If you want to pass a certain exam, you must first understand the scope of the exam.

Noyan had been preparing for the belated alchemist qualification exam for years, and he had already been prepared for it.

There are three major disciplines in alchemy, which are divided into "Pharmacy", "Circle Science" and "Applied Science".

Every alchemist will eventually specialize in one subject, such as Rasti, who is an alchemist who is proficient in apothecary.

The qualifying exam exams measure the fundamentals of all three subjects, so you can be proficient in one subject, but you also have to cover the others:

"Pharmacy", that is, to investigate the alchemist's mastery of pharmacological knowledge, the application of various potion formulations, and the proficiency of potion refining.

Since he has been helping Russ refine pharmaceuticals for the past ten years, this subject is currently his most proficient subject.

"The Science of Magic Circles" examines the alchemist's understanding of the principles of magic and his proficiency in drawing magic circles.

With the power of individual humans, only "mages" can cast spells, and they manipulate magic by chanting magic spells and controlling the surrounding elements to induce visions of heaven and earth.

Since ancient times, spells have been the most miraculous tricks that individual humans can master, and not only mages are fascinated by it, but alchemists are also curious about the world of magic.

Alchemists themselves have no magical powers, and although they can't chant spells like mages, they can cast spells through other means—

"Magic Circle".

The sage alchemists studied the principles of spell casting and invented a written language called magic runes that could replace mage spells.

Draw the magic runes in a specific order to form a "magic circle", and then place magic crystals on the magic circle to serve as the source of magic needed to cast spells, even alchemists without magic can cast spells!

Studying how to cast spells by drawing magic circles is the meaning and value of "Circle Science".

"Application" examines the practical and comprehensive application of alchemists' own alchemy knowledge, from people's livelihood supplies to alchemical weapons, all aspects are full of the shadow of "Application".

For example, the firing method of glass, adding certain special substances to iron can make it stronger; Or inlay the weapon with a treasure to make the mage or knight even more powerful when using an alchemy weapon.

It is more appropriate to say that it is not so much applied science as miscellaneous science, and all the alchemy knowledge of human beings except for pharmacy and magic circle science will be stuffed into this discipline in one go.

These three disciplines involve a huge amount of knowledge, almost including most of the wisdom achievements of today's human civilization, even if they only understand the most basic knowledge, few people can integrate it.

This is also why there are not many formal alchemists who have passed the qualification exam, and learning knowledge is not something without thresholds.

Moreover, knowledge is wealth, and not everyone can easily access it, let alone learn it.

Therefore, it is no easier to become an alchemist than a mage, a knight, and as one of the most knowledgeable groups of human beings, they are quite respectable and have a status only below the transcendental.

Since becoming an alchemist requires a long period of knowledge, unlike knights and mages, who value talent more, it is a profession that accumulates a lot of knowledge, and there are many people who pass the exam at the age of thirty or forty.

If the seventeen-year-old Noren can pass this exam, he will definitely be a rare person in the group of alchemists, but only he knows that this is far from his limit.

Reborn into this world with the memories of his past life, he has a mature way of thinking and learning since he was a child, and at the age of seven he seized the opportunity to reveal his alchemy talent to the passing alchemist Rasti, allowing him to adopt himself from the orphanage and become his alchemy apprentice.

He made the most of this opportunity to learn everything he could get his hands on alchemy, but in three years, when he was ten years old, he was actually confident that he could pass the alchemist qualification exam.

The source of his self-confidence is not only the hard work in his daily life, but more importantly, he has something that ordinary people do not have.

It had been in his mind since he was born, and if you close your eyes and gaze, you can sense this untitled book, which he calls "the book of omniscience"—

As soon as a spell is observed, the Book of Omniscient Beings will automatically turn the pages and record the spells and magic circles required to cast the spell;

As long as a bottle of potion is observed, the Book of Omniscient Knowledge will automatically turn the pages of the book and record the materials and refining methods required to refine the potion.

What you see is what you know.

After years of testing, it was also found that every record of the book of omniscient knowledge will generate some "knowledge points", and the knowledge points consumed can be asked to the book -

For example, observing a new first-order spell will generate 2 knowledge points, and if it is a second-order spell, it will generate 4 knowledge points.

