Sending Balthazar away, Izumi also began one-on-one systematic teaching, Raymond invited him to invite all the most prestigious and powerful teachers in several schools in Tar'an, rich teaching experience, teaching methods are not rigid, although there are a lot of subjects, but Quan still learns with relish.

Of course, although it is said to be one-on-one teaching, there are many courses that Ann Jieya learned together, and the little princess actually started learning a long time ago, but she was afraid of life before, and most of the schoolwork was taught by Miranda in person, and now there is Quan, just let them go to class together as a companion.

Now Izumi spends one or two hours each morning and afternoon in class, and the rest of the time is still at his disposal as long as he can complete the homework assigned by the teacher.

So most of the time, Izumi still hangs out with his own elves.

Wind speed dog has been working hard lately, not only need to take care of the cubs, but also have to hatch eggs, the thought of hatching eggs will take at least two months, during this time it basically can't leave the nest, Izumi is worried that it will suffocate it, simply grab the flash to teach it how to hatch eggs, to share some of the burden for wind speed dog.

Although the male monster that can hatch eggs is a bit strange, but he can't stand the flash himself is also happy, and after carelessly crushing several pounds of eggs, the flash can finally come out. When he first took over the work of the Wind Speed Dog to incubate the eggs of his babies, the nervous look made Izumi laugh for a long time.

In fact, the shell of the elf egg is much thicker than the egg, and the protection is stronger, as long as it is not deliberately forced, it basically can't be broken, and the special training for the flash with the egg is just a bad taste attack for a while, and by the way, let the flash get rid of the frizzy little problem.

On this day, when Izumi went to Diego to see the stupid fish, Diego told him that Master Nicol seemed to have left the lab and gone home.

Hearing Nicol Lemay's news, Izumi was a little excited, he had long wanted to meet this alchemist: "Really? ”

Diego nodded: "I happened to see him out of the castle in the morning when I was practicing martial arts. ”

Izumi knew that Nicol Lemay's laboratory was in the most remote corner of the castle, very far from the area where the royal people lived and lived, and this was also to prevent the experiment from affecting them, and Izumi would occasionally walk around the area, but he never saw Nicol Lemay himself.

Diego had always practiced his swordsmanship in a martial arts arena near the castle gates, so it wasn't surprising to see Nicol Lemay leave.

Izumi wanted to visit the alchemy master immediately, but thinking that Master Nicol had just left the laboratory and needed a good rest, he could only hold it down for the time being, thinking that he would visit the master later.

However, the next day, he couldn't wait to ask someone to send a message and ask when it would be convenient to visit.

When the errand boy returned, he brought a message from Master Nicol, who said that he had had time lately and that Izumi could visit him at any time.

So, Izumi asked the teacher for a day off, greeted Miranda again, and took Electrolux and left the castle in a carriage.

Nicol Lemay was a small, thin old man, with a wrinkled face, a large beard, a large hooked nose that stood out, and his eyes were as cloudy as those of an old man, but they were sharp.

This is a very serious person.

As soon as he saw Izumi, Nicol Lemay looked at him for a long time, and only then said in a slow tone: "You are the apprentice introduced to me by Ridagast?" ”

He knew that Izumi was the prince, but that didn't seem to make him change his attitude.

Nicol Lemay put a lot of pressure on Izumi, and Izumi was inevitably a little nervous in the face of the old man who wanted to learn from him, but he still tried to relax, stared at the other party's eyes seriously and replied: "Yes, Master Nicol." ”

This attitude seemed to make Nicol Lemay very satisfied, but his face softened a little, and the scrutiny in his eyes faded a lot: "How did you read the books I sent before?" ”

Izumi said ashamedly: "I've only read it roughly, and there are three books that I am familiar with." ”

Originally, according to his original plan, he was going to memorize all the books in half a year and get familiar with them, but now that more than two months have passed, Izumi's time is occupied by other things, and the speed of reading books has naturally slowed down.

Nicol Lemay did not express his opinion, but only asked him which three books he was familiar with, and when Izumi reported the titles of the books, he began to ask him all kinds of questions, all of which were the contents of these three books, and Izumi had a good memory, and when he read the books, he was very fluent in answering his questions.

