Chapter 78 (2/2)

The purple 75% was his current favorite potions.

Lesser Hungry Flesh Potion Lvl 23: Gain Healthsteal for 5 minutes. 2.3% of the physical damage dealt will be recovered as health.

Lesser Hungry Soul Potion Lvl 27: Gain Manasteal for 5 minutes. 2.7% of the magical damage dealt will be recovered as mana.

These were undoubtedly useful, it would take a certain type of fighter to use the Healthsteal, but the Manasteal was intriguing. Again though, the concept of Staminasteal would be the most interesting, if it existed.

Satisfied with these, Randidly turned to the green crystal mixtures.

The 50/50 splits turned out to be direct boosts to stats.

Lesser Physical Tonic Lvl 24: +5 to all Physical stats for 10 minutes. After that, -10 Physical Stats for 30 minutes.

Randidly grimaced. He wasn’t a fan of these potions. Unlike the direct boosts to health or mana, these had demerits no matter what condition you were in at the end of the time period.

The green 25% yielded a strange result as well.

Lesser Physical Fury Potion Lvl 27: Gain Physical fury for 27 minutes. Physical damage taken slightly reduced. Physical damage dealt slightly increased.

Mana was similar, except flipped. It was only the green crystal at 75% that really surprised him in terms of the poison potion results.

Lesser Health Fire Lvl 28: Deal .56% of afflicted targets current health per second for 30 seconds, or until the fire is put out.

Lesser Mana Fire Lvl 24: Cause target to lose .24% of target’s current mana per second for 30 seconds, or until the fire is put out.

Both of these potions would be extremely dangerous, if discovered. They were designed to fight against a person with superior Health and Mana. Even Randidly, if afflicted with them, would have difficulties.

But what Randidly realized while looking at the description was that although they both were powerful, it was ultimately a potion that was vastly more dangerous for mages. Their spells had more power than similarly leveled physical skills, but Magical stats were useless without mana. A tank with low health still had his or her high physical stats, and could struggle.

But a mage…

Chuckling, Randidly straightened and cracked his neck. He supposed it was good then, that he was noncommittal and insisted on being good at everything. A potion like this would strip away all of his magical weapons.

Then he focused again, looking down at the final pile of ingredients, which would combine all 4 of the crystals.

Moving carefully, he mixed them. The potion glowed briefly, then settled down into a swirling blackness. As he watched though small flecks of light emerged, almost like stars, that slowly dissolved the blackness. Finally the water cleared, turning back to…

Well, water.

But when Randidly peered closely and examined it, his eyes narrowed.

Viscous Liquid of Possibilities Lvl ???: Higher tiered base crafting material. Can be refined to a more stable form.

So Randidly refined it. Over and over, for an hour. Finally, he held a small, clear marble in his hand.

Stone of Possibilities Lvl 42: A stone that holds a lot of potential. Can be used to store 42 Health, Mana, or Stamina, which can then be siphoned back from the stone to yourself, should the need arise. Reusable.

...So not only was this Liquid of Possibilities used for potions of the next variety up, but it could be refined into stones that then could be used to keep Health, Mana, or Stamina for emergencies…

In addition, over the course of the night, Randidly had gained 8 levels in Potion Making, raising himself to Lvl 30, and 6 Levels in refine, rising to Lvl 12. So the capacity of the stone was determined by those two skills.

He lamented the additional grinding he would need to do, but grinned at the thought of the possibilities. Hopping off the building, Randidly went prowling towards the edge of Franksburg, searching for more crafting materials. There was still a few hours until dawn anyway.

Randidly wanted to check in on Tessa, to see if there were after effects from exposure to Raina’s song, but otherwise he didn’t plan on wasting his time raising his Digging skill again. He felt slightly guilty that he had ignored her all of yesterday, but his pursuits today had been rather distracting. Better late than never.

Shrugging, Randidly put it out of his mind. Better to focus on the present.

His smile widened. If possible, he would create more of these Stone of Possibilities, in preparation for the dangers that were sure to come.