Planting an immortal tree in the wizarding world

Chapter 11 Basic Meditation Potions
Pharmaceutics (Introduction 63%)

Two weeks passed in the blink of an eye. At the pace of the professor's three lectures a week, Ronan had already attended six lectures.

He felt he needed to find a prescription to practice with.

So he went to the Wild Deer Bar, found Paul, and asked him to get him a prescription and purchase a set of medicine-making equipment.

Because he planned to make money by brewing potions, he asked Paul to get him a recipe for a basic meditation potion.

The basic meditation potion is for wizard apprentices.

After taking it, your progress in meditation will be accelerated.

"Basic meditation potion?"

Paul was drinking fruit wine, his eyes a little hazy, when he heard this, his eyes immediately lit up:

"If you can refine a basic meditation potion, I can help you sell the extra portion."

“Okay.” Ronan nodded, thinking to himself that Paul was smart enough to have thought of this even without being told.

……

Upon realizing the business opportunity, Paul became incredibly enthusiastic, purchasing prescriptions, alchemy equipment, and potion ingredients much faster than usual.

Soon, Paul delivered a parchment containing the recipe for a basic meditation potion, a set of alchemy equipment packed in a wooden box and stuffed with hay, and three boxes of potion ingredients to Ronan's attic.

After exchanging a few words with Paul and sending him away, Ronan began concocting the medicine.

He first placed the parchment containing the recipe for the basic meditation potion on the flame of a candle and burned it.

He had only glanced at it twice, yet he had memorized the entire recipe and could write it down flawlessly at any time.

Then, he opened the wooden box and took out the medicine-making equipment one by one.

A balance scale, a black crucible, a long-handled bronze spoon, a grinding mortar, a pestle, a small bellows...

Ronan laid out the equipment on a table.

Then, he opened the box containing the potion ingredients.

To refine a basic meditation potion, you need 5 grams of Illusionary Lizard Dragon Blood Crystal, 5 grams of Fish Weirwood Root, 8 grams of Refreshing Grass, and 3 petals of Mind Flower.

Ronan didn't even need a balance scale; he directly used the Primordial Chaos to control the weight error of each potion ingredient to within 0.001 grams.

He piled several stones on the table.

Place a small iron basin on the rock.

After pouring in charcoal, sprinkle in sawdust to fill the gaps between the charcoal pieces.

An iron rack is placed on top of the iron basin.

Place the crucible on the shelf and pour in purified water.

He picked up the flint and steel, and after striking them a few times, a spark flew out from where the flint and steel collided and jumped into the iron basin containing the charcoal.

The spark touched the sawdust and quickly turned into a ball of fire that spread throughout the iron basin.

Before long, the charcoal was burning red-hot.

A wave of heat spread through the room.

Ronan then began grinding the potion ingredients.

He repeatedly struck the grinding bowl with a stone pestle, the dull thud echoing in the room.

After each batch was ground, he poured it into a crucible.

Before long, all the magic potion powders of various colors were put into the crucible.

When mixed together, they present a strange dark green color.

After stirring the crucible five times with a long-handled spoon, Ronan picked up the small manual bellows.

He gripped the two handles of the bellows with both hands, and slowly pressed down on the air vents of the bellows towards the charcoal fire.

He gave Hongmeng instructions to analyze the temperature and changes of the potion.

Sometimes a bellows was used to regulate the temperature, and sometimes a long-handled spoon was used to stir the medicine.

About half an hour later, Ronan had successfully concocted the basic meditation potion.

The finished potion is a pale green liquid with a slight sheen.

He removed the shelf from the small brazier.

After the potion cooled slightly, the stoppers on each bottle were opened, funnels were inserted, and the potion was poured into them. The three bottles of basic meditation potion were now complete.

Ronan analyzed the potion's efficacy using Hongmeng and found no issues.

Ronan summoned Hongmeng and glanced at his stats.

Beginner Meditation Potion (35% for beginners)

With higher proficiency, he can concoct multiple potions simultaneously, and at a faster pace.

'Keep refining the medicine!'

After Ronan placed the three bottles of basic meditation potion, he moved the still-burning brazier back to its stand and continued repeating the previous steps.

……

The following day, Ronan summoned Paul and asked him to collect the twenty bottles of basic meditation potion.

"One day..."

Paul stared at the twenty bottles of basic meditation potions neatly arranged on the table, hardly believing his eyes.

He opened the bottles of basic meditation potions, looked at them, and asked with some doubt, "Can all of these potions be used?"

He noticed that the basic meditation potion looked no different from ordinary potions.

However, he could not guarantee its effectiveness.

After all, this was something a beginner in pharmacy could make in just one day.

“Ronan, I’ll buy these twenty bottles with my own money first,” Paul said.

"I used it myself and found no problems. You can continue refining it after that."

After saying that, he placed the twenty bottles of basic meditation potion in a wooden box filled with hay and took them away.

……

Five days later, Paul visited Ronan again.

This time, he brought even more potion ingredients.

"Ronan, you're a true genius at alchemy!" Paul exclaimed.
"The twenty bottles of basic meditation potions you concocted are even more effective than those made by the third-level wizard apprentices at the academy!"

Ronan had previously learned from Paul that basic meditation potions were relatively easy to make, and the profits were not high, so formal wizards and above disdained to make them.

Therefore, the basic meditation potions supplied in the academy are all brewed by third-level wizard apprentices.

“But you can’t refine them this well in the future!” Paul continued:

"If the potions we sell are more effective than those made by those third-level wizard apprentices, then there will be no market for their basic meditation potions."

"This will affect their interests!"

"They are all from wizarding families, while I am just a fallen nobleman. I can't possibly defeat them!"

"From now on, you can be a little careless in the refining process, reduce the potency, and I will lower the price of the potion again, specifically selling it to those in the academy who have less money and could not afford the basic meditation potion before."

“Okay,” Ronan agreed.

From then on, Ronan devoted himself to crafting basic meditation potions.

Paul was in charge of all the sales of the medicine.

Ronan heard from Paul that he had recruited a few followers at the college and was helping them sell the potion.

Ronan delivered five shipments to Paul, totaling one hundred bottles.

Each bottle yields a profit of one valant silver coin.

Based on the current exchange rate of 1:40 for the gold and silver valant coins.

In other words, he earned two Valant coins by selling the potion.

'Buying a storage ring costs three thousand gold coins... After all, this beginner meditation potion is something even a wizard apprentice can brew, so earning gold coin profits is just slow...'

Ronan thought to himself, if that's the case, who knows when he'll earn three thousand gold coins.

Just as I was thinking, a sudden inspiration struck me.

'Who said this potion is only sold in academies? There's more than one wizarding academy in the Kingdom of Valant, and there are other wild wizarding apprentices practicing independently. Why not sell it to them?'

With that thought in mind, Ronan went out to discuss the matter with Paul.

(End of this chapter)