Chapter 15
The Potions Guild Rating Test has begun.
After the news spread, countless alchemists and reserve alchemists set off for the city of Leila.
The city of Laila, where the headquarters of the Potions Association is located, is known as the capital of potions. The residents here, whether they are sorcerers or ordinary people, are familiar with pharmacology. Even the potted plants planted in every household are medicinal herbs.
Since Jiang Zhulang had taken some Chinese medicinal herbs into consideration when designing the place, he could smell the strong bitter aroma of herbs the moment he stepped into Laila City. For a moment, Jiang Zhulang imagined going to a Chinese medicine store to get some medicine.
The association's test is simple. After all, for most unregistered potion masters, the difficulty lies in how to obtain the recommendation book rather than how to brew potions.
On the first day of the test, the correct answer was identified from fifty medicinal herbs with similar appearance and smell.
For potion system constructors, it's as simple as one plus one equals several.
It is worth mentioning that a candidate who took the exam with Jiang Zhulang tried to distinguish the medicinal materials by chewing them, and accidentally ingested the highly poisonous Aconitum, causing him to foam at the mouth. Several examiners and potion masters were so frightened that they tried to rescue him for three hours before they brought him back to life.
This candidate was banned from taking the exam for life.
According to an examiner who did not want to be named, "This damned guy almost didn't save me. He ruined my reputation as a 'healing expert' that I have had for decades. If he doesn't ban me, who else should be banned from taking the exam? I strongly suggest that all three generations of his family be banned from taking the exam."
The proposal was rejected by the Potions Society as being too inhumane.
On the second day of the test, a perfect universal antidote was refined within an hour. Jiang Zhulang was halfway through refining it when a fellow examinee made a mistake due to hand shaking and blew up the crucible. He became mentally devastated and indiscriminately attacked the examinees and the examiners, overturning countless crucibles, causing a chain explosion that injured three people.
Fortunately, Jiang Zhulang was assigned to a remote location at the corner of the wall, becoming one of the few lucky ones who was not affected.
——In the entire examination room, there were fifty people taking the exam, but only five passed. They were Jiang Zhulang, Candidate 1, Candidate 2, Candidate 3, who were located at the four corners of the examination room, and Candidate 4, whose bloodline talent was Turtle Shield.
It is said that after the exam, the candidate was beaten with a sack by several people. He is now seriously injured and needs to stay in bed for at least half a year. Several candidates who took the exam said: "I beat him every time I saw him."
On the third day of the test, peel off the fins and eyes of three buckets of magic eye fish within five hours without using arcane magic.
Fortunately, the test went smoothly without any problems and Jiang Zhulang had a peaceful day.
Back at the hotel, Roshia ordered a big meal to celebrate for him.
The entire rating test lasted for five days. Except for the third day, the remaining four days had their own problems. Jiang Zhulang suspected that he had inherited the strange physique of some comic protagonists who walked around in disarray.
After the test, he devoutly bought a lot of pomelo leaves to take a bath in to remove the bad luck.
In short, after many twists and turns in the potion test, Jiang Zhulang gloriously became the lowest-level potion master, a potion apprentice.
There are four levels of potion makers: potion apprentice, junior potion maker, intermediate potion maker, and potion expert.
Jiang Zhulang had no idea about the later levels. After all, he became a potion master just to get a stepping stone to enter that mysterious organization.
“Hmm…”
He had just put the chicken steak into his mouth and hadn't chewed it when a trance from deep in his soul told him that he was about to wake up.
Wait, wait, please let me eat this piece of meat!
Jiang Zhulang endured the waves of emptiness and detachment that were getting stronger and stronger, swallowed the hot and juicy chicken fillet, and woke up with a satisfied heart.
After a few seconds of confusion, he turned off the alarm and found several unread messages from Brother Li in the Penguin message list.
Brother Li: "Jiang, have you seen the post in the forum? Someone said that the image design of your protagonist is the same as someone else's."
Brother Li: "(Link) Take a look, what's going on?"
(Poke) (Poke)
Brother Li: "Of course, I believe Lanno is your original creation, but after reading the post, you'd better respond quickly. There are a lot of fans on the other side, and I'm afraid you will suffer a loss."
No wonder the real-time bullet screen in the corner of the system screen has been refreshing much faster in the past few days.
He originally thought that the list had introduced a large number of new readers, but now it seems that...
Jiang Zhulang clicked on the link and jumped to the forum discussion area.
Title: [Why is the character design of the protagonist in a popular new work so similar to the villain in Lotus's earlier works?]
[As the title says, am I the only one who thinks this looks familiar? [Picture 1] [Picture 2] [Picture 3]…]
[The protagonist of a new work: black hair and black eyes, the villain of Lotus Flower: black hair and black eyes. 】
[Is this a coincidence or...? ]
[Hmm, they do look a bit alike now, both are handsome boys with long hair. And am I the only one who thinks that the image of the protagonist of a certain new work doesn't look like a protagonist at all?]
[+1, the little fans are all exaggerating, I don’t even dare to say anything. ]
[Haha, someone actually dared to copy the character of Mrs. Lotus? ? Aren’t these two characters exactly the same, except that one has curly hair and the other has straight hair?! ]
[I am sick of it. I used to like Random Man’s work, but it turns out that he plagiarized it.]
[［Picture］［Picture］, who wouldn’t say they look exactly the same? If you don’t know, you’d think they are two brothers, haha]
【Plagiarist apologizes, apologizes, apologizes】
[No, these two characters, other than the same hair and eye color, are both handsome guys, what else are they similar in? ? ? ]
[Tomato Apple jpg, you just copied it, right? A certain Lotus has run out of talent for hundreds of years and can't paint a good work, so you come to make trouble again? ]
[I am dying of laughter. There are not many character designs left for young painters.]
[Laughing, how many times has the Lotus Fairy tried to touch someone else's body? One moment he says that someone else's main character looks like his, the next moment he says that someone else's supporting character looks like his, and he even touches someone else's body even on a cat. Don't you feel ashamed? ]
Lotus: [My friend shared this post with me. I already know the whole story. Although the two characters are indeed very similar from certain angles, and coincidentally both are black-haired, black-eyed beautiful boys, I believe that the author id: @#1848)h definitely did not deliberately borrow from the author. My dear fans, please don't scold him.]
After one of the parties involved appeared in the discussion thread, the post became increasingly popular, with fans and passers-by coming out to leave comments and express their opinions.
In response to this, Jiang Zhulang said: ???
He turned on the front camera of his phone, looked at himself in confusion in the blurry picture, clicked on the comparison picture of the characters from different angles, and fell silent.
You know what? At first glance, two eyes, a nose, and a mouth. They look similar from certain angles, but...
The new version of Lanno who suffered a tragic time travel was drawn completely based on his own appearance.
What is this, I copied myself?