Chapter 212: ro Scorpion Flower
Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
Sunders frowned. “The flower does improve blood flow, which helps sustain your body. It works in a strange way... but it’s not a bad choice.”
Ness quickly agreed. “That’s what I’m thinking! Just a small arousal effect, it won’t hurt.”
Angor did not deny. “There are many ways to improve blood flowing. Arousing sex is one acceptable approach.”
“There you have it!” Ness nodded.
“I don’t understand though. ro Scorpion Flowers are really costly. Its arousal property also cos with a big side-effect. So... why don’t we use sothing cheaper, like a Sweetblood Orchis? This one is easy to get, and improves blood flow just fine, without any side effects,” Angor suggested.
Sunders nodded and agreed with his student. He realized he had been going the wrong way due to his excessive experience. A unit of ro Scorpion Flower cost six tis more than the sa amount of Sweetblood Orchis. To Sunders, however, the difference in cost was never sothing that would concern him, so he never minded their prices.
As a level-2 wizard, Sunders could earn quick money by any ans. So extra magic crystals would not hurt. Ness, however, was a stingy old tir who was always saving money to buy beautiful slaves from other planes. He would never waste money like that.
Sunders stared at Ness again. “Explain, if you would?”
Ness wiped his forehead, but he was not sweating at all.
“Why didn’t I use Sweetblood Orchis?” Ness quickly tried to think of sothing and revealed a wicked smile. “You see, Sunders, I have a lot of slave girls here, hehe... So I always keep a good stock of ro Scorpion Flowers. I don’t have any Sweetblood Orchis left now. I’m improvising.”
The words sounded legit enough. However, Sunders was already sure that Ness was planning sothing in secret, so the gentleman only considered it as an excuse.
Sunders already decided to reject Ness’ idea of using ro Scorpion Flowers, but he did not show it yet. Instead, he asked Angor again, “Ness has his reason. Do you have any other questions?”
Angor hesitated. “I never learned Apothecary for real... but I think I read it in a book sowhere, that the locals in Abyss Plane tend to use ro Scorpion Flowers as a blender for a certain catalytic reaction.”
He read it from a book he recorded in the Nightmare Realm, but he could not tell this to anyone.
Ness stared at Angor in shock when hearing these words. How could a fresh apprentice know such trivia knowledge!?
“Blender for a catalytic reaction?” Sunders rembered sothing and remained silent for a while.
Then he spoke again, “I saw sothing like that when traveling in Abyss Plane. There was an alchemist from Floating ch City who did such an experint while using so other magic plants in Abyss Plane.”
Sunders paused to recollect his mory. “We were camping together. I stayed up to be the night watch while he was making a potion... There was a Bloodline Wizard who ca to whisper to the alchemist. That man asked if he was making sothing to seduce a witch in the team. And his answer was...”
Sunders closed his eyes to think carefully.
Angor was much surprised by what he heard.
You heard all that when guarding the camp outside? And, how did you hear sothing from a “whisper”??
Angor was surprised for his lack of wizardry knowledge.
Wizards all possessed superior mories. Soone with a high spiritual power indicator could even do sothing similar to “hyperthysia”.
Hyperthysia was a rare ntal disease, in which case the victim’s brain registered every last detail of experiences and events automatically, in his or her subconsciousness, when the patient did not intend to do it at all.
For example, there was such a mother who was troubled by the disease, who could clearly recall the scene in her maternity room, such as whether a doctor’s sleeve was buttoned, how many scars were left on an ear of one of the nurses, how many birds were perched near the window, as well as the colors and stripe patterns of each of the birds... The mother rembered all of these when she was already 80. Ordinary people could only morize sothing important. But hyperthysia patients could rember all, as long as sothing once happened in his or her view.
The condition was considered a disease because the victims had lost the ability to “forget”. They would be troubled by boundless mories for their entire lives until they t a terrible end when their brains could no longer hold the mories anymore.
Wizards were different. They could do sothing similar only because their brains were amplified by their spirit power, thus gaining a better mory. They could choose to forget anything they liked, just like common people.
Sunders’ mory was not good enough to compete with a hyperthysia patient, but his brain was already beyond the levels of average people.
Sunders was still young in his story. He was interested in alchemy at that ti, so he always kept his attention on the alchemist in his team. He did not really hear their conversation, but he could read their lips.
Which ant... Sunders was now trying to rember soone’s lip language which happened during one of his travels across the planes several years ago.
“According to the alchemist...” Sunders imitated the alchemist’s lip movent. “When ro Scorpion Flower reacted with magic plants originated in Abyss Plane, its initial effect will beco catalysis, not s*xual arousal.”
Angor nodded silently. It was exactly what he saw in the book he read. When specifically mixed with magic plants native to Abyss Plane, a ro Scorpion Flower’s catalytic property would cancel its aphrodisiac nature.
