Chapter 16: A New Way to Affect Magic

Chapter 16: A New Way to Affect Magic

Snape waved his wand, and a huge projection appeared above the classroom, showing the tabletop of the podium and Snape's hands, ensuring everyone could see the details of his operations.

"The first step is to weigh the herbs and determine the ratio, starting with the dried nettles."

Snape began to pick medicinal herbs and operate the instruments with standard, smooth movements.

"Next is to crush the snake's fangs. Pay attention to my movements."

"Begin to boil the slugs. Be sure to choose the slugs with tentacles. Also, don't put them in cold water the first time you boil them. Make sure the water is boiling before you put them in."

"To melt the porcupine quills... Be careful! You must remove the pot from the fire first and let it cool down for a certain period before adding the porcupine quills. Otherwise, you will be disfigured... To save time, I will use magic to cool it down here. Don't do this when you operate it later. I'm afraid your crappy magic will blow up your crucible."

"And then the last step."

Snape mixed the slug solution that had been boiled three times with other medicinal materials and stirred it in a certain rhythm and direction.

Avada, sitting in the first row, could see Snape's movements directly without looking at the projection above his head. The scene that appeared during his observation almost made him scream out loud.

In his perception, the magic structures contained in various medicinal materials were originally chaotic, and it seemed meaningless to pick them out separately. However, when they were put into the slug solution, their magic structures gradually merged under the coordination of the simple magic structure of the solution, forming a regular, beautiful, and brand-new structure!

The whole process was like restoring a broken puzzle, smooth and pleasing to the eye.

This was a phenomenon he had never observed in the past few years. If one wanted to obtain a certain magic structure, the most direct way was to cast a spell directly and use mental power to change the magic around. However, this new method, using the magic structure of magic herbs to merge and splice, could accomplish something extremely difficult to do with direct casting at a very low cost.

Take this scabies treatment potion as an example. It only takes a skilled first-year wizard about ten minutes to prepare it. However, if you want to use only a wand to realize the magic structure, the difficulty is no less than casting Aqua Claritas fontis.

Aqua claritas fontis is a spell that can only be learned in sixth grade, so you can imagine how difficult it is!

Avada then realized that potions were a completely new way of influencing magic power, different from any other magic.

"I must learn potions well!"

He secretly made up his mind and decided that even if he was targeted by Snape in the future, he would still shamelessly ask him for advice.

On the podium, Snape finally finished preparing the potion. He poured the potion into a glass bottle and held it up to show everyone. It was a bottle of light blue potion, glowing slightly under the dim light, and looked very beautiful.

"Now, I will give you the materials for making potions, and you will start making them in pairs. I hope none of you are so stupid that you can't even put together a set of experimental equipment!"

"Ms. White, you will be in a group with Mr. Sharpy; Mr. McNeill, you will be in a group with Mr. Alex."

Snape walked to the back of the classroom and began to group the students by college from the back to the front. When he reached the front row and saw Avada and Baron, a hint of amusement flashed in his eyes.

"Unfortunately, Hufflepuff and Slytherin both have odd numbers of students. So, Mr. Ken, why don't you be in a group with Mr. Shafik?"

"That's great. I can also let Mr. Shafik supervise your brain that can't even remember the formula of the cold-relieving potion, so as to prevent any trouble in my class."

He gave Avada and Baron a portion of the medicinal materials for preparing the potion, then turned around and inspected the classroom.

"Don't worry, he actually thinks highly of you."

Baron explained to Avada somewhat awkwardly, "The Anti-Cold Potion is a potion that can only be mastered next semester. The fact that you can recite most of the formula right after entering school is beyond his expectations. I think he probably wants you to guide me, but he can't let go of his pride."

"Focus on the experiment, don't whisper to each other!"

Snape appeared behind the two men again at some point and hit them on the head with the parchment.

The two of them shuddered, their faces straightened, and they immediately started the experiment.

"Dried nettles, venomous snake teeth, porcupine quills, slugs..."

Baron was responsible for weighing each medicinal material accurately and handed the weighed medicinal materials to Avada for secondary processing. Avada put the venomous snake tooth into the mortar and pounded it into powder with the pestle. Although this was a purely physical process, Avada had memorized the magical structure of the reaction when he watched Snape operate it earlier.

Next, break the porcupine quills into small pieces, cut up the dried nettles, and boil water to cook the slugs. It must be said that after countless generations of experiments and improvements, these old classic formulas have almost no room for optimization, but instead let Avada find many operational risks.

For example, if you don't break the porcupine quills into small pieces but grind them directly into powder to speed up the reaction, then congratulations, the large reaction area will cause a magical change that should have occurred later to occur earlier, and then generate a structure similar to the magic "flame" with other components that have not yet reacted...

Avada complained inwardly while cooperating with Baron in an orderly manner, boiling, cooling, adding herbs, boiling, stirring, and cooling again...

With detailed note-taking guidance, Avada and Baron's standard operations, and the use of magical senses to monitor the effects of every magical change at all times, the two's production progress progressed rapidly, and they stood out from the crowd amid the explosions, airflows, coughs, exclamations, and Snape's scolding that came from the classroom from time to time.

Soon, they came to the last step.

"Stir seven times clockwise, pause for three seconds, then stir two times counterclockwise..."

Baron flipped through his notes and read quietly, looking at Avada, who was working on it. He saw that Avada stopped after stirring clockwise for five and a half turns, and then paused for two seconds and started stirring clockwise again.

"Hey, wrong step!"

Baron reminded him urgently, but Avada continued stirring calmly, explaining calmly, "Don't panic, this is another stirring method I saw in the library before, which is just right for the potion now. If nothing goes wrong, the potion stirred in this way will be two to three times more effective than the original one."

This was also a lie; in fact, Avada finally found a flaw that could be improved. This flaw was extremely conspicuous in his magical senses, but he didn't know why the predecessors hadn't touched it.

Baron nodded, and did not obstruct because of the trust he had built up in Avada during the Charms class.

Finally, Avada completed the improved stirring. As the glass rod was pulled out of the medicine cauldron, the originally colorless potion gradually turned into a darker blue than the original potion. Avada took out the glass bottle, poured the potion into it, and shook it at Baron with some pride: "I told you, trust me, you will be right."

Baron nodded in admiration, then raised his hand for Snape to come over and inspect their work.

However, after checking their potions, Snape did not praise them, nor did he turn around and leave. Instead, he sneered.

"Mr. Ken, do you think your genius brain has discovered an unprecedented improvement method?"

He took a piece of meat from an unknown animal from the shelf nearby and waved his wand to make it covered with scabies: "Come, let me show you the effect of this 'genius potion'."

He carefully opened the bottle cap and poured the azure blue potion. As the potion came into contact with the skin, a sizzling sound was heard, and the skin on the piece of meat that came into contact with the potion quickly turned black and damaged, as if it had been splashed with acid, eventually leaving a large, shocking black spot.

"Your genius trick has tripled the potion's effectiveness, so it goes from just killing scabies to burning the entire skin, Mr. Ken!"

"And if you still insist on diluting it with water, then I don't mind watching the fireworks one more time!"

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