dark witches rise

Chapter 176 This Isn't Bull Blood Potion at All!
"Master Vic, do you really want to do this?"

In the potion refining room, Mei Xi stood helplessly.

In the past, Roja stood at the front refining potions, and Maisie stood with a bottle waiting to be dispatched.

Now it's the other way around!

Maisie is on the main seat, and Roja is on the side assisting?
"Master Vic, I really can't do it!" Maisie said, shaking her head violently.

"Mei Xi, you have to believe in yourself, you will be fine. The potion of cow blood is only a primary potion, and it is easy to refine."

Roja pressed his hands on Meissie's shoulders, and said in a very gentle tone, "You have assisted me in refining the ox blood potion so many times, you should have memorized the process, right? And with my assistance, there is no problem. "

"But……"

Maisie was confused.

In fact, she really wanted to try it.

Her dream is to become a pharmacist. She has learned a lot about pharmacy over the years, and she is confident that her pharmacy foundation has been solidified. Now she is only one chance away from becoming a pharmacist. It's just a chance.

And as Roja said, the ox blood potion is quite easy to refine.

These days, she has been assisting Roja to refine the ox blood potion. Roja not only let her do it, but also explained to her the difficulties and principles of making the ox blood potion from the simple to the deep.

She has memorized the entire process completely, and she has fully understood the refining principle of the ox blood potion. She believes that if she operates it, she can complete the refining process with her eyes closed.

"Maisie, you can do it!"

"It doesn't matter if you fail, we still have so much material."

"It doesn't matter if you don't believe in yourself, you have to believe in me who believes in you!"

Under Roja's repeated encouragement, Maisie nodded.

"Don't blame me if you fail?" Mei Xi said so on the surface, but in fact, she felt that she would never fail at all.

Maisie stood in front of the prepared potion materials.

This is the first time in her life to refine medicine, she is very excited and very nervous.

After taking a few deep breaths, Maisie moved.

"Heat the blood of the Firehorn Bull. During the heating process, stir while heating..."

Maisie stirred gently with the stick in her hand.

Just as soon as she started, her heart panicked all of a sudden.

"This resistance is..."

"not good!"

"The strength is weak, and the stirring is slow."

"Once the heating is uneven, the cow's blood will be abolished, and this refining will fail."

"Since it was slow just now, let's speed up..."

"Wow!"

"What should I do? The cow's blood is splattered everywhere!"

"I, I... what should I do?"

Obviously all the procedures have been written down, and the theory is fully understood, but once the actual operation is started, let alone the successful refining of the cattle blood potion, even the first step of heating the cattle blood cannot be completed!
Tears welled up in Maisie's eyes, and she was about to cry.

At this time, Roja on the side gently held her hand.

"do not worry."

"Come on, breathe slowly, stir little by little, and draw circles like this."

Under Roja's guidance, Mei Xi finally heated the cow's blood successfully.

The next step is to continue to stir the cow's blood with one hand, and add bone coagulation powder to the cow's blood with the other hand.

"I've already mastered the secret of stirring. I've completely memorized the speed and strength of spreading the bone powder, and I can't make mistakes... Woohoo——"

Seeing the bone powder that was spread unevenly at all, Maisie panicked all of a sudden.

"It doesn't matter, it can still be saved. We just need to change the speed and range of stirring, and control the temperature well, so that the cow's blood and bone coagulation powder can be mixed evenly." Roja's gentle voice sounded at the right time.

……

After some frantic potion refining.

Maisie looked exhaustedly at the product she refined, a potion with many lumps of congealed substances in the liquid.

This cannot be called a potion at all!

Just a failed bottle!

Mei Xi was holding the first bottle of potion she refined, tears were about to flow out, "I really don't have the talent for potion, it's really shameless for someone like me to try to become a pharmacist in vain!"

Roja was holding the pen in his hand and writing something in the notebook. After he wrote tens of thousands of words at a speed of dozens of words per second, he stopped the pen and turned his head to look, and found that Maisie was actually crying. Zhang pretty face was full of tears.

"It's normal to fail in the first refinement. Which pharmacist didn't experience many failures when refining the potion? When I was refining the primary potion for the first time, I also failed many times."

"Is that right?"

"Otherwise, why do you think pharmacists are a money-burning industry?"

"It seems so."

"Here, next one."

"Ah? Master Vic, you still want me to refine it?"

"This time I modified the refining process and techniques, even if you are at your level, you should be able to refine it."

Mei Xi, unable to resist Roja's order, could only bite the bullet and continue refining.

After listening to Roja explain the new refining flow and precautions, Maisie started again.

"I have already written down all the things that need to be noticed in my mind. I just need my movements to match my brain during the refining process..."

failure!

"It's okay, Maisie, I trust you."

failure!

"Failure is the mother of success. Didn't you gain a lot of experience from this failure? This experience can definitely be used next time."

failure!

"It's almost there, next time you will be able to successfully refine the ox blood potion."

failure!

After failing again and again, Maisie was numb.

