High Above

"Why haven't you replied to me yet? Is there something wrong with the review?"

However, until the afternoon, after Ian finished his experiment, he had not seen any news from the association coming through his contact crystal board.

This made Ian very surprised - he did not propose a new theory this time, but only published a paper in the name of improving pharmaceuticals. Although it was a bit shocking for his age, pharmaceutical science is always making progress.

In fact, before Ian, many people had already tried to transform magic weapons and potions, but it was a bit difficult and required repeated experiments. Not everyone has Ian's prophetic powers and the Ellen family's. We had enough budget, so we didn’t make it to the end.

Ian does not intend to monopolize the reputation himself. He has already contacted other alchemists whose papers he cited and reached an agreement. In this way, the association should be able to provide results soon.

But the result was not. He had been waiting for almost a week, and the initial review and storage notice was not sent out.

"Is it true that some noble alchemist hacked my thesis and planned to change it to his own name?"

Even Ian couldn't help but think of this very exaggerated possible development, but in fact this kind of thing really happened.

At that time, when Axel, the guardian of the soil, had just succeeded to the throne, a grassroots alchemist was forcibly taken away from his research results by a noble alchemist. He really had no way to turn to him, and no one could help him. No one believed that it was the result of his research.

But fortunately, Axel, who succeeded to the throne, immediately launched a purge of the old aristocratic system. Needless to say, the result was that the lucky alchemist had a happy ending, while the nobles who oppressed others were ruined.

Since then, most of the new aristocratic forces have not been able to, at least they will not do such shameless things so arrogantly.

Shaking his head and getting rid of his fantasy, Ian contacted the association and asked about the review of his thesis.

Two pieces of bad news.

The bad news is that no one took away Ian's paper, it's just that the association has too many things to do recently and has no time to review it.

Now Ian could no longer show his academic ability by slapping the brainless nobles in the face, and at the same time become famous in the imperial capital and promote his theory of 'extremely effective medicine'.

It’s a pity that an opportunity for exposure and free advertising is missing.

The person in charge of the form said they were sorry and they would speed up the review as soon as possible, but basically don’t even think about it before the end of the month.

The other bad news is that the big one is coming.

"What big thing is coming?"

When he heard this sentence, Ian was a little confused.

Of course, the original words of the head of the Alchemy Association could not be as simple and easy to understand as 'The big one is coming'. He said it very euphemistically. The general meaning is that the Empire Alchemy Association will have an extremely important task recently due to some reasons. It needs to be completed, and the danger of this task is quite high, and several masters will participate.

After hearing the boy's inquiry, the person in charge once again reminded tactfully that an alchemist of Ian's level could easily be selected, and maybe by then Ian would know what the big ones were.

When you say this, it means that Ian will definitely not be chosen - to put it bluntly, it is just perfunctory.

The Riddler really deserves to die.

With a sense of indignation towards the Riddler, Ian frowned slightly, but he had some guesses in his mind: "It's the power furnace of the sixth-generation aerospace armor, right? The speed of armor development in the Republic of Gantrigam It’s too fast, even assault armors that can fly at several times the speed of sound can be deployed in line, but the empire is still stuck on the completion of the power furnace.”

The furnace core of air combat armor is very different from that of land combat and naval combat armor. Not only does the power output need to be high, but it also needs to be more stable to ensure that the armor can complete various difficult maneuvers.

The empire's alchemy furnace level is actually the best in the world, but it lags behind in terms of sixth-generation armor. It is reasonable to ask the relevant alchemist masters to tackle the problem.

But the question is what does this have to do with Ian? He is currently shown as an alchemist specializing in potions.

And, why ‘dangerous’?

To be honest, Ian has been reading behind closed doors to digest knowledge recently, so he doesn't pay much attention to outside news. But it’s only been two months, what else can happen?

It actually happened.

After Master Gosei learned about Ian's movements, he sent a special message to tell Ian the answer.

In recent times, the fighting situation between Archduke Thorin and the Flying Flame Land in the Western Plains has worsened.

As the spy war intensifies, the struggle between Feiyandi and the Empire becomes more intense.

After the Flying Fire Land took the lead in using biological weapons, spies from the Empire released a large number of parasitic flying mosquitoes in the coastal areas of the Flying Fire Land. The larvae of these mosquitoes would parasitize local fish stocks, kill the fish, and then use the corpses to reproduce. The secretions of flying mosquitoes will accelerate the reproduction of coastal algae and cause ocean poisoning.

In contrast, the Flying Flame Land also released a large number of extremely virulent corrosive fungi within the empire, infecting large areas of farmland and forests in the Western Territory. The beasts and monsters living there were also corrupted and parasitized by the fungi and entered a violent state.

Because Nanling has better self-purification ability, the situation is not obvious yet, and Harrison Port has not changed much. However, it is said that a large number of refugees have emerged from the Western Territory, and among these refugees there are also spies from the Flying Flame Land who specialize in spreading Fungi spread everywhere.

Strict defense is not the answer. We must develop a special medicine for this hatching fungus as soon as possible or contain the organism.

And all research on bio-alchemical weapons is 'dangerous'.

That's why the Royal Alchemical Society has been so busy lately - in fact, they've been working overtime for a month.

No wonder there was no time to review Ian’s paper.

At this point, Ian couldn't help even if he wanted to - he was too young and too 'new'.

Although it is indeed impossible for the young man to be a Feiyan spy, in similar biological weapons offensive and defensive battles, safety is always the priority. A new elite alchemist like Ian cannot join the team unless there is really no one to use him.

There is nothing Ian can do about this. Qualifications, prestige and fame are indeed what he lacks most. Strength can only make up for part of it, but it still takes time to polish it off.

"How many refugees have been sent out from the Western Region... If we continue sending them out like this, there will be no more people, right? What on earth is Grand Duke Thorin thinking..."

From a different angle, Ian looked back at the operations in the Western Region and couldn't help but be confused by Archduke Thorin's choice: "The current direction of the world is roughly the same as the path of the Insect Hive, but the empire has discovered that something is wrong with Archduke Thorin. , in recent times, there has indeed been talk that 'The Grand Duke has reached a cooperation with Feiyandi', and it is expected that something will be done before the end of the year."

"The question is, why?"

"Of course Grand Duke Thorin can blame the empire for ignoring him and wanting to consume his strength to fight against the Flying Fire Land, but his cooperation with the Flying Fire Land is to poison his own territory? How can there be such a lord... something is wrong with this matter , no matter how stupid Grand Duke Thorin is, he will never be able to use up his true power to retaliate against the empire."

"If he's not stupid, then he definitely has a problem. And it's a big problem."

Thinking of this, Ian decided to put the alchemy experiment on hold and collect information about the Grand Duke of the West from various channels.

Then, he received a piece of information from the Dragon Worship Cult that made him extremely confused and uneasy.

Just as he had predicted during the train hijacking case.

Xio and Lübeck went to raid Feiyan, but their identities were discovered and they were captured.

Moreover, Feiyandi used special means to restrain Xio's dragon soul through the connection in the prosthetic body.