Chapter 83: The Crying Imp Beast [11]
A Longan-sized calling tree fruit, after dissolving and fermenting, could only produce a small cup of juice.
That juice was deep blue, looking as if it couldn’t be consumed by humans.
Fortunately, the imp beast wasn’t human.
Dark couldn’t help but feel a sense of relief.
The imp beast forced to fly back lowered its head carefully and sipped the juice in the small cup.
Hmm, there’s a hint of sweetness.
Thinking this way, the imp beast inadvertently drank the whole cup of juice from the calling tree fruit.
“How do you feel?”
Dark’s belated concern made the imp beast feel extremely moved, and it turned around with a series of “……”.
Dark couldn’t help but ask in puzzlement, “What did you say?”
Imp Beast: “…”
Dark: “(⊙o⊙)?”
Imp Beast: “!”
Dark: “Well, say it then?”
Imp Beast: “!!”
Dark: “How can I know what you want to say if you don’t speak?”
Imp Beast: “!!”
…
In short, the imp beast couldn’t make a sound.
Dark naturally realized the problem right away and glanced at the clock, noting down the time.
Without the imp beast, Dark naturally wouldn’t do any random experiments.
He picked up a book to read for a while until the imp beast suddenly let out a broken “ah,” which prompted him to record the time.
“About 8 minutes, roughly?”
“Should I say it’s truly worthy of being one of the materials for the Silence Card?”
“Sis, if we use this juice according to the method of making a Mana Potion Card, can we create a different kind of Silence Card?”
As long as they were first-year students, no one didn’t covet Professor Shylph’s “Silence Card.”
That aura that made everyone quiet with just a wave was too cool.
Unfortunately, the creation of the “Silence Card” was a high-level technique that required both high technical difficulty and high-quality materials.
Among the first-year students, even Dark knew his limits and never thought about attempting such a level of alchemy.
However, he seemed to have a little opportunity now?
Thinking of this, Dark carefully saved the remaining two calling tree fruits.
Although the calling tree fruit wasn’t expensive, the ones available on Traveler’s Street were mostly processed dried fruits; unless he went to a flower shop to take his chances.
…
Afterwards, Dark generously used a spiral tree fruit worth 30 credits for an experiment, and the fermentation took about 15 minutes.
Thankfully, Dark had mastered the delicate method of mana enrichment; otherwise, it really wouldn’t have worked.
The juice from the spiral tree fruit was a strange black-and-white color, and when stirred slightly, it would swirl.
One spiral tree fruit eventually fermented into a full cup of juice.
Looking at the single cup of black-and-white juice, Dark thought for a moment and decided to use a silver spoon to scoop a spoonful and offer it to the imp beast.
Dark: “Ah.”
Imp Beast: “Ah.”
The spoonful went down.
The imp beast stretched out its paw and spiraled upwards.
Dark reached out and poked its belly, causing it to giggle.
Thus, Dark let out a sigh of relief and asked, “How do you feel? Any unusual effects?”
Imp Beast: “Giggles.”
Dark: “Huh?”
Imp Beast: “Giggles.”
Okay, this time it was the ears.
Dark felt like he had discovered the secret of the spiral tree fruit.
The imp beast’s hearing impairment lasted about two minutes before improving.
Dark confirmed the effects of the two types of tree fruit juices and wrote in his notebook: Calling tree fruit juice: Unable to speak.
Spiral tree fruit juice: Hearing impairment.
Drinking both juices together results in deafness and muteness.
…
Dark looked at the cup of spiral tree juice, pondering how to preserve it properly.
In addition, he couldn’t help but wonder if mixing these two juices would result in missing effects or a combination of both.
“Shall I try again?”
Thinking led to action.
Dark took another calling tree fruit, letting “Huhu” dissolve and ferment it into juice.
Then, he took a spoonful from each juice and placed them in another small cup, carefully blending them.
The intermixed juice of black and white and the deep blue juice did not blend in color but instead formed a peculiar liquid of black, white, and blue.
The imp beast, forced to taste it, truly became deaf and mute.
The effect seemed to be even stronger, lasting a full five minutes.
Dark suddenly had an epiphany.
Afterward, he looked at the remaining amount of the two juices and fermented the last calling tree fruit to achieve a 1:1 ratio as much as possible.
Then, he mixed and blended the two juices, capped it, and put it aside temporarily.
It was already 8:30 PM.
Dark knew this was the time to apply what he learned.
Without proper preservation methods, the shelf life of the two juices would not be long. The best approach was to make a Mana Potion Card right away!
…
Of course, he wasn’t bold enough to use it directly for his first Mana Potion Card experiment.
With the white dry fruit and blue blue fruit present, they weren’t needed yet.
In any case, the first step was to place either the white dry fruit or the blue blue fruit into Huhu’s shell…
But just at this moment, after completing a small fusion, Dark suddenly had a distracting thought.
He placed a white dry fruit and a blue blue fruit into Huhu’s shell.
These two fruits dissolved and fermented simultaneously in the shell, ultimately forming a mixed liquid.
First, Dark used “Arrogance I” to make the imp beast arrogant, causing it to shoot “small darts” to consume mana.
Only then did he scoop a spoonful from the mixed juice and feed it to the imp beast.
After absorbing this spoonful of mixed juice, the imp beast indeed felt mana rapidly recovering.
As for the other half of the healing effect, it hadn’t manifested yet.
However, this was enough for Dark.
He never expected to get everything at once.
Afterward, he took out “Pierre’s Personal Explanation” and followed the method recorded in the book, step by step, to start the experiment.
There were many ways to turn a magic potion into a Mana Potion Card. If subdivided, each potion had a different refining method.
What Dark tried was the general method described in the book.
More accurately, it was the general method for turning a “Mana Recovery Elixir” into a Mana Potion Card.
By mimicking this method, substituting the “Mana Recovery Elixir” with the mixed juice, was Dark’s current idea.
The process of making a Mana Potion Card was completely different from making a Mana Spirit Card. From the beginning, it didn’t require mana honey, brain leaf essence water, or other life-nurturing bases.
Its core was a type of 3rd-level alchemical array called the “Dalton Alchemical Array.”
Dalton was a great magus, second only to Merlin, who pioneered the new era of transforming potions into potion cards.