After asking more than a dozen questions in a row, Nicol Lemay stopped and said, "Not bad." ”

Although the praise was a little reluctant, Izumi could still see the satisfaction in his expression.

This level should be passed, right? He thought.

Then Nicol Lemay asked him if there was anything he didn't understand.

Quan's eyes lit up, knowing that this meant that he could solve his doubts, so he hurriedly opened the notebook in his hand and started to ask from the first page.

Nicol Lemay had already seen that he was holding a notebook in his hand and didn't know what he was going to do, and as soon as the spring opened it, he also took the opportunity to see the contents inside, only to see that the dense records on it were all kinds of alchemy-related questions, although for him it was just the foundation of the basics, no matter how simple it was, but it was indeed a little difficult for Izumi as a beginner.

Although the questions he considered were still very naïve, Izumi's habit of taking notes carefully still satisfied Nicol Lemay, so he was willing to be more patient when solving his doubts, and said it simply and in detail.

The old and the young talked for a long time, and if it weren't for Electrolux reminding them that it was not too early to go back to the castle, Izumi would not have realized that he was so hungry that his chest was pressed against his back.

But at this time, there were still many questions in his notebook that had not been asked, and Izumi was a little reluctant to go back, but he thought that he had occupied Master Nicol's time for so long, and it would not be good to bother him any longer, so he could only get up and leave.

Nicol Lemay finally showed the proper courtesy of a prince to Izumi - he personally sent him out.

At the time of separation, Nicol Lemay still had that slow and serious tone, but his words made Izumi overjoyed: "I will take about ten days off this time, you can come to me if you have any questions." ”

"Then trouble the master, I'll come back tomorrow."

Although Nicol Lemay didn't mention anything about accepting an apprentice, he was willing to let Izumi ask him questions later, which already meant that he was quite satisfied with Izumi, and Izumi believed that as long as he worked hard, sooner or later the alchemist would agree to accept him as an apprentice.

Filled with confidence, Izumi decided to add half an hour to his book when he returned—the longest time he could spare so far.

After sending the fountain away, Nicol Lemay returned to his room and found a shallow stone basin with mysterious words and symbols carved on the edge.

He stood on the edge of the stone basin, and then he pulled out his wand, which was a small wand thirty centimeters long and only the thickness of chopsticks, unlike the half-human-tall wands used by the magicians on the continent of Oou.

He held his wand to his head, and with a flick of the wand, a stream of silver substance was ripped out of his brain and thrown into the stone basin.

The silvery substance swirls slowly in the stone basin, like a beautiful cosmic vortex.

Nicol Lemay reached into the silver vortex, and a suction force was heard, and everything around him changed.

The familiar house is gone, replaced by a large tree that shades the sky, and verdant plants occupy all the view.

Nicol Lemay stood silently, less than two meters in front of him, there was another him, they were standing face to face, but he didn't notice Nicol Lemay.

Here are his memories of the past, he can see everything, but the people in his memory can't see him.

I saw that the one in the past was looking at everything around him suspiciously, and he didn't understand why he suddenly appeared in this place.

Then, there was a noise in the bushes, and a woman ran out from behind the bushes with a small child in her arms, and she seemed to be being chased, and she did not notice that there was anyone standing behind the trees watching her.

The woman was sweating profusely, she must have run for too long and had no strength, she looked down at the child in her arms, gritted her teeth, hid him in the grass on the other side, and then left again.

Immediately after that, another person also jumped out from behind the bushes and chased after the woman, because the speed was so fast that Nicol in the past only had time to see the other party's black hair flying in the wind, but now Nicol deliberately chose a good position to see the appearance of this chasing person clearly.

It was an extremely handsome young man, his body and face were still a little immature, he was not very old, he was probably just an adult, and his black eyes were a little red and I don't know how long he hadn't rested.

And this face, Nicol has only seen today, it is Electrolux who came with Izumi today - thanks to the man, Nicol also saw Electrolux's face, although his eyes used magic to hide their original color, but that face will not have a second person.

Electrolux didn't notice Nicol in his memory, and his entire attention was focused on tracking the fleeing chief maid, so he didn't notice the child being hidden.

And Nicol didn't warn him at the time—not only because he didn't understand the situation, but also because Electrolux was running so fast that Nicol didn't have time to say anything to him.