Chapter 413 - 413: Is there such a rumor?

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The public was silent, only the sound of herbs being stirred and burned in the furnaces was heard. Some participants dripped sweat as they concentrated and created pills.

After an hour, Shina said, "This is so boring to watch. It's only been an hour, but it's like it's been several hours."

"Besides that." Zaira added: "The techniques they use are very flashy, but not at all attractive, it is very different from when Theo creates pills."

"Mm, the techniques that most of them use, have many flaws, and the one I use is a technique of perfect quality. Flame control is also important, and theirs are not very good." Theo said: "To sum up, they have many flaws, which makes it not interesting to watch."

"Makes sense." Shina said, "It would be more interesting if you were participating."

"Well, I didn't write myself at the alchemy tournament, I can't do anything about it." Theo said: "But, I'm going to participate in the blacksmith tournament."

"You see, there are some who are good at creating good quality pills, but it takes 30 minutes for each time there create, whereas those who make medium quality pills take an average of 20 minutes, while those who are faster, however, low quality, take an average of 15 minutes." Zaika asked: "At the end, which is better to do?"

"That depends." Theo said: "If they do it because they want to win, they go for what they are good at, like for example. If you can do it in high quality, but it takes more than 30 minutes, but of medium quality, but it takes 20 minutes, maybe it is more worthwhile to do it in medium quality. However, if it is someone who takes alchemy seriously, it will be of high quality, even if the result is he or she loses."

"This is understanding." Said Mizuki: "In alchemy, in general, only those who take it seriously, get good results. Although I dare to say, that many times quantity wins from the unit, although it is good to have a high-quality pill, if you have 10 of medium quality, it would not necessarily be worse."

Nanda said suddenly: "Look, two people started to argue!"

"Mn."

Theo, Jka and the girls looked at the projection.

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In the arena, while all the participants were focused on creating pills, Richard, who is a thin, man pale white skin of the zebra species, with blue hair and pink eyes, tall at 211 cm tall, bragged about creating a set of 5 pills high quality.

"Zehahaha. Hilary, look at this, this is the difference between you and me, although you can be faster when creating pills, what good is it if they are just medium quality pills? " Richard snubbed: "In the end, that's all you are capable of, it will never be as good as I am. And I will prove to Alison that you don't deserve to be with him, but yes, I am!"

Hilary is a beautiful woman with long legs, and above-average b.r.e.a.s.ts that is hidden behind a wide white coat. She is curly blonde, with her hair reaching to the back of her ass. Even though the lab coat is big, the size and perfection of her ass, with her long legs, made it even more attractive. Her eyes are the color of honey and shone an indescribable glow, being pleasant to look at.

"See yourself, boy." Hilary said indifferently: "I am not with Alison and I have never been interested in him, nor do I care that you are "better" than I am in creating pills, and the tournament is not based on the quality of the pills, but on the amount of points we will get at the end, and if you continue to ignore it and just want to appear in front of Alison... go ahead; just don't blame me if in the end, you end up being disqualified."

"Humph!" Richard snorted, "Your mouth says that, but your eyes say something else. Not interested in Alison? Who are you trying to deceive?!"

"Get lost!" Hilary sighed and said with the same indifference: "I don't have time to waste arguing with you. I don't care if you don't want to concentrate, but I do."

"Humph!"

Richard snorted again, and returned to concentrating on creating pills. He was confident in proving to Alison that he was a better "wife" than Hilary. In terms of gender difference, he already had a solution, he just needed money to create a gender change pill...

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"Apparently, the man likes another man, but it looks like he believes the girl Hilary likes the same guy." Aine said, "But it seems to be an illusion, since it doesn't look like she was lying when she said she wasn't interested in the guy named Alison."

"Alison is likely to like Hilary, and because of that, Richard is jealous, but instead of admitting it, he makes it look like Hilary is in love with Alison." Zaira said.

"Mm, I don't see any importance in that." Theo stretched on the couch: "I thought it was going to be more interesting, but in the end, he was just a deluded and jealous man who suffers from unrequited love."

"How do you know it is unrequited?" Ariana asked.

"It is not obvious?" Theo said: "If he had the courage to say that in front of so many living beings, it just means that he has already declared himself to the man in question and to be so resentful, it means that it was rejected and likely that Alison said he liked Hilary."

"Mm, it makes sense." They agree.

"Enough about that, let's talk about something more interesting." Theo said, "Did you see the news of a ghost whale flying over Isle of Fallen Star?"

"Oh! I saw this news." Alice said: "There are even rumors on the internet that the Leader and the Great Elder of the Sect of Ten Thousand Souls tried to capture, but it has never been seen again, and they are now missing."

"Is there such a rumor?" Mizuki was surprised: "How strong it has to be able to go against these two. Wasn't that something made up?"

"I don't know, but..." Alice said: "It seems to be true, since the Ten Thousand Souls Sect is in chaos. It seems that some rival sects are ready to attack at any moment."

"That is why many disciples of the Sect of Ten Thousand Souls left the sect." Mizuki said: "I heard from some acquaintances of mine from other empires that many disciples of the Sect of Ten Thousand Souls were seen asking for refuge in other sects."

"Mm, this is true." Theo said: "I met one of the disciples before, and he deserted the Sect and came to the Naga Empire."

Theo remembers the disciple who was sleeping with Cleopatra, and read some of his memory. At the time he did not care much about this information, as it was not very specific, he just said that the disciple fled at the moment when his sect was about to go to war, but Theo did not imagine that it was because of the disappearance of the Leader and Great Sect Elder.

"Although it is so." Mizuki said: "This is not going to end anytime soon. The Ten Thousand Souls Sect has been around for a long time and has many hidden "monsters". So, at most, they will lose a little of resources and some weak disciples who fled or died in the middle of the war."

"Mm, at least they'll be busy for a while." Theo smiled: "They must hate me... Or rather, they must hate Panic. At one time or another, I must settle accounts with them."

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