Chapter 1853 Inspiration Potion
"This is..." Qiao didn't quite understand why Leo suddenly asked about things related to potion formulas, but after thinking about it for a moment, he thought it might be related to the surrounding environment. He wanted to make some medicine that could drive away poisonous insects or snakes. He took it and looked at it, but after taking a look, he frowned. Although he was not particularly familiar with the formula of the Chinese medicine, he knew several of the raw materials, and he also knew that these raw materials were put together. What was the formula for the potion that was formed in the end, so he asked Leo with a serious face, "How do you have the formula for the inspiration potion?"
"I saw it in Bernardo's collection of books." After Leo answered simply, he asked, "Do you know this potion?"
"Bernando's collection of books?" Joe did not doubt Leo's statement, because there were indeed many incidents of discovering this formula from the collection of books in the past. "Not only do I know it, but many people also know this potion. "It's best not to let anyone see the formula in your hand. This medicine is a banned drug that is banned by all countries on the mainland." As he said that, he handed the formula back to Leo and asked in confusion. : "Don't you know the inspiration potion? Logically speaking, any scholar knows it? You must know that this potion was designated as a banned drug entirely because of you scholars. You should be very aware of this thing?"
Leo said in a deep voice: "I really don't know the origin of this inspiration potion. Can you tell me?"
Joe stared at Leo for a long time, as if he wanted to see something from his face, but Leo's always calm face did not reveal any information. Seeing this, he sighed and said seriously: " No matter why you are interested in the inspiration potion, I sincerely advise you not to touch this potion, because only fools and lunatics in this world will take this potion. "
Leo could tell from Joe's words that this medicine had caused terrible harm to the world. Otherwise, Joe would not have been so cautious and fearful. So he said in a sincere tone: "Don't worry, I'm not interested in taking this medicine. I just want to know the origin of this medicine and things related to this medicine. If it's not convenient for you to tell me, you don't have to say it. I’ll just ask other people, I believe other people should know something.”
Seeing Leo's behavior, Qiao stopped persuading him and told Leo what he knew about the inspiration potion.
It turns out that the reason why the wizard sobering potion made by Leo is called the inspiration potion is indeed related to inspiration, because in this world, this potion was originally related to a very famous poet in the Novat continent. This poet is called Crazy poet Messer, this crazy poet is also the best poet in the Novat continent. He is respected as the crown poet in the poetry world.
Messer wrote a total of 324 poems in his life, including 53 long poems, 251 short poems, and 20 rhyme songs for learning poetry. Until today, the world Poets are still using Messer's poems as poetry templates to create their own poems, because in the eyes of the world, Messer has written all the poetry forms in the world, and future generations can no longer find new poetry forms. , can only be written following Messer's poetic form.
Because of this, the world is curious about why Messer had so much inspiration and wrote so many poems. For this reason, after Messer's death, many ardent believers in Messer's poetry paid high prices for Messer's poems. Where did the heirs of Messer buy all the books left by Messer, including Messer's notes, and they tried to find out the secret of Messer's ability to have so much inspiration.
As a result, after some research, they found that Messer was just an ordinary businessman in the early days. It was not until the age of thirty-four that his caravan was robbed by bandits and lost all its goods, and there was a piece of nectar mixed with the goods. It was an extremely valuable item. In the end, in order to pay for this item, he had to sell everything he owned. Even his favorite concubine became a beggar. From then on, he became crazy. Likewise, It was also from that time that he began to write poetry.
Messer's poems were ignored for a long time. It was not until the year before Messer's death that a great nobleman who loved poetry took notice of them and compiled and published them. This caused a sensation and became popular in a very short time. Time became popular throughout the world, and it was in that year that Messer took off the title of mad poet and was brought to the crown of the poetry world.
Obviously, the year that Messer lost everything and became a beggar should be the year that Messer gained endless inspiration, so someone went to Messer's hometown to look for any clues related to it. Finally, they found Messer in A diary hidden by Messer was found on the wall of his old home. The diary recorded what happened during the period when Messer paid off his debts and sold everything, and eventually even the house was sold.
During that time, Messer was not alone. There was actually someone beside him, a woman he rescued in the desert. This woman had no name, and her appearance was not recorded, but from Messer From the information revealed in Er's notes, it is not difficult to see that Messer loved this woman very much. He was so depressed that he sold everything in the family, including his favorite concubine, but he never stopped using the precious medicine that this woman needed for healing.
However, Messer's efforts did not win the corresponding love of the woman in the end. One day, the woman suddenly disappeared. Messer could not find her no matter how hard he looked. Judging from the description of this experience in the notes, Messer should have been very painful at the time, which was closely related to Messer's madness later.
Although the woman disappeared suddenly, she still left something for Messer, probably to thank Messer for his treatment. As for that thing, it was a recipe and method of making a potion, and this recipe also reminded people familiar with Messer's life of the "inspiration" that Messer often mentioned.
In Messer's notes, it was often mentioned that after taking inspiration, he gained the ability to write all poems. People who studied these contents at the time believed that Messer should have written it wrong, and wrote "taken" instead of "obtained". After all, there are a lot of crazy words in Messer's notes that still confuse people, and it is not uncommon to use some wrong words.
