Legend of Wyatt
Chapter 140: Genius Alchemist?

Chapter 140: Chapter 140: Genius Alchemist?

"Go ask Emerald, I have to step out for a bit."

Wyatt Barnes chuckled lightly. Although he now wore a different face, his smile was still natural and didn’t give off anything abrupt.

With a lift of his hand, Wyatt placed the small black snake into his sleeves and left his mansion.

After leaving the mansion, Wyatt stopped a passerby to ask for the location of the Alchemist Guild in the inner city, then strode off towards it.

The inner city is neither too large nor too small.

Wyatt Barnes weaved through the crowds. Spending half an hour, he finally arrived at the Alchemist Guild.

Compared to the Alchemist Guild of Aurora City, the one in the Imperial City was grand and magnificent, a building of an ancient and traditional style.

"I suppose this is the ’headquarters’ of the Alchemist Guild in the Crimson Heaven Kingdom."

A thought passed through Wyatt’s mind.

The Alchemist Guild’s hall was crowded with people coming and going...

Most of these people were here to post tasks.

A small portion wore the badges bestowed by the Alchemist Guild on their chests, clearly alchemists, most of them being ’nine-rank alchemists’.

"Nine-rank alchemists are a rare sight in Clear Wind Town and even in Aurora City, yet here they are as common as grass."

A sigh escaped Wyatt’s mind. At the same time, he brought out his nine-rank alchemist badge and pinned it to his chest, then walked in.

Suddenly, the people at the entrance of the Alchemist Guild all stopped in their tracks, their gaze falling on Wyatt...

A nine-rank alchemist!

But that wasn’t the point.

The point was, this teenage boy dressed in purple only looked about eighteen years old.

An eighteen-year-old ’nine-rank alchemist’?

Everyone was shocked.

Even though Wyatt Barnes had changed his face with a ’disguise’, it still belonged to a young man’s face which made him look at most around eighteen years old.

Wyatt ignored the attention from these people, walked straight into the Alchemist Guild Hall, and approached the counter.

It was only then that people at the entrance finally moved.

"A boy around eighteen years old and a nine-rank alchemist? Is it real or fake?"

"You believe it? Do you think if our Crimson Heaven Kingdom had a ’nine-rank alchemist’ who’s only eighteen years old and certified by the Alchemist Guild, we wouldn’t know?"

"You’re right, the badge he’s wearing should be from his elder’s."

"I think so too."

...

Most people did not believe that Wyatt Barnes was a real ’nine-rank alchemist’.

If Wyatt knew their thoughts, he wouldn’t be able to help but scoff, considering them ’unaccustomed to the good things’!

According to the Reincarnation Martial Emperor’s memory, there were countless eighteen-year-old alchemists in the outside territory...

Wyatt approached a vacant counter.

Just as he was about to reach the counter, a young man in blue robes rushed to get there before Wyatt, taking the spot in front of the counter.

Wyatt’s expression darkened.

The young man didn’t go to the Alchemist Guild’s employee behind the counter to post or take a task but instead was looking at Wyatt with a smirk.

The young man was about twenty years old, arrogance visible in his features.

"Kid, the Alchemist Guild has a rule that only alchemists are qualified to wear the badges of the Alchemist Guild... If someone randomly gives the Alchemist Guild’s badges to others to wear, they will be regarded as disrespectful to the Alchemist Guild!"

Looking at Wyatt with a taunting smile, the young man continued, "Your elder has quite some guts, daring to let you, a little brat, play with the Alchemist Guild badge. It seems like he doesn’t put the Alchemist Guild in his eyes..."

At first, Wyatt found it strange that the man would not go to the counter but instead try to stop him.

But now, having heard the other’s words, Wyatt finally understood why the man had tried to stop him...

A little brat?

Wyatt’s eyes flashed. A taunting smile appeared on his lips. He laughed lightly, "And how do you know this isn’t my own Alchemist Guild badge? Or perhaps you’re just a scarce little thing, thinking someone at my age couldn’t possibly be a ’nine-rank alchemist’?"

Just then, quite a few people gathered around in the Alchemist Guild’s hall...

Watching the commotion is human nature.

"Eh, isn’t that River Sinclair, the alchemy genius of the Sinclair Clan?"

"Right, it’s River Sinclair.. Rumor has it, he became a ’nine-rank alchemist’ when he just turned twenty. He’s recognized as the most talented alchemist among the younger generation in our Crimson Heaven Kingdom!"

"The Sinclair Clan is really lucky to have such a talented alchemist. With River Sinclair’s talent, he is sure to become a ’seven-rank alchemist’ in the future, no doubt about it!"

"Huh, is this young man also a nine-rank alchemist? My god, he just looks around eighteen."

"Didn’t you hear what River Sinclair just said? This young man probably got the nine-rank alchemist badge from his elder to show off here."

"This young man’s elder is really irresponsible."

...

The crowd surrounding them discussed amongst themselves.

No one believed that Wyatt Barnes was a real ’nine-rank alchemist’.

After all, Wyatt was simply too young.

Moreover, in the history of Crimson Heaven Kingdom, there had never been an ’Elixir Master of Rank Nine’ who was eighteen years old...

Wyatt Barnes raised an eyebrow.

River Sinclair?

Twenty years old, a Rank Nine Alchemist?

