Throne Steps

The pharmacy for Yanying started to enter the second half. During the period, Kajia's younger brother came to observe the pharmacy once. Li Chen nodded with him as acquaintance. He only felt that he was a gentle and beautiful little sheep, and he had no time to make friends.As long as the advanced level is gradually used more and more formations, although Li Chen has a little deep memory of these, and there are books to assist - some books are probably rare - but it still needs to be practiced in advance.There are too many medicines to be made, and if the small and fast formation he is used to accidentally makes a mistake, it really can't be solved by just throwing it away.

It was also at this time that Li Chen began to doubt—how much raw material was stored in that house by that necromancer who never went out?

At the beginning, I just did it, and I did it, just to kill time.Now that I have come out, and I really started to make medicine, I realized how extravagant life was at that time.

At that time, the necromancer basically didn't care about Li Chen's wasteful behavior.Although he said that he didn't care about Lichen, a larva, but when he thought about it carefully, he turned a blind eye to such things as wasting raw materials, and he really was a very courageous guy.

Those people in the end probably came to the door because the necromancer stole a lot of raw materials... Li Chen guessed a little badly, maybe the necromancer was willing to leave there, part of the reason was that the medicine wasted by Li Chen Too much, and he's run out of steam.

It is impossible to really experiment with raw materials for the current practice, so Li Chen had to draw empty.He gathered his magic power at his fingertips, leaving a fleeting arc of light in midair.Fortunately, as long as the graphics are not too complicated, his magic power and vision can basically capture the complete form of the drawn pattern, so even the empty painting can still roughly judge whether it is correct or not.

At first he practiced secretly, but later he realized that no one could actually see the light path, so he was a little relieved.Although it is still practiced in a place where there is no one else, but at least there is no need to worry.

"Ruisen, why are you still sitting here!" Wiggins rushed into the room and shouted, "Hurry up, Senior Edren is going to the library soon!"

Ai Deren is the name of the senior representative.His surname is also very famous, and it is a bit surprising-Meloyer, the color of sea blue.

Li Chen stopped moving as early as the moment Wiggins opened the door, as if recovering from reading a book: "Then what does it matter to me?"

"Hey, you are enough, how can you be so lazy!" Wiggins pulled him up and left, "I'm not talking about you, if we all enter the melting pot, you will be the only one, and see what you do!"

What else can I do.Li Chen yawned moderately, but didn't struggle.Anyway, the "melting pot" was not in his plan: "Even if you read books next to Aideren every day, does he take a second look at you? Didn't you keep talking about His Highness Saenz recently, no Ask him?"

Wiggins paused, then continued to rush forward: "Your Highness...he is not a member of the furnace."

Li Chen snorted, if it's true that the furnace man doesn't care about the furnace, then the furnace won't be able to open?But he just said that casually, even if Wiggins was excited all day long that Saenz came to guide him again, and Saenz talked to him again, Li Chen also felt that it was just Wiggins' personal psychological amplification.Actually, who knows?

Li Chen said as he walked, "If it's really that easy to enter the melting pot, the library won't be a tourist attraction?"

"Anyway, someone was selected in the library, how do you know if you don't try..."

Can you enter the "melting pot" just by reading a few books?Li Chen didn't believe it at all.It is better to deceive simple children with such bizarre legends.

Wiggins seemed to think of another powerful reason: "Look, didn't Noah and Mills go too?"

Cult, cult!Li Chen sighed silently.

There are quite a few people in the library, and everyone has calmed down.Anyway, at this time of year, there is always such a lively scene, known as the "melting pot effect".

Ai Deren sat by the window, spacious and bright, and several of them are said to be furnaces.These people come to the library to hold reading clubs, and the candidates are uncertain each time.After observing several times, Li Chen decided that there were four people who came here frequently, and one of them was Ai Deren.Among the other three, one basically only sat across from Ai Deren, and communicated with Ai Deren most naturally, but from the clothes and manners, he looked like a commoner, probably someone with some knowledge in the furnace.The other two, judging from their demeanor, have just entered the furnace from the situation of Wiggins Mills, and the pride and reverence on their faces are still shining brightly.

No one dares to occupy the seat of the furnace, but other things are different.Especially by the side of the furnace, you have to come and sit early in the morning to make sure everything is safe - Li Chen thinks that the people in the furnace must have secretly laughed at these idiots.This time today, although Mills and Noah said they would go to occupy a seat first, they were still late, and the four of them had to sit in the corner.Wiggins is learning from Mi Lichen's careless slip-up that "gold always shines", Noah is reading a copy of the principle of magic in the original work of the dean, and Mills is spreading out a copy of "Intermediate Alchemy". "Sorcerer Examination Criteria" and a book of alchemy formulas, a little absent-minded.

