Jake didn’t have any need for it, however. Mainly because he didn’t know any recipes that required orbs. Secondly, because his alchemy branch didn’t really use those sorts of items often, he doubted it would even be instrumental in the future.
Pure forms of a type of mana like that would most often be found in beneficial pills, flasks, or elixirs—not poisons. But of course, that wasn’t the only reason to hunt them. Experience was a universal gain for any being with levels, after all.
Something the birds were fully aware of. The cloud elemental Jake had just identified was ambushed by a group of five diving birds. In its semi-intangible form, it ignored the purely physical attacks but took damage from magic.
In less than a minute, it dispersed and turned into a small, fingernail-sized wh
