Willpower also helped with focusing while doing alchemy, though the book mentioned that no amount of stats could make up for the lack of personal perseverance. It clearly looked like the book should have more info than that, but a considerable part had been cut out. While this was a mystery for sure, there was one that irked him even more. Why did his profession increase Vitality by 2 and Toughness by 1 too? However, that was a mystery quickly solved as he briefly skimmed the small section on stats in the book on poisons. Concocting poisons, compared to nearly every other aspect of alchemy, was no safe practice. The fumes alone could kill most, and just being close to poison daily came with many dangers. On top of that, those dabbling in poison also sometimes used their own bodies to tes

