What do you want to ask?

‘No, I can’t give up like this.’

Another twenty minutes passed, nearing the end of class.

The Potions teacher was now openly using his authority to suppress a student, having finally swallowed his pride.

Yet, he still hadn’t succeeded.

If word got out, he would definitely become the laughingstock of the entire school.

He had to go all-in!

He had to succeed in suppressing her, no matter what!

“Student Haggia, could you please prepare a truth serum on the spot?”

At these words, almost all the students were startled.

“This guy is truly shameless, asking a mere attendant to do this?”

“Is this guy desperate?”

Many couldn’t help but turn to look at the blonde girl’s side.

Sure enough, the black-haired, crimson-eyed youth had narrowed his eyes, staring coldly at York, killing intent slowly spreading outwards.

“Okay!”

But all of this was shattered by the blonde girl, who stood up with an innocent expression.

Seeing her expression much the same as before, many inwardly wondered.

‘Could it be… that she’ll succeed this time too?’

‘[No, there aren’t enough materials!]’

Since his “friends” were not paying attention to him, Flax Mounten didn’t hesitate this time and immediately sent a telepathic message to Flora.

And this was also why Teacher York saw Flora’s confident and unwavering demeanor.

There were many materials on the podium, but the specific materials needed to concoct a truth serum… were completely insufficient!

Moreover, he believed Flora would fail at the very first step: “separating the magical essence from the materials”!

This required extremely fine control over one’s magical power, long-term experience with various materials, and a very precise understanding of where the magical essence was located within them!

Truth serum was a potion taught in the fifth year. Even with sufficient materials, at least half of the students present would fail at the first step.

This time, York believed he would surely succeed in humiliating her!

But Flora just walked onto the podium with steady steps, observed briefly, and then quickly began her actions.

“This… am I seeing things?”

“Such fast potion extraction!”

York also froze.

Because in less than a minute, Flora had extracted the truly useful magical essence from a batch of materials.

Her technique was so skilled it could almost rival a graduate’s.

‘(Has she studied potions before?)’

York was somewhat annoyed.

He never expected that he would, against all odds, stumble upon someone so experienced… But fortunately, a clever cook cannot make a meal without ingredients.

Even if you’ve studied potions, you can only stare blankly without materials.

At this moment, many people also realized.

“The materials… seem insufficient…”

“Shut up!”

“What else?”

Most people had similar thoughts at this point.

But Flax Mounten noticed that the blonde girl’s face still showed no signs of difficulty or despair.

Upon closer observation of the already separated magical essence, he suddenly thought of a scenario that would normally not occur in a fifth-year classroom—

“No, the materials… are enough!”

On the stage, after Flora had refined enough usable magical essence, she placed the remaining magical essence—which was sufficient in total quantity but incorrect in nature—to the side.

At this moment, many realized what she was about to do.

“Magical essence conversion?”

“Isn’t that a technique taught in the sixth year?”

York also stared at the blonde girl with an incredulous expression.

Even if she knew magical essence conversion.

But if the materials were sufficient, and the converted magical essence wasn’t easy to convert into enough suitable potion ingredients, it still wouldn’t be enough, even if all remaining, unseparated materials were used.

Because this was a demonstration class in a large lecture hall, York hadn’t conserved many materials at all.

Therefore, this operation was destined to fail.

But for some reason, York felt panic.

Because this was only impossible in potionology!

‘Sure enough, there are many impurities… It seems I’ll need to use “material decomposition” and “reconstruction” techniques.’

Flora cast spells while thinking.

Potionology was actually a matter of biology and pharmacology.

The magical essence referred to here constituted parts of the potion, generally referring to the organs, tissues, or even cells of medicinal materials…

But in magic, there was also microscopic magic, a discipline that studied how to use magic to control the molecules that make up cells, and even smaller atoms…

Although Flora only read books, many high-level spells in her daily life were achieved through experiments that delved into the microscopic level.

So she immediately disassembled the magical essence that couldn’t be converted or had failed into molecules, and then reassembled them according to existing magical essence… Flora was best at imitation.

Before long, the magical essence theoretically sufficient to make a truth serum was completely gathered.

To be honest, if York had asked Flora to make a potion that required controlling heat for brewing, she might have truly failed.

But the good thing about truth serum was that all the ingredients were simply poured together and shaken to complete the product.

Therefore—

“Teacher, I’m finished.”

Flora handed over the potion.

To prevent him from denying it, she had also cast an analysis spell beforehand, displaying the amount and type of magical essence contained in the potion.

“Ah… you did… very well.”

York said, utterly disheartened. He had been terrified and distraught the moment the blonde girl began the decomposition.

He knew then that he had become a clown.

“She actually did it… This is too exaggerated, isn’t it?”

“Material decomposition and reconstruction in such a short time… This is a technique taught in seventh-year microscopic magic!”

“The Crown Prince’s attendant!”

The students were stunned.

It was one thing to understand potionology, but she also had high-level knowledge in other subjects? Isn’t her knowledge a bit too inhuman?

“The Crown Prince’s attendant is naturally of noble birth, and having studied is nothing strange.

She’s the most outstanding one among many attendants!”

Someone still stubbornly argued.

But the students who had genuinely brought their best attendants now had grim expressions.

Their maids also came from lower nobility, but most were merely literate. Asking them to create potions or decompose matter?

If they truly had such skills, it would be better to have them attend classes in their stead!

‘[You’ve worked hard.]’

Ryan paid no mind to others, merely smiling gently as he greeted the triumphant blonde girl.

“Thank you for the compliment, Your Highness.”

Back in her seat, Flora took out the textbook for the next course, just in case a similar situation arose again.

Seeing this, Flax Mounten, who had been observing the situation, couldn’t hold back.

“Miss Haggia, were those techniques just now… all learned from flipping through books?”

“The potionology knowledge, yes, but I had learned microscopic magic before.”

Flora was very honest. Two days ago still counted as “before.”

“Miss Flora is truly amazing, both a Grand Mage and possessing so much specialized knowledge…”, Flax Mounten sighed repeatedly.

“Thank you for the compliment… Student Flax Mounten, is there anything you’d like to ask me?”