[You have discovered a new recipe.]

[You’ll succeed in producing basic stamina potion.]

[Your intelligence will increase by one point.]

[Combining Poisoned Herb and Troll’s Blood. You have successfully created a new catalyst combination.]

[Your intelligence will increase by one point.]

[Combining Poisoned Herb and the Essence of Magic. You have successfully created a new catalyst combination.]

[Combining Poisoned Herb and Orc’s Molar. You have failed to create a new catalyst combination.]

Being an alchemist wasn’t difficult, but it didn’t mean that skills weren’t used at all. The timing to use an alchemy magic circle, the type of magic circle that varied based on the catalyst ingredients, the amount of mana required to create a magic circle, and the synergy of catalysts and ingredients. I need to go about it while thinking about those things, so this was very much like an experiment. An experiment with a high risk of failure. This was why an alchemist had to be cautious.

Most alchemists knew that the ingredients themselves were very expensive. Thus, every piece of gold mattered when they had to spend it. They first had to come up with several hypotheses after digging deep into potion-making and the theory of catalyst combination. Based on those hypotheses, virtual...