Chapter 21: Alchemy Academy (2)

  As soon as I entered the Alchemy Academy, I found that this place was like two different worlds compared to the previous academy. The contrast was huge, and it wasn't just about the good or bad architecture. The entire Royal Academy's buildings and garden design were all strictly uniform, with no thick or thin differences.

  But it's precisely this kind of design and construction that makes the contrast seem even more striking.

  And this contrast is the popularity of the college, other colleges at this time, all the way are people, but here it's far away to see one or two, sometimes even can't see one or two.

  The Alchemy Academy, although not as large as the other two academies, was surprisingly spacious due to its sparse student population, giving one an illusion that this Alchemy Academy was actually the largest place in the entire Royal Academy.

  The alchemists of the Royal Academy, basically only two classes, less than a hundred people, which is also normal. Those who can enter the Royal Academy are all descendants of famous families, how would they choose this unpopular subject?

  But the Alchemy Academy has a characteristic, that is, the number of teachers is much more than that of students. In fact, this is also easy to understand. Most of these teachers want to use the resources of the Royal Academy to verify their alchemy, and the materials for alchemy are not something that ordinary people can afford.

  The Royal Academy also likes to invite such alchemy teachers, and those who have achieved results will be absorbed as royal alchemists. It's not just the teachers, some students are also like this.

  This has resulted in the Alchemy Academy having the oldest students in history, as well as those who have been in school for the longest time, and this record is constantly being broken.

  Of course, new students like Shisan Shao would not meet those disciples. Those disciples were all holed up in the laboratory studying technology. Shisan Shao's class was the only freshman class in the Alchemy Academy, with a total of 21 students, including 9 girls, which was also the largest number of girls in history.

  In the Royal Academy, the Magic Department has the highest proportion of girls, followed by the Martial Arts Department, while the Alchemy Department has the lowest proportion and also the smallest number. The entire Alchemy Department put together doesn't even have as many girls as a single class in the Magic Department.

  In terms of quality, among the nine female classmates of Shi San Shao, there are both slim and plump ones. Don't misunderstand, this "plump" is not the kind like Yang Yuhuan's, but truly chubby. The classmate named Zhen Xiaoyan, her volume can occupy half of the girls' world.

  Of course, there are also beautiful girls among them. The blonde and blue-eyed Salan is a representative of them. Using some professional color wolves, no, female appraisers, in their words, when Salan grows up, she will become an enchanting and charming sex bomb that cannot be resisted.

  As for the other girls in the class, to use their own words, they are all some elegant girls, and after dressing up, they still look pretty good, except for those like Zhen Xiaoyan.

  However, Shi San Shao liked Zhen Xiao Yan more because she never chased him down. It wasn't that she didn't want to chase him, but rather because she knew she couldn't catch up.

  When the Thirteen Young Master and Hu Yao entered that spacious and bright classroom, the voices that were originally discussing in the classroom immediately stopped. Everyone stared at the Thirteen Young Master, watching him slowly enter the classroom and sit down in an empty seat.

  "Hmmph..."

  Almost everyone around him immediately stood up and moved to the other half of the classroom, keeping as much distance from Shi San as possible. Then they started discussing their own thoughts, as if nothing had just happened.

  Thirteen didn't seem to notice anything, he just took out his alchemy book and started reading. Seeing him holding the book, everyone seemed to let out a sigh of relief, they were still paying attention to what he would take out next, if it was one of those strange objects, they would be on guard.

  Since it's a book, it can be temporarily ignored. Everyone knows that he is the quietest when reading books and won't make any other movements, so they can discuss with ease.

  As for the thirteenth junior? He never discusses things with people, first because his discussion skills are limited, and secondly, those ideas of his will drive people crazy, no one will recognize them, so there's no way to discuss.

  It was soon time for class, and as usual, their homeroom teacher arrived to start the lesson. Alchemy Academy students were allowed to find any alchemy teacher to be their mentor, but there would still be a homeroom teacher to teach them, after all not all students would go find a mentor.

  Or it can be said that some students cannot find a mentor who is willing to guide them, these mentors are all proud and arrogant, not anyone can be guided by them, if they are the clever ones, then it's fine, but for someone like Shi San Shao, they will absolutely refuse to guide.

  If the Thirteen were just foolish, they would be willing to take them, so that they could get close to the Ye family and also get a lot of free materials, isn't this their purpose for staying in the Academy?

  The problem is that Ye Jia's thirteenth junior's alchemy skills are really impossible to decipher, and no one can guide him on the right path, unless it's Lu Ban reincarnated.

  "We alchemists have two most important things, the Alchemy Formula and the Alchemy Array, which are precious legacies left behind by our predecessors after countless efforts. So we must make these things familiar." This was the opening remarks of Class Director.

  "Alchemical formulas are extremely complex knowledge and the most difficult to grasp in alchemy. The intermediate effects are varied and unpredictable, so you'll have to try them out for yourselves. In comparison, alchemical arrays are much simpler, consisting of basic alchemical array structures that can be broadly classified into transformation arrays and refinement arrays, which can further be categorized by their effects into attack, defense, recovery, etc."

  "Transformation arrays refer to the transformation of a substance, shape or form. This is a relatively simple type of array. Alchemy arrays, on the other hand, involve combining two or more different substances to transform them into another substance. Different alchemy array combinations will have different effects, which also requires your experimentation."

  The instructor was speaking above, and some of the students below were also mouthing along with their lips, almost exactly the same, as if this was a familiar script that they had memorized.

  "I say this every day, and the meaning is to make you understand that alchemy requires a foundation, it needs you to review these foundational subjects every day. Only when your foundation is solid can you try more things and have the opportunity to reach the pinnacle of alchemy. Perhaps one day, you will find that the basic knowledge you now think is useless is actually what you've been pursuing all along, and it's the key to solving your problems."

  The class teacher said with deep feeling, he seemed to have also discovered the reaction of his classmates, but he still insisted on this habit, saying an opening remark every day, exactly the same opening remark.

  This is what it means to be unchanged for decades!