10 AM.

West District, Mayfair District, St. Itherine Garden No. 22, Ciel’s residence.

Ciel looked at the two bottles of potion delivered to her and fell into thought.

7 hours, huh…

There were still nearly 8 hours until the simulation ended at 17:51.

But Ciel needed to set aside some time. It would be best to complete the reconstitution ritual quickly.

Time wasn’t exactly abundant, but it wasn’t a big problem.

Anyway, it was possible to drink the “Poison Master” potion first and complete the reconstitution ritual later. Even if she only completed half of the ritual, she could always make up for it later if she wanted to advance. Saving a Tier 2 “Plaguebringer” shouldn’t be an issue.

Just like Adele’s teacher, Sherlon, who had drunk the potion in advance and gained some Tier 3 abilities… It was just that his reconstitution ritual was intercepted by Ciel, leading to his failure and exposure.

“Lord Ciel, if you could give me more preparation time, your servant could obtain more perfect potions for you…”

Tara, standing behind Ciel, looked at the two bottles of potion in front of Ciel and said.

“It’s enough.” Ciel shook her head.

The Tier 1 “Physician” potion was something Ciel’s simulated self had already prepared. The Tier 2 “Plaguebringer” potion Tara had found for Ciel came from the collection of one of her Tier 3 students.

Old Days simulation only required a certain number of potion save files, but it didn’t demand quality. If she wanted to improve the quality, she could simply overwrite the save file without any impact.

For now, the number of potions took priority.

Ciel directly picked up the “Physician” potion before her.

Inside the potion bottle were individual white crystals. They looked like different translucent crystals, and there were even white cotton-like cracks within the crystals.

If she wasn’t told it was a potion, Ciel would only think they were real crystal particles.

She directly opened the stopper and poured all the “crystals” into her mouth, swallowing them directly.

Instantly, Ciel felt a painful sensation as if she had swallowed glass. The angular outer walls of the “crystals” cut her throat. Then, they burrowed into the wounds along the cuts, decomposed into smaller crystal particles, and entered her bloodstream.

Thanks to her photographic memory, Ciel’s basic medical knowledge was now comparable to that of a medical student who had studied for four or five years in this world. However, she lacked practical experience. This would definitely affect the degree of potion digestion and might even cause Ciel to experience side effects during Tier 1 digestion.

Using her mental power alone, she can now withstand the whispers and negative effects brought by ordinary Tier 1 potions. Theoretically, she could even drink other Tier 1 potions without completing the reconstitution ritual—however, the possibility of further advancement would be taken away.

However, this didn’t have a significant impact on Ciel.

Ciel tightly closed her eyes. Along with the buzzing whispers in her mind, a large amount of knowledge about “Physician” surged into her mind, allowing her to fully understand all the abilities of the “Physician” path.

So weak… But if a genius obtained this ability, it could cause horrifying damage.

After perceiving the abilities that appeared in her mind, Ciel gave this evaluation.

“Physician” was perhaps the weakest Tier 1 potion Ciel had ever consumed, besides “Detective.”

In terms of whispers, it wasn’t as intense as “Avenger.” In terms of improving physical fitness, it wasn’t as direct as “Assassin” or “Butcher.” In terms of mental power, it was completely unmatched by “Listener” and “Instigator.”

But the improvements were very balanced, and it had few side effects.

Additionally, her resistance to poison and drugs had significantly improved. She could even actively control her metabolic rate—this would allow transcendents of the “Physician” path to more effectively utilize the power of strengthening agents.

It seemed that a large part of the “Physician”‘s combat strength came from self-developed agents, while the core of the “Physician” itself was being resilient and hard to kill.

Besides that, the most crucial point of “Physician,” and the point Ciel believed it could cause terrifying destructive power, was that the abilities of this path, even at the “Physician” stage, could perform simple compilation of life…

It was just that the consumption was huge, and currently only a very small portion of cells could be compiled.

Ciel had always thought that the throwing knives Adele used before were also “Physician” abilities, but now it seemed that throwing surgical knives was probably something Adele had learned on her own.

Ciel raised her hand and rubbed her temples. She looked again at the other bottle of potion placed on the table before her.

Killing so many people to complete the “Plaguebringer” potion… Wouldn’t that be too cruel…?

This thought only lingered in Ciel’s mind for a moment before completely dissipating.

【Calm Mind】, this system ability, was helping Ciel free herself from the potion’s influence on her thinking.

So, would she, under the influence of the “Physician” potion, have such thoughts…?

In a way, the “Physician” potion was quite dangerous, at least for Ciel.

Softness of heart at critical moments could cause Ciel to miss many opportunities.

“Let’s go, Tara.”

Ciel picked up the bottle of potion, casually put it in her pocket, and said, “Call Percy, we have something to do.”

In the following time, Ciel first went to Adele’s home.

Adele, as a genius in pharmacology, was no stranger to classic bacterial infections like cholera. In fact, the research idea for the new “dehydration virus” originated from Vibrio cholerae.

Adele used her “Physician” abilities to insert gene fragments of Vibrio cholerae into the phage genome, transforming the originally living bacteria into non-living viruses.

Although the new “dehydration virus” lost the bacteria’s ability to self-replicate, it gained a much stronger infectivity and cell-damaging ability than Vibrio cholerae.

This should have been something created by the “Poison Master” path, but Adele still created it according to Sherlon’s request, and succeeded on the first try… This showed Adele’s proficiency in the “Physician” path.

Ciel’s visit this time was to ask Adele for the “dehydration virus” pathogen.

Adele was very happy to see Ciel become a “Physician.” Ciel was already her good friend, and now her good friend had embarked on the same path as her. This was a double dose of happiness.

Upon hearing that Ciel needed the “dehydration virus” pathogen, Adele didn’t hesitate at all and directly gave it to Ciel. She didn’t even ask Ciel what she was going to do with it. She simply believed that Ciel wouldn’t use it for anything bad.

Most “Physicians” were good people… At least Adele, who came from the Redemption Society, believed this.

Unfortunately, Ciel was going to betray her trust this time.

Having obtained the virus from Adele, Ciel said goodbye to Adele and went to the Church of the Savior Goddess, where she found Adele’s sister, Uris.

After easily gaining Uris’s trust using the “safe word,” Ciel obtained the “detonator”—the Gaze of Death Omen—from her hands.

This was a sealed artifact Ciel had obtained from Sherlon. Later, she exchanged the location information of this sealed artifact for potions from the Church of the Savior Goddess. This sealed artifact was naturally in the hands of High Priestess Uris, who was still presiding over the Clock Tower Church in Berren City at that time.

Now, this sealed artifact would once again be put to use in Ciel’s hands.