Inside Locke's residence.
Locke looked at the two gems before him, lost in thought. On the table lay a jewel, a deep blue diamond that he had synthesized from two Level 6 Deep Blue Jades and one Level 6 quality diamond.
Locke saw its description:
[Deep Blue Diamond: A variant of Deep Blue Jade found only in the deepest underground mineral veins. This mutated version of Deep Blue Jade is produced when Deep Blue Jade devours diamond ore. Its mana filtering performance is more than ten tis that of Deep Blue Jade, and its durability far exceeds that of Deep Blue Jade. A single Deep Blue Diamond can stabilize its owner's mana and produce filtering effects, reducing the user's mana fluctuations to an incredible degree.]
Locke used a diamond necklace to hide this special gem, placing the gem diamond within the special space inside the necklace.
This type of gem diamond, unless actively infused with mana, would be impossible to discover as having any special properties, since it was essentially like a mana filtering container.
Therefore, Locke didn't need to worry about anyone discovering it.
Locke tried circulating his mana, and his expression changed slightly. "Wearing this Deep Blue Diamond, my mana stability is several tis higher than before. I can almost make my mana respond to every command."
Locke attempted to use magical fla techniques. The greatest difficulty for a potion master assistant lay in how to skillfully use magical flas and smoothly switch between various elental fire sources during a brewing process. One needed to be able to proficiently switch between at least five types of magical flas to skillfully brew pharmacist assistant-level potions.
In this process, mana stability and accuracy were the most important factors.
Locke snapped his fingers. First ca a 1,400-degree wood elent magical fla, a green fla flickering at his fingertip.
Wood elent flas had the gentlest nature and were the most commonly used flas by potion masters. If one couldn't even manage this, they couldn't claim to be studying magical pharmacology.
Next, Locke's fingertip changed to a 1,000-degree fire elent magical fla, and the green fla turned red.
Fire elent flas had explosive properties and were often used when extracting dicinal components.
Fire elent flas had relatively low temperatures, which made it more convenient to extract special components from materials, otherwise the magical flas would destroy the dicinal materials.
Locke then, without changing expression, continuously transford the fla at his fingertip into water elent fla (blue magical fla), wind elent fla (pale magical fla), and earth elent fla (earthy yellow magical fla).
Wood elent fla, earth elent fla, fire elent fla, wind elent fla, water elent fla, these flas were all magical flas, mana flas that couldn't be easily extinguished by ordinary water.
Each had its own characteristics.
Water elent flas had the lowest temperature, suitable for low-temperature extraction of internal components from dicinal materials.
Wind elent flas had the highest temperature, suitable for forcefully obtaining certain components.
Earth elent flas had a temperature of only 800 degrees with gentle properties, suitable for neutralizing polar magical flas, accommodating extre components within dicines, eliminating dicinal toxicity, and reducing the toxicity of brewed potions.
These five types of mana flas were what a potion master assistant should master first. Originally, Locke had been learning them very slowly, and to fully master their application might have taken five to ten years to completely learn.
But now, with his mana enhanced by the Deep Blue Diamond, his stability was further improved.
The switching speed of the magical flas at his fingertip beca faster and faster.
Locke looked at the magical flas, lost in thought. "With the Deep Blue Diamond, I can accelerate my speed of becoming a potion master assistant."
"At the potion master assistant stage, the most important talent is still mana stability, because pharmacists at this stage only need to follow formulas step by step to brew potions."
"The demand for identifying dicinal properties and developing formulas is very low."
Locke said, "As long as I can compress the switching speed of all five magical flas to within 3 seconds, I can begin formally brewing dium-difficulty potions."
dium-difficulty potions, which were potion master assistant-level potions, generally had quite complex dicinal properties and might require proficient switching between three or more types of magical flas.
Of course, during examinations, they would still test the switching speed and mastery level of the five common magical flas.
This was fundantal skill.
Locke's eyes filled with confidence. "Once I beco a potion master assistant quickly, I can prepare advanced Growth Gel, advanced nutritious soil, and nutrient solutions myself, saving so money."
