Taking the cooking class not only taught me how to make mouth watering food and made me a chef. It would help with my next alchemy tier.
Tier 2 alchemy is potions. We would be learning how to make things like health potions, Antidotes, magic potions, Berserk potions and many others. The class at this point had shrunk even more. That one kid who kept burning everything didn't pass and 1 or 2 others I think just couldn't afford to go on and just took the tier one alchemy skill and ran with that until they could make more money.
It was just me and two other guys.
We had another no nonsense teacher. He started off the same as others with proper cauldron cleaning and tool usage. The importance of proper room ventilation so you don't kill yourself or others with fumes. Flame control so you don't burn your potion. Proper storage of potions. And he always stressed double and triple checking potion recipes so you don't leave out an ingredient.
We had to buy books of potion formulas and sign contracts stating that we would not sell or release the formulas out into the public. This was both a safety precaution and a way to keep enemy nations from learning our potion formulas.
If found selling formulas we would be tried as traitors to the country and jailed or executed. It was very serious business.
If found and we run bounties would be placed on our heads and we would be hunted down. The potion formulas were all added to our grimoires in front of a group of soldiers and teachers to make sure there was no foul play or accidentally 'Losing' the formulas. So if you gave it away you had to willingly let someone absorb the information from your grimoire.
We started off with basic health potions. These needed some herbs, Ground up slime cores, water, and some drops of troll blood.
Cooking class came in very handy with potion making I already had experience with soups and this was kind the same except we had to add some magic power over time.
Potions where high selling items 1 cauldron of potion could make about 100 vials. We were even being paid to sell off the extra potions if they were good enough to pass. The army always buys potions.
It was a pretty simple class for me and I actually found cooking much more difficult as there were many different ways to cook but only one way to make potions.
Enough about potions I bet everyone is curious about what class I picked for afternoons.
I was in a dungeon style classroom deep under the school. It was dark and damp and we only had torch light as the teacher was very picky.
I would be the only student taking this class.
"Well well finally a student decided to show up?" came an eerie voice from the darkness.
I looked over and saw two floating blue orbs of fire. The creature walked out into the light and I could finally make out what I was seeing.
"A lich?" it was a bony skeleton with fire in the eye sockets covered in a black hood.
"Correct boy. 100 years ago I led an army of undead to sack the kingdom however I was captured and they saw how promising my skills were so they decided to hire me as a teacher here to teach necromany in exchange for my cooperation I keep my life." he says in a ghastly voice.
"Neat." I reply.
"Indeed. Well let's get started by upgrading your grimoire." he says walking over to a table with runes etched onto it.
"Upgrading my grimoire?" I ask curiously walking over.
"Where do you think the dead bodies are stored? They don't just pop out of the ground. You can't make something that isn't there appear." he explains logically.
this is true as I can't just make plants pop of nowhere. Water spells can drag moisture from the air. Earth is all around us. Wind is also there. Fire causes friction in the air for heat. But I can't just make flesh and bones from nothing.
I put my grimoire on the runic circles.
"All elements? How rare. You'll be able to do some very unique things with your corpses." he says with a clatter.
"Oh? Well I first have to figure out how to do necromancy first." I laugh.
he pulls out his grimoire which is a bone and flesh covered book. Chants a few words and presses his skeletal hands on the runes which light up with a bloody and dark aura.
[Grimoire upgraded with storage properties for undead.] Cassie says.
I wonder if I could get other materials storage.
After the little ceremony is over he walks over to some long covered tables and pulls off the sheets covering them.
There's 10 human dead bodies and 10 human skeletons on each table.
"Absorb these into your book." The lich rattles to me.
I press my grimoire on their bodies and the book sucks them inside.
"Now there are many types of necromancy. You can use skeletons, zombies, tormented souls, ghouls, animals. There are all kinds of possibilities." he rattles off.
"First however you need to make soul control gems. You can do this by using the creation spell which I hope you already know?" he asks.
indeed i do I had gotten necromancy magic books from the royal library.
I wave my hand and 20 grey marbles appear in the air.
"Perfect. You imbed these into your dead bodies to act as a controller." he says pointing towards the empty tables.
I get the hint and summon out the bodies.
"Now for skeletons the soul controller goes into the head." he explains.
I place a marble on one of the skeletons head and push it inside through the bone leaving no mark.
I do this for the rest of the skeletons.
"For a zombie it's in the center of the chest. This is to mess with people who cut their heads off. You can surprise them with a nasty shock as you rip them apart with a headless corpse." he let's out a mad cackle.
I take his word for it and put it into the corpses chests. "Why the head for skeletons though?" I ask.
"Harder to hit with the full bone around it if you put it in the chest they can easily be stabbed." he explains.
"Logical." I nod.