Dave had been preparing for a long time to make the potion.
In fact, when he completely understood the book," Basic Potionology ", he had already met the minimum requirements for apprentice-level potion refinement.
And now, he had also read " Lin En's Potionology ". After completely digesting these two books on Potionology, an apprentice-level potion was no longer a problem for him in theory.
The materials needed for the explosive potion were all in the cabinet in the laboratory.
Dave checked carefully and found that the materials here were enough to make more than 30 potions.
He estimated that if he focused on refining, the materials would not last him for two days.
"Uh, although it's not right to use laboratory materials without permission, it's actually not a problem if I consider it part of my job scope.
" I'll probably have to take the final product with me, but if I tell Mrs. Izu about the gray table and what happened today, she'll probably understand."
In such a critical moment, Dave didn't care about the rules that all the potions refined in the lab would belong to the lab.
In the face of life and death, what was the point of this rule?
After preparing all the materials, Dave sat in front of his experiment table.
" There are still two days before Mrs. Izu's Potions class, which means that I'll be fine as long as I survive these two days.
"Then I'll just refine the potion in the laboratory for the next two days…."
He carefully read the formula of the explosive potion several times and then rehearsed the refining process three times in his heart.
Dave finally took out the first set of materials.
Glenn had given him a new set of high-quality equipment. The equipment used was all glass, but it was a pity that he did not have a magic blowtorch. Otherwise, he would have had a much easier time.
The Explosive Potion was one of the simpler potions among the Apprentice-level potions. Compared to Spirit Water, its refining process was only several times more complicated.
As it involved the compound reaction of many materials, the difficulty of refining was inevitably increased.
He turned on the animal oil torch and poured a bottle of Komo Lizard acid into the glass pot.
A refreshing sour taste spread out from the pot. Dave frowned and narrowed his eyes to avoid tears.
The smell reminded him of concentrated sulfuric acid, but it was better than concentrated sulfuric acid. The sour gas that he inhaled would not cause much damage to him.
When the acid in the pot started to boil, Dave turned off the animal oil torch, took out a leg of the Golden Alga Frog, wrapped it with mana, and threw it into the pot.
The characteristics of the two materials began to react as soon as they came into contact. With the formation of dense bubbles, the solution in the pot began to vibrate violently.
Dave had expected this to happen. He took out a bottle of spirit water that he had made himself and poured it into the pot.
At the same time, he covered the surface of the small pot with his gloved hands and began to pour mana into the small pot.
With the infusion of mana, the reaction in the small pot became more and more intense, but it was still maintained at a critical value. While maintaining the maximum reaction, there were no accidents.
Dave was relieved when the bubbles disappeared.
This meant that the fusion of the first two materials was complete.
At this step, the potion refinement was considered half successful!
The next material was the dry Ghost Pinewood charcoal.
He took out 10 grams of pine wood charcoal and used mana to enhance the remaining characteristics inside before using it.
As soon as Dave added the liquid into the pot, the already calm liquid suddenly started to boil violently.
Even though the animal oil burner had been turned off, the solution was boiling at an extremely fast speed. A red smoke began to evaporate from the small pot.
"Damn it. How could there be a problem with this step?"
Dave's pupils constricted. He threw the pot into the basin of salt water he had prepared earlier.
"Buzz…"
As steam rose, he heaved a sigh of relief.
If the first refinement failed, then so be it. This degree of failure was still acceptable to him.
However, judging from the reaction of the solution just now, if he did not handle it in time, the solution might have exploded…
Although he did not know how volatile that would be, it could be very dangerous...
This was an experiment table, and there were several precious pieces of equipment around it. If it really exploded, then he would probably have to sell the formula of the Modarsu Potion to compensate for the loss.
It seemed that he had to be careful in the subsequent refinement.
Fortunately, the recipe had written down the emergency measures in case of failure, and Dave was well prepared. That was why he didn't end up in the worst situation.
Dave thought back to the process and figured that he might have been too impatient.
It was also impossible for the formula to make every operation precise to the smallest of movements. Therefore, there would occasionally be some habitual operations that would cause the refinement to fail.
And this meant that potion refinement was all about trial and error.
Dave didn't give up. He washed the equipment again, took out the materials, and started the next batch.
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The first time he made the potion, which was the Spirit Water, Glenn was beside him, watching and giving him hints, which allowed him to succeed on the first try.
Now, without anyone to guide him, Dave had to do the whole process himself.
He failed three more times. On the fourth time, he successfully reached the last step, condensation.
Dave had made Spirit Water hundreds of times, so while he was not familiar with the other steps, he was very experienced in condensation.
Sure enough, with his subtle control of mana, even when the pot of solution was condensed into a tube, there were no accidents.
Dave was finally relieved when he sealed the finger-thick glass tube and looked at the blood-red potion inside.
The first potion in his mage career was finally successfully refined!
Although the Explosive Potion was only an Apprentice-level potion, and it was one of the easier ones, there was no doubt that his path of Potionology had taken another step forward!
Dave felt a surge of energy as he watched the mission panel's 0/10 move to 1/10.
After succeeding once, he would be even more confident in the subsequent refinement!