When the awkward atmosphere that I hated the most wafted around, I became frustrated. However, unexpectedly, it was relieved by Eisel.

“Will you two be frustrated during the whole project? Please give your full name or something. Everyone knows my name, right?”

The two boys nodded awkwardly.

“Oh, it’s so annoying. Are you acting like losers because of your grades? As long as you guys do it well, it’ll be good anyway, so why not stop worrying about it?”

“… What do you think you know? Our group is already dead. Let each of us work on our own and finish it.”

Kasahun bluntly refuted, but Eisel only snorted

“You have the personality to give up before even trying. How did you even get into Stella?”

“What, what?”

“I know having this guy in the group is very annoying, right?”

'Oh, I’m sorry about that.'

“But it doesn’t matter. After all, at least three alchemists from the Alchemy Department come to examine the alchemy practice test. Professor Maizen cannot arbitrarily ruin our grades.”

“Oh….”

I had no idea. The other boys looked surprised too, and Eisel flicked her own light blue hair behind her back as if proud of herself.

In fact, I believe I read somewhere that intel was the most important thing to Eisel, who had lost everything.

As Kasahun became silent, the quiet boy named Maliwan slowly opened his mouth.

“Well then… Are we doing our homework properly?”

“Do I have to say it twice?”

“I’m glad… I wanted to make this…”

“I’m glad you’re motivated.”

And then she looked at me for no reason. What? If I stayed still, I was not motivated? I was watching you guys work hard as a fellow classmate.

“Hmm, then how are we going to gather the ingredients?”

“Of course, each of us has to get some.”

Alchemy materials were difficult to procure, and the processing was also quite complicated. It was a lot of work, and as such tasks would need to be divided between the team members.

“Then… What ingredients do we need?”

Now, I thought about pretending to know it, so I searched for the ingredients of ‘D Vitality Potion’ with Sentient Spec, but Eisel opened her mouth first.

“Twenty severed tails of fire-attribute lizard, 300ml of iodine solution, seven grams of pure silver, ten grams of fairy grass, pine needles…….”

The ingredients’ names flew out of her mouth. Unlike me, who had to search for it, she had it all memorised.

Indeed, one of the characteristics of Eisel was [Versatility].

Whether it was magic, alchemy, politics, business or stocks, she was a woman who was good at everything. In a sense, she was more impressive than Mayuseong and Haewon-ryang.

“Honestly, these are ingredients that are not difficult to find in Arcanium’s market. You’ll all be able to get them, right?”

The boys nodded their heads, but they seemed wary of what they would be asked to get.

Because among those materials some were difficult to obtain even in Arcanium.

“Then, first of all, who’s going to get the fire-attribute lizard’s tails?”

This was the ‘Demon Corpse’ category.

No matter how hard I memorised the textbook, it was difficult to find out which material had better quality when actually obtaining a demon corpse. It was a material that everyone was reluctant to get because they had to take responsibility if the quality of the finished product deteriorated.

I raised my hand without hesitation.

“I’ll get it.”

Eisel narrowed her eyes questioning my confidence.

“You know that demon corpses are the most important thing in alchemy, right?”

“Of course.”

“… To be so confident means something. Can I trust you?”

“It’s no problem.”

Eisel nodded her head reluctantly.

'Wow, this little girl doesn’t trust people.'

Obviously, it was true that selecting materials was difficult. If it wasn’t for the analysis function of the Sentient Spec, I wouldn’t be able to pick them out easily.

But in truth, I didn’t plan to use the Sentient Spec.

‘It’s a fire-attribute lizard. I guess I’ll just have to catch it myself.’

I was thinking of a direct delivery.

Meanwhile, Professor Maizen Tyren went to see a certain student.

“Herick. Will you send this note to the first-year C group alchemy students?”

Maizen Tyren handed the note to a student named Herick. The content of the note was nothing special.

[Notice: Please note that the practice test assignment is changed from ‘D Vitality Potion’ to ‘Tyren Zeus Potion’.]

A very simple statement about changing the subject of this exam. The new assignment; the Tyren Zeus Potion, was a vitality supplement developed by Professor Maizen Tyren, whose concocting method could be easily practiced by students with available materials.

“… Except for Group 12.”

“Yes?”

At Maizen’s words, Herick looked puzzled for a moment, then smiled.

He immediately realised that Baek Yu-Seol and Eisel belonged to Group 12.

“Huh, of course.”

Herick was a student of the Jeremy faction, so he quickly recognized Maizen’s intentions.

‘With this, they will thoroughly fail the exam.’

The practical test was unconditionally supervised by a professional alchemist from the ‘Alchemy Tower’.

Since Stella was not a professional alchemy training institution, it was intended to easily open an avenue for transfer or employment after graduation if a student with outstanding talent in alchemy appeared in the academy.

Thinking about it positively, it was a chance that could give an alchemist wings in his career, but…

On the other hand, if you looked ugly in front of them, it meant that your path as an alchemist was more likely to be blocked.

‘Yes, your alchemy is amazing. But if you are a student, you should behave like a student.’

‘This will be a lesson that thoroughly teaches you that no matter how good a student is, he is only playing in the palm of the professor’s hand.’