Two months have passed by.
The whole city of Capricia was taken by a storm. The talk of the town, a miracle healing potion that can revive you as long you have one breath left. Another is a cigar that can bring you to the wonderland for a short period of time. Lastly, the most recent one was the miracle pill that can give you the strength of a hundred bulls in bed. These three products were sold by merchants all over the Capricia and were selling like hotcakes.
Not only the slaves and commoners were using the products, but it was also very popular among the prestige high nobles.
Many were asking who was the main source? Many speculated that it came from another country brought by the nobles. Some say it came from the immortals that took pity on Capricia.
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In one of the prestige buildings in Caprica, owned by the high nobles, a man was sitting comfortably in a luxurious chair. In front of him were two knights and an old man.
He pick up the red small flask and said asked the old man, "Did you already find how the potion was created?"
The old man replied with a haggard voice, "No, sire. This potion is very ancient."
With anger, he threw the red flask to the old man's face, "You are useless! And you consider yourself the best alchemist in Capricia?"
Blood dripped on the man's face, "Forgive me, young master Ash. Even the other alchemist can't produce it, and we tried our best to find the recipe but we can't."
"You are making excuses, you piece of trash. Do you know how much this potion means to the kingdom?"
Ash then looked at the two guards that emit a strong aura and said, "Find the alchemists who created this potion. Don't stop even if you have to turn the whole Capricia upside down."
"If you can't find them, your heads will be on my foot."
When all the three left, he clenched his fist.
'If I bring this potion back to the kingdom, even Father will give me a chance to come back and leave this wretched City. Just wait till I come back I will fight for the throne succession."
'To my damnable brothers, I will get what is rightfully mine!'
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Meanwhile, Zane who was the culprit of the creation of the potions was at his underground house brewing a potion.
"Muhahaha"
"Finally! It was a success!"
Although the system has the ability to produce recipes, the potions still need to be done manually according to the system's instructions. Any errors or deviations lead to either lowering its quality or a full-blown explosion.
In Zane's hand is a glowing potion that switches from red to blue to green. After buying the hawthorns, Zane did not consume them right away. He wanted to check if there was a way to combine it with other fruits or herbs.
He found out that destiny fruits can only be combined with another destiny fruits. After a few days of scouring the markets, he found some of them. However, it cost him more than 15,000 credits points just to secure them, making Hawthorn the cheapest one.
After a few failures, Zane succeeded on his third attempt.
Triple Color Destiny Potion
Introduction: Increases 6 points of Strength, 2 points of Agility, and 4 points of Constitution. Can only be taken three times. Overconsumption can cause fatal poisoning.
Although it lowered the increase of strength to one point, he will be able to consume the potion three times. Initially, the Brute's Hawthorn can only be consumed twice.
'18 Points of Strength! Hahahaha' Zane laughed like a mad man in the underground tunnel. Behind him, Cecilia was meditating with her eyes closed.
Zane did not wait any longer and gulped the potion.
'It tastes like a sour lemon," he complained in his mind.
Soon, Zane's body started heating up. His muscles were twitching badly. Zane concluded that the fluid was breaking down all his excess body fats and using its stored energy to temper his body through faster metabolism with the help of strong chemical reactions.
The reason he was feeling the painful sensations was because his body was lacking with energy to temper the bones and the muscles; thus, it had to forcefully get the required energy from the mana out of his body.
Previously, to counteract the effects, Zane started eating five times more than the average man. The food offered by Capricia is very limited. Most of the time, Blood Warriors get hard bread, milk, and bits of meat. However, with Zane's money, he was able to buy pounds of meat that everyone would drool off.
When the effects of the potion start to get stronger, the pain will be extreme to the point that he won't be able to control his body. Zane mixed some drugs that would cause him to faint just to prepare for this.
"Cecilia, once I fainted, just lay me down on the bed. Wake me up right away once the twitching stops," he commanded.
Cecilia nodded.
The excruciating pain soon started to get stronger, so he quickly drank the sleeping potion. When Zane's head was about to fall down on the hard floor, a soft hand caught him.
Zane was very skinny and light when Cecilia tried to pick him up. It was her first time really having physical contact with Zane. She did what was told and laid Zane down on the soft bed.
She observed Zane's face for a moment, he is very skinny and so was his body. He is not handsome or ugly. If one can explain, he is very average. The most prominent is his short black hair which is very messy.
Cecilia is still curious how Zane managed to do all these things. First, she was amazed that Zane was able to buy a sizeable underground house. She even has a room of her own where it was large enough to practice her sword skills.
Afterward, Zane started buying all kinds of furniture, laboratory equipment, and other odd materials.
She also started eating the luxury food that even 1st rank nobles hesitate to buy. At first, she was afraid to eat but after Zane's reminder that she needed the strength to fight, she started eating without hesitation. Even before she was captured, she did not get this kind of banquet.
Zane also gave her a meditation technique called Sword Mantra. Although it is a basic mantra, Cecilia remembered that all mantras are forbidden to be sold throughout Capricia. In truth, Zane bought it for about 20,000 credits from Perry, who got it from his connections with Nobles.
Cecilia reached out of her hand and touched Zane's face. He was smiling silly for some reason. Cecilia faintly smiled as well. For some reason, Zane's smile made her relax. She put a blanket on him and went back to meditate.
Soon, Cecilia woke him up. The twitching lasted for two hours. Then, Zane opened his eyes to see Cecilia's face. He inspected his body and felt the newfound strength.
Then he looked at Cecilia's gentle face.
He frowned.
'It is not enough!' complaining in his mind.
Zane rested for a little bit and ate a large amount of food. He did not even care what he ate, it felt like his stomach was a black hole, quickly devouring whatever he ate.
Soon he started brewing madly again. This time around, he only failed once. He did not drink it but rather continued brewing his third potion, then the fourth, fifth, sixth, and finally the seventh Tripple Color Destiny Potion.
After the 7th potion, he ran out of most of the ingredients, including Brute's Hawthorns. Holding six potions in his hand, he had another mad laugh, not caring if Cecilia would think if he was mad or not. In his mind, these will be the shortcut for him to be able to get out of the Slave City.
Without hesitation, he drank two of them and the sleeping potion. Then darkness engulfed him.
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