Episode 116. Magic Potion Making Class (1)
“Yeah, if Luden drinks it, I’ll drink it too.”
Oscar said confidently, watching Rubin empty the entire bottle of potion. He lifted the bottle high and dripped the potion into his mouth.
Next was Chloe. She drank the potion with such grace that it seemed as if she were sipping wine on a palace balcony.
Since Chloe drank it, it was only natural that Dahlia Delin would be next.
In the end, Dahlia Cho became the trigger. The other Chos who had been hesitating also gathered their courage and put the magic potion bottle in their mouths.
“Did everyone drink it?”
Professor Kaizen looked around with a calm expression.
“Don’t even think about savoring the taste. There’s no such thing as taste anyway.”
“… … .”
The cadets looked at each other’s faces and prepared for what was about to happen. It was a natural reaction after taking the magic potion.
But as time passed, nothing happened.
“I know what you’re waiting for, but for now, focus and pay attention here!”
Kaizen raised his voice. He skipped any further mention of the magic potion he had just consumed and went straight to class.
The class that followed was quite ordinary. On the blackboard, an excerpt from the latest edition of the Potion Making Book was displayed for everyone to see by the professor’s magic.
For a while, it seemed like theoretical education would continue.
“… To put it simply, a magic potion is a ‘drug made by magic.’ The presence or absence of magic. This is the difference between a general medicine and a magical medicine.”
“… … .”
Because the class was so quiet, there were students who fell asleep. Whenever that happened, Kaizen would look at them with a contemptuous look. Joe would point out the student with his finger.
“How pathetic. Just stand against the wall.”
The number of students standing in front of the wall increased one by one.
“… Let’s resume class. Now, think back to what we said a little while ago.”
The presence or absence of magic. That’s the difference between normal restrictions and magical restrictions, you said.
“Then, if you melt the medicine with fire magic and make it, is that a magic potion? Or if you use psychic magic to strike the iron bar and crush the ingredients, is that a magic potion?”
It wasn’t a question waiting for an answer. The professor immediately shook his head.
Just because magic was cast during the production process doesn’t necessarily mean it’s a magic potion.
Whew.
As the professor waved his arm, a picture appeared on the blackboard.
There were many different kinds of plants. There were thistles, azaleas, and caponilia.
These plants differed from the original species in that the edges of the leaves were painted in a light blue color.
“These are called magic nucleus grasses. If there is a place where mana stones are buried, all the grasses around it will take on the properties of magic nucleus grasses.”
He continued his explanation. The excerpts floating on the board were automatically underlined in light.
“As the name suggests, the core plant is an essential ingredient for all magic potions. Without it, the magic potion cannot be completed. For example, things like troll bone powder or ant legs soaked in goblin blood? These are just auxiliary ingredients.”
“Is it similar to a magic stone?”
A cadet raised his hand and asked a question. If you just look at the concept, it seems similar to the magic stone needed for design magic.
“Yes, it’s similar to a magic stone. A magic stone is a medium that allows certain magic to manifest under certain conditions. However… a magic core herb plays the role of a magic stone within a human body.”
Whew.
Kaizen swung his arm again. This time, the drawing of the magic nucleus on the blackboard split into three pieces.
“Plants can be divided into three parts: roots, stems, and leaves. This is no different for the magic herb.”
Since the magic herb is also a part of the plant, that was natural.
However, the three parts of the magic herb were given another role. Not as a plant, but as the core of a magic potion.
“A cadet who knows the role of roots?”
Only two people raised their hands. Chloe and Dahlia. Among them, Gaizen pointed to Chloe.
“The root is responsible for a type of magic.”
“That’s right. Then how many types of magic can be expressed through magic potions so far?”
“As of now, there are 191.”
Gaizen’s eyebrows quirked at Chloe’s confident answer.
Because it was different from the number in the excerpt that Kaizen had posted. There, it was listed as 189.
“As shown here, the latest version records 189? Cadet Chloe, why did you answer 191?”
“A few days ago, the Ministry of Magic decided to add two more spells.”
“Where did you get that information?”
“This is our family.”
Kaizen’s eyebrows twitched again. If Witherspoon was the source, there was no room for further argument. She was a family that had access to relevant information before the professor specializing in potions.
“It must be true, since it came from Witherspoon.”
The students’ eyes changed at the professor’s simple admission. The girl in our class was an imperial noble. I remembered once again that I sometimes forgot that fact because she was so cheerful and friendly.
Clang.
