Chapter 207: Talent: Levitation (C)

"Keep up the good work..."

Holding the potion in her hands and listening to the notification ringing in her ears, Lan Qingyou muttered to herself. Her expression flickered unpredictably, making it impossible to tell what she was thinking.

She then began to appraise the potion.

[Intermediate Potion - Talent Ascension (C)]

[Exclusive User: Lan Qingyou]

[Effect: Five percent chance to increase the talent rank of a D-rank talent user.]

[Description: An essence crafted using various Spirit-type materials. The Alchemist clearly put a lot of effort into this. But why does it smell like peaches?]

[Recipe: Starweave Grass, Mist Tree Leaf, Sunburst Flower, Dark Magic Crystal Core, Cloudbrew Peach Wine...]

Well, obviously.

'Wait, does that mean my other potions can also be made with different flavors?'

Although a potion was still a potion, one had to consider the consumer's feelings.

Thinking back to the countless Mana Potions she had chugged down in Utopia, Lan Qingyou felt she really needed to improve the formula.

The taste of those concoctions was truly a traumatic memory.

She would honestly rather drink her own body weight in plain tap water or bottled mineral water than force those down her throat ever again.

Since she was already in the middle of brewing the new Magic Power Potions, she decided to act on the idea immediately. Lan Qingyou contacted Riesling and ordered a diverse batch of fresh fruits.

Taking into account the diversity of personal tastes, she also reached out to Jiang Lan to purchase a supply of vegetables, such as corn and tomatoes.

Because they were all natural raw materials, both the fruits and the vegetables could be directly incorporated into the potion-making process.

With that thought in mind, a slightly frustrated Lan Qingyou tilted her head back and downed the essence in one gulp.

The peach flavor was undeniably delicious.

[Ding! Your talent rank has been upgraded.]

Smacking her lips, Lan Qingyou savored the lingering taste of the potion just as the voice of the World Will echoed in her mind.

'Wait a minute, was that five percent probability just for show?'

Dumbfounded, Lan Qingyou stared at the empty glass bottle in her hand, then shifted her gaze to the large basin of filtered, unpackaged liquid resting on the table.

Smack!

That was incredibly fast!

Lan Qingyou quickly opened the interface on the back of her hand to check her newly upgraded talent.

[Talent: Levitation (C)]

1: Can reduce your own body weight to achieve a levitation effect.

2: Can reduce the weight of external objects to achieve a levitation effect.

3: The targeted object's weight must not exceed ten times your own body weight.

4: Consumes 1 Mana Point per minute.

Pfft!

'What the hell is this?!'

When Lan Qingyou read the description of her new talent, her complicated feelings were simply beyond words.

The talent still possessed exactly four traits. Three of them remained completely unchanged. Only the third trait had shifted, increasing the weight limit from her own standard body weight to ten times that amount.

What did that mean in practice?

She currently weighed around sixty-five kilograms. That meant she could now levitate any object weighing under six hundred and fifty kilograms—roughly 0.65 tons!

And the cost remained exactly the same: one Mana Point per minute.

That was an unbelievably good deal!

'No, wait!'

'Before, it was equal to my own body weight, and now it's ten times that amount. If I manage to rank up the talent again, wouldn't that mean...'

'I can't even imagine it! That's just completely unimaginable!'

Slapping her cheeks lightly, Lan Qingyou decided to put those overly ambitious thoughts out of her mind for the time being. She shifted her focus back to bottling the rest of the potion to distract herself.

The remaining hundred or so bottled potions were promptly sealed away in her storage room.

Now that the flowing water was gone, the once temperature-controlled storage room had basically become an ordinary utility closet. Even so, Lan Qingyou decided it was still safer to keep all her precious and rare materials secured inside the Shelter's warehouse.

The main reason was simply for convenience when searching for things.

Whenever she had free time, she could just pop in to take inventory and see what she was running low on.

After all, she had very nearly forgotten that she still had a stash of D-rank talent potions tucked away in there.

Ding.

