Supreme Bounty
Chapter 262

Do You Want to Date Him?

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Meanwhile, at the hotel, Dokter was having lunch at a small restaurant diagonally opposite when he saw Elizabeth and her entourage walking out of the hotel entrance. He quickly paid the bill and followed them.

After passing three intersections, Dokter finally saw Elizabeth's destination— the Forget-Worry Star branch of the Medicine God Alliance. He stood at the street corner and dialed Gu Ding's number.

Upon hearing someone's communicator ring, the onlookers searched frantically, trying to find out who the culprit was. They were afraid the ringing would interrupt Gu Ding's refining process, but they never expected the source of the sound to be Gu Ding himself. The Sea Emperor helped Gu Ding answer the call directly.

"What is it?" Gu Ding asked, his hands still moving without any interruption.

Everyone who saw this was stunned.

Apothecaries are most vulnerable to interruptions when concocting potions, as potion-making is an extremely delicate process. Even the slightest mistake can drastically reduce the quality of the final potion, or worse, cause the entire process to fail. Yet, Gu Ding answered the call directly and was completely unaffected. This was something no one present could do, including the S-Ranked apothecaries. They were required to completely block communication when concocting potions.

"That beautiful queen has not only gone out, but she's also headed towards the Medicine God Alliance. You need to find a way to attract her attention as soon as possible." Since Dokter couldn't enter the Medicine God Alliance, he could only watch from the outside.

"I understand, you can go back to the hotel." After Gu Ding finished speaking, Sea Emperor hung up the call for him. Gu Ding finally raised his head for the first time, wanting to see if Elizabeth and the others had arrived. But seeing a sea of people around him, he roughly knew what had happened. He figured that this situation should be enough to attract Elizabeth's attention, so he lowered his head again to continue the unfinished refining process.

Elizabeth and the others who entered the Medicine God Alliance found it strange that there was no one in the entire Medicine God Alliance except for the guards at the entrance.

"What's going on? There's not a single person here. Not even a sound... Could it be that everyone in the Medicine God Alliance has been slaughtered?" Medea said with some dissatisfaction.

The four Demigod Realm bodyguards became more vigilant, surrounding the two women from the front and back.

"Let's go to the public practice hall first. It might be a duel between two powerful pharmacists, and everyone else has gone to watch." Elizabeth had experienced something similar before, when it was a duel between two S-Ranked pharmacists, but it wasn't as serious as this time. Not a single sound could be heard.

Pushing open the door to the public practice room, Elizabeth and her entourage finally saw the crowd that surrounded them like a high city wall.

"What's going on?" Medea covered her mouth and laughed as she looked at the spectacular scene.

"Shh!" Several people turned around at the same time and gestured for her to be quiet.

"What exactly happened?" Medea asked loudly, ignoring the actions of the others.

At this, dozens of people turned their heads and gestured for her to be quiet. This was the first time Medea had received such treatment. In the past, people had always ignored others because of her beauty. She never expected that this time, these people would disregard her beauty for the sake of another person.

Elizabeth grabbed Medea's arm and slowly rose into the air until her head almost touched the ceiling before stopping.

The ability to fly is a unique ability of gods; the world that springs up within them can resist the gravity of the stars.

After the two women flew into the sky, they saw the reason why everyone was gathered there: a young man was concocting a potion.

Seeing Gu Ding's terrifying hand speed, even Medea, who didn't know much about potion making, could tell that this young man was no ordinary person. "Miss, his movements are so smooth, like flowing water." This time, she said it through telepathy.

"His basic skills are quite good. I was far inferior to him at his age." Elizabeth is a true God-rank Pharmacist Master. In the entire Fei Me Universe Country, her alchemy skills are among the top three. She is always very meticulous in alchemy, and Gu Ding is the first person to receive her personal praise.

Elizabeth watched Gu Ding's concoction process for over an hour. In that short time, Gu Ding produced six vials of potions, all of Perfect Quality. She also noticed that Gu Ding only concocted two vials of each type of potion. Each time, the first vial took about twenty minutes to prepare, and the second about eight minutes. From this, she could clearly see that Gu Ding had never deciphered the formulas for these potions before. Therefore, he was very cautious during the first concoction of each vial, slowing down to allow himself to understand the entire process. However, he completed the second vial in one go, without any pause. Clearly, the first vial was for learning, and the second was for consolidation.

