"Oh, he put the guides back up," Blackswan said checking the market like before.
"Hold on, Apex!" Arnold called out to the pink man, "yes?" he turned back to the green dragonkin.
"Are you going to attempt the Tre-Ent Dungeon?" he asked emphasising the word attempt.
"Yes I am, and before you ask I plan on doing it solo," Apex didn't want to share the loots, and he was going to attempt every difficulty and wanted to do it alone.
"What that's insane, you're insane! It doesn't work like that, you can't solo everything!" Satya shouted she felt like she just met the most egotistical person in her life thinking he could do anything alone because of some achievement that made him popular.
Although some of her hate came from jealousy as she calculated how much he made honestly, and now he had just doubled that.
"I beg to differ," Apex shrugged and left, he needed to learn his potion-making skill.
...
Apex was sitting in a grey room in front of him were beakers and tubes and a Bunsen burner he was taking the alchemy test having done the tutorial it was for basic mana, stamina, and health potions.
Bluegrass as it is used in almost every potion next was a monster tongue since their saliva allowed eating bluegrass to regain health and neutral solution to detoxify the potion to not poison humans.
There was no need for a solution for non-human races, as toxins wouldn't affect them.
He boiled the tongue in a flask as it shrivelled removed it leaving the liquid, next he grounded the bluegrass and dumped it in boiling it turning the water dark green and at least the solution and burning it some more.
After he emptied it in a flask. And presented it.
"An admirable basic health potion is quality as almost at peak quality, and the time taken to create this too simply 2 minutes."
[Quest: Alchemy(F)] [Assessment: A]
[You have shown your skills in brewing potions]
[Rewards: +50 Silver, +250 Exp, Brewing set, the recipes Stamina, health and mana potions are in your recipe book.]
"You seem to have some talent in potion-making, but there is more to alchemy than meets the eye I wish you the best journey."
"Thank you," he kindly bowed and left the room, 'That's every lifestyle skill I'll need now the recipes,' he thought reaching a counter at the other side an elf, "Hello alchemist how may I help you?"
"Hi, I'd like to purchase the recipes for explosion potion and evaporation potion please."
"OK, very well, that'll be 100 gold for the explosion potion and 50 for the evaporation potion."
[Explosion potion recipe (Blue)] [100 Damage]
[A dangerous potion the liquid inside must not touch air or an immediate explosion will occur when crafting there is a chance for the explosion to explode in your face.]
[Evaporation potion recipe (Uncommon)]
[An easy recipe that can be mixed with any non-reactive potion and give it the ability to evaporate or delay reaction when exposed to air. This will often result in a decrease in the effects of the potion.]
'Alright that's almost everything,' he walked out and headed to the city hall looking to buy a house. Since he was a citizen he could purchase land, but sadly he wasn't a noble, otherwise, they'd come at a discount.
'Where is it... ah,' "I'll take this in the middle area of the city for 500 gold," he pointed to one of the cheap ones there were multiple deals, but this one would be the most suitable for his style.
"Ah, very well sir," after paying the 120 gold for fees and rent for the entire year, at 10 gold a month, he moved to his new estate. It was a 2-floor wooden house with 4 empty rooms and a large garden behind he could use to farm.
He went straight upstairs in one room, 'food and alchemy storage on the left bedroom on the right and the bottom two below my potion-making and cooking rooms.'
He went to the bottom floors and emptied his cooking set and alchemy set, afterwards he went to the back of the garden dropping his farming equipment. With that, he was done with the preparation for the entire year.
Clap!
"Potion time!" he dashed straight to the alchemy room and sat down, it was time to increase his alchemy skills and later combine the two recipes he had.
...
Inside Fallen online in the Arcadia kingdom in his virtual house Apex was hard at work crafting splash potions.
The recipe was simple it was concentrated slime essence he bought along with an all-around solution the concentrates slime essence with the solution would course would attempt to replicate whatever liquid is mixed with it like how slimes absorb things.
When thrown and exposed to air whatever the liquid is expands to a three-meter radius.
He was doing this for an hour and realised his chances of successfully crafting the potion was 70% but as he practised he grew familiar with the recipe making it a hundred per cent completion rate.
"Phew," he sighed wiping his feathery head.
'I can't wait to put these to work,' he thought watching the slime essence in the test tube steam attached to a thin tube to an empty flask and watching as it moved into the flask with the reactive solution already inside.
[+100 Evaporation potions +2000 Exp] [You levelled up!]
'Nice too bad I won't be getting exp from creating these anymore,' crafting recipes or items from common rank gives 10 exp and increases by such each rank this benefit will happen for every recipe made 100 times.
