Wizard: Starting With Synthesized Gems-Chapter 107: Major Side Effect Verification Period

Witch Sophia looked up at Locke in surprise, furrowed her brow, then lowered her head to gently sniff the ointment. About half a minute passed.
Witch Sophia raised her head, furrowed her brow, then raised her eyebrows, showing a slightly comical expression. "Lucky?"
"Locke, you really have amazing intuition." As a First Circle potion master, after hearing Locke explain his key thought process, Witch Sophia immediately understood what Locke had done. "Iron fern spores have special natural mana structure components inside, similar to the cantrip model of the Calming Technique from the Enchantment School, and the result of combining the Calming Technique with Focus Ointment's effects..."
"Might have memory enhancement effects in some aspects." As a First Circle potion master, Witch Sophia quickly deduced the effects of Memory Ointment based on the existing medicinal properties. "Locke, I'm quite lucky to have a student like you."
Witch Sophia said somewhat worriedly, "It's just that after teaching you, when I teach other students, I'm afraid my heart will be full of disappointment and I'll never be able to generate enthusiasm again."
"A student like you is rare and precious."
Witch Sophia said, "It seems your talent in potion studies is also very good. You have very keen intuition regarding potion formulas."
"Without your reminder, I wouldn't have noticed that the Calming Technique from iron fern spores could have applications in memory enhancement." Witch Sophia began thinking deeply. "You've actually inspired me."
"Perhaps I could also formulate a new memory-related potion, but not recently, I'm too busy. I'll talk about it after going to the Star Domain Sea. The Star Domain Sea is a medium-high magic environment where magical resources will be more abundant."
Witch Sophia looked at Locke and said, "But now there's a problem. Even though I can roughly guess your potion's effects and can tell from experience that it's genuinely effective."
"Those ordinary wizards are different from me, and you still can't pass the academy's review this way."
Locke asked for guidance, "Then teacher, what should I do now?"
Witch Sophia smiled. "You need to find test subjects. First conduct experiments on animals, then find ordinary people to experiment on, and then find wizard apprentices to experiment on."
"Going through this whole process takes at least one or two years, and that's assuming your ointment's effects are genuinely effective and has no major side effects."
"After all, I'm also not certain whether your ointment has side effects. If there are significant side effects and it enters the [Major Side Effect Verification Period], it could drag on for four or five years."
"I mean, after five years it would be prohibited from sale by the White Wizard Association and could only be used for research."
Locke frowned, feeling this matter was very troublesome.
Indeed, completing this process would take at least a year, and the key issue was that he was currently short on money in the near term.
He couldn't wait that long.
No wonder they said potion studies was a money-burning profession. This was indeed money-burning.
He knew that Memory Ointment had no side effects, but others didn't know.
Because he could see the attributes while others couldn't, he needed to go through an experimental process to gain the trust of the White Wizard Association, academy upper echelons, and others.
But this process was overly complex.
Witch Sophia hesitated for a moment and said, "Actually, I estimate your ointment won't have any side effects, because the main part is still Focus Ointment, just with some process changes added, and iron fern spores are relatively safe things."
"For this situation, I suggest you can appropriately skip some procedures." Witch Sophia sighed, "This is also unavoidable."
"If we strictly followed the White Wizard Association's procedures, we potion masters would all starve to death. Developing a new potion and waiting for verification takes several years, but the window for advancing to formal wizard is only about ten years total."
"By the time we enjoy the dividends of developing new potion formulas, we would have missed the optimal age window for advancing to formal wizard."
Witch Sophia said, "So regulations are one thing, but we have our own unwritten rules. Generally, when developing relatively safe potions that don't involve highly toxic potion materials and existing formulas are just improvements on current potion formulas, some procedures can be appropriately skipped."
Witch Sophia raised her right index finger and said, "You can conduct animal experiments and human experiments simultaneously."
"When both experiments have basically gone through one-third and it's basically confirmed there are indeed no problems, you can directly proceed with wizard apprentice experiments."
