Alchemist.

Roland dejectedly left the room, he asked the guards the direction to the kitchen. He got to the kitchen and found other 'servants' waiting in line.

After mustering the courage to ask, he came to know that the others were also waiting for thier 'master's' food. The line quickly moved and the servants went away. 

*Bang*

Suddenly, A loud bang sounded and the doors flung open, everyone turned around. 

A teen-male servant with messy red hair and a handsom face appeared, he was short in stature, well built, resembling a slightly-tall dwarf.

The room fell into silence, everyone's expressions remained the same but contempt could vaguely be seen in their eyes. 

Not caring for the gazes from others, the man walked forward. He walked as if he was taller then everyone else. He scoffed when the others made way for him. He quickly arrived at the front desk and, the ladies handling the food didn't waste time and quickly filled his tray with food.

'He's treated differently, even though his wearing the same clothes as us.' Roland watched the scene unfold, he noticed that the other party had the same weird symbol on his chest, just like everyone else.

The 'dwarf' took his tray of food and left, he didn't look or speak to anyone the entire time, like everyone was beneath him.

"Draco is getting more and more arrogant!"

"Yeah, he keeps on forgetting that he's also a servant."

"Yeah, who cares if he's a mage trainer, he's still a servant."

"Yeah, a short one at that."

As soon as the doors closed, people started whispering. Roland caught wind of some information and understood a few things.

The line moved and Roland got his tray. Breakfast was bread and a steaming cup of green 'tea'. He took the tray and swiftly made his way back.

Remembering Butler Francis' words, Roland made a decision, 'Although there's something wrong with her, until I escape, I'll undoubtedly have to cross paths with her. So until then I'll have to put up with her shit!'

Despite Butler Francis' warning, Roland hadn't given up on trying to be free, if anything it motivated him. Afterall life without liberty was like a body without spirit.

*knock knock knock*

After getting permission, Roland pushed open the door. Ruby Sterling was currently sitting at a table seemingly writing something down. She was wearing a yellow dress with flower patterns.

"Don't disturb the miss, put the food besides her." Before Roland could say anything, he heard a whisper coming from behind him. It was Ruby's personal 'maid', Vanessa. 

Roland's heart skipped a beat, he didn't realise when she appeared behind him, 'Nonetheless she's a dangerous woman, I need to be careful' . Nonetheless he moved forward and placed the tray besides Ruby. 

"Although acidic it should act like a neutralizing agent..." Ruby mumbled while writing something down with great focus, not paying attention to her surrounding.

Her handwriting was clean, after starting a sentence she swiftly finished it and moved to the next line. Her hand moved with agility, she dipped her quill in ink and resumed her writing. She didn't spill a drop of ink anywhere.

Roland suddenly felt nostalgic, he recalled those days he'd spend trying to memorize large quantities of complex information and equations for exams. 

Roland looked at the focused girl and shook his head, turned around and stood by the door. 

The silence in the room was still, while the shadows and sunlight passing through the window played with each other. The only sound in the room was the sound of the quill scratching the paper.

_One hour later_

At this time Roland was getting tired of standing. Being a person from a mordan world, Roland's defence against boredome was very weak.'This is truly annoying, if only I had my cellphone but alas.'

'Luckily', Roland's suffering didn't last long, as Ruby finally stopped writing. She took the stack of yellow papers and placed them in a hard cover.

"Why is this tea cold?" A displeased look appeared on her face, she turned around and glared at Roland.

'The tea was hot when I brought it. It's clearly your fault.' Roland swallowed his explanation, he clenched his fists and said while looking down, "I'm sorry miss."

"Hmph!" She snorted and took out a wand, her lips started moving and a small red light appeared on the wand, moment's later Roland saw steam rising from the tea cup. 

'Magic!' Roland's eye's shot opened, if escaping and being free was his main mission, then learning magic was a side quest, a very alluring side quest. 'Sadly I didn't hear what she said.'

"Petooey!" Suddenly, Ruby spat out her tea while reading her work. "I've got it, Vanessa quickly let's go to the lab, I must test this out."

With that Ruby rushed out of the room, Roland didn't know what to do so he followed after Vanessa. They quickly arrived in front of the house where a fancy closed-carriage was waiting for them. 

The carriage drove off and left the family grounds, outside the carriage made a few turns before arriving at a bustling area. There were shop like buildings in this area. The carriage stopped at a delapidated building and the group got off.

The inside resembled a small corner store, except instead of food on the aisles, there were bottles of coloured liquid. Ranging of two colors brown and grey. 

Roland read the labels on the potions and saw, "Spirit potion, 60% purity", "Strength potion 58% Purity" and many more of the sort. The prices of these were out quite extravagant.

"Young miss! Beautiful and intelligent like the nine gods, this humble servent is ready to do your bidding. Your word is law" Just then a short man wearng a grey robe got up from counter and rushed over before bowing. His mouth was constantly spewing out flattery words as if they were in excess.

The guards guarding the store also bowed.

"Make sure no one distubrs me." Without paying them attention and only focusing on her notes, Ruby made it upstairs with Roland and Vanessa. 

