Chapter 1372
There’s also a type of potion that can instantly replenish mana, but honestly, its effects are barely worth mentioning. The price is absurdly high, and at best, it’s only usable by Archmages. The little bit of mana it restores instantly is really only useful for mages below Archmage rank. For a Title Archmage, that pitiful amount of mana is enough to cast a single ordinary spell—if that.
But the Azure Mana Elixir that Leon Merlin has just refined is destined to be the mainstream mana-restoration potion for at least the next ten thousand years. Even in the peak era of Northend, this potion was never phased out—though better instant mana-replenishing potions did appear later. Thanks to its low cost, it will remain in demand for a very long time.
Even the standard quality Azure Mana Elixir can fully restore the mana of a Level 5 Title Archmage in three seconds. The best quality ones can instantly restore at least half the mana of a Level 9 Title Archmage, and within a few seconds, replenish all the mana consumed.
Even ordinary Sky Rank powerhouses can use the Azure Mana Elixir to restore mana. One bottle provides enough mana to cast one or two regular Level 9 spells.
If you use the finest materials to craft the top-tier Azure Mana Elixir, its quality can even reach Sky Rank. For Sky Rank powerhouses, this is the most common potion for mana restoration, and its replenishing effect can rival the speed of mana recovery inside a demi-plane.
This potion is absolutely essential for every mage. In a fierce battle, a single bottle of Azure Mana Elixir could turn the tide. If two mages are evenly matched and both have exhausted their mana, but one can fully restore theirs within seconds, then the outcome is pretty much decided…
With the Azure Mana Elixir, future battles will become terrifyingly intense. As long as you control your mana consumption, you could keep fighting madly for a long stretch, as long as you have enough of these elixirs.
One major reason why mages of this era can’t compare to those of the peak era is the issue of mana consumption. Many Title Archmage-level powerhouses haven’t fought in years, sometimes decades. With that kind of situation, it’s no wonder their combat power is weak…
According to records in the Desolate Archive, during the peak era of mages in the Northend World, each Sky Rank powerhouse averaged over eighty battles a year. Title Archmages fought even more—sometimes over a hundred and sixty times annually. That’s a fight almost every other day.
Endless planar conquest and colonization, endless struggles in the void—those peak-era mages, almost every one of them, went through countless battles…
This is directly related to the development of potions. In that era, every kind of potion was pushed to its limits. The great colonial expansion of the planes brought countless new materials, and alchemy advanced at a breakneck pace—changing every single day.
The rise of alchemical potions made mages care less and less about mana consumption, so their combat experience naturally grew. The more battles they fought, the stronger they became, and magic itself kept advancing in this environment.
With the Azure Mana Elixir, the Gilded Rose won’t have to worry about profits for a very, very long time. Since the potion is a consumable, there’s never any concern about sales—mages will always need it, no matter the era.
Besides the Azure Mana Elixir, there’s also the Radiant Mana Elixir, a potion that directly boosts a mage’s power. Before reaching Title Archmage—especially before Level 5 Title Archmage—the biggest challenge for mages is mana accumulation. It’s the most time-consuming hurdle, requiring endless meditation to build up mana and raise their limits.
Especially for mage apprentices, mages, and Grand Mages, over eighty percent of their time is spent on this task. The Radiant Mana Elixir is a special potion that cuts down this time.
After taking the Radiant Mana Elixir, a mage’s mana accumulation will skyrocket within a single day. By normal meditation standards, for an Archmage, it’s equivalent to three months of meditation. Although resistance to the potion builds up quickly—after three doses, the direct mana-boosting effect disappears.
But the greatest benefit of the Radiant Mana Elixir is how it boosts the efficiency and duration of meditation. That’s what really matters.
After taking the Radiant Mana Elixir, for the next half month to a month, meditation efficiency will be at least three times higher. The effect gradually fades, but even when it’s completely gone, a single dose lasts at least two months.
And during this period, meditation time also increases. For low-level mages, whose souls are weak, there’s a daily limit to how long they can meditate. Go past that, and their efficiency drops off a cliff.
With the Radiant Mana Elixir, overall mana accumulation speed for mages increases by six or seven times—even after discounting the initial one-time mana boost.
Back in the Kingdom of Andalusia, the Gilded Rose launched the Elixir of Hope. But that potion could only be used by mage apprentices, letting them skip the mana accumulation phase and jump straight to Level 9 apprentice.
It was a breakthrough product with wide appeal, but only mage families who didn’t mind spending purple gold coins would buy it for their prodigies—so they could skip the wasted time accumulating mana as apprentices.