"All three are basically conducted simultaneously, which can shorten the time to about four or five months. If you're really certain there are absolutely no problems... you can even compress the time further. Anyway, you just need to be able to produce three s in the end."
"Compressing the time to three months is also no problem."
"The White Wizard Association and academy upper echelons also just turn a blind eye to this, since regulations are for ideal situations, while reality involves various conflicts of interest." Witch Sophia said, "As long as it's not excessive, the academy generally won't investigate deeply."
"Of course, those potion master assistants who knowingly have major flaws in their potions but conceal and don't them, refuse to enter the [Major Side Effect Verification Period], yet still want to directly use wizard apprentices as test subjects, that's another matter entirely."
Hearing this, Locke immediately thought of first-class wizard apprentice Anglon.
That guy's mental enhancement potion could no longer be said to have side effects, it could only be said that the side effects might be even greater than the potion's effects.
Yet that guy was still going around looking for wizard apprentices, deceiving others into signing contracts to become his experimental materials.
Witch Sophia gave Locke a slight warning, "There are very few formal wizards in the academy who will shelter their outstanding students to conduct very radical potion experiments, even ignoring major side effects of the potions themselves."
"Even if something happens, they'll rely on their influence to suppress such matters."
"But I'm not that kind of person. Locke, I hope you won't lose yourself in power. You must learn to revere power."
Witch Sophia instructed, "The arrogant people I've seen all didn't end well, no matter how proud they are now."
Locke nodded seriously. "Don't worry, teacher. I will definitely not tarnish your reputation."
Witch Sophia smiled with satisfaction. "It seems you really need to establish your own independent pharmaceutical laboratory, otherwise you're not qualified to enter the potion formula review process."
"I can lend you all three of my students." A flash of fatigue crossed Witch Sophia's face. "Anyway, I haven't had time to teach them recently."
"The academy has assigned me quite a few new tasks recently." Witch Sophia said, "So you just need to find a second-class wizard apprentice yourself."
Locke nodded, and many second-class wizard apprentices' names quickly flashed through his mind. At the same time, he also thought about who he should find to do experiments.
First, since he could be completely certain his ointment had no problems, he could directly use third-class wizard apprentices for experiments. The best subject would be Pierre, who had a special constitution.
Being a test subject for new formula potions was a huge risk for others, but for him, it was basically like getting free benefits, being able to use his Memory Ointment for free and even get magic stones he paid.
If it weren't for dealing with the academy and White Wizard Association, and obtaining experimental data that could convince others, Locke wouldn't want to do such a loss-making thing.
So for such a good thing, he might as well bring along his good brother Pierre.
He happened to have a special constitution with low magic resistance. Experimental data using him would be most convincing.
If even a wizard seedling with low magic resistance constitution who was very prone to allergies used it for three months without any problems, then no one could say anything.
Witch Sophia gave Locke a document, which was information about the Healing Hand Treatment Center. Locke took the document and asked puzzledly, "This is?"
Witch Sophia said tiredly, "The front-line battle situation is intense, and the academy has recently had many patients."
"Therefore they assigned me many treatment tasks. Other formal wizards have large numbers of wizard apprentices to help, but I don't, so this has consumed a lot of my energy."
"Plus I also have to participate in the Star Domain Sea teaching position assessment at the same time, which makes it very difficult for me. The academy upper echelons probably also enjoy seeing me fail the teaching assessment and stay in the academy to teach." Witch Sophia said, "So I want to ask for your help."
"Originally I didn't have this plan, but after seeing your talent in potion studies, I just changed my mind. Adding more practical experience will also be very helpful for your future development in potion studies."
Witch Sophia looked at Locke with smiling eyes.
Locke nodded solemnly. "Good, teacher. This is what I should do."
"You should have asked me to help you long ago."
"This way you can focus on participating in the Star Domain Sea teaching position assessment."
Witch Sophia was stunned for a moment, then smiled, "Locke, thank you for trusting me so much."