A notification popped up on her Card. The fruits and vegetables she had ordered had just arrived.

After sending the fresh produce down to the main workshop and instructing the magical golems to mix them in at random ratios, Lan Qingyou began brewing the Witch's Potion.

Regardless of anything else, she had made a promise to other people.

And since she had promised, it was better to finish the task as soon as possible. Being completely debt-free was always the best feeling in the world.

"I'll just randomly select a few lucky winners for the remaining ones."

Lan Qingyou muttered to herself while eating her dinner. At the same time, she scrolled through the World Channel, randomly selected five lucky individuals, and mailed them each a Witch's Potion.

She still had around a hundred vials left in her inventory, after all. She figured she would just hand them out slowly, dropping a few as occasional surprises.

She didn't have any grand underlying motive. She simply wanted to liven up the atmosphere in the World Channel and observe a bit of biological diversity.

"What?! The Witch is giving out potions again?!"

"Yeah, yeah! A guy in our region just got one, and he's totally bragging about it in the Regional Channel right now!"

"Damn it, why didn't she pick me?"

"Probably because you're too ugly to catch her eye, right?"

"Piss off, you bastard!"

"I don't care if I'm a bastard! As long as the Witch gives me a potion, I'll gladly be her most loyal lapdog!"

"Alright, alright, so that's how we're playing it? You guys really have absolutely zero shame."

"Since when was dignity more important than power and staying alive?"

Thanks to Lan Qingyou's casual generosity, the World Channel was once again thrown into absolute madness.

Naturally, certain individuals caught wind of the commotion and immediately came knocking.

Judgment: "How much of it do you have left?"

...

Even though countless people in the World Channel were currently kissing up to her in the most shameless ways imaginable, Lan Qingyou still felt that this guy right here was the single most shameless person of them all.

Tower: "Don't even think about it. I'm using these for my own personal entertainment."

Judgment: "Do you still have any of the Star Dragon King's Blood Essence?"

Tower: "As an Alchemist, isn't it entirely justified for me to keep a little bit of high-tier material for myself?"

'...She actually makes a completely valid point. I literally cannot argue with that!'

After all, an Alchemist's business was their own; it was better not to pry too deeply.

For a moment, Chu Yuan found himself entirely at a loss for words.

Judgment: "How much of it is left? I'll buy it all."

Tower: "Rather than eyeing the tiny bit of stock I have left, you'd be much better off getting the Supreme Council to organize a team to hunt for other ancient bloodlines."

Judgment: "We're already looking into it, but we haven't found anything yet. I just came to ask how you managed to find yours so we could use it as a reference."

'I found it using Treasure Detection.'

Lan Qingyou rolled her eyes.

However, she definitely couldn't say that out loud.

Although Chu Yuan wasn't the type to resort to outright robbery, knowing his personality, he would undoubtedly try to work her like a rented mule. He might even attempt to rent Little Spoon from her.

Tower: "I triggered a one-way Teleportation Array inside a ruined castle basement in the city ruins, which transported me to a snowy mountain. I spent a few days trekking through the snow, tracking traces of biological activity. Finally, I stumbled upon a cave, blew open a sealed-off section using Explosion Potions, and just happened to discover it by sheer luck."

Lan Qingyou typed out her reply as she glanced sideways at Little Spoon, who was currently clutching an ear of corn and gnawing away at it like a giant hamster.

She technically wasn't lying; she simply omitted the part where Little Spoon did all the actual finding.

Tower: "If you're going to send an expedition, I highly suggest you bring along the Magic Tents that Star enchanted with temperature control, along with plenty of emergency rescue gear. It'll make things infinitely easier, because God only knows where those random arrays will teleport you."

Judgment: "I see. I'll keep that in mind. Thanks for the tip."

With that final message, Chu Yuan promptly went offline.

His blunt, no-nonsense style made Lan Qingyou open her mouth, fully intending to complain about how abrupt he was.

However, right as she was about to speak, the voice of the World Will rang out once again.

The content of the announcement was so jarring that it gave Lan Qingyou a violent jolt.