Chapter 104: Making a Wizard's Elixir
Just when Rupert Fitz was having a headache about this powerful gunman who suddenly appeared, Leo, who had left the Crown Hotel, boarded the carriage that Ljungberg had arranged to wait at the door, and said to the plainclothes agent disguised as a coachman, "Take me to Anne Hospital on Red House Street." ”
The coachman raised the reins and drove the carriage toward the Red House neighborhood.
Soon the carriage stopped at the door of Anne's Hospital, although it was early in the morning, the hospital was already open, and when I walked in, I saw that Adeline was preparing medicine boxes and other tools with the interns.
Seeing this, Leo asked, "Where are you going?"
"Go to the fish city for free clinic. Adeline replied to Leo without looking up.
"I'll be staying here for the next two days, borrowing Anne's lab tools, and possibly buying some herbs from you. As he spoke, Leo took out ten hundred-gold flange bills from his pocket, handed them to Anne, and said, "This one-thousand-gold flange will be placed with you first, and if it is not enough, you will ask me again." ”
With that, regardless of whether Adeline agreed or not, she walked straight to Anne's attic lab.
Adeline took the money, stunned for a moment, shrugged her shoulders, put the money in her pocket, and continued to pack the medicine box.
In Annie's laboratory, Leo did not immediately start making wizard potions according to the recipe recorded in Samuel Dunbar's wizarding notes, but put down his backpack and took out a copy of the Velen Biology Encyclopedia published in the medical school from the bookshelf in the laboratory and read it.
Although Samuel Dunbar's wizarding notes contain a large amount of animal and plant information, it was decades ago, or even hundreds of years ago, and no matter how strong Samuel Dunbar's ability is, in terms of the level of detail of the biological description, it is impossible to compare with the biology dictionary compiled by countless people in the medical school.
What Leo needs to do is to add these biological data to the database of the auxiliary brain, and compare the content differences between the two, which will allow him to concoct wizard potions more accurately and reduce the failure rate.
There are a total of 37 books in the complete set of Vinylon Biological Compendium, covering known animals, plants, insects and other commonly visible creatures, and even invisible microorganisms such as cells are also recorded in it. If you think about the glass technology in this world, you can make even special glass similar to tempered glass, and it is not difficult to make a microscope that can see microorganisms.
Because this set is an internal version of the medical school, there are five more books than the Vinylon Biological Dictionary published by the outside world, and the content of these five books is the focus of the entire canon.
Compared with the thirty-two canons that introduce ordinary animals and plants, these five extra canons with special packaging are what he values the most, because they record all the magical plants and animals that have been determined and are not yet determined in the world of Velon.
Most of the flora, fauna, and insects described in the wizard's notes can be found in the five books.
In addition, the purple crown flower he found in the Black Forest can also be seen on the tree species, but because there is no physical object, the writer can only imagine the appearance of the purple crown flower through the description of the text, and draw it, and the drawn pattern is very different from the real purple crown flower.
In these five tomes, all legendary species that have been determined to exist in real life will be accompanied by clear photographs or clear markings, while those that have not been discovered will be drawn by an artist based on the text.
Among the unidentified species, Leo saw another species that he had seen in the Black Forest in addition to the purple crest, the monster that he killed and spontaneously combusted, leaving only a black heart.
According to the book, the monster's name is Morgandi, who likes to eat the heart of its prey, has the ability to stealth, and is good at sneak attacks, and is a mysterious creature recorded in folklore.
In the introduction to this monster, the monster's heart is emphasized, and it is said that the monster's heart can be made into a medicine that can make people extremely strong, and many legendary heroes have eaten the heart of this monster to have great power.
Therefore, it is recorded in the book that this monster will disappear completely, which is related to the large predation of ancient people.
However, Leo knew that the creature had not disappeared at all, but was living well in the Black Forest.
For people in the outside world, this set of Vilon's Bio Dictionary can be said to be very valuable, but for Anne, a set of revised editions will be sent every year, so naturally it is not how precious, so she will give away the replaced set of Vilen Bio Canon every year, and the latest set will be left as an ornament.
It is not difficult to see from the dust accumulated on this set of canons that not only Anne has not flipped it, but I am afraid that even Adeline has not flipped it, and finally Leo became the first to read it.
Although there are as many as 37 copies of this set of canons, the main purpose of Leo's reading is only to supplement the parabrain database, except for a few parts of the content related to the subsequent concoction of the drug carefully read, most of the other content is swept away, directly by the parabrain system to collect and sort.
It took him about half a day to include all the contents of all the thirty-seven canons into the database of the auxiliary brain, and according to the comparison, the animals and plants recorded in the wizard's notes were reorganized, and finally the description of these species became more complete.
"Which potion do you want to choose?" Leo then adjusted the formulas of the potions he had seen from the wizard's notes, carefully considered the wizard potions he wanted to experiment and make, and after repeated considerations, and after analyzing and comparing with the auxiliary brain system on the difficulty of making potions, he finally chose a potion that only needed to be made with three herbs and psionic energy.
This potion is a refreshing medicine called the Sobering Elixir, and in terms of efficacy, it is very similar to the combat injection specially issued by the Earth Federation to front-line soldiers, this combat injection can instantly eliminate physical and mental exhaustion and increase the combat time.
Leo came downstairs and asked the intern doctor who stayed behind for some related herbs, because none of the three herbs were special medicines, but several commonly used herbs for making cold medicines, so the hospital had a lot of stockpiles.
Although all three herbs had already been processed by herbalists and herbalists, there was a big difference between the methods promoted by the medical school and the methods that wizards needed to deal with, so Leo had to reprocess them according to the methods recorded in the wizard's notes.
