Chapter 016: Top Ten Legendary Demon Hunters
Ryan made an escape plan and ignored the stealth assassin who was watching him outside the house.
Even if Pisis deliberately left the laboratory and left him alone, he did not choose to escape rashly.
What's more, there are still two days before the "Black Market Fair", and Ryan must make some preparations in advance.
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Late at night, entering a dream.
The dream created by the "intelligent brain" is no longer a library scene, but a 1:1 restoration of the Pisis potion laboratory.
Not only are all kinds of equipment available on the operating table, but even the pharmaceutical materials in the lockers are exactly the same as in the real world.
Next, Ryan did nothing else but walked directly to the operating table, picked up the test tube and measuring cup, and began to try to prepare the antidote for the [Zombie Potion]...
To outsiders, it was definitely an act of overestimating one's own abilities for an apprentice who had only been learning potions for a few days to start preparing finished potions.
Even in the Omar Empire's top school, the "Royal School of Alchemy", the talented students need at least several months of hard practice to purify, extract, and fuse each basic step before they can reach the stage of attempting to fuse them into medicine.
How could an apprentice who had just started working for a few days start preparing finished medicines right away?
But Ryan is a special case.
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In this world, potion masters have a high status and are extremely rare. The reason is not because there are few people who want to learn, but because the threshold of this subject is... extremely high!
To get started with potions, in addition to requiring a large amount of boring professional theoretical knowledge like [Polymath], more importantly, you must "spend money".
If an apprentice potion maker wants to advance to a formal potion maker, he needs a lot of practical training.
The amount of materials wasted in this process is absolutely jaw-dropping. Even many noble families may not be able to train a formal potion master even if they spend all their money...
Moreover, there is no guarantee that there will be any return for spending money, which is the second barrier that discourages most people from playing the game.
Talent, hard work, chance, and mentorship...
This is the second, third, fourth, and fifth threshold…
Neither is indispensable.
Because of these high barriers, "Potion Master" is originally a profession that only nobles and European emperors can afford. Their starting point is often the end of an ordinary person's life-long struggle, and their status is destined to be higher than other extraordinary professions.
But Ryan doesn't have to worry about the threshold of "paying gold" at all .
With an intelligent brain, he has a natural advantage!
Because in the dream, he has unlimited materials to waste.
As long as the potion materials have been recorded by the intelligent brain, the efficacy, characteristics, pharmacology... can be converted into precise data and simulated and restored 100% in the dream.
If you fail, you can start over again as many times as you want, and even if you make an operational mistake, there is no risk of life-threatening "barrel explosion".
This is the most important reason why Ryan directly started to refine finished potions.
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In the dream, Ryan began to get busy.
On the left hand side is the formula for the antidote, and the projection in front shows the entire process of Pisis refining the medicine during the day.
He didn't even have to use his brain, he just followed the projection and tried it step by step.
He took whatever materials Pisis took...
Whatever Pisis does next, he will do...
The heating degree, the purification times, the fusion time accurate to milliseconds...all these data are accurately recorded by the intelligent brain.
After all, this was just a primary potion, and it did not involve some complex reaction processes that required high-level extraordinary abilities to control. It could be said that as long as the projection's movements were completely replicated, even an apprentice could successfully complete the preparation of the potion.
But even so, Ryan failed countless times.
Just to purify and extract more than ten kinds of materials to a standard level, he failed hundreds of times.
This is the case with medicine preparation. A small mistake in one link can lead to the failure of the preparation of the entire medicine.
Fortunately, the time flow rate in dreams is twenty times faster, and there is an unlimited supply of virtual materials, which gives him plenty of time to make this luxurious attempt.
If it were someone else, not to mention the energy wasted, just practicing with these high-grade materials would probably be something that even top aristocratic apprentices wouldn't dare to be so extravagant.
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At night, Ryan practiced repeatedly in his dreams;
During the day, he would start the experiment as soon as Pisis left the laboratory.
Finally, hard work pays off.
Ryan, who has the super plug-in called "Intelligent Brain", after many failed attempts, finally succeeded in refining this antidote that only a formal pharmacist can prepare!
