The Romantic Trials Of A Transmigrated Empress

Chapter 361: Dark potions.

It was by far one of the most weird things to happen on the mage academy. An evening class that started at 6:00

p.m!

The students were very wide eyed and confused when they received calls and messages from the academy

asking them to return for class. Sigrid was the teacher of this class and she was smiling, relishing in the authority

she had over her students.

"By show of hand, how many of you here had dates tonight?" She asked them.

Every hand in the classroom went up, including Roland's. A thing that caused a few snickers. The crown princess

was obviously sulking, unhappy about being forced to attend the evening class.

"And how many would be in bed by now?" She asked.

The eyes of all the young students found the older mages.

"Raise your hand if you are thirty and above." Finn chuckled.

He and another boy shared a very enthusiastic high-five, ignoring the glares of thirty percent of the students in

the class that fell in that bracket, including the crown prince.

"Thirty is not old you imp." Someone shouted.

"Whatever old man." Finn answered.

Sigrid turned around and wrote the words dark and questionably legal potions. She turned around, faced the

class and put her hands on the table. "Before someone like Finn jumps to the conclusion that we need the

darkness to brew a dark potion allowto share why this is an evening class.

One, | am the crown princess so | have other duties to tend to other than teacher you about magic potions. Two, |

enjoy keeping you on your toes and three, you are mages that defend your empire. There is no timing on war.

Your enemy will not give you a heads up before attacking, they will just do it. So, you must be ready to brew a

potion, cast a spell and ready to go at all times. And this is not just about war but any emergency. Do not get too

comfortable that you forget to be prepared for every circumstance.

On that note, sometimes | will schedule classes in the middle of the night or four in the morning. Attendance is

compulsory unless you are out of the empire or inside an operating room. Do | make myself clear?"

There were mumbles of discontented yes’s from them. Sigrid was famous for giving bad grades, her class was

considered one of the hardest at the academy. Nobody wanted to risk getting an F on their test.

"So, what are dark potions?" she asked.

About ten hands were raised and she picked a young boy. "Seth."

He stood up to give his answer. "They are magical potions that are designed to with harmful, manipulative or

morally corrupt intentions. They can cause pain to others, kill or control them."

"Clap for him." She said.

After a brief applause, she raised her voice and said, "Dark potions abuse the laws of nature and often they are

made at great ethical cost. | am not going to teach you about them because | want you to take a dark path. This

knowledge is simply being passed to you because knowledge is power.

Dark potions themselves are not dangerous, but the one that misuses the potion is the dangerous one. Just as it

is said, a bad workman blames his tools. Magic is not to blfor the harm caused by mages, it is the other way

round.

You are learning about dark potions in order to be prepared to recognize them and resist or counterattack. It is

also a test of your morality. You must learn what you should and should not do.

Lastly, you must learn about them in order to quell your curiosity and keep you from going down a dark path.

Let's be honest, a lot of you have been poking around books you should not be looking at in the library.

Someone has been looking for potential ingredients and ways of brewing a potion that lets them borrow the

energy of others. Maybe he plans to fight a bull with his bare hands."

Someone snorted and a few students laughed.

Sigrid shrugged. "It may sound funny but for the one whose energy is borrowed, it is not. It could lead to death if

their energy is over drawn. This is why you must learn and defend yourselves. If your energy is borrowed, brew

an antidote and counter the effects quickly.

Hence our first dark potion of the evening. The Vital leeching potion. It allows you to siphon stamina, alertness

and magical energy from someone within close range, channeling it into the drinker. Of course the one whose

energy is being siphoned must drink the potion too."

"How rude." A girl said.

Sigrid smiled. "Extremely rude and like | said dangerous. The loss of energy is not obvious in the beginning but it

is cumulative. The ingredients for this potion are...." She broke off when she noticed that all the students were

actively holding pens and notebooks, eager to write.

It seemed like everyone was quite interested in this potion.

"One drop of blood from the one whose energy is to be drawn, a spoon full of crystallized enchanted bee honey,

two solarflare petals and spidermint."

She took them through the brewing steps. The volunteers to try the brew were many so she chose six students

to pair up. One would be the leech, siphoning energy and the other, the victim.

For some, the effect was immediate and for others, there was no change.

"To counter the vital leeching potion, one must brew an elixir of restitution. It cancels the effects of the leeching

potion and forcefully returns the borrowed energy." She smiled deviously as she eyed her students. "The icing on

the cake is that you get srevenge. The leecher suffers backlash, vomiting blood, losing their hair and loss of

limb movement for at least a month."

The students gasped, especially those that had just voluntarily leeched off the energy of others to prove the

efficacy of Sigrid’s potion.

She laughed for a moment when she saw their wide eyes.

The Lord mage cleared his throat, remind her not to scare the students.

Sigrid rolled her eyes. "But this is for long term leeching, three days or more. To brew a restitution potion you

need, dew from a mountain where lightning struck twice, an extract of snot from a stubborn mule...."

"Ewww, gross, disgusting."

Sigrid shrugged. She had not invented the potion, she found the recipe in a book. She listed off the rest of the

ingredients. The potion was brewed and the volunteers drunk it immediately.

"The best way to prevent your energy from being borrowed is to wear pendant vial with restitution elixir. Or, you

can add it to your bath water and rub it on the jewels you wear. It will neutralize all any vital leeching potion you

are fed deliberately or accidentally."

She bent down and retrieved a transparent box of spiders, placing it on the table with a bang. "Who is ready to

volunteer for the next dark potion?"