"Oh, he put the guides back up," Blackswan said checking the market like before.

"Hold on, Apex!" Arnold called out to the pink man, "yes?" he turned back to the green dragonkin.

"Are you going to attempt the Tre-Ent Dungeon?" he asked emphasising the word attempt.

"Yes I am, and before you ask I plan on doing it solo," Apex didn't want to share the loots, and he was going to attempt every difficulty and wanted to do it alone.

"What that's insane, you're insane! It doesn't work like that, you can't solo everything!" Satya shouted she felt like she just met the most egotistical person in her life thinking he could do anything alone because of some achievement that made him popular.

Although some of her hate came from jealousy as she calculated how much he made honestly, and now he had just doubled that.

"I beg to differ," Apex shrugged and left, he needed to learn his potion-making skill.

...

Apex was sitting in a grey room in front of him were beakers and tubes and a Bunsen burner he was taking the alchemy test having done the tutorial it was for basic mana, stamina, and health potions.

Bluegrass as it is used in almost every potion next was a monster tongue since their saliva allowed eating bluegrass to regain health and neutral solution to detoxify the potion to not poison humans.

There was no need for a solution for non-human races, as toxins wouldn't affect them.

He boiled the tongue in a flask as it shrivelled removed it leaving the liquid, next he grounded the bluegrass and dumped it in boiling it turning the water dark green and at least the solution and burning it some more.

After he emptied it in a flask. And presented it.

"An admirable basic health potion is quality as almost at peak quality, and the time taken to create this too simply 2 minutes."

[Quest: Alchemy(F)] [Assessment: A]

[You have shown your skills in brewing potions]

[Rewards: +50 Silver, +250 Exp, Brewing set, the recipes Stamina, health and mana potions are in your recipe book.]

"You seem to have some talent in potion-making, but there is more to alchemy than meets the eye I wish you the best journey."

"Thank you," he kindly bowed and left the room, 'That's every lifestyle skill I'll need now the recipes,' he thought reaching a counter at the other side an elf, "Hello alchemist how may I help you?"

"Hi, I'd like to purchase the recipes for explosion potion and evaporation potion please."

"OK, very well, that'll be 100 gold for the explosion potion and 50 for the evaporation potion."

[Explosion potion recipe (Blue)] [100 Damage]

[A dangerous potion the liquid inside must not touch air or an immediate explosion will occur when crafting there is a chance for the explosion to explode in your face.]

[Evaporation potion recipe (Uncommon)]

[An easy recipe that can be mixed with any non-reactive potion and give it the ability to evaporate or delay reaction when exposed to air. This will often result in a decrease in the effects of the potion.]

'Alright that's almost everything,' he walked out and headed to the city hall looking to buy a house. Since he was a citizen he could purchase land, but sadly he wasn't a noble, otherwise, they'd come at a discount.

'Where is it... ah,' "I'll take this in the middle area of the city for 500 gold," he pointed to one of the cheap ones there were multiple deals, but this one would be the most suitable for his style.

"Ah, very well sir," after paying the 120 gold for fees and rent for the entire year, at 10 gold a month, he moved to his new estate. It was a 2-floor wooden house with 4 empty rooms and a large garden behind he could use to farm.

He went straight upstairs in one room, 'food and alchemy storage on the left bedroom on the right and the bottom two below my potion-making and cooking rooms.'

He went to the bottom floors and emptied his cooking set and alchemy set, afterwards he went to the back of the garden dropping his farming equipment. With that, he was done with the preparation for the entire year.

Clap!

"Potion time!" he dashed straight to the alchemy room and sat down, it was time to increase his alchemy skills and later combine the two recipes he had.

...

Inside Fallen online in the Arcadia kingdom in his virtual house Apex was hard at work crafting splash potions.

The recipe was simple it was concentrated slime essence he bought along with an all-around solution the concentrates slime essence with the solution would course would attempt to replicate whatever liquid is mixed with it like how slimes absorb things.

When thrown and exposed to air whatever the liquid is expands to a three-meter radius.

He was doing this for an hour and realised his chances of successfully crafting the potion was 70% but as he practised he grew familiar with the recipe making it a hundred per cent completion rate.

"Phew," he sighed wiping his feathery head.

'I can't wait to put these to work,' he thought watching the slime essence in the test tube steam attached to a thin tube to an empty flask and watching as it moved into the flask with the reactive solution already inside.

[+100 Evaporation potions +2000 Exp] [You levelled up!]

'Nice too bad I won't be getting exp from creating these anymore,' crafting recipes or items from common rank gives 10 exp and increases by such each rank this benefit will happen for every recipe made 100 times.

With all that crafting he levelled up to 17. But now was the harder recipe to work with it used gunpowder, slime essence, a halting solution and a fire flower. Slime essence was also a common recipe along with bluegrass.

"Now this is going to be tough," he gulped grinding the gunpowder it had to be grounded till it looked like dust then mixed with the smile essence he had to be careful mixing as it could cause it too potentially!

Grind, boom!

-90 hp

It exploded sending him back, "cough! Uh I hate this already," he got up knowing that would do nothing since it all came down to him.

Boom, Thud!

-90 hp

He burnt heavily good thing however he removed his equipment just in case this would happen, "Hah I hate this."

He got back up once more dusting himself drinking a potion and cleaning the equipment this time he went through the recipe at a very slow rate. Afterwards, he poured the grey mix into the flask then he moved to the fire flower and a halting solution grinding and mixing them.

'I only have 20 fire flowers, so 80 petals meaning I can only make around 80 of these,' he calculated in his mind while the mixture turned orange the colour of the fire flower leaf he mixed.

"All together," he poured the mixture in the flask and watched as it mixed turning red and orange, "Phew I thought this was going to blow on me haha," he laughed nervously.

His confidence returned and taking the process slow and steady made the other batches.

Slowly but surely he got the hang of it crafting.

[+66 Explosion potions +1980 Exp] [You levelled up!]

There were some mishaps, "cough," he coughed smoke escaping his beak his whole body covered in ash.

"No pain no gain right? how much did I level up? Status oh twice I'll put two in body rounding my health up to 300 hundred and the other 2 into power."

He allocated his status and looked at his coins a pained smile crossed his face he still had a lot of gold but seeing him drop from four digits hurt his soul a little.

...

[Avatar: Apex. Race: Bird Folk]

Title: Blessed Chef. Reputation: Citizen-200/2000

[Tier: 0 Level 17 Exp: 1285/1700] Coins: 448 gold 700 silver 15 bronze.

Health: 300/300 Mana: 200/200 Energy: 250/250

Attack: 90(+50)  M. Attack: 20

[Attribute points: (44)] Body: 30    Arcane: 20[20]    Power: (40)25[77]

[Special points: 10] Luck: 11(+1)

Equipment: Wolf leather set 3/5(Green) [+50 Defence]. Ring of Adventure(Green) [+1 Luck]. Ring of growth(Green).

Crude Fang Spear (Green) [+50 Attack +15 Power] Blackwood shield (White) [+2 Defence].

[Storage Ring(Blue)]: 24/50 {[Berugas Fang(Blue)] [Berugas Hyde(Blue)] [Berugas large Bones(Blue)] [Berugas Bones Claws(Blue)] [Farming Equipment(Grey)] [Cooking Equipment(Grey)] [Recipe book] [Explosion potion(Blue)]x66 [Evaporation potion(Green)]x100}

With this, he was feeling ready to move on out into the Jaws forest all he needed was some Iron spears and rope all he could get from the weapons shop and general store.