Sunders glanced at Ness again, who quickly avoided Sunders’ eyes.
Angor spoke again, “The flower will naturally improve blood flow when used with the other materials in the nutrient fluid which keeps my body alive. Although the side effect might be a little... troubleso. If its ‘catalytic’ effect is triggered, it’ll do sothing completely different when added with the other material I read.”
Sunders continued, “Blood overflowing. Excessive production of androgen hormone. Unbalanced tabolism.”
Angor added the last part, “A possible result... Death.”
To put it simply, the body would be killed by impulsive libido which had nowhere to go.
Angor believed he read sothing similar in the Earth novels. There were certain fictional dicines that forced the characters to “vent out” on any won they could find, or they would simply die of uncontrollable lust. Although these characters all conveniently had won nearby. Angor, however, only had these... guys, around. The only female creature was just sliced in half by Saka.
“What are you planning to do?” Sunders asked Ness with an emotionless expression. An aphrodisiac effect was fine. Angor might get “hot” for so ti, but a cold shower would end his embarrassnt.
But a catalytic potion... was a little too far.
Ness stuttered sothing and finally spoke in a really small voice, “I didn’t put any Abyss stuff in the fluid. The secondary effect won’t co up.”
His sophistry sounded pretty terrible now. Before Angor could point out where the “Abyss stuff” was, he heard Sunders laughing in a dangerous way.
Sunders released mana from his palm and the entire cave was blown over by a strong gale.
When it ended, an ice sphere appeared on Sunders’ hand. The sphere was hollowed-out in the middle where so pink-colored gas could be seen.
“This is your second Abyss material. Tell now, why are you doing this?”
The gas was another type of magical material called “Fragrance of Charm” which was released by the Abyss Succubus. It was a popular pheromone perfu among witches.
The gas was left in the air inside the cave. If they brewed the nutrient fluid here, the gas would naturally connect with the ro Scorpion Flower in the liquid.
Ness finally revealed an “oh no my plan was found out” look.
And Sunders waited for his answer patiently.
Ness sighed. “Co on. I won’t hurt Angor in front of you anyway. I just want to do a tiny experint on my own.”
“What kind of experint?”
Ness spread his hands. “Your deduction was mostly correct. Mostly. There was sothing you’ve gotten wrong. When Fragrance of Charm is mixed with ro Scorpion Flower, plus the other materials Angor ntioned, they will raise the level of soone’s pheromone. But it’s not the androgen hormone you believed. The gas ca from a succubus, the embodint of won’s desire which triggers the female hormone while the ro Scorpion Flower triggers male one. So... the result is, both male and female hormone will elevate in your body.”
Angor frowned. “You an, I’ll die even faster?”
There was no way Angor’s young body could endure two hormonal surges. Several minutes at best, and he would kick the bucket in the heat for sure.
“It won’t happen. Just a tiny experint, as I said!” Ness noticed that Sunders’ expression was growing colder, and he quickly took out a vial from his space bag. There was so pale pink liquid inside. “Inject this thing into Angor’s body and he’ll be fine. Or, he can even get sothing good out of it!” Ness lifted the vial to Sunders.
Sunders took the vial and sensed its content. Then the gentleman revealed another strange expression.
“Professor?” Angor asked.
“Ness is... right. You’ll be safe with this. And yes, there’s a benefit in it...”
Ness did not wait for Sunders’ explanation. “I never lied, right? You won’t have a problem. And you can get a beneficial effect for free. I wouldn’t want to use it on outsiders if only Saka would accept my experint...”
Sunders chuckled. “So, Saka refused, and you still want to do the experint. When the Fragrance of Charm was released into the air, you thought about your plan on the spot to force Angor into a situation where he must accept your dicine to stay alive?”
Sunders gave the small vial several shakes. “Smart plan, I would say.”
That was almost everything Ness was trying to do. Before they ca, the old man had been trying to persuade Saka, who never agreed. Saka even used the visitors as an excuse and escaped.
Ness smiled. “I’m working on a subject involving different genders, and I really need so result out of a test. Saka didn’t want to help, and I don’t want to use the valuable potion on random people. Now you’re here. I can use it on your student, and the benefit still stays between friends.”
Sunders ignored Ness’ useless excuses with a hollow laugh and turned to Angor. “Do you accept it?”
Angor was puzzled for good when listening to their conversation. He still had no idea what was inside the vial.
“Um, what’s that stuff, professor?”
Ness cleared his throat to interrupt. “Co on, you kids don’t have to know the details. It’s good stuff, I tell you! Sothing that worths at least thousands of magic crystals on the auction!”
That just gave Angor more reason to hesitate. He looked at Sunders again.
Sunders did not disappoint his student. He replied in his hoarse tone while still smiling a little.
“Well. This is... the bloodline essence of a succubus.”
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