Chapter 277: Taking Drugs Using the Scientific Method

Night.

Basking in the warmth of the Fire Dragon brand air conditioner, Liszt took out a vial of Flame Potion and a vial of Thorn Potion from his gem space.

The Flame Potion was a magical potion made from Flame Mushrooms, and the Thorn Potion was a magical potion made from Fast-growing Magic Thorns. To make them easier to distinguish, they were given simpler names.

Liszt first drank the Thorn Potion, waited for a while, and then consumed the Flame Potion.

He then closed his eyes and began circulating his battle qi, mobilizing the strength of all his limbs and bones to absorb the magic from the potions. At the same time, he continued to experience the different effects brought about by the different methods of consuming the two potions—differences in physique caused even the same potion to have varying effects and require different methods of consumption.

Finding the most suitable method of consumption was crucial to achieving twice the results with half the effort.

How could he find the most suitable method?

This required continuous experimentation over time.

By now, Liszt had already consumed three vials of Thorn Potion and had a preliminary understanding of its effects. He was adjusting the dosage and timing between the Thorn and Flame Potions to properly test their efficacy.

After about twenty minutes, Liszt slowly opened his eyes, feeling that the total amount of battle qi in his body had silently increased further, revealing a satisfied smile. Feeling his strength improve daily was a refreshing sensation that ordinary people rarely experienced.

"The training of an elite Great Knight is akin to a 'study of potions,' constantly experimenting with the methods of consuming potions to enhance the body’s absorption of magic, exceeding the total capacity that various parts of the body can hold." He thought, and already began taking out paper and a pen to fill in a table.

This table recorded the different effects based on the dosage and timing of his potion consumption.

After consuming the potions many times, turning the data in the table into a curve chart would easily determine the optimal method of potion consumption.

This was a scientific approach.

Science was about induction and summary.

Compared to ordinary knights who explored potion use in a haphazard manner, sometimes taking more and sometimes less, Liszt's scientific approach was simple, quick, efficient, and precise: "Though I don’t know the fundamental principles of battle qi cultivation, as a transmigrator, my understanding and mastery of cultivation far exceed those of the locals."

He believed that even the emperor's son might not be able to find a suitable potion consumption method faster than him.

"My confidence in ascending to the rank of Sky Knight before turning twenty-two is very high."

The quill pen did not stop.

Liszt took out another piece of thick parchment, which also had a table, a data comparison chart comparing the differences in potion efficacy between an air-conditioned room and a non-air-conditioned room.

Due to the cold winter weather, Liszt chose to consume potions in the study, basking in the warmth of the Fire Dragon air conditioner.

However, on the first day, he noticed some issues—his potion effects seemed to improve slightly. At first, he didn’t pay much attention, as he had always had good results in the study. But after a trip to Tulip Castle and then to Longtaro Castle, he clearly felt that consuming potions outside was less effective than at home.

By comparison, he realized it must be due to the environment.

It was easy to link this to the Fire Dragon magic in the study.

Thus, he began to record the different effects of consuming potions in a Fire Dragon magic environment versus a regular environment. In the past few days since returning, the data recorded showed a stark difference in effects inside and outside the study.

"With the boost from Fire Dragon magic, the efficacy of my Flame Potion consumption increases by approximately 6.5% to 9.2%... I've only taken the Thorn Potion three times, so it's difficult to determine the increase, but there should be an effect... I suspect the Fire Dragon magic stimulates my fire-attribute battle qi."

He could feel that within the range of the magical Fire Dragon, his battle qi became more active.

At the same time, the size of the magical Fire Dragon also determined the extent of the boost. Without risking burning to death, Liszt had created a magical Fire Dragon the size of a water tank, using up an entire Fire Dragon canister’s worth of magic. The result was an increase in the efficacy of his Flame Potion to about 10.4%.

Compared to a palm-sized magical fire dragon, which can achieve a 7% enhancement, a water tank-sized magical fire dragon, with its magic capacity increased twentyfold, only achieves a 1.48 times increase, which is not very significant.

Moreover, a water tank-sized magical fire dragon would almost scorch him, making it impossible to concentrate on taking the potion.

Therefore, after careful consideration, he decided it was better to take the potion in his study, where the temperature was just right, allowing him to stay focused without any distractions.

……

The potion-taking continued, and he kept updating the records.

Before he realized it, two weeks had passed since he returned to Flower Town on January 9th, and it was now January 24th. The eight blizzard beasts had become much healthier, and when drinking milk, they would fight over it, their eyelids frequently twitching, suggesting they were about to open their eyes. Lister began to feed them personally, forbidding others from entering the room.

Acheronides lived in the castle, eating fruits and playing with the little fairy Jie La without much gloom, though she had replenished her seawater once.

She was brought to the seaside and soaked in the sea for two hours.

At that time, only Lister was at the seaside, standing on a snow-covered rock, watching Acheronides playing in the water, his mood as bright as the sun. After more than a week of companionship, he had learned all about Acheronides.

The sea-born sea demon, truly a spirit of the sea, had a birth process that shared similarities with fairies.

One was the essence of plants, and the other was the essence of seawater.

One could control insects and plants, affecting their growth; the other could manipulate her shell and the seawater within it, as well as control the surrounding seawater.

However, fairies needed to evolve from fairy larvae, only developing near-adult intelligence upon becoming a great fairy; sea demons had near-adult intelligence from birth, with their legs gradually growing, and growing feet meant adulthood, with their lifespan unknown.

Acheronides was just an underage sea demon, having grown up alone in the ocean, where the sea would "inform" her of some information, with the rest learned by listening to human ships.

Forty-one years had allowed her to learn Serpent Tongue.

Yet, she retained the innocence and purity of a fairy.

"The sea area where Acheronides resides might be between Golden Island and New Island. She has seen many ships with flag-like wheat emblems, which belong to the Golden Wheat and Golden Grain families."

The Golden Wheat family was a marquis family with its fiefdom on Golden Island; the Golden Grain family was an earl family with its fiefdom on New Island.

The two families had split a few generations ago, and their flags were more or less the same, depicting a bent wheat ear. Lister's brother Levis seemed to have started a relationship with Roderick Marquis's daughter, Gloria Golden Wheat... He hadn't inquired on purpose, as he mostly only cared about himself.

After two hours of swimming in the ocean, the sea demon obediently returned to the shore. Although they hadn't spotted the intermediate sea monster Druemichita recently, it couldn't be guaranteed that it had left.

"Lister, I've replenished my seawater; let's head back quickly, Jie La must be waiting impatiently." Now, Acheronides had become more fluent in Serpent Tongue, her personality more lively, and she no longer had any estrangement towards Lister.

Stretching, her graceful curves and fair skin dazzled Lister.

He steadied himself, "Let's go, home."