Bats

"What a nice little surprise!" Eisen exclaimed happily with a small whistle as he read through the notifications, glad that he now gained two effects that he had been waiting for.

With Alchemy, he was now able to combine crystals or gems together perfectly, but not anything else. At later ranks he would be able to combine any material with any other material, to basically replace the whole distillation process while making potions.

From what he was told, he would still need to extract the essence that made up the materials, for example the healing properties of amran petals, but then he could simply combine that essence with mana crystals and water to create potions.

For now, he would be able to skip the step of combining different crystals with each other, for example like he would need to do when making golem cores and needed to combine a mana crystal with crystals to give the core a fake 'soul' and 'mind'.