<h4>Chapter 259: An eventful first potions ss.</h4>


    Ignoring the Lord mage deliberately Sigrid pped her hands. "Settle down, ss is not yet over. I still have an hour and a half to pass on knowledge. It is time for you to all try preparing the radiance potion."


    Ingredients were passed around and all the students focused on their cauldrons. One student, Finn, decided he was wiser than everyone else.


    He didn’t light a fire but pulled a me from his neighbors fire, controlling it with his hands.


    "Finn, try not to stand out too much." Sigrid warned.


    The boy was a show off. The vice wasrgely influenced by the fact that magic came easily to him. He was ranked eighth on the power rankings of mages.


    It was a great aplishment for he was sixteen and he had outranked older mage knights.


    Finn ignored Sigrid’s warning, he added sprinkled three drops of Phoenix feather essence into his potion.


    "Finn," Sigrid hissed, "For crying out loud your cauldron is going to explode!"


    It exploded just as Sigrid’s warning came to an end. It erupted into a blinding sh, sending a reddish golden liquid across the room. All the other students winced, protested or screamed because, like the Lord mage, they were now spotting reddish gold on different parts of the body.


    Finn was glowing, like a bright rainbow!!


    "This is what happens when you don’t listen." Sigrid told the ss.


    The mishaps among the students continued. One boy was sessful but he failed to control his fire and the liquid was dumped all over him when his cauldron exploded like Finn’s. He glowed so brightly that everyone had to wear sunsses while Sigrid cleaned him up with magic.


    Another turned the liquid into powdered glitter that was blown across the room.


    Gertrude, a ten year old girl managed to somehow turn herself invisible, except for her feet, hands, and head. A lot of students lost focus thanks to her and they burst intoughter.


    Others picked interest in her, wondering how she had brewed an invisibility potion although it had only been half sessful.


    Half of the ss failedpletely and the other half was barely sessful. Two mages however were sessful and one happened to be Emmah.


    The other was an eight year old, L Evermore, a quiet shy girl that was always in the mage library or by theke, ying with the beasts that lived in the water.


    Clean up was done and then Sigrid pped her hands, it had be her go to signal when she wanted the ss to settle down or give her attention.


    The ss settled quickly, eagerly anticipating the next potion.


    "We are not finished, I still have forty five minutes and in that time, I will introduce you to a strength potion. Another name for it is Titan’s potion, named after the very first mage that came up with it, Titan Zamboni."


    The radiance potion had excited the female mages most and the strength potion did the same for the males.


    "Ingredients include: the root of a thunder weed which ismon in the rainy season. A drop of moltenva, a drop of liquid iron, five pinches of moonstone dust, phoenix feather ash, a drop of dragon’s blood....."


    Finn raised his hand.


    "Yes Finn, dragon’s are real." Sigrid said.


    Extra ingredients that can be added but are strictly optional include a giant’s toenail." She paused because she was expecting to see looks of disgust on the faces of the students.


    "Ew...gross...disgusting....." Words like that went around. One girl even run out of the ssroom with a hand over her stomach.


    "Becky has a sensitive stomach." L spoke up in a small voice.


    It was such a cute voice that Sigrid wanted to give the girl a hug. She was adorable.


    "Continuing on with options, mountain troll sweat..." She paused again, giggling when she saw even greater looks of disgust on their faces. "Magic can be gross sometimes, not everything is roses and honey. You should learn to have firm stomachs."


    Finn whispered to Adam, "She means fat stomachs."


    The two boys snickered before Sigrid red at them and they pretended to be attentive.


    She waved her hand and a new set of herbs appeared on her desk. "However, if one needs strength and only herbs are avable, there is another way. You can use ironroot, Thunder weed, Titan’s leaf, storm vine, sunblossom petals, bloodthorn berries, fire grass, fifty year old ginseng, mountain sage."


    She exined what each of the herbs did. Some firmed muscles, others enhanced endurance, boosted power, increased strength agility, stamina, strengthened bones and physical prowess.


    Sigrid spent fifteen minutes exining all this. "Now on to the side effects. While the potion can give a momentary boost of strength, it will leave one feeling very tired after the effect wears off.


    In case someone has rage issues, it is not advisable that they use this potion because they will be so uncontroble temporarily. They will not be able to differentiate between friend or foe."


    After giving the warning, the brewing segment was started. In five minutes, Sigrid was finished.


    "I have brewed this quickly, it boosts power for just one minute. If you want to increase the time span, you must increase brewing time and the quality of the herbs used must be top notch."


    The Lord mage had stepped out when she was brewing the potion, He brought a rock upon his return and ced it in front of the ss.


    Mage knights followed him, bringing ten more huge rocks inside.


    Sigrid downed the strength potion she had brewed, stepped out and punched one rock. It shattered into pieces.


    "Your turn." she said to the students.


    Once again, disasters followed and Finn was at the top of the list again. He added twice the required amount of moltenva."


    "Finn!" She hissed. "You are going to explode."


    "Or I will be the next Titan." The boy ginned.


    His cauldron exploded, a ck liquid sshed all over his face. He sat down with a gloomy look on his face while other students chuckled.


    Sigrid was about to help him clean up when another cauldron exploded, louder than Finn’s. Armstrong, a thirty year old knight went flying backward into the bookshelf at the back. He had used goblin weed instead of Thunder weed.


    The explosion frightened half the ss and resulted in a quarter of the students blundering. By the end, when the students tried out their potions unexpected effects were achieved.


    Finn who had tried again with a new cauldron grew muscles sorge that his head shrunk into his hulking frame.


    Dalton Bailey identally turned himself into a rock.


    Mauve developed super strength that she not only broke a rock but also five desks in the ssroom. Emmah failed!! This pleased Sigrid immensely.


    Adam Marden fed the strength potion to his familiar, an amber Wyvern that grew in size,parable to a two year old dragon. The wyvern was not too pleased to be an unwilling test subject and it went after Adam, chasing him through the ss.


    He leaped through a window and it followed. The Lord mage followed the boy to make sure that he was not killed by his familiar.


    L was the only student whose strength was perfectly in line with her strength potion and Sigrid dered her the most promising potion master in Eldoria.