Li Chen is quite satisfied with this place, no one pays attention.As always, he had a thick book of medicinal formulas spread out, and casually flipped to the page where the formation was drawn, and then tapped the writing with his fingertips, and drew Yan Ying's pharmaceutical formation again.His movements were so slight and his expression so casual, even the people around him thought it was just an unconscious tremor while reciting the book.

I didn't have time for the past two days, so I have to make two high-level potions when I go to Yanying today.Li Chen has already memorized it clearly, but now he is only improving habitually - smaller, faster, and more accurate.

Although there are many people in the library management, it is generally quite quiet.Especially in this part of the furnace, who wants to drop the price for polite manners?But not long after sitting today, the tranquility was broken.

Da da da--

Everyone couldn't help but follow the prestige and saw a tall woman walking quickly.She was holding a test tube, and she was wrapped in a dark brown robe with only a braided rope tied around her waist. The wide hood covered half of her face, and her eyes were hidden in the darkness.Her long walk exposed her ankles in black socks, and the small black leather shoes with low heels knocked hurriedly on the floor.

This woman is not only well-known in the alchemy department, but also famous in the entire academy.The students recognized her almost immediately.

"My God, it's Sean!"

Sean, a famous sixth grade student in the Alchemy Department.It is said that she was able to enter the magic court during the magic test, but she still entered the alchemy department according to her own will. Since then, she has "leapfrogged medicine", "used prohibited alchemy", "manufactured and spread the use of non-substantial harm drugs" "The name is the Alchemy Department.It stands to reason that she should have been kicked out of Pesa a long time ago, but this bad habit—or even a prank—couldn’t stand up to her excellent grades, and she has been the top spot in the year-end assessment of her peers for three consecutive years—they are talking about grades Pesa, the teachers basically turned a blind eye to her.

With excellent grades, weird behavior, and wearing dark robes all day long, even in broad daylight, there is a gloomy chill. Sean is listed in Pesa's school strange stories, known as "Shaun the Witch".

"The 'Witch' has come!"

"Dare to make noise in the library... you are indeed a 'witch'!"

The girl named Xiao En turned her head slightly, wondering if she gave the disrespectful student a glance, and the student flinched instantly.

Aideren finally stood up: "Sean, keep your voice down."

Sean is really a weird person.She stopped abruptly, and shouted to Ai Deren not too close or far away, without showing any face to the other party: "Did I say a word just now?"

Aideren frowned and said, "I mean the sound of your footsteps."

"I'm just walking. Could it be that I can't wear shoes?" Sean's voice was only a mezzo-soprano, but the sarcasm in her tone made her sharp, "Besides, I didn't come to find you!"

Ai Deren seemed to have gotten used to this situation, and then reluctantly made a gesture of "please go ahead".

The witch is satisfied.She turned around a little - and walked straight in the direction of the Wiggins quartet!

Wiggins was surprised, Noah was stunned, and Mills was excited.As for Li Chen, he abruptly stopped the formation drawn on his hand.

Sean the Witch has another identity—a veteran member of the furnace, who is also equivalent to the chief pharmacist of the furnace.This identity obviously made the students more restless. What does the chief of the furnace represent?Recommended qualifications!Enter the furnace!Cooperating with the "melting pot effect" of the library, her sudden appearance is simply a preview of "exciting content, not to be missed"!

"Sean's recommendation quota for this year may be used up." The boy sitting opposite Ai Deren suddenly said.

His words were aimed at Ai Deren, but intentionally or unintentionally, he didn't control the volume.When the students heard this kind of words, they immediately felt that "it is true", and looked at Xiao En even more eagerly.

Sean didn't even like to see Ai Deren, let alone that commoner.She walked over to Li Chen's small table for four, and stretched the test tube directly in front of Li Chen.

"The last step, you know," she said.

Wiggins couldn't help exclaiming that Sean actually knew his catchphrase; Li Chen was startled, and immediately exploded an idea in his mind——

track? !

Leaving other things aside, Li Chen was already surprised by how Sean knew the strange phrase "you understand" and why he said "the last step".In addition to stalking, it means being tipped off by people around you.If it is the former, then only Sean himself can answer these doubts; if it is the latter—the names of Wiggins, Noah and others quickly passed through Li Chen’s mind—it would be too difficult to explain.After all, why would a person who can pretend so much expose himself for a nobody?

He thought a thousand times in his mind, but took the test tube calmly on his face.I didn't pay attention to it before, and it wasn't until I passed the idea of ​​"stalking" that Li Chen realized that the things in the test tube also had a lot of mystery.

He put one hand over the mouth of the test tube and fanned it lightly.It looked as if he was about to blow the smell of medicine, but he was actually shaking his index finger and meditating quickly in his heart.

