"But this is where the familiarity ends; the last part of the description is somewhat different. This variant of the alchemist profession focused on poison. The entire description was sinister, but again, it was clearly modeled or at least heavily inspired by a snake. To be more precise, a small mushroom-eating snake, he assumed it was the Malefic Viper.
The profession also provided more status bonuses than his Fatal Shot class, adding two extra status points per level overall. None of them impacted combat directly, however, and he was a bit disappointed not to see any perception bonuses. But what was done was done, he accepted, and there was no going back.
He knew that the decision to choose this profession was no small matter. Probably as significant as his class choice. If not more, since this clearly wasn't a basic profession handed out left and right. Finally... Alexander had to admit that the idea of doing alchemy was kind of cool.