important prop to increase the speed of meditation.

It can also provide many auxiliary functions in combat.

In short, for an excellent magician, props such as potions are indispensable.

Naturally, Zhou Ming also hopes to save some costs in this area.

Even want to open up a way to make money.

Because after observing Zhou Ming found that: In this dimension, in terms of the human world alone, more than 80% of the wealth is in the hands of magicians.

The magician is the top of the pyramid.

On the one hand, the cost of becoming a magician is huge. The investment of thousands, tens of thousands, or hundreds of thousands of gold coins is just idle, and it costs less.

There are many people who spend millions or tens of millions... Every magician is made of gold coins.

As for the annual financial income of Zhou Ming's Yadude Kingdom, does it exceed 3000 million gold coins?
On the other hand, it is very profitable.

The price of a lowest-level buff staff can exceed [-].

A bottle of [Sedative Elixir] with a guaranteed 3-day effect is priced at 1000.

A scroll encapsulating level 1 magic sells for more than 300 gold coins.

There are also various magic books, potion formulas, scroll production processes... These knowledge carriers are very difficult to obtain and the price is even higher.

How much can magicians who have mastered the above-mentioned technologies and technical materials earn after excluding costs?
Anyway, in Zhou Ming's heart, there are only two words of evaluation: huge profits.

It will definitely be a huge profit.

Zhou Ming also realized that earning money from magicians is definitely easier than earning money from nobles, and he can earn more!

He also planned to start with the profession of "pharmacist" and enter the market of magicians.

After more than half a month, he started research in this area.

23 herbs = [sedative potion]

He tries to implement this process.

But the preparation of potions is by no means as easy as most people imagine.

The quality and order of the medicines.

pH balance.

Temperature control.

Control of drug consistency.

Even the speed of stirring.

Various factors are the key to determine whether the medicine can be successfully formulated.

One detail was missed, and the medicine preparation failed.

And the more types of medicinal materials, the higher the complexity and the higher the probability of failure.

For example, if there are 100 medicinal herbs, one hundred steps of preparation are required. Even if the success rate of each step is 99%, after one hundred steps, the final success rate is only 36%.

But in reality, even if there are more than a dozen medicinal materials, the preparation steps are not less than 100 steps.

For example, Zhou Ming wanted to prepare [Sedative Potion], the formula recorded 236 steps, and every step could not go wrong.

In the first half month, Zhou Ming consumed hundreds of medicines, but failed even once.

And buying medicinal materials also cost money, even if the price of each medicinal material, the store manager Hall sold it to him at the cost price - 35 gold coins per serving, the loss of hundreds of copies is not a small number.

"Boy, have you revealed your true colors? In one month, I don't think you can succeed in a year." Every time Zhou Ming came to buy medicinal materials, Wei Ni couldn't help but sneer.

"Then do you want to bet? Bet for a month on whether I can succeed?" Zhou Ming still said the same thing.

"Hmph~!" Winnie turned her head aside, ignoring him.

After buying the medicinal materials, Zhou Ming continued to do his experiments and kept improving.

In fact, an excellent pharmacist generally has two common characteristics: concentration and fine operation.

Concentration means not to be distracted during the preparation process of the medicine, but to keep your spirits up and not relax in the slightest.

It is better to understand that the operation is fine, which means that in the preparation process, every step is accurate and no mistakes can be made.

These two points are not difficult for Zhou Ming, and he can even achieve perfection.

But why did it fail so many times?
"The host didn't notice the details outside of the formal process, and the host didn't understand many foundations and principles of pharmacy, so it couldn't find the reason for the failure."

"Only when all the principles are thoroughly understood, can the road to success be found."

The system explained.

Zhou Ming nodded.

His state is the same as if he didn't understand Newton's mechanics formulas and went directly to the classical mechanics test questions. Even if he knew the answer, he still knew it but didn't know why. He didn't know where he went wrong. Mistakes became the root cause of his failure.

Learn.

Learn the theoretical knowledge first.

He found Manager Hall and borrowed several books on pharmacy.

In addition, he bribed Carlos Paige, the manager of the magic bookstore, through magic cakes, fried vegetables, wine and other foods, hoping that it would be convenient for him to consult the books on pharmacy in his store.

For every delicious meal, one hour of borrowing time is exchanged, and the book is guaranteed not to be damaged.

Carlos didn't want to talk to him at all, but after the food box was opened, the aroma of the dishes wafting from it always made his mind shake, and he was unconsciously attracted to it.

One day he couldn't bear it anymore, so he took a sip.

Afterwards, he became a slave to delicious food. He became addicted to those delicious foods and couldn't live without them for a day.