Elizabeth, through Gu Ding's demonstration of alchemy, roughly guessed his reason for creating these potions—to refine all the D-Grade Potion and then advance to C-grade. Such an alchemist was undoubtedly terrifying, because he not only possessed enviable talent, but he had also solidified his alchemy foundation to an impenetrable, Steel Fortress -like level.

"Let's postpone today's lesson until tomorrow," Elizabeth said, not wanting to disturb the audience's observation. In fact, such an observation was much more effective than her dry lecture. Moreover, those with higher-level apothecaries would benefit more.

"But weren't you planning to go to the Cat Paradise tomorrow?" Medea asked, somewhat puzzled.

"We won't be going to Cat Paradise this time. We used to go every time we came to Forget-Worry Star, so it's okay to skip it once," Elizabeth said with a smile and a shake of her head.

"Alright, you said it yourself, so don't come later and complain about changing the itinerary." Medea knew Elizabeth's personality well; she was truly a woman whose heart was as unfathomable as the sea. Even Medea, a woman herself, sometimes couldn't figure her out.

"Qiao Di, you stay here. Let me know as soon as the boy finishes refining it." Elizabeth seemed to have some plans.

"Miss, although that boy has some talent in alchemy, he's not even S-Rank Pharmacist yet, is he? Do you really need to value him so much?" Medea, somewhat puzzled.

"The classification of pharmacists isn't a simple one. While S-rank pharmacists can indeed concoct S-Ranked potions, even among S-rank pharmacists, some can create Perfect Quality S-rank potions, while others struggle to even produce Good Quality. That young man, we just saw him concoct six potions, all of them Perfect Quality. Even though he only concocted D-Grade Potion, the high rate of Perfect Quality is something many S-Ranked pharmacists can't achieve. That's why those S-rank pharmacists' eyes lit up; they could learn something from him. Of course, for me, he's still too inexperienced; I can't learn much from him. But I think discussing the bottlenecks I'm currently facing in potion-making with him might be helpful."

"So, you want to go on a date with him?" Medea teased. "Then I won't be a third wheel. Anyway, I might fall asleep listening to you guys talk about potion making. I'd rather go back to the hotel and watch TV."

"I'm going to explore the Giant Wood Forest now, do you want to come?" Elizabeth ignored her teasing and turned to walk out of the Medicine God Alliance.

The Giant Wood Forest is a very peculiar place on the Forget-Worry Star. All the plants and animals here are hundreds of times larger than normal. A mushroom can grow from nothing to several meters tall overnight after a rain, and a rabbit can grow to tens of meters long. Scientists from the Fei Me Universe Country have conducted detailed research and reports on this strange phenomenon, but they have never been able to figure out why this forest is different. They have studied the local soil and water quality, dissected animals, and extracted tissues from various parts of many plants, but still have found nothing. And this is also a good place for Elizabeth to relax.

In this forest, she felt increasingly insignificant and the vastness of the universe, and she could temporarily experience the feeling of **.

Medea and her three bodyguards quickly followed Elizabeth after she left, leaving only the Bald Head man, Qiao Di, behind. After Elizabeth and the others departed, he found a stool near the door and reluctantly sat down.

Gu Ding continued brewing the potion until it got dark and the crowd finally dispersed.

In twenty-two hours, Gu Ding had used nearly half of the free potion materials he had obtained, acquiring forty-eight bottles of Perfect Quality D-Grade Gene Serum. He finally felt somewhat exhausted and hungry.

After storing the forty-eighth bottle of potion in his Storage Space, Gu Ding cleaned the equipment before walking out of the public practice hall under the watchful eyes of the remaining people.

"Are you coming again tomorrow?" a pharmacist asked, seemingly still wanting more.

"Come here!" Gu Ding paused, nodded, and then strode away.

"Sea Emperor, has Elizabeth come?" Gu Ding couldn't help but ask. He had been completely absorbed in making the potion and was unaware of what was happening in the outside world.

"She came by. She saw your crafting and gave it a good review." The Sea Emperor continued, "The Bald Head man sitting not far from the door was one of Elizabeth's bodyguards. He just dialed a number. I'll switch the line and eavesdrop."

"Miss, the potion for that boy has been completed and he just left the public practice hall. Should I abduct him?"

"No need, I'll be right there!" A woman's voice, somewhat familiar to Gu Ding, came from the other end of the communicator... (To be continued.)

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