With all that crafting he levelled up to 17. But now was the harder recipe to work with it used gunpowder, slime essence, a halting solution and a fire flower. Slime essence was also a common recipe along with bluegrass.
"Now this is going to be tough," he gulped grinding the gunpowder it had to be grounded till it looked like dust then mixed with the smile essence he had to be careful mixing as it could cause it too potentially!
Grind, boom!
-90 hp
It exploded sending him back, "cough! Uh I hate this already," he got up knowing that would do nothing since it all came down to him.
Boom, Thud!
-90 hp
He burnt heavily good thing however he removed his equipment just in case this would happen, "Hah I hate this."
He got back up once more dusting himself drinking a potion and cleaning the equipment this time he went through the recipe at a very slow rate. Afterwards, he poured the grey mix into the flask then he moved to the fire flower and a halting solution grinding and mixing them.
'I only have 20 fire flowers, so 80 petals meaning I can only make around 80 of these,' he calculated in his mind while the mixture turned orange the colour of the fire flower leaf he mixed.
"All together," he poured the mixture in the flask and watched as it mixed turning red and orange, "Phew I thought this was going to blow on me haha," he laughed nervously.
His confidence returned and taking the process slow and steady made the other batches.
Slowly but surely he got the hang of it crafting.
[+66 Explosion potions +1980 Exp] [You levelled up!]
There were some mishaps, "cough," he coughed smoke escaping his beak his whole body covered in ash.
"No pain no gain right? how much did I level up? Status oh twice I'll put two in body rounding my health up to 300 hundred and the other 2 into power."
He allocated his status and looked at his coins a pained smile crossed his face he still had a lot of gold but seeing him drop from four digits hurt his soul a little.
...
[Avatar: Apex. Race: Bird Folk]
Title: Blessed Chef. Reputation: Citizen-200/2000
[Tier: 0 Level 17 Exp: 1285/1700] Coins: 448 gold 700 silver 15 bronze.
Health: 300/300 Mana: 200/200 Energy: 250/250
Attack: 90(+50) M. Attack: 20
[Attribute points: (44)] Body: 30 Arcane: 20[20] Power: (40)25[77]
[Special points: 10] Luck: 11(+1)
Equipment: Wolf leather set 3/5(Green) [+50 Defence]. Ring of Adventure(Green) [+1 Luck]. Ring of growth(Green).
Crude Fang Spear (Green) [+50 Attack +15 Power] Blackwood shield (White) [+2 Defence].
[Storage Ring(Blue)]: 24/50 {[Berugas Fang(Blue)] [Berugas Hyde(Blue)] [Berugas large Bones(Blue)] [Berugas Bones Claws(Blue)] [Farming Equipment(Grey)] [Cooking Equipment(Grey)] [Recipe book] [Explosion potion(Blue)]x66 [Evaporation potion(Green)]x100}
With this, he was feeling ready to move on out into the Jaws forest all he needed was some Iron spears and rope all he could get from the weapons shop and general store.
[Jaws Forrest]In the centre of said forest surrounded by trees was in itself a larger tree, but this one had a pitch-black opening in front this was the dungeon of the forest, the Tre-Ent Dungeon outside were a gathering of player forming groups to tackle the dungeon, and inside a group of five were hard at work fighting wooden wolves.Pak! -77Re-bunny dashed and stabbed one of the wolves in the side with her knife and kicked it away.Her friend black swan was also fighting against a wolf of her own and in-between as Arnold the green dragonkin holding an Iron shield facing three on his own."Satya!" he shouted to the elf behind him."I know!" she waved her staff and a green light surrounded him. He shouted to the wolves a red aura forced itself on them drawing them to him, and he swung with his sword slashing all three.-76! -76! -87!Eventually, after their hard thought battle, all the wood wolves died.Finally, Satya
"Holy shit!" outside the dungeon in the jaws forest camping beneath a tree was a group of four these were the saviour guild and that shout belonged to Arnold.He out of the three were shocked watching the video of Apex's beat down against the group of 10.Satya the elf glared at him, "Did you have to shout like that?""I'm not apologising to any man seeing a stick shoved up another guy's ass or kicked in the balls can feel his pain, my shout is justified."She crossed her arms mumbling, "I wish you felt that pain," to herself.Besides the two where the red fox woman Blackswan, the silver fox woman Re-Bunny were scrutinising the video ignoring their friend's comments.Blackswan nodded to herself having learned something, "I think we should send this to all our guild members," she said to her friend.Agreed, "The way he fights..." Re-Bunny said."He's got anger issues for one, and two this isn't a game I just realised that from w
