"So it actually takes that long?"
Ethan glanced at his experience bar. He was clearly only short by 230 experience points. Just baking twelve more air breads would be enough to level up.
That wouldn't take much time at all.
'Is alchemy really that hard?'
"Of course it is!", After confirming that Ethan was only an alchemy apprentice, Mr. White finally relaxed in every way and said, "And he was even praised by the Lord of Mist City as a rare genius in recent years. That alone shows this isn't something you can rush!"
"I feel like I probably won't need that long," Ethan tilted his head and said, "At most, I'll spend a few more minutes. I should be able to turn official by then."
"That's impossible!"
Mr. White rolled his eyes hard and said, "Lord, you really love joking around."
"If Lord really can turn official and become an alchemist within ten minutes… oh no… within half an hour, then I'll immediately eat all the air bread Lord exchanged."
"Really?"
Ethan's eyes lit up.
Because what Mr. White said was all of them. And right now, Ethan's mental energy had almost been fully restored by Vitality Tea. He still had 999 experience points unused.
"Of course," Mr. White nodded seriously and said, "I, White, still have some reputation in the business world. What I say goes. My words count."
"Then… what if Mr. White can't eat them all?", Ethan tilted his head and asked, "Wouldn't that be wasting food?"
"How could that be! If I can't eat them, then for every air bread, I'll compensate you… I'll compensate you with a bone horse!"
Facing air bread, Mr. White naturally dared to boast.
There was no way he could lose anyway.
Even if by some tiny chance, no, if by a one-in-a-hundred-million chance he lost, then it would still just be air.
Eating ten or so air breads at most would just make him feel a bit sick of it, and he could even get a free advantage. What was the problem with that.
'Heh! Heh!'
'Just a brat with barely any hair down there, and he wants to compete with me, his big brother?'
'Give it a rest!'
'I've eaten more salt than you've eaten rice.'
"That makes things easy."
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Ethan smiled and stuck out his little finger, hooking it with Mr. White's, and said, "Then it's a deal?"
"Alright, it's a deal."
Mr. White hooked little fingers with Ethan.
But who would have thought that at the very instant their fingers hooked together, a Lord Contract was directly formed.
"What's going on here?", Mr. White froze for a moment.
Ethan just smiled and said, "Just a small contract. Anyway, Mr. White, you're someone whose words always count. As long as you don't break the agreement, what are you afraid of?"
"That's true. What am I afraid of?"
Mr. White took out a strange pocket watch, glanced at it, and said, "Lord, five minutes have already passed. You have twenty-five minutes left. You'd better start quickly."
"Otherwise, if you lose and then say I tricked you, that wouldn't look good."
"Relax. There's plenty of time. Five minutes is enough for me."
Ethan took out two new pieces of charcoal.
Because the next pattern was a bit complicated and a bit difficult, it was better to use a more complete piece of charcoal.
"Heh! Heh!"
When Mr. White saw Ethan squatting on the ground, and both sides were drawing a strange formation at the same time, with even more symbols and lines than the ones drawn before, he immediately laughed.
'Is Lord planning to smash the pot and give up, or is he trying to find another path?'
'But anyway…'
'It doesn't matter.'
'After all…'
'This is an impossible task.'
'This kid in front of me is completely someone with talent but not much brains.'
'This time, let's see how big brother here screws you over.'
'As the saying goes, when fellow townsmen meet, you stab each other in the back, hahaha!'
"Done!"
Ethan finally finished drawing this complicated formula.
[Alchemy Formula (Ksq+hxff)39 = nglm0 + hxff3.9 + jkufl975 + 39]
At first glance, the alchemy formula looked like just a line of math.
But in fact, every letter and number represented a symbol. The sun represented one, the three-eyed evil god represented three, the pentagram represented five, the moon represented nine, and so on.
Naturally, you couldn't just write down a formula and call it done. You had to draw the symbols represented by those letters and numbers at specific positions in the formation.
The more air bread Ethan wanted to exchange at once, the more patterns he had to draw.
At this moment, he needed to exchange thirty-nine air breads. Some symbols had to be drawn thirty-nine times to fully express the meaning.
So Ethan's formation looked exceptionally huge and complex.
But fortunately, practice makes perfect. Ethan had majored in fine arts back in university.
After graduating, he had even spent some time in black market painting ceramic jars. So a small task like drawing symbols was nothing that could stump the hand speed of a professional assembly-line worker like him.
An ultra-large formation, finished at high speed.
"With such a complicated formation, can you even activate it, Lord?"
Mr. White looked at the formation, as big as a cyclops, and immediately laughed.
'This Ethan really is unreliable.'
'Especially when…'
At the moment Ethan placed thirty-nine portions of magma chili peppers in the very center of the formation, Mr. White laughed even harder in his heart.
He had never seen anyone make air bread using materials other than Sweet Flowers.
After all, the alchemy formula was fixed.
Messing around would cause trouble.
'Heh! Heh! Heh…'
'A guaranteed win!'
Whoosh!
A violent red light almost blinded Mr. White's titanium-alloy dog eyes.
Then Mr. White felt that he might actually be blind.
Because…
Right in front of him, there appeared a full thirty-nine portions of air bread.
And they were all red air bread, all emitting a strong spicy smell. Just taking one sniff made his nose burn with pain.
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"No way! That can't be! Impossible!"
Mr. White was completely dumbfounded. He stared straight at the scene before him, his entire head buzzing.
Ethan not only successfully made air bread with something other than Sweet Flowers.
He even made…
'Thirty-nine of them in one go?'
[Alchemy Experience: +975]
[Your alchemy has leveled up from level 2 to level 3. Mental energy increased to 5000 points.]
[Your alchemy has reached level 3. Do you want to turn official?]
"Turn official!"
Ethan chose without hesitation.
The next second, Ethan saw a golden formation appear beneath his feet.
Then the formation enveloped him like that. Soon, it disappeared, and he felt as if something extra had appeared inside his body.
Especially knowledge related to alchemy.
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