Chapter 150: One Year

Brack picked up a vial from the box, examining its quality, and smiled.

He then checked each Advanced Healing Potion and said, “Very impressive. It’s hard to believe this is your first time making Advanced Healing Potions. I can confidently assign you more orders in the future.”

“As long as you’re satisfied, Mr. Brack,” Helag said, visibly relieved.

Brack chuckled, “Don’t stress too much. From what I’ve seen, you’re already a very competent potion master.”

Although Helag’s batch didn’t have a high proportion of high-quality potions, achieving this level on his first attempt was remarkable.

Moreover, even at this level, he was fully qualified as a potion master.

“You’ll earn 350 magic stones from this order, included in next month’s pay,” Brack stated.

Helag’s monthly salary was 100 magic stones, so this order alone exceeded three months’ pay.

After this day, Brack officially regarded Helag as a potion master, occasionally assigning him orders.

These orders were mostly for advanced potions. Through fulfilling them, Helag not only mastered various potion-making processes but also earned many magic stones.

He gradually controlled his output quality, and over time, the quality of his potions improved, earning Brack’s increased respect.

Before long, a year had passed.

Helag held a bottle of blue potion, pouring some into a glass of water, which quickly turned blue.

He drank the blue water and began meditating.

“Helag Merlin: Strength 18, Agility 18, Constitution 19, Spirit 46, Mana 100%.”

In a year, he completed three stars of meditation, with two points left on the second array.

He had completed the optimization of the Starry Potion, replacing the demon flower with a creature called the Three-Star Bug.

With this bug, the advanced Starry Potion was successfully tested, allowing Helag to complete a star of meditation in three to four months.

However, the Three-Star Bug was costly and unavailable in Blackrock Valley, requiring purchase through the Terchy family’s channels.

The advanced Starry Potion cost 50 magic stones per batch, usable ten times, requiring 150 magic stones monthly.

Helag’s monthly salary was only 100 magic stones, and without extra income from orders, he couldn’t afford the advanced Starry Potion.

Fortunately, after his potion-making skills were recognized, Helag received more orders, significantly increasing his income to cover the advanced Starry Potion’s cost.

“4,100 magic stones.”

Helag calculated that after a year, his total wealth amounted to this, a substantial fortune.

With Helag’s help, potion field yields increased by about 20% over the year.

This made Brack value Helag even more, requesting the family to raise Helag’s salary from 100 to 200 magic stones.

In addition to the space ring from Lilian and the Wind Spirit’s Blessing Ring, Helag acquired another ring.

This ring, set with a ruby, had an internal space as large as a football field.

It was a reward from the Terchy family after a year at Blackrock Valley.

Space rings of this size were rare and highly sought after, quickly bought when available.

Over the year, Helag’s space ring filled with various potions, nearly reaching capacity.

With the Terchy family’s reward ring, he had ample space again.

He stored all potions in the new ring, neatly organized.

The potions alone were worth over ten thousand magic stones, reserved for his use.

The plane coordinate mark on his palm still lacked enough energy, preventing travel to the Abyss Plane.

After a busy year, Helag planned to focus on selecting and absorbing bloodline power.

Currently, he only had the Primordial Thunder God’s bloodline.

Helag had experimented with capturing small animals for bloodline tests, finding Great Dark Heaven unresponsive to their bloodlines.

He learned that not all animals possessed bloodline power; most lacked such inheritance in their blood.

Bloodline power required creatures with inherent strength, like magical beasts.

“I’ll need to trouble Brack,” Helag thought.

In Blackrock Valley, he relied on the Terchy family’s channels to obtain magical beast flesh.

***

In Brack’s vegetable garden.

“Magical beasts? What type?” Brack asked.

Helag replied, “Any kind will do, the stronger, the better. I need powerful magical beast flesh for experiments.”

Brack nodded, “Understood. I’ll keep an eye out and let you know if I find anything.”

Wizards often used magical beast flesh for experiments, especially potion masters researching potion formulas and material effects.

These materials included herbs and magical beast flesh.

Brack didn’t think much of it, simply noting the request.

He took out a piece of paper, wrote some information, and chanted a few syllables. A hexagram magic circle appeared, summoning a six-winged sprite.

Brack placed a magic stone before the sprite and said, “Deliver this letter to Bartro Terchy.”

The sprite, with a delicate face, tilted its head at Brack, then took the large magic stone, making it disappear in an instant.

It then took the letter, holding it in its hands, and vanished into the hexagram circle.

“Is this the Terchy family’s messenger?” Helag asked, surprised to see Brack sending a letter.

“Yes, a cute little fellow. Oh, she’s older than me, haha,” Brack laughed.

Messengers were a wizard communication method, using a contract with a creature to send messages or items for a fee.

The fee could be a gold coin or a magic stone; Helag had heard of messengers requiring a fingernail piece each time.

Helag admired these messengers but lacked access.

He still relied on rune stones for communication, linked to the Terchy family.

Every rune stone used outside wizard organizations had to be registered with Augustus Academy to connect to the magic net.

Rune stones worked only within the magic net’s coverage, while messengers ignored distance.

Few creatures could serve as messengers, and those that could wouldn’t contract with a weak wizard like Helag.

The sprite had a contract with the entire Terchy family.