After purchasing the Eye Demon Potion and Fission Potion, Locke headed to Lijin Secret Language and found Yuli Burns. He spent three hundred Magic Stones to rent a [Differential Magic Mirror].
The Differential Magic Mirror was typically a device used only by official Breeders.
Its primary purpose was to assist with the Magic Resonance Breeding Method and the Grafting Breeding Method.
Instead of reflecting the Magic Plant's image, the Differential Magic Mirror displayed the internal structure of its magical components and Plant Essence.
When paired with a Focusing Monocle, an official Breeder could use the Magic Resonance Breeding Method to achieve more precise directional mutation cultivation.
Locke rented it mainly to accelerate the decryption of the Magic Plant Curse and to speed up the cultivation of variants of the Mutated Emerald Iris Lichen.
With these tools, he could create more sub-variants of the Emerald Iris Lichen more efficiently, which would help him better break the Blood Curse Court's curse.
At the same time, he planned to compile a data report on the Emerald Iris Lichen to enter it into the White Wizard Association's Breeder Competition finals.
However, before the finals, Locke felt it would be best to use the Emerald Iris Lichen to produce a Bear Spirit Bile Potion. This would verify the enhanced effects of this synthetic Magic Plant on the potion, and he could then write a report on the experimental data of this improvement.
Afterward, he would synthesize the potion, identify a special formulation, and then release a new potion.
Going through this cycle, he wondered how many papers he could publish as a result.
Even just summarizing the data would likely yield several B-grade papers.
Inside the Lijin Secret Language shop, Shopkeeper Yuli watched with surprise as Locke's Gray Dwarf servant loaded the Differential Magic Mirror onto the carriage.
She said softly to Locke, "Dear Locke, it seems you'll be quite busy lately. The Differential Magic Mirror is a high-level breeding device—it's only used for extremely precise breeding work."
"Most Breeders don't even need it."
Locke nodded slightly. "There's a particularly challenging problem I need it for right now."
Shopkeeper Yuli chuckled softly. "If even you find it difficult, it must be quite complex indeed."
Locke nodded again. The Magic Plant Curse was meticulously designed by the Wizard Seed of the Blood Curse Court. Its depth and intricacy were enough to stump most First Class Wizard Apprentiles from Lilith's Cottage.
Even within the Blood Curse Court's Curse Formula Research Institute, the Magic Plant Curse system was likely among the top-tier apprentice-level curses.
Over the past month, another patient afflicted with the Magic Plant Curse had fallen into his hands.
And because Lilith's Cottage lacked cross-disciplinary talents in both Potionology and the Breeder field among its Wizard Seeds, the Healing Hand Clinic still hadn't sent any wizard apprentices to resolve this issue.
Since it involved Breeding Studies, Angron simply pretended to know nothing about it—he hadn't visited his so-called "workshop" in the clinic for an entire month.
He was terrified that Locke, Angulo, and Essie might push the two patients onto him.
However, unlike Ruixing's situation, the two individuals afflicted this time were First Class Wizard Apprentices. Although the Curse on them couldn't be completely removed, it wasn't a major issue.
Both had already left the treatment center.
As long as they consumed a bottle of Lesser Emerald Potion each month to suppress the Curse, they would remain unharmed. The only drawbacks were their significantly weakened strength and the constant anxiety from the lingering Curse.
Thus, this Magic Plant Curse was far less dangerous than Hussein's Blood Curse. This was also why the four Wizard Seeds specializing in Potionology within the academy weren't urgently summoned to resolve it.
After purchasing everything he needed at the Chimera Market, Locke instructed his servants to deliver the items to his residence.
That night, in his study, Locke uncorked a vial of Eye Demon Potion. Inside the transparent liquid floated an eyeball, its surrounding nerves twitching and writhing as if still alive.
The moment he opened the vial, the eyeball instinctively rolled upward.
Suppressing his disgust, Locke downed the Potion in one gulp, swallowing the eyeball whole without chewing.
"This tastes absolutely revolting."
"But to enhance my meditation efficiency, there's no other choice."
His stomach churned as the effects of the Eye Demon Potion took hold within a minute. The world before his eyes erupted into a riot of colors, and clusters of eyeballs materialized in his vision.
His mental energy, influenced by the Potion, became unnaturally sensitive. The toxic abyssal energy within the Potion mingled with his psyche, inducing a paradoxical state of hypersensitivity and euphoria—a bizarre mix of discomfort and pleasure.
Everything around him seemed to sprout eyes.
Gritting his teeth, Locke focused his attention, immediately downing an Energy Potion and a Tears of Stars Potion before lighting the Four Seasons Fruit Kernel Incense in the censer before him.
As he entered meditation, his perception sharpened dramatically. The distant Nature Plane, which usually required intense focus to glimpse, suddenly felt startlingly close.
The Plane Power he drew from it had at least doubled.
The only issue was that the faint silhouette of the Nature Plane in the void now appeared to have a green eye—and over time, a red eye slowly emerged within it.
'This Potion has doubled my meditation efficiency!' Locke thought in astonishment. 'But the effects are far too intense.'
'It feels like my consciousness is splitting apart. My vision is flooded with eyeballs—some even seem to be trying to communicate with me. No, no, that's just an illusion. The side effects of the Eye Demon Potion are truly severe.'
'It's derailing my train of thought.'
Locke noticed that when meditating after consuming the Eye Demon Potion, the Mana gained would be mixed with numerous impurities, which seemed to contain abyssal energy.
However, he possessed the Deep Blue Treasure Diamond, which could filter out these Mana impurities, and the Deep Purple Gem, which could purify the toxicity of the potion.
Thus, after this entire process, these side effects were completely eliminated.
The only remaining issue was the hallucinations and mental confusion caused by the Eye Demon Potion—these side effects seemed unavoidable and had to be endured.
"If I could use the Eye Demon Potion daily, I might reach 600 in mental power within three years," Locke thought. "Of course, that's impossible."
"Even without the side effects of Mana impurities and potion toxicity, the mental disturbances alone mean I can't take it too frequently."
"But I can still take it more often than the standard safe dosage for a First Class Wizard Apprentice—once every three months. Perhaps five doses per month would be manageable, shortening the time needed to reach 600 in Mana to roughly two years."
"In that case, I could reach 600 in mental power in about four years."
Four years later, Locke would only be 22 years old—still very promising.
But that wasn't enough. There might still be ways to accelerate the process. Reaching 600 in mental power in four years was still too slow.
As for reaching 800—the threshold required to attempt a breakthrough to Formal Wizard—who knew how many more years that would take?
Uneasy, Locke glanced at the second potion in his hand—the Fission Potion—and pondered for a moment. "Better wait. I haven't fully recovered from the side effects of the Eye Demon Potion yet."
"It's best to heed advice and first test this on a Magical Creature to determine the safe dosage before consuming the Fission Potion myself."
"I don't know exactly how strong 'strong physical constitution' needs to be for the Fission Potion."
"What if, even after activating the Earth Magic Crest of the Orkney Ancient Giant Bear to enhance my defenses, my physique still isn't sufficient to withstand the Fission Potion? That would be troublesome."
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