Wizard: I can refine everything

The wizard academy has no rigid requirements for apprentices to choose mentors, or many wizards don't want to accept apprentices at all.

For most wizards, apprentices will only distract their attention.

Richard searched for a long time in the mentor column of the Central Black Tower and screened out all the mentors who were famous for alchemy.

After excluding wizards who had not accepted apprentices for many years and wizards with extremely harsh conditions for accepting apprentices, a wizard named Qiaoluode caught his attention.

"Qiaoluode of the Alchemy School, a second-level wizard, mainly researches alchemy, and has accepted 1,300 apprentices in the past 100 years."

Richard looked at Qiaoluo's information and felt that he seemed to have heard of this name somewhere.

"Isn't this Anna's mentor and the wizard who made my wizard robe?"

Thinking of Anna's deterrence on the podium and the skills he extracted from the wizard robe, Richard could conclude that this Qiaoluode wizard must be a master.

"Let me see what the conditions are for apprentices. They must reach the level of a low-level apprentice and complete at least one of the tasks he has issued." Richard touched his chin. "These conditions are indeed easy. No wonder he can accept more than a hundred apprentices every year."

But it was easy, and Richard did not meet either of these two conditions.

"It will probably take a year to become a low-level apprentice. Let's go and see the tasks he has issued first."

Coming to the 25th floor of the Central Black Tower, this is the Academy Task Release Hall, where apprentices can freely accept tasks issued by the Academy.

Richard walked into the hall. The large hall is divided into three parts. On the far left are daily tasks issued by the Academy, which mainly include maintaining the Academy's equipment, patrolling the corners of the Academy, and the cities and mountains within the Academy's sphere of influence. These are tasks with extremely low difficulty and extremely low benefits.

On the far right side of the hall, there are trial tasks, which mainly include hunting monsters and investigating some dangerous events within the Academy's sphere of influence. These are tasks with extremely high danger and great benefits.

In between the two, there is also an area with the most apprentices, where tasks issued by wizards within the Academy are issued. These tasks range from collecting herbs to refining potions. They are moderately difficult and dangerous, but the benefits are also considerable.

Richard came to the middle area and suddenly found that his crystal ball lit up by itself. Richard used his mental power to explore and found that he could see all the tasks issued by wizards in the crystal ball.

"Awesome."

Richard exclaimed and began to look for the tasks of the wizard Joelod in the tasks.

After searching for a while, a task to extract 50 grams of red mercury appeared in front of him.

"Red mercury is an explosive liquid metal. Please carefully consider your strength when accepting apprentices. If the extraction is completed, please submit it on the 56th floor of the Central Black Tower. The reward is 100 magic stones."

Richard looked at the task description and equated this thing with nitroglycerin in his mind.

"But this task has no time limit, let's talk about it first. And the miracle furnace can also refine substances. This time it's just right to try the effect."

Richard walked to the counter and a snake-haired witch who looked like Medusa received him. Richard glanced at the silver pentagram on the snake-haired witch's wizard robe.

In the Black Tower Wizard Academy, the silver pentagram is the mark of an apprentice.

"Sister, I want to take the 1205th mission."

The witch glanced at him and said, "Little guy, you are a freshman. The mission of Jorode is not so easy to take."

"Huh? What do you mean, sister? Master Jorode's mission is always difficult?" Richard smiled and tried to make the most of his appearance.

The snake-haired witch glanced at Richard, and a playful smile appeared at the corner of her mouth: "Don't be so close."

But even though she said so, the snake-haired witch still told Richard the news about Jorode.

"Jorode's mission is notoriously thankless. Although he recruits hundreds of apprentices every year, only a few of them can be personally guided by him."

"Is there such a thing?" Richard was shocked. "Then why does he recruit so many apprentices?"

"What else can he do? Work for him." The snake-haired witch fiddled with her fingers. "He has an alchemy workshop, and most of the apprentices he recruits go to work in his alchemy workshop.

I advise you, if you are not very talented in alchemy, you should not work for Jorode."

After listening to this, Richard pondered for a moment. There are only a few wizards who specialize in alchemy in the academy, and each of the other alchemy wizards has extremely harsh conditions for apprentices. If he gives up Jorode, he may not be able to embark on the path of an alchemy wizard.

Besides, this mission has no time limit and the reward is also very generous. Even if you don't choose Jorode as your mentor, it is not bad to simply earn some magic stones.

"Thanks for your advice, sister, but I think I have some talent in alchemy. I'll take his task."

The snake-haired wizard was not surprised by Richard's reaction. She had seen too many wizards like Richard over the years.

Everyone thinks that they are gifted and that they can win the favor of wizards. But in the end, only a few can really succeed.

"Another one who doesn't listen to advice. It's a waste of a good face. Give me the crystal ball, I'll register your information."

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After leaving the mission hall, Richard immediately walked towards the commercial district.

To refine red mercury, a raw material called sunstone is needed. This material is so unpopular that Richard couldn't find it in the shops in the commercial district for a long time.

Finally, Richard found out that an alchemy store called Anna's Cottage sells this material.

"Anna's Hut, it can't be opened by that Anna." Richard looked at the name of the store, and his eyes twitched twice.

The tasks issued by the mentor require the raw materials to be purchased from his apprentice's store. This Jorod wizard is really a business genius.

Anna's Hut seems to often receive apprentices who accept Jorod's tasks. After Richard stated his purpose, the clerk immediately handed him a bag.

"Two kilograms of sunstone, enough to extract fifty grams of red mercury. The price is five hundred academy coins."

Five magic stones, this price made Richard's heart skip a beat.

Compared with the reward, the price of this raw material is a bit too cheap. In addition to fraud, the only reason Richard can think of for this kind of business is that red mercury extraction is very easy to fail, and sunstone needs to be purchased repeatedly.

"Okay, this is the magic stone."

Richard took the bag with a heavy heart.

The magic stone minus five, he still has five magic stones left.

After returning to the room, Richard reread the information about red mercury extraction in the crystal ball.

After confirming that the refining of red mercury did not require the sunstone to be mixed with other things, Richard took a deep breath and took out a piece of sunstone.

[Raw materials: sunstone (1 kilogram)]

[Refinable material: red mercury]

[Refining consumption: 100 magic power]

[Refining]