She gradually realized the fact that with her current strength, it is impossible to refine primary potions!
She thought that her foundation was already very solid, and she already had the ability to be comparable to a pharmacist's apprentice, just missing a chance.

Now think about how arrogant she was before!
In the past, she felt unhappy about Vic because she had a small problem with the processing of medicinal materials when she helped refine the medicine for the first time, so she didn't want her help anymore.

Obviously, as long as she is given another chance, it will definitely be possible.

Actually not at all!

Vik has already seen through the level of Maisie through that potion refining, which is a substandard level that even the support can't do!

The pharmacist's union specially trains pharmacists who understand all kinds of medicinal materials and are proficient in the processing methods of medicinal materials?
It's just a gimmick!

The pharmacy level of the pharmacy servant, not to mention the real pharmacist, even the pharmacy apprentice is far behind!
"Messy, come on, continue." Roja said.

"No need, Master Vic, I already have a deep understanding of my level." Messila shrugged her shoulders and said weakly.

"Come on, just for the last time."

"……Um."

After all, Roja is her master, even if she felt in her heart that it was impossible for her to succeed, but since Roja, the master, asked her to continue, she had no choice but to bite the bullet and continue.

Meissie lost her eyesight and her body moved mechanically.

Heating, stirring, pouring in auxiliary medicinal materials, filtering the medicinal liquid...

Step by step, Maisie felt no different from before.

She didn't hear Roja's guidance.

When refining before, Roja would always speak out to guide her, but now he doesn't say a word and is too quiet.

"Is it because you know I'm hopeless?"

"Haha, forget it, it's the last time anyway, let me quietly refine the last bottle of potion in my life."

This time the potion refining time passed so quickly.

An hour passed in a blink of an eye.

Holding the finished product she refined, she looked at the liquid with many fine suspended substances in the bottle.

Maisie's face changed slightly.

"Ok?"

This bottle of ox blood potion that she refined is incomparable to the one that Roja refined. The quality and appearance are quite different.

but--

Bull blood potion?

Although the quality is very poor, it belongs to the most garbage kind.

But there is no doubt that it is a real ox blood potion, a bottle of primary potion that has passed the test!
"Successful?"

Maisie was dumbfounded.

She was almost dumbfounded.

"I just said you can do it." Roja patted Maisie on the shoulder and smiled.

Apart from Messi's own hard work and progress, the more important reason for success is Roja's continuous improvement and optimization of refining methods and steps.

In the end, even a layman like Mei Xi could refine primary potions with a foolish refining method.

But Maisie doesn't need to know these things.

There is only one thing Maisie needs to know - she has successfully refined a bottle of primary potion!

"Woo! Whoo! Whoo!—"

"I succeeded!"

"I have refined the potion!"

"Woooooo-"

The overjoyed Maisie wept loudly regardless of her image.

While handing the toilet paper to Maisie, Roja thought, "The optimization of the method and steps of the bull blood medicine refining process has reached an extreme. If you want to continue to make great progress, you can only try to change the formula."

Dozens of modification plans for the prescription emerged in Roja's mind.

at night.

She looked at Maisie who had changed into a brand new set of maid uniforms that she hadn't seen before, and another style.

"How many different styles of maid uniforms do you have?" Roja said speechlessly.

"Master Vic, don't you like maid costumes?" Maisie asked anxiously, clutching the corner of her clothes nervously.

"No, I'm just wondering if you will change into a different maid costume every night for the next month or so."

"I will work hard!"

"You... Forget it, as long as you are happy."

Looking at Mai Xi who was still calling his name in her deep sleep even though she had passed out from exhaustion.

After Roja pinched her red and tender cheeks, she got up, changed her clothes, walked out of the room, left the Cub House, and walked on the quiet and dangerous night streets of Scarborough Fair.

……

Today's mission building is extremely lively.

Most of the pharmacists in the Cub House gather here.

While discussing in low voices, they frequently looked towards the door.

It has been a month since Roja took over the task of a thousand bottles of ox blood medicine, and today is the task handover date.

The pharmacists of the Young Lions Academy didn't pay much attention to this matter, and it has been less than a month since the convoy to Green City, the headquarters of the Pharmacists Union, departed.

They have so much to do and not so much time to mind other people's chores.

Even if this person is the number one Vic Cyril in the outer court.

And if you think about it with your brain, you know that the task of a thousand bottles of ox blood potion a month is impossible to complete!
Why waste precious time paying attention when the outcome is already known?
However, I don't know when, a gossip spread.

Vic really refined a thousand bottles of ox blood potion!
How is such a thing possible?

Some people are out of curiosity, some people have the mentality of watching the excitement, and some people simply want to expose Roja's deception.

Different people gathered in the mission building with different mentalities.

Hundreds of people looked forward to Roja's arrival.

While waiting for Roja, they chattered and chatted.

"Do you think this is true?"

"It's fine for ordinary people to believe it, but as a pharmacist, you also believe it?"

