Chapter 203 - Alchemy (1/2)

In another fifteen minutes, Shadow was back at the temple on the way to meet the deacon. He quickly exchanged the supplies that the town head and given him and was given the rewards of his quest.

”Temple of the twelve reputation points +20;”

”Temple of the twelve contribution points +50;”

”Experience points + 5000;”

The experience points put him through another level making him a level 18 player. He needed to increase his levels to have a decent chance against the knuckers. There were dungeons available for him to participate at this level, but he didn't want to work on them. He needed experience the most as he was sure that he wouldn't be able to spend his time in the game later. He had quickly allocated his free attribute points.

Character: Shadow Tyrant (Human)

Affiliated Village: Black Rock Village.

Affiliated City: White Hear City (Capital)

Title: Kade's apprentice, First Citizen of White Heart City, Dwarf's friend.

Hidden Title: Negotiator

Job: Assassin

Level: 18

Exp: 2310/19000

HP: 7500/7500; MP: 335000/3350; SP: 3800/3800

Physical Attack: 210;

Defense: 98; Attack Speed: 134; Movement Speed: 136; Willpower: 74 ; Balance: 77; Focus/Search: 102; Reflect Damage: 6; Magic Resist: 40; Luck: *; Charm: *;

Attributes: Strength 98, Agility 95, Endurance 67, Intelligence 60, Vitality 62, Perception 57.

No Special Racial Attributes or weakness.

Free Attributes Points: 0;

Though the quest took a lot of time to complete and caused him a significant amount of tension, he was quite satisfied by it as he not only got the contribution points and reputation from the temple, but also got half of the required town reputation and the option to go to the coastal guard station as frequently as he wanted.

He first thought of going ahead and accept the forging services quest. It will not only get him acquainted to the mainstay armaments of the coastal guard but also grant him experience and free money or contribution points whichever he desired. But he remembered the main reason for coming to the town which was to kill Knuckers. He needed the antivenom to be able to concentrate on an isolated knucker as he remembered that it would usually call upon fast moving smaller animals for support. So, he went to the tamer for the blood.

He got the blood from the secretary at the tamer's place and then he decided to work on the four beasts that he had taken as pets recently using the tame beast skill. The four were in his pet pouch whom he summoned out to check their condition. Pets take almost triple the time to recover, if they are in a basic pet pouch. There would be advanced pet pouches that he could get which would increase the recovery time of the pets, but in almost all kinds of pet pouches the recovery times is less than that the pet would have outside.

The snake had already recovered from its injuries, but its health was still low. Its body was already in mend. The lizards on the other hand were all crippled before being taken as pets. So, he had to perform a bit of first aid and reconnect the crippled parts properly according the instruction seen in the book given to him by Kiran.

Just like the monsters, the pets also tend to cure themselves when given time, but it is much slower if they are not given proper food. Even the beasts that are crippled in the wild wouldn't heal faster if they didn't get to eat anything. That is the reason, tamers were in high demand in the game. They could use their mixtures and pills to heal and speed up the beasts, but they required a large amount of land to raise the pets. Technically, even alchemists could do that, but most of the alchemist were focused on creating consumables for their players and didn't have much time to focus on the pets.

There were a few who managed to accomplish both, but alchemy was a very time-consuming secondary profession and they would lag behind. Forging and engineering could be sped up with the right tools and experience players would be much faster but making potions and mixtures by its nature required more time to create as faster stirring or improperly mixed substance would be very dangerous and fail. Even most tamer players depended on the healing skills of their occupation and forging to become higher level tamers.

So, Balthazar had always wondered if it is the right thing for him to pursue this field along with forging and alchemy. But he realized that he already had two most important parts of the field covered and it would be a waste to deny the experience and benefits that came along with it. He could just be a tamer apprentice all his life, but it still was better than not pursuing it entirely.