Wizard: Starting With Synthesized Gems-Chapter 141: Pierre's Suggestion

Locke comforted Pierre and Lorne with a few words, warning them not to casually take on such missions in the future, then hurriedly left with the sealed vampire Howard.
Pierre and Lorne finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Before leaving, Locke had specifically asked second-class wizard apprentice Gabby to return with the two of them.
Watching Locke's departing figure, Lorne sighed, "Thank goodness we have a friend like Locke, otherwise we'd be dead this time. I should have known better than to take that mission, this money isn't easy to earn."
Pierre was also frightened in retrospect. Just thinking about the curse from earlier made his heart race. "Yeah. I'm not going out anymore."
"I'll just stick with Locke's pharmaceutical laboratory. One hundred magic stones per month is already enough to cover the magical resources I need."
Pierre looked ashamed. "I was too greedy, nearly getting myself killed for more magical resources."
Lorne looked at him enviously. "You're still lucky, having a special constitution that lets you earn so much money so easily."
"Not like me..."
Pierre reminded him, "How am I lucky? It's because we're friends with Locke that I can find a relatively safe place to be an experimental subject and receive Memory Ointment for free every month. When Locke's Memory Ointment goes to market, believe me, it'll be an expensive magical resource we won't be able to afford!"
Pierre's eyes flickered, he was completely clear-headed now. "Memory Ointment is fundamentally meant for second-class wizard apprentices and above."
"This stuff has virtually no side effects."
"If Locke hadn't happened to live with us during his third-class wizard apprentice period, how could I possibly have gotten such a good opportunity?"
"Such good opportunities must have been reserved by those with connections long ago." Pierre said, "I heard from Senior Terry that Locke is even tutoring a formal wizard's son recently."
"The current Locke is different from before. His social relationships are much more complex now, we can never go back to how things were."
Pierre advised Lorne, "Lorne, I'm a local from the southeastern quadrant, so I understand this aspect better than you."
"That Locke could live with us during his wizard seed period was our luck. So I suggest you make good use of this luck, you could also be an experimental subject for him."
Lorne looked stunned.
Pierre seemed to take it for granted, saying, "I've long heard that pharmaceutical laboratories have enormous demand for experimental subjects. In the future, Locke will continue recruiting third-class wizard apprentices for experimental data."
"I think since we have this relationship, we should use it to become experimental subjects for Locke. As you saw today, it's much safer than taking missions outside."
"And the earning efficiency is fast too."
Lorne felt something was strange about this, showing a puzzled expression. "Um... what you're saying seems right. It's just I never thought my wizard path would take such an odd direction."
Pierre spread his hands and laughed, "Look, I'm about to become a second-class wizard apprentice soon. If you don't hurry up, among the three of us, you'll be the only third-class wizard apprentice left."
"We all enrolled together and took our first public class together."
Pierre continued, "Senior Terry said that after completing three months of experimental data on me, their personal pharmaceutical laboratory will also conduct a long-term tracking experiment using Memory Ointment."
"About a year in duration."
"I suggest you seize the opportunity to sign up."
After thinking for a moment, Lorne's expression showed struggle, hesitation, and deep thought, before he nodded seriously. "Pierre, I think you're right."
Gabby, who had listened to their entire conversation, glanced at the two who were enthusiastically planning to use connections to sign up as experimental subjects, feeling somewhat speechless.
But Gabby thought, 'Senior Locke already has his own personal pharmaceutical laboratory? And he's developing new potion formulas too?'
'That's so fast.'
'Memory Ointment... from what these two third-class wizard apprentices are saying, it seems very effective and would be enormously helpful to me, with minimal side effects.'
'I'm tempted too.'
'I wonder when Senior Locke will sell it publicly, listing it for sale in the magic shops at Chimera Trading Market. I wonder how long I'll have to wait.'
Shapeshifters needed powerful memory and high compatibility with ether elements (shape elements).
The reason they needed such high memory capacity was that shapeshifters needed to understand and analyze a magical creature before they could transform themselves into that magical creature.
Therefore, shapeshifters' demand for memory far exceeded other categories of wizard apprentices.
There had been shapeshifter learners who, because they misremembered a magical creature's anatomical structure, experienced magical backlash and were left with permanent deformities.
This was just one of many magical backlashes that could occur to shapeshifters.
So hearing Lorne and Pierre discuss that Locke had actually developed a rare potion that could enhance memory, even Gabby was moved.
Gabby glanced at the two, feeling somewhat strange. 'Actually, there's another way to use the Memory Ointment they're talking about early, I could also sign up to be an experimental subject.'
'But generally, pharmaceutical laboratories only recruit third-class wizard apprentices as experimental subjects. I'm already a second-class wizard apprentice. Even if I wanted to apply, I'd probably be rejected.'
'Especially for such an already mature potion.'
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In the laboratory within Locke's three-room suite, inside the alchemy cottage, this simple laboratory had some basic experimental equipment, including a set of [Restraint Cages] manufactured by the Enchantment School.
These were the cages for confining magical creatures and slaves, Witch Sophia's magical creature breeding room and the slave inn had many such cages.
The magical power of creatures imprisoned within would be maximally suppressed.
Howard, severely wounded and purified by Minor Viridian Potion, was imprisoned within and naturally had no possibility of escape.
Such restraint cages could even confine powerful high-level magical creatures like dryads.
Locke used the simple alchemical experimental equipment in the laboratory, such as illumination lamps enchanted with lighting spells, to begin testing Howard.
Due to his undead body, Howard had already recovered from some injuries, especially his throat wound had healed considerably.
Howard in the restraint cage began continuous screaming. This black wizard gripped the iron bars and started cursing Locke incessantly.
He cursed from Locke himself to Locke's parents and ancestors but before long, he began begging for mercy, crying and claiming he was also forced to become a black wizard. Though he had killed many people, he pleaded for a second chance to reform.
Soon after, seeing that Locke continued ignoring him, Howard revealed his true nature, saying that when he escaped, he would personally snap Locke's neck.
Locke ignored him throughout, simply using different basic alchemical experimental equipment to conduct various tests on him.
This equipment was all basic laboratory fixtures, items the academy had included when allocating this laboratory to him.
It was considered a first-class wizard apprentice benefit. The individual items weren't expensive, but there were many miscellaneous pieces of common laboratory equipment.
After a series of tests, Locke produced a test .