Hogwarts Card System Chapter 106

Chapter 106: Unexpected Gains, Hair Dye Formula

“Ding~ Talent [Otherworldly Knowledge (Gold)] triggered, discovered [Official Trainer’s Pokémon Cultivation Manual (Green)].”

[Official Trainer’s Pokémon Cultivation Manual (Green)], records an official Pokémon trainer’s cultivation plan and journey for their Pokémon. Requires 300 experience to redeem.

A green-framed card, depicting a red and white Poké Ball, with Pokémon like a crow, dog, cat, mushroom head, and fire dragon underneath.

“Yahaha?!”

Ted was stunned. What strange thing had snuck in?

What the heck is Pokémon?

“Redeem it, redeem it for me! I want to see what this thing is!”

300 experience points was only three or four days’ worth of experience income.

A flood of information poured into Ted’s mind, covering Pokémon classification, information, feeding, cultivation, battles… all aspects.

However, the variety of Pokémon covered wasn’t extensive; specifically, there were only detailed cultivation plans for seven types of Pokémon.

Well, an official trainer is only one level higher than a novice, just having stepped into the combat domain.

But the information in his memory indicated a trainer in their late thirties or early forties.

It seems this was a mediocre, ordinary trainer, just like most people, who never won a championship in their lifetime…

How embarrassing this must be compared to Ash and others!

It’s like an average game player; at most, they have more experience and have played longer, but they can’t compare to a world championship team.

Alright, this is truly the majority.

The seven Pokémon in the knowledge were: Murkrow, Arcanine, Meowth, Amoonguss, Foongus, Tangrowth, and Charizard.

The highest level should be Charizard, right?

Ted scratched his head; he didn’t know much about Pokémon.

If it were Pikachu, Blastoise, or Magikarp, he’d know a bit more.

Is Charizard the advanced evolution of Charmander?

Ted obtained a series of cultivation methods and techniques, but where could he find Pokémon?

Ash has Professor Oak, I can ask Hagrid… wait a minute!

Pokémon… magical creatures… What if he cultivated magical creatures using Pokémon cultivation methods?

Or rather, could related magical creatures be cultivated into Pokémon?

Professor Quirrell and Hagrid would definitely be very interested in this project!

Ted meticulously savored the Pokémon knowledge in his mind, and the more he thought about it, the more interesting it became.

Don’t forget, our generous Professor Quirrell, before his death, left all his precious legacy to Ted, which instantly boosted Ted’s knowledge of magical creatures and bloodline modification.

Now, comparing the cultivation and modification knowledge of magical creatures and Pokémon from different worlds, there’s an indescribable “chemical reaction”!

Ted: Marvelous~

It’s just a pity that as a 12-year-old wizard, this knowledge probably won’t be useful for a while.

In the wizarding world, the foundation of any research is definitely Charms.

Only when you’re good at Charms do you qualify to research extended fields.

Magical creatures is one such extended field, otherwise Hogwarts wouldn’t have placed it as an elective only available from the third year.

With Ted’s current level, researching normal charms and magic is already more than enough.

Even difficult high-level magic like “Fiendfyre” has shown some results—meaning causing explosions.

But it only just touches the edge of magical creatures and bloodline modification.

For example, in the knowledge left by Professor Quirrell, every experimental step requires a large number of spells to be cast, and the precision requirements for magical changes are also very high.

It’s not as simple as catching a magical creature, injecting it with some “chicken blood,” and then casting a spell.

So, this knowledge still needs to be sealed away for now.

There’s no way around it, it’s like a middle school student accidentally gaining high-level knowledge about nuclear physics, gravitational waves, or quantum mechanics—it’s profound, but currently useless.

…

July’s otherworldly knowledge wasn’t useless; it was just temporarily useless~

So, life had to continue as planned.

Helping Mr. Ziggs in the apothecary with brewing potions and preparing ingredients, managing transactions and daily appraisals on the Salted Fish Network, and then studying magic, including previewing next year’s textbooks and researching some magic from the Azeroth and D&D worlds.

These two instances of otherworldly knowledge were truly a treasure trove! At least enough to research for another year!

Jerry was now a skilled worker, quick and efficient at handling ingredients, and good at dealing with people. He could handle the curious wizards visiting the Salted Fish Network well and record requests from demanding customers.

One day, while Ted was brewing a potion called “Skin-Moisturizing Grease,” he suddenly noticed a strange phenomenon.

This skin-moisturizing grease was a purified ointment-type potion, a primary processed product for another beauty potion.

This was a potion needed by a beauty potion shop. Madam Primrose Purnell sold several beauty potions, and this skin-moisturizing grease was her order, used in large quantities.

After further processing, this grease would become a staple product in her shop.

As for how it was processed, that was a secret.

Mr. Ziggs and Madam Purnell were classmates and had a very good relationship, so he took on this job.

Incidentally, Madam Purnell’s beauty shop also offered magical services like “mole removal, freckle fading, scar removal, and wart removal,” a very wide range of services.

Mr. Ziggs said she had specifically visited Muggle beauty salons for research!

What a talent!

