The Primal Hunter

Lying on the bed, Jake was proud of his progress for the day. He had mixed so many potions that he eventually had to just dump the mixtures in the sink. It was so incredibly wasteful, but he just didn’t have anywhere else to put it.

While there were undoubtedly many bottles, it was far from unlimited. He was re-using the bottles after he drank the mana potions but said potion consumption had fallen to nearly nothing after Jake had gotten his Palate of the Malefic Viper.

It wasn’t that he was entirely out of bottles; in fact, he had many left. He just knew that the potions he currently made wouldn’t be things he wanted to save. He also didn’t know where to store them. Pretty much every surface in the lab was filled with potions.

During the day, he had also eaten two new kinds of mushrooms too. One called [Reddot Stool], a small white mushroom with red spots on it, with the other identified as a [Brunneius Aqua Mushroom], a brown mushroom found growing from small puddles in the damp cave. Both were naturally inferior-rarity.

Overall his day had resulted in quite the progress.

*’DING!’ Profession: [Alchemist of the Malefic Viper] has reached level 7 - Stat points allocated, +2 free points*

*’DING!’ Race: [Human (G)] has reached level 8 - Stat points allocated, +1 free point*

*’DING!’ Profession: [Alchemist of the Malefic Viper] has reached level 8 - Stat points allocated, +2 free points*

*’DING!’ Profession: [Alchemist of the Malefic Viper] has reached level 9 - Stat points allocated, +2 free points*

*’DING!’ Race: [Human (G)] has reached level 9 - Stat points allocated, +1 free points*

The only significant difference was that he had decided to save the free points. The wisdom seemed to barely add anything to his mental capabilities at this point, and he was unsure if any other stat would help him in any way at the moment. He had considered willpower and endurance, hoping that it would allow him to stay awake longer and reduce the mental exhaustion.

But for now, he would save them. He was very close to level 10 in his alchemy class, at which point he would likely unlock another skill or some other benefit. So, he had decided to wait for the last level.

He had finished the book on elementary poisons, the two basic alchemy books, and had decided that he was ready to give concocting poisons a try the next day. He had eaten the shrooms and moss he needed as ingredients, and he had even found a book describing recipes.

Said recipes mentioned the Reddot Stool and Brunneius Aqua Mushroom, which was why he had decided to munch on those.

After getting up from his bed, he headed straight for the cave to collect a good batch of mushrooms and moss. And with that, he got to work. In retrospect, Jake wasn't sure it could even be considered work considering how easily it went.

Concocting poisons and brewing potions shared a lot of similarities. The mana injection and mixing were essentially the same, with only a few minor differences here and there. The most significant difference was the requirement to squash any elements of vitality within the ingredients while simultaneously amplifying the damaging properties.

When making health potions, the direct opposite of poison, you had to simply bring forth the already existing vital energies found within the herbs. That same vitality was found to a lesser degree in poisonous plants. They were living entities, too, after all.

wholly ruin the concoctions. This made Jake consider the silver mushrooms he had that gave vitality when consumed. In one of the books, such cases were described, where the poison and vitality reacted together, empowering one another. This could then go in either direction, either

such ingredients’ overpowering nature, new alchemists were generally recommended to stay the hell away from attempting to use them not to waste such precious natural treasures. Reading

was not mixing ingredients that were hard to use. He was mixing the Reddot Stool and Brunneius Aqua Mushroom and the green moss in the mixing bowl. Both components floating

every kind of liquid poisons. It was wholly uncontaminated and was nothing more than filler. All

as he had the methods described in the books memorized, and when he got to the more challenging parts of the mana-injection,

were incomparable. It felt like he had worked with the ingredients thousands of times before. The moss and mushrooms felt like an extension of his own body, quickly absorbing his mana, doing what he wanted when

entire thing only took minutes before he was greeted by a collection of very welcome

Hemotoxic Poison (Inferior)] – A new kind of creation has

the Malefic Viper] has reached level 10

fast again. Not that he was going to complain about it. Inspecting his new creation, he was

inflicted entities and makes any injuries harder to heal. The poison must be introduced directly into the bloodstream

It also, like the dagger he had, made healing the target harder. Overall it was not a very powerful type of poison. Still, considering his current strategy

hundred. This kind of bottle was designed to dip arrows, needles, and

with the expected

the Malefic Viper

the five skills, he used the same approach as last time he got offered skills and went through them

into ones of greater value. Must have suitable materials. Transmute does not require any additional tools or

iron did seem awesome in the real world, but he doubted he the skill would have any use in curing him of the poison in his system. Also, who would even care about gold if people

swiftly moved

to graft plants. Plants must be compatible. Must have suitable ingredients and equipment

one did seem very cool also, and he had read about the art of grafting plants in several of the alchemy books. Most plants could be found naturally in the world; what had surprised Jake, however, was that the system had not created the

the multiverse. The author of the book was unsure about how the system did so, but its involvement was inarguable, as plants even seemed

inevitably led to many not knowing which plants were system-made and which ones were grafted by alchemists. Jake did not know how old the multiverse was. He knew that his universe, according to modern physics, was 13.4 billion years or so. He also remembered that the system said that his universe was the 93rd

no use for it currently. It was described as a rather advanced type of alchemy in all the books, and something novices should avoid. The main reason for grafting, a lack of suitable ingredients, wasn't an issue with him having his own garden and cave, both still nearly full despite his use over the last days. So unless he wanted to become a master-grafter,

he

purify any alchemical ingredient. Purification can help remove unwanted properties from a component, making the finished mixture purer. Must have suitable ingredients. Must have suitable materials. Purification does not require any additional

alchemy, considering the name Purified Water. If grafting allowed you to create your desired plants, this one allowed you to attempt

did not need to purify any water as there was plenty of it, and thus far, he hadn’t run into any issues with unforeseen properties within the plants he

borderline useless. That, or they were highly specific for only obscure recipes. Thus, purifying some of these ingredients could allow them

knew that he would have to pick it up

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