Chapter 144 (Frenziedly Refining Potion)
Chapter 144 (Frenziedly Refining Potion)
My Frozen Blade had increased in strength quite a lot. After my constant research, I discovered that a level 5 Frozen Blade would not only freeze the target, but would also affect the nearby monsters to a certain degree. Their Attack Speed and Movement Speed would be greatly reduced. Murong Shan Shan’s Ice Blade should also have a similar effect.
The most awesome thing was the Ice Sword. At level 5, its success rate would rise up to 20%, so every five attacks, it should be triggered once. This would be very useful for leveling of PKing. Even in an unfavorable situation, this pa.s.sive skill would trigger frequently!
I packed up my stuff. In addition to the more of twenty types of herbs in my inventory, there was also six pieces of high-level green equipment. Even though it was green clothes, but according to the current market, these high-level green clothes could be sold for more than 200 RMB each.
I’d better complete the mission first. From so far away, I could still the pharmacist moaning. I really admired him.
When I got to his side, I took out the hard collected 100 Violet Star Gra.s.ses. The old man’s eyes immediately began to light up, “Ah, this is the Violet Star Gra.s.s! You have really regained these precious herbs from those powerful monsters! Young man, thank you so much!”
I laughed, “Don’t mention it. This is something that I should do!”
Fortunately, I quickly suppressed my words, otherwise, I really would have blurted out the “serving the people” speech.
The old man quickly pulled out a book from his pocket and started to refine a potion according to the instruction on a page. He also used up some dry herbs from the herb pouch beside him.
A few minutes later, the Violet Star Gra.s.ses in the old man’s hand had been refined into a few bottles of potions. He quickly pulled up his pants and then poured all the potions on the wound.
Visible to the naked eye, the poison injury was quickly healing!
I was greatly surprised and asked with full of interest, “Elder, this formula is really miraculous! How did it… actually turned into a few bottles of potions. Where did the bottles come from…?”
The old man blanked for a while. Perhaps the system was a.n.a.lyzing the meaning of my words. A few seconds later, the old man looked at me, smiling, and said, “Thanks to you, young man! Otherwise, this old life of mine may be lost on this mountain. Since you seem to be interested in potion formulas, then I will give you this formula! Ah, I’m really old now. I’m afraid that I won’t be able to go up the mountain to pick the herbs anymore in the future.”
“Ding~!”
System Notification: You completed the mission “The Pharmacist Request”. You gain 60 million Experience and 800 gold coins. Prestige +4,200. You get a mission reward: High-level Potion Formula!
A dark-blue book appeared in my inventory. I quickly chose to learn it. Unfortunately, the system prompted: You don’t have the Alchemist profession. You can’t use this item!
I was dumbfounded and couldn’t help but look at the old man again.
“Elder, why couldn’t I learn it?”
The old man smiled and said, “Oh, it seems that you don’t have enough foundation for it. Come here, let me teach you some basic knowledge!”
“Ding~!”
System Notification: You received the court pharmacist teaching and learned the Skill: Potion Refining!
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I quickly opened my Attributes and Skills panel. A strange thing had happened!
Without the profession as an Alchemist, I actually learned an Alchemist skill – Potion Refining!
d.a.m.n, the good fortune hadn’t stopped yet!
Even more strangely was that behind the skill Potion Refining was a display of (1/10), whereas behind the skill Frozen Blade was only (1/6). In other words, when I got to level 90, then my Potion Refining skill’s level could rise to level 10 without even the need to go through the c.u.mbersome process of changing profession. What a big fortune!
Eagerly, I clicked the Potion Refining skill. It then showed the required materials for a level 1 potion: Apple Mint (4), Lemon Flower (2), empty flask (1), and required mana: 10 points.
I already had those two types of herbs, and not a few of them either. However, regarding this empty flask…
I carefully tried to recall my memories. I seemed to remember seeing this stuff at an item shop at the mountain foot!
After packing the stuff, I quickly went down the mountain!
Ten minutes later, the neutral camp appeared in front of me.
I got my equipment repaired first, then I looked at the item shop next to it. Sure enough, it did have empty bottles to sell at 1 silver coin each, very cheap. Thereupon, I bought 495 bottles, which were stacked in 5 sets.
After finding a suitable spot, I began my first potion refining work!
The progress bar moved fast, and in the blink of an eye, a small bottle of potion, which looked the same as the ones you get from the monsters, appeared in my inventory – Life Restore (I) Potion: Instantly recover 800 points of Health!
At the same time, the system gave a notification that I successfully made a potion and the Potion Refining skill’s Experience increased 3 points!
I almost laughed out loud. The level 1 Potion Refining skill only needed 1,200 Experience points to upgrade to level 2. So, I only needed to refine 400 potions to get to level 2. If the skill level 1 allowed me to create a potion that could restore 800 points of Health, then what about level 2? That was worth to look forward to! Currently, the best healing potion available on the market could only restore 1,500 points of Health!