They appeared at a long hallway with a single door at the end. After entering the room, they appeared within a white lab. There were vials of various sizes, filled with all types of colourful liquids, powders and weird things Roland didn't understand. There were a few apparatus that Roland could vaguely guess the function of.

"Vanessa quickly do the preparations." Ruby quickly sat down at a desk, she took out a paper from her notes and gave it to Roland. "You, quickly bring me these things."

Roland took the yellow hard paper, he instantly began to sweat when he didn't recognise any of the objects. He looked up for help but saw that, Ruby was engrossed in her reading, so he shook his head. Vanessa on the other hand, had appeared in the middle of the room with a big and round black pot, a fire was burning underneath it.

'Looks like I'm on my own.' Roland wore a wary smile. From the corner of his eyes he saw a large cupboard with various plants and substances.

'That should be it.' Roland arrived in front of the cupboard and looked at the first name. There weren't any names on the corresponding objects, which Roland thought was a shitty way of organizing things 'Purple mushrooms and there's a purple mushroom! This might be easier then I thought.'

He opened the cupboard and quickly took out the materials he thought were right. More then half the other materials he couldn't guess, 'Damn it! I don't know the rest! What the hell is a Maris root?'

Roland looked around for help, Ruby was still engrossed in her reading, while Vanessa was slowly pouring a thick transperate liquid, as if afraid that she'll pour in too much.

'Maybe I should wait for...' just then his eyes shot opened. He walked towards the door, after making sure no one was paying attention to him, he left and quickly arrived on the first floor.

"The young miss is requesting these materials." Roland came to the counter and gave the short man the list of materials. 

Without the young miss or that scary maid, the short man's respectfully attitude immediately disappeared, he looked at Roland suspiciously and said, "Your lying, why would the young miss request materials from me when she has most of these materials in her lab!"

The short man was undoubtedly smart, he saw through Roland at a glance. On the other hand, Roland wasn't gonna give up that easily, he'd rather face this short man then those two upstairs.

"Look dude I'll honest with you, this is my first day on the job. I don't know why the young miss asked me to ask You, maybe she wants to test you I don't know." Roland got closer and said, "But I do know that if I go up there empty handed, she'll undoubtedly get angry, and I'll be forced to tell her why I couldn't bring her the requested materials."

The short man's face suddenly darkened, and his respectful attitude suddenly return, "Come now dude, there's no need for that, I'll quickly prepare the materials requested by the young miss." 

This was effective, the short man quickly took the list of things and began to walk around the room collecting things. Looking at the busy man, Roland was more impressed at how quick the short man's attitude changed. To survive one must undoubtedly do anything, even lowering your head to a 'kid' like me.

The short man was quick and a bunch of materials appeared in front of Roland, "I hope Sir can put in a good word for me to the young miss."

Roland smiled, he most certainly won't but the short man was very helpful "Aren't we friends, there's no need for formalities, please call me Roland."

Seeing the 'kid's' respectful attitude, the short man grinned and rubbed his nose, no one had asked for his name in a very long time "Then, you can call me Fred."

"Then Sir Fred I'll have to trouble you in the future!" Roland bowed slightly to the short man and took the materials in his hands.

Hearing the title 'Sir', the short man, Fred, laughed out loud and watched the 'Kid' disappeared into the stairs.

Roland quickly returned to the lab, Vanessa who was standing behind Ruby glanced at him and frowned. She appeared in front of him with a firce look, "Why did you bring those inferior materials? Are you trying to ruin the young miss's experiment?"

Roland reacted quickly, "No I didn't know the names of these things, plus I didn't want to disturb you or the young miss, so I went downstairs to ask the Fred." 

Vanessa's eyes narrowed, "Hmph! Even then, these are all inferior materials, it's not good for the young miss, take those back. Hmph give me the list, I'll take them out!"

'*sigh* Why was I even needed in the first place.' Looking at the maid who strolled away He couldn't help shaking his head, he took the materials and went out of the lab.

Looking at the materials in his arms, Roland gritted his teeth but ultimately decided to return them, he went downstairs and returned the materials.

He thought of taking them for himself and possibly using them in the future but, that wasn't a smart move. Not only did he not know anything about alchemy but he wasn't in a perfect moment.

"Brother Fred, here! The young miss is impressed by your knowledge!" Roland said while dropping off the herbs and plants.

After a few minutes, Roland pushed opened the door to the lab and saw Ruby adding some herbs to a vial of liquid, she shook it around to properly mix it. Aftterwards she poured it in another well-mixed liquid. Vanessa on the other hand was stirring the boiling pot of water.

Ruby took a handful of vials with a variety of colors and poured it into the pot, different reactions occurred every time she poured in a vial she then took the wooden spoon from Vanessa and mixed it herself. The color of the liquid in the pot, changed colors from a light bronze to a strong one. Then it changed into a light silver to a strong one. 

The large pot started shaking violantly but Ruby added a few materials, and it stopped plus the color changed into a light yellow color. 

"Quickly put out the fire!" Ruby exclaimed at Vanessa, she looked at the bubbling liquid in shock. Time slowly passed with Ruby's eyes wide open, starring at the yellow liquid. Her face went from scrutiny to shock and finally a smile grew on her face.

She scooped up the liquid and turned to Roland, "You come drink this!"