Outstanding Quality

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I had acquired a new Skill, Alchemy. It appears to be based in, well, doing Alchemy. I have begun to think that Skills could be said to be small Talents. Each time I do something worthy of being called a Talent in this world, it is turned into a Skill, and with that, I might be on pair if not greater than Talents of such Skill in the future…

I could become an overpowered all-rounder! Although it still leaves me with a bad aftertaste to use something fabricated by Lucifer…

Sigh…

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[Alchemy: Lv1]

Skill Proficiency: 0/10000

Grants the ability to utilize Alchemy Techniques and Alchemy Magic Spells with greater ease. Enhances the success rate of your Alchemy by +10% and its quality by one Grade with each Level. There's a 10% chance for Items created through Alchemy to develop special effects and unique abilities with each Level.

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Oh? This is more than I had imagined… it even enhances… automatically anything I make by one grade? This means that if I make a Normal-Grade Potion, it will always turn into a Rare-Grade Potion no matter what.

This is indeed a law-defying power that defies logic itself… so this is the power of Skills.

Ah, well, I had similar powers back then. I had even developed the power to manipulate Fate to an extent, although Lucifer was able to overpower it because he had an even greater power over it…

Nonetheless, what was important was not that, but that I had acquired a new Skill.

With this Skill I will be able to make even greater items, perhaps if I make a Unique Grade, it will turn into a Mythical Grade item… With such talent, I could easily get a ton of money.

The problem is starting the business. These materials I just brought cost several gold coins, but by making ten potions out of it, the man should be able to recover the money and make some profit, of course, he'll also have to pay me.

Or I could just give him a single potion and keep the others? After all I only told him I was making a single one… the others could be kept and sold separately. I could easily make a lot of gold coins out of it, although not many people here have the money to pay for it aside from other merchants.

The problem is that this merchant will notice this and will end up telling me where I got these potions, and that's certainly quite troublesome. I cannot easily hide them from him unless I was going to drink them for myself.

Drinking them would be not a bad idea either, they seem to be potent, and could even recover my Mana and even enhance it permanently…

I might as well try out one after I wake up.

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After spending some time with Eleanora, I finally woke up, finding myself sleeping in Erika's bed. Erika was playing in the floor with her dolls.

"Ah… How long did I slept?" I wondered.

"Ah, Blake! You're awake… I was so worried! Dummy, don't do that again… Father said you were pushing yourself very hard doing that magic thing… Specially because your mana is so low…" she said, standing up and rushing towards me.

"Sorry for worrying you, Erika. But I had to do it because this was an important bet." I said.

"B-Blake…" said Erika.

"How long did I sleep?" I asked.

"A-Around four hours?" she said.

"That long?!" I asked in surprise. I quickly jumped out of Erika's bed and rushed down stairs.

"Ah Blake, you're here, look, I bottled them up for you."

Erika's father showed me ten mana potions already bottled for me.

"Ah… Thank you, you shouldn't have done it…" I said.

"There's no problem, your amazing Mana Potion left me shocked. I had thought that my own Rare Mana Potions were already great, but I had only seen Unique ones once in my lifetime… these can be sold for a lot more!" he said.

"How much can you estimate?" I asked.

"Each one is most likely worth five hundred gold coins… Well, that's without inflating the price. These greedy merchants might even sell it as much as one thousand, or one thousand and one hundred…" sighed the old man.

"Hm, I see… I will bring them to him then, there's no time to waste… Ah, I guess I can drink one for myself, as a reward." I said.

"Wait, you're drinking something so expensive?!" he asked.

I opened the bottle and drank the entire potion.

It had an aromatic and sweet flavor, like drinking a colt tea.

In a second, I felt my Mana and Magic Power increase permanently.

Incredible!

[You've gained +12 Mana and +6 Intelligence]

[Your Mana has recovered to maximum value]

12 more Mana and 6 Intelligence just like that?! W-What is this potion?! It's amazing…

But even then, it is not as much increase as I had expected. Perhaps because it is not really intended to increase power permanently but just to recover Mana.

Nonetheless, the recipe by itself was overly simplistic. A low-level item with excellent grade was still low-level, to increase my Mana and Intelligence even further, using special materials and more time and effort would be necessary… Also, if I were to use higher Ranked Spirit Orbs, it would be better too.

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[Mana Potion (Unique-Grade+)]

A simple Mana Potion made with Berehilde Grass and Morning Dew Flower Petals. It is the most common Mana Potion sold widely across Spiritias.

Due to its quality, it could have only been made by an amazing Alchemist, an expert amongst expert, peerless in the art of Alchemy.

Recovers a large quantity of Mana and has a chance to permanently increase Mana and Intelligence Stats.

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Now, I was tempted to drink all the others, but I gritted my teeth and resisted the temptation. With 12 more mana I would be able to do a bit more now, but still, it is not near as enough.

Having done this, I quickly went back to the Merchant, this time alone.

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