Alchemist In The Apocalypse: Rise Of A Legend!

[Raw chapter so it might be a little difficult to read],

[Ace POV],

'Rank 1 health, mana and stamina pill'

'It's either one of these three or the mana refinement pill or mana cultivating pill', I thought as I used my hand to rub my chin while considering my options.

The mana-cultivating pill could be taken out of the list since I could tell that cultivation seems to be something rather important so it's best not to rush things.

When I feel I'm ready to cultivate after gaining and understanding the necessary information, I'll then consider making the mana cultivation pill.

After making this decision, my options were reduced to four so now I had to choose between the Rank 1 health, mana and stamina pill and mana refinement pill to concoct.

I believe that if I don't want things to be challenging for me a lot since it's my first time concocting a ranked pill regardless of the success rate provided by my job, the Rank 1 health and stamina pill was the best way to good but if I do this, I'll have to leave out the Rank 1 mana pill and mana refinement pill I was also very much interested in making as well.

It was obvious that my main problem here was my choice of pill to first concoct as the number of options I initially thought was little turned out to be more than a lot making me a little indecisive.

Hmmm

'What do I do now?' I thought for a while before deciding to try another approach.

Honestly, any one of these four pills; Rank 1 health, mana and stamina pill and mana refinement pill including the mana cultivating pill was sufficient for me to begin my experiments in concocting rank 1 pills.

The only reason I was still delaying my choice was that while my main aim was to try my hand at making rank 1 pills, I wanted it to be that the pill I choose to make was something practical and something worth my effort and time in making.

I wanted to concoct something I knew would immediately be useful after I successfully concoct it but the thing was that all these pills were helpful in their own way one way or another which in turn was what made it difficult for me to choose in the end.

This was why I decided to try another approach by checking out which pill regardless of its difficulty would be useful to me the moment I can confidently make it.

This process was actually not hard because, after a while of thought, I decided to make the Rank 1 mana pill in the end.

The Rank 1 health and stamina pill together with the mana refinement pill were of course useful but after I asked myself; "What was it I really needed the most now?" my answer only came down to two which were Health and mana.

It was obviously not a bad thing to have more health or mana but when I really thought about what I needed, it was mana that won in the end and this was for a number of reasons.

For one, my origin ability was one that relied on mana and even when my mana pool expanded to more than three times its original size before evolving, my total mana amount could still not allow me to use my ability for more than 10 minutes.

I had experimented a little with my origin ability so I had an idea of how powerful it was and how powerful it could be depending on how I used it and what I used it for.

The amazing thing about everything was that I could use my ability how I liked and the only thing that limited my use of it was my imagination, lack of knowledge regarding what I wanted to transmute and my limited mana.

It was a little too much to call my mana little since I had a suspicious thought it should be more than what mages with a high-quality job and a higher level than me would have and even then, my mana was still little to use my origin ability as much as I would like.

I even had a suspicious thought that if I was to really use my ability to the fullest in an offensive way, it was possible that my mana might not even be sufficient to sustain me for 5 minutes depending on how the fight was.

This just showed that mana was something that had become very important to me than it was before.

Putting aside the need for sufficient mana to use my origin ability whenever I need it, I also needed mana to concoct pills and use the various pill techniques that were in my head to make the quality of my pills better and easily increase the purity of the pills I concoct.

This said techniques were also part of the new knowledge that got inserted into my head when I was evolving.

Honestly, things just keep getting better with the new knowledge in my head.

I believed that the knowledge in my head was not all-knowing but with what I've experienced so far, it should be close to it but this was another matter as I was still on the matter of wanting to concoct a rank 1 pill.

Putting aside the fact that I did need mana for a lot of things now, there was still the part that I could just choose to make another pill different from the health, mana and stamina pill since the unranked ones I concoct still works except that their effect was much much weaker and it was also because of this I did not consider them.

In fact, all my unranked pills had been sold in the shop since I found them useless to me now.

Hmmm.

In fact, I could just try and make all of them. It's not like I lack time in a way.

'Why must everything be so complicated?'

*Sighs

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[Third Person POV],

After sending Chris off to a distance after he said it only remains a few monsters for him to complete his job requirements, Emma went to another location in the forest to look for a suitable location for her to evolve.

She had completed the majority of her job requirements after kinng the monster serpent and all that remained was for her to completely master a few spells to finally have the job she's been aiming for.

'Thank heavens I was able to resolve everything before the time limit', Emma thought with a sigh as she held the magic necklace on her neck tightly due to excitement.

She was finally going to evolve after all!

After finding a slightly open space in the forest and confirming the environment was safe Emma sat cross-legged on the grass, her eyes closed in deep concentration and started to practice her magic.

What she never expected was for her practice to go for hours and the worst part was that there was also no sign of Chris and although she was worried, she could not talk her concentration.

She had been practising her light magic for hours, determined to master the spells necessary to ascend to the rank of one.

This was the last requirement Emma had to complete to evolve.

What she did not realise was that her hand was subconsciously on the necklace on her neck.

Emma had always been a diligent student of magic, but she knew that becoming a rank one mage would require her to push herself harder than ever before.

As she focused her mind, Emma began to feel a strange sensation coursing through her body. It was gentle at first before it suddenly became violent and because it came so suddenly, Emma was not ready for the pain that was to come.

She was finally going to evolve after all!

After finding a slightly open space in the forest and confirming the environment was safe, Emma sat cross-legged on the grass, her eyes closed in deep concentration and started to practice her magic.

What she never expected was for her practice to go for hours and the worst part was that there was also no sign of Chris and although she was worried, she could not cut her concentration.

She had been practising her light magic for hours, determined to master the spells necessary to ascend to the rank of one.

This was the last requirement Emma had to complete to evolve.

What she did not realise was that her hand was subconsciously on the necklace on her neck.

Emma had always been a diligent student of magic, but she knew that becoming a rank one mage would require her to push herself harder than ever before.

As she focused her mind, Emma began to feel a strange sensation coursing through her body. It was gentle at first before it suddenly became violent and because it came so suddenly, Emma was not ready for the pain that was to come.