"Becoming a potion master assistant, I might even gain a new way to earn magic stones. The potions I brew myself can be further synthesized to improve their effects, which should quickly feed back into my ntal strength growth progress, and even feed back into my learning in the breeder field."
"In the later stages of the breeding field, large quantities of advanced potions will be needed, and many breeders can only use magic stones to purchase them from potion masters."
His monthly expenses now cost nearly three thousand, so he needed to actively expand his inco sources.
Also, whether for ditation or the breeding field, large quantities of advanced potions were needed. If he could brew them himself, he could eliminate a huge amount of costs and perform better synthesis.
Locke had always been very curious about what the so-called essential potion needed for advancing to formal wizard that Witch Sophia ntioned actually was.
Perhaps, only by becoming a potion master assistant could he access that field earlier.
Locke settled his mind and prepared to go to Chira Trading Market to purchase a batch of Focus Ointnt practice materials to learn how to brew Focus Ointnt.
...
Two months later, at Lilith's Cottage's potion master assistant examination certification.
Locke quickly finished filling out the magical pharmacology-related questions and handed them to the formal wizard Derek Jones standing before him.
Mr. Derek Jones was a First Circle-level potion master whose masterwork was the First Circle-level Thousand Faces Potion.
The Thousand Faces Potion had even entered Sasari's Universal Studies textbook. It was a type of potion that, after consumption, could permanently change one's soul aura and physical characteristics.
This type of auxiliary potion had many uses, and even many reclusive wizards would need to use them to completely sever ties with their past.
Of course, this certification wouldn't only have him alone. He had applied for the potion master assistant examination certification, then waited for a period until the number of applicants reached three before getting the opportunity for assessnt.
Moreover, the application fee for assessnt was 500 magic stones.
Besides himself, the others taking this assessnt included one senior first-class wizard apprentice from Lilith's Cottage, and the last person was a first-class wizard apprentice from a nearby small wizard organization.
Those small wizard organizations didn't have qualification to conduct assessnts, and the outside world wouldn't recognize their assessnt results.
If they wanted to undergo potion master assistant certification assessnt, they had to co to relatively large wizard organizations like Lilith's Cottage for assessnt.
Before them, besides Wizard Derek Jones, there were actually two other wizards.
The potion master assistant assessnt was already quite strict, so the assessors must include three formal wizards, with at least one formal wizard having a potion master badge.
This was also why many small wizard organizations didn't have qualification to conduct assessnts.
Formal Wizard Derek Jones roughly scanned the three people's answer sheets, then snorted. "All three of you have sowhat weak foundations. Well, barely passing."
"Next is the magical fla transformation test."
The two people beside Locke both appeared very nervous. The pass rate for potion master assistant assessnts had never been very high.
Many people privately had real abilities close to passing, but once in the examination room, under the cross-examining gazes of three formal wizards, so people couldn't calm their emotions and couldn't perform at their true level.
Then they would fail the exam.
Locke wasn't very nervous. His answer sheet score certainly wouldn't be very high, after all, he had studied for a short ti.
Generally, when first-class wizard apprentices ca for assessnt, they had already studied magical pharmacology for several years, but he had only studied for just over two years.
However, the next two tests were his strong suits. As long as he could pass this first round, the subsequent magical fla assessnt and actual potion brewing operation wouldn't be problems.
Wizard Derek Jones and the other two formal wizards focused their attention on the first Lilith's Cottage first-class wizard apprentice undergoing the mana fla assessnt.
After watching his mana fla switching, Wizard Derek Jones frowned, wrote down his score, then scolded, "Bert, you're at least a student of our Lilith's Cottage."
"Coming to take the assessnt with this level? Are you wasting your magic stones or wasting our ti..."
"Your magical fla switching speed is around 5.5 seconds. Coming to take the exam with this level, aren't you afraid your cauldron will explode from your magical flas?"
Bert's face turned pale, and he bowed to the three formal wizards. "I'm sorry, I can usually do it. I was just too nervous..."
"My recent job really needs a potion master assistant certificate, and I need that job, so..."
Wizard Derek Jones snorted coldly. "That's no excuse."
"Really embarrassing our Lilith's Cottage in front of outsiders."
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