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Poison came in many shapes and forms. Jake usually relied on the classic poison in liquid form that he coated his weapons with, but powdered poison was just as normal. Powder had the great properties of being dissolved in water or even burned to create a mist or smoke with toxic properties. If this powder was dissolved in purified water, one could even have a do-it-yourself poison kit.

Jake felt like he could quite easily make a powder, and this was one of the things he considered as his final Creation. It didn’t take much more than putting in certain catalysts and then boiling a mixture long enough for all the water to evaporate. Getting a working method down shouldn’t take more than a month or two. Jake found a few use cases for a powder, but ultimately, it wasn’t something he thought worthy of submitting, so he didn’t bother getting more familiar with the craft.

However, as he briefly studied these powder poisons and worked on crafting his Hemonecrotic Poison, he came across another form of poison Jake had neglected for a long time. A form of poison Jake had encountered before, and he kind of questioned if it should even be called a poison.

It was something many other professions also used. Jewelers and blacksmiths used it to remove impurities when crafting, weaponsmiths while tempering arms, and Jake had even seen Arnold use some that he had acquired from who-knows-where.

He was naturally talking about the wonderful world of acids. Alright, calling it a wonderful world was probably overdoing it, as dying to an acid was probably one of the worst ways to go. Jake should know. One of his first really close encounters with death was that time in Villy’s Challenge Dungeon, where he barely touched some acid and nearly had his entire body corroded and melted away.

The poison back then had been of the necrotic kind and made to dissolve anything alive. That’s also why there could be an entire basin of it, as it wouldn’t do anything to anything non-living… and this was actually where one of the big differences between poisons and acids appeared.

If Jake opened a poison bottle and poured it into a bowl, the bowl would begin to take heavy damage as the energies within the toxins would leak into it. Even if it was a poison made to kill flesh and blood lifeforms, the antagonistic mana within was simply too reactive with anything it was in contact with.

This was also the reason why poison lost its effects pretty quickly when out of the bottle. If Jake didn’t have Malefic Viper’s Poison, it would last minutes, not hours, when he coated a weapon and had it out in the open. Another reason why his quiver was also a godsend at it allowed Jake to have poisoned arrows in there for way longer without losing potency.

Acids, on the other hand, were far more stable unless they came in contact with what they were made to corrode. Jake could leave an open barrel of acid just sitting there for years without it losing much, if any, potency as long as no one consumed any of the energy within by dissolving anything.

Jake had never really worked on acids, as, in many ways, they were just worse than the poisons he used. Splashing a few drops of Necrotic Poison on an open wound would corrode an arm away, while a few drops of acid with necrotic properties would only melt away a tiny bit of flesh where the liquid hit.

The mention of open wounds here was quite important because this was where acids differed quite a lot from regular poisons again.

While throwing a bottle of poison on someone did do some level of damage and would act slightly accidic, it was very inefficient. Nearly all of Jake’s poisons worked through injection with sharp objects like arrows or katars. He needed to personally deliver the poison to the inside of the Soulshape, or it would have little to no effect.

Acids you could just throw at people. It didn’t really matter; as long as someone was hit, it would do its thing. Sure, an open wound would be nice, but it was secondary to just splashing someone with plenty of it. And Jake did mean plenty of it because just throwing small bottles of acid would rarely do much unless it was really potent acid.

Now, the ultimate question was why Jake suddenly got so damn interested in acids. In truth, Jake didn’t really need to learn how to craft it. Combat-wise, it wouldn’t even do that much for him. However, there were some instances where acids were just straight-up better than any kind of poison Jake could craft.

He still vividly remembered his fight with the Altmar Census Golem. That damn thing had been entirely immune to all his poisons, and sharp weapons didn’t really work. The only way he had eked out a victory had been through Touch of the Malefic Viper, which managed to corrode through the Golem’s defenses. Back then, the energy Jake had released may as well just have been him making his hands into acid due to the nature of the toxins released.

