madnovel Chapter 19 The Sands of Time: The Enlightenment of Knowledge [Please read and add to your favorites!
Chapter 19 The Sands of Time: The Enlightenment of Knowledge [Please read and add to your favorites!
As night fell, Su En closed her notebook and rubbed her wrists.
Back in his dormitory, he meticulously compiled everything Celsus had taught him that day.
In addition, there are Celsus's potion-making notes from his apprenticeship.
The cover was yellowed and the corners were worn, but there were no creases.
Turning to the title page, a line of neat small print comes into view:
"Recorded in the Silver Moon Calendar 1483, by Senior Apprentice Gordon Celsus."
Suen flipped through the pages, and the contents of the notes far exceeded his expectations. During his apprenticeship, Celsus had actually systematically compiled complete refining records for ten common apprentice-level potions.
Each potion comes with a recipe, material pretreatment methods, refining steps, temperature curves, and notes he summarized from his failures.
The name of the first potion recipe made Suen's breathing quicken.
Calming herbal ointment.
The formula precisely records that the calendula must be ground into powder under moonlight... the moonflower seeds need to be heated to 35 degrees Celsius and then cold-pressed to extract the oil, and the melancholy mushroom powder must be added only after the beeswax has completely melted...
No textbook describes this in such detail; this knowledge can only be mastered through hands-on instruction from a professional teacher.
Therefore, in Suen's eyes, the value of just these few pages of the calming herbal ointment notes was already equivalent to that of Deitz's Thomas Meteorite Magic Wand.
He continued flipping through the pages: night vision potion, refreshing spore gel, magic torrent potion...
Just then, his eyes suddenly lit up.
The hourglass of time appeared on its own, its surface rippling with a pale golden sheen.
A new message formed in my mind:
[An anomalous energy source has been detected. Should we proceed with extraction?]
Su En's heartstrings twitched. The last time the hourglass of time gave him a prompt was when he discovered elemental energy while dealing with the residue of a magic potion, which led to the condensation of [Sands of Time: Elemental Resonance].
This time, the trigger was the notebook in front of them.
Suen suppressed her breathing and sank her consciousness into the hourglass of time.
The Sands of Time: The Enlightenment of Knowledge
[Level: Tier 1]
[Progress: 2/100]
[Effect: Draws upon the knowledge and experience contained within the creator's notes, condensing them into Sands of Time that inspire wisdom. Upon use, it will permanently enhance knowledge and proficiency in the corresponding field.]
Suen read the description twice, trying to absorb the creator's knowledge and experience.
This means that he can directly apply Celsus's understanding, feel, intuition, and even the experience accumulated from countless failures during his apprenticeship to his own use.
His fingers tightened unconsciously.
If "Elemental Resonance" gave him the talent to perceive the balance of elements, then "Knowledge Inspiration" is equivalent to allowing him to stand directly on the shoulders of a Potions Master.
Suen turned back to the first page of the notebook and began reading from the beginning.
As you delve deeper into the book, the progress numbers in the hourglass of time slowly tick by...
The silver moon outside the window remained cold and clear, and the light emitted by the fluorite lamp on the table flickered slightly in Su En's pupils.
It was late at night, but he was completely unaware.
As he closed the last page, the sky outside was already beginning to lighten.
Having spent a sleepless night, Su En was unusually awake at this moment. In the hourglass of time in front of him, a grain of blue sand was quietly suspended.
[The Sands of Time: Knowledge Inspiration 100/100]
He took a deep breath and, without the slightest hesitation, chose to use it.
As the hourglass of time trembled slightly, a blue aura, symbolizing wisdom, surged in from the top of his head.
In my mind, the knowledge points that seemed obscure and vague when reading suddenly became clear and organized.
Every step in the making of the calming herbal ointment, from the grinding particle size of the calming herbs to the timing of adding the calming mushroom powder, from the melting temperature of the beeswax to the final cooling and stirring, felt as if he had personally performed the process countless times, ingrained in his muscle memory.
Su En spread out her hands, a faint sense of familiarity emanating from them, as if she possessed an instinct that had settled into her body after countless repetitions.
This is the power of [The Sands of Time: Enlightenment of Knowledge].
Celsus mastered the skills and techniques he had accumulated over several years during his apprenticeship in just one night.
Of course, this only applies to the ten potions recorded in this notebook, but that's enough to make people feel its magic.
He closed his notebook and found that he could no longer draw any progress from the hourglass of time.
"Has the inspirational energy in this notebook been exhausted...?"
