You Make Your Professor Look Pretty Slow

"So now there was only one question left..."

Manus stroked his chin and pondered.

"If I dropped Arithmancy now, would it affect my application?"

Manus did not think so. If anything, it would make him seem more focused on winning honor for the school in future competitions. However, wizards' general way of thinking sometimes conflicted with Manus's own.

To be safe, he decided to ask Flitwick about it, though not right now.

That afternoon, he was going to discuss matters related to Beauty Potions and Magical Textiles dyes with Staky. Manus could not go in completely unprepared.

His Beauty Potion could not be brought out directly yet, since it had not passed testing. He could bring a few dyes instead.

In theory, the shells of Color-Changing Giant Snails could be made into dyes of many colors, even dyes capable of changing color.

However, according to Margaret's personal experiments, purple dye was the only one that produced the best results among the pigments made from this Magical Creature material.

After Manus conducted an in-depth analysis of every stage, he discovered that although Color-Changing Giant Snails possessed the magical ability to change color, their shells were naturally purple when that magical ability was not in use.

If Manus had not been able to set up a node that stopped magical effects, he would not have discovered this even if he had suspected it.

Once he knew the cause, the problems that followed became much easier to solve.

After comprehensively optimizing every step using the principles of Beauty Potions and creating the peculiar dye known as Multicolored Purple, which constantly shifted the refracted colors atop its purple base, Manus began tampering with the Color-Changing Giant Snails themselves.

After using the Black Earth Technique to create Color-Changing Giant Snails with red, yellow, and blue