CH 44.3

Mages Make Quick Money (3)

She had been frightened by the examination, and when she remembered that Anna would be spot-checking later, she felt her whole body tense up.

Anna also wanted to start with the first book on the list, but thought that tomorrow Leon would bring herself to the introductory potion course, so she planned to do a preview first.

In the midst of “flipping” through the book before, Anna had roughly understood that the preparation of potions was similar to chemical experiments, except that the basis of this world was made up of natural elements, so the raw materials and process of potion preparation were a bit more metaphysical.

For example, if the sap of plant A and the seeds of plant B were shrouded in concentrated light, they would generate a potion, whereas they might explode if they were shrouded in concentrated natural elements.

This “Potions 101” book mainly talked about the basic principles of potion preparation, the common pretreatment methods of raw potion materials, several commonly used potion formulas and preparation methods, etc. In short, they were all very basic things, and the final preparation method was very maneuverable. Even if Leon was not in class, she could successfully formulate the potion according to the process in the book.

Anna spent some time memorizing the basic principles of potion preparation. This was the foundation, and the content was practical, but full of minor details. Knowing the basic principles, she could adjust the potion formula and preparation process according to these principles to make it unique.

Before, in the process of coming to Black Cloud City, Anna discovered that the spells cast by the mage actually had distinct personal characteristics. The basic spell circuit was indeed only those few, but the same spell could be cast with different spell circuits. Some standard spell circuits drawn by Dubian for her were actually just templates. Once mages with even a little bit of talent mastered it, they would certainly do some fine-tuning.

Just like programmers writing code for a function, some people write cumbersome code, some people write concise, clear, and aesthetic code. From the perspective of functional performance, there may be no difference between the two, but the difference in memory usage during runtime is vastly different.

In the same way, mages cast the same spells, and it seems that everyone is throwing a small fireball, but the one that has been fine-tuned for spell circuit may consume very different mental energy. In a battle, if others don’t have magma but you still have magma, don’t you win?

Anna read “Potions 101” and found that potions had the same idea as spell circuits. After remembering the foundation, you could adjust the formula and the preparation process by yourself during the preparation, and finally get a better potion.

Of course, this would be after she had learned to a certain level, and she would not consider messing around before then.

Primary school children must obey the experimental specifications!

After finishing the preview for tomorrow’s class, Anna put down the book and looked at Natalie, and found that she had already read up to the last part of the first chapter, maybe because of Anna’s leading role, Natalie was taking notes while watching.

Anna took another piece of paper and wrote some short-answer questions according to her memory and the notes she had made before. When Natalie turned the last page of Chapter 1, she pushed the “test paper” over.

Anna didn’t need to say anymore; Natalie knew what it was as soon as she saw the content, she sighed in her heart, and started writing honestly.

Anna hadn’t shown her talent yet, but it was clear just from Anna’s reading habits that she had already conquered Natalie.

When Natalie finished the test, Anna nodded after skimming through. Natalie’s mastery of the first chapter was not surprising, just like some people recite the vocabulary, the first word “abandon” in the vocabulary book is always burnt into their minds.

The two put the books back in place, cleared the desk, and sorted out their personal traces before leaving the elementary library.

At this moment, the setting sun was slanting to the west, and the world was shrouded in dim light.

Anna looked into the distance, her gaze a little lost. A month ago, she was a maid who went out early and returned late from the Earls’ Mansion in Blue Rock City. She did not expect that now she was living a student’s life.

She missed her family in Blue Rock City a little bit, and hoped that they could live well.

The sentimentality on her face only stayed for a while. Anna retracted her gaze, and said to Natalie: “I’m going to have a meal and then go home, you should go back first.” The free canteen of the Mage Association was asking to be taken advantage of.

“Then I want to, too!” Natalie hugged Anna’s arm and said coquettishly.

Natalie had always been a lively person. She was suffocated by staying in the library all afternoon, so she immediately regained her nature after she came out.

Of course, Anna had no reason to object. The two had dinner together in the cafeteria. As a result, Anna heard all kinds of gossip about the association and felt quite satisfied.

Natalie’s family were aristocrats, there was a carriage to take her home. She reluctantly said goodbye to Anna. And as for Anna, she did not go home immediately, but to the bulletin board that Natalie mentioned.

The bulletin was covered with various posters, all of which were handwritten task requirements. Some papers seem to have faded, and looked to be a few years old. She glanced for a moment; it turned out to be a long term harvesting task of some raw potion material. The task publisher was a two-star mage.

She remembered seeing this raw plant material in “Potions 101.” The plant was very common, but its preprocessing was very troublesome, and nobles who were not short of money must not have bothered to engage in such mechanical labor.

Anna scrutinized all these tasks carefully, and felt that this way of making money was very interesting.