233 Alchemist Competition Starts. (1/2)

With Krune's group caring little for the competition, the next day soon arrived.

Ruik decided to tag along with Krune once more to take a look. His reason was quite simple too.

\”I understand almost nothing of both your side occupations, so I might as well go see the one the smells the best.\”

Medicinal herbs did have a pleasant smell when concocted properly. Since there were only geniuses this time around, Ruik wasn't wrong in saying that they would give quite a pleasant aroma.

Krune and the other felt like crying but had no tears.

Tiane, of course, followed Feifei instead. They bid their farewells and parted ways there.

After arriving in the Alchemist Competition site, Krune went directly to his working station, the 7359th one.

'Hum... It seems like everything I need is really here. Oh! The quality of the herbs listed in the system is quite high too, guess I can use more energy this time. There are a few types of cauldrons as well, this should be enough for me and everyone else to work.'

Suddenly, Krune noticed that a lot of the alchemists were looking in his direction. For a second, he thought that he had done something to catch everyone's attention again. But when he paid a little more attention, he noticed that they weren't looking at him, but the guy in the next workstation.

It turned out that Krune was placed right beside Kaio Tirenia, one of the Three alchemists in the Junior Competition at the Golden Stars level. Of course, Krune had no idea about who this guy was since he didn't pay attention to the commotion the day prior.

'Could he be someone famous?'

Still, Krune soon put those thoughts on the back of his mind.

'Whatever. If he can grab all the attention for himself, that will be for the best. I won't need to worry about having a lot of eyes on me anymore.'

Without Kaio knowing, he became Krune's scapegoat for the sake of his low profile life.

Alchemists arrived one by one, and soon, the place a full of them, and it didn't take long for the competition start time to come either. The place was enormous, and at the front, one could see the stage. Of course, because each alchemist needed a working station, a lot of them ended being way too far from it. To deal with this problem, several big monitors were put everywhere on the site.

Soon, an elder of the Solar System Alchemist Headquarters went up and started to talk.

\”Welcome, everyone. My name is Palo Yiag, a member of the Solar System Alchemist Headquarters. I will be one of the examiners of our once in a 5 years Junior Alchemist Competition. I believe you all read the rules already, but I will talk a little about it just to keep the protocol.\”

\”As you can see, we have way too many alchemists, 11238, to be more specific. Because of that, we need to first go through an elimination phase. In the end, only 1000 will remain.\”

Krune heard that, and his eyes lit up! He might not be the highest rank alchemist around here. Still, if they are talking about pure knowledge, he is confident of getting an excellent position in the end.

Palo then showed a serious face and said.

\”I believe there is no need to tell that we are going to keep our Divine Senses on all of you. So if we get anyone cheating, you will be immediately eliminated and also expelled from the Alchemist Organization. Well, that is just the first part. As for what else we are going to do with the cheaters after that, I will keep it a secret so that they can enjoy the experience more thoroughly.\”

Some of the alchemists felt a chill on their backs. There had been one or another that really thought about trying something like using their communicators to find the answer. But with so many high-level Divine Senses around them, the majority immediately gave up the idea.