Chapter 54: Heart of the Stone Giant

The stone giant's heart is a necessary potion material for second-class wizard apprentices to advance to third-class wizard apprentices. This stuff is generally not available.

Because making the potion must keep the stone giant's heart active, it needs to be soaked in the potion to maintain its activity for two months.

If a second-class wizard apprentice wants to be promoted, he must take magic potion within two months and then become a third-class wizard apprentice.

Therefore, the heart of the stone giant is usually that after the second-class wizard apprentice reaches his limit, he will then search for the stone giant, and then complete the series of processes of hunting, making potions, and promotion.

The processing of the stone giant's heart was a case study in the course "Introduction to the Basics of Potion Science". Herrag had done several experiments with models in the experimental class, and he was already familiar with the process.

He is also the only wizard apprentice in this batch of courses who successfully completed the stone giant's heart experiment, and the others failed.

"A first-class wizard apprentice can handle the stone giant's heart. Do you need to participate in the battle?" Herage sent a message to the task issuer.

The person who issued the task was called Bessie, and she seemed to be a woman.

"First class wizard apprentice? Are you sure you can handle the stone giant's heart?" Bessie asked.

"I have attended Mr. Larry's potions course and am familiar with the treatment of the stone giant's heart." Herrag replied.

"Well... you come to the Lion Cafe in town and have a chat in person." Bessie decided to meet him.

The Lion Cafe is located in the center of the town, where many wizards choose to talk, communicate or have fun.

When Herage arrived outside the Lion Cafe, he smelled the aroma of coffee wafting in the air.

He opened the door and saw a familiar person, the tall woman who bought him three bottles of Bai Xian healing potion.

"Hrag?" Bessie asked.

Herage smiled and said, "I didn't expect it to be such a coincidence."

Bessie was also surprised and said with a smile: "I didn't expect it to be you. If those white fresh healing potions were really made by you, then I don't have to doubt your potion skills."

Herage smiled and said: "I don't dare to lie about this kind of thing. After all, after leaving the Moonlight Grove, I am just a weak first-class wizard apprentice, so I don't dare to lie."

His meaning was obvious, he would not be protected after leaving the Moonlight Grove. If they dare to lie to others, they can deal with them in minutes.

"You can rest assured on this. I'm not the kind of person who doesn't follow the rules. Otherwise, no one will dare to cooperate with me in the future. Sit down first, and several others will arrive later." Bessie explained.

Herage nodded and sat down at the table. He had to take risks by taking on this task. Everything outside the Moonlight Grove had to be decided by his own improvisation.

"But there is no task without taking risks. You can encounter so many things when digging mushrooms." Herage sighed inwardly.

After the two sat down, they chatted about some potions-related things intentionally or unintentionally.

Herague knew these very well, and there was a lot of information stored in Deep Blue's database. He could answer every question Bessie asked immediately, and could also extend it to many topics.

"Mr. Herrag is so knowledgeable!" Bessie really didn't expect that a first-class wizard apprentice could be so knowledgeable, which really surprised her.

After a while, the other two people Bessie had made an appointment with also arrived.

A man named Locke Dean, a third-class wizard apprentice, wearing a pair of thick spectacle frames, looked at Herlag with a critical look when he came in.

There was also Emma Marcy, a woman with many freckles on her face. She seemed to have a good relationship with Bessie. The two hugged when they met.

After several people sat down and introduced themselves to each other, Bessie said: "Everyone is here, let's talk about the plan first. The departure time is two days later. I will prepare the things that need to be prepared by then, and Herage will be responsible for handling the stone. The heart of a giant, he does not participate in the battle..."

After Bessie finished speaking, Locke said: "I have a question, why did you bring a first-class wizard apprentice to deal with the stone giant's heart?"

"Although Herague is only a first-class wizard apprentice, he has very high attainments in potions. I can rest assured about this," Bessie explained.

Locke took a sip of coffee and said, "Since you think it's okay, then that's it."

Locke was paid to do things anyway, and he was responsible for killing the stone giant. As for whether the heart treatment was successful or not, it had nothing to do with him.

The stone giant usually requires a third-class wizard apprentice to deal with. Bessie hired two third-class wizard apprentices this time, which can be said to be a sure thing.

Herage is too weak to participate directly in the battle, lest he be affected by the battle.

If Herague was injured or even died due to the battle, only Bessie and the other three would have to deal with the stone giant's heart. They were not proficient in potions.

Potions requires a lot of financial resources, and it is difficult for ordinary wizard apprentices to gain rich experience without sufficient accumulation.

After the few people agreed on the specific matters, they left the cafe. When Herage returned home, he first began to prepare the potion needed to soak the stone giant's heart.

"Flobber caterpillar slime, Hoklap juice, lionfish spines..."

Herage took stock of the required potion ingredients and began to refine it. This potion was called Broad Spectrum Potion.

He put the Flobber caterpillar mucus into the beaker, then lit the lionfish's spines, put it into the beaker, then input a magic power and chanted a few syllables.

Thick white mist rose from the beaker, seemingly endlessly, and the room was quickly filled with white mist.

Herage wore a pair of goggles and ignored the white mist everywhere in the room, but stared closely at the beaker.

"Countdown to completion of the reaction is 9 seconds." Deep Blue counted down the reaction time.

After Herag waited for the time to come, he immediately poured some pink powder into the beaker. This was obtained by grinding the fruit of a kind of grass called scaly.

Two hours later.

"It's done."

In front of Herag, there was a purple solution in a round-bellied crystal bottle, and bubbles occasionally emerged from the surface of the solution, making a puffing sound.

He sealed the bottle mouth with a cork made of oak, and a broad-spectrum potion was ready.

At night, the sixth star in Herag's mind had a basic shape, and it was expected that meditation would be completed within two months to meet the promotion conditions of the second-class wizard apprentice.

"Fortunately, the materials for the dawn potion can be bought in the forest, so there is no need to take a huge risk to hunt for materials."

Herag has been preparing materials related to the dawn potion. He still lacks a main demon flower root that he can't afford. After completing this task, he can just get the materials for a dawn potion.

...

Two days later, Herag and his friends gathered at the post station in the northern forest area.

The route they were going to take this time was not to the Moonlight Forest, but to the east.

After arriving here, Herag found that the atmosphere of the post station was different from the past. A formal wizard and several third-class wizard apprentices were stationed at the post station to strengthen the security force.

"Is it because of what happened that day..." Herag thought of Rune who was killed by Shivara.