Jake entered the cave, looking around at all the different fungi and moss, deciding to Identify the infamous blue mushrooms first. When he did it before, he’d just gotten a message saying [Mushroom], so he kind of expected more. Which it delivered.[Bluebright Mushroom (Common)] – A poisonous blue mushroom that emits blue light. While it is not poisonous to touch, the juices found within are highly toxic. Often used for lighting due to it only requiring mana to sustain itself.Knowing the name of the blue menace did not alleviate his distaste for the evil fungus. It was good to see that they were only poisonous if squeezed or eaten, though. His next target was another type of mushroom, this one rather plain-looking.[Flytrap Mushroom (Inferior)] – A carnivorous and poisonous mushroom that eats insects to accelerate its growth.This one was a lower rarity, but still poisonous. Jake looked around a bit more, finding quite a few different kinds of mushrooms, nearly all of them inferior r

Jake focused as he felt the mana flow through his body and into the reddish mixture in the bowl before him. He felt that this would be the one. After nearly twenty failed tries, this had to be the one.For nearly a full day, he had been attempting to make health potions. He had been very positive initially, believing that it would be a cakewalk, considering his experience with the mana potions. But oh boy, was he wrong.Much of the process had become far more straightforward than his first attempt to make a potion. But the mana injection still stumped him. He had to do it in a way that would bring forth the natural healing properties in the red lavender and successfully combine it with the Evergreen Grass.It was changing the mana’s properties by filtering it through the bowl and into the herbs. Normal mana was relatively easy to control, but it became more problematic when Jake had to transform it. The herbs and moss served as catalysts for his mana, binding itself to them.The ultim

As he lay on the bed, Jake was proud of his progress for the day. He had mixed so many potions that he eventually had to just dump the mixtures in the sink. It was so incredibly wasteful, but he just didn’t have anywhere else to put them.While there were undoubtedly many bottles, they were far from unlimited. He was reusing the bottles after he drank the mana potions, but said potion consumption had fallen to nearly nothing after Jake had gotten his Palate of the Malefic Viper.It wasn’t that he was entirely out of bottles; in fact, he had many left. He just knew that the potions he currently made wouldn’t be things he wanted to save. He also didn’t know where to store them. Pretty much every surface in the lab was filled with potions.During the day, he had also eaten two new kinds of mushrooms, one called [Reddot Stool], a small white mushroom with red spots on it, and the other identified as a [Brunneius Aqua Mushroom], a brown mushroom found growing from small puddles in the damp

Jake knew that he had some long days of alchemy before him. After looking at the dungeon challenge window, he exited the bedroom to the laboratory.Time remaining: 26 Days – 6:21:57He had only spent a bit over three and a half days in this dungeon. He had, in his mind, plenty of time to find a cure, but not enough time to slack off. With his evolution out of the way and being completely refreshed from the process, he had no excuse not to get to it.He had days of hard work ahead of him. No way he was going to die here. A plan was already beginning to form in his mind on how to pass the challenge. One he could only snicker at for its sheer stupidity. But sadly, the plan did not include him leaving early. He knew there was an entire tutorial going on outside, but that could wait. Jake couldn’t help but think of his colleagues still outside and decided to check the tutorial panel.Tutorial PanelDuration: 58 days & 11:22:58Total Survivors Remaining: 754/1200A bit more than a third had

Jake coughed as another batch turned utterly black, and the horrendous stench of the tar-like residue invaded his nostrils. Yet this one wasn’t even that bad, as this was just one of many attempts at making his very first common-rarity poison, and his first tries had gone far worse. He hadn’t managed to craft anything the last two days, though he had gotten a level at one point. It turned out that you didn’t need to successfully craft something to get a bit of experience.He had eaten and acquired knowledge about the common-rarity moss and the blue mushrooms. The poison he was trying to make was relatively simple, requiring only those two ingredients along with some water. Yet it was still far more complicated than anything he had made of inferior rarity by far.After his evolution, he had gotten better at controlling his mana—a skill that only became more and more important the further one went with alchemy.Doing alchemy was a bit like being a surgeon doing an organ transplant cross