Chapter 124: The Crystal Stun Potion

[Do you want to learn how to craft this potion?]

[Y/N?]

'Yes...'

And as soon as he confirmed his choice... another panel appeared before him.

[You have learned how to craft the 'Crystal Stun Potion'!]

Suddenly, the knowledge of how to craft the potion entered his head, which slightly hurt as it was the first time he experienced it, but after a few seconds the pain went away, replaced by knowledge, it was weird that you couldn't craft the potions even while knowing the ingredients if you didn't have the knowledge, but he guessed that it was to not make the [Alchemist] class too overpowered.

And immediately afterward... another panel appeared.

[Potions are the sole power of an alchemist, you cannot rely on skill or stats, so your sole objective is to upgrade your level and acquire powerful potions!]

'Fair...'

...

[Crystal Stun Potion]

[Type:] Epic

[Required Level to Craft:] 25

[Perk:] Throwable potion, if you manage to hit your opponent with it, the liquid will temporarily stun them!

[Ingredients:] 1x Crystal Shard, 1x Sparkling Water

...

'Huh... wait a minute...'

The problem with being an alchemist though wasn't only about getting potions and leveling up, but also about finding the ingredients needed for those potions.

[Sparkling Water] in itself was extremely common, but [Crystal Shard] would be difficult to find or fairly expensive.

And yet... Stark was smiling.

The reason: wasn't he in a rift full of those very same shards?

"ALCHEMIST!" he activated his skill as one of the basic perks was the ability to spot ingredients that could be useful for potions.

And just as expected... all around it were now hundreds upon hundreds of small points.

"Spatial Inventory!" instinctively, he opened up his inventory void and grabbed his phone from it, he kept it in there since it would probably break if he kept it in his pocket during battle.

And once he turned on the screen...

His eyes widened, and his face became pale.

'...' he looked at his phone screen for a good minute.

And a panel even came to confirm what he feared.

[You have been inside 'Sierra's Death Path' for 2 weeks 5 days]

This didn't make sense, but even the date on his phone confirmed that fact.

['One-Classifier Run' rifts work differently than others, because as you are alone, time inside of it can move differently than inside of the real world!]

'Basically... time moves much slower when inside of the rift,' Stark grabbed his forehead and began to laugh, 'And that bastard didn't tell me...'

But Stark shook his head.

'No, there is a chance he didn't know.'

Since most classifiers that entered the rift usually died 5–10 minutes after entering it, it would be around a few hours in the real world, meaning that he possibly believed that they had gone far but still died...

'That's a good logic,' Stark nodded, 'BUT I DON'T CARE!'

After all he was still responsible for sending him to this shithole, he had indeed completed his mission though, so he better get back before they all believe he died.

If this didn't already happen, that is.

'The fact he didn't give me a watch or a way to get back to Fellarburg means that he had low expectations for me to survive...' Stark was assembling the pieces of the puzzle, and he was frankly beginning to hate that Moonless family more and more.

In the end, he decided to just get back using his legs.

He still had some food and water saved inside of his [Spatial Inventory], so now he just needed to get back to Fellarburg.

The next VIP express train won't arrive until at least a day, since it had already passed, so there was no point in sitting around and waiting here.

'DOMINATION!' he activated his skill, focusing the entirety of his aura around his legs, then began to run in the opposite direction which he came from.

He didn't have any panel or arrow to aid him this time, but he just followed his instinct.

'Just you wait...' he groaned as he began to run extremely fast, around half the speed of the actual train.

The more determination and anger Stark had inside of him, the more powerful his aura would become, and so that meant that his speed right now was enough to possibly get back to Fellarburg in 10 hours.

Until then, he just had to keep running...