Chapter 221 Mental Focus

Chapter 221 Mental Focus

Now that Thor had finished his enhancement, that left the two large vials on the cart, waiting for someone to remember about them in all the shock and confusion of a Lightning Cerro using [Circle of Protection].

Thor was basking in all the attention that he was getting from the clerics, who were making intensive notes on his abilities, completely forgetting that everyone was here for a reason that wasn't studying Thor.

"Right, now getting back on track. This particular concoction should be perfect for Commander Alice. It's designed specifically for wind element mages and should strengthen your abilities and future growth rate.

I know for Commanders that is usually the most important part, as the growth can be painfully slow." The ancient professor announced, looking much more healthy than when he had hobbled into the room.

Alice looked more than a little skeptical about drinking a potion that held more than the average coffee mug, especially since they were intended to be ingested in one go, and not sipped over an extended period of time.

But it was a Commander Rank potion, and designed specifically for wind mages, which she was. There was probably no better resource for her, and if they were going to part with it without arguments, she would be an idiot to turn it down.

So, she found herself swallowing the entire vial full of the herbal concoction, while energy built all around her and her power level steadily grew.

The beasts could feel it, the strengthening of the magical power that Alice could wield, and through them, Karl had a fairly accurate guess of her current growth state, but for the others in the room, it was just a lot of bleeding energy, and then they would have to test afterwards to know how well it worked.

"My maximum mana control rate is definitely better than it was before, and I can feel the wind magic more clearly." Alice did her best to explain the changes that had happened with the potion.

"We will run a suite of tests later when we have more time. I need to study the salve that you provided once I return to my labs, and then there are all the other results as well. But there is still one more vial here. What was that one again?" The old professor asked his assistants.

"That is an attunement potion, double dose for humans, so it can be split between the two clerics in the group." The assistant reminded him.

"Oh, that's right. High Priest, we made this one for your people. The ingredients are a bit rare and therefore difficult to obtain, but with the Church's resources, it shouldn't be a problem to obtain enough to provide this to all of your promising members."

The Professor passed over the ingredients list and a packet of details to the High Priests, who looked at some of the ingredients in concern. Sure, they had access to vast amounts of resources, but they also had a massive number of clergy.

Plus, this was a Commander Rank potion, and the side effects on a Common Grade or Awakened priest could be catastrophic. At best, they could administer it after reaching Ascended to see if the promising priests could make it to Commander Rank and become high priests.

"There it is, right back to perfect temperature. You will want to eat that quickly, I didn't do a good job of stabilizing it as a gummy, and the flavour could be unfortunate."

Karl nodded, and tipped the gummy directly off the dish and down his throat, the same way that Hawk usually ate anything he didn't have to tear apart.

The energy of the gummy hit him like a sledgehammer to the head, and power flowed from it through his body, completely bypassing him to fill the spaces.

It was probably a good thing that the beasts were outside at the moment as Karl focused on concentrating the energy into the sun and moon equivalents he had been using in place of the candlelight that the monks centred their space around.

There was a lingering power in the spaces, Karl could feel it, but he couldn't quite grasp what he was supposed to be learning from the pill, or what sort of skill it should be.

Then, as the energy settled and his spaces began to change in nature, becoming more alive, as if they were a real place, and not just a bubble of mental energy. That was what they had been missing, Karl realized, the bottleneck that was holding the beasts back from their advancements.

It would still be some time before any of them were actually Commanders, but they should be able to make it there now.

But the energy wasn't done. It was leaking from the spaces to his own consciousness, and to the void he focused on to meditate.

A soft golden light filled the space for a moment, then coalesced into what looked like a Holy Stone, or a golden dragon scale. It wasn't doing anything, but when Karl focused on it, he could feel the improvement in his meditation speed.

Everyone was staring at him, waiting for a verdict.

"It enhanced the spaces for my beasts, and I think that it improved my meditation as well, there is a golden stone in the void where I meditate now, and it gives off an impressive amount of energy." Karl explained.

"There is something in your void? That is quite interesting, and very close to our expectations for Psychic type mentalist Classes if they were given the treatment. The concoction is made with the neural nodes of a mind flayer, Drake blood, and an assortment of herbs. It is safe to say that it is unlikely to see another of them made in the near future, but I do have a few others from the same batch.

Now that I know they will really work as intended, we might be able to use them to help the accuracy of the Oracles and the Seers. For some reason, they don't trust my creations." The Professor ranted.

They could see the future. There was likely an excellent reason they didn't trust his creations.