After returning to the tower he finished the quest with an extra hour before the deadline, Sir Lezard was a bit surprised and asked why he took days just to gather 20 different herbs.
Chrono told him the reason because there was extra time he gathered more herbs and increased the quantity of each type.
After turning over 20 different herbs, a window appeared indicating the quest’s completion.
Quest Complete: Apprenticeship test
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He leveled up 18x since difficulty C are usually done by 50-200 people at the level 50-120
Class Change!
You can convert to Alchemist.
If you accept you can learn exclusive skills for the class.
Do you want to convert to Alchemist?
"Yes"
New Skill: Alchemy Beginner lvl 1(0%) [Passive]
New Skill: Potion Creation Beginner lvl 1(0%) [Active]
New Skill: Mana Manipulation Beginner lvl 1(0%) [Passive]
New Skill: Transmute Beginner lvl 1(0%) [Active]
Skill: Botany now becomes a permanent skill and proficiency gained remains
“Skill Info: Alchemy”
Alchemy Beginner lvl 1(0%) [Passive]
Increases Class Related Skills Effects by 1% and Reduces Mana Cost by 1%
“Skill Info: Potion Creation”
Potion Creation Beginner lvl 1(0%) [Active]
Enables you to create potions from any materials
Caution: higher skill level increases success rate, the higher level materials the lower the success rate.
“Skill Info: Mana Manipulation”
Mana Manipulation Beginner lvl 1(0%) [Passive]
Decreases mana consumption of all skills by 1%
“Skill Info: Transmute”
Transmute Beginner lvl 1(0%) [Active]
Enables you to improve the Effect(s)/Properties of Item(s)/Equipment(s)
At intermediate enables you to change form/creation of Item(s)/Equipment(s)/material(s)
Mana Cost: 100/second
You have entered apprenticeship with Master Alchemist Lezard Valentine
Alchemy Related Skill growth rate +10%
New Title: Lezard’s Apprentice
“Stat Window” anxiously said by Chrono after seeing the new skills and their details
[quart=Name,Alignment]Chrono,Neutral[/quart] [quart=Race,Gender]Human,Male[/quart] [quart=Title,Class]Lezard’s Apprentice,Alchemist[/quart] [quart=Fame,Infamy]220,0[/quart] [quart=Health,Mana]1506,1840[/quart][quart=Level,Stamina]60,147[/quart][quart=Strength,Agility]81(+20),73[/quart] [quart=Wisdom,Intelligence]117,116[/quart] [quart=Vitality,Luck]105,0[/quart][quart=Endurance,Sustenance]51,65[/quart] [quart=Fighting Spirit,]62,[/quart][quart=Fire,Wind]0,0[/quart][quart=Water,Earth]0,0[/quart] [quart=Holy,Dark]0,0[/quart]
Status Window
Leadership
0
Unused Stat Point(s)
120
Magic Resistance
Bonuses
-Class: Alchemist-
INT+30, WIS+30, and VIT+10
You can learn exclusive skills for the class
Class Related Skills are 10% more Effective
Enables you to read alchemic symbols and letters
-Title: Lezard’s Apprentice-
Alchemy Related Skills growth rate+10%
Satisfied with his Stats he said “Master when do we begin work?”
“Nope not yet you first have to learn the basics of Alchemy”
“here take this” Lezard taking out flasks and other tools for alchemy’s potion creation
“use this tools and the materials you gathered at the test to make potions”
“ahhh… yes one last thing here is the powdered silver wolf’s fang, the fur will be for later”
After saying all this Lezard left Chrono to start making potions, but after walking out the door he returned one more time and to tossed a book to Chrono.
*Baam*
Unaware Chrono got hit in the head
“Ouchhhhh” Chrono said stroking his head
“Master you shouldn’t throw things at people” said Chrono a bit angry
“Sorry! But you will need that book to get started”
Looking at the book, titled: How to Create Potions for beginner Alchemist
Reading the book took him 10 minutes even though it was 126 pages thick, it was because he just memorized everything and took note of all important part.
He started making potion first using the herbs, smashing the herbs and turning it to mush adding water then heating it in a fire adding another herb then reheating it, he managed to make a health potion that restores 167 health.