"I think these days, he spends at least one or two hours in the library every day, and at most three to five hours, and often leaves the Cub House to go to the urban area. It doesn't look like he is concentrating on refining the ox blood potion."

"He has the same blood as Ms. Tina, and with Ms. Tina's protection, even if he fails, he will not be kicked out of the Cub Academy. Smart people will not waste time on an impossible task. "

"That's right, as a genius of the herbal medicine school, how could Vic waste his time on the mere primary potion, cattle blood potion, at the critical moment when he was about to go to Green City?"

"Although he won't be expelled from the Cub House, if he fails, it will have a great impact on his future, right?"

"Do you think it is possible for him to buy the finished ox blood potion outside and use it as his own refining?"

"Is he stupid? If he dares to do this, it will not be as simple as being expelled from the Cub House, but he will also be expelled from the Pharmacist Union, and his life will be ruined!"

"Since you all feel that it is impossible for him to complete the task, why are you still standing here?"

"Well... let's just watch the excitement."

Tick ​​tock.

The wall clock in the mission building turned slowly, and the time passed by every minute and every second.

When the time was approaching at noon, everyone was getting impatient, and when they were about to leave, a sharp-eyed person suddenly pointed into the distance and screamed.

"he came!"

"Is it finally here?"

"I've been waiting for so long, if you don't give me some surprises, I'll make him look good!"

People looked in the direction Roja was coming from.

I saw Roja and her maid Maisie walking in front of them. Behind the two of them, a groom pulled a carriage, and there were small boxes in the carriage.

The crowd suddenly went into an uproar.

"What is the box in the carriage?"

"Could it be really refined?"

"God, tell me it's not true!"

If Roja didn't complete the mission, why did he come to the mission building with a carriage full of boxes?
Many of the people present were pharmacists, and they knew the size of a bottle of cattle blood medicine and how many bottles of cattle blood medicine could be contained in a box.

So they could conclude with just a little analysis that the number and size of the boxes on the carriage could just hold a thousand bottles of ox blood potion!

Their eyes focused on Roja, but Roja's face was calm, neither sad nor happy, and there was no useful information at all.

However, Maisie, who was half a step behind and walked beside Roja, couldn't help but burst out laughing, revealing two small pointed canine teeth.

From the box on the carriage and the smile on Maid Meissie's face, everyone has already guessed the answer.

The instigator, Heidi, stood among the crowd, watching Roja approaching with clenched fists, eyes full of hatred.

"Brother Heidi, he must have really succeeded, right?" said the younger brother in disbelief.

"Even if he is a senior pharmacist of the beast school, he can't succeed!" Heidi shook his head and said.

"But he..."

"Hmph, there must be a scam! Maybe he really bought medicine from outside to refine it himself! He will definitely show his feet later!"

Amidst the heated discussions among the crowd, Roja came to the mission building.

As soon as Roja stopped, an old man who looked about six or seventy years old came out with the support of the counter lady and came to Roja.

—Pharmacist Huto Dilan.

Generally, after the pharmacists complete the medicine tasks and hand in the refined medicines, the counter lady will transfer them to the backstage and hand them over to the pharmacists for inspection.

This process can be as short as half an hour and as long as three to five days.

It is extremely rare for a pharmacist to come out to greet her in person.

It can only be said that Roja's refinement of a thousand bottles of ox blood potion a month did cause a great sensation, even the pharmacist was alarmed.

"Have you completed the task?" Elder Huto, the pharmacist, asked with narrowed eyes.

"Yes." Roja nodded.

"A thousand bottles of ox blood potion?"

"There are [-] more bottles, and I'll sell them to the pharmacist union by the way."

"You're not kidding, are you?"

"Hey, don't you accept the extra potions? When did the rules change?"

Seeing Roja with a surprised expression, the pharmacist Huto stared at Roja for a long time.

After watching for nearly 1 minute, I didn't see any flaws.

"Can we test medicine here?" Huto, the pharmacist, asked.

"no problem."

Roja decisively opened one of the boxes and looked at the bottles of ox blood medicine in the box, and the people around took a deep breath.

Was it really refined?
Even Hu Tuo, a pharmacist who lived to be 70 years old and had seen many big scenes, was in a daze for a long time.

After recovering, he randomly took out a bottle of ox blood medicine from the box and looked at it carefully.

"Well, there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with the color."

He shook the potion bottle slightly, watching the number of bubbles coming out of the bottle, his eyebrows frowned slightly.

"Are there more bubbles?"

After observing for a while, the pharmacist Huto opened the bottle cap, and a gust of hot air gushed out of the bottle and hit his face.

His brow furrowed even more.

Then he brought his nostrils to the mouth of the bottle and took a slight breath.

The cow's blood potion, which should only have a faint medicinal scent, could smell a pungent smell of cow's blood.

So far, pharmacist Huto has been 100% able to make a decision.

He looked at Roja expressionlessly, and said word by word:

"This is not bull blood flourishing at all!"

(End of this chapter)