Abe the Wizard

As they were speaking, the carriage had already arrived at the highest point of Moka City. It was where the alchemy union headquarter was located. After the carriage stopped, Bernie was the first one to step out.

When Abel also stepped out of the carriage, he saw 2 dwarfs in alchemy robes with an master alchemist of honour badge on their chest.

Although there were managers in each alchemy union, true power was held by the master alchemists of honour. They were the only one with the special permission to move all resources in the union.

The 2 dwarfs who greeted Abel were Master alchemist of honour. That was no surprise.

“The prestigious Master Bennett, welcome to the Alchemy Union in Moga City. I am Fettes, and this is Benchley!” Master Fettes said and bowed along with Master Benchley.

The 2 master alchemists of honor acted very respectfully. They knew what Abel’s visit signified.

“The elves’ Bennett is greatly honoured to accept your greetings!” Abel bowed back.

“Master Bennett, please follow me. We have organized a little greeting ceremony for you!” Master Fettes bowed again.

Although Abel wasn’t too fond of greeting ceremonies, he still smiled back and stepped in the union with Bernie.

This alchemy union was different from the other ones Abel had seen. It had a brutal architecture style, typical of the dwarven style, which was the complete opposite to the elves’s love for delicacy.

But of course, the purpose of their unions were completely different at the end of the day. One was for potion making, and the other was for metallurgy.

30 alchemist dwarfs stood in the union. Their alchemy badges were clearly displayed on their chests, and they were either intermediate or low rank alchemists.

As far as Abel understood, more than half of the dwarf’s intermediate alchemists were gathered here.

It was not easy for the dwarfs to cultivate an alchemist. This was because an alchemist needed to possess the power of the will, which most dwarfs did not have.

Also, most dwarfs with strong power of the will would want to become wizards instead, leaving only small amounts of dwarfs to become alchemists.

Wizardry was very time consuming, and so was alchemy. It was almost impossible for a person to pursue these 2 occupations at once. Both humans and dwarfs had a limited power of the will.

Not everyone was like Abel, who could take advantage of the time difference between the Dark World and the Holy Continent to gather enough time for forgery, alchemy, and wizardry at the same time.

“Congratulations to the prestigious Master Bennett!” The 30 dwarf alchemists said loudly and bowed.

You could tell how prepared the alchemy union in Moga City was just by looking at this. There was not a single dwarf in the hall other than these 30 alchemist dwarfs, so no one could interrupt Abel.

The reason for Abel’s visit was to learn. So it was very important for the dwarfs to create a good study environment for him.

Therefore the alchemy union in Moga City locked down and kicked out all unnecessary members prior to Abel’s arrival. If those alchemists had not insisted on seeing the Master Alchemist in the Holy Continent, they would be kicked out as well.

Their demand was too strong for the Alchemy Union in Moga City to decline.

Abel smiled and bowed. When he stood up again, he realised how passionate those alchemists were from their eyes.

He was like a superstar in the union. There had been many alchemy geniuses in the past 1000 years, and all of them had glory next to their names.

But all of those geniuses were stuck on the last step. This was why a Master Alchemist had become the ultimate symbol for every alchemist. “Master Bennett, do you want to say something to them?” Master Fettes asked gently.

Abel could see how genuine each of those alchemists were, so he smiled and nodded.

“I am Bennett, an alchemist. The reason I am here today is to learn alchemy, a school of alchemy that is as important as potion-making.

In the past hundreds of thousands of years, the dwarfs’ alchemy research had created success after success. This is why the dwarfs had become the most powerful metallurgists!”

The 30 alchemist dwarfs began to clap. Abel was humble, perfectly reflecting his respect for the dwarfs’ alchemy achievement.

The dwarfs were very touched by his humbleness. As far as they knew, they were the ones who invited Master Bennett to help them.

“Master Bennett, please come this way!” Their greeting ceremony ended shortly and Master Fettes led Abel to a control room.

Bernie saw that his mission was complete and he wouldn’t get involved with the business of the alchemy union, so he bowed and said, “Master Bennett, you can go in with Master Fettes. I have something to do, so I’ll leave you here!”

Abel nodded and stepped into the control room with Master Fettes.

The control room was equipped with alchemy equipment. The only thing extra was a ground furnace.

“Master Bennett, you are a potion maker. The union has told me to exchange some metallurgy knowledge with you!” Master Fettes said respectfully.

Actually, the Alchemy Union in Moga City had told Master Fettes to be Abel’s teacher in metallurgy. But he was only a master alchemist of honor, and he couldn’t bring himself to say the word teach in the face of an actual master alchemist.

“Master Fettes, you are too polite. I am very thankful for your teachings. I will give it all I got!” Abel smiled and bowed.

Abel remained humble. Although metallurgy was a branch of alchemy, he didn’t know anything about it. It would be very hard for someone other than a dwarf to learn metallurgy, let alone being taught by a Master Alchemist of honour.

At that moment, he was a student—a student of metallurgy.

Abel’s words made Master Fettes nod again.

“Through metallurgy, you can create materials that are not possible in the natural world. For example the magic materials in magic rings, magic necklace, magic staffs. They all use metallurgy to come to life!”Master Fettes explained.

Abel never really paid attention to this until he heard these words from Master Fettes. He had a lot of passive magic protection devices on him, but he never knew how they were made.

He knew how to draw runes on bigger gears such as shield, armour, belt, and helmet through his forgery skills.

But for little things like magic rings, drawing runes was not possible. They were too small to support an energy exchange between a rune and a mana gem. Also, a drawn rune must be drawn with rune ink infused with dimensional force, so there was simply not enough room for it.

Normally a rune would be etched on to a magic jewellery before installing a mana gem on to it for energy.

Therefore, it’s material needed to be very special. Those materials needed to have a special attribute according to different rune and magic circles.

Magic jewelry was impossible without metallurgy, but even though those magic jewellery had very special attributes, they could not be used as real defense weapon due to the strength of Metallurgy.