Elementary Potioneering
“Professor! I have already become a level 1 acolyte and have understood the basics from the public lessons……”
Leylin said softly.
“I know, you wish to choose the subject for the knowledge I am providing!” Kroft interrupted Leylin’s speech.
“I heard that you have already been teaching other acolytes information from the public lessons that you’ve attended to earn magic crystals. It seems like your learning and memorising abilities are rather outstanding. From what I see now, you have the capability to learn an information of a higher tier!”
“Thank you!” Leylin bowed deeply.
Leylin had some understanding towards the paid lessons in the academy. Although professors have information on a higher level, it was only their own findings.
As for the other cutting-edge research, including the results of various personal experiments, information was only traded at the professors’ level.
This information was deemed the best, and can even be transferred directly into an acolyte’s memory so they will never forget it.
However, the fees were also the most expensive, each subject required at least ten magic crystals and Leylin simply could not afford it right now.
The only thing he could hope for was the one free subject that Kroft promised at the start.
Kroft nodded his head and moved the apparatus on his table aside. He then retrieved some strange items from god-knows-where and placed them on the table.
There was a huge book with a yellow cover, a crystal ball, and a test tube filled with yellowish liquid.
“These three items represent my 3 areas of specialisation: The book on the left represents the Neutralisation of Energy, the crystal ball represents Herbalism, and the test tube represents Potioneering. Make your choice!” Kroft said.
“I choose Potioneering!” The reason Leylin chose Kroft as his mentor was to advance in Potioneering and then rely on selling potions to earn money for his studies, so naturally he chose this.
Elementary Potioneering is an advanced course stemming from the public Potioneering Basics course. In theory, it is possible to start brewing potions after fully understanding these two lessons.
“I knew you would choose this!” The middle-aged Kroft revealed a smile.
“The art of potion brewing is extremely complex and complicated, the slightest mistake will result in a failure. All of the Potion Masters have spent a vast amount of resources to accumulate their experience. Are you ready for this?”
“Yes, Sir! I believe in this saying: You may not be rewarded for hard work, but without hard work, there will definitely be no reward!”
“Indeed! A very good mindset. One needs to have this philosophy on the road to truth!” Kroft nodded and handed the yellow test tube to Leylin.
“This is yours now!”
“This? How do I use it?” Leylin looked at the test tube in his hands.
“Just drink from it directly!”
Leylin opened the wooden plug and poured the yellowish liquid into his mouth.
An obnoxious sewer stench infiltrated his senses, and the smell lingered in his nose. Leylin’s face turned red, and tears even came out.
He barely managed to swallow it as he gasped for air.
“I swear, I have never drunk such a smelly thing before!!!”
Smelly!!! An unimaginable stench constantly shocked Leylin’s nerves, making him feel like fainting.
Under the stimulation of the extreme smell, the surroundings appeared blurry to Leylin, and the items in the vicinity all seemed to be distorted.
“You……It feels……Not so……”
Leylin looked at Kroft, and at this moment, the professor looked like a noodle, twisting and distorting. The professor’s lips opened and closed and he spoke sporadically, which brought about a lot of noise. It sounded like the friction produced between two metals, or some broken radio with poor signal.
Leylin raised his hand, his smooth palms seemed to be filled with folds, and even melted like a candle, falling down one drop at a time.
And finally, Leylin’s entire body turned into a puddle of liquid and disappeared completely into the darkness……
“How do you feel?”
Kroft’s voice rang, and Leylin was startled. He touched his head, the hard sensation bringing along warmth and a little moisture.
The surroundings turned back to normal, and Kroft stood there smiling.
“I don’t feel too good!” Large amounts of sweat trickled down from Leylin’s head.
“Was what I saw earlier an illusion? It felt too real!”
“That is a normal occurrence, the illusionary spells of Magi seem like reality to acolytes, and some acolytes have even experienced their whole life inside the illusions and died of old age!”
Kroft’s voice sounded.
“The information has already been transferred into your brain, do some more meditation after you go back!”
At this moment, Leylin discovered a block of new information inside his brain. A phrase appeared on the right side of the text, saying: “Elementary Potioneering”