Chapter 10: A Failure? No—It’s a Strawberry Milk–Flavored Potion!

Lilia stared at the liquid in the cauldron.

She was completely stunned.

This………………what is this thing?

Inside the cauldron, a pot of bright peach-pink liquid quietly emitted a soft glow.

On the surface, little heart-shaped bubbles were rising with a ‘gulu gulu’ sound.

The air was filled with an overwhelmingly sweet milky fragrance.

Lilia’s brain froze for three seconds.

She suddenly grabbed the .

She flipped to the page on “Mind-Surrender Potion”, pointing at the description and comparing each word to the product in front of her.

“A successful potion should emit a ghostly blue light……………”

She looked at the book, then at the flamboyantly pink liquid in the cauldron.

“Bitter taste, viscous texture……………”

She lowered her head to sniff, and the rich strawberry milk candy scent almost made her brain ache.

Completely wrong. Not a single word matched!

“……”

Lilia’s shoulders slumped.

She had schemed all day, used up so many priceless materials.

And the result was a pot of pink sugar water?

The image in her mind—

A cold Demon King with cat ears and tail, lying on her lap meowing—suddenly shattered into powder with a ‘paji’.

Impossible!

Absolutely impossible!

Lilia refused to believe it.

She took a clean glass test tube from the shelf.

She dipped it into the cauldron, extracting a small sample.

The pink liquid rippled inside the transparent tube.

Under the light, it refracted a dreamy glow.

She brought the tube to her nose and sniffed again.

Fragrant.

Too fragrant.

The sweet milky aroma traveled through her nose and into her brain.

All her nerves relaxed.

She swallowed, a wave of longing rising in her throat.

She wanted to drink it.

The moment this thought appeared, Lilia herself was startled.

“Am I crazy? This is a failed magic potion!”

She hurriedly moved the test tube away.

But her eyes couldn’t help glancing back.

Even if it was a failure, Lilia’s ‘scientific spirit’ surged again.

“First, there was no explosion, so the energy structure is very stable. It’s not a dangerous substance.

Second, the color is pure with no impurities, meaning the materials fused perfectly; it’s just that the reaction went off course.

Finally, the aroma is enticing, not like a poison.”

The more she analyzed, the more sense it made.

Where in the world is there a poison that smells this delicious?

It’s probably just a bottle of unknown-effect, possibly tasty……………..ordinary beverage.

Lilia stared at the test tube, then at the large pot in the cauldron.

She’d worked all day, hadn’t eaten a bite, was exhausted and thirsty.

Now, a pot of what looked like delicious ‘strawberry milk’ was right in front of her.

To drink, or not to drink?

What if there were side effects?

Like diarrhea?

Or growing a tail?

But soon, her ‘to-hell-with-it’ attitude took over.

“Anyway, the materials were given by that perverted Demon King, with unlimited supply. Why be afraid of one failure!”

“I can just make it again tomorrow!”

“It’d be too wasteful to throw away this pot of stuff!”

She stared at the pink liquid.

That’s all money!

Top-grade Dreamgrass, a single stalk could buy half a city’s estate.

Moonstone Powder, market price fifty gold coins per gram.

And that Cat Whisperer Whisker…………………

Just thinking about it made Lilia’s heart ache.

“No.”

She stood up abruptly.

“I can’t let these materials go to waste! Even if I failed, I have to make use of them!”

Lilia gritted her teeth and stomped her foot.

“All right, bottoms up!”

She tossed the test tube aside.

Simply picked up the not-too-large cauldron, lifted her head, and pressed her lips to the rim.

“Gulu gulu gulu…………”

She gulped down the entire pot of warm pink liquid.

The moment the potion touched her mouth, Lilia’s eyes sparkled.

Delicious!

The top-grade milk mixed with fresh strawberry sweetness, the smooth texture sliding from her tongue down to her stomach.

There wasn’t a hint of the bitterness or strange taste of a magic potion.

After drinking, a wave of warmth spread from her stomach, quickly flowing through her whole body.

So comfortable, like basking in the sun under a blanket on a winter afternoon.

She let out a satisfied burp, a sweet strawberry scent escaping from her mouth.

Lilia set down the cauldron, wiped her lips, and stood in place waiting for a while.

One minute, two minutes, five minutes passed.

She pinched her own cheek, poked her arm.

No cat ears grew, no tail appeared, she hadn’t turned into anything strange.

Her body felt completely normal.

Except……Lilia rubbed her ear.

A little itchy, and a bit hot.

A lazy comfort spread through all her limbs and bones, making her body feel a bit softer.

“Probably just tired.”

Lilia muttered to herself.

“After all, I worked all day.”

She was utterly speechless.

“As expected, a failed product! Just a pot of soothing sleep-aid hot drink! All that effort for nothing!”

All her plans, all her expectations, had turned into this pot of tasty sugar water!

A wave of frustration shot from Lilia’s heart straight to her scalp.

The more she thought, the angrier she got.

She was angry at herself for failing, even angrier at Lucia!

It was all that woman’s fault!

If she didn’t bully her every day, would she have to go to such extremes?

Now look, the counterattack plan was completely ruined!

“No way!”

Lilia’s little face was red with rage.

“I can’t just let this go!”

“So many precious experimental materials wasted!”

“My whole day wasted! She has to reimburse me for this!”

Yes!

Reimbursement!

Lilia’s eyes shone brighter and brighter.

“Next time, I want double the Cat Whisperer Whisker!”

“And a kilo each of Blood Dragon Crystal, Stardust Powder, and Sands of Time!”

“I refuse to believe that, with unlimited materials, I can still fail over and over!”

The more she thought, the more excited Lilia became.

This failure wasn’t the end, but the beginning!

It was the perfect excuse to demand more resources from Lucia!

She grabbed the cauldron she’d just drained, treating it as “criminal evidence”.

She stomped her short legs and charged out of the laboratory, full of fury.

The corridor of Evernight Palace was long and empty, only her footsteps echoing.

“Deng deng deng deng…………”

Her small figure, in the vast palace, was filled with a ridiculous sense of tragic grandeur.

“Lucia! You just wait!”

“If you don’t give me an explanation today, I’ll… I’ll blow up your laboratory again!”

“No! Ten times!”

She hyped herself up as she mentally rehearsed how she’d confront that despicable Demon King.

Soon, she reached the doors of the Demon King’s royal chamber.

The two enormous gates forged from Obsidian-Magisteel.

Radiating a cold, imposing aura.

Intricate magic patterns flowed across the surface with a faint glow.

Usually, when Lilia saw these doors.

Her knees would go weak.

But today, her rage maxed out, she felt no fear.