Chapter 48: Psychic Potion

There were five spell formulas, but none of them were Mending or Mage Hand.

Nor was there that strange, excruciating spell Master Seda had used when questioning him.

Clearly, these spell scrolls did not encompass all the spells Master Seda had mastered.

This was normal, however; the channels for a mage to learn spells were never limited to just spell formulas.

Furthermore, even if a mage learned a spell through a formula, they would not necessarily keep the formula after successfully constructing the spell model.

After all, under normal circumstances, once a spell is mastered, the formula loses its value.

Unless, of course, you harbor the crooked intention of reselling it.

Although the five spell formulas were not a complete set, every single one was an "old acquaintance" of Gao De.

There is no need to mention 【Tracking Mark】; 【Touch of Fatigue】 was clearly the melee spell Master Seda had mastered, as revealed by Amy back then; as for 【Light】 and 【Fire Bolt】, Gao De had personally "tested" them when he had his showdown with Master Seda.

As for 【Detect Magic】, Gao De had also seen Pierre cast it.

Five cantrips, all very practical and powerful.

With five full new spell formulas placed before him, any other mage apprentice would be plunged into a happy dilemma at this moment:

Which spells should they choose to learn first?

After all, for a mage apprentice, the time required to master a cantrip ranges from half a year to a full year.

Therefore, one must inevitably prioritize them for study.

A person's energy and time are, after all, limited.

Just like in school, when ordinary students choose tutoring classes, they generally pick one or two high-value subjects that offer quick score improvements for specialized breakthroughs.

Of course, this is the mindset of an ordinary student.

For an academic high-achiever, there is only one phrase: "I want them all!" High-achievers have no weak points.

Gao De had always played the role of such a high-achiever since he was a child.

And fortunately, even after changing worlds, Gao De could still continue his "high-achiever" role in the field of magic.

He wanted them all! The order in which he learned the spells was not important to him.

He could just pull out any spell formula and start constructing the spell model.

It was just a matter of a few days sooner or later anyway.

Gao De set aside the five spell formulas with satisfaction and picked up the three pieces of ancient parchment to examine them.

As expected, these were the potion recipes he had been longing for.

He first pulled out one: Primary Spider Venom Potion (Rank 0 Potion): Possesses a strong paralytic effect, non-lethal. Main ingredients: 1 stalk of Snake-Tooth Grass, 1 stalk of Mountain Mugwort, 1 portion of Green Spider Sac. Gao De was very familiar with Primary Spider Venom Potion, so he gave it a cursory glance and set it aside, not looking at it in detail.

The second recipe Gao De picked up was the one he was most interested in: the Primary Stamina Potion recipe.

Primary Stamina Potion (Rank 0 Potion): Significantly enhances the drinker's physical fitness and stamina, with no obvious side effects.

Main ingredients: 1 segment of Gaoshan Ironwood root, 1 Sun-Fire Fruit pit, 1 portion of Wild Wolf gland fluid; Auxiliary materials: 【omitted】. Preparation steps: Naturally sun-dry fresh Sun-Fire Fruit under the noon sun for three days, then crush it, keeping the pit for later use; peel and slice the Gaoshan Ironwood root. Magic-infuse the three main ingredients; extract the "drought-resistant, cold-resistant" medicinal properties from the Gaoshan Ironwood root, and extract the "fiery" medicinal properties from the Sun-Fire Fruit. Place the magic-infused Sun-Fire Fruit pit into a mortar, add an appropriate amount of mountain spring water, and grind in a clockwise direction. During the grinding process, add the Wild Wolf gland fluid appropriately to neutralize its "fiery" medicinal properties, but ensure the "fiery" medicinal agent is not lower than 【omitted】. Continue until the mixture presents a pale golden hue. The recipe was so detailed that it described every step and every detail of preparing the potion one by one.

As long as one has a certain understanding and talent for potion preparation, one could fully master the preparation of Primary Stamina Potion by relying on this recipe and experimentation.

"Good!" Gao De's joy was evident on his face.

The acquisition price offered by the Phil Potion Shop for Primary Stamina Potion was 2 gold and 5 silver per set, which was more valuable than Primary Spider Venom Potion.

I must master this recipe, Gao De thought to himself, while picking up the third piece of parchment.

Compared to the first two potion recipes, this piece of parchment appeared much more worn, with frayed edges and a deeper yellow color to the paper.

A guess faintly formed in Gao De's mind.

Could this be the potion that Master Pharmacist Seda had been trying to prepare for the past ten years? While harboring this guess, Gao De's gaze naturally fell upon the parchment.

The first line that caught his eye made Gao De's heart jump violently.

Psychic Potion (Rank 1 Potion)!

A Rank 1 potion! This was a Rank 1 potion.

Just two Rank 0 potion recipes would be enough to support the operation of a medicinal garden.

If one could prepare a Rank 1 potion, one should have a foothold even in Bremen City.

While daydreaming, Gao De continued to read down.

Psychic Potion (Rank 1 Potion): Consuming it can briefly enhance the drinker's mental power, strengthen mental perception, and mental control, but it will be accompanied by slight mental fatigue after use; drinking this potion before constructing a spell model will increase the success rate of spell model construction.

Gao De realized that his heart had jumped too early just now.

Now was the time it should truly jump violently.

Increase the success rate of spell model construction.

Don't look at how he constructs spell models as easily as solving math problems; that was just a special case.

For the vast majority of mages in this world, constructing spell models is a headache-inducing task that requires a large amount of time and energy, yet it is incomparably important and must be done.

Under these circumstances, the vast market for a potion that can increase the success rate of spell model construction goes without saying.

"No wonder that old guy was obsessed with preparing this potion for ten years. Besides his stubborn personality, the temptation was indeed too great." Gao De could now fully understand Master Seda's obsession.

He continued to read down.

Main ingredients: 1/2 ounce of Psychic Bone Powder (approximately 14g), 1 pair of Illusion Butterfly wings.

Auxiliary materials: 1 portion of Silver-Thread Grass, 【omitted】, 【omitted】, 【omitted】.

Preparation steps: Take the colorful Illusion Butterfly wings, air-dry them under moonlight, then grind them into powder and keep for later use. Magic-infuse the two main ingredients: extract the "hallucinogenic" medicinal properties from the Illusion Butterfly wings... and the "psychic" medicinal properties from the Psychic Bone Powder. Magic-infuse the four auxiliary materials: extract the "guiding" and "mental-enhancing" medicinal properties from the Silver-Thread Grass, and extract the "neutralizing" and "regulating" medicinal properties from 【omitted】. Place the Illusion Butterfly wing powder and Psychic Bone Powder together in a mortar... The recipe was still very detailed, but three of the four auxiliary materials had been inexplicably erased for some reason.

Including all places where these three auxiliary materials appeared in the preparation steps, they were all erased in the same way, without a single omission.

Clearly, someone had done this deliberately.

And above the erasure of two of the auxiliary materials, Master Seda had added two ingredient names:

"Mandrake Bark," "Dried Nettle."

Only above the name of the last erased auxiliary material did Master Seda write the three characters "Sage," followed by a "?" mark, which should represent uncertainty.

After ten years of obsessive attempts, Master Seda was not without gains.

Although Gao De did not trust this gain very much.

After all, his predecessor had been poisoned to death by this very gain of Master Seda's... Gao De shook his head. Although he knew the value of the Psychic Potion, he still had the self-awareness to put the recipe down.

He would certainly not do the "labor-intensive and money-wasting" thing of trying to complete the Psychic Potion recipe, at least not in the short term.

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