Kaizen’s hand gestures continued. Then, 189 magic symbols were spread out in the air of the classroom. Since this was a magic school of the Three Whispers, all of the symbols were marked with the Three Whispers.
“Although the two recently added spells are missing, these are all magical spells that can be manifested in the human body through magic potions.”
There were some complex and elaborate spells, but there were also many spells that even the freshmen could recognize: mental confusion, loss of consciousness, oblivion, loss of taste, etc.
“Then, let me ask you another question. If the type of magic is input into the root, what will be input into the stem?”
“It’s the strength of magic!”
A single word rang out as soon as I raised my hand. This time it was Dahlia.
Dahlia, who had her chance to answer earlier stolen by Chloe, was waiting for this moment.
“That’s correct. What determines the strength of magic?”
“It is the depth of mana.”
“That’s right. Cadet Dahlia Delin, can you tell me one historical event related to the depths of mana? If you tell me something relevant, I’ll give you the shop.”
“This is the story of the lost archmage Glayton. There is a story about the blindness he bet on the chieftain of the Tooth tribe. The chieftain of the Tooth tribe lost a bet with the archmage and drank the magic potion he made, and from the age of twenty until he died of old age, he lost his eyesight.”
Dahlia deliberately cited an example that was not included in the book. There are numerous anecdotes that show Glayton’s great wizard side, but the anecdote involving the nomadic Tuhun tribe was relatively unknown.
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Kaizen nodded with a satisfied expression.
“That’s fair. I’ll give the store 10 points.”
“thank you.”
“The effects of magic potions are temporary. They last for a few seconds at the shortest and a few weeks at the longest. However, in the case of Glayton, as mentioned by Cadet Dahlia, it can be said that it was virtually permanent. That means the depth of his mana is enormous.”
Now that the roots and stems of the magic herb have emerged, it’s time for the leaves. All the students expected this.
But this time, Professor Kaizen took a different approach. Instead of giving them a chance to answer, he pointed to one of the students.
“Cadet Luden Poinen.”
“Yes, professor.”
Rubin stood up from his seat.
“If the roots are the type of magic, and the stem is the strength of the magic, what is the role of the leaves?”
“This is the moment when magic manifests.”
“… is correct.”
Although he didn’t like Luden’s calm expression, Gaizen pretended as if nothing had happened and continued his explanation.
“Magic potions can be manipulated to manifest at a specific time. Depending on the size of the magic nucleus leaf, the timing of manifestation can be adjusted more precisely. Of course, more important than that is the depth of the mana.”
If you are a deep mana wizard, you can control the time to within a minute even with a small leaf magic core plant.
“Take your seats, Cadet Luden.”
Professor Kaizen walked through the crowd of students. Then he turned toward the podium.
“Assistant Thompson, bring it. Assistant Quining is standing next to me.”
The two assistants followed the instructions. Soon, Thompson came past the students holding something and approached the professor. What he brought was a rather large hourglass.
Sssssss.
The sound of sand falling echoed faintly.
It was no ordinary hourglass. It had seven different colored sands neatly stacked in it.
The lowest layer is brown sand. It seems to have had the largest weight at first, but now most of the brown sand has fallen below the bottleneck.
“The reason why the cadets drank the magic potion but there was no change is because of the leaves of the magic plant. When I made the magic potion, I set the time of manifestation to about 20 minutes later.”
So, does that mean the brown sand in the hourglass represents twenty minutes? The cadets gulped.
“Okay, then shall we watch it for a while?”
A word from the professor, who was leisurely crossing his arms. At that moment, all the brown sand fell downwards.
thud!
It was at that moment that a loud noise rang out. All the students turned their eyes in that direction. One of the students who had been standing against the wall due to sleepiness was lying on the floor.
Professor Kaizen spoke softly.
“Assistant Queening, are you ready? Heal me right now.”
* * *
In the beginning, the magic potion that Kaizen created contained seven magics overlapping each other. And each magic was set to manifest at different times.
The first magic effect occurs 20 minutes after drinking the magic potion, as Professor Kaizen said.
The magic that was revealed was paralysis of the lower body.
thud!
One of the cadets who had been standing against the wall lost his balance and fell to the floor.
But this was just the beginning. Even among the cadets sitting down, some began to feel something strange in their lower bodies.
“Oh, my feet feel weird! I can’t feel them.”
“Isn’t that because you keep squatting?”
“No! Don’t you know the difference?”
Cadets who were showing symptoms cautiously raised their hands. Then Assistant Quining approached and casted a healing spell.
