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  Chapter 102: First meeting with Nalan Yanran (Subscription required)

  Gama Empire.

  In front of the Alchemist Guild headquarters.

  Otto was pacing back and forth, muttering something from time to time, as if he was waiting for someone, looking very anxious.

  "I'm dying, I'm dying. Could it be that the little guy forgot that the test will start in less than an incense stick of time?"

  "Master Otto, who forgot?" At this moment, a teasing laugh suddenly sounded beside Otto's ear. The sound came from far away and then approached.

  "Xiao Se? Hey, you kid." Hearing the familiar laughter, Otto turned around suddenly, but saw a strange young man walking slowly towards him, and the voice suddenly stopped. He looked around and his expression returned to anxiety.

  "What's wrong, Master Otto, don't you recognize me?" Standing in front of Otto, the young man continued.

  "Are you calling me?" After confirming that he had heard correctly this time, Otto pointed at himself and asked in surprise.

  "Of course. Aren't you the only one named Otto here? Go in. I guess the guild's internal test is about to begin." The young man smiled calmly.

  "Stop, young man, I don't even know you." Otto waved his hand and said angrily.

  "I accepted the soul of President Foklan, and promised you and President Foklan to represent the Black Rock City Alchemist Guild to attend the Alchemist Conference. I also hid my identity and changed my name to Xiao Huohuo." Xiao Se smiled and told the three of them something that only they knew. "I wonder if President Otto still recognizes me this time?"

  "Are you Xiaose Huohuo?" Otto was stunned when he heard this, and then asked in surprise.

  "Hiding your identity is not as simple as changing your name." Xiao Se said with a faint smile.

  "I see. This is hidden thoroughly enough." Otto suddenly realized and gave Xiao Se a thumbs up. He then said anxiously, "Then let's go in quickly. The test will start soon."

  Xiao Se nodded slowly, and under the guidance of Otto, he entered the gate of the Alchemist Headquarters,

  into the spacious classical hall of the Alchemist Headquarters.

  At this time, a group of young people were standing in twos and threes, whispering to each other, forming various circles. They were all alchemists, some of whom wore the badge of the second-grade alchemist, and even some third-grade alchemists.

  But what was a little strange was that an out-of-place figure appeared in the hall.

  This is a girl with a cold and beautiful appearance, about the same age as Xiao Se. She is dressed in a moon-white dress. Her body is slender and delicate, with curves in all the right places. Her delicate earlobes have green jade pendants hanging from them. When she shakes them slightly, the pendants make crisp jade sounds, and her curves make her look a little delicate.

  Unlike others, the girl was not an alchemist, but no one around her dared to show disdain for her. Instead, they were vaguely flattering.

  Next to the girl stood a young man in his early twenties, wearing an alchemist's robe. He was quite handsome, with a face as sharp as a knife, and exuded a slightly feminine aura. Most importantly, the three silver lines on the alchemist badge on the young man's chest were unusually dazzling under the light of the hall.  

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  He is none other than Liu Ling, a disciple of Dan Wang Gu He, the number one alchemist in the Gama Empire.

  "Yanran, why did you suddenly think of coming here to watch the internal test of the Alchemist Conference this time?" Liu Ling, who had just been promoted to a third-grade alchemist, chatted with several third-grade alchemists for a while, then tilted his head and smiled at the cold and beautiful girl beside him.

  The girl called Yanran shook her head expressionlessly and said in a cold voice, "Nothing, I just happened to have some free time when I returned home this time, so I wanted to come and see the young genius that my teacher highly respects."

  "Oh?" Hearing this, Liu Ling was shocked and asked in surprise, "To be able to catch the eye of Master Yun, he must have extraordinary talent. I wonder who he is?"

  Nalan Yanran glanced at Liu Ling, hesitated for a moment, and said in a cold voice: "I have never seen him, I only know his name is Xiao Huohuo."

  "Xiao Huohuo?" Liu Ling frowned, then took out a list of participants in the Alchemist Conference from his storage ring, and then took a look at it, and immediately breathed a sigh of relief. At the age of seventeen, a second-grade alchemist, his talent was indeed extraordinary, but now he, Liu Ling, was no longer the same as before. Half a month ago, he successfully passed the third-grade alchemist assessment. For him, a second-grade alchemist would not pose a threat to the Alchemist Conference or to the beautiful lady in front of him.

  Then he handed the list of contestants to Nalan Yanran and said with a smile, "Yanran, take a look and see if this is the person?"

  Nalan Yanran nodded first, then shook her head, "I'm not sure yet, I'll have to wait until I see him to know the details."

  While the two were talking, the door was suddenly opened. The people who were whispering in the hall suddenly stopped and their eyes turned to the direction of the door. When they saw Xiao Se coming in, they were all stunned. When they saw the second-grade alchemist badge on his chest, their expressions suddenly became a little playful. A second-grade alchemist participated in the guild's internal test competition and ranked almost at the bottom.

  Liu Ling, who was standing next to Nalan Yanran, also glanced at Xiao Se, but after seeing the latter's alchemist level badge, she completely lost interest and continued to attack Nalan Yanran, looking for topics to talk about.

  Facing the teasing of the young alchemists in the hall, Xiao Se was not moved at all. He lowered his eyes and followed Otto indifferently. His ordinary face quietly showed a hint of disdain and a faint sneer,

  "Haha, Otto, you old guy, you are finally here. In another ten minutes, the preliminaries will begin." When everyone in the hall showed teasing looks to Xiao Se, an old laugh suddenly rang out, breaking the weird atmosphere.

  Looking for the source of the sound, Xiao Se suddenly discovered that on the high platform at the top of the hall, an old man in a fourth-grade alchemist robe was standing there with a smile, greeting Otto. Next to the old man stood a cute and lovely girl. The girl was very young, about the same age as Xiao Se before his disguise, and was wearing a palace dress inlaid with gold. Perhaps to show her height, the girl wore high-heeled shoes, and her half-long hair was tightly tied up by a slender golden hair crown. If you look closely, you can see a "hum" embedded in the hair crown. At this moment, the girl was holding her waist, looking at Xiao Se with curiosity, as if she wanted to see something from him. When she found that Xiao Se was still expressionless, she stamped her feet in anger, snorted, turned her head away, and said nothing more.

  "That's the vice president of the guild headquarters, Chemir. The unruly little girl next to him is the little princess Yaoyue of the imperial family. She's extremely talented, but because she's too young and has only been exposed to alchemy for a short time, she didn't attend this conference." Smiling and waving his hand towards the old man on the platform, Otto tilted his head and whispered to Xiao Se.

  Xiao Se nodded slowly, and suddenly turned his gaze to the girl in a moon-white dress standing next to a third-grade alchemist not far away. He asked in surprise, "Master Otto, who is the girl standing next to the young third-grade alchemist? Is she also an alchemist?"