Back to Ted’s strange discovery: he found that when brewing the skin-moisturizing grease, a material called purple wood sorrel leaves, which had accidentally fallen into the cauldron, reacted due to the dog-carp grease!

Originally, the purple wood sorrel leaves were dark red, but after the reaction, they became a very vibrant bright purple.

Due to his carelessness, Ted botched a potion batch, wasting 13 silver Sickles worth of materials.

However, when he cleaned up, he found that this purple color had extremely strong adhesion and could not be removed with a simple Scourgify. He experimented five or six times before finding a corresponding potion, concocted from stinging nettle and dog-carp grease, to remove the color.

It was just a minor accident, but Ted found this purple color particularly beautiful.

It was like… like the beautiful purple hair of anime characters!

“Can this stuff dye hair?” Ted murmured, staring at a small basin of purple ointment.

For the next few days, Ted continued to research this substance.

Based on the alchemy formulas and experience from the otherworldly knowledge [Sule’s Slime Bubble Alchemy Formula Notes (Green)], and some suggestions from Mr. Ziggs, Ted spent five days developing the first-generation product: a hair dye spray.

“Let’s call it Bright Purple (Handsome Guy) Hair Dye! Hahaha~” Ted laughed heartily, looking at the finished product in his hand.

The exhilaration of doing R&D was truly amazing.

The product’s packaging was a purple frosted glass bottle, and the spray nozzle was custom-ordered from a Muggle world factory.

Simply spray it on the hair, and in a few seconds, the hair turns bright purple. With specific control techniques and dosage, color differences can also be adjusted.

This color cannot be removed by ordinary spells, unless a matching decolorizing agent is used.

Otherwise, the purple hair will remain for a week until the color fades away.

A small bottle the size of a fist can be used about fifteen times, and the cost, excluding labor, is around 15 silver Sickles.

And labor isn’t actually expensive; the process isn’t complicated, the requirements are low, and one batch can produce a large pot, enough to fill hundreds of finished bottles!

“Ding~ After long-term research and experimentation, you have invented a new potion formula: Handsome Guy Hair Dye · Purple, gaining 880 experience.”

It even gained system recognition! Not bad, not bad!

At Ted’s request, Mr. Ziggs helped him contact Madam Purnell, who owned the beauty shop, and she was indeed very interested.

After using it, she was extremely excited!

After some bargaining, Ted sold the formula for 450 Galleons and signed a contract guaranteeing Madam Purnell exclusive rights for five years.

Ted even felt that the other party was too benevolent: they only asked for five years of exclusive rights, did she not know how to be a capitalist? If it were certain companies, they would definitely demand it until 50 years after his death!

However, through their interactions, Ted noticed that Madam Purnell seemed to have some special feelings for Mr. Ziggs.

At least not just ordinary classmates or friends!

Ted: Mr. Ziggs, what are you waiting for? You’ll be forty soon! Hurry up~ With the birth rate in the British wizarding world so low, how can you sleep at night?

Madam Purnell’s 450 Galleons greatly expanded Ted’s small treasury. This was legitimate income with a clear source!

Adding the gold converted by the pseudo-Philosopher’s Stone this month, Ted’s working capital had reached 500 Galleons. He could finally go on a big shopping spree.

Many times Ted appraised good items and really wanted to buy them, but he didn’t have the money!

Now that funds were abundant, why not buy, buy, buy?

…

Another month passed in a flash. The Salted Fish Network seemed to have reached its peak, with thirty to forty second-hand items listed or sold each day, maintaining a total of around two hundred items.

After all, it was a sparsely populated area, and it seemed unlikely to see significant growth in the short term.

Alright, anyway, it was just to put an idea into practice, to experience the wonders of the wizarding world more, and most importantly, the appraisal skill had been honed!

After more than a month of high-intensity use, Ted’s appraisal skill had made great progress. Things that initially only yielded vague and scarce information could now reveal most details.

Ted even appraised an heirloom item for a pure-blood wizard yesterday, a red-quality item that had been passed down for over three hundred years.

Due to an accident, the wizard’s father passed away, and much information about the item was lost.

However, Ted, through several appraisals, uncovered most of its information and uses, and even found some taboos and usage methods.

This was a red-quality item, a high-end magical artifact in the wizarding world. Previously, the owner had consulted many knowledgeable old wizards, but none could fully uncover its value.

Ted had also gained some renown during this time.

At least information about “that kid with the appraisal talent” circulated among many wizards, and the novel Salted Fish Network was often brought up in conversation among wizarding families.

Due to the sparse population, long natural lifespans, and overly closed nature, the wizarding world’s update and iteration speed was very slow.

Suddenly, a fresh new Salted Fish Network appeared, and even many wizards who had no need to buy or sell gathered to watch the excitement when they came to Diagon Alley.

The last time it was this lively was last year when the dwarves opened a blacksmith shop!

Now, the blacksmith shop’s business was practically deserted—it was said that many of the dwarves’ services overlapped with the goblins’, and they were secretly boycotted.

Sometimes, when Ted presided over sales or appraisals at the Salted Fish Network table, with wizards three deep surrounding him, he always felt like it was an early stock exchange!

Especially when someone started bidding~

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(End of Chapter)