The Insider System

Chapter 15: Meat Dinner

Lake pulled out another arrow and was about to try again when Kyle said " You can practice later, we need to move on." Lake shrugged he really didn\'t want to use a bow honestly he preferred the spear. A walk later Kyle said " This is a good place to find Whanto leaf." Lake saw the plant that Kyle was pointing at and asked "This is Whanto leaf, what\'s it used for." Kyle crouched down and picked a leaf of a plant and ate it. "Most people eat it because it grows all over the place, but the alchemist guild uses it as a stabilizer in the lowest tier of healing potions." Said Mary.

Lake was kind of hungry so he crouched down and ate some. It was pretty good. It had a bit of a strange herbal taste that made it seem really healthy, but it was free so Lake could see why people ate it. Lake went to town, and ate as much as he could after a few mouthfuls Lake had an idea he loved tea so he opened his flask and put a few crumpled leaves in and shook it.[New job acquired Alchemist] Lake felt this was closer to cooking but he would always take a new job, it had a chance to be tampered with like Thief was. Wanting to see if he had hit a jackpot, Lake pulled up the details of Alchemist.

Alchemist (U) Lv.0/10

On level up:

Dexterity 2

Perception 1

Intelligence 3

Exp conditions:

Kills

Crafting potions and poisons

Bonus Exp conditions:

X3 Potion crafting

X5 Poison kills

X8 Poison crafting

Skills from job:

When Lake saw the golden U he knew someone had tampered with it. It seemed to be all the same person because all the golden stuff was in one style, and they also seemed to like poison. Lake also noticed the level cap was 10 so they hadn\'t added a 0 like someone did in Thief. Lake wondered if changing the Level cap was more difficult somehow.

Looking up from his system screen, Lake saw Kyle and Mary were staring at him " Sorry, I just unlocked a new job." After Lake said this he knew he shouldn\'t have, he didn\'t even know if other people unlocked jobs like him. But luckily it didn\'t seem to be a big deal and Kyle walked over to a plant with a purple stalk and said "This is what people call chew sticks. People chew it for energy like this."

Kyle cut the plant at the base and ripped a branch off and started to chew on the end. " I\'m sure it\'s obvious but the alchemy guild uses it for similar purposes, if you were to fill a bag this size with either of these you would make a gold coin." Kyle held up a small bag, Lake thought it was about the size of a grocery store bag from his old world, wondering how much he would get if he killed something like a deer.

Lake asked, " How much would I get for a day\'s worth of hunting compared to this?" Putting his bag back on his belt Kyle said, " This pays about half of what hunting does, even counting days you don\'t get anything while hunting. An added bonus to this is if you find a rare plant you get a windfall. I\'ve known people to retire off of one plant."

Lake guessed those situations were extremely rare. " What about farming, how much does that pay?" They had started to walk to the next place already so Lake was wondering why these two even came out here to begin with if you were opposed to danger, surly farming would make more sense. "Farming has a lot to do with the amount of land you own and if you actually own it since we don\'t own land, we would probably make a few gold a week which isn\'t enough."

Lake could feel the sad backstory coming but didn\'t have the heart to take this moment away from them. There wasn\'t an old person in existence who didn\'t love talking about how hard it was being old, readying himself Lake asked, " Enough for what?" Looking sad Kyle said " Mary\'s sick, the reason we work for the alchemy guild is so they discount the medicine she needs."

Lake had to say she did look a little frail and he had been wondering why she had even come. He also started to feel bad for when he hit her with an arrow. He should apologize but not now that would be weird and make it seem like he only cared because she was dying. Which was true but that would make him a bad person.

Arriving at the next place Kyle said " Looks like somethings been eating the plants here. We should move on in case it\'s still here." Looking around Lake could see what he meant the place was a mess and he also wanted to move on. Whatever had been here was probably pretty big. The upside was it ate plants. As soon as Lake thought this he heard a snapping noise in the tree above them.