Ralph was a very powerful pharmacist. He could perform multiple steps of potion-making at the same time, which greatly saved the time needed to make potions.
After about an hour of waiting, Ralph took out a bottle of sky-blue potion from the freezer.
He looked at the blue liquid in the glassware and asked Luke, "Inspector, judging from the color and clarity of the potion, this is a successful concoction. However, I don't know how effective it will be. Could it be... better than mine?"
"Why don't you try it?" Luke said with a smile.
"Try it? At here? A small sip should be fine."
Ralph recalled the ingredients and refining process of the potion again, thinking that a small sip would not make him unable to withstand the medicinal strength.
In the spirit of "who else would sacrifice if not me", Ralph took a small sip of the blue potion.
"The taste is a lot smoother. The effects of the medicine came very quickly... I can feel a ball of fire burning in my lower abdomen..." Ralph carefully experienced the changes that the potion had brought to his body. "This feeling...It's a little better than the aphrodisiac I made, just a little... But it seems a little different..."
Sensing the difference in the effects of the potion, Ralph gulped down the entire bottle of potion.
Then, his skin quickly turned red.
"Ah... Ah..." Ralph shouted. "This feels so good. I feel like I'm back to my youngest state. This feeling of power is not an illusion!"
Ralph picked up the freezer that was used for experiments easily. Before he drank the medicine, he was exhausted from opening the freezer door.
"This is definitely not an aphrodisiac!" Ralph put down the freezer and asked Luke.
His eyes were bloodshot, the veins on his forehead were bulging, and the muscles on his neck were tense and spasming with excitement.
"I didn't say it was an aphrodisiac. You'd better suppress the medicinal power as soon as possible. With your age and physique, you can't withstand such berserk."
After hearing Luke's words, Ralph immediately rummaged through the reagent cabinet at the side for neutralizing drugs. His hands trembled as he knocked many of the drugs over.
After finding the neutralizing drug, he quickly drank it.
After about two minutes, his condition slowly calmed down.
The exhaustion of his physical strength caused Ralph to collapse into his chair. He panted heavily, but his eyes were filled with excitement.
"How do you feel?" Luke asked him.
"I, I..." Ralph took a deep breath before he could speak. "I never thought that the aphrodisiac potion I made could be turned into such a good berserk potion with such minor modifications.
"The effect was fast, and reaching its peak was quick. More importantly, it could still maintain a certain level of rationality in the berserk state. Although it consumes a lot of energy, I can't accurately calculate the fatigue after the effect because of my age, so I can't judge the burden after the effect.
"According to my experience, a regular magic potion with the same effect can be sold for about 20,000 imperial mark per bottle, while the aphrodisiac potion we make can only be sold for 1,000..."
Luke didn't expect Ralph to still be thinking about his aphrodisiac.
"Yet your aphrodisiac is still being produced. Open another production line for the Berserk Potion and hand over all the Berserk Potions to me for sale. You've been in the black magic potion business for so long, you should know that this Berserk Potion is enough to feed you and your sons and all the fishes in the sea."
Luke wasn't scaring Ralph.
According to The New Age's progress, Ralph would be able to produce this high-efficiency Berserk Potion in an accidental experiment a few months later. Soon, his family died in an accident at sea, and the high-efficiency Berserk Potion he invented became someone else's money-making machine.
Ralph was old and experienced, so he naturally knew that the value of this high-efficiency berserk potion was not something that his aphrodisiac potion could compare to.
Especially in the Cape District, too many people died because they had something they shouldn't have.
"I know what to do, Inspector. I will not tell anyone about the existence of this Berserk Potion. I will hand over as many Berserk Potions as I can make to you."
"It's good that you understand. This lady is my confidential secretary, Karina. She will represent me in handling all the accounts, purchases, production, and sales here.
"In addition, I'll arrange a safer potion production site for you. Our products can't be limited to berserk potions and aphrodisiac potions. You need a bigger and more advanced pharmaceutical laboratory, standardized management, and brand new pharmaceutical production machines."
Ralph said gratefully to Luke, "Thank you, Inspector. I will never forget your kindness to our Ralph family."
Luke said, "Make me 20 bottles of this high-efficiency berserk potion now, and then make 500 bottles before nightfall and send them to the Secret Intelligence Bureau. Will it be difficult?"
Ralph considered the production capacity of his workshop.
"No problem. The high-efficiency Berserk Potion only required a slight change in the ingredients and process of the aphrodisiac. 500 bottles of Berserk Potion could definitely be delivered to the Secret Intelligence Bureau before nightfall.
"I'll make the potion for you now."
This potion mixing room had ready-made ingredients for aphrodisiac potions. After recovering, Ralph skillfully operated and produced 20 bottles of high-efficiency Berserk Potions at once.
These potions were filled into potion bottles according to the amount. The shape of the potion bottles was a cylinder that could be held in one hand, making it easy to carry and drink.
After receiving the potion, Luke asked Karina to check and calculate the accounts of the magic potion workshop. Record all the supply channels and shipping channels, and arrange for personnel to investigate them when they return to the Secret Intelligence Bureau.
The employees here also needed to be verified before they were invited to the Secret Intelligence Bureau for an "interview".
He wanted to take complete control of this magic potion workshop.
Even though she was a professional, Karina was busy until noon before she finished her main work. As for the remaining trivial matters that were not related to the overall situation, she could slowly coordinate with this place in the future.
Luke left Black Medicine Alley with Karina and returned to the Secret Intelligence Bureau at 2:30 in the afternoon.
Some sponsors who had been invited to the meeting had already arrived early.
Luke and Karina found some ready-made food from the cafeteria to fill their stomachs before rushing back to their office.
Shelly, who hadn't seen Luke the entire morning, was very anxious. When she heard that the inspector had returned, she immediately came to find him.
"Inspector..." Shelly pushed the door open and immediately noticed Luke's strange behavior. "You've changed so much. It wasn't just your appearance, but... you've become stronger."
"Is that so? This is a good thing. Tell me about the current situation of the Wild Axe Party. Can they still hold on?" Luke didn't explain anything to Shelly about his change.
Since Luke didn't say anything, Shelly didn't dare to ask.
She sat down opposite the desk and said, "Without a heavyweight warrior like Giant Tree to hold the line, the Wild Axe Party is having a hard time. If it weren't for the fact that the castle was sturdy enough and the defense facilities inside were complete enough, they wouldn't have been able to last a night.
"Lambert hopes that we can help them find more mercenaries, but...
"Our sponsors have all received warnings from the Security Department, and some of them have wavered."