Chapter 55: Chapter 55

Witch Sophia sat at her office desk, hands crossed, looking at Locke and said, "My good student, what do you want?"

"As long as it's a reasonable request, I can help you once."

Locke pondered for a moment. He already had a meditation technique, and this favor obviously wouldn't be enough to exchange for an advanced meditation technique.

As for other learning matters, even if he didn't mention them, Teacher Sophia had already arranged everything for him. He only needed to follow the plan and study step by step.

Therefore, Locke thought of the materials he had recently obtained. He took out a vampire's heart from under his wizard robe and said, "Teacher, this is a vampire's heart. I want you to help me brew a bottle of Crimson Echo Potion."

Crimson Echo Potion was a potion that first-class wizard apprentices could brew, though it didn't reach the level of a true magical potion.

However, it was already considered one of the most difficult among apprentice-level potions.

Its effects were extremely powerful, capable of maximizing the acceleration of a wizard apprentice's advancement at the apprentice level.

If brewed by Witch Sophia, the effects could be enhanced further while the side effects would be significantly reduced.

Every potion master had their own little tricks when brewing, as well as some secret formulas they had fine-tuned themselves.

Locke had observed this point during his usual time as Witch Sophia's assistant.

Witch Sophia glanced at the vampire heart in Locke's hand and said, "Crimson Echo Potion is indeed very suitable for you."

"Besides a mid-level vampire's heart as the main ingredient for Crimson Echo Potion, it also requires 10 grams of Blood Moon Epiphyllum, 15 grams of Twin Snake Cypress fruit juice, and then a drop of tears from a female mermaid to harmonize the medicinal properties. Otherwise, the side effects would be too severe."

Locke looked at Witch Sophia with confusion, because the publicly available Crimson Echo formula didn't mention mermaid tears.

Witch Sophia explained indifferently, "Female mermaid tears are a small innovation of mine that can minimize the side effects of Crimson Echo Potion as much as possible."

"It can also enhance the medicinal effect slightly, increasing the original 10% mental strength boost to 15%, providing an additional 5 points of improvement."

Witch Sophia said, "Alright, I'll help you brew it. I'll supplement all the remaining materials for you."

"Locke..." Witch Sophia hesitated for a moment, then said to Locke, "You're very thoughtful."

"But right now you only need to focus on studying."

"The best comfort for a wizard mentor is to see their student grow rapidly under their guidance and become a wizard capable of standing on their own."

Witch Sophia picked up the certification documents with her thumb and forefinger, "Take this. This is my certification letter. You can take the Super Mandrake Vine to Chimera Trading Market. You'll need this certification."

"If you have time, you can set up a stall to sell them yourself. If you don't have time, then commission a magical plant shop."

"I recommend the latter. Our time as wizards is still very precious. Besides, some things are best left to professionals. Relying on yourself alone, you might not be able to sell the Super Mandrake Vines well and won't get a good price."

Witch Sophia said, "Oh, remember to keep the original strain of the Super Mandrake Vine in your own hands."

"Sometimes, magical plants cultivated through grafting methods will undergo certain degrees of degradation and aberration over time. If you don't keep the original strain in your hands, things will become very troublesome later."

Witch Sophia said, "That serves as a tool to define what truly constitutes a Super Mandrake Vine."

"If the descendants of the Super Mandrake Vine show degradation later, you can still use the original strain's seeds to rescue the degradation trend in the descendants."

Locke nodded. "I understand, Teacher."

"This pot of Super Mandrake Vine is not the original strain. The original strain is in my house. I'll give this pot of Super Mandrake Vine to you, Teacher, as a small gift from your student."

Actually, he didn't have any original strain. He could just synthesize Mandrake Vines all the way to level 4.

The difference wasn't significant.

When the time came, he could just randomly take a pot of level 4 Mandrake Vine and point to it, saying it was the original strain.

Witch Sophia didn't refuse, but smiled slightly and said, "I'll give you the Crimson Echo Potion in a few days."

"I'm busy now, Locke."

Locke exited her office. "Goodbye, Teacher."

Leaving Witch Sophia's wooden hut, Locke returned directly to his residence in Diagon Alley, then took out thirty pots of Super Mandrake Vines that he had synthesized during his spare time over the past year.

This number also matched the relative speed of cultivating new varieties of magical vines using grafting methods and Growth Gel.

Locke commanded two gray dwarves to push a wooden cart, covered the thirty pots of Super Mandrake Vines on the cart with black cloth, then left Diagon Alley and headed along the street toward Chimera Trading Market on the neighboring street.

At this time, Locke wore three badges on his chest simultaneously: the academy badge representing his status as a second-class wizard apprentice, the certification badge of a breeder's assistant, and the badge of an enforcement wizard apprentice. Therefore, when he entered the barrier entrance of Chimera Trading Market, he encountered no obstruction whatsoever.

Some people in Chimera Trading Market gave him a few extra glances, since he was relatively young among breeder's assistants.

Chimera Trading Market had rows of shops on both sides: potion shops, alchemical item shops, transportation tool shops, magical pet shops, and even a spell model specialty store that looked like a library at its entrance, specifically selling spell models.

The shops here were numerous and varied in type, making it the largest wizard market in the vicinity.

Therefore, not only would wizards from Lilith's Cottage come here, but many wizards from other schools would also enter this street through different channels.

Locke saw that in the distance, there was a section of the street with many wizard apprentices setting up temporary stalls.

Chimera Trading Market was divided into two parts: one was the regular shops on both sides of the street, and the other was the area specifically for temporary stalls where people sold magical resources they temporarily couldn't use up or didn't need.

Locke heard a long, rhythmically peculiar special sound. He looked up and saw ahead a circular platform-like area where streams of light fell like meteors, and some figures appeared from illusion to solid form within the meteor-like brilliance.

Locke knew that was one of the seven large-scale teleportation arrays set up in Chimera Market. These were ultra-long-distance teleportation arrays that could only be established by formal wizards from the alchemy school after spending enormous amounts of time, and each activation required consuming large quantities of magic stones.

They were crystallizations of the alchemy school's magical technology! Suitable for wizards located in distant regions to use the teleportation arrays to reach Chimera Trading Market.

Those wizards coming from far away would enter Chimera Trading Market, probably because of Lilith's Cottage's magical potion auction held in the market.

That was the largest-scale magical potion resource auction in the nearby region.

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After all, as the dominant force in magical potion studies in the nearby area, Lilith's Cottage was enough to make other magical potion wizards from the surrounding regions travel thousands of miles and endure great hardships to come here to collect resources or study.

Locke stopped in front of a plant magic shop on the street. He looked up at this shop and saw it had a sign outlined with magical moss and magical flowers that read [Lijin Secret Language Magical Plant Shop].

Locke said, "Stop here."

The two gray dwarves immediately stopped moving forward. This was their first time entering a place with so many wizards. The two gray dwarves' faces were extremely pale, with no trace of color visible on their skin, and their entire bodies were trembling with fear.

They could only occasionally look toward Locke, their master, to alleviate this soul-level fear, which was an instinct left behind by generations of magical enslavement.

"Great wizard master, your command... is our divine oracle."