Rise of the Dark Witch

"Master Vic, do you really want to do this?"

In the potion refining room, Macy stood helpless.

In the past, Roja stood at the front refining the potion, while Maisie stood at the bottle waiting for orders.

Now it's actually the other way around!

Messi stands in the main position, with Roja assisting?

"Master Vic, I really can't do it!" Maisie said, shaking her head violently.

"Maisie, you have to believe in yourself. You will be fine. Ox blood potion is just a primary potion and it is easy to refine."

Roja put his hands on Maisie's shoulders and spoke in a very gentle tone, "You have helped me refine the ox blood potion so many times. You should have memorized the process, right? And with me assisting you, there will be no problem. "

"But……"

Maisie struggled.

In fact, she really wanted to give it a try.

Her dream is to become a pharmacist. She has learned a lot about pharmacy over the years. She is confident that her pharmacy foundation has been very solid. Now she is only one opportunity away from becoming a pharmacist. Just an opportunity.

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

She has been assisting Luo Ya in refining the ox blood potion these days. Luo Ya not only asked her to start, but also slowly explained to her the difficulties and principles of refining the ox blood potion from the simple to the deep.

She has memorized the entire process completely. She has fully understood the refining principle of the ox blood potion. She believes that if it were her to operate it, she could 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!"

After Roya's repeated encouragement, Macy nodded.

"Don't blame me if you fail?" Maisie said this on the surface. In fact, she felt in her heart that she would never fail at all.

Macy stood in front of the potion ingredients laid out.

This was the first time in her life that she was refining potions, so she was very excited and very nervous.

After taking a few deep breaths, Macy moved.

"Heating the blood of the Fire Horned Ox, during the heating process, it is necessary to stir while heating..."

Macy held the stick in her hand and stirred gently.

But as soon as she started to do it, her heart suddenly panicked.

"This resistance is..."

"not good!"

"The force is too weak and the stirring is too slow."

"Once the heating is uneven, the cow blood will be destroyed and the refining will fail."

"Since you were 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 processes have been memorized and the theory is fully understood, but once the actual operation is started, let alone the successful refining of the cow blood potion, even the first step of heating the cow blood cannot be completed!

There were tears in Macy'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, make circles like this."

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

Next, continue to stir the cow blood with one hand, and add bone powder to the cow blood with the other hand.

"I have mastered the secret of stirring. I have completely memorized the speed and force of spreading bone powder. I can't go wrong... Wow——"

Looking at the unevenly spread bone powder, Macy suddenly panicked.

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

…

After some hectic refining of the potion.

Macy was exhausted physically and mentally as she looked at the product she had refined, a potion with many lumps of condensation in the liquid.

This can't be called a medicine at all!

Just a bottle of failure!

Macy was holding the first bottle of potion she had refined, and she was about to shed tears. "I really don't have the talent for potions. It's so shameless for someone like me to actually try to become a pharmacist or something!"

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

"It's normal to fail in refining the first time. Which pharmacist doesn't experience multiple failures when refining the potion? The first time I made the primary potion, I also failed many times."

"is that so?"

"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 have modified the refining process and techniques. Even with your level, you should be able to refine it."

Unable to resist Roja's order, Maisie could only bite the bullet and continue refining.

After listening to Roja's explanation of the new refining flow and precautions, Maisie took action again.

"I have already written down all the things I need to pay attention to in my mind. I just need to coordinate my movements with my mind during the refining process..."

fail!

"It's okay, Macy, I believe you."

fail!

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

fail!

"It's just a little bit close. You can successfully refine the ox blood potion next time."

fail!

After failing again and again, Maisie's whole body became numb.

She gradually understood the fact that with her current strength, it was impossible to refine a primary potion!

She had previously thought that her foundation was very solid, and that she already had skills comparable to those of a pharmacist apprentice, but she was only missing one chance.

Now think about it, how arrogant she was before!

