How to Get Close to Elizabeth

After checking in using a fake identity, Gu Ding dialed Dokter's number.

"Check-in is complete, we're in the room next to theirs, where are you now?"

"I'm at a pub in this neighborhood, about 200 meters to the right after you leave the hotel. The pub is called **'s Tears. I'll go back after I finish this drink." Dokter hadn't expected Gu Ding to actually manage to book a room next to Elizabeth's.

"Our room number is 00 14, on the twentieth floor. I've already given your watch serial number to the front desk, and they've registered you. You can just come up and swipe your watch to enter; you don't need to say anything more to the front desk," Gu Ding instructed, fearing that the more Dokter said, the more flaws he would reveal.

"Okay, got it!" After hanging up, Dokter tapped the bar. "Another one, please!"

More than ten minutes later, Dokter returned to his hotel room.

"In the past, were there any patterns to their schedules?" Gu Ding asked the Sea Emperor.

"Elizabeth has stayed in a total of fifteen hotels on this planet, eight of which she has stayed at more than twice. The Queen Queen Hotel is the one she has stayed at the most. This is because the hotel is very close to the branch of the Medicine God Alliance, and she herself is a Grandmaster of Alchemy who can concoct demigod potions. She likes to teach children who dream of becoming alchemists how to concoct potions. Moreover, every year, many new alchemists from the Fei Me Universe Country come here to wait for her to teach them."

"Potion making..." Gu Ding's eyes lit up when he heard this. He probably figured out how to get close to Elizabeth.

"Speaking of which, you're a pharmacist. Are you confident you can attract her attention?" Dokter had never seen Gu Ding concoct potions before and didn't know his skill level.

"I should be able to, although I haven't practiced in a long time and I've become quite rusty." Gu Ding was still quite confident in himself.

"Every branch of the Medicine God Alliance has a free public practice area. Go there to concoct potions for the next few days. Elizabeth will definitely see you whenever she goes to the Medicine God Alliance. And with your skill level, she will definitely take the initiative to strike up a conversation with you because she admires your talent," the Sea Emperor said confidently.

"Then I'll stay at the hotel and keep an eye on her," Dokter knew his task was also important.

"Let us know if you have any news." Gu Ding said, then left the hotel and headed towards the Medicine God Alliance.

The Medicine God Alliance branch was indeed not far from the hotel. Gu Ding walked there after turning three corners, taking less than fifteen minutes from the moment he left the hotel.

At the entrance of the Medicine God Alliance, Gu Ding swiped his wristwatch and stepped inside.

The fake identity that Sea Emperor gave him was also a pharmacist, but it was a D-level one.

"Go to the materials hall and collect the free materials. Collect all the free materials for this year," the Sea Emperor whispered in Gu Ding's ear.

"You're encouraging me to do bad things again..." Gu Ding said helplessly.

"If you'd rather pay, I have nothing to say. It's true that the materials for D-Grade Potion aren't worth much. The materials for one D-grade Gene Enhancer are less than 100,000 Dragon Soaring Star Coin, which is less than 100 points in Universe Coin. A year's free quota is enough for you to refine a hundred times, which is only a little over 10,000 points in Universe Coin. You don't even care about 10,000 points in Universe Coin, let alone a rich organization like the Medicine God Alliance." The Sea Emperor still felt that since he had already created a fake identity, it wasn't unreasonable to squeeze some profits out of a rich organization like the Medicine God Alliance for free. You should know that the Medicine God Alliance's pill-making business has a profit margin of about ten times, making it an extremely lucrative industry.

"The materials from one hundred refinements should be enough for me to refine the remaining mainstream D-Grade Potion twice. Then I can start refining C-Grade Potion." Gu Ding followed the Sea Emperor's advice and headed straight for the materials hall.

"Hello, I would like to collect my free material allowance for this year," Gu Ding said to the staff member.

"A one-time payment for a year?" The staff member, an elderly man, raised his eyelids to look at Gu Ding and double-checked.

"Yes." Gu Ding nodded, held out his wristwatch, and scanned it in front of the machine.

Name: Jack

Age: 17

Pharmacist Level: D

[Mentor: None]

[Free materials collection record for that year: 0 times]

After scanning the person in the photo and Gu Ding's face, the old man nodded. "You can receive one hundred D-Grade Potion materials. Just select which potion materials you want in the system. Once you've selected them, click send, and the warehouse will process the collection immediately."

In reality, there are only a few commonly used potions, all of which Gu Ding had already refined. However, Gu Ding's goal was to refine all the potions for each rank before advancing to the next rank. There were quite a few types of D-Grade Potion, more than 120 in total. Gu Ding had only refined more than 30 types before, leaving nearly 90 types unrefined. But the free quota was limited, so Gu Ding asked the Sea Emperor to select 50 relatively difficult potions for him, and then requested two portions of each. Only after confirming that everything was correct did he click the send button.