They botch clashed shaking the roots beneath them their continuous exchange of blows reverberated in the air! 'Damn! For being made out of wood your seriously tough!' He grunted dodging beneath one of its massive swings slashing upwards! -80! 'Yes!' this wooden yeti has 80 Energy meaning its attack and defence were the same so long as it doesn't have an energy skill, and the ring of growth allowed him to increase his strength boosting his power to equalling the mini-boss. Slash, slash! "Roar!" A green aura pushed Apex back slamming against the moss walls. Crack! -20 Hp Health: 280/300 Mana: 200/200 Energy: 600/650 'That was magic,' He coughed up blood looking up at the Yeti it sunk its fists in the ground growing into vines wooden spikes started shooting up from the ground heading towards him. "Nope," he said flying back to gain distance, but it didn't stop the spikes from rooting, with a second glance he notice
Outside the white pod hummed to life opening Felix waltzed out in a daze, boy was he tired he wasn't sure what time it was.[2nd January 2120 Sunday 01:40]"Oh," he gave and flopped on the bed.'I wonder what dad would say about moving house?' those were his last thought before he fell to sleep.Somehow Felix magically woke up just before his alarm and shut it off."Old habits die hard," he smiled getting up from bed, some light stretches and a warm bath, and he headed down for some breakfast."Dad?"His father sitting with a cup in his hand nodded to greeting back before pointing to the table with a serious look on his face, "son take a seat.""Sure... is everything alright?""I'm asking the questions here, I. Ah got a call from the bank something about freezing your account your statement has increased and when I heard the amount..." he stopped glancing at his son.Felix nodded already knowing where he was going
[Monday 3rd January 8.45 AM]Thirty minutes later Felix stepped out of his shower, "was it the right choice to move to such a big house? I'm not planning on anything big..." he said to himself.On the way back he realised how big his new home was this was demanded a lot of things."If I move again it'll just seem like I'm bad at handling my money, should I put a job application?"He stepped out dressed in some casual clothes and called another taxi to school.Another half-hour and he arrived in front of the building, white prestige high school, he waited by the gates a while."Hey, Felix!" Jack shouted from afar behind him his sister Claire, "Hey guys." he greeted back."So you and Lisa are finally dating~" Jack cooed wrapping an arm over him, "took long enough.""Lisa called me making sure she didn't dream it honestly it was cute," Claire admitted, "congrats you're now a decent person again." she grinned."So we'r
"I have to say I never imagined I'd meet the Apex you became a sensation the moment the game was released," Mr Flank said oozing awe."Well it is the Exon company's last game," Felix shrugged passing the corridors.As he went by each classroom he felt eyes dart towards him, "so how quickly did the word go?"He turned to his teacher the man in question just chuckled and opened the door to the classroom compared to what he was expecting the class was early quiet as everyone was glued to him.'God this is suffocating,' he glued walking to his seat the heads of his classmates following his every move."Scarlet please talk to me," he turned to his new girlfriend something he never thought would happen to beg.Scarlet met his emerald eyes smiling she held up a calculator, it was maths, 52,128,356."... Oh," he muttered, "yeah everyone knows you're rich now," she giggled turning back to class.Before he could say anything a random stu
[You have accepted a friend request from "CrimsonVelvet"] He accepted the invite and soon three more came from Jack, Jess and Claire. [You have accepted a friend request from "Kachow"] [You have accepted a friend request from "Overtale"] [You have accepted a friend request from "Turtleshredder"] "Of course, he's the shredder," he made a group call. ["What's up guys how's the isekai life?"]-Apex ["I can feel everything, it's so overwhelming I need a moment."]-Kachow ["Kachow is currently having a mental breakdown overall I'm recording this moment, hehe."]-Turtleshredder ["I don't know about you guys, but I'm digging being a giant."]-Overtale ["How long do you think till you come to us?"]-CrimsonVelvet ["Gross."]-Kachow Apex chuckled saying he'll be there in an hour's time, "till then guys just do some quest and explore and make sure to not go too deep in the forest, see you soon Scar." He closed the call and stretched his wings, "alright I need to get back to the city and d
"Ha!" Felix sprung out of bed, his face shaking in sweat, "Hah, what where?" he looked at his hands staring at something alien."My hands aren't wrinkly... my old room... is this death? I remember uh my head ah!"His head throbbed a wave of pain ruptured his mind due to his reincarnation there was a matter of two souls existing in one body his older worn out mature one and his young fresh self.Two souls couldn't exist in the same body no matter the origins but since they were similar, one teeming with life and the other old and worn down a consensus was agreed, and both spiritual bodies merged into a new one bright with life yet showing the sparks of experience.Felix was reborn anew.And with this rebirth memories of what's to come flooded his mind, some thoughts about who won leagues and events and lotteries flooded first, then the memories of his actions that led to his miserable life."Ha... ha... I-I can't believe it," his eyes watered