Beauty Potion Gone Wrong

"When the two ingredients had completely reached equilibrium in the potion, the liquid level would rise until it was flush with the rim of the cauldron. Immediately add powdered Occamy eggshell..."

He added the pure silver eggshell powder into the cauldron one teaspoon at a time, stirring after each addition before adding another teaspoon, until the powder from an entire eggshell had been added.

Within the Mental World, Manus was brewing the Beauty Potion he had conceived during Defense Against the Dark Arts class.

"Although I still haven't mastered any Beauty Potions, I already know the general direction. It looks fairly successful so far, but I wonder what effects this Beauty Potion will have?"

Manus watched as the potion, which had nearly overflowed the cauldron during the process, shrank until only a thin layer remained after all the Occamy eggshell powder had been added. He nodded in satisfaction.

Such an obvious reaction already indicated that the potion's effects would be potent. Only the final few steps remained.

As the first bubble emerged...

"Add one drop of Belladonna juice, and let it fall onto the bubble."

Using a dropper, Manus precisely placed a drop of Belladonna juice in the center of the foam. The bubble did not burst immediately. Instead, it sank beneath the liquid before rupturing, and the instant the surrounding surface swallowed it, it looked like someone blinking.

As the bubble burst, a pinkish-purple glow spread outward, and the amount of potion abruptly increased again—not as dramatically as before, but enough to fill roughly a third of the cauldron.

Once bottled, it would fill a large potion bottle to around seven-eighths full.

After transferring the potion into a glass bottle, Manus examined it.

The potion, once murky and marked by an ink-like color-shifting effect, became clear and deeply colored