Female Novel
chapter 2418 – 2419
Chapter 2418 The vice-treasurer let out a cold laugh. “How embarrassing. You had such an ugly fight in front of all yourfellow students. Do you think this looks good on you? Can’t you just let your skills do the talking? What isthe point of all these schemes?!”
Those words seemed to have a clear target. After the treasurer finished speaking, he shot a sharp lookat Gilbert.
Gilbert could feel that burning gaze of his and his throat tightened.
Jackie felt like laughing when he saw Gilbert’s state. Before, Gilbert seemed utterly dauntless, and heacted like he was the strongest person in Heavenly Pills.
However, when someone who was actually important appeared, he shrank into nothing.
Gilbert truly was not worth mentioning.
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Jackie had beaten Gilbert up before and was already kind enough to show mercy. Jackie should havejust shown Gilbert who he could not afford to offend back then.
Gilbert must have felt a pair of eyes sharply staring at him for too long that he looked up, meetingJackie’s condescending stare in the process.
At that moment, Gilbert felt like he had been slapped a few times. His face suddenly reddened as helooked like he wanted to rip Jackie apart.
Jackie, however, raised an eyebrow, unbothered. His relationship with Gilbert was impossible to fix,anyway. If they had the chance, they would definitely kill one another, so there was no need to maintain
any sense of peace.
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The treasurer said, “The Middle Kingdom Alchemist Alliance is the holy land of all alchemists, despite thefact that the one in Rosefinch City is only an off-branch.”
“Nonetheless, we can’t rush things. Being able to become a student of the Middle Province AlchemistAlliance is an honor.!”
When everyone heard that, looks of admiration appeared in their eyes.
However, Jackie felt like something was strange. Doubt loomed over him.
The treasurer’s words were hard to understand. The Middle Provin Alchemist Alliance truly was where allalchemists wanted to go, yet what they were doing was raising their own disciples to be sent there.
That was like spending money on someone else’s baby. It was not worth it at all, yet why did the way thetreasurer speak seem to imply that honor was the main thing behind everything?
Jackie became even more confused at this point. However, he could not voice that question out at thatmoment, so he swallowed it back.
The treasurer continued, “I know what you’re thinking about; don’t think you’ve kept your thoughts thatwell. All your thoughts are written on your faces, and I can practically see that.”
“I don’t even have to put too much thought in it to see things clearly. Each of you wants to take thechance to fly, but that depends on your own skill.”
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The Middle Province Alchemist Alliance’s branch is one of the better branches around. It’s notsomewhere you can easily go to.
At that moment, the vice-treasurer paused as he sharply swept his gaze across everyone present, andthat caught everyone’s expression.
Jackie looked very calm. That might have been what caused the vice-treasurer to look at Jackie longerthan the others.
Of course, Jackie felt the difference as well, but he maintained his ignorant look.
The vice-treasurer took a deep breath and continued, “Since a selection has to be made, the mostexcellent one will naturally be chosen. Since you’re bickering away like this, why don’t I give you all a fairchance to compete?”
Chapter 2419 “All of you here can take part. The first person to condense three hundred pill runes will besent to the Middle Province Alchemist Alliance.”
All the students were stupefied at what the vice- treasurer had said, eyeing the man with dubiousexpressions. A short student took a deep breath before summoning up the most courage he had everdone in his life. “Vice-treasurer, we don’t even know what the Way of the Pill looks like. How can wecondense three hundred pill runes? Of the eleven students, only the eldest has seen the Way of theVermillion Fire”
However, he was interrupted before he could finish.
“You truly are brainless. Do you think everything you see is real?”
Those words stunned the short student. He stared forward with a look of confusion, looking at the vice-treasurer before he looked at the other students.
Jackie sighed helplessly, immediately understanding what the vice-treasurer meant. He suddenlyremembered how he met Gilbert the first time he entered the pill aura room.
Gilbert’s lips curled up into a prideful smirk. Gilbert did not say anything, but the look on his face hadgiven everyone their answer.
The disciple was stumped for a long time before he said shakily, “Have Gilbert and Andrew already readthe Way of the Pill?”
The vice-treasurer nodded. He had already known that long ago. The two of them had done quite a lotbecause of that matter in secret, while he merely turned a blind eye to everything.
He had been forced to reveal everything at that moment, or he would have kept on turning a blind eye.The short student said, “But…isn’t the Way of the Vermillion Fire Pill exchanged with merit points?”
Andrew let out a sigh as he looked at that student pitifully. “You poor thing. Someone has lied to you.” Didsomeone tell you that the best thing to do when taking tasks was to pick the ones that were worth fewerpoints? The lower merit points meant that the difficulty was lower. Truth be told, he didn’t say that foryour benefit.
“He said all of that so he could claim all the high merit point tasks for himself. I already got two hundredmerit points long ago, but I never announced it.”
“Nonetheless, I never relied on petty schemes to get my points. I don’t know about the guy next to me,though.” Once those words were spoken, Gilbert was once again on the complete defensive.
“What do you mean by that? Say it to my face! What schemes?!”
“He’s only been in Heavenly Pills for a short time. Are you asking someone not that good at fighting, whohasn’t been learning alchemy for that long, to claim the harder tasks? Aren’t you just harming him?”
Andrew slowly turned his head when he heard that and icily retorted, “Harm him? Don’t you feel guiltysaying that? The others don’t know this, but you should know that there are some easy tasks with highmerit points. There aren’t many of them, and the stewards would usually assign those tasks to the newstudents.
“If the students rejected it, then the task would be left without anyone to do it. After that, you’d just take itaway and complete it yourself. Tell me, am I right? Am I, Gilbert?”
Those words caused Gilbert to choke and slowly turn purple. His hands shook, wanting to fight back withall his might.
At that moment, a look of realization crossed the ninth student.
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