<h4>Chapter 458 - Concocting Rejuvenation Potion!</h4>


    Teacher H manifested a humongous holographic screen and on it were materials, their description, uses, and names. Above it, there was a potion and its recipe to concoct it.


    "Today we will be continuing our practice of rejuvenation potion." Teacher H rified while eyeing Felix, "Since concocting this potion is one of the requirements to get the Apprentice Potioneer License, we will be mostly working on it with some other potions on the side this semester."


    "Alright, close your eyes and enter the UVR''s version of the lecture hall by using the link on the screen." Teacher H was the first to sit on her desk and close her eyes.


    With great familiarity, the witches ced their heads on their hands and logged in as well. Felix looked around him for a second or two before copying the link and using it to log in after them.


    When he opened up his eyes, he realized that nothing changed. He was still in the same chair and in the same lecture hall. Everyone was in their ces like they were still in reality.


    The only difference would be the newly emergedb next to the teacher H. It was almost identical to the one Felix saw during his Elemental Potion Concoction.


    Two long tables, one filled with ssware while the other had materials, vials, and equipment ced in an orderly manner.


    There was a wooden circr table sandwiched between them. A bronze cauldron was ced above the hole in the center of the table.


    "Although I have already given you a demonstration, I will do it again since a new student had joined us." Teacher H said.


    The witches didn''tin about the arrangements since it was always a learning experience to see a senior witch concocting a potion. They could learn something every time.


    Meanwhile, Felix nodded his head in appreciation to Teacher H and entered a focused state, not wanting to miss anything.


    Although he read and even practiced a bit in the UVR, he was still struggling to seed continuously in concocting the easiest potion since there was no one to guide him.


    Lady Sphinx didn''t bother to give him even a single piece of advice.


    "Listen well, the 1st step that needed to be prepared is always the catalyst." Teacher H lifted a long ss tube that was filled with green liquid and continued, "This is the essence of themonly known Marmador Grass. It is going to serve as the catalyst in our potion."


    Teacher H ced the ss tube in its ce, not wanting to exin any further what those terms implied or how to extract the essence since that would need at least a couple of hours.


    She didn''t know if Felix had read books about it or not, but she wasn''t nning on dying the ss just for him.


    Hence, he understood that the catalyst was going to be used to incentivize and increase the chemical reaction between the main ingredients and the subsidiary ingredient.


    Each potion had its own perfect catalyst that had been discovered after thousands of trials and tests.


    Just like the Elemental Potion, the purity fountain drops were the catalyst in its concoction.


    "After we finish preparing the catalyst, we move on to preparing the rest of the materials."


    Teacher H ced the green tube in its holder on the ssware table and went to the preparation table.


    On it, there were the known materials for Rejuvenation Potion.


    The main ingredient was a leaf of Dire Boxwood. It was a big yellow leaf with ck dots on its entire surface.


    The subsidiary ingredient was three feathers of a Fake Vermilion Bird. They were ced neatly on the table.


    "Just like you get taught in the Materials Preparation ss, you need to cut the leaf into tiny pieces and ce them in a bowl." Teacher H exined while cutting the leaf meticulously like a world-ss chief.


    Then she threw the cmus of each feather away while the vanes were mixed together with the pieces of the leaf in one bowl.


    "After mixing them carefully, you leave them together for 2 minutes." Teacher H walked back to the ssware table and took the catalyst.


    "To make your concoction more efficient, you need to pour the catalyst in the empty cauldron right now." Teacher H opened up the bronze cauldron''s lid and poured the green liquid inside.


    Then, she turned on the fire and closed the lid on it. Felix understood that this step was required in possibly every potion concoction.


    Catalyst needed to be always thrown first and prepared to receive the rest of the ingredients so the reaction would ur instantly.


    "It takes exactly two minutes for the catalyst to be fully heated and prepared." Teacher H rified, "Hence the moment the leaf''s pieces finish absorbing healing properties from the vanes, you could straightaway start the concoction."


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    Felix nodded his head in understanding as he had read that this was the method used by most witches who concoct bulks of rejuvenation potions.


    There was another method but only master potioneer were capable of pulling it off.


    In a short while, Teacher H opened up the lid and threw the mixture inside. Instead of closing the lid, she whipped out her tail''s eye and brought it closer to the bubbling green mixture.


    The screen was currently disying the microscopic world of the mixture!


    However, it wasn''t static at all but moving left, right, up, and down with a terrifying speed, making it almost impossible to see what was going on.


    However, no one seemed bothered by their inability to see the process as they knew that when teacher H finishes, she would y it back in slow motion.


    Thirty secondster...Teacher H switched her vision to her normal eyes, making everyone focus back on her. She immediately closed the lid and increased the fire to the limit.


    Felix noted down everything she was doing since all of those steps were a must to make the concoction turn sessful. Especially the time!


    It needed to be respected down to the second! Hence, teacher H turned off the fire exactly five secondster while opening the cauldron''s lid in one single motion!


    Whoosh!


    Greenish smoke surged from within the cauldron and spread throughout the area, making the witches near the caldron enjoy a fragment filled with life and vigor.


    Teacher H smelt this fragment so many times she was numbed to it. Thus, she went to the ssware table and picked an empty spherical ss potion.


    A few momentster, the potion was filled to the brim. Teacher H ced the cauldron in its ce and closed its lid.


    Then, she held the potion before everyone and said calmly, "If you have any questions about the external process feel free to ask before we switch to the internal process."


    Whoosh!


    Every witch in the ss turned their heads to look at Felix like he was the dumbest person in the ss.


    Felix''s lips twitched but he didn''t raise his hand to voice a question. He didn''t have many troubles with external concoction since it wasn''t really that hard for rejuvenation potion.


    What he was finding difficulty with was the internal concoction that was based on the microscopic world.


    Upon seeing that no one was lifting their hands; not even Felix, teacher H ced the potion on the table and pped her hands twice.


    "Pay attention to the screen." Teacher H mentioned while ncing at Felix, "Rank 1 potions are the easiest to concoct for a simple reason. You are not required to tamper with the molecules of the ingredients. But simply supervise the mixture and destroy the Microorganisms that are refusing to die by heat."


    Felix understood this much and even memorized the Microorganisms types and some of themon one''s names.


    Each type had characteristic cellrposition, morphology, mean of lotion and reproduction. Most of them could be easily killed by either heat or extreme coldness.


    But the ones found in the materials used for the concoction were too tough to be killed by normal means.


    Each material could host potentially millions of those microorganisms since they were rich in elemental energy, attracting them like bees getting attracted to flowers.


    If they couldn''t be killed to clean the materialspletely, the potion concoction would be affected negatively since they would be merged with the mixture.


    For potions that require meticulous steps and recipes, their existence made it impossible for them to seed.


    The only way to destroy them without affecting materials at all was by controlling mental energy at a microscopic level.


    Any other method that was tested resulted in the materials getting affected.


    Felix read that the Metal Race was still working to this day on creating a substance that could totally get rid of those microorganisms without leaving a trace like the Witches Spiritual Eyes.


    So far, nothing was heard from this project.


    But if it seeded it meant that other races would be able to concoct basic rank 1 potions!


    But only rank 1 potions since from rank 2+, the Potioneers would be required to interfere in the reaction itself above killing those microorganisms.


    That''s why Expert Potioners and above were a league on their ownpared to Apprentice Potioners!