The wizard era begins with the alchemist wizard

Chapter 19 Mentor Mission
The wizarding academy does not have any strict requirements for apprentices to choose a mentor, or many wizards do not want to accept apprentices at all.

For most wizards, an apprentice would only be a distraction.

Richard searched for a long time in the tutor column of the Central Black Tower and screened out all the tutors who were famous for alchemy.

After eliminating the wizards who had not accepted apprentices for many years and those who had extremely strict conditions for accepting apprentices, a wizard named Joe Lord caught his attention.

"Alchemy School Joe Lord, a second-level wizard, mainly researches alchemy, and has accepted 1,300 apprentices in the past 100 years."

Richard looked at Qiao Luo's information and felt that he seemed to have heard this name somewhere before.

"Isn't this Anna's mentor and the wizard who made my wizard robes?"

Thinking of Anna's intimidation on the podium and the skills he had extracted from the wizard robes, Richard could conclude that this Jorode wizard must be a master.

"Let me see what the conditions are for apprentices. They must reach the level of a low-level apprentice and complete at least one of the tasks he issues." Richard touched his chin. "These conditions are indeed easy. No wonder he can accept more than a hundred apprentices every year."

But no matter how easy it was, Richard did not meet either of these two conditions.

"It will probably take a year to become a low-level apprentice. Let's go check out the tasks he has posted first."

Coming to the 25th floor of the Central Black Tower is the Academy's mission issuing hall, where apprentices can freely accept missions issued by the Academy.

Richard walked into the hall. The huge hall was divided into three parts. On the far left were the daily tasks issued by the academy. The content was mainly to maintain the academy's equipment, patrol the corners of the academy, and the cities and mountains within the academy's sphere of influence. These were extremely low-difficulty tasks with extremely low benefits.

On the far right side of the hall, there are trial tasks, which mainly involve hunting monsters and investigating some dangerous incidents within the academy's sphere of influence. These are extremely dangerous tasks, but also extremely rewarding.

In between the two, there is also an area with the most apprentices, where tasks for wizards within the academy are posted. These tasks range from collecting herbs to refining potions. They are moderately difficult and somewhat dangerous, but the rewards are also considerable.

Richard came to the middle area and suddenly found that his crystal ball had lit up by itself. Richard used his mental power to explore and found that he could see all the tasks issued by the wizard in the crystal ball.

"incredible."

Richard sighed and began his quest to find the wizard Joe Lord.

After searching for a while, a task to refine 50 grams of red mercury appeared before him.

"Red mercury, an explosive liquid metal. Apprentices who accept it should carefully consider their own strength. Once the extraction is complete, please submit it to the fifty-sixth floor of the Central Black Tower. The reward is one hundred magic stones."

Li looked at the task description and equated this thing with nitroglycerin in his mind.

"But this mission has no time limit, so let's take it on first. Also, the Miracle Furnace can also refine substances, so this is a good opportunity to try out its effects."

Richard walked to the counter and was greeted by a Gorgon-haired witch who looked like Medusa. Richard glanced at the silver pentagram symbol on the Gorgon-haired witch's wizard robe.

At the Black Tower Wizarding Academy, the silver pentagram is the mark of an apprentice.

"Sister, I want to accept mission number 1205."

The witch glanced at him and said, "Little guy, be a freshman. Qiaoluode's mission is not so easy to accept."

"Hmm? What do you mean, sister? Master Joerod's missions are always difficult?" Richard smiled and tried his best to make use of his appearance.

The snake-haired witch glanced at Richard, and a playful smile appeared on the corner of her mouth: "Don't be so close."

But despite saying this, the Gorgon witch still told Richard the news about Jorod.

"Qiaoluode's tasks are notoriously thankless. Even though he recruits hundreds of apprentices every year, only a few of them can be personally guided by him."

"That's true." Richard was shocked. "Then why did he recruit so many apprentices?" "What else can they do? They work for him." The snake-haired witch fiddled with her fingers. "He has an alchemy workshop, and most of the apprentices he recruited are there to work in his alchemy workshop.

I advise you, if you are not very talented in alchemy, you should not work for Qiao Luode."

After listening to this, Richard pondered for a moment. There were only a few wizards who specialized in alchemy in the academy, and each of the other alchemy wizards had extremely stringent conditions for apprentices. If he gave up on Joe Lord, he would most likely not be able to embark on the path of an alchemy wizard.

Besides, this task has no time limit and the reward is very generous. Even if you don't choose Qiao Luode as your mentor, it's good to just earn some magic stones.

"Thanks for your advice, sister, but I think I have some talent in alchemy. I will accept his mission."

The snake-haired wizard was not at all surprised by Richard's reaction. She had seen too many wizards like Richard over the years.

Everyone thought they were gifted and that they could win the favor of wizards, but in the end, only a few could really succeed.

"Another one who refuses to listen. What a waste of a pretty face. Give me the crystal ball so I can record your information."

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After leaving the mission hall, Richard immediately walked towards the commercial district.

To refine red mercury, a raw material called sunstone was needed. This material was so rare that Richard couldn't find it after searching for a long time in the shops in the commercial district.

Eventually, Richard found out that an alchemy shop called Anna's Cottage sold the material.

"Anna's Hut, can't it be opened by that Anna?" Richard looked at the name of the store and his eyes twitched twice.

The tasks assigned by the mentor required the raw materials to be purchased from his apprentice's shop. This Jorode wizard was truly a business genius.

Anna Cottage seemed to often receive apprentices who came to take on missions from Joe Lord. After Richard stated his purpose, the clerk immediately handed him a bag.

"Two kilograms of sunstone, enough to extract fifty grams of red mercury. The price is five hundred academy coins."

Five magic stones. This price made Richard's heart skip a beat.

Compared to the reward, the price of the raw material was a bit too cheap. Apart from fraud, the only reason Richard could think of for this business was that red mercury extraction was very easy to fail and the sunstone needed to be purchased repeatedly.

"Okay, this is the magic stone."

Richard took the bag with a heavy heart.

The magic stones decreased by five, and he still had five magic stones left.

After returning to the room, Richard reviewed the information about red mercury extraction in the crystal ball.

After confirming that there was no need to mix sunstone with other things to refine red mercury, Richard took a deep breath and took out a piece of sunstone.

[Raw materials: Sunstone (1 kilogram)]

[Refinable substances: red mercury]

[Refining consumption: 100 mana]

[Whether to refine]

(End of this chapter)