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"No problem, sir. This pot of medicine is yours."
Luo Xiu immediately made the decision.
He quickly took out the magic stone with the points recorded in his pocket and clashed it with the magic stone in the hand of the nobleman.
After touching it, Luo Xiu could sense that the score in the magic stone had changed from 1 to 2.
Each person is given one of these magic stones when entering the city. Luo Xiu received his from the arena, while Tassanya and the others received theirs from Bota of the merchant guild.
Once the points were traded, it meant that the pot of medicine belonged to that nobleman.
"Is anyone interested in testing the drug?!"
The nobleman spoke up.
Just when Luo Xiu thought that someone among these alchemists would step forward, unexpectedly, as the news spread, a group of ragged people emerged from behind the alchemists.
According to an alchemist standing nearby, these people were waiting on the street specifically to test medicines.
They were either desperate or seriously ill, and would be willing to undergo drug trials for a small amount of money.
Moreover, these people in dire straits are not averse to drug trials.
Rumor has it that an elderly, frail man tried a dose of the drug on Mammon Street and was instantly rejuvenated, his lifespan extended several times over.
This is not unfounded. There are many long-lived species in this world, and naturally there are many legends about how they can prolong life.
The candidates for the drug trial were quickly selected.
A young man with a limp stepped out from the crowd.
Chapter 90 Master Tata's Door (Today, let's remove dampness and preserve dryness)
The young man with a limp took a small bottle from the nobleman's hand.
The bottle contained a small amount of the purple medicine that had been poured from the pot.
The young man, his eyes bloodshot, drank the purple potion in one gulp under the watchful eyes of the crowd.
After a few seconds,
He broke out in a cold sweat and trembled uncontrollably.
Visibly, his muscles began to swell.
"I feel good!!!"
The young man shouted loudly.
He moved his previously lame foot, and surprisingly, it seemed to have recovered and he could move it freely.
"amazing!"
He shouted loudly, looking up to the sky, trying to release the power accumulated in his body.
He had never felt so strong before.
At that moment, he felt like he had become the chosen one.
But the people around him began to whisper among themselves, and many of them slowly retreated with extremely solemn expressions.
“Let’s go, Tassanya.”
Luo Xiu sighed, called out to Tassanya, and squeezed out of the crowd.
There were no cheers or congratulations from the crowd, and only then did the young man realize that something was wrong.
He looked down and discovered that his limping foot had sprouted three feet of different shapes.
"No, no, how could this be!"
In his terror, he could no longer suppress the power within him, and with a "bang!" he exploded among the crowd.
The young nobleman's expression remained completely unchanged as he pulled out a notebook and began to take notes:
"The first-level test subject, after taking the drug, experienced enhanced strength for three seconds, with suspected side effects including multiple limb regeneration, and died."
After recording the contents, the young nobleman left with the remaining potion.
The crowd that had gathered dispersed with a "whoosh".
Everyone returned to their original positions: some were refining medicine, while others were waiting to be tested.
Only a patch of bright red remained, seemingly to prove that something had indeed just happened.
Luo Xiu and Tassanya walked deeper into Mammon Street.
Along the way, we could occasionally see the same scene again.
Someone accidentally concocted a pot of medicine and then asked people to test it.
Some had good results, but most were like the young man from before.
Of course, most scenes simply cannot be replicated.
Luo Xiu witnessed an alchemist throw a lizard's claw into a boiler, which then violently exploded into the sky, turning into the fireworks Luo Xiu had just seen at the street corner.
"Alchemy seems to be a high-risk profession."
Luo Xiu sighed.
When Luo Xiu and his companion reached the heart of this bustling street, they saw a line of people standing in the middle of the road.
They stood in three rows, sideways in the middle of the road, facing a gate beside the road.
There was a strange face on that door.
Calling it a face is a bit of an exaggeration, because it only has one eye and one mouth.
That mouth is now directing the crowd to line up:
"Those who test the medicine should stand on the left, those who refine medicine and prepare alchemical tools should stand in the middle, and those who wish to become apprentices should stand on the right!"
Luo Xiu looked around and saw that the left side had the most people, followed by the middle, while only the right side had a lone person standing there.
Luo Xiu walked over and spoke to a person standing in the middle of the queue:
"Excuse me, sir/madam, may I ask which line we are in?"
"Queue up for the master."
The man clutched a magic pouch tightly in his hand and answered crisply.
"Master Tata?"
Luo Xiu asked.
"Nonsense, there's only one master on Mammon Street!"
The man glanced at Luo Xiu disdainfully, wondering where this outsider had come from.
Luo Xiu didn't pay attention to the man's gaze; he was just overjoyed that he had finally found him.
"You're also here to see Master Tata?"
The man spoke.
Luo Xiu nodded:
"Yes, I have something to discuss with Master Tata."
"Then go ahead and make an appointment with Mr. Haha!"
The man pointed to the face on the door in front of him; "Haha" was its name.
"Do I need to make an appointment?"
Luo Xiu was stunned:
"Can't we just queue up at the back?"
"Heh, do you think there are only so few people who seek out masters to concoct medicines and prepare tools?"
The man sneered:
"The master only helps 30 people a day. If someone's materials catch the master's eye and he thinks they are valuable, he will help them make potions or items."
"The master is staying home during this refining period, which means that others will have to postpone their visit."
"I remember yesterday there were over 900 people in the queue to make an appointment. The maximum number of appointments is 1000. After that, you have to wait for the next batch."
Luo Xiu had a headache.
If that's the case, we'll have to wait until the year of the monkey and the month of the horse.
"of course."
The man then changed the subject, pointing to the shortest line on the right:
"If you want to speed things up, you can join the apprenticeship line. There's no need to queue there; you just need to provide the potion you've personally concocted. If the master takes a liking to it, you can enter."
"Don't blame me for not warning you, anyone who tries to fool a master with a cheap potion or a low-quality alchemical potion they made themselves never ends well."
After the man finished speaking, he seemed to think that Luo Xiu would never walk to the far right column.
After thanking him, Luo Xiu actually walked towards that row, intending to be the second person in the right row.
The man's eyes widened, then he gave a cold snort, thinking Luo Xiu was a reckless brat who didn't know his own limitations.
Wait and see Luo Xiu make a fool of himself.
Luo Xiu walked towards the queue, intending to stand behind the only person in the line.
Unexpectedly, the person in line turned around, looked Luo Xiu up and down, and said:
"Are you also an alchemist?"
She was a girl with long, flowing black hair, wearing the uniform of the Adventurers' Academy. She was quite pretty, but her eyes were slightly upturned, giving her a condescending air.
Luo Xiu shook his head:
"I don't quite understand. Can't someone who isn't an alchemist take on an apprenticeship?"
He genuinely didn't know much about it, so he asked.
But the girl in front clearly didn't see it that way. She mistakenly thought Luo Xiu was retorting to her, and her face immediately darkened. She sneered: