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To understand why the augmentation phase was needed for rank 2+ potions, one needs to understand how rank 2 potions get concocted.

First, the catalyst gets thrown in the cauldron to get heated up. After it finishes, the mixed main ingredient and subsidiary ingredient follow it up.

Unlike rank 1 potions where the reaction always results in creating a useable concoction if the recipe was followed properly, the reaction in rank 2 would always end up failing.

Failure meant getting useless goo.

This would happen even if the microorganisms were taken care of.

That's due to the materials not being able to react to each other at all by nature itself...That's what most witches assume.

If supervised under a microscope, the only result would be the emergence of dark matter slowly creeping from the outside into the inside of the mixture.

The potioneer refer to this as the Dark Reaction.

It happens only with high-grade materials that were meant to concoct +2 rank potions.

Some witches considered this to be a failed reaction while others consider it to be a natural reaction that was simply meant to happen by the laws of the universe.

It was like the universe was forbidding them to merge the materials together.

Lady Sphinx being the founder of alchemy was the first to defy the universe's laws and attempt to merge those high-graded materials and turn them either into a potion or god knows what.

Lady Sphinx's entire existence was a rebel to the universe since she was one of the few beings still seeking its secrets.

Felix wasn't told by her how she defied the universe but a general concept was written in almost every potion-related book.

Hence, he knew that the potioneer role in this was to supervise the reaction on an atomic level then utilize her mental energy to manually save the reaction from going dark fully!

This phase was called Atomic Interference.

Naturally, it was impossible for the potioneer to allow every molecule to break apart and bond with others due to their immense numbers.

a drop of water has

never bother to manually save all of them but just what they could and use the mental energy to protect them from

dark reaction made it seem in the atomic world like a curse or a plague spreading throughout the two mixed ingredients, the potioneer would try his best to block it

saved only 20% of the mixture while the remaining 80%

had a 20% chance of turning into a useful concoction if the

this was The Augmentation

was included to increase the chances of turning the saved portion into

required the potioneer to add secondary positive materials that could help the

depends on luck and the amount

1%, it meant that he had only a 1%

melted into the catalyst, this

microorganisms during concoction instead of

a fraction of the difficulty of dealing with molecules

the reason why turning into an Expert Potioneer was the requirement of graduation in the academy while turning into an Apprentice Potioneer could be done just in

for each witch! Since it represents turning into

case of Felix...A

change his hiding spot since he saw two humanoid auras

he was in the library toilet, reading about the reviews for the Duskwraith potion and also if there were many witches concocting

mass-producing it anytime soon, he needs to figure

the reviews were

of them spoke highly about its effect that allows them to harness an astronomical level of

many situations since energy was literally the source of life for

many rich lords were

they weren't that many since the recipe was

it since the

them on that

away from his face while looking with his infrared vision at the library

best that I return to the castle and remain there for the duration until the

was the best move currently to avoid trouble. Soon, he called Sage Dalilia, informing her about his

agreement, he put on his hat and went outside of the bathroom. Then, he avoided the witches on the floors

the entrance, he beamed his hover platform and swiftly left towards

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