Romance

The First Arch Alchemist Drops His Mask

by Silk & Feathers

I am Carlton Helfer, the most useless alchemy student in Crucible.Whenever I tried to craft pills, I somehow blew up the entire compound to pieces.So, my teacher, Caspian Hemlock, never allowed me to touch a cauldron, and my female peers always took the blame for me.Then, Zephyr Tierra arrived in town. He was a once-in-a-millennium prodigy at pill crafting.He swore he could raise our order to glory, and he loathed worthless trash like me above all else.So, he organized a pill-crafting tournament with my female peers, using me as a negative example every single day.On the day of the Arch-Alchemist’s election, he and my female peers drugged me with a crippling draught and cast me into the Miasma Woods.I died, but my soul stayed. I bound myself to a Zero to Hero System.The system spoke, “Carlton, you have fulfilled the prerequisite: A Wretched Death. The First Alchemist’s Legacy acquired.”When I opened my eyes again, I had returned to the day Zephyr Tierra arrived in town.This time, when I flicked my finger, Enneaphyllon, an herb extinct for ages, sprouted from my palm.Zephyr’s eyes went wide. “I-Impossible!”I sneered and said, “Don’t you know that a true arch-alchemist doesn’t need a cauldron?”Every herb and every tree in the whole of Crucible was my elixir.

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