Back at the city I started considering what to do next, maybe I will just get the skill book from Gerard and then try to some how kill a empire rank boss but the question is how.
I looked at the monster core in my hand and thought that maybe I can just continue hunting kingdom rank monsters and try to get the item that way but I would need to kill 20 to 40 kingdom rank bossed and how knows maybe I won't even get the item.
In the case of a empire rank moister I would at worst have to kill 3 and there is about a 50% chance it will appear at the first try.
I started looking at all the information on empire rank monster I have there are about 10 of them but most of them live in the orc empire. The other once are in abandoned mountain ranges ore things like deep in the see or desert.
There seem to be a couple of ways to kill some of them there is a island not to far of the cost of the kingdom right next to this one. It's a volcanic island were a group of fire worms live the leader of the fire worms is a level 500 empire boss, low level for a empire rank boss but that only because they have already killed everything else on the island and they can leave there because of there natural fear of water.
But the down site is that I only have fire attacks and they are very resistant to fire, they literately live in a volcano after all.
I think I can maybe get a couple of high level players to help me kill a boss but I don't know what to pay them with, I can give them the corps and maybe if the monster has treasure I can give them that.
I decided to open the monster cores I got and to my surprise I actually got one legendary rank alchemy recipe and a epic rank skillbook. This is why hunting boss monsters is so important they are the only once that actually drop skillbooks, recipes...
I looked at what I would need to make the potion and to my surprise it's a potion that gives permanent stats, there are only 6 ways to get permanent stats in this game, or at least that I know of.
1- Leveling up, every level you get 10 SP
2- Get a class, every time you level up you get a fixed number of stats depending on the rank of you class, common-1, uncommon-2, rare-3...
3- Potions, SP potions are all at least epic rank ranging from 10 to 5000 stats
4- Rare plants these can only be eaten once a peace but are also very rare you might not even find one in the continental auction. (Unless our MC just sold his left overs)
5- Pharmacist, a sub branch of alchemist that only make pills that give extra stats, the class is very rare and always considered at least legendary rank.
6- Race, the high races get a boost in SP once they pass level 500.
I thought about changing my race but unless I can become something like a dragon I'm not realy considering it.
I decided not to learn the recipe after looking at the requirements and ingredients needed to make the potion. 3 legendary herbs and 8 epic once, the epic once are not impossible to get but the legendary once is nearly impossible unless you have a big guild looking for you.
I looked at the whereabouts of the herbs and found that 2 legendary and a couple of the epic once are in a dragons cave, this is the same dragon that has the skillbook that shortens the cooldown and casting time of spells.
I looked at what else there was to find in there and to my surprise this guy is rich not only dose he have one mythical rank item and 3 materials he also have a dozen legendary materials and 3 items, I didn't even try to count the number of epic items he has. Not only that but if you kill him you can use his base as a guild HQ and he has more then 50.000.000 black gold.
That's 5.000.000.000 gold you could buy a city with that, maybe even two or three. The down site is that he is a level 700 elder dragon making him impossible ti kill even if I gather the current to 10 players in the entire game.
But I have decided he is the one I'm gone kill, you see dragons are considered monsters so are ocrs and even humans, If you kill a human emperor you will also find a monster core in there bodys, buy for some reason this is only fore humans and demi-humans above the unique rank.
I decided to start planing will going some alchemy at the same time, I want to reach the master level first before I leave to start the preparations to attack this elder dragon.
Two days later I did it I'm now officially a master alchemist, being a master in any sub-class gives you a title and in my case I got maybe the best title I could get.
«Title: genius alchemist Rank: epic
Description: All EXP gained by doing alchemy will be multiplied by 2. There is a 1% chance that any potion you make will go up a rank.»
It may not look like much but if I get 10 EXP per potion I make the 'heavenly prodigy' title makes that 1.000 and then the genius alchemist title makes that 2.000, but to bad it only got alchemy other wise I would probably be the strongest player there is in no time at all.
I left the in and decided it was time to go meet mister Gerard and get the skill I want.
On the way to his house I looked around a bit doing a bit of window shopping, There realy wasn't anything that extraordinary but it felt good to just laze around again ever since the game started I haven't realy had any down time.
But even this down time that I finally created for my self came to a end once I saw Gerard siting on his old chair doing nothing.
I looked him in the eye and set in a calm somewhat surprised voice.
«I didn't expect to see a legendary thief in a place like this.»
He looked me in the eye with a sharp and surprised look.
«Didn't expect to be recognized in a place like this, what do you want.»
He know I wanted some thing from him, he's one of the most wanted man on this side of the continent the only reason he can live here in peace is because of his disguised skill, this is also the epic skill I want from him.
with a epic disguised skill other will need at least a legendary appraisal skill to see thru you but the skill of Gerard is special it's just like the basic alchemy skills they can be leveled up once they reach level 100.
Mister Gerard's skill is already well on it's way to reach the mythical rank.
«I can heal your leg for you but I cant some thing in return.»
He didn't look surprised that I can sure his leg, he already knows I have at least a mythical rank appraisal skill so a unique rank healing skill is not that weird but as a man with a lot of life experience Gerard knows that here are no free meals in this world.
«What do you want in return?»
«Simple I want the disguise skill, don't be to quick to say no now we both know that he has already sent people after you.»