In the past, she felt depressed that Vic no longer wanted her help just because there was a slight problem with the medicinal materials when she helped make the potion for the first time.

Obviously as long as she is given another chance, she will definitely be able to do it.

Not at all!

Vic had already seen through that potion refining session that Maisie was at a level that even an assistant could not achieve!

The pharmacists union specializes in cultivating pharmacists who understand various medicinal materials and are proficient in processing methods of medicinal materials?

It’s just a gimmick!

The level of medicine servants, not to mention real pharmacists, are far behind even pharmacy apprentices!

"Messie, 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 was her master. Even if she felt in her heart that it was impossible for her to succeed, since Roja, as the master, asked her to continue, she had no choice but to bite the bullet and continue.

Macy's eyes were blank, and her body was moving mechanically.

Heating, stirring, adding auxiliary medicinal materials, filtering the medicinal liquid...

Step by step, Maisie felt no different from before.

She didn't hear Roya's guidance.

When she was refining before, Luo Ya would always speak out to guide her, but now she didn't say a word and was too quiet.

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

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

The time for refining the potion passed so quickly this time.

An hour passed in an instant.

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

Macy's expression changed slightly.

"Um?"

The bottle of ox blood potion she refined was incomparable to the one made by Luo Ya. The quality and presentation were worlds apart.

but--

Ox blood potion?

Although the quality is very poor, it is the most rubbish kind.

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

"Success?"

Macy was stunned.

She was almost stupid.

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

In addition to Maisie's own efforts and progress, the more important reason for success is Roja's continuous improvement and optimization of refining techniques and procedures.

The fool-proof refining method finally arrived at can allow even a layman like Mai Qi to refine primary potions.

But Maisie didn't need to know this.

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

"Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! -"

"I succeeded!"

"I've made a potion!"

"Uuuuuu——"

Mercy was overjoyed and cried loudly regardless of her appearance.

Roja thought while passing toilet paper to Messi, "The optimization of the techniques and steps for refining the ox blood potion has reached an extreme. If we want to continue to make big progress, we can only try to change the prescription."

Dozens of modifications to the prescription came to Roja's mind.

at night.

He looked at Macy who had put on a brand new maid uniform that she had not seen before, a different style.

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

"Master Vic, don't you like maid clothes?" Maisie nervously grabbed the corner of her clothes and asked uneasily.

"No, I was just wondering if you would change into a different maid outfit every night in the next month or so."

"I will work hard!"

"You... forget it, just be happy."

He looked at Maisie, who was still calling his name in her sleep even though she had fainted from exhaustion.

After Roya pinched her red cheeks, he got up, changed his clothes and walked out of the room. He left the Cubs Yard and walked on the night streets of the silent and dangerous Scarborough Market.

…

The mission building was particularly lively today.

Most of the pharmacists in the Little Lion Court are gathered here.

They were discussing in low voices and looking towards the door frequently.

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

The pharmacists of the Young Lions Hospital did not pay much attention to this matter. It has been less than a month since the convoy set off for the headquarters of the pharmacists union, Green City.

They have a lot to do and don’t have much time to worry about other people’s chores.

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

And if you think about it with your brain, you will know that the task of one thousand bottles of ox blood potion a month is impossible to complete!

Since you already know the results, why waste your precious time paying attention?

However, I don’t know when a piece of news started to spread.

Vic really refined a thousand bottles of ox blood potion!

How is this possible?

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

Different people gather in the mission building with different mentality.

Hundreds of people eagerly awaited Roja's arrival.

While waiting for Roja, they chattered.

"Do you think this is true?"

"It doesn't matter if ordinary people believe it. As a pharmacist, do you believe it too?"

"I see that these days he spends at least one or two hours in the library, and as many as three or five hours a day. He often leaves the Little Lions Yard to go to the city. It doesn't look like he is concentrating on refining the cow blood potion."

