Elora woke up the next morning and put on black pants, black boots and a green tunic. Afterwards she had Natalie braid her hair for her before heading down to breakfast.

  When she arrived at the table, she was the only one there, shortly after sitting down, Arthur brought her out breakfast which included sausage, fried eggs and a biscuit. Since she was by herself, she made one of her favorite breakfasts, a sausage and egg biscuit. She ate it quickly. After breakfast she headed to her father’s study. She knocked on the door and sure enough:

  “Enter,” Beldroth replied.

  She entered his study “Good morning, father.”

  “I guess you can technically still call it morning, I’m glad to see you are ready for the day. We leave in an hour for the worker's guild. We have five interviews lined up starting at one. These are all mid-tier D-grade alchemists, so hopefully you don’t have any trouble with catching up to them.”

  “I sure hope not, especially since I’m going to be more focused on combat.”

  “We have to be at Garkock’s forge at three, it’s about twenty minutes away from the worker’s guild so that gives us about an hour and a half for five interviews, shouldn’t be hard.”

  An hour later, Elora was walking toward the worker’s guild with Beldroth. It didn’t take long, the city lord’s house was not far from the worker’s guild, so much so that ten minutes later they were walking through the front door.

  “Greetings Lord Beldroth, and I assume that would make you Lady Elora, so nice to meet you. How may I be off assistance today my lord?” asked the halfling behind the counter of the worker’s guild. She was a little shorter than four feet, she only knew that because that was her height currently, had brown hair up in an elaborate bun and wore brown trousers and a white tunic.

  “Greetings miss Quora, we are here to interview those alchemists that want to tutor Elora.”

  “Certainly, my lord, please come with me into one of the interview rooms in the back.”

  She lifted a part of the counter to allow them in before lowering it and opening the door for them. Elora and her father walked through the door and followed Quora to the third door on the left, there were chairs sitting along the wall on the opposite side of the large hallway. She opened the door and held it open for them, inside was a small table, on the opposite side from the door there were two comfortable looking chairs, and one of those same chairs on this side. The room itself was very plain, with grey walls, white ceiling, grey tile floor.

  Elora and Beldroth sat behind the table.

  “Three of the five alchemists have already arrived; would you like to go ahead and start or wait on the others?”

  “We’ll go ahead and start; we are only fifteen minutes early and I’m certain three interviews will take at least fifteen minutes. Oh, and if they are even a minute late, just go ahead and turn them away, Elora has a very busy schedule laid out for herself since she unlocked the system, we don’t need anyone that can’t be punctual to teach her.”

  “Certainly. It is a common request and anybody who contracts through us knows it is likely to happen if they’re late. Stan will be back shortly with those alchemists, and I will escort anybody who shows up at or before the appointed time back. Good luck, I hope you find someone who suits you Lady Elora,” she said before curtsying and closing the door.

  About two minutes later, somebody, Stan presumably, opens the door and bows to Beldroth.

  “My lord, please allow me to introduce the first applicant, Roxy.” He stood up and moved to the side of the door allowing a short woman, approximately five feet, through the door, she wore nice, black pants, a blue tunic, and black shoes. She had her blonde hair in a tight bun, revealing the rounded ears of a human, and had blue eyes. She curtsied as she walked in and waited to be offered the chair.

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  “Please, miss Roxy, have a seat.”

  “Thank you, my lord,” she said as she sat down and folded her hands on her lap.

  “Would you like me to stand here while you conduct your interviews, my lord?”

  “No, you may sit in the hall, I will probably need your contract skill in the end.”

  “Of course, my lord. Good luck with your interviews,” he said before walking out and closing the door behind him.

  “Miss Roxy, if you would be so kind, please tell us a little bit about yourself.”

  “Certainly, my lord. I am twenty-three years old, level one-hundred and fifty-five, and I’m a pure alchemist.” Pure crafters and combat people were very rare. When you choose not to take a profession or class with the system, that was usually permanent. You must consciously make that decision in the system when you unlock classes and professions at level ten. You miss out on stats because, although the system does try to make up for it somewhat, you are still missing stats from a class or profession. When you decide to focus solely on your craft, the system increases the stats received from upgrading your profession or craft by twenty-five percent, which is still a far cry from having a class. “My father is Lord Caleb Selmal. We are a lower noble house, and I look at this as an opportunity to improve our relationship with you, my lord.”

  “How is your father doing?”

  “He is doing very well my lord. I told him I was interviewing for this position, and he was beside himself with joy and told me to do my best.”

  “What made you decide you want to teach at such a young age?”

  “I have been working on my craft over the last few years, experimenting mostly for the past three years, and have learned a lot about it through books and trial-and-error. I feel like I have a lot to offer somebody who is going to be putting alchemy second to a class. If, however, Lady Elora is planning on primarily focusing on alchemy and I have gotten the wrong idea, I would implore you to find a different teacher because that will take up a lot of time that could be going towards my personal experiments.”

  “Don’t worry, I want to be as strong as I can be, so I need a profession and alchemy is very interesting and it would mean I could make my own potions instead of buying them from the shop,” Elora assured her. “I do plan on growing quickly however, I want to be able to become a true D-grade with the perfect evolution by the time I’m fifteen, to do that I need to have classes three times a week and they need to be about four hours a class, are you able to provide that?”

  “That shouldn’t be a problem, three days for four hours a day sounds like a good break from experimenting, should be the perfect amount of time to think about something other than the potions I am working on.”

  “Do you have any experience in poisons? While I won’t be unlocking my class and profession for about six months to a year, I would still like to think about poisons once I unlock my profession and receive the concocting poison skill.”

  “Really? Why are you waiting so long to unlock your class and profession?”

  “I have a theory, I feel like if I were to level up my skills to around level ten to fifteen before I unlock my class and profession I might get a rarer class selection. I looked over the family history of our classes and discovered that the few times there have been legendary classes unlocked, the person who unlocked them focused on their class skill levels instead of just leveling fast. I wondered what would happen if somebody would take the element they wanted to have and leveled a few skills to ten or maybe fifteen if it would be possible to even start out at an epic class. I don’t think anybody in my family line has unlocked their class and it been above rare, and those rare classes were very widespread. Now, do you mind answering my question?”

  “Sorry my lady, I was just thrown for a loop with you not wanting to unlock your class yet. Yes, I do have a fair bit of experience with poisons. If you want to learn poisons, however, I would want you to study concocting poisons for at least four months before attempting it. Concocting poison is very dangerous, and you could get hurt, or worse, if you blow up the concoction. So, with you not unlocking your class until then, when you feel like you are getting close to being ready to unlock your class and profession, like a few months out, let me know so we can start studying it, I want the instruction fresh on your mind when you attempt your first concoction.”

  “I don’t have any more questions, do you father?”

  “Just two more, what days of the week would you like to hold the classes, and are you ok with them taking place around one? Elora likes to get up around eleven and that would give her plenty of time for breakfast and getting ready.”

  “I was thinking Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and one is a good time, I may get up early, but that allows me to perform some experiments and eat lunch before heading over to your manor.”

  “Excellent, please wait outside while we finish conducting the interviews.”

  The other interviews went ok, but two of them weren’t interested in poisons, one only wanted to hold classes two days a week and the last one showed up late. So, they called Roxy and Stan back in and had a one-year employment contract drawn up and signed. She would start next week.