Seventy-two ingredients, most of which were cheap and not hard to buy. The most difficult part was the control of time and heat. Salin's mental strength was very stable, but he still failed seven times. These failures allowed him to gain a lot of experience. He still had two sets of ingredients left, and he did not want to continue failing.
Six hours passed, and Jason's lab door was still closed. His experiments usually took three to five days. After preparing the food, Salin had nothing else to do.
The last bit of soreness left his body. Salin sat up, feeling that his spiritual power had grown significantly this time. He could even feel the details of the air flow in the room. A grass worm hit the window. It didn't even make a sound. Salin looked back and saw the grass worm fly away.
Salin jumped up and quickly came to the table. He ignited the magic flame and started putting ingredients into the crucible. His spiritual power was strong and pure now, so he could quickly feel the slightest change in the potion. He used his limited magic to stabilize the flame and stared at the changes in the ingredients in the crucible.
Ten hours passed, and Salin didn't even feel hungry. The last stabilizer was put into the crucible. The potion in the crucible had all melted into a colorful liquid.
He was going to succeed! Salin quickly added the magic flame potion into the crucible and ignited the flame.
A strong magic wave spread out, and Salin's heart beat violently. This scared him quite a bit. There were no high-level magic arrays in his room, and Jason would notice the abnormality in his room in three seconds at most.
Salin and Guge had done their shady business behind Jason's back. Once Jason found out that Salin was making a potion, he would definitely know that Salin had taken Guge's money.
Salin grabbed his badge almost subconsciously, pressed it into the liquid in the crucible, and released a Level-0 spell. The mysterious badge absorbed Salin's magic power, and at the same time, completely absorbed the magic wave that had just erupted. Salin fell to the ground, feeling a lingering fear.
As a magic apprentice, he had taken too much money from Guge. This matter couldn't be explained.
Salin didn't get up until night fell. Looking at the empty crucible, Salin wanted to cry but had no tears. This time, there wasn't even any dregs left. He was obviously going to succeed! Because he had been frightened by the powerful mana fluctuations, he had personally destroyed the Magic Flux Potion. That damned badge.
Salin picked up the badge, but his eyes were attracted by it.
The dark green mageweath on the black iron-colored badge was now verdant, and there was a pool of azure liquid in the crack in the center. He could not detect any magic waves in the translucent blue liquid. Salin did not dare to use Magic Detection directly, or he would have to lie down for another six hours.
What is this? Magic Flux Potion?
Normal Magic Flux Potions should be colorful. Salin looked at the blue liquid and didn't dare to drink it immediately. He took out a green jade bottle and filled it with the blue liquid. The jade bottle, which was shorter than a finger, cost Salin two hundred gold coins. It was originally meant to store the Magic Flux Potion.
Salin did not know what he had concocted, but he was afraid that the strange potion would evaporate, so he could only store it for now. He cleaned up the table and ate his dinner without tasting it. Then, he lay on the bed and thought hard.
The Hungry Ghost Festival was in half a month's time. He still had four thousand gold coins and two batches of ingredients for the Magic Flux Potion. He could barely gather six batches of ingredients, but looking at his previous failures, these six batches of ingredients might not be successful.
Clenching his teeth, Salin decided to wait until tomorrow. If the remaining two batches of ingredients were not successful, then he had to save the four thousand gold coins. After advancing to a level-one magician, he would need to spend a lot of money. If he wasted all the gold coins on the Magic Flux Potion, then his future studies would be incomparably difficult.
Salin could not ask Viscount Guge for money. This was different from Guge hiring him. If he asked for money, it would be equivalent to selling himself to the viscount.
In the next two days, Salin used up the last two batches of ingredients, but what he obtained was still a pile of dregs. The feeling of success from that day seemed to be impossible to find again. Even a flawless procedure could not guarantee the success of the potion.
Left with no choice, Salin could only think of the blue potion.
There were only ten days left until the Hungry Ghost Festival. While waiting for Jason to conduct another experiment, Salin hid in his room and secretly drank the bottle of blue medicine.
A cool and refreshing feeling slid down his throat and into his stomach. Salin strictly followed the requirements of the magic book. He only drank milk for the whole day and did not eat any solid food. He also took the potion and emptied his body of impurities.
His hungry body immediately absorbed the potion that entered his stomach. Salin felt the potion penetrate the walls of his stomach, seeping into his blood vessels and circulating throughout his body.
This effect was different from what was described in the book! Salin was a little nervous, but it was too late for regrets.
Salin's current state was a little strange. He clearly felt refreshed, but he kept sweating. The smell of his sweat was extremely disgusting, and it was dark. After ten or so minutes, Salin felt that his body was extremely dehydrated. He scooped up more than half a liter of water from the wooden bucket with a ladle and poured it directly into his stomach. However, the feeling of dehydration became more and more serious.
Salin knew that it was inappropriate and did not dare to hesitate. If he did not act now, he would probably become a dried corpse in less than half an hour. He quickly put on his fluttering robe and rushed out of the ancestral house.