Naturally, the rich collection of books in the "Page Magic Bookstore" also released Zhou Ming's reading rights.

Zhou Ming's reading speed is very fast. He finished reading a million-word book in 15 minutes, allowing the system to quickly enrich the database.

In this way, after about ten days of "recharging", Zhou Ming, who had learned a lot of pharmacy theory, finally found that he had made too many low-level mistakes that he shouldn't have made in his previous preparation experiments, which led to repeated failures.

After learning the theoretical knowledge, when Zhou Ming did the preparation experiment again, he only failed twice, and partially failed once. On the fourth time, he finally prepared a "perfect level" [sedative potion].

Pour the potion into a glass vial, and get a total of 10 vials of 10ml [Sedative Medicament] (for this preparation, he put in ten servings of raw materials).

In other words, Zhou Ming's success this time has earned back all his previous investment.

Looking at the ten vials of [Tranquilization Potion] in front of him, which contained perfectly pure golden medicinal liquid, Zhou Ming was quite moved.

"No matter what world you are in, skills are just the shell, and knowledge is the core. If you don't learn the knowledge well, no matter how exquisite and gorgeous the shell is, there will only be a bunch of bugs."

"This magical world is even more so. As long as you have enough knowledge, you can create almost countless impossible things."

Therefore, no matter what field Zhou Ming wants to enter in the future, or what professional badge he wants to win, he must first have a solid knowledge of that field.

……

12 month 10 day.

One month later.

Zhou Ming came to "Gannis Pharmacy" again with a big bag on his back.

When Winnie at the counter saw him, she started to mock him as usual.

"What? Are you here to buy medicinal materials again? In the past month, you have purchased thousands of [Sedative Medicine] medicinal materials, and the raw materials in the store are almost sold out by you. Is your medicine prepared successfully?"

"Actually, you should have made that bet with me. You missed a good opportunity." Zhou Ming looked at her and said.

"Yeah, I should promise to bet you that in this world, there is no such thing as a novice who knows nothing, and someone who can concoct [Sedative Potion]. It is impossible to exist."

Winnie shook her head in regret. If she had nodded and agreed a month ago, today would have been the day to take the life of the nasty boy in front of her.

It's just that this kid has no other skills except bluffing people. If she was fooled once, how dare she do it again?
Zhou Ming directly took off the bag on his back, put it on the counter, and muttered in his mouth: "Fortunately, the bottle of [Dragon's Blood Potion] you invited me to drink last time has increased my strength a lot, otherwise These 500 bottles of [Sedative Potion], I really can't carry them by myself."

After speaking, he opened the backpack and revealed the contents of the bag.

The inside was piled up in a mess, without any individual packaging, just glass vials containing golden potions.

A full 500 bottles of 【Sedative Potion】!
"Boom~"

There was an explosion in Winnie's mind, and it fell into a blank state.

500 bottles of [sedative potion]?
"This...how is this possible? How is this possible?"

"You made these? How could this be made by you?"

Weini murmured, as if she had encountered the most incredible thing in the world.

Zhou Ming's words almost drove her into the abyss again.

"These 500 bottles are the share I gave to Gannis Pharmacy according to the agreement. I still have 500 bottles at home. If you don't believe me, you can go to my house and have a look."

Not bad!

In five days, with almost 100% preparation success rate, Zhou Ming prepared 1000 bottles of [Sedative Medicine].

"Boom~"

Winnie rolled her eyes and almost fainted.

At this moment, Store Manager Hall came over, and after learning what Zhou Ming said, he was also taken aback!
First of all, the exaggerated degree of the preparation speed of the medicine has already made him feel "this is impossible".

Secondly, he sold a total of 1000 copies of medicinal materials to Zhou Ming. Excluding the failed parts, how did he manage to make a full 1000 copies of [Soothing Medicine] with less than [-] copies of medicinal materials?
Even a 100% preparation success rate is impossible!
"I improved the formula. By improving the purification process, the utilization rate of the medicinal materials was increased, so that 1000 doses of medicinal materials can be dispensed from the original 1200 doses of medicinal materials...the utilization rate of medicinal materials has increased by 20%."

"In addition, I also reduced the steps of preparation, condensed the 236 steps in the formula to 171 steps, and ensured that the efficacy of the medicine is completely consistent."

"Manager Hall, this is a new formula that I have improved, you can take a look."

Zhou Ming took out a document from his pocket and handed it to the store manager Hall.

After receiving the information and looking at the evildoer in front of him, store manager Hall didn't know what to say.

"Ah~!"

Wei Ni on the side seemed to be greatly stimulated, screamed, and ran to her room like crazy.

In front of Zhou Ming, the monster, she seemed unable to stay for a second.

(End of this chapter)