Continuing to experiment with the herbs adding different materials and herbs together he made many different types of potions.
Health Potions that restores 100-300, Mana Potions that restores 50-100, Poison that damages 5-10/s and last for 30 seconds, STR Potion that increases STR by 5-10 for 30 sec, but some exploded making him take a rest every now and then to recover health, he didn’t want to waste using the health potions.
Using up all his gathered herbs (261 herbs), his Potion Creation reached beginner lvl 5(49%) and Alchemy reached beginner lvl 3(92%).
He managed to make 26 health, 49 mana, 13 poison, and 2 STR Potions.
He made more but it either exploded or had no effects, the Identify skill reached beginner lvl 7(34%) by Identifying each result.
After lining up and grouping together potions he began drawing an alchemic Circle and placed the health potions there afterwards he activated his skill Transmute to improve the potions, one after another he transmuted the potions.
After identifying the potions again
Health Potions restores 150-400, Mana Potions restores 60-110, Poison damages 6-11/s and last for 35 seconds, STR Potion increases STR by 6-12 for 35 sec.
His Skills gained proficiency pretty fast with the numerous times he used it, he had to take lots of break at transmuting though since it consume quite a bit of mana (96 mana/s).
His Identify reached beginner lvl 9(2%), Alchemy beginner lvl 5(27%), Transmute beginner lvl 4(67%), and Mana Manipulation beginner lvl 3(1%).
It took him a week (in-game) to finish using up all the herbs and trying out all the basic techniques for alchemist.
After his first week of apprenticeship he started helping with his Master Lezard’s research alongside his senior apprentice(the young lady), he found out that his master is researching the philosopher stone said to be able to grant any wish, it turns out that the stone does not grant wishes, but is a stone of great power that can greatly strengthen a person depending on how it’s used but master’s stone that he had as a specimen is small and have weak power, so he is currently searching for another or if he can’t find one, create it so he has been researching for a way to materialize energy/power as an object.
He is nearing the end of his research since he was able to create stones with power, his skill is called Stone Creation.
At first he tried using mana to materialize, he was able to but the power was not strong enough and master had a mana pool of 23,560 and he was only able to create a stone that can increase maximum mana by 150 when made into an accessory, it was not practical so he searched for another source of power he was researching Ancient Alchemists and Magicians that used a source of power different from mana.
There were a few that used holy and demonic energy it was powerful but hard to gather here in this world without dragging the gods and demons to cause chaos here, and the main problem is the harvesting method he had right now to use it the beings whose energy he had to sacrifice to make a stone needs to be alive and inside his transmutation circle and if it gets interrupted the skill get canceled, so he is now looking for a way to remove the energy from the target and store it somewhere for use.
Chrono then remembered the book the librarian gave him about an Ancient Alchemist, he called his master and showed him the book, he was a bit shocked when he opened the book now he was able to read it now, remembering in his Status Window something about ‘Enables you to read alchemic symbols and letters’, the book was probably written in alchemic letters and full of alchemic symbols which is why he was not able to read it before.
Master Lezard was quite interested in the book after reading it master passed it to Chrono and told him to read and learn this skill detailed in the page of the book.
New Skill: Absorb lvl 1(0%) [Active]
New Stat: Life Energy
“Skill Info: Absorb”
Absorb Beginner lvl 1(0%) [Active]
Enable you to gather Life Energy. Range: 0 (Absorption :[((wis+int)/2) hp/sec])
Mana Cost: 200/second
“Stat Info: Life Energy”
Life Energy
A powerful energy to create Stone(s) of power.
Cannot distribute Stat point, increases by using the skill “Absorb” every 1000 health = 1 Life Energy
After reading it his Master taught him the Skill: Stone Creation and instructed him to go out the tower and gather Life Energy.
