Chapter 1961

As time passed, the crowd near the Alchemy Tower square dwindled gradually. Celeste, Raymond, the elders, and the peak masters left one after another after realizing that Severin was not going to emerge from the tower anytime soon. Though Severin had cooped himself up in the Alchemy Tower over the past few months, news of his endeavors spread throughout the Grandiuno Sect, stirring up quite the discussion among all nine of the sect's mountains. Four months after Severin's rise to sixth-grade high-rank alchemist, his bloodshot eyes and disheveled appearance betrayed his lack of sleep inside the Alchemy Tower. He stared intently at the cauldron before him and carefully observed the subtle change there. Severin became increasingly proficient in the Pristine Spirit Pill via his relentless simulation of the crafting process. The pills that produced saw a marked improvement from four lines to eight lines. Only a small gap remained before he achieved the elite-quality pill needed to enter th