61 Chapter 61 Advancing in the field of Alchemy (1/2)

A couple of days passed since the horde arrived at the outpost of the howling abyss.

In that time span, Fraser didn't actively pursue the horde for benefits.

He didn't even move anywhere at all.

Instead, Fraser continued his hermit lifestyle. After all, he already had research material that needed to be analyzed.

The two alchemy notes from the apprentices who were level 4 broadened Frasers Alchemy to a whole new level.

They were not using the incubation technique which naturally clicked which Fraser, instead, one of the notes was filled with a guide on a brewing technique that was composed of twelve steps.

The techniques could be repeated over and over to create more complex potions. The only disadvantage of that was the fact that it took a lot of time to create a potion with this technique. However, the success rate was unbelievably high.

So it was no wonder that Fraser tried to find the key step which might improve his own alchemy skills.

Naturally, the twelve steps were a viewpoint from a completely different point which allowed Fraser to compare his own technique to this twelve-step technique that allowed for a more basic and easy approach.

Since the twelve-step technique from one of the notes was enough information for a couple of days, Fraser didn't do much else other than analyzing the note with the twelve-step technique and glancing over the second note.

But he got interrupted midway after a couple of days by a message from the other apprentices.

How? By sending a floating wooden board to him while he was eating the free food in the outpost cafeteria.

Naturally, he was surrounded by his eight loyal servants.

The floating wooden board began to speak:

”We are the apprentices of another wizard. We have heard of the potion skills of you Fraser, so we wanted to ask whether or not you would sell your potions to us. The horde concerns everybody so we hope that we can trade.”

Naturally, Fraser met up with the other group and the trade went smoothly.

After all, everything involved was easy. They wanted the potions and Fraser wanted new materials to experiment upon.

Since Fraser's incubation technique was able to mass-produce potions with ease and had a standard that was good enough, they sold like hotcakes. All of the potions sold like hotcakes. Whether it was the basic strengthening potion, the basic wound mending potion or the basic explosion potion, there was no exception.

In return, Fraser received stuff that he actually wanted, lots of corpses from the horde, more potion materials, notes from different apprentices that somehow were deceased and experimental stuff but everything that was traded, could be described as useful to him.

After the first trade went successful, more and more apprentices would come to him in order to trade for potions. Some would come alone, others in groups and once even an entire faction came to him.

The faction which consisted of about twenty apprentices tried to threaten him, but after a couple of broken bones and tons of reparation costs, they quickly behaved themselves.

So it was no wonder that Fraser would continue his indefinite way of hermit living. Since everything was provided for his experiments and much to learn there is, another half a year passed in a flash.

The second note which was given to Fraser by Magus Sept contained an almost complete Lexica of the fauna and flora of the Magus World. A few magical plants, special materials or rocks were described by the Lexica in detail while also explaining their living habits, use, and rarity.

Very helpful to Fraser's overall knowledge pool, but not experimental material for now.

There was a high chance that Fraser would continue his hermit lifestyle until the end of the outpost period if not for the fact that Vira visited him one day to make an offer:

”We are going to hunt a large number of beasts in the horde. I know that you have something that needs a large amount of flesh as well. Do you want to join us? It is easier for us since Magus Sept allows his apprentices to be in his defensive measurements.”

Fraser declined. After all, he could trade any amount of flesh with potions. So why bother walking out and trying to gather the material himself?

Vira continued with her persuasion.

”So, how about I give you the information to increase your mentality in order to reach Apprentice level 4 and perhaps even level 5? I know that you are already at the peak of level 3. So perhaps this might be something that you are more interested in. We also have a few potion formulas which might interest you.”