Going outside the tower 11 days after completing his test he went out looking for wolves, foxes and even rabbits but he can’t seem to catch many of them, they mostly fled right as they saw him, not knowing why they ran he chased then but since chasing them takes quite awhile he decide to stop and just head into one of those so called dungeons he found a couple of dungeons, but he decided not to enter any of the undead dungeons for now he headed towards a dungeon filled with lizardmen level 70-110 there he encamped inside for 3 weeks(in-game) and managed to kill with just absorb, it was hard at first since he needed direct contact and the enemy is moving and slashing at him, a good thing he had high INT and WIS so his Absorb damage is high, he gained 894 Life Energy, 100 fame for being the first discoverer of the dungeon, 35 level ups, loads of japtems, 260 silver, and Absorb reached beginner level 8(84%).
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The lizardmen were quite poor every now and then they drop silver and crude equipments.
He distributed his unused stat points 195 INT, 80 WIS, 20 VIT.
After distributing his stat point he called “Stat Window”
[quart=Name,Alignment]Chrono,Neutral[/quart]
[quart=Race,Gender]Human,Male[/quart] [quart=Title,Class]Lezard’s Apprentice,Alchemist[/quart] [quart=Fame,Infamy]320,0[/quart] [quart=Health,Mana]2040,4765[/quart] [quart=Level,Stamina]95,193[/quart][quart=Strength,Agility]81(+20),73[/quart] [quart=Wisdom,Intelligence]197,311[/quart] [quart=Vitality,Luck]125,0[/quart][quart=Endurance,Sustenance]90,76[/quart] [quart=Fighting Spirit,Life Energy]88,894[/quart][quart=Fire,Wind]0,0[/quart][quart=Water,Earth]0,0[/quart] [quart=Holy,Dark]0,0[/quart]
Status Window
Leadership
0
Unused Stat Point(s)
0
Magic Resistance
Bonuses
-Class: Alchemist-
INT+30, WIS+30, and VIT+10
You can learn exclusive skills for the class
Class Related Skills are 10% more Effective
Enables you to read alchemic symbols and letters
-Title: Lezard’s Apprentice-
Alchemy Related Skills growth rate+10%
“Skill Info: Absorb”
Absorb Beginner lvl 8(84%) [Active]
Enable you to gather Life Energy. Range: 8 meters (Absorption :[((wis+int)/1.6) hp/sec])
Mana Cost: 160/second
“Wow! This skill is getting good though I can’t use it much cause of it’s a MANA BURNER”
Afterwards he headed back to the village to get the items he left at the inn he had left before, while going out he noticed a lot of people outside the walls hunting rabbit ganging up on one and some getting killed in 1-2 hits of the rabbit, there are a few though that seems to be able to handle the rabbits quite well considering rabbits here are 2-4x more powerful than other villages/towns/cities, they must have trained in the training hall or had martial arts knowledge since the rabbit’s movements are quite predictable so it’s easy to evade unless they are the type that likes to take and give hits thinking virtual reality is turn-based.
After gathering all his items from the village he took it and went to the tower left it in the room Master Lezard left him to use as his room.
He searched for Master Lezard and found him at the top floor of the tower there he reported what he had done the past 3 weeks and that he gathered quite a bit of Life Energy.
They then began the experiment again, Chrono drew the Circle for Stone Creation and used all the Life Energy he gathered.
The process took 3 minutes he used all of the Life Energy he gathered, 2500 Mana for activating the Circle and compression of the Life Energy, and 5 level permanent reductions taking out 25 last stat points he distributed.
Level UP: Stone Creation beginner lvl 2(0%) [Active]
Level UP: Stone Creation beginner lvl 3(0%) [Active]
Level UP: Stone Creation beginner lvl 4(0%) [Active]
Mana Crystal
Durability: ?
A crystallized Life Energy that can store Mana, to equip must embed it to an item to add its properties.
