Emerald City, Philip's alchemy palace,
Li Si looked around the miraculous alchemy palace in amazement and sighed.
"As expected of you. Everything here makes me feel as though I've arrived in another world!"
Everything around him confirmed Li Si's guess about the other party's identity.
A Legendary Alchemist!
Even among Extraordinary Professionals, such figures were exceedingly rare!
Generally speaking, Alchemist was one of the advancement paths available to the Mage Class. However, compared with ordinary Mage Class professionals, Alchemists faced far stricter talent requirements.
Alchemists generally specialized in crafting magical potions and Magical Items. While they could also cast spells of the same level, they were still at a disadvantage compared to other advanced Mage Class professions and relied more heavily on the Magical Items and equipment they crafted.
Aside from not being particularly adept at combat, Alchemists needed to spend vast amounts of time becoming familiar with and studying all kinds of magic materials, mastering a wide range of knowledge. This meant their strength improved far more slowly than that of other professions, while the early stages of their advancement consumed massive quantities of magic materials—something ordinary Extraordinary Professionals could not afford.
Compared to other professionals, Alchemists were more like researchers, shutting themselves away in Mage Towers all day.
Furthermore, the methods Alchemists possessed were not limited to what they themselves could master.
All Mage Class professionals knew at least some alchemical techniques for preparing magical potions and crafting Magical Items. Some even chose Alchemist as a secondary profession, though they were not as specialized as true Alchemists.
Li Si himself was an example. Under Stephens's guidance, his skills were not bad either; he simply had not had much time to devote to that field.
But that did not mean Alchemists were weak. Once their alchemical expertise reached a