So... has Ryan's alchemy skills reached the level of a formal potion master?
No, not even close.
In fact, his foundation is not as good as that of an ordinary pharmacy apprentice.
For an ordinary academic potion master apprentice, it takes about one or two years of basic learning from the introduction of alchemy to the preparation of this kind of finished antidote.
But Ryan, who had the assistance of an "intelligent brain", skipped this process directly.
The formal potion master examination is like the college entrance examination, which requires a comprehensive assessment of the scores in all subjects. However, he is just a "geek" who is seriously biased in one subject and can only solve one type of question.
He didn't need to understand the huge theoretical basis involved in the entire drug preparation process. What are the characteristics of a single material, what is the principle of drug fusion, what effect will temperature fluctuations have on drug efficacy...
He didn't have to think about these things at all.
Ryan only needs to copy the video data left by the "intelligent brain" and learn from Pisis's every move.
Two whole nights were equivalent to more than a month of hard practice for others, and he specialized in one kind of potion.
Then, he successfully prepared this finished potion that theoretically only a one-star pharmacist could prepare.
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Of course, the astute Pisis also discovered that the lab bench had been tampered with, and some materials that were obviously the antidote for the [Zombie Potion] were missing from the locker.
In the old man's opinion, Ryan's behavior was naturally an attempt to prepare medicine beyond his capabilities.
Haha, you want to fly before you learn to crawl?
What a stupid behavior...
At most, some materials were lost. Pisis didn't take it to heart at all. He pretended not to see it and let Ryan do whatever he wanted.
Two days passed in peace.
Finally, we arrived at our destination.
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The bandit problem in the southern part of the Omar Empire has existed for decades. The imperial army has come to suppress it countless times, but has never been able to eliminate these slippery gangs of phantom thieves. With the combat power of hundreds of phantom thieves, they can even capture some large territories.
The site selection for this large-scale "black market fair" was as cautious as ever.
The terrain along the Storm Lake is open , and once the Imperial Army is discovered, the Phantom Thieves can flee in all directions. It is impossible to completely encircle and wipe them out.
Today is a rare good day.
The fog on the ground is light and thin, and the visibility is quite high.
When the Weasel Phantom Thieves arrived at the shore of Storm Lake, there were already more than a hundred Phantom Thieves groups of all sizes gathered there.
The bonfire stretched for dozens of miles, and the scene was bustling with noise and noise.
Steam-powered machinery cities of various sizes and strange shapes are stationed by the lake, looking very much like a herd of bison drinking water collectively on the grassland.
The chimneys are towering, and the black smoke is rising into the sky. Hyenas, crabs, iron barrels, octopuses, hedgehogs... these mechanical cities have strange shapes and are full of dark industrial style.
Among the many steam-powered cities, three "war elephant-class" castles stand out from the crowd.
Their black painted armor is each painted with a ferocious one-eyed wolf head logo, which is particularly eye-catching.
This is the organizer of this trade fair, the "White Wolf Phantom Thieves", one of the three major thieves in the Omar Empire.
And their leader is one of the former “Top Ten Legendary Demon Hunters”, a legendary figure at the ceiling level of phantom thieves, a top-level extraordinary person who has unlocked the fifth-order gene lock, and a person for whom the two major empires of Omar and Theed have jointly offered a bounty of 180 million liros... [White Wolf] Bazel Gustav!
This kind of bustling black market trade fair was full of wanted criminals with rewards of over 10 million. Even the arrival of a notorious group like the "Weasel Gang" did not cause any ripples.
This is a peak gathering of the Phantom Thieves and a carnival for the bandits.
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"It's really lively..."
Ryan sighed, his eyes flickering as he looked at the bustling market in front of him.
At this moment, he finally saw the dawn of "freedom".
Hearing this, Pisis raised a barely perceptible smile and said without turning back, "Come on, I'll take you to meet my colleagues in the potion world..."
"Yes, teacher."
Hearing this, Ryan followed Pisis obediently and walked down the mechanical city step by step.
