Chapter 16: The Mad Scientist
"I'll prove it, I'll prove it to them!"
Pulling the duck's throat and rubbing his hoarse vocal cords, the down-and-out mad scientist Jimmy Lavendre fiddles with the few remaining chemical utensils in his hands in his dwarf's humble shack. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 Although he shares a common surname with the notorious plague mage "Filthy Hilgai" Hilgai Ravendre, in the Dark Continent, a place of great strength, the surname basically has no effect except for the bloodline known for protecting the short.
Calling him a "scientist" is an honorific title for those who work at the lowest level in the field of magical chemistry. The number of people with magical talents is scarce, and there are even fewer magicians who relax their magical cultivation and engage in magical chemistry. Therefore, a group of "Muggles" who have no magical talent, but are engaged in spells, alchemy, and chemical research under the hands of great magicians, that is, ordinary people, have been born. And Jimmy Lavender is one of them, although he has a relatively good background, but because he doesn't have any magic talent, the family entrusted him to a famous archmage of the demon race, and became a "scientist".
Perhaps because of the surname Lavendre, Jimmy has a great talent for the chemistry of magic. Just like "Dirty Hillgee's" obsession with the poison of the plague, people with the surname Ravendre seem to be a little paranoid, and Jimmy has been stuffing himself in the lab all day to the point of not eating or drinking, "I'll prove it, I'll prove it to them!" is what Jimmy often says and just says.
By mistake, Jimmy finds the direction of his research from a rabbit who eats poppies by mistake. A small flower made a rabbit jump up and down for an entire afternoon! Jimmy was so caught that he devoted himself to the study of poppies.
Over the next few years, Jimmy experimented with hundreds of cooking methods, including baking, smoking, mud-roasting, simmering, boiling, boiling, steaming, etc., and finally, after the process of boiling and then fermenting, the bright flowers turned into some white paste.
That's how "Mad Baby" Jimmy calls his masterpiece.
From white rats and pet dogs, to low-level demonic beasts jumping sheep and fiery buffaloes, they all fell into a state of extreme excitement after swallowing them, and their combat effectiveness even increased by more than half. Unfortunately, no one believed in his masterpiece. After several years of chemical experiments, Jimmy's jet-black hair had fallen out, one eye blinded by steam was inlaid with a transparent glazed stone, his mouth was cracked, saliva was flowing from time to time, and his hands were twice as large as they were before after being soaked in chemical materials, making him look like a madman.
The inventions of "scientists" also have a chance to be valued, but only a chance. The famous archmage of the demon clan does have such a rule in the laboratory, and the people at the bottom also have the opportunity to be famous in the empire and be personally guided by the archmage to motivate the "scientists" to work hard.
But every time Jimmy's application ended in failure, on the one hand, the mage had little free time to pay attention to an unknown "scientist", and on the other hand, the rules were dead, but people were alive. The huge laboratory is like a small society, and there are a series of unspoken rules such as bribery and currying favor, and Jimmy has no social circle at all, let alone connections. Especially since Jimmy is not very old, everyone thinks that he was sent by the Lavendre family to support him, so he can't talk about making friends.
In the end, Jimmy, who was desperate, broke his oath of "never relying on his family again" and used his family connections to put pressure on the laboratory. Finally, he was given the opportunity to prove himself to the Archmage himself, and the price he paid was that he would hardly ever receive help from his family again.
It's been so long since he's been socially involved that Jimmy can't even find a volunteer who believes he's willing to help him experiment with the effects of the drug, and he drags it out until the day he goes to Jinjian, and in desperation, he decides to go for the experiment himself.
Afraid that the effect of the medicine would not be enough, Jimmy deliberately swallowed some more "crazy baby", he felt wonderful, as if the pleasure of soaring in the sky enveloped him, the sense of smell and touch seemed to be extremely keen, and he took a deep breath of the rancid smell on his body, Jimmy strode towards the top of the mage tower to teleport array.
But Jimmy was so fragile that years of magical chemistry experiments had drained the energy of this guy in his prime. The so-called "crazy baby" is just a release of a person's experience in a short period of time, but Jimmy has no energy to be released, and after a short time, he falls heavily in the teleportation array.
A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity was wasted alive, and Jimmy was remorseful, furious, and crying, but to no avail.
Just when everyone thought that the successive blows had crushed this guy, I don't know what was supporting him, and the crazy Jimmy stood up again. Unlike in the past, without the support of his family, he could not afford the high price of raw materials in the laboratory, after all, the poppy is just an extremely unpopular but extremely difficult plant to obtain. Without the hefty bounties of the past, almost no one wanted to go deep into the depths of the Eastern Mountains.
"Never underestimate the perseverance of a paranoid person", a phrase that every descendant of the Ravendere clan remembered many years later.
"I'll prove it, I'll prove it to them!" Jimmy packed his bags and set out on his way to find the birthplace of the poppy.
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The goblins shouted "Hoo-ha-ha-ha" easily cut through the fragile fence and killed dozens of unsuspecting gnomes in a short period of time. Led by the three strong goblins that Hu Yu had strengthened, the goblins launched a fierce attack.
Despite their relatively small size, the gnomes were almost twice as numerous as the goblins, and after paying dozens of casualties, the gnomes finally put up some decent resistance.
A goblin of much larger size crawled out of the shack, with deep, thick bags under its eyes hanging under its flabby eyelids, unlike other gnomes, with a large grinning mouth with countless fine and dense teeth, wrinkled and unable to say fat or thin, and a "ghoul" of an undead creature.
"Hold on, hold on! Swallow the pills!" said the mad scientist Jimmy, who was furious, and kept screaming. Just two days ago, his research on "Crazy Baby" had just made a breakthrough, and the white paste-like powder was successfully solidified, the purity was relatively improved, and of course, the side effects also increased a lot.
And Hu Yu rode the "little sunflower" to play soy sauce in the back, and from time to time he pushed with both hands and released a fireball the size of a watermelon to support the goblins. "Master, you are too powerful" Kreacher was also constantly patting his ass, a master and a servant were far away from the main battlefield, and they were happy to be idle.
After a burst of swallowing, the battlefield changed dramatically.