27 Chapter 27 (1/2)

Before I begin the session of Alchemical Process, I opened my skill panel and scans the skills in Alchemists. As expected, the reason why Alchemist can be really successful in Alchemy Job. This is the main reason.

”The Philosopher's Mind”

(Passive): Restricted to Alchemist. Learnable for Versatile

Effect: Success Rate increased every failure result in Alchemy.

Alchemy is not something that rely on success. It merely rely on failures. Countless of failures allowed people to discover the reason why they always failed. And for a profession that only relies on luck is certainly known to be a hard job. Of course, I am not afraid of failures, I am just worried that many players are already going to catch up soon. I spent the earned SP from using the hook. Using it can procure me SP and I was able to spend it for this skill. This is a passive skill so I don't need to keep on casting it to effect everything.

I opened the booklet magazine that Simon has given to me. The book's language is not in English language, its in reversed Latin. Though it is reversed Latin, the game system didn't need to give players a headache to decipher every word inside a book of Alchemy that is meant for beginners.

I suddenly felt a good urge of information in my mind as it flooded in. Though I felt a bit of a headache, its not really something bad. I opened my eyes and once again, I felt lighter in my head. This is probably to the newly acquired knowledge. It is quite terrifying if you ask me. If the education of the world is similar to this, we don't need to read a book and just open it to absorb and understand its contents. If anything like that happened, we might have not needed education system and relies on these method instead.

After everything is done, I put the first Flame Boulder on the Alchemy Table and began some chants. Though I have no idea what I am talking about, my mouth and hands are just moving fluently like somebody is controlling me and allowed me to chant in Latin or whatever language it was in. While doing so, I saw the progress panel and the experience level I have for Alchemy and the success chance. Its only 50%.

PENG!

The Alchemy Circle glows and engulfs the Flame Boulder in a blinding light before it exploded.

BANG!

Rocks scattered around the floor and smoke bellowed on the Alchemy table.

”D*mn! I failed!” I cursed. The Flame Boulder was destroyed and no longer fixable back to its normal state. I was just disappointed that the flame rocks it should have produced are all down to pieces and no longer usable. I look at my success rate and it was risen to 60%. My Job Exp bar also rises to 50%. I am still a level 1 Alchemy practitioner anyway. So this progress is easy to raise. Though the Memento Mori do not help raising Job level, I don't really mind it, Extra Jobs are only for fun and I don't really need to keep it higher than anyone else.

After the Alchemy table recovered and no longer bellowing smoke, I put down another Flame Boulder and once again made a chant.

PENG!

The boulder exploded once more. I continued doing so until my success rate arrived to 80%. I was also a level 3 Alchemy Practitioner now but I still have a low probability of success. I already wasted 10 pieces without even having a single success. I frowned from this. Is my bad luck maxed out and I am currently experiencing its bad effects? I shook my head and once again, I put another Flame Boulder. Just like the saying,” Try and try until you succeed,” I will also continue doing so.

CRACK!

This time, its a different sound and no destructive sound was heard this time. Its just a cracking sound. I look at the Flame Boulder and look at the progress. I grinned when I saw the green words appeared on the panel.

SUCCESS!

I checked on how many rocks I have obtained. I was happy to see that I got 12 Flame Rocks and I got some powder residue. It looks familiar and when I fully checked it, I found it as another useful item that I rarely used in the past, no wonder I find it familiar.