Locke looked at Alicia with surprise and said, "Is there something?"

Alicia, wearing amaranth-colored wizard robes and a void gem ring, faced Locke's indifference and bit her lip, then crossed her fingers and said, "Um..."

"You saved me, and I haven't properly thanked you yet. If you need some potion materials, perhaps I can provide them. My astral ring stores materials for almost all First Circle stage potions." Alicia added, "I'm also a potion master. My main research is in enhancement buff-type potions."

Locke looked at Alicia with surprise. That was the same research direction as Senior Albert.

Locke thought for a moment, "I need golden ringworm spores, chaos-colored tulip bulbs, rainbow iris false scaly jellyfish, and ore from haunted gold mines."

"I don't have these four materials, or they're scarce."

"Do you have them? If you do, we can make a normal transaction."

Alicia hurriedly searched her astral ring. After a while, she said, "Mm, I do have all four of these materials in my ring."

"Chaos-colored tulip bulbs? That's a mid-to-high level magical plant, and it's a type of abyssal magical plant. Potions prepared with this material are generally abyssal potions."

Alicia looked at Locke, "Am I right, Locke?"

"You're a potion master who mainly researches abyssal potions. You're also using haunted gold mine ore as an auxiliary material to remove the toxicity of chaos-colored tulip bulbs. I think you're preparing to brew a Mammon's Powder Potion."

Locke looked at Alicia with surprise. The Land of Six Towers' potion fundamentals were so poor, yet unexpectedly, this person from the Plutarch family actually had quite good potion fundamentals.

Alicia understood his thoughts from Locke's gaze and said, "I studied potion studies at Virdantia University."

"The Land of Six Towers' potion studies are too poor, and I'm very interested in potions, so I went to study in the nearby southeastern quadrant. The research level for status enhancement-type potions at Virdantia University in the southeastern quadrant is extremely high. It's their academy's strongest discipline, famous throughout several nearby wizard lands."

"And I studied potion studies under the best potion studies wizard mentor at Virdantia University."

"My mentor said I'm a genius in the field of potion studies. So... Locke, perhaps I can help you. I want to be your potion master assistant once. Let me into your laboratory. I can definitely help you."

"This is also to repay your life-saving grace."

Locke glanced at her and thought for a moment, feeling this advantage wasn't worth declining. From Alicia's performance just now, her potion studies were indeed quite good.

Whether she was a genius or not, he didn't know, but her current level should indeed be able to help him.

So Locke nodded, "I am indeed preparing to brew a Mammon's Powder."

"Then follow me."

Alicia hesitated, "But Locke, abyssal potions' side effects are all relatively obvious. Mammon's Powder belongs to potions with relatively severe side effects among them. Generally, not many wizards dare to take this kind of potion."

"Besides the common side effect of causing elemental imbalance in the body, Mammon's Powder potion has another uncommon, very hidden side effect. I read about it in an article at Virdantia University. That article was published by one of my seniors."

"Mammon's Powder potion will make the user become arrogant in personality for a period of time and love teaching others how to succeed. Because it's not very obvious, ordinary wizards rarely observe this point during the third phase of testing for this potion."

"After all, many people have the habit of being preachy teachers. So it's difficult to distinguish whether it's the user's own personality, or caused by drinking the potion, or whether the trait the potion bestowed on the user was actually activating a trait the user originally had."

"My senior found several people with very modest personalities, and also found an enchanter to cast Enchantment School spells on a commoner, making them good at reflection and summary. No matter what they encountered in life, they would attribute mistakes to themselves and reflect, then had these people separately take diluted Mammon's Powder potion. The result... all these people showed characteristics of arrogant personalities and being preachy teachers."

Alicia said, "From this, my senior proved that Mammon's Powder has a hidden side effect that affects the user's personality."

Locke frowned and asked, "Did your senior do outcome experiments for long-term users? What happened afterward?"

Alicia shook her head, "First Circle potion experiments must consider cost issues. First Circle potions are really too precious, so this kind of outcome experiment is rarely done."

While they spoke, they had already entered Locke's suite in the living area. Locke walked into the simple potion room in the suite, took out potion materials from his astral ring, and the most important main material, Mammon demon's blood.

This was a bottle of blood he had extracted early on from the 'ghost hand' on Howard's body. Alicia also took out from her astral ring the four potion materials Locke had mentioned earlier.

Alicia said, "But I have a way to reduce some of this mental influence direction side effect of Mammon's Powder potion."

Alicia found paper and pen gifted by the Day-Chasing Silver Shuttle on the potion room's operating table and rapidly wrote down a formula. "Look, this is my idea."

"This might be able to remove the side effects of Mammon's Powder potion to the greatest extent. Of course, this way, the physical constitution requirements for the user would be even higher."

Alicia thought, "Perhaps my method isn't very practical. According to my calculations, it would probably require that First Circle wizard's body to be as strong as a humanoid behemoth to be able to take this potion. But even in our Land of Six Towers, Evocation School wizards who modify their own bloodlines rarely have people who can strengthen their flesh to that intensity. This is simply an impossible degree to achieve."

Locke immediately looked at the content written on Alicia's paper. After reading it, he immediately looked at Alicia with surprise.

The content above was actually a status enhancement buff potion. Its main concept was to specially develop and pair a buff enhancement-type potion to counteract the side effects of Mammon's Powder potion according to Mammon's Powder potion's side effects.

Then the two would be taken simultaneously according to a designed consumption sequence precise to the second, hoping to have the side effects of the two potions offset each other.

This was a very bold idea.

Locke couldn't help but look at Alicia with new eyes, discovering he might have underestimated this witch before.

The other party's combat ability, life experience, and mentality might be a bit lacking, but the other party was indeed the witch with the highest talent in the Plutarch family in nearly a hundred years.

'Whether descendants have talent basically depends on luck, so wizard organizations based on master-disciple relationships are more powerful than wizard organizations based on blood relationships.' Locke thought. He looked at the expectant Alicia, 'It seems the Plutarch family's luck is quite good this time.'

Locke said to Alicia, "Alright, Alicia. Perhaps we can exchange knowledge in the field of potion studies. This might be beneficial to both of us. As long as you're willing."

Witch Alicia smiled because she received Locke's recognition.