It was clear that Gu Ding's list was not only visible to the people in the warehouse, but also to the old man here. The old man's expression immediately darkened upon seeing the list. He looked up at Gu Ding and said, "Young man, these unconventional potions are rarely used in daily life. If you really want to improve your potion-making skills, I suggest you start by practicing with a few common potions. Don't aim too high."

Gu Ding could only awkwardly force a smile. The old man's words weren't entirely a reprimand; on the contrary, they would have been excellent advice for other alchemists. But for Gu Ding, the advice was meaningless. There were fewer than ten common D-Grade Potions, and under normal circumstances, Gu Ding could already refine over thirty D-Grade Potion to Perfect Quality —those thirty-odd potions long since included common ones.

The old man's outburst also had another layer of meaning: the warehouse staff had an enormous workload every day. A single bottle of D-Grade Potion typically required ten to fifteen different ingredients; fifty different potions meant over five hundred different ingredients, a huge workload for the staff. If everyone were like Gu Ding, idly concocting novel potions for fun, the warehouse staff would be exhausted.

In fact, when the warehouse clerk received the list, he wanted to curse. The list contained fifty different potions, each requiring only two sets of materials. He thought for a moment, wondering if he had recently offended someone. After a long pause, he muttered to himself, "Could it be that Colman lost money gambling last night and is causing trouble today? No, only real pharmacists can collect materials here. It can't be Colman..."

But no matter how much he grumbled, he dared not slack off at work. Helping pharmacists collect materials was his job, and the job paid well, so he didn't want to give it up.

It took about half an hour, with the help of ten intelligent robots, for the warehouse manager to prepare all the materials, sort them, pack them, and send them out.

The old man, with an unfriendly expression, handed all the materials to Gu Ding one by one.

"Thanks, sir!" After putting all the materials into his Storage Space, Gu Ding thanked him somewhat embarrassedly, and then ran away before the old man could lecture him again.

"Sigh, these young people nowadays..." The old man sighed, looking at Gu Ding's retreating figure with an expression of exasperation.

After receiving the free potion, Gu Ding headed towards the public practice room.

In the public practice hall, the potion-making equipment was only basic E-grade, though still better than the F-grade equipment in the Long Teng Universe Country. After all, the Fei Me Universe Country was a five-star Universe Country, not comparable to a two-star Universe Country like Dragon Soaring. In fact, most people practicing in the public practice hall were beginners who had only recently started learning potion-making, and the potions they could make were generally only F-grade or E-grade. Alchemists at D-grade and above usually had some savings and could afford their own potion-making equipment, so they didn't need to come here, or they could simply rent a private alchemy room. Of course, Gu Ding was here on a mission, and he could only make potions in the public practice hall; otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to interact with Elizabeth.

The Medicine God Alliance on Forget-Worry Star seems to have received considerable support from Elizabeth. The public training hall is quite large, with over eight hundred refining tables. Moreover, the atmosphere here is excellent; more than half of the eight hundred refining tables are occupied, leaving only about three hundred empty.

Gu Ding found a refining table where there were few people around and leisurely took out a set of materials for a D-Grade Potion.

The potion he was trying to refine was called Berserk Potion, and its difficulty in refining was even higher than that of Gene Enhancement Potion of the same rank. Therefore, lower-ranking alchemists generally wouldn't attempt to create such a potion. Moreover, a properly made D-Grade Berserk Potion only increased Combat Strength by 50% after injection, a negligible effect. D-Grade Potion were specifically designed for individuals with three gene chains. Even Seventh Order Gene Body with three gene chains had a maximum Combat Strength of only 10,000 points; a 50% increase would only amount to 15,000 points. Against Eighth Order Gene Body, they would be rendered useless.

This kind of potion works better the higher your Combat Strength. If it's a high-level potion, the user must be Tenth-Order Gene Body; their maximum Combat Strength of ten million points can be increased to fifteen million points. Those at that level are naturally willing to spend money to enhance their strength. For sixth and seventh-tier gene bodies, upgrading their gene level isn't difficult; instead of spending money on this kind of potion, they'd be better off buying Energy Crystal to upgrade their gene level.

Gu Ding's appearance went unnoticed by others. He looked like an ordinary teenager, at least slightly handsome. The public practice room was filled with men and women in their thirties and forties, but none of them attracted attention, let alone the seemingly normal Gu Ding.

However, the lack of onlookers was only temporary. Once Gu Ding had prepared all the materials and started refining, his process quickly attracted the attention of other pharmacists nearby... (To be continued).