A Powerful Alchemist

The leaves of the plant are mostly about the size of a baby's palm, and are long and green.

Without grinding, only half of the medicinal properties can be released.

Therefore, how to grind is a matter of experience that requires practice for other alchemists.

As for Lou Le, all he needed to do was watch the other half of the movement path change from illusory to bold.

She used a mortar and pestle method, repeatedly pounding the Life Leaf up and down with a stone hammer. The advantage of this method is that it prevents the broken pieces of Life Leaf from getting into the mortar and surrounding area.

It will also not leave behind stone powder.

The only downside is that it's impossible to determine whether the drug's effects have been fully released.

Therefore, other alchemists in this world use the grinding method, grinding the stone with a stone hammer in a mortar.

The advantages and disadvantages of this method are exactly the opposite of those of mortar and pestle.

You can easily tell whether the medicinal properties of the herbs have been fully released, because they have been ground into small pieces and the juice has turned the mortar green.

The downside is that some medicinal materials will be lost, the mortar and pestle are not easy to clean, and the grinding with the stone hammer and mortar will cause stone powder to flake off and mix into the medicinal materials.

The four leaves of life form a group, and the grinding is divided into two groups.

This is the alchemist's rule: all medicinal materials must be grouped into sets of four, because the world is composed of the four basic elements: earth, water, fire, and wind.

Using an iron spoon, the medicinal herbs were scooped out of the stone mortar and poured into a crucible.

After stirring, push the potion bottle to ignite the sparks of the healing potion, then increase the flame. With a bang, a mushroom cloud rises slowly.

The remaining pink potion could fill three bottles of healing potion, so Lou Le took several glass bottles and stuffed them all in.

These glass bottles were also sponsored by Dwight, and were given away for free.

The monk sponsored the materials and bottles, and even bought the potions at market price. It seemed like a huge loss, but in reality, he wasn't losing money at all.

Alchemists are rare, and those who can consistently produce alchemists are even rarer.

Alchemists who are willing to keep making potions for you are even rarer.

No amount of money can buy a potion with special effects.

Especially healing potions, which are essentially like carrying a mini-divine spell with you. Whether you're an adventurer, a merchant, or even a commoner, no one would refuse such a resource.

The only limitation for them is that there aren't many treatment drugs available on the market.

However, Lou Le will not let Dwight sponsor the next time; the first batch of goods was given out in a personal and friendly manner.

If we ask the other party for sponsorship again, they will likely feel resentful and indignant.

Moreover, Lou Le himself needed to acquire Life Leaf to conceal the source of the treatment drugs he had withheld.

And they sell the treatment to others.

The ten baskets of Life Leaves contained a total of four hundred Life Leaves. Fifty potions were boiled, yielding a total of one hundred and fifty bottles of weak healing potions.

However, there are still twenty empty bottles.

She wrote her travel diary in a dog-skin notebook, using a quill pen dipped in ink.

The amount of gold coins earned depends on the amount of materials used.

Lou Le filled a basket with forty bottles of healing potions and went out to deliver the report.

It was already dark. Lou Le planned to finish his task and then go to the tavern for dinner. He planned to go to the forest tomorrow to look for herbs and kill a few kobolds to see if he could use their fangs to obtain new spells.

Even at night, the area around the mages' quarters is brightly lit, with wooden streetlights lining the roads.

A wooden stick with an iron lamp head inserted into it, surrounded by glass, allows the light to illuminate the road.

However, there was an unpleasant smell around the streetlights, probably from kobold grease.

Lou Le also saw several lamplighters patrolling back and forth, each carrying an oil jug in one hand and a wooden stick with a hook in the other.

He would occasionally use a wooden stick to pry open the lampshade and add oil to the oil lamp inside, which seemed to be going out.

Of course, they also need to guard against people stealing streetlights.

Dwight was discussing with his apprentices the credibility of what Lord Lou Le had said during the day.

"Teacher, how could a mage who can keep his spell running indefinitely be lying to us? Even if he were lying, he wouldn't lie about whether there's a dungeon or not."

"This dungeon definitely exists, but there might be a trap involved."

"Didn't we already issue the quest? Those adventurers will find the answer for us; we just need to wait."

"This is an opportunity, after all. Our progress in researching new spells from kobold teeth has been far too slow."

"We need to infuse it with mana first, so that the spell model inside emits a faint glow. We need to painstakingly examine the structure inside before drawing it."

"Because the spell model is multi-layered, we need to draw it layer by layer. But we can't get the spell model just by relying on these, because the spell model is dynamic."

"We will need to reorganize those rigid lines into a dynamic spell model."

"This one step alone has caused countless people to fail."

"Moreover, the kobold's teeth, due to the excessive amount of mana injected over a long period of time, may wear down the spell model inside, causing the spell model to collapse and eventually turn into a pile of ashes."

"We've had to give up halfway through countless times because of this, and we've accumulated so many draft papers."

"Teacher, we've made a profit if we find even one complete and clear spell model in a dungeon."

The apprentices' intentions were clear: they absolutely could not give up on this matter.

Dwight thought carefully for a moment: "Then let's wait until the adventurers have reported the details before making any plans."

"All sorts of strange monsters can appear in the dungeon. These aren't the kobolds, but much more ferocious animals. Even mages can encounter danger."

"If that person could have researched the mana potion before we started exploring, our chances of victory would have been much greater."

The apprentices all nodded, indicating their obedience.

"Teacher! Lord Dwight!"

A novice monk called out from outside the door, "Lord Lou Le has come to visit us again."

Farin went over and opened the door; this was his apprentice.

The apprentice monk bowed his head and said, "Teacher."

Farin asked, "Did you see her take anything?"

After pondering for a while, the novice monk said, "It's a basket of pink potions."

Farin was taken aback and looked at his teacher.

Dwight said with a hint of helplessness and heaviness, "It seems that this Lord Lou Le is also an extremely skilled alchemist."