Can be swallowed to obtain 10% of the mana capacity (Item vanishes once swallowed)
Increases Maximum mana by 5140
“Stat Window” Chrono called just to check what changes in his stats
[quart=Name,Alignment]Chrono,Neutral[/quart] [quart=Race,Gender]Human,Male[/quart] [quart=Title,Class]Lezard’s Apprentice,Alchemist[/quart] [quart=Fame,Infamy]320,0[/quart] [quart=Health,Mana]2040,4390[/quart] [quart=Level,Stamina]90,193[/quart][quart=Strength,Agility]81(+20),73[/quart] [quart=Wisdom,Intelligence]197,286[/quart] [quart=Vitality,Luck]125,0[/quart][quart=Endurance,Sustenance]90,76[/quart] [quart=Fighting Spirit,Life Energy]88,0[/quart][quart=Fire,Wind]0,0[/quart][quart=Water,Earth]0,0[/quart] [quart=Holy,Dark]0,0[/quart]
Status Window
Leadership
0
Unused Stat Point(s)
0
Magic Resistance
Bonuses
-Class: Alchemist-
INT+30, WIS+30, and VIT+10
You can learn exclusive skills for the class
Class Related Skills are 10% more Effective
Enables you to read alchemic symbols and letters
-Title: Lezard’s Apprentice-
Alchemy Related Skills growth rate+10%
Closing the window he turned to his master looking carefully at the item: Mana Crystal
Master Lezard feeling his apprentice’s gaze walked towards him and said you can probably create different Crystals by changing the Circle for Stone Creation, this experiment is a success but this is not yet at the level of the philosopher stone, master philosopher stone even when it’s weak is able to enhance all stats of the user by 10% and give additional 500 Mana and Health.
Continuing with the research Chrono wanders from dungeon to dungeon gathering Life Energy for 8 months (in-game), even though it’s harder to level up now since most mobs in the area are level 90-180 and he had leveled up a total of 90x making him level 180, gained 10806 Life Energy, 1603 gold 20151 silver 5255 copper from hunting and 15650 gold from Potion Sales (he became famous for Good Quality Potions to players and NPC alike), he sold all japtems gathered from hunting and the ones he kept that was not used and got 12300 gold 25 silver, he gained 1300 fame for discovering dungeons, his skills improved greatly especially his Alchemy related skills, all 450 stat point was distributed to INT, although the battles took time since he needed to wait for his mana to regenerate most of the time, sometimes even forcing him to use his potions, he usually gather the herbs he use but when he desperately need it he buys all the herbs he can find in the village he use 8000 gold buying herbs from the village.
His skills are now:
Cooking Beginner 9 (27.00%)
Enable you to cook food that replenish satiety and gives buff once eaten
Repair Intermediate 2 (21.00%)
Enable you to restore the item’s durability, restores the item’s max durability
Identify Beginner 9 (2.00%)
Enables you to learn the true value of unidentified items
Sword Mastery Beginner 7 (67.00%)
Increases Attack by 70% and Attack Speed by 21% when using sword(s)
Botany Beginner 6 (54.00%)
Enable you to gather Herb(s)
Alchemy Intermediate 3 (22.00%)
Increases Class Related Skills: Effects by 18%, Reduces Mana Cost by 18%
Mana Manipulation Beginner 8 (98.00%)
Decreases mana consumption of all skills by 8%
Potion Creation Intermediate 4 (78.00%)
Enables you to create potions from any materials
Caution: higher skill level increases success rate, the higher level materials the lower the success rate.
Transmute Beginner 9 (88.00%)
Enables you to improve the Effect(s)/Properties of Item(s)/Equipment(s)
At intermediate enables you to change form/creation of Item(s)/Equipment(s)/material(s)
Mana Cost: 91/second
Absorb Intermediate 7 (64.00%)
Enable you to gather Life Energy. Range: 22 meters (Absorption :[((wis+int)/1.15) hp/sec])
Mana Cost: 115/second
Stone Creation Beginner 4 (15.00%)
Enable you to create a stone of power, the power depends on the quantity of Life Energy and the Type of power depends on the Circle’s Formula
Costs: 5 levels, 2500 Mana, Life Energy decided by the user
The average level of players now is 174
Once Chrono returned after his long time travel (Dungeon Hunting), Master Lezard gave him a book: Different Circles and their Effects (written by Lezard Valentine) and said “you have learned everything you can from me you need to go out to the wide world and experience things.”
Title: Lezard’s Apprentice Revoked
Since you have graduated from apprentice you are no longer Lezard’s apprentice.
With that Lezard threw Chrono out of his tower.
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