Chapter 11
Ethan and Ethan Ra came to Akara's tent together. Ethan helped Akara make potions as he had said before.
The work he is responsible for is not difficult, it is mainly tedious, and requires enough patience to consume a considerable amount of time to deal with the herbs.
Only when he handled these herbs properly could Akara use these semi-finished products to make finished potions.
During this process, Ethan was able to combine the knowledge he saw last night with actual operations, further understand and absorb it, and then continue to observe the entire process of Akara making potions, and thoroughly understand the entire method and process of making magic potions.
"Basically, this is how magic potion is made."
Akara pointed to the raw materials in front of her, and then pointed to the finished medicine - the red liquid loaded in a transparent bottle.
"Select the appropriate raw materials and perform simple treatments first, such as cleaning, removing useless parts, or using spells to remove energy that is not suitable for its properties; then dry them or dry them with direct spells. In this process, the corresponding spells must be used to ensure that the properties required in the raw materials are not destroyed. Of course, some herbs can also omit this step, such as the healing grass you collected this time."
"Then it is extracted and refined. Extract the essence from the herbs and mix some auxiliary materials to make the medicine you want." For example, the medicine made by Akara is the auxiliary material, which is clean water, and its function is convenient and applicable... Yes, the reason for making the medicine is because it is easy to use.
In fact, the previous steps don’t show anything special. The most important thing in the production of magic potion is the final part, how to extract the ‘effect’ you want and make it into potion?
Akara’s teaching in this regard is not very detailed, and even what she said is a bit mysterious. After listening to it for a long time, Ethan could only understand it as: This thing is purely based on personal understanding. If you can study it, it means you really understand it. If you don’t understand it, you can’t learn it even if you are exhausted.
“This is too…”
After thinking for a long time, I couldn't find a suitable word to describe it. There is no way, a lot of knowledge is so mysterious. This is also the reason why the threshold for this profession is particularly high. If you don't have enough IQ, you can't really achieve any great achievements.
"First, we need to be excellent in physical fitness, but now we need to have high IQ and understanding. No wonder in some works, mages are just plug-ins. With the requirements of this innate condition, if they are trained as garbage, who will become mages?"
There is no way, practice!
Fortunately, the production of magic potions has almost no requirements for magic. Although some spells need to be used, they can be completed using magic circles that can be used with external forces.
The working principle of this magic circle has also become one of the goals of Ethan's learning. After all, if you lack sufficient mental power and cannot foster it by yourself, or if you extract magic power from other places for your own use, this ability to extract from the current environment or some items containing magic and exert effects can solve many Ethan's problems.
He also considered changing this magic circle so that he could cast several small spells alone, and the energy supply problem of the magic circle was easy to solve - he thought of the inferior magic stones in the Sea of Calmness, and the energy contained in those magic stones was enough to cast some small magic.
Thinking of this, Ethan's enthusiasm increased a little more, and he became more motivated to learn. Not only did he listen carefully, but he kept asking all kinds of strange questions. Akara asked many questions but didn't know how to answer them - he lived in a world of information explosion in his previous life, and Ethan's most undesirable mind.
Fortunately, Akara has many other herbs in her hands, and she gave them all to Ethan to practice potion making and magic circles.
In the next few days, Ethan helped Akara deal with herbs in the morning, and then in the afternoon when Akara made red potions, he practiced with some poor quality herbs next to him.
Akara will also take time to give some advice and tell him where he did something wrong and which aspect was well made. At the same time, she will also answer some Ethan's brains on the use of magic circles.
Compared to the previous purely open minds and using the magic array for a few days and gained a clearer understanding of the principle of using the magic array, some of the ideas I put forward were recognized and praised by Akara.
"If you can find a stable source of magic, then the magic arrays you just mentioned are feasible, but the construction of the magic array needs to be redesigned, which requires you to have a clear understanding of what the spell you are going to use."
Ethan didn't know this? According to his previous thoughts, he wanted to design a magic circle that could cast fireball techniques. The power did not even have to be too great, and he could just release a fist-sized fireball.
As for the temperature, concentration level, and the explosive power contained in the flame, he does not have much demands. Even a simple ball of fire is enough for him at present.