Instant potion detoxification. That was the role assigned to Assistant Quining.
“The cadet who has suffered paralysis of the lower body should go to his desk. Then, each group leader should check which magic stage the magic potion is manifesting in. If the group leader leaves, the cadet next to him should record it.”
The seven magics that were overlapped in the magic potion had a lower density of mana the earlier the magic was manifested.
‘This way, you can find out your resistance to magic potions.’
Experience the magic potion. That was the purpose of this class, but that wasn’t the only goal.
Magic potion resistance. If the purpose was just to experience it, one type of magic would have been enough. However, Kaizen needed to figure out the resistance of all the students.
‘That way we can find Per Lorenzini.’
Kaizen checked the number of students who had returned to their seats while checking the students. The number of students in Class C who had experienced paralysis of the lower body was already one-fifth of the total number of students.
Sssssss.
Before I knew it, the second powder was almost gone.
“The next manifestation is discoloration of the skin.”
When the powder ran out, an immediate change occurred on the cadets’ faces. A bluish glow appeared on the cheeks of the cadets who had been affected by the magic.
“Assistant Queening, go around and check and heal.”
“Yes, professor.”
Phew.
“Cadet who has received healing magic, please return to your seat and sit down.”
“Ha… I thought I could hold out longer.”
The cadets returned to their seats in regret. There was no cadet who did not know that the slower the potion was to manifest, the more outstanding the mana it possessed.
Now the magic potion experience was taking the form of a competition. The students who remained at the back of the classroom could not help but look with envy.
‘About a third of the remaining cadets dropped out.’
This is the figure that Kaizen had expected.
Kaizen also knew that there was no need to overlap it in seven stages in the first place. After all, there would be no cadets who would last until the end.
‘Whether it’s Chloe or Dahlia… it will manifest at the sixth stage at the latest.’
Kaizen watched silently.
Sssssss.
Before I knew it, the third layer of sand had all fallen.
“This time it’s a fantasy.”
As soon as Kaizen spoke, groans came out from all over.
It felt like I had another finger next to my little finger, but this new finger felt like it was being pricked mercilessly with needles.
“Ugh, Assistant Professor! Over here.”
“Ouch! Please come first, Assistant Professor!”
It was a sight that made me frown just by watching it.
So in the third stage, ten cadets were missing.
“What on earth are the kids that are still left?”
“No… What’s even more surprising is Dahlia’s Joy. Why are they all still alive?”
“You didn’t drink the magic potion, did you?”
But this was quickly proven not to be the case, as in the fourth stage, magic manifested itself in two of Dahlia Cho’s students.
“The fourth is ‘fainting.’”
The two cadets sitting on either side of Rubin ended up fainting at the same time. One male cadet and one female cadet. They were cadets recruited by Dahlia and Chloe, respectively.
“… … .”
Rubin caught the two cadets leaning toward him and waited for Assistant Instructor Quining to approach.
“You’re holding up well.”
Assistant Queening pushed up her large glasses and spoke to Rubin. She smiled gently and immediately cast a healing spell.
Phew.
“Luden, did I faint?”
“huh.”
“Really? When did you faint?”
The cadet scratched his head and got up from his seat.
In Dahlia’s group, there were only two people, but in other groups, the magic potion was manifested one after another.
Even in the group with four people left, everyone, including the leader, fell to the ground with their heads down.
There were twelve cadets left. Of them, only seven remained in Dahlia Group. The rest were the leaders of each group.
‘It seems like the cadets chosen by Chloe and Dahlia are all decent. By the way… Oscar shouldn’t last too long.’
Rubin felt Kaizen’s gaze directed at him. It was a gaze full of interest. Perhaps he was trying to narrow down the candidates to see who Per Lorenzini was.
With Chloe and Dahlia both ruled out of suspicion, it was only a matter of time before Oscar caught their eye.
‘We can’t get caught yet.’
It took more time to figure out the relationship between the imperial decree and Per.
Why did the imperial order try to kill Per, and why was Per able to become the vanguard of the assassination squad despite this?
Until then, the fact that Oscar was Per couldn’t be revealed. Right now, Oscar had to be removed from Gaizen’s sight.
but.
Just looking at Mana, Oscar was incredibly talented. As expected, he was on par with Chloe or just a little bit behind.
With such an Oscar, it’s clear that he’ll pass the 5th level of the magic potion.
‘It’s step 5 now, I guess it’s time to start moving.”
And that’s not all.
Here we had to go one step further.
‘I have to make Kaizen suspect that I’m Per.’
