Wizard: Starting With Synthesized Gems

Chapter 413: The Second Test

Inside the Feathered Serpent Pavilion, Locke retrieved from his astral ring all the potions he had refined using the Feathered Serpent Pavilion's materials.The half-dragon wizard walked over and took a glance, opening a bottle of potion to smell it carefully, "The quality is quite good."

He swept his gaze over the quantities of the three types of potions. Each type basically only had about five bottles, and a trace of disappointment appeared in his eyes. "Thank you for participating in this test, Potion Master Augustine. It's just a pity that each set of materials given to you before contained fifteen portions. A one-third success rate isn't low, and the quality is also very good, but relatively speaking, it still cannot meet our requirements."

That trace of emotion that appeared on the half-dragon wizard's face quickly faded, becoming cold and indifferent again. He glanced at the five bottles of blue potion and immediately frowned.

Because among the five bottles of blue potion, two bottles were different from the common blue potion, filled internally with transparent bubbles. He opened one of the bottles and smelled it carefully. Immediately after, he suddenly drank down this bottle of blue potion.

In just an instant, under the effect of the First Circle potion, his body rapidly turned blue. The gray dragon scales belonging to reptiles all over his body also changed from gray to blue.

After the half-dragon wizard transformed into a lamp spirit constitution, he frowned, "You added a secondary material into it, lamp wick grass. I just don't know the exact amount in grams, and you also performed more than one special heat control adjustment, so you enhanced the effect of this bottle of blue potion."

Starry dust-like powder swirled around his body. That was the unique power of lamp spirit elves, magical power condensed from wish power, a special state of magical power.

The blue potion originated from a large plane conquered by the wizard world for over a thousand years, a traditional subordinate plane of the wizard world, the Golden Desert plane.

That plane was rich in wondrous items like lamp spirits, fairies, and little people in bottles. That world belonged to the low-magic high-martial type.

In other words, the magical tide of the entire world was relatively sparse. Magic was a secret to the entire world, but the magical tide was concentrated in the hands of a few people, so that world had many powerful individuals.

The half-dragon wizard said, "This bottle of potion's effect has been enhanced by at least one-third or more."

A mass of thunder-attribute magical flame appeared beneath the half-dragon wizard's gray wizard robe. Under the rapid extraction effect of the thunder-attribute magical flame, the medicinal effects belonging to the blue potion and almost all the spell toxicity within his body were expelled from him.

The half-dragon wizard's body rapidly returned to its original state, his body surface dragon scales turning gray and restoring to their original condition.

Locke saw this scene and was slightly stunned. Then he remembered an article he had once read that recorded how potion masters could use magical flames to rapidly expel potions from their bodies. Using this method, potion masters could ignore quite many types of poison-type potions.

According to reason, although his own technique of manipulating magical flames hadn't reached this level, with the primordial fire, he could also accomplish the same thing, perhaps even do it better.

The half-dragon wizard gave Locke a slight half-bow, "My apologies, Potion Master Augustine. I didn't realize before that you had improved the formulas of three potions."

"All three potion formulas have been improved to a certain degree. This is truly rare. Compared to this, the slightly lesser quantity is just an insignificant matter."

The half-dragon wizard became much more enthusiastic toward Locke, "Potion masters like yourself are precisely the targets the Feathered Serpent Pavilion is happy to serve."

"The Feathered Serpent Pavilion only serves genius potion masters. We have the support of a great personage from the Star Domain Sea. Our main purpose of existence is to raise the foundational level of certain special potion study subspecialties."

"You can understand this as that great personage attempting to fine-tune the future development direction of the entire wizard civilization through artificial capital investment, making wizard civilization advance in a specific direction he desires. That great personage possesses an almost infinite lifespan, and therefore he is filled with patience."

"First Circle wizards and Second Circle wizards are the cornerstone of wizard civilization, the foundation, the future of wizard civilization. Therefore, the Feathered Serpent Pavilion will actively support potion study geniuses at this stage, helping them grow better."

While speaking, the half-dragon wizard had already transmitted the test results to the Feathered Serpent Pavilion headquarters in the Star Domain Sea using a light transmitter.

Five minutes later, a message came back from the light transmitter.

The half-dragon wizard looked at the letter, saying, "Potion Master Augustine, headquarters wants to grant you C-rank member recognition treatment and let you enjoy the cultivation plan that comes with C-rank membership."

Locke said, "The Feathered Serpent Pavilion's cultivation plan?"

"Don't we need to sign any contract?"

The half-dragon wizard said, "No need. The Feathered Serpent Pavilion is just an ordinary shop, neither the Academy of True Knowledge nor a wizard academy."

"We just want to commission you to refine potions. In fact, it's still a series of tests. If you agree, this can be given to you."

"This is a new potion formula and materials list. Different from the previous test, this time the potions you refine can all be kept by yourself. You only need to provide proof of successful refinement."

The half-dragon wizard said, "This is a series of tests. As long as you fail to meet the standard once, the testing will immediately cease. Each new test will become more difficult than the previous test."

"The difficulty of completion will become increasingly high, until one day you cannot complete the test, and we will actively cease testing and give up cultivating you."

"Of course, you also have the right to cease testing at any time. You only need to stop submitting proof of test completion."

"The Feathered Serpent Pavilion is spread throughout every wizard land, so you don't need to worry about situations where you cannot submit completion proof in time in a certain region."

Locke glanced at this half-dragon wizard and frowned slightly. It seemed the Feathered Serpent Pavilion also had great secrets behind it.

But since this was something beneficial, he had no need to refuse.

Locke took the envelope from the other party's hand and scanned the potion formula on it. This was actually a formula for an abyssal potion called Hive Mind Potion.

In this document, the other party provided him with thirty sets of Hive Mind Potion materials in total and required him to refine at least fifteen bottles within one year to be considered passing the test and able to enter the next test.

Worth mentioning was that there was a requirement, he could not use the primordial fire for refinement. All Hive Mind Potions must be refined by his own ability.

The primordial fire contained primordial power, so once this flame was used for refinement, the primordial power would definitely leave a tiny bit of residue in the potion, making it very easy to identify.

Locke read the introduction to the Hive Mind Potion, and his expression became strange, because the greatest function of the Hive Mind Potion was actually to open a wizard's brain domain potential and enhance a wizard's psionic power. This was a potion used to increase psionic energy.

For other wizards, this function might only be rare and have no particularly special effect. But for himself, who needed to rely on a distributed psionic network to maintain the Forest Sanctuary magic, this potion would be extremely useful to him.

But at the same time, Locke also secretly became suspicious, 'Has the Feathered Serpent Pavilion conducted a background investigation on me? Or more simply, used some kind of Divination School magic on me?'

'Otherwise, how would they know I need this type of potion? Or is it just a coincidence?'

'Forget it, it's just a cooperative relationship anyway. As long as it benefits me, that's enough. Conducting background investigations is just standard procedure.'