All Chapters of The First Arch-Alchemist Drops His Mask: Chapter 1 - Chapter 9

I sat up quickly and scanned my surroundings with a sharp gaze.Memories flooded my mind. I recalled Zephyr Tierra’s hypocritical smiling face, my female peers’ cold, indifferent gaze, and that agonizing, heart-wrenching pain right before I died.Then, a ton of information hit me all at once. I saw flashes of things from tens of thousands of years ago.The entire world was my cauldron. All of nature was my ingredient. With a wave of my hand, dead trees bloomed again. I could raise the dead and bring them back to life.Long-buried memories came flooding back like a tide. It turned out that in the past, I was actually the First Arch-Alchemist!A hundred years ago, I fell due to an accident. I returned as Carlton Helfer, a lowly little alchemist at Crucible.My real power and memories were deliberately sealed away in the Arch-Alchemist Dimension, waiting only for the right moment to awaken.My wretched death in the past was exactly that trigger.I slowly raised my right hand. Wi

I pointed at the door as I looked at them icily. “Get out.”They wanted to say more, but Zephyr’s voice sounded from outside just then. “Guys, it’s time for practice. We’re going to be late!”Hearing that, they no longer bothered me and hurried out of the room.I stood alone in the empty courtyard and watched them leave. I sneered inwardly as I returned to my room and entered the Arch-Alchemist Dimension again.The Enneaphyllon in the herb field had already grown three leaves.I took an ancient pill formula called the Myriad-Poison Immunity Pill from the attic.Once a person takes it, they would be immune to all poisons for two days.In the past, I lost the strength to fight back only because I had been drugged with Zephyr’s crippling draught. This time, I would not make the same mistake again.Three days later, I successfully refined three Myriad-Poison Immunity Pills.I tucked the pills close to me. ‘Zephyr, I want to see what other tricks you can pull this time,’ I th

Several of my female peers stood off to the side with conflicted faces. Yet not a single one of them stepped forward to stop him. Melissa was about to speak up, but in the end, she turned away and said, “Carlton, Zephyr’s only doing this for your own good.”“For my own good?” I scoffed. “Crippling me and dumping me into the Miasma Woods to feed the snakes is for my own good?”Zephyr looked down at me and said, “It’s only because you hogged Crucible’s best resources while coasting through every single day!“You don’t deserve to stay in this order at all!”In the end, they dragged me to the Miasma Woods behind the mountain.A cold, foul breeze hit me in the face, yet I stayed calm.“Zephyr, there’s no bad blood between us. So, why are you so dead set on killing me?”He leaned in and whispered, “No bad blood? Carlton, you’re too naive. In the past, you died, and that was the end of it. But your soft-hearted teacher strangled me to death right there in the main hall!”I looked at

Just then, a man in white emerged at the edge of the Miasma Woods. It was Caspian, fresh out of a solitary retreat.When he saw me lying there, nearly dead, his eyes filled with pure rage.“Who said you could lay a hand on him?!”Melissa shuddered violently and hastily withdrew her spell. Her legs gave out, and she dropped to her knees.“M-Mr. Hemlock, I…”He flicked his sleeve, and the poisonous mist dispersed instantly without a trace.Zephyr panicked, and he tried to play the victim. “Mr. Hemlock, you’ve misunderstood! Carlton’s been rubbing your favoritism in everyone’s face. He acts like he’s above us all. We only wanted him to reflect in the Miasma Woods for a few days!”Helena also mustered her courage and stepped forward. “Mr. Hemlock, you’ve been playing favorites with Carlton for years. “You even handed over the Arch-Alchemist Dimension, the order’s most treasured heirloom, like it was nothing!“The whole order is talking. Everyone’s whispering about what’s real

I did not make a scene. First, I took several herbs out of the Arch-Alchemist Dimension and crafted a batch of antidote pills, which I distributed to the locals.After taking the antidote pills, the patients’ symptoms quickly eased.I stayed in Willow Creek for three days until every last patient had recovered. Then, I prepared to leave.Before leaving, I took a pack of antidote herb seeds out of the Arch-Alchemist Dimension and handed them to the mayor, Arthur Smith. “Sir, plant these at the front of the town. If the plague ever comes through again, these antidote herbs will soak up the poison on their own.”Arthur accepted the seeds with both hands and thanked me profusely.I smiled, swung myself onto my horse, and continued on my way.My reputation gradually spread.People said I could make a colorful flower bloom with a casual point of my finger. They said I could bring the dead back to life and grow flesh on bare bones.Some called me the “Verdant Healer.” Others calle