The wizard era begins with the alchemist wizard

Chapter 22: Purity, Extremely High Purity (Seeking Follow-up Reading)

After tidying up his clothes, Richard carefully found the red mercury he had refined a few months ago and placed it in a box stuffed with paper balls and straw.

If this thing explodes, Richard will be half dead.

Holding the box, Richard came to the central black tower. When passing by the apprentice self-test room, he went in to test his physical condition.

[Spiritual power?, Physical fitness 22, Magic power 176, Rating, Entry-level apprentice. ]

"Huh? Why is there a question mark about mental power? Is the crystal ball broken?" Richard patted the crystal ball. In addition to mental power, there was something wrong with his magic power. However, the blood of blood alchemy is the blood of Warcraft, and there is some magic power in the blood. There is no problem with increasing the magic power.

When he reached the 56th floor, Richard was already sweating profusely.

Holding a bomb in my hand, I would be lying if I said I wasn't nervous.

Boom boom boom!
Richard knocked on the door.

Click.

"What?"

An apprentice opened the door. The apprentice was fat and looked to be middle-aged, with squinting eyes, a hooked nose, and a shiny forehead that sparkled under the magic lamp.

"Senior, I'm here to submit my mission."

Richard held the box and carefully handed it to the middle-aged apprentice in front of him.

"Submit a task? Which task?"

The middle-aged apprentice stretched out his hand to catch it, but seeing that Richard was sweating profusely and was still very cautious, an idea suddenly flashed through his mind.

It can’t be red mercury.

There really is something that a fool has refined!

"Come in, come in. Please hold the box carefully. The red mercury is quite powerful."

The middle-aged apprentice stepped back repeatedly, then opened the door behind him as wide as possible, with no intention of taking the box.

He heaved a sigh of relief only after Richard had stabilized the red mercury.

"Brother, you are really cruel. You dare to bring up this red mercury yourself."

The middle-aged apprentice sat on the chair and wiped the sweat from his forehead.

"What's your name, senior?"

"Chucks. What's your name?"

"Richard."

After exchanging a few pleasantries, Chucks walked to the window and called out twice. A few seconds later, a normal-sized owl flew into the room.

"Senior Sister, someone has delivered the red mercury you asked for." Chucks said to the owl.

Richard looked at it curiously, "Senior, what are you doing?"

Chucks waved his hand. "It's just a little trick that's not worth mentioning. It's just using animals to pass messages."

With that he released the owl and returned to his chair.

"Senior Chucks, you just mentioned Senior Sister. Isn't this red mercury what Master Joelord wants?" Richard remembered what Chucks had just said. It seemed that this red mercury was not a task issued by Joelord himself.

"Hey, the teacher is studying synthetic beasts, so he doesn't need this thing." Chucks wiped the sweat off his forehead again, "Red Mercury's mission was issued by Senior Sister Anna in his name."

"Does this mission count as..."

"Yes, if you want to become my disciple, this mission will definitely count."

Looking at the dazed Richard in front of him, a ridiculous idea flashed through Chucks' mind.

He must have failed in refining red mercury.

How could the extraction of red mercury not fail?

"Um...Richard, how long did it take you to extract this thing?" Chucks asked tentatively.

"Well, about three months. Refining red mercury is quite dangerous, and I failed several times in the middle, so I refined it relatively slowly." Richard lied without changing his expression.

"That's not bad, that's not bad. Judging from your strength, you should be a freshman. I almost thought I met the legendary alchemy genius." Chax secretly breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile, "Red mercury is something that even teachers sometimes fail to refine. The difficulty is beyond the limit."

After hearing this, Richard suddenly felt that his decision to submit the task in three months was absolutely correct.

Even a wizard would have problems refining red mercury, let alone an apprentice.

The two chatted for a while. Although Chucks looked like a greasy middle-aged man, his ability was close to that of a senior apprentice and he was a formal student of Joe Lord.

After getting acquainted, Richard began to ask about the news about Joe Lord accepting disciples.

"Brother, I heard that most of the people who became Master Qiaoluode's disciples went to the alchemy workshop?" Richard asked tentatively.
Hearing this, Chucks waved his hand dismissively.