Such a talent indeed qualifies as a genius alchemist within the confines of Crimson Heaven Kingdom.

However, he seemed a bit too arrogant.

"I’m overly surprised?"

River Sinclair tossed his head back, sneering, "Little brat! When I, River Sinclair, turned twenty last year, I registered as a ’Rank Nine Alchemist’ at the Alchemist Guild, recognized as the most talented young alchemist in Crimson Heaven Kingdom, personally approved by the president of the Alchemist Guild of Crimson Heaven Kingdom. If you really are a Rank Nine Alchemist, wouldn’t I have heard of it? So, you are undoubtedly a fraud!"

"Self-confidence is sometimes a good thing, but it should not be used as the basis for your pride... In this world, there are some people who may not be as renowned as you, but their talents are no less than yours. Hence, as this ’little brat’, I advise you to be a bit more modest."

Wyatt Barnes shook his head, smiling as he spoke slowly, "If there’s nothing else, please make way. My time is precious."

Wyatt Barnes’s words left the spectators with puzzled expressions...

This youngster, actually lecturing ’River Sinclair’?

"Little brat! You seem too presumptuous."

River Sinclair’s face turned dark, his voice colder.

"River Sinclair, what’s happened?"

Just then, a middle-aged man walked out from the Alchemist Guild’s inner hall, with an imposing aura, approaching the gathering crowd.

"Deputy Guild Master."

Instantly, the crowd around respectfully greeted the middle-aged man.

River Sinclair was no exception.

This middle-aged man was none other than the Deputy Guild Master of the Alchemist Guild of the Crimson Heaven Kingdom, Lyla Wood.

"Deputy Guild Master, this person is flaunting someone else’s Alchemist Guild Badge, tarnishing the reputation of the Alchemist Guild... I suggest the Alchemist Guild investigate the true owner of this badge and apply punishment!"

River Sinclair pointed accusingly at the Alchemist Guild Badge pinned on Wyatt Barnes’s chest, speaking sternly.

Wyatt Barnes looked slightly surprised when he saw the middle-aged man.

Through the experiences of the Martial Emperor, he could tell that this middle-aged man of about fifty was actually a ’Rank Seven Alchemist’...

No wonder he was the Deputy Guild Master of the Alchemist Guild of Crimson Heaven Kingdom!

"Oh?"

Lyla Wood, hearing this, scrutinized Wyatt Barnes curiously, indifferently asking, "Whose Alchemist Guild Badge did you get, young man?"

Wyatt Barnes laughed, "Could it be that the Deputy Guild Master of the Alchemist Guild is so quick to draw conclusions without knowing the truth?"

Lyla Wood frowned.

"Impudence!"

River Sinclair’s face darkened as he barked at Wyatt Barnes, "Kid, how dare you still deny it in front of the Deputy Guild Master!"

Lyla Wood raised her hand, stopping River Sinclair, and glanced at Wyatt Barnes with interest, "Young man, could it be that this Alchemist Guild Badge is yours?"

"Strange, is it?"

Wyatt Barnes shrugged, his face nonchalant.

"It’s not so much strange as... you look to be about eighteen... Are you sure that this Badge of the Alchemist Guild Master Rank Nine was obtained through our Alchemist Guild’s certification?"

Lyla Wood’s eyes ignited with curiosity as she set them on Wyatt Barnes’s face, as if trying to discern something.

Regrettably, she was destined to be disappointed.

Wyatt Barnes’s expression remained utterly unchanged throughout.

"Young man, if you can’t prove that you really are the owner of this Badge of the Alchemist Master Rank Nine, then our Alchemist Guild has the right to reclaim this badge."

Lyla Wood added.

Actually, Lyla Wood didn’t believe this Alchemist Guild Badge belonged to the young man before her.

She could confirm that the boy’s Alchemist Guild Badge was indeed issued by the Alchemist Guild of Crimson Heaven Kingdom.

Because it bore the standard ’special mark’ of the Alchemist Guild of Crimson Heaven Kingdom.

If Crimson Heaven Kingdom had produced an eighteen-year-old ’Rank Nine Alchemist’, even if he was certified in the most remote small town, the Alchemist Guild there would have reported it immediately to their ’Main Guild’...

So, in her view, the possibility that the badge belonged to this boy was almost nonexistent.

Little did Lyla Wood know.

When Wyatt Barnes verified his ’Rank Nine Alchemist’ status at the Alchemist Guild in Aurora City at the age of sixteen, ’Inky Simmons’ the head of the guild, did consider reporting this to the Alchemist Guild’s Main Guild.

However, later on, something offhand that Wyatt Barnes said led Inky Simmons to believe it was true.

Inky Simmons thought that Wyatt Barnes’s mysterious mentor did not want anyone interfering with Wyatt’s growth, so he concealed this matter and didn’t report it...

This resulted in the Main Guild being completely unaware of Wyatt Barnes, this ’genius alchemist’.

Otherwise, the one recognized as the most talented young alchemist of Crimson Heaven Kingdom wouldn’t be ’River Sinclair’, but ’Wyatt Barnes’!

A twenty-year-old Rank Nine Alchemist may be rare in the history of Crimson Heaven Kingdom, but it’s not unheard of.

But a sixteen-year-old Rank Nine Alchemist wasn’t only unprecedented in the history of Crimson Heaven Kingdom but also had never occurred in the history of Royal Green Forest Kingdom!