One week later.

Inside the Day-Chasing Silver Shuttle's isolation room, a Third-rank wizard apprentice who had taken the potion jointly prepared by Locke and Alicia sat in the isolation room after drinking the diluted Mammon's Powder potion.

He waited for more than ten minutes, then his face suddenly turned golden, his pupils seemed to turn into gold, then after one-third of a second, the golden color on his face rapidly disappeared, and his pupils returned to normal.

Then, he stood up and looked with extreme joy at the mental power emitting a faint golden light covering the surface of his palm.

Even diluted Mammon's Powder potion would cause his mental power to produce some substantialization effects.

Mental power substantialization was indeed only a natural phenomenon that naturally occurred when mental power exceeded 3000 under the effect of permanent defensive fields.

But this didn't mean one couldn't use potion studies methods to obtain partial mental power substantialization characteristics in advance, it just didn't have much meaning.

After all, what was powerful wasn't mental power substantialization, but rather the magical pressure reaching several thousand that resulted from substantialization.

This Third-rank wizard apprentice from the Day-Chasing Silver Shuttle who volunteered to participate in the experiment shouted, "Two lords, my mental power has shown substantialization results, exactly as you told me."

Outside the observation window, Locke and Alicia exchanged glances. Alicia spoke, "Apprentice, there's a set of cognitive test questions on the table. Please complete them."

Half an hour later, Locke and Alicia looked at the cognitive test questions this apprentice had answered. A trace of joy flashed in Alicia's eyes, "Locke, he hasn't been negatively affected by Mammon's Powder potion on his personality."

"We succeeded."

"Locke, I didn't expect that making potions with you could be so interesting."

"In my view, your talent in potion studies is even higher than mine." Alicia said, "I didn't expect that just slightly changing the process could reduce Mammon's Powder's side effects to that degree."

"Your idea of using ice elemental magical flame to cold-process Mammon blood, having haunted gold ore, Mammon blood, and chaos-colored tulip bulbs slowly precipitate effective natural magical components over 48 hours and letting them slowly interact to eliminate the vast majority of toxicity had such good results."

Locke nodded slightly.

The Third-rank wizard apprentice before them was the experimental subject selected by the two a week ago for third-phase testing.

What he drank was one drop of Mammon's Powder potion diluted a thousand times and a bottle of toxicity offsetting potion specially created by Alicia to counteract Mammon's Powder potion's toxicity, also diluted a thousand times of course.

The two diluted potions interacted within this apprentice's body, successfully eliminating the side effects that should have appeared from taking Mammon's Powder potion.

First Circle potions were all extremely precious, and commoners also couldn't directly drink them, so generally when conducting potion experiments, the practice was to give subjects diluted liquid mixtures diluted a thousand times.

Based on the subject's reactions and using formulas, they would extrapolate backward to predict the effects on First Circle wizards after increasing the concentration.

This was also a helpless measure devised to save costs.

Locke glanced at Alicia. Alicia's talent in potion studies was astonishingly high. Many of her insights were very interesting and could give him much inspiration.

He had only cooperated with her for just over a week, yet had made rapid progress in potion studies.

This also let him witness what a true genius in potion studies was.

As for himself, he could improve the heat process entirely because he had previously brewed three bottles of Mammon's Powder potion that the system considered level 7.

After three level 7 Mammon's Powder potions synthesized together into a level 8 synthesized item, its recipe entry reminded him of this.

But even so, Mammon's Powder potion's side effects were only minimized as much as possible, far from reaching the current state of having no side effects at all.

It was Alicia who directly created a corresponding toxicity offsetting potion for the Mammon's Powder potion he had improved, ultimately almost completely eliminating this potion's toxicity.

This Third-rank wizard apprentice walked out of the isolation room with a joyful smile on his face. Originally, his talent on the Day-Chasing Silver Shuttle wasn't very good at all, only level 3 talent.

According to the Day-Chasing Silver Shuttle's rules, if he couldn't advance to Second-rank wizard apprentice within five years, he would be forced to disembark and leave the Day-Chasing Silver Shuttle.

Those who could ultimately remain on this void warship as alchemists were only those who had been selected and possessed sufficient talent but he had now bet correctly.

For formal wizards, perhaps mental power substantiating early was completely insignificant but for the perspective of a Third-rank wizard apprentice, mental power substantiating early meant he possessed a trump card. His mental telekinesis became stronger, spell effects would become better.

Only this way could a Third-rank wizard apprentice with level 3 talent possibly have the ability to strive for his own future.

This Third-rank wizard apprentice said to Locke and Alicia, "Thank you, two mentors."

Locke nodded and let him leave.

While Alicia was still at the table calculating with paper and pen, "The side effects were almost completely eliminated. Although potion toxicity will definitely remain, that's a normal phenomenon. Almost every potion has potion toxicity."

"It's just that if undiluted Mammon's Powder potion and toxicity offsetting potion are taken together, they will produce energy-scale reactions of greater magnitude within a wizard's body."

Alicia frowned slightly, "So now the problem is, although at the apprentice stage, my toxicity offsetting potion hypothesis was able to be completed because you improved the Mammon's Powder potion recipe, Locke."

"But because at the formal wizard stage, the energy offsetting reaction produced by two bottles of original potions will be even more intense, although the physical quality requirements for wizards are about half lower than what I originally designed, they still have extremely high physical quality requirements for wizards."

"Unless a small portion of Evocation School bloodline modification wizards can meet this requirement, otherwise ordinary wizards still don't have sufficient constitution to take it. Locke? Don't!"

When Alicia turned around, she was startled. She saw Locke directly open the Mammon's Powder potion and drink it down, while simultaneously drinking a bottle of toxicity offsetting potion.

Locke's face instantly turned golden, as if layers of gold leaf were pasted on his face. His pupils also turned golden. But after one-third of a second, all these colors receded and his complexion returned to normal.

"If the energy reaction is reduced to this degree, my physical strength should be sufficient." Locke said to Alicia. 𝒻𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝘯𝘰𝑣ℯ𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝘮

Through this week of cooperation, the two had developed a good relationship and become friends.

Locke checked his body and discovered that his mental power had rapidly improved due to Mammon's Powder potion. Just drinking Mammon's Powder potion once had increased a large amount of magical power, and the Golden Twin-Headed Dragon bloodline taking form in his body also seemed to have accelerated its formation because of this.

'I still need to do more detailed checks to determine how much magical power increased. But since Mammon's Powder potion's side effects have almost completely disappeared, I can take one bottle per day.'

'What limits me is only the quantity of raw materials.'

'My mental power can therefore rapidly improve. I can reach liquefaction stage faster than originally anticipated, and the Golden Twin-Headed Dragon bloodline's formation speed can also accelerate.'

Alicia looked at Locke with some lingering fear, looking him up and down. After confirming he indeed had no problems, she frowned and said, "Locke, how could you drink a potion still being tested? People with status like you and me shouldn't be so reckless. What if something happened to you? You're my only friend."

Locke looked at Alicia strangely and said, "I'm just an ordinary wizard, I don't really have status. Besides, Alicia, how is it that you only have me as a friend?"

"Moreover, I've already confirmed this potion is very safe."