The Notorious Misadventures of an Alchemist and a Phoenix, Chapter 5

Noah had reached Grand Master tier in Alchemy. It would be an understatement to say he was excited. His hands held each other, rubbing together in barely contained glee. It had been an easy journey that should have taken years, decades, maybe his whole life and yet here he was. There was no further thing the system could teach him in this class. He would have to go forth on his own to increase his knowledge but that didn't mean the system was useless. He could now change his class with no regrets but before that, he needed to finish his class.

Noah's hands steamed from rubbing together quickly with the new stat increase he had just earned, Noah dunked his burning gloved hands into a bucket of lotion.

Waving his hands to get rid of the slight stinging sensation caused by the friction Noah winced in pain.

"This is going to take some time to get used to" Noah poured a liquid down his throat. This wasn't for healing but instead for luck.

Any class that hit the expert level and above got a chance at a gods gift. When Noah reached Expert Tier he was offered a choice. The first was a compactable renewable field alchemy kit that weighed almost nothing. Noah didn't want it as he did most of his work in his city and so he chose the random gods' gift but not before drinking massive amounts of his brand of Lucky Dog Elixir.

Random god gifts were exactly what they sounded like. Instead of an item that was connected to the class it was randomised. You could get a magical pebble that would return to your hand when thrown or a powerful philosopher stone. It all depended on your luck.

This was how Noah had gotten his hands on a phoenix egg. An excellent god gift for Noah as he would use the undying phoenix to test his concoctions. That was until the beast's intelligence skyrocketed because of a strange mixture of living fire and potion. Noah cursed that his once quiet phoenix was now a load mouth bully who had a crazy need to drink his creations.

And because of that, Noah chose the Master tier god's gift, rather than randomise

Alchemist golden touch (ring)

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Any potion made has a 50% chance to make one other identical potion.

He didn't need this but would increase his output and sales. As soon as he put on his ring the lesser potion rivers in his shop swelled. The self-stirring giant copper pots expelled liquids like a geyser. Brewing jar contents exploded in the corner as the pressure of added liquids with no more room broke the jars.

Noah rushed outside of his vault bedroom to be met with a terrible mess but not an unwelcome result. Then there was the Grandmaster's Tier gods gift.

Alchemist godly touch (ring)

Doubles all Alchemy effects.

This didn't just mean his skill but also the effects of items such as Noah's Master tier "Alchemist golden touch ring". This meant there was a synergy that would boast all of Noah's work involving Alchemy.

Noah's mouth watered. He smacked his lips together, thinking about what that meant. His Master Tier ring gave him a 50% chance of extra potion being made but with his Grandmaster tier ring, he could get a 100% chance for extra potions being made. Noah was giddy with happiness as this was right up his alley. Work smart, not hard.

Then there was the passive skill that came with the Alchemy class. Getting to Grandmaster caused his passive 100% toxic resistance to increase to 200% resistance and 50% disease resistance to 100%. 100% resistance just meant that toxins had no effect on him but with the ring not only would poison and venoms not hurt him but instead heal him.

Noah slid Alchemist's godly touch on his finger.

"What's going on here," asked the plumped-up phoenix, who had wondered what the noise was about

For a second time the rivers swelled, copper pots expelled liquids like a geyser, raining down various liquids on the shocked phoenix's face. Slowly turning on the spot the phoenix did a slow dance as it rain precious liquids all around the plump bird. It was a strangely elegant moment that was quickly ruined when the greedy asshole dropped to the floor and started to shovel as much liquid as he could into his mouth.

Noah didn't stop him because he couldn't but also the excess liquids would flow into the drains and head into the sewers. Waste not, want not.

"Bring in the cleaning slime," Noah told the phoenix

The phoenix paused for a second and his eyes batted from left to right and back again. The phoenix didn't know what he was doing when he accidentally created the cleaning slime and he definitely didn't know what to do with it now. To be honest, the way the slime crawled toward him freaked him out and so he did what he always did when a problem surfaced and troubled him, He ignored it by flushing it down the toilet into the sewers.

"Urhhhh" the phoenix didn't know what to say, would he get into trouble? He ultimately chose to ignore what Noah had said and continued to slurp down as much floor potion as he could.