I, the wizard, the foolish Buddha

A Rank 3 monster belongs to the level of an advanced apprentice. Although they generally can't beat advanced apprentices, dealing with a low-level apprentice like Roland is a piece of cake.

That female ghost wouldn't even need to lift a finger. Just a pounce on Roland would turn him into a dried corpse with her negative energy.

The Forest Ranger is required to patrol the forest once a month, and Roland, having just bragged about it, immediately ran into such a big trouble.

'If this trouble can't be solved, I won't be able to patrol the forest. Then I'll be chased to death by my senior. If we two flee to the ends of the earth together, she won't have to worry about getting married.'

Roland shook his head, thinking, 'There's still a month left. I'll definitely find a way to drive away that female ghost.'

But although he didn't dare to provoke that female ghost for the time being, he had to deal with the wandering undead nearby. Otherwise, too many monsters would cause problems with the barrier, and then the Red Spirit would come in.

He came to the edge of the barrier, summoned the Wind Prince, and then returned to the barrier.

The Wind Prince traveled through the forest with a gale, sweeping some of the nearby undead into the tornado, and then blowing them near the barrier.

After that, Roland walked out of the barrier again, went all out, and released five or six chains of lightning + Dawn's Fire, quickly clearing the undead in the tornado.

At this time, only half of the undead remained around the cabin.

Roland returned to the barrier and muttered, "That's enough. I have to leave some for the Ballet Ghost to be the audience."

Thinking of this, Roland stroked his chin: "Can the Ballet Ghost deal with that female ghost?"

This plan was a very bad idea, but it had feasibility.

But he couldn't fail, because once he failed, he would become a puppet. If that red-clothed female ghost happened to pounce on him again, the fun would be great.

"The plan is feasible, but dealing with both the female ghost and the Ballet Ghost... both monsters appear and disappear unpredictably, and they can run to my side in the blink of an eye. The difficulty is too great."

"If I rely on the lantern, I can defend against the female ghost a little, but I lack the means to deal with the Ballet Ghost. I have to save money this month to repair the pocket watch, otherwise this plan will not succeed."

Roland wanted to use the Ballet Ghost to subdue the Red Spirit. In this process, he might reveal some methods that he couldn't let people know. So he didn't want to ask anyone for help, wanting to take a risk.

Judging from his 56-minute dancing record, he had some confidence in doing this well, but the premise was to repair the silver pocket watch.

At the same time, in order to subdue that Rank 3 red-clothed female ghost, he also needed to purchase some undead magic and related ritual materials.

If he could really get that red ghost, he would have the confidence to fight anyone he met in the Black Forest.

"My curios need to be repaired anyway, and the magic stones in my hand are also empty. During this seclusion, I'll meditate and cultivate every night, practice magic during the day, and refine magic potions."

Roland went back to the house and had a meal.

The house lacked furniture, not even a wooden table. Roland squatted in front of the fire pit in the kitchen and finished the meal.

After lunch, Roland made a dozen flower pots and transplanted the mermaid grass from the dimensional bag into the flower pots, preparing to ripen one every night.

Afterward, he came to the alchemy room and put all the alchemy tools and materials he had purchased in the alchemy room.

When cleaning up the alchemy room, Roland accidentally found a magic stone and was happy for a long time.

"Good luck today, then let's refine the 'Viper Beauty' magic potion first! Save enough money to repair the curios and buy magic!"

Having made up his mind, Roland read the recipe for the Viper Beauty again and prepared all the materials in categories. Then, he began to process the materials according to the recipe.

Roland was not refining the Viper Beauty for the first time and knew that the success or failure of the magic potion was related to factors such as temperature control, firing time, extraction steps, material processing, and proportions.

The recipe in his hand was summarized by the instructor through countless practices, and everything about various factors was written very clearly, so Roland didn't need to do more research.

But even if he followed the recipe, it would not necessarily be 100% successful. Because different environments contain different magic elements, and small element differences may affect the firing results.

In order to reduce the impact of the environment, alchemists of the past have come up with many methods.

Some people relied on the family power behind them to build laboratories with heavy money. The advantage of this solution is that no matter what magic potion is refined, the environment of the laboratory can greatly increase the success rate. The disadvantage is that it requires a lot of manpower and material resources, and no matter how the laboratory is built, it cannot make the success rate reach 100%.

Moreover, the magic potions produced by the laboratory are often standardized magic potions. The magic potions can reach excellent levels, but they rarely produce top-quality magic potions.

Some great masters also used divination to find the most suitable location and refining time in order to achieve the right time, place, and people. This method is very metaphysical and depends on some luck. Sometimes all kinds of conditions are obviously very perfect, but inferior magic potions are produced. But sometimes some conditions are obviously very poor, but top-quality magic potions are refined!

Over the years, various strange phenomena have made wizards believe that the success rate and quality of magic potions are affected by some factors of the 'chaos system'.

In order to improve the success rate and quality, curios such as the Bitter Sleep Cauldron appeared.

This is a true magic. According to some alchemy masters, this kind of alchemy curio can often improve the success rate and quality of magic potions illogically.

Even if the wizard squats in a dung pit, throws the materials into this kind of curio at will, and fires it randomly under the interference of flies and insects, there is a chance to refine high-quality magic potions.

If the alchemist is proficient in divination and uses the curio to fire magic potions in the right time, place, and people, the output rate of top-quality magic potions will be greatly increased!

Roland couldn't create the environment, and he didn't understand divination. He could only refine magic potions hard in a simple alchemy room like all novice potion alchemists.

He didn't ask to refine any top-quality magic potions. His only hope was that this curio would really increase the success rate as rumored.

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After preparing everything, Roland took out the Bitter Sleep Cauldron and the alchemy table he had purchased.

The small cauldron, seemingly gold but not gold, seemingly wood but not wood, looked unremarkable. After checking it, Roland found that many small things were engraved on the cauldron. He probed it with his mental power and found that they were some small runes.

"It turns out to be some simple instructions."

After studying it, Roland waved his magic wand, and the cauldron became the right size according to Roland's wishes.

He waved his magic wand again, and then the cauldron looked a little cleaner.

"One changes the size, one cleans it... Only two functions?" Roland's expression became strange.

"Let's try it first. Such a precious curio should be useful... Let the cauldron be the current size, and refine it one bottle at a time."

Several hours later, eight consecutive pots of magic potions were all ruined.

"Where exactly did something go wrong?!"

Roland sat on the alchemy table with red eyes, unable to figure it out: "The steps, time, and proportions are all correct. I may not have processed the materials perfectly enough, but it shouldn't be like this."

"Something's wrong, something must be wrong. During the firing process, the phenomenon in the pot is exactly the same as the phenomenon recorded by the instructor!"

"And I have the help of a curio!"

"Why is the phenomenon exactly the same, but the result is different?!"

Roland grabbed his hair, his eyes full of bloodshot.