--really!

As soon as Li Chen smelled the vague smell, he immediately understood what it was.Although it was only a semi-finished product, and he didn't have much specialization in art, but he was very familiar with this smell these two days.

Rock Eagle's custom-made medicines, limited circulation type - advanced nutritional supplements!

Mills suddenly bumped into Lichen lightly, and when Lichen noticed it, he cast a look, as if conveying some message.

Although Li Chen didn't know what Mills wanted to do, he could guess a few goals, so he couldn't help laughing.But Mills obviously didn't feel that he was inappropriate. He saw that Li Chen didn't seem to understand, and he directly leaned his body slightly to try to hear it.

The sarcasm in Sean's tone remained unabated: "What do you want to say, brat?"

"I..." Mills actually answered her, "I just want to remind him...to pay attention to the 'sealing magic'."

"Eh?" Li Chen looked at him with a strange expression on his face.

Sealing magic is actually a kind of magic for short-term preservation of semi-finished products. In Li Chen's concept, it means a "miniature refrigerator".Although this is a small magic, the number of raw materials that can work is limited, and most of these raw materials are only used to make high-level potions, so it is really not a bad thing.Mills can know this magic, and can also speculate that Sean may have sealed the reagent, and he is definitely considered the best in the first grade.

But this time, Mills got it wrong.

"Pfft...you really have the potential to tell jokes, kid." Xiao En is not as reserved as Li Chen, she laughed out loud, as if she saw the fun, "Before you poked him, he already put that The thing is undone—don't you know it?"

Mills froze immediately.

Ignorance is bliss... Li Chen sneered unobtrusively.I pretended to be fanning my hands and smelling the smell before, but I was actually unlocking the sealing magic.Mills's post-mortem, whether it was genuinely kind or a false reminder, was instantly contrasted by this ignorance.

"Yes, is it..." Mills was able to respond, "Then Ruisen, I won't bother you, you know—unsealed semi-finished products are easily invalidated."

Of course Li Chen knew.But what he thinks now is that Mills really wants to seize the opportunity to perform.

This is too careless, how embarrassing to call him a pure "conspiracy theorist".

Anyway, I don't have a good impression of Mills, let alone pave the way for him to go down the stairs when I have nothing to do.After thinking for a while, Li Chen gathered the magic power that had just been withdrawn back to the tip of his index finger, pinched the upper part of the test tube with four fingers and shook it slightly, stretched his index finger over the test tube and swiped in a small range.

The formation of advanced nutrients is much more complicated than unlocking the seal. Even though Li Chen has put a lot of effort into this formation, its size and speed are still within the range that can be clearly recognized by human eyes.It's true that Mills didn't understand what it was at all, but it was enough for him to recognize one or two points in Li Chen's ability, let alone Sean, an expert in this field.

The idea of ​​making the magic circle painting faster and smaller is not very new, but in order to maintain the accuracy of the magic circle, most people who have this idea still use the magic power to be released on the medium material, in the form of "strokes" Make refinement.However, since the original intention of those who practice this method is to reduce time and mana consumption, and transferring mana to medium materials is a time-consuming and mana-consuming process, there are actually very few people who actually practice it.

Li Chen, as a 12-year-old who had no magic power at all and spent a lot of time on this kind of practice, suddenly showed the significance of this pursuit.

When he quickly finished drawing the extremely complicated formation within the size of the palm of his hand, and quickly finished reciting the spell silently, a lot of thoughts exploded in Xiao En's mind.

Mills completely understood—with such a speed, what is it to waste the time of those one or two sentences?

Sean grabbed the nutrient supplement he made, raised his head and gulped it down, and then walked towards the boy opposite Ai Deren amidst the buzzing discussions: "I want to recommend him."

"Library Recommendation"!really appeared!The students were in an uproar.

Before the boy could speak, Aideren frowned: "Sean, you only have half a place this year—do you want that first-grade kid to participate in the 'seat judging'?"

"'Seat Judgment'!" Wiggins exclaimed suddenly, and he approached Li Chen, "It's not fair! What if the other half of the quota recommends a magician or warrior..."

"Ai Deren, don't show your hypocrisy at this time. If he can't pass the judgment, it can only mean that the review committee is blind!" Sean's words were mixed with a mocking smile, "You can't not See what just happened—did you see what he drew?"

Before Aideren could answer, Sean continued: "Besides, I just wanted to let you know, Xia Luo's half has already been given to me."

Everyone looked at Li Chen with envy, jealousy, or complicated eyes, but it was Li Chen who was the calmest.

Two things - Li Chen thought so.

[-]. Aideren and Sean have great differences, and they don't seem to be on the same side.

[-]. Xia Luo, isn't that the name of Yan Ying's deputy head, Kaga's younger brother?