Chapter 371: 371
Such a huge number of potions meant that Draco could make a good amount of money if he put them up for sale in an auction or in his shop . However, instead of being happy, he felt endless frustration for one particular reason .
His worst fear had been realized . In this Unique Quest, he might be able to enjoy the nice part of the banana, but he was also forced to eat the bruised parts .
All the potions had been made with a good amount of formulas he knew or remembered as being unique from the previous timeline . Many of them were just random mixtures that he abused his high success rate to make happen, otherwise even a real Grandmaster might face a cauldron explosion .
Yet, no matter what, only about 30 of his crafts had been recognized as unique with an accompanying system message . Since he only got 100% exp and Tradeskill experience for every Epic potion recipe, Draco realized that he really had a long way to go .
At least his Tradeskill level was soaring rapidly . After all, the recipes might not be new, but they were still Epic . One day of work with his increased tempo had generated enough potions to rival a normal Master Rank Alchemist's monthly output .
If normal Master Rank Alchemists needed 6 months to reach the level cap, then would it take Draco six days? Indeed, and while this may seem short, one should remember that the difficulty in the Master Rank wasn't going from level 60 to level 80 .
No, it was going from level 80 to level 81, a grueling task that took years upon years . Just leveling up seemed like a cakewalk in comparison, and it was just that for Draco .
However, the lack of class experience infuriated him . He began to despise the old era for being a land of pretentious louts that looked into the future too much .
Who asked them to be such geniuses who had almost everything? Harrumph, it served them right for getting annihilated!
Draco continued to let negative and hateful thoughts run through his mind about the old era due to his dissatisfaction .
After spending a whole day crafting, Draco went out to take a bath and enjoy a meal . Both of these activities were handled by Natasha, who no longer hated her role .
In fact, she met it with surprising enthusiasm, which startled Draco . Once again, his predictions had turned out to be wrong, as Natasha had come around faster than he expected .
However, Draco was not on the mood to savor the delicacy that was the birdwoman . After he finished most of his work, then he could still lay waste to her, but until then she was off the hook .
Natasha seemed disappointed by this, but she still maintained her enthusiastic behavior . Such was life . If someone chased another person and got ignored, it was no surprise that when the roles reversed, the same might happen .
As for the other maids, some chose to bite the bullet and join Draco's lineage after Hoover explained the details, while others chose to leave, as they were only looking to get some quick benefits without any strings attached .
Still, a good amount of the beauties remained on the fence, as this was a big decision . No one knew the future, and no one could say that choosing to be with or without him was a good idea .
Perhaps if they were more familiar with the outside world and understood what Umbra, Vita, and whatnot stood for, they wouldn't hesitate .
Currently, it was akin to asking a group of non-believers to accept a new religion . Some might join the faith, some would be unsure and many would scoff in derision . It was a similar thing .
A total of 15 so far chose to join the Morningstar Clan . Draco told Hoover to bring one of them to his private bedchamber every other day, so he would finish consummating him within a month .
After all, he was in work mode, so he couldn't dedicate a lot of his precious time to planting seeds in any garden he saw . As for the girls, they couldn't complain, as they had already made their choice . Now, it was a matter of waiting to see if they were wise .
Draco went back to making endless potions . After his break, he focused on trying to make extremely crazy or nonsensical recipes that no one should have ever attempted . He knew that he would really be pushing his cauldron and success rate if he did this, but he had no choice .
If he didn't get enough experience to level up his stuff, he could never become Rank 2 . Even though there was no real rush to get there, Draco wanted to upgrade his subjective magic to Rank 2 through his Mage God title .
At Rank 2, he would gain the ability to use basic spells of the pinnacle elements, and that would change how he fought fundamentally, instantly making him far stronger than he already was .
Unfortunately, Draco was not very successful in this endeavor because even a high success rate could not guarantee a potion when the ingredients were too chaotic when mixed together .
Instead, all he got was a batch of waste . It was impossible for his cauldron to explode in his face since he used Worldly Energy to suppress it and toss it out when it looked problematic .
As such, in the second day of his potionmaking, Draco only got 567 useful potions while the remaining 789 were failures . Even worse, out of those crazy 567 successes, somehow only 12 ended up being unique designs .
At this point, he was about to pull his hair out from anger . However, he took a deep breath and after calming down a little, he understood the logic behind this . Alchemy was by far the most lucrative Basic Tradeskill out of the bunch, so unsurprisingly there were quite a lot of them, and chancing upon a new recipe was the life goal of every Alchemist .
Compared to them, Blacksmiths usually worked with simple designs and hardly made new ones unless they were custom ordered or it was time for them to try and become a Grandmaster .
Also, they had many more combinations to create something unique with all the types of weapons and types of materials, especially when one added the existence of Enchantments .
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