Chapter 51 - Alchemist Room, Meeting With Doctor Noxious

Surprisingly Instructor Pryde turned back to the door and walked in again, Although Vincent was surprised he followed after him

After walking through the door, Vincent found himself in another room entirely.

The room had different sizes of shelves put around with strangely shaped containers with various colored liquids placed on display.

Now, Vincent was alert.

Same door, different places, What happens if he walks in again.

From the back came a figure familiar to Vincent.

"Doctor Noxious!!!"

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"Doctor Noxious!" Vincent said in mild surprise.

"Hello to you too Kid," Noxious said then turned to Instructor Pryde. "We meet again Instructor"

Instructor Pryde slightly bowed In response, "It's always a pleasure, Doctor"

Not wanting to repeat his former mistake of not greeting Miss Gilda.

Vincent also greeted Doctor Noxious, "Good afternoon Doctor Noxious"

"Same to you Vincent" he smiled at Vincent, "I see you've just left the hospitality of Miss Gilda"

"I am slightly curious about your reason", Instructor Pryde tensed and silently thought inside that he didn't pry further.

The rarer the people that knew about it the better, And he most particularly did not want Doctor Noxious to know.

"But I wouldn't snoop further ", Fortunately Doctor Noxious didn't pry further.

"Since you accepted this old man's request, I shall give you a few gifts, Wait here a moment".

Doctor Noxious then walked away disappearing into the back leaving the teacher and student alone.

Learning himself in a room full of potions as he deduced, Vincent began to use [Status] on what he laid his eyes on.

He first started with the bright green potion in one of the glass display cases.

'[Status]'

[Great Nexus Potion

Drink to recover Ether pool to an almost peak state.

Side Effect: Don't use when the Ether pool is full, It may lead to a berserk state. It may also cause implosion.

May lead to a small increase in either regeneration.

Made by Doctor Noxious]

Then he veered around to the dark red potion.

[Great Recovery Potion

Drink to fasten the Ether Body Augmentation and Cell Replication to achieve Regeneration

Heals Most of Minimal to Severe Injuries.

Side Effect: Causes Hunger, Then extreme Hunger after 7 hours.

Made by Doctor Noxious]

After that Vincent continued to look around.

Using [Status] to receive details of all of the potions embedding it to his [Eidetic Library of Knowing].

'[Status]'

[Berserk Potion

Drink to Increase Strength, Agility, Defense, Tenacity, and Ether Regeneration

Side Effect; Causes Berserk, Loss of Mind, and Reasoning, Possible Death, May cause Madness as a permanent effect

After the effect wears out; It may lead to Hunger, Starvation, Nausea, Temporary memory loss/Permanent Memory Loss, Vertigo, Fever, Temporary Loss of body Functions/Permanent Loss of Body Functions, Temporary/Permanent destruction of body muscles, Increase in Ether Regeneration.

If Recovery Is a success; It may lead to an Increase in Ether Regeneration, Increase in Ether pool and Increase in Body Strength/Density.

Made by Doctor Noxious]

'That is a lot of Side Effects!!!'

[Worry Not Host, With the Planar Giant bloodline, This potion does more good to you than harm, …... Considering you survive]

'I rather not take that chance....unless when necessary.'

'Sigh, If only this fake [System] had a shop' he thought in want

[...WHO IS FAKE YOU!, Tch, Ungrateful Host]

Vincent smiled at the system's tantrum, He started contemplating whether he should continue doing this.

[Although I don't have the 'Shop' you speak off, There is another way to get these potions.]

'How!'

[Buy The Potions]

'....., Next'

[Learn Alchemy from an Alchemist/Doctor Noxious]

'Mmh' he pondered.

'I can learn from an Alchemist but they can't be from the school unless it's part of the curriculum..... I'll think about it, Next'

[Then Acquire the skill Alchemy or skills related to Alchemy then self-study Alchemy.]

[Although where would you find the skill~]

'I can just ask [Akashic] can't I'

[.......Yes you can]

'Good, That's resolved. Back to Potion Reading'

[Great Agility Potion

Forcefully Augmenting the legs with Ether to Increase Speed/Agility by 3 times

Side Effect: May cause Temporary/Permanent Leg muscles damage, Tiredness.