Because wizards need to use psionic energy called magic in the process of dealing with herbs, and according to the notes, the purity of magic directly determines the efficacy of the herbs after processing, so Leo, who is called the purest magic by Rembrandt, can handle these herbs very easily.
In the process of handling herbs, Leo also found that putting his psionic precision control training in the process of handling herbs can also play a good auxiliary role, the effect is much better than what is written in the notes, and it can also improve psionic control.
However, even with so many advantages, after more than five hours of herb processing, Leo could only use less than five hundred grams of about ten kilograms of herbs to make wizard potions.
There is a clear difference in appearance between treated and untreated herbs, which will take on a pale blue color, as if they have regained their vitality, while untreated herbs will remain specially prepared and withered.
Whether it is a herb that has been processed or something that has not been processed, Leo can sense a very faint trace of spiritual energy entrenched inside the herb.
Those herbs that have not been properly processed have defective medicinal properties, although they have not broken down, and forcibly using them in the crafting of wizard potions will only increase the failure rate in the crafting of potions.
However, instead of discarding the herbs, Leo carefully sorted them and filled them in empty jars in the room, and when Adeline returned, he gave them to Adeline to use to make cold medicine.
Although these herbs are extremely flawed in the production of wizard potions, in the case of common cold medicines, the herbs concocted by wizards will increase the effectiveness of those ordinary medicines.
After packing up the herbs that could not be used, Leo took out the gall bottles, catheters, test tubes, and the tools needed to refine the medicine from the equipment cabinet in Anne's laboratory, and arranged them.
The drug refining tools recorded in the wizard's notes naturally cannot be compared with the current set of more scientific and effective tools, those tools are much more primitive than the current tools, and the effect is much worse, Leo naturally will not blindly follow the content of the wizard's notes, but will only summarize it and modify it into a more effective and more suitable method for himself.
After assembling the equipment needed to refine the medicine, Leo took out a very precise mechanical balance from Anne's tool cabinet.
This balance was definitely the most sophisticated of all the mechanisms that Leo had seen since he came to this world, because the outer shell was made of glass, so he could see the internal structure very clearly.
When Leo got it in his hand, he scanned the device with a spirit net and found that it was actually made of more than 3,000 gears of different sizes. The combination of these gears is so complex, even if Leo constructs a three-dimensional map from the scan data of the spirit web, he still cannot understand the order in which the gears occlude, the structure, and the purpose of their assembly.
However, it is this device that Leo cannot comprehend that is able to measure weight with an accuracy of milligrams.
Leo passed the herbs in his hand through this measuring tool, according to the highest requirements in the wizard's notes, divided them into three equal parts, and then put them into different gall bottles in turn, and poured treated distilled water to reduce the effect of impurities in the water on the herbs.
After soaking the three bottles of herbs for about five minutes, Leo placed them on the stand one by one, lit three alcohol lamps, and began the first step of the herb refining process.
After about twenty minutes passed, the distilled water in the bile bottle began to boil, and the herbs tumbled in the water, little by little, the essence of the medicine was integrated into the water, and the color of the water began to change, two of the bottles showed a pale green, and the other bottle was green with a hint of brown.
"I didn't expect the preliminary preparation to be so good, but there would still be failures. Leo frowned at the brown bottle and muttered to himself as he took down the failed bottle and poured it out.
As the other two bottles of potion were refined, the color of the potion began to become greener and greener, from pale green to dark green, and the evaporated gas also turned into a green mist.
The dark green medicine mist enters the cooling bottle along the sealed conduit at the mouth of the bile bottle, and returns to the liquid state, and slowly accumulates and precipitates in the cooling bottle, and after reaching a certain level, the green medicine with a slightly lighter color at the top of the accumulated refining juice flows into the test tube at the end of the entire refining device along the outlet of the cooling bottle.
After about another hour, the medicinal juice in the two bile bottles had been reduced to one-third, and the refining medicinal juice in the end test tube had also accumulated half of the test tube.
Leo extinguished the fire from the two alcohol bottles, then removed both test tubes from the device, plugged them with cork, and then injected trace amounts of psionic energy into the herbs in the test tubes, following the technique in the wizard's notes. In order to control the amount of psionic input, he even activated the Perfect Control Skill, increasing the psionic control talent by two or three levels in a short period of time.
With the infusion of spiritual energy, the emerald green medicinal juice in the test tube gradually faded as if it had faded, and finally the green color disappeared completely, and the medicinal juice seemed to turn back to clear water, completely transparent.
After the potion had changed to the point mentioned in the note, Leo stopped instilling psionic energy and set aside the wizard potion that had already been concocted, completing the final steps for the other potion, which, like the previous potion, quickly turned into clear water.
After making both wizarding potions, Leo did not take it himself, but went downstairs to the market closest to Red House Street to buy some game meat that was common here, and returned to Anne's hospital.
These wild animals are common in the forests around Miria City, such as long-eared rabbits, short-haired chickens, beavers, etc., and the doctors of Miria City also like to use these animals for medicinal experiments.
The animals that Leo had picked out were all the weakest of the game stalls, all of them sick and almost impossible for anyone to buy, and they were the best people to test the wizard's potion.
After using various inspection methods and the spirit network to collect and sort out the current body data of the five animals in his hand, Leo picked up a sobering potion and divided it into five equal parts, poured them into the mouths of different kinds of animals, and then locked the animals back in the iron cage.
After about five seconds, the effect of the potion began to work, and the animals that had all been sick before instantly became active and excited, and the originally dull fur on their bodies also exuded a luster, and there was almost no need to do any examination, and the effect of the wizard's potion was enough to be seen by the naked eye alone.
After waiting for about half an hour, the effect of the drug on the animal did not diminish, and on the surface, there was no damage caused by the drug.