Desert pines for alchemy lessons, go to the Crystal Cavern caves with some leather gloves and harvest sulfur, then collect red roses and red snapdragons in valley of the dwarves to start your alchemy
dammn i had 2 inorganic nexuses and i htought i needed quartz. lol and i got kileld with 9/9 def/strenght and overall of 15 when i was trying to kill a snake. phew i didnt lose anything and thanks for telling i needed sulfur and not quartz i also got liek 100 snaps inside my bank lol