Yes, this was not a discussion of academic issues, but a sincere request for advice. Besides, Wilkinson could clearly tell from Balbo's words that he was almost certain that President Felic would be able to answer those questions.
"So, there's no mysterious teacher at all. He's the pharmaceutics Master," Wilkinson muttered to himself.
Wilkinson no longer had any doubts about the young President Felic's abilities during the training. His experience in the past few days and the contents of the letter were the best answers to all his doubts.
Just as Wilkinson was deep in thought, his companions went to his room worriedly, only to see him sitting in front of the window in a daze with the letter in his hand. Someone patted Wilkinson's shoulder, and asked, "Wilkinson, what's wrong? What are you so engrossed in?"
Someone patted Wilkinson's shoulder, and he snapped back to his senses. When he saw his companions standing beside him, he felt that he should at least tell them about this matter, lest they missed the opportunity to learn from Lin Li because of a moment of anger. However, the letter could not be shown to them. Hence, he folded the letter, and said, "It's a letter from Teacher to Master Felic."
"Wait … Wait, what did you say? Master Felic! "
Master Felic? In his memory, only the owner of this place, the young President of the Guild of Magic, was called Felic. How could he be a Master!?
The few of them thought that there was something wrong with their ears, and all of them focused their attention on the letter in Wilkinson's hand. If it were anything else, they would have snatched it for a look. However, it was a letter written by President Balbo, after all. Wilkinson was President Balbo's student, so it shouldn't be a problem for him to read the letter, but it was inappropriate for them to read it.
"Yes, Teacher said in the letter that although President Felic is not registered in our Pharmacist Guild, his attainments in pharmaceutics have definitely reached the Master-level …" Wilkinson's voice was trembling as he spoke. Clearly, he had yet to recover from the shock.
Upon hearing Wilkinson's words, the few of them stiffened, and their eyes widened to the limit. Their mouths also opened slowly, as if their jaws were going to be dislocated. What a joke! No one would be able to remain calm after hearing such a piece of news. A pharmaceutics Master! Even the powerful Legendary powerhouses would have to be polite to a pharmaceutics Master. It could be said that the status of a pharmaceutics Master was already at the top of Anril.
"He …" They swallowed with some difficulty and said with a trembling voice, "Could it be … true? That President Felic … he's only twenty years old. How is that possible? He's a pharmaceutics Master. "
This was simply beyond the limits of their imagination. A twenty year old intermediate pharmacist was already a genius, but a twenty year old advanced pharmacist was already unimaginable. But now, the fact in front of them was a twenty-year-old pharmaceutics master.
Master Pharmacist!
This news quickly spread among the thirty-five young pharmacists. Everyone could not believe their ears when they heard it, but after the extreme shock, they felt incomparable excitement and joy.
In fact, in just the past few days, the pharmacists had already been greatly impressed by the two lectures given by the young President Felic. First, the formulation of the advanced potions, and then, the answers to Wilkinson's questions. At this moment, they finally understood the painstaking efforts of President Balbo in sending them there. They realized that the training was not a pretense, and was really beneficial to them.
Wilkinson held onto the letter that had been ravaged beyond recognition, and handed it to Lin Li anxiously. After the others recovered from the shock and sighed, they finally remembered their own work. This time, it was different from before. All of them were full of energy because they knew how precious the opportunity to receive guidance from a Master was.
"President Felic, this is the letter that Teacher asked me to pass to you. Due to … some reasons, I … didn't pass it to you until now. I'm really sorry." Wilkinson looked very awkward, and did not know how to explain the pitiful state of the letter. He couldn't possibly say that he had forgotten about it because he was depressed.
However, Lin Li did not care much about the appearance of the letter. Anyway, there wasn't even a magical imprint on the envelope. Hence, it was obvious that it was not an important letter. "Thank you." He thanked Wilkinson and placed the letter aside. He then said politely, "It's been some time since I left Alanna. I wonder if President Balbo has been doing well."
"Oh, yes, Teacher is doing well." Seeing that Lin Li did not pursue the matter of the letter, Wilkinson finally heaved a sigh of relief. After all, he already knew that he was not only facing the President of a Guild of Magic, but also a pharmaceutics Master. It would be impossible to say that he did not feel pressured.
Lin Li was just being polite. After all, Wilkinson had asked his student to deliver a letter to him, so he had to ask about how he was doing. After exchanging a few pleasantries, Lin Li saw that Wilkinson still did not take the initiative to leave. Hence, he asked, "What's the matter, Pharmacist Wilkinson? Is there anything else?"
"Ah, yes …" Upon hearing Lin Li's question, Wilkinson could not be bothered to be embarrassed. With a passionate gaze, he said, "President Felic, I wonder when I can hear a professor like you again."
So that's what he's asking about. It seems that Balbo's letter has saved me a lot of trouble. Lin Li smiled, and said, "You guys should also know that the potions that I'm going to give you now are going to be used in the defense facilities of Black Clouds Town. Hence, the official lesson will probably be after this."
His answer made Wilkinson feel somewhat disappointed, but on second thought, he felt that it was only right for them to do some work for Lin Li since he was not charging them any tuition fees. He couldn't possibly delay the important matters just for the sake of teaching them. In that case, wouldn't they be able to listen to Master Felic's lessons earlier if they could finish their work earlier? At the thought of this, he got excited again, and hurriedly bade farewell to Lin Li.
After Wilkinson returned, he was immediately surrounded by his peers, who naturally asked him about when the young Master Felic was going to start teaching them. Even in the Pharmacist Guild, they would not be able to listen to Master Felic's lessons often even if they were the cream of the crop among their peers.