When he has stored more than one knowledge point, he can consume it to ask the All-Knowing Book to obtain a new recipe for a spell or alchemical potion.

What is asked, is known.

He discovered early on that he had no cultivation talent, could not absorb magic power and become a transcendent, and becoming an alchemist was his only chance to complete the class leap and gain a firm foothold in this world.

And this book of omniscience and omniscience that existed in his mind was the biggest hole card that supported him on the path of an alchemist.

Noren sat quietly at his desk for a while, the night before the exam he wanted to brush up on the basics of alchemy, but when his eyes swept over the books on the table, he found that it was not necessary.

He has been an alchemy apprentice for ten years, and he has a golden finger like the Book of All-Knowing, and a mere alchemist qualification exam can't make it difficult for him at all.

Instead of worrying about whether you can pass the exam, think about what you want to do after passing the exam.

At noon, the alchemist named Wright unleashed a palpable hostility towards him, and thinking about it, an alchemy workshop in a prime location in the upper city was enough to make the eyes of his fellow travelers red.

With such a big conflict of interest, after obtaining the alchemist's qualification tomorrow, it is inevitable that he will have a feud with Wright, and he does not seem to be a big-hearted person, and there is a need to beware of him secretly making stumbling blocks.

Thinking of this, Nolan subconsciously stroked his left arm, and there was a reassuring hard metallic texture from his forearm.

Raising his left hand and pulling up his black robe, he could see that his left hand was wearing a black arm guard, which stretched from the elbow of the lower arm to his wrist, and the dark blue light could be glimpsed through the gap between the metal connections of the armguard.

This is not a simple piece of armor, but an alchemy weapon that he has spent five years secretly crafting for himself, named "Magician Duelist".

The essence of the Duelist's Arm Guard is a portable magic circle generator that carries a small magic circle on which the user can cast spells anytime, anywhere.

Casting spells looks mysterious, but in fact, there are only two necessary conditions:

One is the existence of a spell or magic circle that changes the flow of the elements.

The second is that there is a source of magic that provides magic power for spells or magic arrays.

Nolan gently touched the duelist's switch with his hand, opening the dark compartments on the outside and inside of the armguards.

Inserted in the outer compartment is a Mithril-based card with an intricate rune pattern on it, and the magic circle records a second-level fire-based spell: "Burst Fireball".

This is the "Circle Structure Warehouse" of the Magic Guide Duelist Armguard, and the cards with magic arrays drawn in it are called magic cards by Nolen, and each magic card is painted with a magic circle, recording a corresponding spell.

The dark compartment on the inside of the armguard is used to store the mana source that drives the magic card, and inside is an emerald green mana crystal that has been cut into a flat square.

The necessary conditions for casting a spell have been gathered, and with the push of a switch, the duelist can cast a spell that will give the opponent an unexpected blow by connecting the duelist's circle structure chamber to the source of mana.

Noren was convinced that the Wizard Duelist was an epoch-making alchemical weapon. Before that, no alchemist had been able to draw a magic circle in such a small card.

The diameter of common magic arrays is usually between two meters and five meters, and the diameter of some magic arrays that record high-level spells can even reach more than ten meters, but the diameter of the magic array drawn by Noren is no more than ten centimeters, and the volume has shrunk by more than an order of magnitude.

All of this is due to the Book of All-Knowing, and the magic array it records is a magic array that has been streamlined to the extreme, and the magic runes contained on it are not the slightest error or redundancy.

He can even manipulate the Book of All-Knowing with his mind, and draw the magic circle recorded on the pages of the book onto the magic card in the smallest and most extreme size, without any mistakes.

The alchemists of the same era drew magic arrays, mainly relying on special pens to draw on the walls or the ground, and the lines drawn on them were thick, so the magic array was naturally not small.

This is also why, two days ago, after checking that there were no traces of the magic circle at the scene, the people of the Mage Tower naturally believed that the murderer was not an alchemist, but a mage chanting a spell cast.

Little did they know that the magic circle that cast the "Burst Fireball" was not drawn in the room at all, but was hidden in an inconspicuous black armguard.

Human beings cannot guess what they have never seen before.