"...Finally, the princess of the water fairy clan sent me back to the shore."
As the bell rang for the end of get out of class, Lockhart's "Encounter with the Water Fairy Princess at the Far Star Lake" finally came to an end.
It has to be said that Lockhart does have the potential to be a bard, and he spoke his autobiography for a whole class with great emotion, without any pause in the middle.
It's a pity that, except for those girls in adolescence, most students are not interested in this kind of nutritious class.
After all the girls who were asking for autographs had left, Lockhart finally came over and asked, "Sherlock, how was my class?"
"Very interesting!" Sherlock said with a smile.
The Magic and Nature course is designed to explore the connection between magic and nature.
Although Lockhart spent the entire class talking about his autobiography, the knowledge mixed in was indeed helpful for them to understand magic and nature.
For example, the character and customs of the water fairies, techniques and precautions for casting spells in water, etc.
"Discerning!" Lockhart seemed very happy with Sherlock's approval and proactively said, "Are you free tonight? Maybe I can guide you in the use of natural magic?"
"Sorry, Professor Lockhart, Professor Snape is going to teach me his experience in refining medicine tonight." Sherlock said regretfully.
"Severus? He has never been kind to you Gryffindor students. How could he be so kind?"
"My former alchemy teacher Firenze recommended me to go there." Sherlock confessed.
"So, Firenze is Snape's Potions teacher." Lockhart said clearly: "Then when you are free, you can come to me at any time."
"Okay, thank you, Professor!" Sherlock said respectfully, "Professor, I have something to ask you for help."
"What's up?"
"I want to borrow the Ravenclaw Diadem of Wisdom from the college's treasury, but the treasure trove's caretaker, Mrs. Lorris, needs me to find three professors as guarantees."
Lockhart understood the cause and effect: "Besides me, who else did you look for?"
"You are the first one. Next, I am going to ask Professor Snape and Professor McGonagall for help."
"Severus is very defensive. Since he is willing to tutor you in Potions alone, he should be able to help you. However, Minerva, who is known for being fair and strict, is not so easy to talk to." Lockhart suggested: "I think you can do it.
Try asking Hagrid for help?"
"Professor Hagrid?"
"You are a Druid, so you should be able to chat with Hagrid. Besides, Hagrid is very enthusiastic and willing to help the students of the academy." Lockhart said with a smile.
"Okay, I understand." Sherlock nodded and said, "Thank you, Professor."
…
Saying goodbye to Lockhart, Sherlock walked into Snape's office again.
Snape was refining a potion, and without turning his head he said to his back: "Sea flea, spider scent, and cat's claw are all on the table. If there are not enough, go to the cabinet and get them. Make the potion before class tomorrow morning."
When you come out, I will accept you as my disciple."
"Okay, Professor!" Sherlock didn't say much, and sat down directly to calculate the material ratio.
A new potion cannot be successfully developed just by knowing the materials. The processing of the materials, the proportions, and the refining steps all need to be tried one by one.
Like the dragon power that Sherlock participated in refining before, Tian Linger spent at least half a month on early research and development to come up with a rough formula. In the end, Firenze improved it before he could refine it.
feasibility.
The potion with the effect of concealing the aura that Sherlock needs to refine now is much simpler than the power of the dragon, but it is still very difficult to develop it in one night.
The first is the processing of materials.
The sea float moth is a moth that floats on the water surface, disguised as fallen leaves, and feeds on insects and flies.
This creature itself has no medicinal value, but when a parasitic wasp called a parasitic wasp lays eggs in their bodies, their scales will mutate and possess the magic power to make the creatures invisible.
Therefore, Sherlock's first step is to brush off the scale powder on the wings of the sea float fly.
This is a process that requires great patience and carefulness. If you accidentally scrape the debris of the wings into it, all the scale powder will become unusable.
The key is that if you don't observe carefully, you won't know whether the debris is mixed in, and you can only find out the problem later when you are refining the medicine.
In comparison, spider scent and cat's claw are much easier to deal with.
Spider incense comes in the form of sun-dried flakes, which can be softened in warm water to activate its medicinal properties.
Cat's claw is crushed and juiced. It's okay to add a few more layers of filters for purity.
After processing the materials, it’s time to mix the materials.
There is no way around this. Sherlock can only estimate a rough range based on the magic power of the three materials. The specific ones can only be determined by trial and error through experiments.
This is another long and boring process.
After repeated failures, batch after batch of materials were used up, and it was already midnight in the blink of an eye.
Sherlock did not go to dinner, and Snape also did not leave the office. The two of them were immersed in their respective test benches studying the potions on hand, without saying a word the whole time.
…
4.50am
Sherlock finally found a suitable ratio of materials. Although it was not the most perfect, at least he refined the finished potion.
Sherlock II - Invisibility Potion: Quality 39, sprinkled on the body to enter invisibility, lasts 3 minutes.
"The basic skills are quite solid, and the pharmacological theory is also well learned." Snape came over at some point.
"Then am I qualified to be your disciple?" Sherlock said excitedly.
Snape nodded and handed over a bottle of green potion: "Drink it."
Agility Potion: Quality 85, permanently increases agility by 1-3 points after taking it
"Teacher, have you been refining this just now?" Sherlock sighed, and then heard the system prompts Agility Permanent 2.
"I don't need an apprentice with such clumsy hands and feet." Snape said with a cold face.
"Thank you, teacher!" Sherlock replied with a smile. He already had a general understanding of his teacher's temperament, which was cold on the outside and hot on the inside.
"From now on, come to my office on time at six o'clock every Wednesday and Saturday night, and don't bother me the rest of the time."
"Okay, teacher." Sherlock nodded, and then talked about borrowing the crown of wisdom.
"It is an extremely stupid behavior to blindly improve skill levels without paying attention to one's own knowledge reserves and skill training." Snape looked over with sharp eyes like an eagle.
Sherlock knew he had to explain clearly, so he could only confess: "Teacher, my second-level profession requires three life skills to reach the master level, but I really don't have that much time and energy."
"What profession?" Snape asked sharply.
"I don't know this either. It was Shanda Keer's incarnation that gave me a clue."
"Are you a follower of the Wind Rider?"
"Well, we are challenging the electorate trial." Sherlock nodded.
Snape thought for a moment and finally agreed: "If I find that you cannot keep up with my teaching progress, I will immediately terminate our master-disciple relationship."