In one of the books, Jake actually read an interesting analogy. It said that if the usual poisons were the swords, daggers, and spears of toxins, then acid was the hammers, maces, and staffs. The blunt weapon of the toxic world. This was mainly because of the targets it was considered good against and how a blunt weapon would hit a large area with far more overall force, especially effective when sharp weapons just wouldn’t get the job done, while at the same time recognizing that when a sharp weapon did work, it tended to be a lot more effective.

explosions, and that wasn’t really a blunt

for how acids worked a bit more in-depth… well, there were a few ways. Acids had to be targeted against something specific, the same as regular poisons, but in a far more deliberate way. Mixing different acids to corrode more things also didn’t really work, and honestly, why would you even want that in most cases? The acids

to corrode wasn’t that much different from before the system, but instead of targeting certain chemical compounds, you targeted affinities and even concepts. All metals partly shared an affinity, and they all had the same conceptual Records of

be aware that

As for what acids could target, the more narrow it was, the more potent the acid tended to be against that specific thing. So, if Jake made an acid targeting earth-affinity mana, it would be much more effective than one

one other big reason Jake thought creating his very first acid would be a good idea. Jake had nine Creations he had planned to submit, and while all of them used his arcane affinity… none of them really made any use of the destructive aspects of his affinity. They had all been about the stable

want or need during crafting. To break apart certain ingredients. Something that was

destroy anything that wasn’t stable arcane energy and coupled with volatile poison that also wanted to kill stuff, the two of them went for each other the second Jake wasn’t holding

as difficult as one would expect as long as it wasn’t actively being attacked. Jake’s arcane affinity was a lot about balance, so all Jake needed to do was stabilize the destructive arcane energy just enough to not want to

especially not if he infused his arcane energy. There would be many instances where he could use it together with transmutation to corrode away unwanted parts of an item he planned to transmute, and the experience of learning how to make a good acid and how exactly acids worked would surely prove useful. Especially if one considered how an acid could target very specific

had one more reason he wanted to learn acids… one

of the

of the Path of the Malefic Viper revolved around acids. He also highly suspected that either Palate – due to stomach

crafting ingredient. Considering how damn much blood Jake could spill these days, he could see that prove very potent. So, yeah, one of the reasons Jake

thoughts Jake had in regard to making an acid. As for the Hemonecrotic Poison Jake was also working on? Well, he

injected, this poison will bind itself to your foe’s vital energies and blood, using it as

had wanted it to. It had

entire crafting process had been precisely as Jake expected. It was just a lot of work to make the two poisons properly mix while checking books whenever something didn’t work, and if the books didn’t have any answers, to just keep trying until he

usual poisons, for sure.

in Minaga’s Labyrinth despite clearing so many Sections, he was even ahead of schedule. Two years

of the Architect as long as he saved two years for the Endless

Jake didn’t want to pressure him and put him on a timer, and who knows when he would evolve? He sure as hell wouldn’t tell his student he had to evolve just because Jake got tired of waiting. That would go against any kind of teaching style Jake would

and Temlat had come to him a few days prior and said he still needed to do those. So, yeah, that added a bit to the time Jake thought he would originally take

Jake would be done with the House of the Architect. He wouldn’t rush himself to complete the Hemonecrotic Poison. He would only submit one to the Architect after

was making himself impatient, waiting for Temlat to

want to make a good acid, the regular poison was still his biggest priority, so that would be the final thing he submitted. It did kind of go against the notion of waiting with the best till

quickly passed as the usual routine continued. Jake had more time to focus on Temlat as his poison and acid project didn’t take up all his time, especially the poison, as he

day,

he said in his

looked a lot different than when Jake first met him. He had a dark aura around him and had begun to wear a cloak at all times, with shadowy energy hiding him due to his stealth skill. His eyes looked full of determination, and Jake could feel a faint

[Half-elf – lvl 199]

level, Jake had a good idea why

your race evolution quest?” he

Temlat answered in a solemn and serious tone,

you need to

me to reaffirm… or

meant but quickly got a good idea as he sighed. ”Well, it seems like

could go wrong

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