I had never been so excited since I played this game. Suddenly, I didn’t feel sleepy anymore.
I bought some magic potions to restore my consumed mana and continued until it was two in the morning when my Potion Refining skill finally rose to level 2. To my surprise, the potion list in the skill level 2 turned out to be empty, there was nothing there!
“What’s going on?” I was secretly anxious. After a while, I suddenly realized, “d.a.m.n, how could I forget to learn the formula?!”
I quickly learned the High-level Potion Formula and a potion formula immediately appeared on the skill level 2: Apple Mint (8), Lemon Flower (4), Iris Flower (1), empty flask (1), and required mana: 20 points!
Almost all of the requirements had increased, the needed raw materials also changed a lot.
I worked again for another two hours. The materials used was also quite a lot. The drop rate of the Iris Flower was lower than the Apple Mint, which almost every monster would drop one.
After pondering about it, I sorted out my equipment and went uphill to get more herbs. I continued until six in the morning when I finally couldn’t bear it anymore. After I refined most of the materials in my inventory, I texted Murong Shan Shan to let her know that I will get back online a bit late. Then I went offline, cooked some instant noodles, eat, and went to bed!
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I fell asleep drowsily. I didn’t know how long, but it was until my face had been baked by the sun that I woke up.
I got a little headache. My face was oily and my stomach had cried out several times. Well, the time on my cellphone clearly displayed that it was now already one in the afternoon. No wonder I felt so hungry. The instant noodles that I ate this morning were long digested already.
After I get dressed, I walked out to take a look. Everyone was online, and there shouldn’t be anyone who prepared the meal for me. In the fridge, there were some leftover meals from lunch, so I took them all out and heat it in the microwave. Then I brushed my teeth and washed my face. A few minutes later, I took care of my personal hygiene matter and the food was already warm.
I quickly finished the meal and immediately entered the game to continue refining potions!
When I got online, I appeared on the Bewitched Gra.s.ses invested open field. That injured court pharmacist was nowhere to find. Apparently, he had returned to the city. However, the mission that he gave me really benefitted me. The Experience reward from the mission had caused my level 45 Experience to rise from 1% to 64%. With the addition of me killing monsters until six this morning, my level 45 Experience had risen to 80% already.
I opened the ranking chart that I hadn’t touched for quite a while. In the first position was still the level 45 me. Following in the second position was the level 44 Red Blood. It was then when I found out that he was from the Mage Cla.s.s. The Knight “Release That Girl” at the third position was also at level 44. In the fourth position was Lu Xue Han at level 43, and Murong Shan Shan with level 42 was in the fifth position, followed closely by the Mage “Little Ants on the Tree Leafs”. The other four players on the list were also Magician, but I never heard their names before. Xu Lin and Xin Yu, both at level 41, didn’t make it to the list.
The current situation was slowly getting clearer, the leveling speed of a Mage was finally beginning to reflect here. Seven out of the ten players in the Top-10 were unexpectedly from the Mage Cla.s.s. This greatly posed a problem to me. I estimated that soon enough, my first position would also be s.n.a.t.c.hed by Red Blood.
After the system update, there were several additional ranking charts, including equipment ranking list, and also, the guild ranking chart. The guilds ranking was based on the guild’s Experience. It must be because Murong Shan Shan often took the members to practice that Swords and Roses topped the list. Romantic World and Blood Sky followed closely behind. Currently, there were only these three guilds in Silvermoon City.
Beep~!
System Notification: Player Murong Shan Shan request to speak to you!
I quickly accepted the request and Murong Shan Shan’s voice immediately filled my ears, “What were you doing last night? How come you just come online at this time?”
“Didn’t I tell you that I got a mission? I was completing the mission last night. Moreover, I also learned a profession Skill!”
Murong Shan Shan asked in surprise, “What profession skill? At the moment, not many players are willing to spend their time to get some sub-professions. You’re really idling around!”
I laughed, “It’s because this skill is very practical that I spent some time to learn it!”
Finished saying that, I showed Murong Shan Shan the ill.u.s.tration of Life Restore (II) Potion. It could instantly restore 1,400 points of Health, only 100 points less than the current most expensive healing potion in the market, the Thousand Healing Potion. Not to mention that the Thousand Healing Potion could only be acquired from killing high-level monsters, so it was pretty rare. Currently, not many of the average players were using that potion. Generally, the currently popular one on the market was still the medium Red Potion that added 800 points of Health.
During the last system update, the cooldown time of using healing potions was increased. Before, you could drink the second potion only after waiting 8 seconds. But now, you could only drink a potion once a minute. This condition had weakened the player’s recovery ability to a certain extent. It was probably also the reason why Murong Shan Shan was wiped out by the level 70 BOSS.
After a while, Murong Shan Shan said, “Very nice. Continue with it. Give me some of it tonight!”
She immediately hung up the call and didn’t give me any chance to explain further…
This girl, did she think that making this potion was as simple as pouring water?