Witch Sophia sat at her office desk, hands crossed, looking at Locke and said, "My good student, what do you want?"
"As long as it's a reasonable request, I can help you once."
Locke pondered for a mont. He already had a ditation technique, and this favor obviously wouldn't be enough to exchange for an advanced ditation technique.
As for other learning matters, even if he didn't ntion them, Teacher Sophia had already arranged everything for him. He only needed to follow the plan and study step by step.
Therefore, Locke thought of the materials he had recently obtained. He took out a vampire's heart from under his wizard robe and said, "Teacher, this is a vampire's heart. I want you to help brew a bottle of Crimson Echo Potion."
Crimson Echo Potion was a potion that first-class wizard apprentices could brew, though it didn't reach the level of a true magical potion.
However, it was already considered one of the most difficult among apprentice-level potions.
Its effects were extrely powerful, capable of maximizing the acceleration of a wizard apprentice's advancent at the apprentice level.
If brewed by Witch Sophia, the effects could be enhanced further while the side effects would be significantly reduced.
For potion masters, those publicly available formulas were rely standard formulas.
Every potion master had their own little tricks when brewing, as well as so secret formulas they had fine-tuned themselves.
Locke had observed this point during his usual ti as Witch Sophia's assistant.
Witch Sophia glanced at the vampire heart in Locke's hand and said, "Crimson Echo Potion is indeed very suitable for you."
"Besides a mid-level vampire's heart as the main ingredient for Crimson Echo Potion, it also requires 10 grams of Blood Moon Epiphyllum, 15 grams of Twin Snake Cypress fruit juice, and then a drop of tears from a female rmaid to harmonize the dicinal properties. Otherwise, the side effects would be too severe."
Locke looked at Witch Sophia with confusion, because the publicly available Crimson Echo formula didn't ntion rmaid tears.
Witch Sophia explained indifferently, "Female rmaid tears are a small innovation of mine that can minimize the side effects of Crimson Echo Potion as much as possible."
"It can also enhance the dicinal effect slightly, increasing the original 10% ntal strength boost to 15%, providing an additional 5 points of improvent."
Witch Sophia said, "Alright, I'll help you brew it. I'll supplent all the remaining materials for you."
"Locke..." Witch Sophia hesitated for a mont, then said to Locke, "You're very thoughtful."
"But right now you only need to focus on studying."
"The best comfort for a wizard ntor is to see their student grow rapidly under their guidance and beco a wizard capable of standing on their own."
Witch Sophia picked up the certification docunts with her thumb and forefinger, "Take this. This is my certification letter. You can take the Super Mandrake Vine to Chira Trading Market. You'll need this certification."
"If you have ti, you can set up a stall to sell them yourself. If you don't have ti, then commission a magical plant shop."
"I recomnd the latter. Our ti as wizards is still very precious. Besides, so things are best left to professionals. Relying on yourself alone, you might not be able to sell the Super Mandrake Vines well and won't get a good price."
Witch Sophia said, "Oh, rember to keep the original strain of the Super Mandrake Vine in your own hands."
"Sotis, magical plants cultivated through grafting thods will undergo certain degrees of degradation and aberration over ti. If you don't keep the original strain in your hands, things will beco very troubleso later."
Witch Sophia said, "That serves as a tool to define what truly constitutes a Super Mandrake Vine."
"If the descendants of the Super Mandrake Vine show degradation later, you can still use the original strain's seeds to rescue the degradation trend in the descendants."
Locke nodded. "I understand, Teacher."
"This pot of Super Mandrake Vine is not the original strain. The original strain is in my house. I'll give this pot of Super Mandrake Vine to you, Teacher, as a small gift from your student."
Actually, he didn't have any original strain. He could just synthesize Mandrake Vines all the way to level 4.
The difference wasn't significant.
When the ti ca, he could just randomly take a pot of level 4 Mandrake Vine and point to it, saying it was the original strain.
Witch Sophia didn't refuse, but smiled slightly and said, "I'll give you the Crimson Echo Potion in a few days."
"I'm busy now, Locke."
Locke exited her office. "Goodbye, Teacher."
...
Leaving Witch Sophia's wooden hut, Locke returned directly to his residence in Diagon Alley, then took out thirty pots of Super Mandrake Vines that he had synthesized during his spare ti over the past year.
This number also matched the relative speed of cultivating new varieties of magical vines using grafting thods and Growth Gel.
Locke commanded two gray dwarves to push a wooden cart, covered the thirty pots of Super Mandrake Vines on the cart with black cloth, then left Diagon Alley and headed along the street toward Chira Trading Market on the neighboring street.
At this ti, Locke wore three badges on his chest simultaneously: the academy badge representing his status as a second-class wizard apprentice, the certification badge of a breeder's assistant, and the badge of an enforcent wizard apprentice. Therefore, when he entered the barrier entrance of Chira Trading Market, he encountered no obstruction whatsoever.
So people in Chira Trading Market gave him a few extra glances, since he was relatively young among breeder's assistants.
Chira Trading Market had rows of shops on both sides: potion shops, alchemical item shops, transportation tool shops, magical pet shops, and even a spell model specialty store that looked like a library at its entrance, specifically selling spell models.
The shops here were nurous and varied in type, making it the largest wizard market in the vicinity.
Therefore, not only would wizards from Lilith's Cottage co here, but many wizards from other schools would also enter this street through different channels.
Locke saw that in the distance, there was a section of the street with many wizard apprentices setting up temporary stalls.
Chira Trading Market was divided into two parts: one was the regular shops on both sides of the street, and the other was the area specifically for temporary stalls where people sold magical resources they temporarily couldn't use up or didn't need.
'Buzz~'
Locke heard a long, rhythmically peculiar special sound. He looked up and saw ahead a circular platform-like area where streams of light fell like teors, and so figures appeared from illusion to solid form within the teor-like brilliance.
Locke knew that was one of the seven large-scale teleportation arrays set up in Chira Market. These were ultra-long-distance teleportation arrays that could only be established by formal wizards from the alchemy school after spending enormous amounts of ti, and each activation required consuming large quantities of magic stones.
They were crystallizations of the alchemy school's magical technology! Suitable for wizards located in distant regions to use the teleportation arrays to reach Chira Trading Market.
Those wizards coming from far away would enter Chira Trading Market, probably because of Lilith's Cottage's magical potion auction held in the market.
That was the largest-scale magical potion resource auction in the nearby region.
Even ordinary wizard secret realms didn't have so many magical potion resources, so it could attract many outside wizards to co.
After all, as the dominant force in magical potion studies in the nearby area, Lilith's Cottage was enough to make other magical potion wizards from the surrounding regions travel thousands of miles and endure great hardships to co here to collect resources or study.
Locke stopped in front of a plant magic shop on the street. He looked up at this shop and saw it had a sign outlined with magical moss and magical flowers that read [Lijin Secret Language Magical Plant Shop].
Locke said, "Stop here."
"This is the place."
The two gray dwarves imdiately stopped moving forward. This was their first ti entering a place with so many wizards. The two gray dwarves' faces were extrely pale, with no trace of color visible on their skin, and their entire bodies were trembling with fear.
They could only occasionally look toward Locke, their master, to alleviate this soul-level fear, which was an instinct left behind by generations of magical enslavent.
"Great wizard master, your command... is our divine oracle."
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