The ancestral house was built in front of a mountain. Salin desperately ran towards the back of the mountain where there was a small stream.
It usually took him half an hour to walk, but Salin arrived in five minutes. He dove into the small stream, found a relatively deep place, threw away his robe, took off his clothes, and soaked his entire body in the stream.
The stream water poured into Salin's stomach, and at the same time, entered his lungs through his nose. Salin did not feel suffocated. Right now, all the pores on his body were breathing. He inhaled the clean stream water and expelled the dirty bodily fluids.
This process was not painful, but it consumed a lot of energy. Salin felt that he was extremely hungry, but he had no food and did not dare to leave the stream. Even though he was soaking his entire body in the water, Salin still felt that his body was lacking water. This was not even a feeling of thirst, but a direct symptom of dehydration.
The Magic Flux Potion flowed in Salin's blood vessels, absorbing the water in Salin's body and forcibly expelling the impurities from his body.
This process lasted for six days. Salin almost thought that he was going to starve to death in the wilderness. At this time, the Magic Flux in his body finally experienced a new change.
Salin felt the water element in the air, and his spiritual force immediately became active.
Closing his eyes, Salin felt that his body had become transparent, and his perception could observe everything that was happening in his body. There was not much of the azure translucent potion left. It was as thin as a gossamer, and only about the length of a finger. After circulating one last time in the blood vessels of his body, the potion entered his brain and exploded without warning.
Salin was shocked, thinking that he was dead for sure, but then he realized that the explosion was just an illusion.
A space suddenly appeared in his brain, and a translucent blue thread floated in this space, continuously absorbing the water element between heaven and earth.
Originally, the water element perceived by spiritual force was formless, but now it was as if Salin was watching from the side. The formless element was materialized, and countless transparent blue elemental bodies were closely arranged in the space, like a huge blue crystal. Moreover, it was so huge that there were no signs of boundaries.
Salin carefully observed the basic structure of the water element. Before becoming a Level Four Mage, this was the only time he could perceive the elements like this.
The thread in the space of the brain continuously absorbed the water element, but it did not grow larger. It was still the length of a finger, and thinner than a hair. This was the magic string mentioned in the books. With this most basic magic string, it would eventually form a complete network of magic strings.
These network of magic strings would have six attributes, representing the six major spells. The more and longer magic strings a Mage had, the more spells they could cast, and the more powerful they would be.
Every time a spell was cast, the magic strings would automatically regenerate. Apprentices could also meditate to recover their magic power. However, the magic power stored by apprentices was too little, and could not compare to magic strings at all.
A Level One Mage could use magic strings to cast one Level Two spell, ten to twelve Level One spells, and nearly a hundred Level 0 spells. And the highest level apprentice could only cast one Level One spell, and about ten Level 0 spells.
This was the power of magic strings, the cornerstone of the entire magic world.
Moreover, with meditation, a magician's Magic String would recover at a very fast rate. A powerful Mage only needed one or two hours of meditation to recover their battle power. Even for an ordinary Mage, six hours was enough to recover all the magic strings they had lost.
The magic strings in the brain finally began to grow slowly, until they were about a foot long, and as thick as a thumb. Then they stopped growing, and branches began to grow. Salin did not know how much time had passed. His physical senses had already disappeared, and all his sensory abilities were concentrated in the spiritual world, observing the growth of the magic strings.
The space formed in the brain was very large, like a water droplet, with a height of more than three meters. The branches that grew from the one-foot long magic strings were very small. They were like the veins of a leaf, distributed in the space of the brain.
Salin carefully recalled the description of magic strings in the book. A one-foot long magic string was a characteristic of a Level One Mage. He had skipped the high-level apprentice stage, and directly became a Level One Mage. This was somewhat exciting.
However, there were two other problems that were different from what was described in the book.
The first problem was: The book said that a Mage's magic string space was about one cubic meter, but Salin's magic string space was at least six times more than what was recorded in the book.
This was not a big deal. The larger the magic string space, the more low-level spells he could use. However, the second problem was more serious.
There were twenty-four main magic strings in the magic string space, and they were divided into six colors. Yellow represented earth magic, blue represented water magic, transparent represented wind magic, red represented fire magic, black represented dark magic, and white represented light magic.
These six colors represented the types of magic he could use. All of Salin's magic strings were translucent blue, without exception. This meant that he could only use water magic in the future. Even when the magic strings were completely formed, he could not sense any other elements.
Salin had lost the ability to use some Level 0 magic. Other than the unpopular magic of the six elements, he could not even use an invisible shield.
Salin thought of the words in the book: What you give, will exceed what you receive.
Was this the price? Salin climbed ashore, feeling as if all the energy in his body had been sucked out. He leaned on the side of the stream, drinking as much water as he could. Salin, who had endured hunger before, knew that after filling himself with water, his body could overdraw a bit of energy in a short period of time, allowing him to rush home.
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