Chapter 73: Hiss! Hiss! Hiss! Terrifyingly So!
"I understand. Charge whatever you need to. Follow your rules."
"It's wonderful that Master is so understanding."
Vimme was so happy that his mouth almost stretched to his ears.
With the deal concluded, Vimme personally saw Lynn off from the bank.
Lynn settled down in the city.
He found an inn in the Upper City.
Although the fees were expensive, the quality of service was incomparable to that of the Lower City and the Wharf District.
The Lower City and the Wharf District were very chaotic with poor security.
Especially the Wharf District, it was a melting pot of all sorts of people.
Theft and robbery were commonplace here.
Even the guards were too lazy to care.
Lynn wasn't afraid of trouble.
But he had to admit that it was indeed better to avoid unnecessary ঝামেיות.
Moreover, his black horse—Nidhogg—couldn't always be by his side.
Staying at an inn in the Upper City meant that the guards patrolling the Upper City were more dutiful.
Secondly, the staff at the Upper City inns were also more responsible.
They wouldn't have an attitude of indifference even if a guest's belongings were lost.
As for the witcher's identity...
Novigrad at this time was not yet the city that would be infiltrated by Redania like a sieve in the future.
Of course, there were people in the city who disliked witchers swaggering around in broad daylight on the streets.
But even those who disliked witchers were somewhat less ignorant than the country bumpkins.
They still had a basic sense of awe.
At least Lynn hadn't yet encountered any fools who dared to provoke him to his face.
The peaceful life lasted for about a week.
One day, Lynn came to Oxenfurt Academy.
The gatekeeper still recognized this witcher who had helped Oxenfurt Academy.
In the university campus, Lynn skillfully went straight to Professor Gloger's office.
After some polite greetings, he stated the purpose of his visit, which was to ask if he could borrow the alchemy lab of Oxenfurt Academy.
Of course, he wouldn't freeload and was willing to pay the usage fee.
After hearing Lynn's request, Professor Gloger looked very troubled.
Because generally, outsiders found it difficult to even enter Oxenfurt Academy.
Although knowledge had no borders, those who researched and learned knowledge did have borders.
Let alone wanting to borrow the university's alchemy lab...
However, Lynn was, after all, the savior of his student.
Professor Gloger couldn't bring himself to refuse outright or make excuses.
Moreover, although Professor Gloger hadn't spent much time with this young witcher.
He felt that Lynn was a good person.
So, after hesitating again and again, Professor Gloger finally gritted his teeth and agreed to vouch for Lynn.
He also had a request:
Lynn could use the university's alchemy lab.
But only for one day.
And he couldn't damage any of the equipment inside, and he had to clean up himself after he was done.
Otherwise, Professor Gloger, as the guarantor, would also be implicated.
Lynn wasn't there to cause trouble, so he naturally agreed.
So Professor Gloger took him to register first, and then personally led him to an alchemy laboratory building, finding an empty alchemy classroom.
Following Professor Gloger into the room, Lynn's eyes lit up.
Oxenfurt Academy truly lived up to its reputation of being at the forefront of the times.
The alchemy classroom here was finally no longer like the small workshop feel of Kaer Morhen.
It was more professional and more advanced.
Although in some aspects, the limitations of this era still existed, it was already very close to the chemistry laboratory of the school in his home world.
Professor Gloger gave a few more patient instructions before leaving.
He wouldn't commit the impolite and vulgar act of peeking.
Even though he was indeed very curious about witcher alchemy.
Once the door of the alchemy classroom closed, Lynn closed his eyes.
He maximized his witcher senses.
After confirming that the footsteps had gone far away and that no one nearby was spying, he reopened his eyes.
From the alchemy material bag he carried with him, he took out the alchemical materials he planned to concoct next and placed them carefully.
Then he called out the attribute panel:
"Comprehensive Enhancement"
"Wolf School Sword Techniques (Master/Ultimate)"
"Signs (Master/Ultimate)"
"Alchemy (Proficient)"
"Attribute Points: 5 (15%)"
"Now my Wolf School sword techniques and signs are both at the master level, only alchemy is a weakness."
"But it doesn't matter, I'll make up for this weakness now."
Lynn imagined fiercely clicking the plus sign next to "Alchemy".
The 5 attribute points instantly went to zero.
The words behind "Alchemy" also became blurred.
Then new words appeared:
"Alchemy (Master/Ultimate)"
A massive amount of alchemical memories flooded into Lynn's mind.
This time, the memory infusion was not as brief as before.
It lasted for several minutes before all the memories were transferred.
Before Lynn had time to check the additional memories in his mind, a new change occurred.
"New Specialization: Mutation Enhancement (All potion toxicity reduced by 30%, effects enhanced by 50%, duration extended by 100%)"
When Lynn clearly saw the newly acquired specialization, he couldn't help but gasp.
Hiss, hiss, hiss, terrifyingly so!
Reduced toxicity meant he could take more potions.
The enhanced effects were even more self-explanatory. The amplification effect of superior potions was already very strong, and adding the specialization's effect would directly multiply his combat power.
As for the extended duration, it would make the effects of the potions fade more slowly, which was certainly also good.
These panel data looked really good, but he planned to test how they performed in actual combat later.
Now, he closed his eyes and carefully felt the alchemical memories that had flooded into his mind.
The amazing thing about this master-level alchemy memory was that improving this one skill not only granted the experience and memory of concocting potions but also the experience and memory of sword oils and alchemical bombs.
In other words, he could now not only concoct superior potions but also superior sword oils and superior alchemical bombs.
It was truly terrifyingly so.
After checking the newly acquired knowledge and memories in his mind, he opened his eyes again, ready to start concocting potions.
He planned to use practical action to test the changes after the skill improvement.
He had already prepared the alchemical materials needed to concoct the potion.
A bottle of dwarven spirit, fifteen fleaflours, three ghost spirit dusts, five buckthorns, a bottle of white gull, a bunch of longrube, a bunch of ranogrin, and a unit of vitriol.
With these alchemical materials, he could concoct a Superior Petri's Philter.
Lynn had only concocted ordinary potions before and had never tried superior potions.
But the additional alchemical memories in his mind made him feel as if he were an alchemy master.
He was already skilled and proficient.
The difference between concocting superior potions and ordinary potions was: first, superior potions used more ingredients; second, the control of heat for superior potions was incredibly precise.
The concoction of ordinary potions was actually not that complicated. As long as one was willing to spend time practicing, anyone could make qualified products.
But superior potions were different. Many steps in superior potion concoction required precision down to the second. One second more or less wouldn't work; it was extremely strict.
Therefore, even though every school had inherited the standard witcher potion recipes, very few witchers could concoct superior potions.
Lynn stared at a beaker.
The liquid inside flowed with a light like a cold, dark moon.
This was precisely a Superior Petri's Philter.
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