Jake smiled as he took a deep breath of the toxic concoction. He felt the fumes enter his system, only to be quickly eliminated and turned to mana, but he also felt the potency of what he had just made. Even if the fungicide wasn’t made to kill humans, a person sure as hell shouldn’t risk getting it on them.He quickly bottled up the super-fungicide. He didn’t get a lot of it, only enough for two of the small bottles, but the most important thing was that he had succeeded.Leaning back in his chair, he quickly went through a few of his other notifications. The first of which was one he had expected, but seeing it still broadened his smile.[Concoct Poison (Common)] – While most focus on the aspect of giving life through their craft, others prefer to take it away. Allows for the concoction of common-rarity poisons and below. Must have suitable materials and equipment in order to create poisons. Adds a minor increase to the effectiveness of created poisons based on Wisdom.-->[Concoct

Absolute mayhem. That was the only phrase Jake could use to accurately describe the chaos happening inside the biodome.Vines flew everywhere, random bolts of mana fired at anything moving, and all the poor insects that were just crawling around the biodome, minding their own business, were ripped to pieces. The fungus didn’t even look like it tried to absorb them; it just killed them and evaporated their bodies.Jake just sat there, patiently monitoring the poison.[Indigo Fungus Mycorrhiza – lvl ???]While he was there, he also tried to focus on improving his Sense of the Malefic Viper, to better sense how his poison interacted with the body of the fungi. He felt how it spread and invaded every part of it, how it polluted its resource pools and devoured its health points.He felt like he was improving his ability to sense the energy, once more also finding parallels between it and his mana control. Learning how the fungicide worked to kill the fungus would help him out in the future

Jake felt like he had to make a confession after hearing the Viper explain all that stuff about arcane mana and arcane affinity.He… didn’t get it. Not really. In particular, he didn’t really get how he had somehow created this arcane affinity. Was it just because he wanted his pure mana to be better without compromising on purity? That he kept condensing his mana bolts instead of mixing in other affinities?Jake voiced his confusion, with the Viper trying to explain how it all worked a bit more in detail, but Jake just got more confused. He summoned some more of the pink-purple mana and played a bit with it, finding out that it was pretty much just like his pure mana, just more potent and more condensed.The Viper said that was because Jake’s version of arcane mana was based on his intent of creating mana with “stable destruction,” or something like that. Jake got that part, as he had tried to make his pure mana better at destroying and breaking down things while at the same time mak

Four more levels in his profession remained until he would finally be capped in both that and his class. Those four levels could be relatively swiftly gained by just grinding out poisons, but he still needed to improve Touch of the Malefic Viper before that.It was the thing that had filled his head before this entire arcane-affinity thing came out of nowhere. He had even sat days in meditation to delve into the Sagacity skill to study transmutation and how to do that properly.This allowed him to realize that many parts of Touch of the Malefic Viper were comparable to traditional transmutation, and he became more and more confident in his theory of using Touch to transmute weapons.He was determined that this time he wouldn’t get distracted.After Jake had returned from the cloud island and had his meeting with Miranda, he had meditated and done a bit of mana practice before his weapons delivery arrived in the morning. He went straight into it with great gusto and began breaking the

Jake opened his eyes within a vast void of nothingness, the only thing visible being distant, star-like objects. It was his third time there, and it was as beautiful and wonderous as ever. He was entirely naked except for his mask, which was still on his face for some reason.The first time he went there had been the most wonderous, as it had marked the day he became able to passively sense mana, while his E-grade evolution had been a bit less exciting.Like all the other times, the intensity of the mana around him was extreme, but after progressing through E-grade, he could now feel it much better. He felt the affinities in the mana around him, and he was taken aback… because he felt so… so many.He noticed the space affinity, which reminded him of the mana Neil used and even the concept of his own One Step Mile. Dark affinity, water affinity, earth affinity, and a slew of energies he didn’t understand at all… he felt all of them. But out of them all, the affinity he felt next was by