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Chapter 144 - 138: The Pyramid of Magic Potions Study_1

Chapter 144: Chapter 138: The Pyramid of Magic Potions Study_1

Blaze Fire Circle: After casting, a fire circle is summoned around the self and expands outwards, extending up to 10 meters. It sets all creatures it passes on its path ablaze, causing substantial burn damage.

Seal Tongue: After casting, the cursed person is rendered incapable of speaking and chanting spells, lasting for five seconds. This spell has a very quick casting speed.

These two spells, with Blaze Fire Circle being high-damage fire magic, provide Mu You with the Area of Effect (AOE) output capability he currently lacks most.

The Small Fireball takes too long to cast and can only aim in one direction, which is practically the same as single target spells. However, this magic, upon casting, produces a fire circle with a radius of up to ten meters, resulting in substantial burst flame damage, making it ideal for dealing with attacks from lower-level creatures.

Meanwhile, the second spell, Seal Tongue, is a silence-type spell. Just being unable to talk is not very useful by itself, at most it might help restrain creatures like mandrakes that rely on sound for attacking. The crucial part is the prohibition of chanting, which, combined with very fast casting speed, can turn a wizard into a waste in the most crucial five seconds during battle, making it quite practical.

Mu You confirmed the exchange - over ten thousand points instantly depleted, and the software shows that both types of spell scrolls have been bought and taken off the shelf.

Next, he would quietly await Old Zhang delivering the scroll to him, and he could go and trade with other people by the evening.

However, before that, Mu You has another crucial task, which is to concoct the evolution elixir first.

Today is Wednesday, and after six consecutive days of studying, he has completely memorized all forty-two notebooks. Today is finally the day for practical testing.

"Vivian, the formula for the evolution potion, you see, isn’t it..." Mu You approaches Canary, dropping hints.

Canary glanced at him, let out a sigh, flapped her wings and conjured a new book from her library, flying it towards Mu You.

Mu You looked at the book: "Anseni Vivian’s Magic Potion Formula Compendium".

"This is a compendium of magic potion formulas recorded before my original body died. It records all the formulae I collected throughout my life. Not very complete, covering probably about 70% of all formulas. But the commonly used ones are all there."

Mu You felt extremely delighted hearing this. This is truly priceless!

As he flipped through it, indeed every single page recorded a type of magic potion, ordering from low-tier to high-tier. At the end, he found the total page count to be over one thousand seven hundred - in other words, more than one thousand seven hundred formulas!

Vivian is too modest saying it only covers 70% of magic potions and still isn’t ’very complete’. How would other magic potion masters feel hearing this?

According to the descriptions in the previous notebooks, it’s quite impressive for a general magic potion master to master a few dozen magic potions. And if one can master a few hundred magic potions, proclaiming oneself as a grandmaster of magic potions would be unopposed.

However, Vivian holds more than one thousand seven hundred magic potions, completely out of the realm for comparison with typical magic potion masters. This is genuinely a grandmaster level figure in the realm of magic potions. It may well be the case that even the entire history of the Star Spirit World can’t produce many who have mastered more potion formulas than her.

Mu You quickly skimmed through it and soon found the page for the Evolution Elixir.

"Evolution Elixir: A fourth-tier magic potion, main ingredients for concoction: Scales from an Abyss Worm, Eyeballs from Eyeball Grass, Unicorn Blood, additional ingredients: 5 grams of Clearing Mind Flower Pollen, a stem of Wormwood, 5 Hyena Tree Leaves, 10 milliliters of Holy Beetle Bile..."

There are two portions of the main ingredients rady in Mu You’s hands, while the few additional ingredients are quite common low-grade materials and medicinal herbs, all of which he happens to have in his current stock. This means he can avoid a last-minute exchange from the Dragon Soars platform.

Seeing that Mu You had already hurried to the furnace to prepare various materials, Vivian suddenly spoke: "Magic potions are divided into nine grades, from first to ninth, the difficulty increases correspondingly. Among them, first to third-grade magic potions are low-grade, fourth to sixth-grade are middle-grade, and seventh to ninth-grade are high-grade. Each time the grade is raised, the difficulty of concoction doubles."

"So the highest grade is ninth-grade magic potion master?" Mu You asked subconsciously.

"No, the highest grade is seventh-grade magic potion master. Nobody has yet managed to concoct magic potions of eighth grade or above." Vivian answered.

"Huh?" Mu You was taken aback: "Even you can’t do it?"

"I am a seventh-grade magic potion master."

Vivian shook her head and sighed: "I once believed that there couldn’t be a potion in the world that could not be concocted. After becoming a seventh-grade magic potion master, I devoted eight hundred years to explore realms above the seventh grade, trying various higher-level magic potion techniques, but I could never advance an inch. It wasn’t until just before my death that I realized the fundamental reason for my stagnation was due to an unstable foundation."

"Unstable foundation?"

Mu You was taken aback. In his impression, Vivian was the pinnacle of the magic potions field in the Star Spirit World. If her foundation isn’t stable, then what is?

Vivian shook her head: "The pursuit of magic potions is like building a pyramid in your world. The size of the foundation determines the final height of the pyramid. Many people learn a few first grade magic potions and then can’t wait to try second grade, then third grade and even higher. The pyramid built in this way is like a floating castle in the sky, destined to topple sooner or later, and most of them stagnate at the third-grade potions, for they will forever be confined at the level of low-grade potion masters."