CH 62.3

Exploding Potion (3)

She no longer expected the demon, who was someone who would propose marriage on the first meeting, to be able to carry on the conversation. She even thought that he was a novice among all the demons, which was why it had been so long yet he could not even deceive one soul yet.

Anna said, “I don’t want to eat it.”

Rothgarr now occasionally had a keen sense of Anna’s mood changes. He glanced at her and found that she seemed a little unhappy.

He thought for a moment and asked, “Then what do you want to eat?”

“I don’t want to eat anything.” Anna shook her head, she just simply didn’t want to go to the demon’s current home; she felt uneasy about going deep into the enemy camp. Moreover, the fact that Raymond’s body was forcibly occupied by the demon was partly her fault, and she was embarrassed to face Raymond’s family.

Rothgarr glanced at Anna again, only to find it hard to guess what she was thinking.

Fortunately, these few days have not been without progress, so this small setback in front of him could not spoil his good mood.

The two then walked silently all the way to the potion lab. Dawkins stood there, poking his head out and looking out. When he saw Anna’s figure from afar, he hurriedly retracted into his potion lab to see where else he needed to tidy up. Then, he returned to his experimental bench and posed as if he was preparing in earnest.

When Anna came to the door, Dawkins still couldn’t hold back. He pretended to say, “You came?.”

“Mage Dawkins, good morning.” Anna stood at the door and didn’t come in immediately, “Mage Raymond said that he also wanted to watch your experiment. I don’t know if you will allow it.”

Dawkins had seen “Raymond” following Anna, and was not surprised to hear her words. He said reservedly, “It’s not impossible for him to watch…but I have one condition.”

“What conditions?” Anna asked.

Rothgarr looked on, as if Anna was his agent* and could represent him.

[T/N: Agent/manager of an idol.]

Dawkins said: “It’s not anything too difficult… If Mage Raymond finds any problems while watching, please feel free to bring it to my attention.”

His experiment had been going on for two years, but it had never been successful, and he didn’t know what the problem was. He was about to be driven crazy by this potion, so to have someone with extremely high talent like Raymond to help him check it out, he was really benefiting.

Anna looked sideways at the demon, who nodded casually: “Sure.”

Dawkins was overjoyed, and could no longer maintain the reserved appearance before. He smiled and invited the two in, and then closed the door of the potion lab.

Seeing the two standing at a safe distance, Dawkins said as he prepared: “This is my newly developed potion, it is based on the potion ‘Sigh of Light’ as a reference. Although it can also help to restore spiritual power, the principle is different. My goal is to instantly restore the spiritual power of a two-star mage after drinking the potion, but the current recovery effect is not even as good as ‘Sigh of Light’.”

Mental recovery mainly relied on meditation; that was the safest way. But in some very dangerous situations, such as in the face of deadly demonic creatures, you could also use potions to recover; after all, survival was the most important thing.

At present, the best potion related to mental power recovery was “Sigh of Light”. It was said that if you drank this potion in battle, you could restore about one-tenth of the mental power of an ordinary two-star mage. However, after that, you had to spend more effort to meditate and adjust your mental power, otherwise there might be unexpected sequelae.

This kind of potion was useless for high-level mages, and it had a limited shelf life and could not be stored or carried for a long time. Low-level mages who went to the line of life and death for short-term hunting might bring one or two bottles as a safety precaution, but that was the extent of its use.

Anna thought that when she was still back in Blue Rock City, Ulysses, a four-star mage whose mental power was damaged, could only recover naturally through meditation. She didn’t see him using potions, probably for this reason; it was useless to him. Moreover, the conditions were not right to prepare potions there.

She had never seen a demon use potions. He was so powerful; even if he was possessing a two-star mage, he probably never thought of using potions.

In this way, the biggest beneficiaries of potions were ordinary people, but it was simply unimaginable to have mages mass-produce various potions for ordinary people to treat headaches, brain fever, insomnia, etc.

Even Anna, who was extremely short of money, felt that after having Mage Dawkins’ task, the business of selling potions to ordinary people was very inefficient for making money.

“I used the extract of wisteria grass as a solvent, plus 18 kinds of materials rich in different elements, and treated them with gold elements and water elements successively,” Dawkins said before starting his first potion experiment of the day.

As he added the materials, he introduced the names and uses of the ingredients to Anna and Rothgarr.

It was only then that Anna understood what Teresa meant by “limited funds” when referring to Dawkins. For one experiment, ten parts of the wisteria extract would be consumed. That was a total of fifty silver coins, and this amount of money was almost negligible compared to the other ingredients.