But now seeing this potion formula, thinking of how Messel had to use the money he begged to buy herbs no matter how hard it was in the past, plus the most complete potion-making tool in the world in Messel's legacy, these clues made people who studied Messel's life at that time boldly guess that the so-called inspiration was not the spiritual inspiration they thought, but a substantial potion, and Messel took this potion to gain the ability to write a large number of poems.
So, someone made the potion according to the potion formula and refining method, and quickly made the finished potion, and then hired someone to take that potion, so they found that the potion could make people's minds extremely clear, and in this mental state, people's thinking would be more active than usual, and many things that could not be solved at ordinary times could be easily solved at this time. People also believed that they had found the secret of Messel's ability to write so many poems.
Afterwards, this potion began to spread among the upper classes of the countries in the Novat continent. All those who tried this potion were very clear about the effect of the potion and were obsessed with it. Later, the formula of this potion was spread to the middle-class nobles, scholars and businessmen, and they were also completely conquered by this potion.
Because more and more people used this potion, the raw materials for making the potion became extremely scarce, and the price soared. Several raw material producing countries and their surrounding countries had conflicts and frictions because of the raw materials and the huge profits contained in them, and eventually turned into war.
While the war was still going on, the side effects of using the potion began to appear. The first batch of people who used the potion had extremely serious auditory hallucinations. Only by taking the potion could they slightly alleviate some of the symptoms. The more potions they took, the stronger the auditory hallucinations became, and eventually they were completely driven crazy. Some people committed suicide because of madness, and some people even issued more crazy orders in madness, such as inexplicably massacring a village and town, etc. It is said that they gave such orders after hearing some instructions.
After that, more and more people fell into madness, and even all the managers and nobles of a city fell into madness. Only then did people realize that the reason for everyone's madness was the inspiration potion.
Countries immediately took the opportunity to replace the people in power and officials at all levels who had fallen into madness at the time, and then enacted the most stringent laws to ban inspiration potions, and set up special departments to destroy all written records related to inspiration potions, and also set the materials for making inspiration potions as restricted materials that require official permission to buy.
Although countries responded in time, the losses that should have been caused would not be reduced, especially the loss of talents. Even after the people in power fell into madness, the struggle for power by other people who coveted their positions lasted for a hundred years and was not completely over. Until now, there are still aftereffects.
Although not many people know about the inspiration potion now, even people like Joe only know a few main ingredients needed for the formula, but everyone who knows about the inspiration potion is afraid of this potion. Unless they are crazy, no one would want to take this potion. So when Joe saw the recipe of the inspiration potion just now, he just took a simple look at it. After confirming that it was an inspiration potion, he did not look at the production method behind it. Obviously, he was also full of concerns about the inspiration potion.
After learning about the general situation of the inspiration potion from Joe, Leo was curious about the mysterious woman who provided the potion formula to the crazy poet Messer, because since that woman was able to provide a formula that conforms to the pharmaceutical materials of this world and improve some unsuitable pharmaceutical methods, that woman should be very proficient in the production method of this potion and has stayed in this world for a long time, otherwise it is impossible for her to know the medicinal materials of this world. This made Leo doubt the relationship between this woman and Penny, or Penny herself.
As for why we don't suspect that this woman's whereabouts may be unknown now, and we only know that Sylvia is very likely in this world, it is mainly because Sylvia's control over pharmaceutical manufacturing is not very high, and she has not done any research on this potion specially used for psychics. It is impossible for her to change Leo's formula and production method so perfectly.
In addition, Leo also understood why people in this world would go crazy after taking this potion, because this potion was specially provided for psychics. Even if the formula was changed, its fundamental medicinal properties for the mind were not weakened, and it might even be enhanced, so that people who took this potion had an unnecessary burden on their minds, which eventually led to their mental mutations. Auditory hallucinations were a kind of mutation. The content they heard in their hallucinations did not come from the outside world, but was actually a mental wave of their own past thoughts, knowledge, etc.
If the mental waves generated by this mental mutation were to be emitted under normal circumstances, it might be able to alleviate the symptoms of these people, but the problem was that this world's suppression of extraordinary power was so strong that mental waves were also a kind of extraordinary power. When it was emitted outward, it encountered the obstruction of the power of the laws of this world, just like encountering a wall, it was blocked back and acted on the source of the mental waves, thus aggravating the symptoms of auditory hallucinations
Although the inspiration potion itself is not of much use to Leo, it does bring him some inspiration. First of all, the inspiration potion itself proves that some wizard potions and shaman potions that Leo currently possesses can also be applied to this world, and he can find the most suitable substitute potions in his other potion formulas by comparing the formulas of inspiration potions and wizard spirit potions. In this way, some special potions can be reproduced in this world, and he will have more means to deal with possible dangers.
In addition, Leo also found that perhaps there is a kind of power that may not be as strongly suppressed in this world as he expected, because in Joe's narration of the origin of the inspiration potion just now, it was mentioned that some people who went crazy because of taking the inspiration potion actually caused other people around them who did not take the inspiration potion to fall into a short period of madness. Obviously, the mental wave generated by the inspiration potion broke through the suppression of this world and affected the people around him, but it did not last long.
Therefore, Leo guessed that the suppression of pure spiritual power in this world was much smaller than that of other extraordinary powers, or even none, so he also planned to try to train and use pure spiritual power to see if it was as he guessed.
However, before that, a sudden news affected his plan, or the plan of the entire pioneer group. The indigenous tribes in the jungle were moving to the depths of the forest in an orderly manner.