Murphy carefully sized the other man up. It was indeed Alex, though he seemed to have lost quite a bit of weight.
After Supreme Potion opened its shop, Alex no longer needed to brew Beauty Potion himself. However, he was still responsible for inspecting the Beauty Potions brewed by more than thirty potioneers to ensure their quality.
He was also handling the processing of White Medicine ingredients.
At that moment, Alex was expressionlessly processing a mountain of White Medicine ingredients, his vacant eyes set in a face devoid of all desire to live.
That was the expression of an office drone pushed to the absolute limit.
Poor kid. It seemed they should hire more people. If they kept fleecing the same sheep over and over, it would eventually die.
"You've worked hard, so I'm planning to have someone else take over these miscellaneous tasks. I'll give you an easier position."
The raw ingredients for dittany could now be obtained directly from the plantation, with no involvement from the wizarding world required. There was no need for wizards to handle the raw materials anymore.
Machines could take care of this sort of work in the future.
As for inspecting Beauty Potion, they could simply find another potioneer to replace Alex.
The kid had been with him for quite a while. Murphy knew him inside and out and trusted him enough to use him, so he intended to start letting him into his real secrets.
Alex no longer believed Murphy's words quite so readily. He stared at him with lifeless eyes, waiting for what came next.
"Ahem. I need you to tutor some people in magic. Their magical knowledge is roughly at the level of Hogwarts students. You only need to answer some basic questions and occasionally demonstrate spells and potions when