Chapter 711: Pill Duels

It was the first day of the Youth Alchemists' Exchange. Any young, star-ranked alchemist could sign up. The format was a pill duel-a common way alchemists test each other. In these matches, each alchemist would deliberately create the kinds of problems that come up during pill refining, then present them for the other to solve. Solve it, and you win. Fail, and you lose. Since both sides set their own traps, sometimes the match ended in a draw. Star-ranked alchemists were rare, and even fewer were...