Made by Doctor Noxious]

[Great Strength Potion

Forcefully Augmenting the body with ether to Increase Strength, Speed, and Defense by 3 times, 1.5 times, and 2 times respectively within a day.

Note, Effect decreases with usage.

Side Effect: May cause Temporary/Permanent Body muscle damage, Starvation, Temporary/Permanent loss of Body Functions, Increase in Ether Regeneration and Capacity, Possible Death.

Made by Doctor Noxious]

[Great Passive Strength Boost Potion

Use to passively increase strength, speed, and Defense by 2.5x, 2x, and 2.5x respectively over a month.

Note Effectiveness reduces with usage

Made by Doctor Noxious]

[Great Nexus Strengthener

Sharply increase, Widen and Strengthen, Ether pool over a time of 3 days to a week.

Side Effect: Slight Disorientation, Moderate Reduction in Ether control.

Made by Doctor Noxious]

[Passive Nexus Strengthener

Slowly Increase, Widen and Strengthen Ether pool over a month to three.

Side Effect: None

Made by Doctor Noxious]

[Great Paralysis Potion

Apply on enemies to cause paralysis.

Capable of Full Paralysis to [A-Rank][High] danger beast and Mild Paralysis to [S-Rank][High] danger beast.

Note; Poison Resistance not taken into consideration

Made by Doctor Noxious]

[Great Poison Potion

Apply or Drink, To poison enemies….or friends.

Capable of Weakening Dark Beasts up to [S-Rank]. Capable of killing within an Hour for [S-Rank] and 30 minutes for [A-Rank] [Dark Beasts]

Note; Poison Resistance took into consideration.

Made by Doctor Noxious]

[Ether Disorientation Potion

Use to Disorient Ether pool causing the inability to judge the appropriate amount of either to cast innate/skills.

Reduces Ether Generation

The effect decreases on more experienced fighters.

Effect time varies from race to race.

Note Effective against [Dark Beasts] and [Forsaken One's]. If one able to survive the first 10 Minutes

Note if used on [Dark Beast] or [Forsaken One's], They tend to be able to use their innate but unable to accurately judge ether usage, making them use more ether than required.

Increasing the power of their attacks and their danger ranks.

After 10 Minutes of Stronger Attacks, Dark Beast is noted to wear down to a weakened state reducing their danger rank and making killing easier.

Made by Doctor Noxious]

Vincent focused wholly on the task in front of him that he ignored instructor Pryde.

After all, he wasn't doing anything wrong only something weird

As Vincent focused on the potions, Instructor Pryde concentrated on him.

He wondered why this student is acting in such an unusual manner.

'He seems to be interested in the potion son display, Maybe he has a like for alchemy.'

'As an Instructor, I should support him'

Then he had an idea, With a slight smile of pride, Instructor coughed and gained Vincent's attention.

" Do you know that there are several rankings of potions, Just like Blacksmithing"

'I didn't ask but go on' Vincent thought with slight annoyance but shook his head to instructor Pryde.

"Well I might as well explain it"

"In the alchemy world, There are rankings of potions which are used to mark the strength of the motion."

"It starts from E-Rank to C-Rank, B-Rank A-Rank, and then S-Rank."

"An easier way to rank it Is, Lesser potion, Less Potion, Potion, Great Potion,

and Greater Potion."

"Any questions" Instructor Pryde asked

"Yes I do have one" Vincent replied, "What comes after [S-Rank] or rather [Greater Potion]"

"That is~" Instructor Pryde began but then he was cut off by Doctor Noxious that had just returned from wherever he had gone off to, "Unknown"

He then stood before both of them with his eye focused on Vincent, " No one has ever gone that far.....Yet." He said in an aloof and gentle tone.

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For further explanation or Potion Rankings look below.

E-Rank - Lesser Potion

C-Rank - Less Potion

B-Rank - Potion

A-Rank - Great Potion

S-Rank - Greater Potion

SS-Rank - ???

Sorry for the late chapter.