[Alchemy Apprentice → Alchemist. You have obtained the title Alchemist!]
[System Notice: Please go to the Alchemy Alliance as soon as possible to complete your official registration. Otherwise, your identity will not be recognized, and you will be unable to share access to the Alchemy Alliance's library and various resources.]
"Really… you really leveled up?"
Mr. White watched the golden light flash before his eyes, and he almost fainted on the spot.
Because the most obvious sign of an alchemist leveling up was the change in the color of their magic formations. And right here, right now, Ethan had leveled up right in front of him.
At this point, even if Mr. White wanted to deny it, he couldn't.
"Yeah!", Ethan laughed, "I already said it. Is turning official as an alchemist really that hard?"
"Pff!"
Mr. White almost spat out a mouthful of blood on the spot.
Alchemists being known as the hardest profession in the universe to turn official and level up was not without reason.
Yet this guy in front of him actually dared to say something so ridiculously boastful.
And yet… He really had the capital to boast.
"Then… Mr. White, please go ahead."
Ethan pointed at the thirty-nine magma chili air breads in front of him and laughed as he said, "I think, anyway, these magma air breads don't take up space in the stomach. It shouldn't be too hard for Mr. White to eat them, right?"
"Wuu! Wuu! Wuu!"
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For the sake of his five-hundred–dragon-coin-per-head bone horses, Mr. White gritted his teeth, held back his tears, picked up a magma chili air bread that already smelled unpleasant, and took a huge bite.
"Pff!"
This time, it wasn't just a matter of whether he wanted to anymore.
The moment he bit into the magma air bread, that spicy heat that felt like it was about to set his entire mouth on fire made it almost impossible to swallow.
He was clearly trying his hardest to force the bread down, but... His mouth was saying eat it, eat it, but his body was very honest.
He directly spat it out.
"Mr. White, this isn't very nice, is it?", Ethan looked at the chunks of bread on the ground and said, "Even though this air bread can't really be considered real food, it's still at least fifty dragon coins each. Isn't wasting dragon coins like this against a merchant's principles?"
"I… cough! cough! cough!"
Mr. White was coughing nonstop from the spice and couldn't even speak properly.
Seeing how miserable he looked, Ethan took a cup of warm water and handed it to him, saying, "Mr. White, here, drink some water and rinse your mouth. It won't be spicy anymore."
"Th-thank… cough! cough! cough!"
After that, Mr. White didn't bother trying to say anything. He quickly took the cup from Ethan and gulped the water down with loud glugs.
Then…
"Pff!!!"
Mr. White was about to lose his mind.
Because he realized that not only had the spiciness in his mouth not eased at all, it had actually gotten even spicier.
"Lord, I was wrong, I know I was wrong!", After downing two or three cups of Vitality Tea, Mr. White finally cried with tears streaming down his face and said, "I admit defeat. I'll give you thirty-nine bone horses, I'll give you Vitality Tea, I'll give you the witch's tail ring."
"Wuu! Wuu! Wuu! Please stop messing with me!"
"Wuu! Wuu! Wuu!"
Mr. White, who couldn't handle even a bit of spice, was truly about to go insane from the heat.
Hearing this, Ethan finally smiled and took out a bottle of fizzy cola, "Since the deal is done, we're good friends now. How could I mess with you? Here, Mr. White, drink this. Once you finish it, it won't be spicy anymore."
"Really?", Mr. White looked up, his face covered in snot and tears, "You're not lying to me?"
"I swear on my identity as a merchant!"
"I'll trust you this once!"
Seeing Ethan swear, Mr. White finally opened the cola and drank it.
But the moment the cola touched his mouth, his eyes almost popped out as he said, "What is this stuff? When it goes into my mouth, there's gas bubbling out, and it's sweet too! Was this also exchanged using alchemy?"
"Of course not. This is cola. I got it through special channels."
Ethan casually explained.
The merchant's eyes immediately lit up again as he said, "Then, Lord, do you have more of this? If you do, I'm willing to pay ten thousand dragon coins to buy it."
"There are still over a dozen bottles, but I don't plan on selling them for now," Ethan shook his head, "I don't even have enough for myself to drink."
"Is that so? What a pity!"
Mr. White felt a bit regretful.
Still, he tightly hugged the cola in his hands. After carefully taking another small sip, he quickly screwed the cap back on.
It looked like he planned to take the remaining half bottle back to the city to sell.
But seeing him like this, Ethan really wanted to tell him, by the time you take it to the city, the cola won't have any fizz left.
But seeing how much White cared about it, Ethan didn't have the heart to tell him.
"Alright, next we should deal with lifting the curse on the witch's tail ring first."
Ethan began checking the formulas for curse exchange in his sea of consciousness.
Fortunately, he had leveled up to level three and officially become an alchemist.
Otherwise, there really wouldn't have been anything he could do about the curse.
Because curse-related alchemy formulas could only be accessed by alchemists at the alchemist level or above.
Flip! Flip! Flip!
[Curse Alchemy Formula: (eemohx + vsvi) * 1 = nglm * 0 + zuzz * 0 + jkufl * 3000 + 1]
Exchanging a single curse actually required three thousand mental energy.
No wonder only officially turned alchemists could access this formula. If a level-one apprentice accidentally used it, their mental energy would probably be drained on the spot.
Ethan had already experienced what it felt like to almost run out of mental energy.
In an instant, it felt like his whole body was hollowed out. Like he was about to die.
If mental energy were truly completely depleted, or even drop into the negatives, Ethan suspected that an alchemy apprentice wouldn't just die on the spot, but might also turn directly stupid from excessive mental energy consumption.
Swish! Swish! Swish!
A formation worth three thousand mental energy was actually not complicated.
Because the quantity was small and it only needed to neutralize a single curse, Ethan finished drawing it very quickly.
On top of that, after turning official as an alchemist, his understanding of many formulas had deepened.
Some patterns even had simplified substitutes. The original three-eyed evil god symbol could actually be replaced with just a triangle plus a circle.
The difference between the two could practically be described as the difference between traditional characters and ultra-simplified characters.
After finishing the formation, Ethan then carefully used black dragonhide gloves to pick up the witch's tail ring and place it at the center of the formation.
The next moment, golden light burst forth.
The blue glow that appeared when the formation was completed instantly turned into golden light.
Then the golden light flashed and disappeared. The witch's tail ring itself didn't seem to change at all, and even fell straight down from midair. But at the very center of the formation, there was now an extra.
'Green seed?'
'What is this thing?"
'This is what you got in exchange for the curse?'
'Just this?'
"Demon seed!"
However, Mr. White cried out in shock from the side, "It's a demon seed!"
"Lord, you're way too amazing! You actually used a mere curse to exchange for such a precious demon seed!"
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