Chapter 17 – Alchemist Genius? (1/2)

Chapter 17 – Alchemist Genius?

Translated by imakeussmile

After a short period of time, the alchemists were unable to wait anymore and said: “All right, little Ye prince, we will first take this box to study it, and we’ll stop hindering your and Princess Qi’s birthday celebration.”

“Study the box? For what? Is it fun?” The little prodigal son was very puzzled about this.

“No it’s not fun at all. This is not for playing. We want to open up the box to obtain Ban’s notebook.” The alchemists said solemnly.

“Notebook…are you talking about this book?” A book suddenly appeared within the little prodigal son’s hands.

“Yep, it is exactly this alchemy notebook……EH?! That’s not right……You, you……” The alchemists all pointed at the little prodigal son while their eyes were opened so wide that it was as if their eyes were going to pop out. That was an expression of shock, and they were not able to believe what they saw.

“Ah……” At this moment, everyone’s mouth was widely opened, as they looked at the little prodigal son while being astonished, and they were not able to let out any kind of sound.

“There are still more books, one, two, three, four…… five books, there are five books in the box.” The little prodigal son took out one book after another, and everyone present was still staring blankly in a daze.

“Are you all certain that you guys did not bluff me just now? Is this box really that difficult to open?” The emperor and others were starting to suspect that those alchemists deceived everyone, and that they were not able to open the box because they wanted to be the first ones to have a look at the notebook.

But,everyone present also knew that, this probability was close to zero.

All the alchemists immediately made a solemn vow and denied: “We didn’t, we definitely didn’t. Your majesty, how could we possibly deceive you? This box indeed really requires a lot of skill, requires a lot of difficulty to be able to open it. It’s just that……”

“Just that, why was the little thirteenth prince, a 10 year old child, able to open the box so easily?” The emperor looked at the little prodigal son, with an expression of puzzlement, and oddness.

That’s right, the box which all of these top-notch alchemists were unable to open just a few moments ago, was opened by our little thirteenth prince, and what’s more, it was opened very easily, without any hinderance at all, even to the point that no one was able to notice him opening the box.

This made everyone feel both uncertain and astonished to the point that they even suspected that they had seen wrongly, though the very scene before their eyes was absolutely true.

If it was any other children, they would perhaps say that the child was a genius. But, the little thirteenth prince was however not even as good as an average person, how could he possibly be a genius.

“Perhaps, he is an alchemist genius.” Although they felt that it was impossible, an alchemist still suggested this possibility.

‘This is impossible. He has never learntalchemy before. Such a dangerous thing, we never let him have contact with it.” Long An Qi immediately denied this possibility. As a mother, she was clearly aware about the matters of her son, at the very least, she knew about this matter.

“That’s right, young master doesn’t know alchemy. He has never even looked at an alchemy book before.” Tigress at the side also nodded her head.

If it was said that Long An Qi’s words alone were not sufficient enough to make others believe that the little thirteenth prince did not know about alchemy, then by adding Tigress’s words, it would be more than sufficient to disperse any doubt. After all, everyone knew, that in these past few years, Tigress has always been at the little thirteenth prince’s side. Whatever the little thirteenth prince did, who else but Tigress would be most clear about it?

“Since he doesn’t know about alchemy, how was he able to open the box, could it be that it was yet another coincidence? This little brat is indeed under the care of the goddess of luck, this is just too mystical.” The emperor and the others started to discuss it, and they were only about to use the little thirteenth prince’s mystical luck to explain how he was able to open the box.

At this time, Princess Qi opened her mouth and asked: “Ye Lang, how did you open this box?”

When princess Qi asked this question, everyone present suddenly thought; why were they guessing at the side for, isn’t the person involved right in front of them, just ask him directly and clear this whole thing up.

It was just that, everyone was however worried about an issue, which was that, the person involved himself may not necessarily be able to clearly explain how he opened the box.