“Don’t listen to the nonsense out there, saying that all the apprentices under a certain teacher go to work in an alchemy workshop and can’t learn anything real.

I tell you, the teacher's treatment of apprentices is the best in the entire academy. As long as you become a disciple of the teacher, you will receive a subsidy of at least five magic stones per month.

This stuff is in addition to your workshop salary. If you work in a workshop, it is normal to get 10 to 20 magic stones every month after you become skilled.

Isn't this much better for you freshmen than doing the school tasks?"

After saying that, Chucks pulled out a metal hip flask from the table beside him and took two sips.

"Besides, take a look at how other masters treat their apprentices. They use their apprentices to test medicines and magic. I have seen this with my own eyes.

Our instructor not only used you for experiments, but also gave you magic stones. Where else can you find such a good thing? "

The more Richard listened to this, the more he felt something was wrong. Why did he feel that Chucks' words sounded like some kind of deception?

If Qiao Luode was so good, all the apprentices would be vying to become his disciple.

But before Richard could say anything, the door of the room opened with a bang.

"Chucks, where are the things that were delivered?"

When Richard saw the person coming, it turned out to be Anna who had given him a lecture that day.

When Chucks saw Anna, he immediately hid the wine jug, then stood up abruptly, ran to Anna and flattered her:

"Sister, sister, Red Mercury is there. Don't make so much noise. Red Mercury can't stand it."

Anna glanced at Chucks, looked at the box, and turned to look at Richard beside her.

"Did you refine this?"

“I refined it.”

After confirming the apprentice, Anna strode to the box containing the red mercury and opened the box very gently.

"Ok?"

As soon as she opened the box, what caught Anna's eye was a brown glass bottle.

Although many apprentices knew that red mercury needed to be kept away from light, she only thought of using a brown glass bottle to store it after being instructed by her instructor.

Before that, she had never seen anyone use it.

"Brown glass bottle, nice attention to detail." Anna praised.

When Chucks heard what Anna said, his eyes almost popped out of their sockets.

Senior Sister Anna praised me!
Anna is the most proud disciple of his mentor Qiao Luode in the past thousand years. Not to mention praising her on a normal basis, it is a good thing for these junior brothers and sisters not to be scolded when they meet her.

As for praising others, it is unprecedented.

"It needs to be kept away from light, so I found a brown bottle." Richard said vaguely.

When the bottle was opened, a strange fragrance brought by the evaporation of red mercury instantly spread in the room.

Richard subconsciously covered his mouth and nose, but Anna waved her hand and a breeze blew the smell in the room out of the window.

"Chucks, as your mentor's student, even an outsider would know to cover your mouth and nose, but you are still standing there like an idiot." Anna glanced at Chucks, making him shudder.

After saying this, Anna's fingertips glowed with a faint blue light, and a magic thread stretched out from her fingertips and lightly entered the bottle. After a while, a drop of red mercury with a strange color was brought out.

“This color…”

Anna looked at the red mercury color, her eyes flickering.

This color... this brightness... this is indeed red mercury, and it is red mercury of extremely high purity.

Anna couldn't help but activate the red mercury. With a bang, the red mercury exploded instantly under the stimulation of magic, creating a gust of air in the room.

"Did you refine this thing?" Anna turned around and asked.

"I extracted it," Richard replied.

"What's your name? Do you have a mentor?"

"My name is Richard, and I don't have a mentor yet."

"That's good."

After listening, Anna capped the bottle and strode towards Richard.

Richard was a little confused. Could it be that the mercury extracted from the Miracle Furnace was not red mercury? Did this woman think she was a liar? When she asked him if he had a mentor, was she asking if she had a backer?

Richard suddenly remembered that the area above the 50th floor of the central black tower was the wizards' territory, and there were no academy supervisors.

This means that even if Anna killed him here, no one would know.

For a moment, Richard's mind was in a mess and his body retreated repeatedly.

"Well, Senior Anna." Richard, who was forced into a corner and had no way out, simply became more assertive and said, "Just tell me what you want to do."

Anna's height of nearly 1.8 meters allowed her to look down at Richard. She patted Richard's shoulders with both hands and said firmly:

"Since you don't have a mentor, why don't you join our alchemy school?"

(End of this chapter)