The inexperienced warrior held the bottle up to the light.
"So this will toughen my skin? Permanently?"
"That is the intended effect."
Their brow crinkled with clearly unfamiliar effort.
"What's that mean?"
I sighed.
"Magic is not like in the stories you tell to children. Waving a wand idly is not what we do. Magic is a long journey of study, experimentation.
Any number of factors from your lineage to the phase of the moon may influence the impact."
After a few seconds, the warrior shrugged and drunk the potion.
Subject #493 then turned into a tree, like previous subjects.
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