Liam was done with the forging of his pill, although he came out second in terms of speed but speed was not the case here, it's only about the quality of the pill forged.
The higher the quality of the pill, the better your rank in alchemist.
After he was done with the first pill, he went on the other one and started forging it with the help of the techniques in his head that he has learned from his flaws.
The first guy, who was named Hector finally finished his second pill, still becoming the first, anyways this one was burnt and he didn't even place his hope of five star anymore.
Inside the same place, a cauldron exploded pushing the young alchemist aside.
His test was immediately cancelled, an alchemist who can not stop a cauldron from exploding when he was forging the lowest grade of pills and the simplest one at that was not meant for alchemist.
The dude accepted his fate and walled out of the hall with his head facing the ground, he only wanted the alchemy title to propose to his girlfriend who promised that she will marry him only if he become an alchemist.
Well, all hopes are not lost because he would be able to try again in the later weeks, the exam is done twice in a month, with two weeks gaps between every exam date.
Hector, was going through a lot when he was forging the meridian pill which is believed to be the hardest in the list of all the pills they were going to make today.
Liam practiced not only with qi and blood cleansing pills but also with other pills that he could find in the book.
There were about 50 of them, the only one he left behind were the ones that has the same effect as the ones he has done before.
Liam again finished his second pill, no one praised his speed because there are already three guys that has started forging their third pill.
After he was done with the second one, Liam went ahead to get water from the lady and poured it inside the cauldron causing a loud sound of water boiling to resound across the room, drawing the attention of everyone towards himself.
Nevertheless, he was not bothered about it, he was used to been stared at with all the emotions that exist in the positive and the negative faction of emotions, he could only say that he hasn't felt all the emotion if only there is a new type of emotion.
"What's he doing with water, don't he know that it's stupid to put water into a cauldron especially when you're not done forging"
"I think he's just going to boil the ingredients, who knows maybe it will turn into a pill."
"Haha, useless, he's going to fail for real this time, I wonder why he hasn't been sent out yet."
Nevertheless their thought was different from that of the lady, "He's really good"
The golden flame was no longer heating the cauldron, in fact what he wanted to achieve was coolness of the cauldron.
Thankfully, he was able to achieve that with the cold water he poured inside the cauldron.
The cauldron was so hot that it swallowed all the water, leaving the inside dry as when he started forging.
After that, Liam picked up a flower, it was a rare ingredients, he only pluck out the petals and poured it inside before going on to doing the same with all the flower type ingredients.
Before one knew it, all the ingredients were already inside the cauldron.
After that, Liam used the most average flame to lit up the cauldron, this time he didn't even try to control the flame.
Everyone looked at him as they though they were staring at madman, it was really stupid to think that someone was hoping to forge a pill with such inferior flame and he didn't even feel the need of controlling the fire.
"Can I go out to get something, I'm really thirsty." Liam excused himself out of the place, he returned later after he have stretched his leg a little, feeling a tad bit relaxed as the cool air beat against his face, that was better than being with that cauldron which filled his face with nothing but heat.
Before he got to his personal cauldron, he started hearing the sound of something beating against something metallic really fast.
With that a smile crept on his face, Who would have thought that his last pill for the day was done already.
He took it out and pass the three pills on the tray to the lady who took them with a smile on her face.
Liam was asked to sit someone and wait while the other tries their best to finish up with what they were doing.
Few minutes later, the remaining eight candidates were done and they were also waiting alongside Liam.
Soon the hall was filled with dignified alchemist that has a relationship with the alchemy guild and were around the place.
They came with an accurate device called the purity level measurer, it was able to accurately give the purity of a pill without difficulties and it's answer was just, most times alchemist lords used it for measuring purity of their pills because they could not waste their own energy for that.
The first person to be tried was the guy who summited after the others were done with their works.
His qi pill was sixty percent, his blood cleansing pill was eighty and the last one was sixty as well.
All in all, he got 67 approximately and was immediately given the three star rank.
The other guy was only one lacking from sixty so he had to go home with two star, all the same two star was great and it was better than getting one star.
The other guys had two and one respectively.
Then it to hector's whose overall rank was four star, his qi pill was hundred percent pure, giving him a good boost in overall score.
Ending up with 73, but because of his failure to keep the missing ingredients a secret one was deducted from it, leaving him with four star.
It got pretty interesting when it got to Liam's turn to be evaluated, he was really calm and collected.
His first one, the qi pill came out as ninety nine present, the other one was ninety one and the meridian eruption pill was hundred.
"What, you mean he is the one who did all these. is your name Liam?" One of the alchemist asked Liam who nodded his head.
The man looked at him, terrified, his dignity as an alchemist slowly escaped from his body as though he was standing in front of a superior In the field of alchemist.
"He's the one who scored hundred over hundred in his written exam" The other were shocked after learning that.
This year no one was expected to reach ninety, because of the history.
Normally, in history, all the times that a certain event happens as to be recorded, the through essence of history is about knowing about the past.
What history are you now telling when you don't mention the time.
If you tell it that way, it's as though you were telling a story about one of your friends.
The lady was not that surprised at first by his first scores, but when the last one was called out her eyes widened, she quickly lost balance and supported herself with the walls.
The hardest pill was actually the one that he got the highest, considering his age and how he started with the technique it could be said that he was a peerless genius.
He has gotten the rank of 5 star, the first achievement that anyone as young as him as ever achieved.
"Would you like to be my disciple, I will impact knowledge on you that will help you become a grandmaster under the span of one year.".
"Accept me as your master and you will be paid handsomely while learning."
"Become my students, I have a pass to the empire's library, wizard that you will have a lot of experiment even about ancient times alchemical practice."
All of them would love having a genius like Liam as their follower, they started giving him interesting prices but Liam did not accept any of it.
He was asked to return the next day to get his token that hasn't even started been produced.
Meanwhile, the other got their alchemy token at once, all they had to do was will it with divine sense and their identity will appear on it.
"No one expected that a five star would emerge so we only brought the lower ranks, I hope you would be patient and visit at anytime tomorrow."
"No probs," Liam gave a short reply before turning his back and leaving the geezers behind.
Meanwhile, Hector was organizing the guys to protest against what the alchemy guild has done.
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