High Above

  Chapter 500 True Fragrance (24)

  Facts have proved that the Alchemy Association doesn't mind assessing a young alchemist introduced by the Ellen family today, who is also favored by Master Goser, who is now in the limelight in the association.

The Royal Alchemy Association located in the fourth floor area has a very old history. Fortunately, it was not damaged in the Dark Moon turmoil, so it became one of the ten oldest buildings in the imperial capital. It is not like the Lonely Mountain Observation Tower. Majestic and magnificent, even a little narrow.

  The corridors can only accommodate three people walking side by side, the passages are about 2.4 meters high, and each one is too delicate, so it can be seen that this is an architectural design to maximize the use of space.

  Everything is the epitome of the architectural style of the ancient Setar city-state era seven hundred years ago.

At that time, the imperial capital had not yet been fully developed and rebuilt, and there were even many wild labyrinth monsters running rampant in the various layers—yes, the imperial capital at that time had just been transformed from a maze into a human city. While expelling monsters, the Tals built their own homes.

  The orange light carried a hint of warmth. As a person participating in the assessment, Ian bid farewell to Isengard temporarily, and followed a middle-aged alchemist to his own separate examination room.

   "This assessment lasts for seven days, and a hundred people are limited to participate each day. Today is the sixth day."

The alchemist knew Isengard, so he was quite attentive to Ian who was brought by the blond boy, and now he was answering Ian's question: "You mean the reward for ranking? If it was someone else, I would try to seduce him." Fan, urge them to exert their full strength."

"But if it's a friend of the Ellen family, then I'll tell the truth—it's nothing more than a few rare alchemy equipment and some rare alchemy materials... Maybe there are some masters who are optimistic about it? But for you, I'm afraid these None of them are attractive, you just need to perform normally, and you can probably get an excellent."

  When the middle-aged alchemist talked about these rewards, he couldn't hide his envious expression.

Obviously, for an ordinary alchemist, it is totally worth the effort to get so many good things just for the assessment ranking, and to show their highest level... In the end, this assessment material does not need to be spent by oneself. It's a rare opportunity to go whoring for nothing.

   But for Ian, all this is indeed a bit ordinary.

   "Not a very attractive reward."

  Ian thought so. It seems that Isengarde gave him a full set of rare edition alchemy equipment, and the combined value is probably more than the sum of the one to three prizes awarded by the Alchemy Association for this assessment.

  Since that’s the case, there’s no need to be too pushy… just about enough.

"besides."

The middle-aged alchemist was still recalling, and he said with some uncertainty: "It seems that there is a reading card that allows you to go to the Royal Great Library... It is mainly a certificate of glory. After all, it is not a library card, but just a proof that the holder You have enough qualifications to go to the highest hall of knowledge. If you catch up with the time, maybe you can also visit the treasured book area!"

   "It's all more honor than practical stuff."

"very good."

  Ian nodded slightly, and he made up his mind: "I've decided on the first place."

  Read? For him, what is the difference between reading and permanent lending? Others don't care, he can't miss it!

  Although the business card of Master Gesai can be read, it cannot enter the rare book area. The two are superimposed. Maybe he can stay in the rare book area for a while?

Moreover, maybe he can also take a look at the entrustment of the Dragon Worship Cult... The Book of Silver Brilliance and the Collection Room of Rare and Rare Books... Although he should not be able to get close, with the help of his psychic perspective and silver chip, he can be regarded as able to deal with the comics. Elder Ya explained.

  The assessment is divided into time batches, with 20 candidates each time, and the time limit is one hour.

  Ian was postponed to the fifth batch, which happened to be the last class in the afternoon. Other alchemists were entering their closed examination rooms, and they could still vaguely hear their conversations.

   "The last show in the afternoon, the materials used are not bad, right?"

   "How can the association be so poor, don't scare yourself, play well."

   "This time almost all the qualified alchemists around the plain have come. The competition is quite fierce."

   "But those who are really good will not come to take the test. They are all young people like us... Generally speaking, it is also a chance to prove yourself. If you can get the ranking, it will be convenient to find a job in the big workshop in the future."

   Several people said goodbye while saying goodbye, and entered the examination room separately. Ian saw that there was a complete set of alchemy equipment in the room. Although it was just an ordinary standard equipment, it was very complete.

  The Alchemy Association really took a lot of effort to suppress the storm of a master alchemist being deprived of his title.

  Ian also entered a spare assessment room. Although the competition this time was fierce in theory, in fact most people didn't think they could get the top few, so the atmosphere among them was relatively harmonious.

Entering the compartment, this is a small room with a total size of no more than fifteen square meters. There is a fairly clean flat iron table, on which there is a row of commonly used alchemy equipment, and there are other equipment on the other row of cabinets tool.

  The materials have not been delivered yet, and the exam questions are naturally the same. Looking at these equipment, Ian can't help but miss his workshop in Port Harrison...I still have a lot of experimental materials and notes there.

  He looked around and observed the same group of alchemists who had been tested by him with the vision of vision.

Most of them are in their twenties or thirties, and they should have already worked in some workshops. None of them are 'apprentices'... Also, there is no need to come to the imperial capital for the apprenticeship to the formal alchemist assessment. Graduates of the Alchemy Academy can Directly advanced to the official stage, only formally to the elite will need to go to a big city for a formal assessment,

   Like myself, I am afraid that there are not many people who go directly from trainees to elites.

Ian will not be blindly arrogant, thinking that his alchemy level is far superior to these ordinary-looking experienced alchemists. He will definitely do his best to communicate with these imperial circles, which may represent the youth of the Setar Empire. A new generation of alchemists compete!

   "Silver chip, ready for deduction!"

  That being said, in order to obtain a reading card from the Great Royal Library, Ian will not shy away from using any means.

  The silver chip and the Prophet are also his power, use it as needed, all this is his hard work and struggle!

   Soon, materials and exam questions came.

at the same time.

   On the second floor, in a medium-sized conference hall, a total of eight alchemists sat in their seats, led by two old men wearing gold-rimmed alchemist robes, observing every move of candidates on the twenty-one screens around them.

  After seeing Ian, two people moved slightly and reported to the higher authorities.

   "Huh? The guy that Goser is looking forward to is also here?"

The gray-haired old man looked up at the light curtain. His eyes were far younger than his appearance, shining with a golden-orange wise light: "Ha, let me see... this is too young, I heard what he said. At least seventeen or eighteen years old, isn't this still a child?"

   "That idiot Bawar did his hands and feet, did he see it?"

And another old woman with black and white hair and a serious expression narrowed her eyes, her purple eyes flickered for a moment, and then said thoughtfully: "Although I am annoyed that Bawar is getting old, for the sake of money Doing dirty work by hand, but his inscriptions and alchemy are very well combined, and Gesse can't see it at all unless he checks carefully."

   "As a result, the dark hand in the bracelet was spotted by this kid—if this is psychic power, how strong should his observation psychic power be?"

  (end of this chapter)