But even such a simple requirement cannot be achieved casually. This requires you to have a very clear understanding of the fireball spell. At least you must understand its principle, otherwise how to build a magic array?
The current situation is that Ethan understands the principles of energy supply and solves the source of energy, but he has no idea about the construction and final casting.
After all, Akara is a priest, not a mage. She is proficient in healing magic, not elemental attack magic, so if Ethan wants to complete the magic circle she expected, she needs to formally and systematically learn related magic knowledge.
If it were before, even if he wanted to learn, he wouldn't know who he would look for, but at present there happened to be a suitable candidate: Isandra, an excellent witch from the mage group, is a powerful mage who is good at the application of three elements of energy: flame, frost and lightning.
"You want to learn magic from me?"
Isandra has lived in the camp for a while and will take a long walk around the camp every day. While investigating the dark forces, she can help the camp clean up some surrounding dark creatures.
With the help of a powerful mage like Isandra, the Rogs in the camp were much less stressed, so Isandra's prestige in the camp was also increasing day by day.
The advantage is that it is very easy for Ethan to find Ethan's Isan Ra. You can tell where the "Magic Master Isan Ra'" is doing now after just asking.
"Simply put, I want to learn various principles of spells."
Ethan expressed his ideas and the idea of preparing to make several pieces of equipment engraved with specific magic circles.
After listening to the detailed explanation, Isandra just frowned: "It is indeed not difficult to make such magic equipment, but it is not very valuable."
Ethan wants to make all the simplest props, and there is no material requirement. It is just an ordinary equipment that is engraved with a magic array, and then casts spells preset in the magic array through the trigger of mental power. Similar equipment is not uncommon in this world, but no one will use such inferior materials to engrave such basic magic at the same time.
This kind of thing can even be called "rough and simple!" The orthodox mage of the orthodox inheritance obviously doesn't like this.
"Thinking about these is not good for your mage path. You should practice well and improve your mental power. In fact, as long as your mental power is improved a little, you can officially start learning spells. At that time, you can cast these simple magic with your bare hands."
Ethan shook his head helplessly: "But I have no self-protection power at all now. I may die at the hands of dark creatures at any time. If I die, how can I practice mental power or even learn magic?"
"Uh..." Isan Rara couldn't refute it. This was indeed a very realistic question: "Okay, I can tell you some basic magic principles."
These basic magic is not a secret that cannot be taught. Once you start to formally learn magic, you will know these things by a mage.
Isandra originally wanted to teach some simple introductory attack magic and defense magic, but soon changed her mind and took out a book from her luggage.
"This is a basic magic principle, I'm giving you. The spells you need are recorded in." Isandra looked at Ethan with a message on his face and finally added: "But I still want to remind you that simple basic magic is forgot. If you want to build more advanced magic on items, then you cannot succeed with ordinary materials."
Ethan nodded, he still knew this. Akara had mentioned to him before: "In fact, even a few magic circles that were about to get the weakened version."
Even if the entry-level magic is constructed according to the maximum power, it is not just a matter of finding something. Whether the magic power can accommodate the impact of greater energy will directly affect whether the magic array can be successfully arranged.
Those who have excellent conductivity and withstand a large amount of energy impact are particularly rare magic materials, which cannot be obtained in Ethan's current state.
Therefore, even though he got the entry-level magic principle of the whole book from Isandra, his plan did not change, and he still mainly used the weakened version of the small magic.
Just as he was about to go back and read the basic spell principles and choose the right little magic to make a few pieces of equipment, Isandra suddenly called Ethan who was about to leave.
"I have been exploring outside for a while, and finally I discovered that the place with the strongest dark energy in this area is an underground cave called the Evil Cave. After discussing with Akara, I thought that there might be a gathering point for all the dark creatures nearby."
"So?" Ethan didn't think that Ethan Ra was coming to him to form a team to fight the evil cave, and he didn't have the combat power.
"I need you to do me a favor." Isandra handed over a letter: "Before I came here, I met a Rasma priest, who was also exploring the reason for the surge in dark power, so I hope you can send me a letter to him and let him come here to destroy the dark creatures with me."
Chapter completed!