“Morning, Adapt Levine.”
Eren greeted the potion master with a courtesy bow. He had co to the small library attached to the potioning lab, where Levine was busy reading through so books. The latter looked at him and raised her brows before replying:
“Hmm? I don’t think we have a lecture set for today, Eren. is sothing the matter?”
Eren flashed a broad grin at the Adept rankers before replying:
“I got it. The thing that you were looking for.”
It took a while for Levine to realize what Eren was talking about. The look of urgency was seen on her face as she could only utter a few words to describe it:
“Show .”
Eren didn’t play the tease and retrieved the runic container from his storage space. Levine practically snatched it from his hands as soon as she saw it appear in front of her.
Levine freed the C-Rank ingredient from its confines and observed it closely. An inspectional glance soon replaced urgency, paving the way for unmasked ecstasy.
“Brillant, Eren. This Malva Hibiscus is top-notch. Just the way I wanted it.
You have even harvested it the right way. I’m utterly satisfied.
I know you want my discipleship to use my na and contact, Eren. But for this favour you’ve done for , I don’t see that as a problem.
Here, take this. Bound it with your blood and mana.”
Levine handed a token to Eren, which had an image of a cauldron on one side and the na Montmorency on the other. There were also intricate runic inscriptions that seed to glow with a faint light as soon as Eren touched them.
This was a ranked item. Eren just didn’t know which one. But he didn’t dally and did what Levine told him to do. Soon the item was bound by the butcher who then looked at the D-Ranker for an explanation:
“That’s your discipleship badge, Eren. It will prove useful to you in the future. From today onwards, you are my disciple and I’m your teacher.
I’d give you more details regarding our arrangent. But not now. Give a few days to sort out so affairs that need my imdiate attention. I’ll contact you when the ti’s right.”
Levine was clearly in a rush and wanted to deal with her problem imdiately. Instead, she wanted to talk to the person who had beco the delivery man for what she desired the most. Eren had realized this but he couldn’t help but add a comnt of his own:
“Thank you, teacher Levine. I’m glad to be under the tutelage of such a talented potionier.
But I’d like to remind you at the risk of sounding ignorant about your expertise. Malva Hibiscus is a mild ingredient in nature. But its effects would change drastically if it’s distilled with mana-core-healing potions that also tend to be mild. If you…”
Eren wanted to continue warning Levine about sothing but the latter just chuckled before interrupting him:
“Hehe! Eren, you an to say I won’t be able to handle the effects of my creation because I made so rookie mistake?”
Eren shook his head before replying:
“No, I am not saying that. But I’m saying that instead of adding another agent in your potion to act as the neutralizer, why not use the side-product of the sa ingredient that it is compatible with?”
“You have stored the irritant gas of the ingredient as well while harvesting?”
Instead of confirming Levine’s questions, Eren removed a portion of the irritant gas that was released by the C-Rank ingredient as a defence chanism. He had another container of the irritant gas with him that he kept in his storage space.
“I think this much should be enough.”
Eren handed the vial to Levine, whose face was etched with surprise. The kid in front of her didn’t understand the value of this irritant gas, but she did.
With this, Levine now had both the ingredient and a stabilizing agent to concoct the potion she needed for so long now. She felt happy, yes. But her happiness was overshadowed by Eren’s in-depth preparation to harvest the ingredients the right way even when he knew nothing about their effects.
‘The boy ca prepared, I must say.’
Thought Levine before smiling wholeheartedly. With the irritant gas added to the distilling process, the potion’s quality she was preparing to brew would be exceptional even by her standards.
“Eren, do you know about my mana core damage?”
Levine couldn’t help asking when she heard the guy talk about healing potions that treated damaged mana core. Malva Hibiscus could have been a dead giveaway if it wasn’t used in various potion recipes.
So Eren coming with that spot-on conclusion was still sowhat surprising for Levine who was waiting for her new disciple to answer her question.
“Oh, I just guessed after talking with my aunt Nina about Malva Hibiscus. You have regressed in your ranking journey, right? Although a C-Rank ingredient is ideally not suited for your requirent, I’m sure potioners at your level will have countless ways to deal with such an issue.”
Eren used Nina’s na again to skip any explanation about how he knew about things, which he knew because of the past tiline. Levine had regained her ranking status as a C-Rank Expert ranker in the past tiline. All thanks to her past-future disciple finding her the Malva Hibiscus. So he thought Levine had regressed to D-Rank from C-Rank.
But he underestimated the effects of compatible stabilizing agents the potions at higher rank needed to up their quality. The sa stabilizing agent he had provided to Levine.
“Oh! So it was your healer guardian that might have co up with that conjecture.
Hehehe! You are right about my regression alright. But let’s just say that you underestimate not only as a potioneer but also as a ranker.”
Eren was confused about what Levine was talking about. So he was about to ask for an explanation but it seed that he didn’t have to. That’s because Levine provided it for him with her next statent:
“Had it been only Malva Hibiscus, I would have only regained my status as a C-Ranker. But with the compatible stabilizing agent in my hands, I might just be able to create a Master rank potion. You know what that ans right?”
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