Instead of staying in the Apothecary's room that night, Merlin Avery chose a long-abandoned, dusty warehouse as a transit point, and returned to his personal laboratory in the City of Wisdom.

The leader of Victor was already waiting at the door of the laboratory, accompanied by the excited and eager Satum Apothecary - or rather, he should be called Mentor Satum. Before the blue ripples of space-time teleportation had completely disappeared, Mentor Satum ran up quickly, eagerly picking up Avery who had not yet disappeared from his dizziness.

"My lord, you promised that you would be back in three hours at most!" Mentor Satum said in an almost accusatory tone, raising his right hand and almost slapping the outstretched five fingers in Avery's face, "As a result, you made me wait for five hours, wasting five hours, enough to concoct a whole bucket of alchemy potion!"

Avery smiled apologetically, not caring that the lord's majesty was challenged, for Satum, he had at least three points of respect and seven points of sympathy, most of the Noluzi pharmacists who had not met the famous teacher did not work as hard as Satum, so that there was only a thin line away from the threshold of the mentor.

However, this difference is in a sense tantamount to a real moat.

Alchemists like Satum who studied so hard, but in the end, because of the lack of systematic and formalized learning and the lack of alchemy potion formulas, led to the failure to be promoted to a mentor, it is not uncommon in the city-states of the empire.

If properly guided, these people may not be able to get promoted, thus greatly increasing the number of mentor-level alchemists, but doing so will obviously provoke great dissatisfaction among the academic alchemists. Even some people have such thoughts, and after hitting the wall again and again, they eventually learn to keep their mouths shut.

As for those who never learn to shut up, people like the Golden Knight Brick in the major academies are not just for small things like maintaining order.

Avery didn't want to feel sorry for the victims, but after Satum's successful promotion to mentor and become a big help for him, the young man did get his heart struck. If you trade the recipes and knowledge in your own hands in exchange for a part of the effectiveness of the Wild Road Alchemist who has the opportunity to be promoted to the mentor, will it be easier to gain a foothold in Coventry?

After opening his personal laboratory, he privately discussed this question with the leader of Victor, but the result was much to Avery's disappointment.

The leader of Victor was not supportive of Avery 's idea, "I have more contact with those Wild Road Apothecaries, my lord, I have to say, your idea is good, but a little too wishful thinking. ”

"I'm just asking them to work for me, not allegiance. Avery shrugged his shoulders in confusion, "Aren't they fighting over a high-level alchemy potion recipe?

"Because the ultimate idea of the vast majority of Noluzi pharmacists is to join the Apothecary's Guild, or become the personal doctor of a nobleman. They crave knowledge, they crave power, and all you can give them is the former. Leader Victor said as he pouted at Mentor Satum, who was busy in front of the semi-automatic workbench, "Take Satum, for example, in Scrap Iron Town, he has a high status that ordinary pharmacists can't match, so I assume that the traitor who leaked the secret is not him, but some of his apprentices." ”

"Wouldn't it be too arbitrary to make such a confident judgment, Victor?" replied Avery with some hesitation, "after all, we don't know how many people survived the attack of the Flying Wing after that night. ”

The leader of Victor was silent for a moment, and there was a slight feeling of discomfort in his eyes, "Forgive me, lord, forgive me for hiding information and fleeing without permission." I just want to pass the information on to the others and tell them to be more cautious because the situation is changing worryingly. ”

"You shouldn't apologize to me...... Well, Victor, when did you find out that Scrap Iron was no longer possible?" Avery asked, curiously, "At first, I thought there was hope for a turn in the tide of battle. ”

"When I found out that Blackwing Reaper Gana Lines was in command of the attack, I knew that the collapse of Scrap Iron was inevitable. There are traitors leaking information inside, and there are Minnesota city-states going all out to suppress the border, even if the chariot Aura is in charge, we will lose, and I, the leader of the rebel branch, are very incompetent. ”

"You don't have to feel guilty, Victor. Avery replied quickly, his tone as categorical as possible, "It's not your fault, no one can do better under the same conditions." You're right, I saw Blackwing Reaper then raid the Scrap Iron Rebels' secret headquarters, and it was too late for Ora to arrive...... If you had stayed there, I would have lost your life. ”

The leader of Victor smiled wryly, and was about to continue speaking when a translucent pure white ripple suddenly rippled from Avery and then coalesced into the image of the light aggregate 7714.

"Your Excellency, Your Excellency Honorary Citizen, the anchor point of time and space has been touched, please return to the transit point as soon as possible, otherwise you may not be able to leave the City of Wisdom for some time. ”

Avery suddenly became solemn, "The last time the space-time anchor was touched, it was the Scrap Iron Town that was attacked, what will happen this time?"

"Let me find your way first. Victor Leader immediately got up, took out a potion bottle and shook it, "Although I am still a little far from the mentor level, I have a steel specialty, and the repulsion shield defense ability that I inspire is very high, not much worse than Lord Aura."

Avery thought for a moment and nodded in agreement, "Stay safe, Victor." If it's bad, just teleport back here and don't think about the consequences. There's nothing worse than losing you. ”

Victor left quickly, but returned faster. If it weren't for the fact that he was unscathed and the expression on his face didn't look like he had suffered a major setback, Avery would have thought that the city-state of Coventry had been attacked just like Scrap Iron, and had even been destroyed in battle.

"There's very astonishing news, my lord, and you're afraid you can only guess half of it. Victor said, shaking his head in disbelief, "I can't verify the truth of the news, it's too late, and it's inconvenient to find someone to inquire." Because so many people are looking for you, calling your name, even the door of the abandoned warehouse that acts as a transit station has been opened. ”