After hearing Wilkinson's answer, everyone immediately scurried back to their seats. Just like Wilkinson, they wanted to help Master Felic finish his work as soon as possible so that they could listen to Master Felic's lessons as soon as possible.
Hope was the driving force for humans to move forward. Hence, the pharmacists almost exerted their abilities to the limit, and the speed and efficiency of preparing potions also increased significantly.
After about six days, Lin Li finally finished preparing the few types of poisons that he had designed to deal with the enemies. The poisons were all formulated using the weakened formulations of high-level forbidden drugs. Their main purpose was not to kill the enemies, but to weaken them to the greatest extent possible. The poisons had the high penetration and irresistible properties of high-level forbidden drugs, but they would not cause irreparable harm to Black Clouds Town due to the possibility of leakage.
After putting all the poisons into the magic gears, the new Black Clouds Town's defense system was finally completed, and the pharmacists' job was to prepare potions for sale. Of course, Lin Li did not forget his previous promise, and arranged for one to two hours of lessons every day.
After all, Lin Li still had important things to do, and he couldn't really be a full-time teacher. The time that Tutankhamun had mentioned was getting closer and closer. Under such circumstances, it was already not easy to squeeze out one to two hours of time every day.
The one to two hours of lessons should not be underestimated. Having such a lesson every day was already much better than when he was in the Pharmacists Guild. Although there were a few Masters in the Pharmacists Guild, they were all very busy, and did not have the time to give lessons every day.
Besides, Lin Li's mind was filled with knowledge that was far beyond the level of pharmaceutics in this world. There were many theories and techniques that the pharmacists had never seen or heard of before. Even a master like Balbo had a lot of knowledge that he had never heard of, let alone these low-level and intermediate-level pharmacists. Although the pharmacists had already recognized Lin Li's identity as a pharmaceutics Master, Lin Li was actually a pharmaceutics Guru.
Before the class officially started, the young pharmacists were also a little worried, because people generally had the mentality that there was no good stuff if it was cheap, and this training class did not even charge tuition fees. Regardless of how capable Lin Li was, whether he was much stronger than President Balbo, or whether he had surpassed all the Masters in the Pharmacists Guild, if he did not teach you, it would be useless no matter how capable you were.
However, the topic that Lin Li threw out during the first formal lesson immediately dispelled the doubts in everyone's hearts.
What was the most important thing to a pharmacist?
The formula of a potion.
The formula of a potion was the foundation of a pharmacist, just like the incantations of a mage. In order to truly master a formula, one had to have a deep understanding of the medicinal properties of the various ingredients in the formula. A person who only knew how to fill the prescription could only be a person who filled the prescription, and not a person who wrote the prescription.
What Lin Li taught was through the analysis of the formula, deducing the medicinal properties, and then allowing people to completely master the formula. In fact, this was the method that he used to modify those forbidden potion formulas and weaken them. Through the medicinal properties deduction method, not only could the pharmacists know the medicinal properties of the medicinal ingredients at the beginning, but they could also know the changes in the medicinal properties of the various medicinal ingredients at every moment of the preparation process.
To these young pharmacists, this medicinal properties deduction method was definitely knowledge that could benefit them for life. Perhaps, with their current level, they could not see any obvious effects. However, when they came into contact with high-level formulas in the future, with this method, they would be able to understand faster and more thoroughly than others, and obtain more from the formula than others.
To be able to learn such knowledge from the beginning, the doubts in these pharmacists' hearts were immediately dispelled, and they felt ashamed of their previous worries. Even their own teachers might not easily impart such valuable pharmaceutical knowledge, but it seemed to be very common here. The only thing that could be learned was not taught.
As long as they mastered this medicinal properties deduction method, it could be said that there would be no difficulty in becoming a high-level pharmacist in the future. Hence, although they still had to prepare potions for sale in addition to learning, none of them felt aggrieved. After learning this medicinal properties deduction method, they were willing to work for nothing for 10 years.
However, this was just the beginning.
Everyone would have their own areas of expertise and areas that they were not good at. Even the masters of the Pharmacist Guild did not dare to say that they were well-versed in all aspects. However, these young pharmacists discovered that Lin Li seemed to have dabbled in all aspects of knowledge. Or rather, it could not be said that he had dabbled in them, but rather that he was proficient in them.
As the course gradually deepened, many of the theories and techniques that they had never heard of before made them feel as if they had seen another world. The more they learned from Lin Li, the more these young pharmacists felt that they could not see the limits of Lin Li's pharmaceutics. It was just like what a famous scholar said: the knowledge that one learned was like a circle, and the more one learned, the more unknowns there would be. To them, the young Master Felic's knowledge was the unknown outside the circle.
There was even one time when these young pharmacists made a bet in private to see who could find a question that Master Felic could not answer. If it had been a pharmaceutics Master like President Balbo, they would definitely not have dared to do so. However, Master Felic was only 20 years old, after all.
However, they were only intermediate Paper-level pharmacists, and it took them a lot of effort to find a problem that could stump a Master. Hence, after a lesson, Wilkinson took out a very famous problem in pharmaceutics — Hopley's conjecture — and asked the young Master Felic for advice.
Lin Li had not really learned about pharmaceutics in this world, and did not have an accurate understanding of the level of pharmaceutics in this world. He had only learned a little from the pharmacists that he had come into contact with. How could he know that Wilkinson had given him a famous problem in the history of pharmaceutics? He thought that it was a problem that an intermediate pharmacist would encounter, and would at most involve advanced pharmaceutics.
"Oh, this problem …" Lin Li subconsciously muttered after looking at the problem.
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