Wizard: Starting With Synthesized Gems-Chapter 167: Taking Beholder Potion

After purchasing the Beholder Potion and Fission Potion, Locke made another trip to Lijin Secret Language, finding Yuri Burns and spending three hundred magic stones to rent a Differential Magic Mirror.
The Differential Magic Mirror was equipment typically used by official breeders.
It was mainly used to assist with Mana Resonance Cultivation Method and Grafting Cultivation Method.
In the Differential Magic Mirror, what appeared was not the magical plant's reflection in the mirror, but the internal mana composition structure and plant essence of the magical plant.
Combined with a Focus Monocle, official breeders could use the Mana Resonance Cultivation Method to perform more precise directional mutation cultivation.
Locke rented it mainly to accelerate the deciphering of magical plant curses and to speed up cultivation of Jade Iris Lichen variants.
Using this equipment could help him more quickly create more variant substrates of Jade Iris Lichen, thus better breaking the Blood Curse Court's curse.
At the same time, he also planned to prepare a data on Jade Iris to participate in the White Wizard Association's breeder competition finals using the Jade Iris Lichen.
However, before participating in the finals, Locke felt he should first use the Jade Iris Lichen to create a Bear Spirit Bile Detoxification Potion to verify this synthetic magical plant's effectiveness enhancement for that potion, writing up experimental data for this effectiveness improvement into a .
Then he would synthesize the potion again, find special synthesis formulas, and then publish new potions.
Going through this cycle, who knew how many articles he could publish from it.
Even just doing data compilation work, he estimated he could publish several B-level articles.
Inside the Lijin Secret Language shop, Manager Yuri looked somewhat surprised at Locke's gray dwarf servant carrying the Differential Magic Mirror onto the carriage.
She said softly to Locke, "Dear Locke, it looks like you're going to be quite busy recently. The Differential Magic Mirror is relatively advanced breeding equipment, only used when conducting very precise breeding activities."
"Ordinary breeders don't need Differential Magic Mirrors at all."
Locke nodded slightly, "I do indeed have a difficult problem recently that requires its use."
Manager Yuri laughed softly, "If even you find it difficult, then it must indeed be quite complex."
Locke nodded. The magical plant curse was a curse carefully designed by wizard seeds from the Blood Curse Court. Its profound and mysterious nature would indeed leave most first-class wizard apprentices in Lilith’s Cottage helpless.
Even within the Blood Curse Court's curse technique research institute, among apprentice-level curses, the magical plant curse system was probably among the very best.
Over the past month, another patient afflicted with a magical plant curse had been added to his care.
Moreover, because Lilith’s Cottage currently lacked interdisciplinary talent between the potion studies and breeder fields among wizard seeds, so far no wizard apprentices had come to the Healing Hand Treatment Center to solve this problem.
Since it involved the breeding field, Anglon simply pretended to know nothing and hadn't visited his so-called workshop at the treatment center once in an entire month.
He was afraid Locke, Andrew, and Axi would push the two patients in their care onto him.
However, unlike Ruxin's situation, because the cursed individuals this time were two first-class wizard apprentices, although their curses couldn't be lifted, the problem wasn't too serious.
Both had already left the treatment center.
As long as they took one bottle of Minor Viridian Potion monthly for curse cleansing, nothing would happen to them. It was just that the curse wasn't completely eradicated, so their strength was greatly reduced and they had to remain constantly vigilant.
Therefore, this magical plant curse was far less dangerous than Hussein's blood curse incident, which was also why the four wizard seeds in the academy's potion studies field weren't being urged by the academy to solve this curse.
After buying everything he needed in Chimera Market, Locke had his servants deliver the items to his residence.
That evening, in his study at home, Locke opened a bottle of Beholder Potion in his bedroom. He saw an eyeball floating in transparent liquid within the bottle.
The eyeball in the liquid seemed to still be alive, with nerves around the eyeball dancing and twitching.
The moment Locke opened the Beholder Potion bottle, the eyeball in the transparent liquid seemed to instinctively roll upward.
Locke suppressed his nausea and drank the potion in one gulp, while simultaneously swallowing the eyeball whole without chewing.
"This taste is absolutely disgusting."
"But to increase my meditation efficiency, there's no other choice."
Locke felt his stomach churning. The Beholder Potion began taking effect within a minute of drinking it. The world in his eyes started becoming colorful and psychedelic.
String after string of eyeballs appeared before him.
At the same time, his mental power seemed affected by the potion, becoming abnormally sensitive. The abyssal energy toxicity in the potion mixed with his mental power, making his mental power abnormally sensitive yet abnormally euphoric.
This was a unique emotion, mixing discomfort with pleasure.
Everything before his eyes seemed to have grown an eye.
Locke gathered his spirits, concentrated all his attention, and immediately took a bottle of Energy Potion and a bottle of Stardust Tears Potion, then lit Four Seasons Fruit Core Incense in the brazier before him.
He entered a meditative state. This time he felt his perception had become abnormally acute. The Natural Plane that originally required distant gazing suddenly became very close to him.
The planar power he obtained from the Natural Plane increased by at least double.
The only problem was that the distant shadow of the Natural Plane in the void seemed to have grown a green eye in his current vision, and as time passed, a red eye was slowly growing within the green eye.
'This potion increased my original meditation efficiency by at least double!' Locke thought in amazement. 'It's just that the drug effect is really too intense.'
'I feel like my consciousness is about to split apart. Everything before my eyes is full of eyeballs, and those eyeballs seem to be trying to communicate with me. No, no, those are all hallucinations. The side effects of this Beholder Potion are indeed enormous.'
'My train of thought is being led astray.'
Locke noticed that the mana obtained from meditating while taking Beholder Potion would be mixed with many impurities, and the impurities seemed to contain abyssal energy.
However, he had a gem that could filter these mana impurities, and the Deep Purple Jade that could purify potion toxicity.
So after going through this cycle, these side effects disappeared completely.
The only problem was the hallucinations and mental confusion created by the Beholder Potion, side effects that he seemed to have to endure himself.
"If I could use Beholder Potion daily, I could probably reach 600 mental power within three years," Locke thought. "Of course, that's impossible."
"Even without the side effects of mana impurities and potion toxicity, just the side effects of Beholder Potion on my thinking would make it impossible to take it too frequently."
"But I can take it more frequently than the safe dosage of once every three months for ordinary first-class wizard apprentices. About five bottles per month should work, which could shorten the time to reach 600 mana to about two years."
"This way, in four years I could probably reach 600 mental power."
In four years, Locke would only be 22 years old.
Still very promising but this still wasn't enough. He could actually try to accelerate further. Four years to reach 600 mental power was still too slow.
To reach 800 mental power, the threshold for attempting to become an official wizard, who knew how many more years that would take.
Locke looked anxiously at the second type of potion in his hand, the Fission Potion. He pondered for a moment, "I should wait. I haven't recovered from the side effects of the Beholder Potion yet."
"I'd better listen to advice and first find a magical creature to conduct safe dosage testing before taking this Fission Potion."
"I don't know exactly how strong the physical constitution required for Fission Potion needs to be."
"If even after activating the Orcni Ancient Bear's bloodline to enhance my defense, my physical constitution still isn't sufficient for taking Fission Potion, that would be troublesome."