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.

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

to use them not to waste such precious natural treasures. Reading it did give him an

and

was wholly uncontaminated and was nothing more than filler. All it did was to dilute the mixture a bit,

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

barely had to focus when brewing them. But the ease and familiarity he currently felt were incomparable. It felt like he had worked with the ingredients thousands of times before. The

before he was greeted

– A new kind

the Malefic Viper] has reached level

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

Hemotoxic Poison (Inferior)] – Increases bleeding on inflicted entities and makes any injuries harder to heal.

poison was a weak type of poison that disrupts the inflicted's usual bodily balance, thinning the blood, and increasing blood loss. It also, like the dagger he had, made healing the target harder. Overall it

less of this type of bottle than the regular potion bottles, there was still a cabinet containing a few hundred. This kind of bottle was designed to dip arrows, needles, and daggers into, to soak the weapon in the poison. Something he believed would become very

the expected notice of

the Malefic Viper profession skills

used the same approach as last time he got offered skills and

Allows for the alchemist to attempt to transmute types of metal into ones of greater value. Must have suitable materials. Transmute does not require any additional tools or equipment, but the skill’s effect can be amplified using certain catalysts. Adds a minor increase to the effectiveness of Transmute based on

could prove useful down the line, but for now, it was not for him. Making gold from 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

swiftly moved

and the perfect plant may be created, not found. Grants the ability to graft plants. Plants must be compatible. Must have suitable ingredients and equipment to

naturally in the world; what had surprised Jake, however,

around the multiverse. The author of the book was unsure about how the

according to modern physics, was 13.4 billion years or so. He also remembered that the system said that his universe was the 93rd to be introduced to the system. The other universes being older was

alchemy in all the books, and something novices should avoid. The main reason for grafting, a lack of

with that in mind, he moved on

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 tools or equipment, but the skill’s effect can be amplified using certain catalysts. Adds a minor increase to the effectiveness of Alchemist’s Purification based on

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

would have on his current ingredients, however. He 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

alchemists. A lot of herbs found throughout the multiverse were borderline useless. That, or they were highly specific for only obscure

to pick it up at one point, but as the six skills offered at level 5 were still on his

two skills were very similar, much like the Sense Herb and Sense Poison