Suen was not surprised; a single notebook could condense a grain of sand of time, a speed several times faster than before.
He stood up and stretched his stiff shoulders.
Now that he has accumulated enough theoretical knowledge, there is only one thing he needs to verify: whether this knowledge has truly become his own ability.
......
Modo City Trade District, Potions Master Association.
"The lab is charged daily, five magic stone coins per day."
The apprentice behind the counter looked up at him. "Bring your own materials, and pay for any damage to the equipment at cost."
Suen nodded, paid the money, and took the key.
Third floor, laboratory number 307.
The laboratory was smaller than he had imagined. On the worktable was a standard crystal heating table, and next to it were shelves stacked mortars, stirring rods, distillation and filtration equipment.
The medicine cabinet against the wall is empty, left for users to store their own supplies.
Suen currently only has the ingredients for the Night Vision Potion. As an entry-level apprentice-level potion, the Night Vision Potion is also the easiest recipe to make.
Using night-blooming jasmine as the main ingredient, supplemented with orchid essential oil as a solvent, and adding sage and fire crow feather powder, the various materials are ground and mixed, and then heated until the medicinal liquid is fixed into a perfect equilibrium state, and the refining is complete.
He poured the various materials into the mortar in order and ground them. The angle of his wrist rotation and the force he applied during the grinding process seemed to be calibrated by an invisible hand.
Suen glanced down and saw that the powder was just the right size.
Take another 10 ml of orchid essential oil and pour it into the copper pot. Use your mental energy to guide the mixing and reaction between the ingredients.
From the perspective of the spiritual vision, a pale green halo gradually appeared in the medicinal liquid.
Celsus's notes specifically noted that in this state, the active ingredients in the luminous flower would begin to release light element particles under the catalysis of the fire crow feathers.
The potion master must use their mental power to contain it within the potion, preventing even a trace from escaping.
Otherwise, the duration of the finished night vision solution will be greatly reduced.
Suen's mental energy wove into an invisible net, as described in the notes, binding the light element particles that were trying to escape in the heated state.
Without the slightest obstruction, the light element gently merged into the liquid, the whole process so smooth that even he himself was surprised.
Half an hour later, the first batch of materials was successfully refined into three batches of night vision potion.
Without pausing, Suen processed the remaining four documents one by one.
Half a day later, the dark purple liquid in the row of potion bottles shone with a uniform luster under the sunlight.
All the materials were successfully refined. This astonishing success rate was achieved by a novice potion master. If the outside world knew about it, who knows what kind of sensation it would cause.
Suen leaned back in her chair and looked down at her hands.
During the refining process, every step seemed to be divinely aided, and the skill was like that of a highly experienced potion master.
"Xelsuus was already this strong during his apprenticeship?"
Suen put all the night vision potions into his explorer's leather bag, locked the laboratory door, and went downstairs.
Next to the Potions Masters Guild was a potion shop. He sold all the night vision potions to the shop assistant and bought some ingredients for a calming herbal balm.
As a panacea for meditation during the apprenticeship stage, the raw materials for calming herbal balm are several times more expensive than night vision potion, and the price of just a small jar of cold-pressed moonflower seed oil is enough to make one's mouth water.
The night vision potion was just a practice project; the calming herbal ointment was the real magic potion that could generate profits.
Suen continued to devote herself to the refining process, handling various materials according to the recipe.
Time passed slowly, and the rental period for the laboratory was about to end.
Suen turned off the heating plate and stirred the medicine at a steady pace with a stirring rod, while maintaining the guidance of his mental energy.
As the temperature gradually decreased, the liquid began to thicken.
When the stirring rod is lifted, a uniform paste has formed on the surface of the medicine.
His wrists maintained a steady rhythm until the ointment in the crucible completely solidified into a translucent pale green paste, its surface smooth as a mirror, without any blemishes.
"A perfectly high-quality calming herbal ointment!"
To produce a perfectly high-quality calming herbal ointment on the first try is a success rate that would be remarkable even for any advanced apprentice.
He had only been promoted to junior apprentice for less than a week.
Su En tidied up the lab bench and returned the key to the counter.
It was nearly evening when I walked out of the Potions Masters Association.
As dusk fell, he stood on the steps, looking up at the distant sunset.
Celsus directly mastered the experience he had accumulated over several years as an apprentice through a single grain of sand of time.
This unreasonable efficiency is what makes the Hourglass of Time truly powerful; it means that not only potions, but other wizarding arts can also be mastered quickly through this method.