Alchemy Black Technology at Hogwarts

Chapter 56 A pot of fiery love

When William went to Diagon Alley for the first time, he passed by a travel agency trying to compete with tourists. Their brochure mentioned a project:
Roam the Albanian forest.

"Here, you can visit the site where the greatest necromancer in history, Dr. John Dee, once completed the spiritual ceremony. It is said that standing on the extremely blasphemous black magic symbols that remain to this day, you can even hear the words from the tormented people. The wail of the souls of the dead."

After digging out the booklet provided by the Horror Tour travel agency, William read the text in a low voice.

"Have you ever heard of necromancy?"

William asked Penello—he originally thought that things like necromancy were just fabricated, but now he is not so sure.

"Well, Professor Binns seems to have mentioned it?
But I am not very clear. "

Penello rested his chin on his right hand, recalled for a moment, and shook his head.

"Well, it seems that I can only write to this travel agency and ask." William temporarily put down this idea.

"Tell me, what do you need me to do?"

Penello looked at these shiny equipment curiously—most of them were made of glass, reflecting a beautiful luster under the light, "I know you are very good at potions, but I didn't know that you were also a Heisenberger. "

Heisenberg faction
"I remember that he called this style of using a lot of ordinary people's instruments to cook potions according to strict proportions and steps, called the experimental style."

William responded with some helplessness, "But I think you should be able to use these equipment, since you said 'also' experimental school?"

"There is no difference. I did read his articles carefully, but this is the first time I have actually used them—but it shouldn't be a big problem?"

Penello looked at the various utensils on the laboratory bench.

"I need you to help me deal with these raw materials. The specific proportions and operation methods are all in this notebook. You will find that although they are relatively easy, they all need to be used a lot."

William turned the experimental notes to the marked page and handed it to Penello, "And here are the disinfectant and gloves, you need them."

He himself began to deal with the frozen ash snake eggs.

This is a very dangerous raw material - although the activity of the snake eggs he selected as raw materials has been completely eliminated, when they are cut open, a mass of high-temperature mucus will still be blasted out.

If the skin is touched by these mucus without protection, not only will it suffer severe burns, but the wound will even be infected with a toxin.

But these mucus are precisely the most valuable ingredients of the gray snake eggs - the gray snake is a kind of magical creature, and their eggs will not conceive a larva of the gray snake, but all this slime.

Only when the fire ash snake egg has absorbed enough heat and is about to break out of its shell, will it quickly transform into a snake form within a few seconds.

In the Room of Response, which was temporarily transformed into a potion workshop, no one spoke for a moment, only the "gurgling" sound of boiling the raw materials, and the "squeaking" sound of the pestle when grinding valerian.

"William, are you saying that cooking potions in the way of ordinary people can really achieve better results?
You know, Professor Snape never allowed us to discuss this in class. "

Penello was the first to break the silence.

"I thought your question would be what kind of potion we were doing." William chuckled.

"How to say this question is actually a bit complicated."

At the very beginning, William started to use this method to cook potions, but because he was very dissatisfied with the unit of "handle, root, block, pinch" in the textbook, he adopted this method that he was more used to in his previous life to facilitate recording Download every adjustment he made to the formula.

But with an in-depth understanding of potions, William discovered that this technique is full of rough processing methods—for example, raw materials such as the teeth of the rune snake need to be ground into as fine a powder as possible in order to be more fully prepared. are absorbed by the decoction.

This kind of manual grinding method, even if the gorillas from the Cat Leopard Academy come, or use magic spells to speed up the process, the effect will be better than dragging out a wall breaking machine anyway. .

In the raw material handling and processing of potions, such cases are simply too numerous to enumerate.After William introduced standardization, streamlining, and modernization to the potion, he found that the effect of his finished potion had indeed been significantly improved.

After extraction, the raw materials with improved purity significantly shortened the time required for potion boiling.More importantly, such potions can be mass-produced.

"But I also found that if we simply use ordinary people's instruments to complete the whole process—even if the same raw materials are used throughout the whole process, the effect of the final product will be greatly reduced, and it will even become a pot of waste water."

William carefully tore a small opening in the snake egg, and poured the mucus inside into a special container.

"I can only guess that the wizard himself still plays a vital role in the potion's completion—you know, stirring it with a wand, and sometimes casting spells and things like that."

He made a summary of his findings.

"Then what kind of potion are we doing?"

Still digesting William's words, Penello asked casually.

"Of course it's a hot pot of love - the love potion."

William tore the shell of the empty snake egg into pieces, put it in a basket, and prepared to grind it later—although Hogwarts couldn't use electrical appliances, so he couldn't turn on the wall breaker, but through the spell, he still A similar effect can be achieved.

"what?!"

Penello almost dropped the pestle in his hand to the ground.

"Anxin, it's a tweaked love potion—you know, the real potion will ask you to add your own nails, hair, whatever, and make the person who drinks it hopelessly fall in love with you.

Honestly, sometimes that's worse than poison. "

William took off the dragon leather gloves and walked over to help Penello handle the remaining raw materials, "What we are doing is not so much a love potion, but a perfume."

"In a potion of love, first of all there are the parts responsible for providing the psychedelic effect, such as the juice of absinthe wormwood, powdered love mushroom, crushed sage and so on.

Boiling them until the medicine soaks the whole pot of soup is originally the most time-consuming part of making love potions, and of course we don't know how to use them all.

The next part is the part that can provide it with color and aroma, which is the fragments of the fire ash snake eggs and egg shells I just dealt with-of course, they still need to be neutralized to eliminate a small amount of hypnotic effect contained in them. "

"What's left, is the universal solution that works their magic, and you're dealing with white coral powder, lavender, valerian, which are all added to improve the skin."

While speaking, William and Penello had already processed most of the basic raw materials—they lit a fire in the room, and added the raw materials one by one into a stirring kettle several times larger than a crucible.

William stood up and began to wave his wand rhythmically over the stirring kettle, allowing his magic power to stir the potion soup naturally and harmoniously.

Time passed little by little.

The soup in the stirring kettle gradually turned from brown to clear green, and then to silver, but when William finally stirred nine times in a clockwise direction, it miraculously turned into pink.

It showed a wonderful mother-of-pearl luster, and the pink steam slowly spiraled upwards, eventually turning into water vapor and evaporating.

Compared with the original love potion, which focuses more on the hallucinatory effect of "produce love", William's modified version is more prominent in aroma and skin care effects.

"We made it!"

Penello said excitedly, she closed her eyes, savoring the aroma of the potion deeply - it perfectly inherited the characteristic of the love potion that makes people smell the smell of their favorite things.

"No, we're still one step away."

William shook his head.

　Thanks for the reward of 3-methylindole.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)