"He and Miss Tina share the same blood. With Miss Tina protecting him, he will not be kicked out of the Cubs' Home even if he fails. No smart person will waste time on an impossible task. "

"That's right. As a genius of the herbal school, how could Vic waste time on a mere elementary potion, Ox Blood Potion, at the critical moment when he is about to go to Green City?"

"Although he won't be kicked out of the Cubs Academy, if he fails, it will still have a great impact on his future, right?"

"Do you think it's possible for him to buy the finished cow blood potion outside and refine it himself?"

"Is he stupid? If he dares to do this, he will not only be expelled from the Young Lions Academy, but will also be expelled from the Pharmacist Union, and his whole life will be ruined!"

"Since you all think it is impossible for him to complete the mission, why are you still standing here?"

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

Tick ​​tock.

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

When the time was about to reach noon, everyone was already impatient with waiting. When they were about to leave, a sharp-eyed man suddenly pointed in the distance and screamed.

"he came!"

"Is it finally here?"

"I've been waiting for so long. If you don't give me a surprise, I want to make him look good!"

People looked in the direction where Roja was coming.

Roya and her maid Maisie were seen walking in the front. Behind them, a groom pulled a carriage with small boxes placed in the carriage.

The crowd was suddenly in an uproar.

"What's the box in the carriage?"

"Could it be really refined?"

"Oh my God, tell me this isn't 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 ox blood medicine and how many bottles of ox blood medicine could be contained in a box.

So they were able to conclude after just a little analysis that based on the number and size of the boxes on the carriage, they could just hold a thousand bottles of ox blood potion!

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

However, Mai Qi, the maid who was half a body behind and walking beside Roja, couldn't hold back her smile, revealing two pointed little tiger teeth.

From the boxes on the carriage and the smile on Maisie's face, everyone had already guessed the answer.

The instigator, Heidi, stood in the crowd, looking at Roya walking over with his fists clenched, his eyes filled with hatred.

"Brother Heidi, can he really succeed?" The younger brother on the side said in disbelief.

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

"But he..."

"Hmph, there must be a scam! Maybe he really bought the potion from outside and used it to refine it himself! He will definitely show his flaws later!"

Amid the heated discussion, Roja arrived in front of the mission building.

As soon as Luo Ya stopped, an old man who looked to be in his sixties or seventies came out with the help of the counter lady and came to Luo Ya.

——Herbalist Huto Dilan.

Generally, after pharmacists complete their potion tasks and hand over the refined potion, the counter lady will transfer it to the backstage and hand it over to the pharmacist for testing.

This process can take as short as half an hour or as long as three to five days.

The pharmacist actually came out to greet me in person, which was extremely rare treatment.

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

"Have you completed the mission?" Pharmacist Hu Tuo asked with squinted eyes.

"Yes." Roya nodded in response.

"A thousand bottles of ox blood potion?"

"There are three hundred more bottles, and I will sell them to the pharmacists' union."

"Are you kidding?"

"Hey, won't you accept the extra potion? When did the rules change?"

Looking at Roja with a surprised expression, pharmacist Hu Tuo stared at Roja for a long time.

After looking at it for nearly a minute, I didn't see any flaws.

"Can the medicine be tested here?" Pharmacist Hu Tuo asked.

"no problem."

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

Was it really refined?

Even the pharmacist Hu Tuo, who had lived for sixty or seventy years and had seen many big scenes, was stunned for a while.

After coming back to his senses, he randomly took out a bottle of ox blood potion 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 and frowned slightly as he looked at the number of bubbles coming out of the bottle.

"Are there too many bubbles?"

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

His brows furrowed even more.

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

The ox blood potion, which should only have a faint medicinal scent, can smell a pungent ox blood smell.

At this point, Pharmacist Hu Tuo is 100% able to make a decision.

He looked at Roja expressionlessly and said word by word:

"This is not Niuxuewang at all!"