But in the end, only a handful could afford it. For official mages, the Elixir of Hope was useless. The Radiant Mana Elixir, though, is different—even Title Archmages benefit from it!
The only difference is that, unlike low-level mages whose ranks shoot up five or six levels after their first dose, the Radiant Mana Elixir doesn’t work that way for higher ranks. But it still boosts meditation efficiency.
Just imagine—once the Radiant Mana Elixir officially goes on sale, it’ll be just like the Azure Mana Elixir: for at least the next few centuries, there’ll be no worries about demand.
Even if someone buys it to try and reverse-engineer it, there’s no need to worry. The main ingredients all come from the Monster Plane, and only those materials contain such powerful mana. That immense mana is the real key to the potion’s effects.
Other alchemists might manage to copy a few batches, but the results will be pitiful. With the same cost, they’d be lucky to get one-tenth the effect. Even if they spared no expense, they’d only reach half the effectiveness of the Azure Mana Elixir or Radiant Mana Elixir. And the cost would be ten times the Gilded Rose’s retail price.
With these two potions, given time, it’s almost certain the overall strength of the Northend World will rise by a whole tier in a few decades. The era of planar colonization will only accelerate.
Building a Sanctuary Tower requires an incredible amount of materials—almost all of them rare, and some so special that only certain races with unique talents can craft them.
Most of these materials and races were discovered during the era of planar colonization. It’s almost impossible for one person to do it alone. This invisibly boosts the overall strength of the Northend World and speeds up the pace of colonization—eventually, with enough purple gold coins, you could just buy whatever you need.
It’s like every other faction is helping Lin Yun with his project. He just has to use the purple gold coins he earns from them to buy exactly what he wants. The whole process and cost in between—he doesn’t need to worry about it at all.
That’s one of the main reasons Lin Yun developed these two potions. Once the formulas are done, he hands them off to his alchemists for mass production. After that, he doesn’t need to get involved—the team will handle everything.
Traveling through the void is boring and monotonous. After finishing these studies, Lin Yun started pondering something new.
With his power rising again, he’s finally at the point where he can use a bit of rule power. The fastest way to improve now is to upgrade his magic artifact.
Now that he can wield rule power, it’s time to upgrade the Arcane Wheel to a transcendent magic artifact. Most of the materials have already been stockpiled, and the most crucial one was obtained from the Monster Plane. Everything’s ready—the perfect upgrade can begin.
Among the materials derived from the giant insect beasts in the Monster Plane, the most precious are Golden Nectar and Motherworm Essence. Golden Nectar is incredibly potent—a rare treasure for boosting mage talent. For those Thorned Crown folks with transplanted alien bloodlines, it’s an absolute lifesaver.
As for Motherworm Essence, Lin Yun never expected to get his hands on it. It’s produced by the queen of subterranean giant worms to nurture the next generation. It can transform a simple worm egg into something extraordinary, fundamentally altering its life essence.
As a material, its uses are practically irreplaceable. It can fundamentally change the nature of something—when it comes to materials, only Motherworm Essence can do that. Even after ten thousand years, there have been barely a handful of similar substances.
When Lin Yun first arrived in the Monster Plane, he never dreamed he’d get his hands on Motherworm Essence. It’s buried deep in the queen worm’s lair, and to even find the nest—let alone fight through swarms of giant worms to reach it—is nearly impossible. Unless you wipe out every last worm, you can forget about getting there…
At first, he had to calculate every move to avoid waking the monsters. Motherworm Essence was out of the question—maybe someday he’d get lucky.
But things didn’t go as planned. The massive creature underground turned out to be intelligent, and Lin Yun managed to trick it easily. With that monster on his side, getting Motherworm Essence was a breeze—the giant worms themselves handed it over.
With Motherworm Essence secured, Lin Yun could kick off plans that weren’t even on the original agenda.
Unfortunately, he’s still drifting in the endless void—it’s not the right time. He’ll have to wait until he’s back in the Northend World.
Time flows on, unstoppable—just like fate. Soon, the USS Dauntless returned to the Furyflame Plane, and Lin Yun used it as a springboard to get back to the Northend World.
He handed the Azure Mana Elixir and Radiant Mana Elixir over to Farrow. With Lin Yun’s guidance, the core alchemist team was nearly done with mass production—within a month, the new potions would be officially released, and marketing had already begun.
Samples were displayed at the Gilded Rose’s main store, locked in glass cases—clear, magically enhanced bottles of Azure Mana Elixir, each with a detailed description. But for now, only the Azure Mana Elixir was on display.
Both potions are so effective that releasing them together would be wasteful. So Farrow decided to launch the Azure Mana Elixir first, to further boost the Gilded Rose’s reputation.