Making A Potion, Reaching Orange Grade- II

"Oh, you are here! Come in," said Asher.

Ian nodded and entered the bungalow.

Beside the entrance, there were a lot of plastic bags filled with wooden boxes.

" Those are the herbs you want; It took some time to find a few herbs because of their rarity, but... anyway, are you going to make a potion with it right now? " asked Asher.

" Yeah... " replied Ian.

In the past few days, He practiced Emotion Reading to its limits.

His True Vision's time limit also increased from a few seconds to 30 seconds.

That means Ian could use it as many times as he wanted as long as he didn't go over 15 seconds for continuous use.

He had nothing else to learn in Red Grade, and even if he did, he didn't want to waste any more time.

" Where is Rue? " Asked Ian.

Over the previous few days, he had become familiar with the trio. Ian couldn't say he had gotten closer to Aeric, but... Anyway.

"He is outside, eating at the canteen... His favorite ice cream rolls were on sale at the canteen." Asher said while awkwardly laughing.

When he heard that, Ian nodded his head; However, he then thought about something else.

"There is ice cream in the canteen?" Asked Ian. He didn't know there was ice cream at the canteen.

Ian had been avoiding the crowds by purchasing instant noodles or sealed packets of food from the canteen's boundary.

It is difficult to bear the stares of students who treat him as if he was some kind of exotic animal.

All of this; is because of the mask and the sigil on his uniform that displays his class and year.

He could have avoided this drama by dressing as a second-year student, but that would have required him to enter the second-year sector, which would have been a nightmare.

"You didn't know? Rather than calling it a canteen, consider it a 5-star restaurant with a small shopping complex. The food is delicious, and you can buy all kinds of food as your wallet allows it," Said Asher, looking especially proud when he mentioned the wallet part.

Ian suppressed the swear words he wanted to shout at this B*stard.

While he was struggling daily for food and living like a monk, this damn B*stard was eating 5-star food daily.

Putting these thoughts aside, Ian stared at the bag of herbs in his hand for a moment.

"Is Aeric inside the lab? " Asked Ian, but Asher sneered when he heard that.

" Is that even a question? That lab is his room, world, and everything! He doesn't leave it unless it's for food or a bath!... I tried so hard to take him out and he caused a huge drama at the canteen, so I gave up."

Ian chuckled when he heard that.

Given Aeric's personality and Asher's luck, it is not surprising that there will be some drama when they are together.

He went upstairs and opened the lab door.

Like every day, Aeric was doing his meditation, sitting in the lotus position.

Ian ignored him and began arranging the apparatus. He took the herbs one by one and checked their quality and quantity.

This could go wrong at any time.

Unlike the nameless potion created by Aeric in the original plot, the potion he was making right now was from the inheritance.

Aeric's potion formulas all have a clear step-by-step process, similar to chemical synthesis, but the potion formulas in the central realm generally don't give too much information, only a general process.

This is due to the interests of Secrecy Families and powerful individuals involved in the Herb market.

If the potion formula is unclear, it will take more attempts to make it, which means they will be able to sell more herbs.

And growing herbs is simple; even a gardener can do it if he understands the properties of the herbs.

Ian stopped cursing the Secrecy families and read the potion formula written in the inheritance once more.

This potion is called Phantasm's Blood.

The difficulty in creating this potion stems not only from a lack of a clear process but also from the difficulty in controlling it from exploding.

Unlike Ian's use of herbs with opposing properties such as Fire-Water in the nameless potion, this potion is entirely made of herbs with extreme Ice attributes.

This means there will be no balance from the start!

Unless he could prevent the Herbs from reacting too much and exploding, the chances of making the potion are nil.

' Fortunately, that old man is sensible. '

When Osiris is passing the inheritance to him, other than the actual inheritance, some extra memories were also injected into his mind, and there was a method to make Phantasm's Blood without it exploding in it.

The chances of failure are still high, but it isn't as worse as the original one.

'I should clear my mind,' Thought Ian.

He took a deep breath and cleared his mind of all distracting thoughts.

Mind practitioners excel at this because they have partial control over their thoughts and can easily focus on something.

He first placed a beaker in the retort stand; after pouring the Crystallized water into the beaker, he placed a narrow bucket-like tube filled with liquid nitrogen directly beneath the beaker.

He lowered the beaker's height until partially submerged in liquid nitrogen.

From here, the process is straightforward: add materials one by one in the specified order and hope that nothing explodes.

Of course, he must add liquid nitrogen to the bucket tube to keep half of the beaker submerged in liquid nitrogen at all times.

And, as expected, after a few materials, the liquid in the beaker began to react strangely when he added Aurora Ore- a Rare rank natural treasure found in the Arctic.

Noticing this, Ian instantly ducked and hid under the table.

The moment Ian ducked, the Beaker blew up.

Fortunately, the glass didn't spill all over the room thanks to the Beaker-tube that covered the beaker, but Ian wasn't in the mood to celebrate.

"What kind of Sh*tty A**hole created such a formula?! Add materials directly and hope for the best? This is insane!" muttered Ian.

He couldn't help but become pessimistic as he looked at the bag on the table.

Perhaps ten sets of materials won't be enough...