Abel's territory of the Elf race had now been cultivated by him into something resembling a paradise beyond the mortal world. The entrance to Ao Ya Valley was protected by a Defense Array, while the surrounding peaks were densely planted with thorn bushes.
Now, when he came to this territory, he no longer needed to use Master Bennett's identity. He could come directly as a human, because every elf in Ao Ya Valley had signed a magical contract with him.
However, he was going to Anyost City today, so he had to switch to Master Bennett's identity.
When Abel stepped out of the teleportation array in the Alchemist Guild, he found that nothing had changed during the past year. The only difference was that he did not encounter any acquaintances today.
He made his way up to the second floor with ease and entered the library.
His purpose today was to look for information related to advancing from an Advanced Alchemy Pattern to a Master-level Alchemy Pattern. Although he had reached a bottleneck in his advancement to Intermediate Wizard, advancing his Advanced Alchemy Pattern to a Master-level Alchemy Pattern did not involve so many restrictions.
The intermediate- and advanced-grade potions he had refined over the past year outnumbered those refined by an ordinary Senior Alchemist in an entire lifetime. Moreover, because he had never failed, the quality of his finished products was far beyond what ordinary Senior Alchemists could match.
Every refinement added some energy to the Alchemy Pattern within an alchemist's body. This was the rule governing alchemists. Whenever a refinement succeeded, the amount of energy added would increase considerably.
This was why Abel had completed most of an ordinary Senior Alchemist's lifetime of energy accumulation in just one year of real-world time, filling his Advanced Alchemy Pattern. Of