[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-global-survival-the-tower-witch-with-an-e-rank-t":3,"chapter-global-survival-the-tower-witch-with-an-e-rank-t-global-survival-the-tower-witch-with-an-e-rank-t-chapter-29":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Global Survival: The Tower Witch with an E-Rank Talent",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1374174,1818,"Chapter 29: Crude Healing Potion (E-)","global-survival-the-tower-witch-with-an-e-rank-t-chapter-29",29,"\u003Cp>That's right — an alchemist's own method of classification was simply to look at the ingredients.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If anything other than plant matter went into the crucible during the brewing process — be it insects, other living creatures, or even monster blood—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Make no mistake, my friend. That was a magic potion, one hundred percent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These earthworms were ones Lan Qingyou had collected during her herb-gathering excursions over the past several days.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Besides centipedes, she'd also collected quite a few useful specimens: Green-Eyed Frogs, Megaphone Bats, centipedes, Red Stone Rats, Deadwood Snakes, Stone Saltpetre Leeches, Fire Red Ants, Grass Saw Insects, and more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Honestly, Lan Qingyou had found them revolting at first.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But as a fledgling alchemist starved for materials, she was in no position to be picky. Every encounter was fate, and every specimen had to be collected.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To pass them up would be an insult to the great teacher Albert — a desecration of alchemy itself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were all drying on the second-floor terrace. In another two days or so, they'd be ready to grind into powder for storage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now that she needed to make magic potions, there was no avoiding bringing them out into the open.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Centipedes had two applications in alchemy: one was tossing them in whole, as she was doing now, and the other was grinding them into powder after death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two methods produced different effects, served different purposes, and yielded different magic potions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, Lan Qingyou's priority was reducing her opponent's stats.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pay attention, everyone — underline it, star it — Professor Albert would absolutely put this on the exam.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She stayed busy right through the afternoon before finally completing the day's batch of potions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without the enamel mugs to deal with, the workload was much lighter than yesterday.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After cooling and settling, Lan Qingyou started bottling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Apprentice-Level Magic Potion: Sluggishness (E)\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Effect: Upon hitting an enemy, the potion shatters into a mist that adheres to the target's skin, reducing Agility by 3 for 10 seconds.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Description: 3 Agility is nothing to scoff at. 6 Agility is nothing to boast about. Let your enemies taste the joy of slamming the brakes!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at the Sluggishness Potion's stats, Lan Qingyou nodded in satisfaction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With this magic potion, she finally had at least a chance of escaping a hostile situation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Three points of Agility reduction from a proper apprentice-level Sluggishness Potion might not sound like much at first glance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But consider: the peak Agility for a Blue Star Earthling was only 10.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if she were unlucky enough to run into a maxed-out superhuman, those 3 lost Agility points would be enough to make them faceplant mid-sprint.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Think about it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A person accustomed to high-speed movement, suddenly and involuntarily slowed down — they'd need a few seconds to adjust, at minimum.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if it was only a handful of seconds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And those precious seconds of adjustment were the perfect window for escape — or counterattack.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, all of this assumed Lan Qingyou could actually hit her target.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But she wasn't worried about that either.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One crucible batch produced 200 potions. Throw every last one and at least one would connect — and she wouldn't even feel bad about it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was about survival. No room for regret. By the time you're worrying about waste, you're already dead, folks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for whether using these magic potions would pose any danger to the user—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She couldn't speak for others, but Lan Qingyou knew for certain that she herself would be perfectly fine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Honestly, she felt her material reserves were still too thin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The snakes, bugs, rats, and ants she'd mentioned earlier could each produce magic potions far more useful to her than the earthworm-based Sluggishness Potion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But unfortunately, she didn't have enough of any one type to fill a full crucible batch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Brewing them individually in small batches wasn't an option either — no tools for that, and wasteful besides.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That's why she'd chosen the Sluggishness Potion — something she could mass-produce in a single large batch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All of this was the product of careful deliberation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She knew herself well. Her combat ability was what it was — she couldn't hope for more — so she had to win through volume.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After bottling all the life-saving potions, Lan Qingyou washed her tools clean.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once that was done, she moved on to filtering and bottling the Healing Potion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Crude Healing Potion (E-)\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Effect: Restores 3 Health Points per second for 10 seconds.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Description: A barely passable healing potion. Does anyone actually need something like this?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Yes! Need it! Plenty of people do!'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing the snarky appraisal, Lan Qingyou fired right back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sure, ten seconds for just 30-odd Health Points was a far cry from the 50-plus an apprentice-level version would provide.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Lan Qingyou was certain there'd be no shortage of customers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, when the +50 mana potions had come out, people had complained about the excess being wasted. The same logic applied here — +50 Health Points would see the same pushback, while +30 potions would be more popular. Someone like her, with a grand total of 20 Health Points, would find even +30 slightly wasteful.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So even a soup-pot-brewed +30 Crude Healing Potion wouldn't have trouble selling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two hundred +30 Crude Healing Potions. Two hundred +30 Crude Mana Potions. Lan Qingyou kept ten Healing Potions for herself and contacted Shang Chuan with the rest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A little past five in the afternoon — roughly the time when the hunters and gatherers returned en masse to their shelters. Also Shang Chuan's busiest hour.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some people trickled back during the midday break, sure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But most chose to fight all day, or at most, drop off materials and head right back out. Very few actually stopped to browse the exchange.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unless they'd scored something good.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She couldn't speak for other districts, but in District 666, Lan Qingyou's decision to peg base material prices to mana potions had kept the market remarkably stable — even the black market.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For a merchant, that was a dream come true. Stable prices meant more accurate predictions, lower risk.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Today, however, Shang Chuan was a little restless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He sat at his Magic Desk, hands working the exchange panel as usual. Everything looked normal on the surface, but the way his eyes kept darting to the friends list — and the leg bouncing under the table — betrayed his true state of mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was nearly six o'clock, and there was still no word from Lan Qingyou.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn't think she'd skip out, but several thousand units of materials were on the line, plus a hundred potions of commission. As time ticked by, his anxiety steadily climbed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Beep! Beep! Beep!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The friends list suddenly pinged.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang Chuan's facial muscles twitched. His right hand swiped with practiced precision, opening the notification.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lan Qingyou: \"[Crude Healing Potion (E-)]\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thump — thump — thump — thump — thump—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment he saw the Healing Potion's effects, Shang Chuan's heart began hammering uncontrollably.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'One hundred percent! An absolute one hundred percent profit margin!'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Throat dry, he grabbed the bottle of jasmine honey tea beside him and took two long gulps.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lan Qingyou: \"How many do you want?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'All of them!'\u003C\u002Fp>",1203,"2026-06-05T21:58:31.676Z",1,"novelbin.me","25b1e2bd425b3bdf8085bdd3791d9201fcbeb599cbc2afad6affcfdd0a73f8f3","global-survival-the-tower-witch-with-an-e-rank-t-chapter-30","global-survival-the-tower-witch-with-an-e-rank-t-chapter-28",965,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fglobal-survival-the-tower-witch-with-an-e-rank-t-cover.jpg"]