Alchemist In The Apocalypse: Rise Of A Legend!

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[Third Person POV],

"Seeing as you haven't evolved yet, I'm not sure if you know this but a catalyst is needed when one evolves to the next rank", Andrew Dawn said as Ace and Andrew Dawn including his men behind him with their comrades on their backs as they made their way to the area the body of the rat queen was as Andrew Dawn and Ace had a conversation between themselves.

The area where the battle had taken place was in an open space with trees that were spacey placed around dozen of meters away from each other.

The place where Andrew Dawn had thrown the body of the rat queen was now located in another area that was dense with huge ancient-looking trees so they had to walk for a while before they reached the forest where the body of the rat queen but this did not mean much and was even a good thing for Ace because he had more time to talk with Andrew Dawn now.

"What do you mean by catalyst?" Ace asked as this time he was genuinely confused.

'Wasn't evolving to the next rank just a click of a button just like how it is for levelling up where i just have to fufill a few conditions and get stronger?'

Immediately after Ace had this thought, he realised that his past thoughts must have been too simple because if it was that easy to evolve, why did the primordial chronicle and the knowledge in his head hold ranked creatures in high regard?

Now that he thought about it a little, even in alchemy, Alchemy only gets truly interesting, challegening and useful when the items created through it are ranked.

The berserk pill was a good example as it couldn't even have its grade lowered for easier consumption for unranked species.

There must be something much more about evolving than just being strong but due to his limited interaction with ranked intelligent species like Andrew Dawn, Ace had no way of knowing about knowledge that was perhaps common knowledge for the primordial chronicle to even dismiss it in all the knowledge he brought from the store.

But then again, it wasn't like he had viewed the information about his job requirements after completing it so perhaps this information was stated there and he was right about his assumption because Andrew Dawn confirmed it with his next words.

"Yes, you'll need a catalyst.

This knowledge is actually rare and is quite common for most people because as long as you have completed your job requirements, the primordial chronicle will inform you about the things that needed to be done before one could evolve", Andrew Dawn said as he went around the huge tree in front of him with his men and Ace as Ace asked him another question.

"Then can you tell me the things that need to be done before one evolves?" Ace asked as he subconsciously stroked the head of blue in his arms.

From Andrew Dawn's words, he didn't need to ask this question since he had already completed his job requirements so knowledge relating to this catalyst and so on should surely be stated in whatever notification that the primordial chronicle sent and might send but he wanted to hear it from a ranked creature and there was no other person he personally knew apart from Andrew Dawn.

Perhaps the little Andrew Dawn will tell him might go a far way and as there was no danger in asking, Ace asked Andrew Dawn to tell him his experience when he wanted to evolve.

Thankfully, Andrew Dawn had no problem with this and was rather energetic when he told Ace what he knew.

"Perhaps you might be wondering why evolving to the next rank isn't just a click of a button just like how it is for levelling up?"  Andrew Dawn said as he started his speech with this while Ace tried to not ignore the fact that this was exactly what he was thinking but as there was no reason for him to admit this, he just kept quiet and waited for Andrew Dawn to continue.

"I also had this thought but I got to realise things weren't as simple as just evolving when it came to turning into a higher lifeform."

"Higher lifeform?" Ace muttered aloud as he heard a term he hadn't heard for quite some time now and now that he heard it, his initial focus became slightly shifted.

Unfortunately, Andrew Dawn wasn't interested in talking about this matter with Ace as he continued with what he was discussing before.

"As you get stronger, these things will come to you naturally so there's no need to rush as this information doesn't really have a good use for you now", Andrew Dawn stated as Ace nodded his head to show his understanding and Andrew continued to say what he wanted to say after seeing this.

"Evolving for everyone is quite different for people due to everyone not always having the same job.

For people with common jobs, a catalyst is most times not even needed.

For jobs with grades above common grade, a catalyst is quite important since it is quite risky itself and not everyone evolves on the first try."

"First try? Are you trying to say there's a success rate in evolving", Ace interrupted Andrew Dawn's words as he stated this due to his puzzlement.

It was starting to look like evolving was another challenge on its own but fortunately for Ace's curiosity, Andrew Dawn was patient in his explanation as the two continued to converse and Ace only when they came across the body of the rat queen that was laying on the ground with a bloody appearance did they stop talking.