"I suspect the Potion Maker who created this potion was very likely a Fool," Vivian sighed. "Only Fools understand a Fool's emotions best. Of course, this Potion Maker must also have studied black magic in great depth."
"True..." Mu You agreed wholeheartedly. Emotions were intangible things to begin with, and using them as potion ingredients went against the natural order. How could anyone write such an imaginative recipe without personally experiencing what it felt like to be a Fool?
In that respect, this Potion Maker was not necessarily more accomplished than Vivian. He had merely benefited from being a Fool when devising this recipe. If Vivian were a Fool too, Mu You believed she would certainly have developed a potion to counter the black magic curse sooner.
Then again, since Geguwu came from the previous era, her teacher was probably also someone who had survived that era. Could he have been a Fool from the previous era who had not traveled with the main group?
That was as far as his analysis of this "Lord of Calamity" could go. Mu You soon gathered his thoughts and officially began brewing.
He had obtained over twenty portions of bitter pollen in the forest earlier, which was barely enough for now. Blood, on the other hand, was in plentiful supply. After all, any Fool's blood could be used in the potion. If his own was insufficient, he could simply go out and buy a few bags of plasma as ingredients.
Mu You's brewing success rate was frighteningly high too. Out of twenty-four attempts in total, twenty-one produced potions, eighteen of which were rare grade right from the start!
Mu You placed those eighteen bottles of rare-grade potion into the Synthesis Furnace in three batches, ultimately obtaining two legendary-grade bottles and one epic-grade bottle.