Setting Off

"You'll have to agree sooner or later," Fran sneered, before leaning against his chair and closing his eyes to rest.

"Haha…" Lys let out an awkward chuckle, but didn't leave the fireplace immediately. It was partially because of Fran's status as a disciple of Artisan Nolan, which made it so that wherever he went, he had to be respected.

Moreover, Lys was also unsure...

Merlin indeed had shown shocking skill when it came to alchemy, to the point that even Lys himself as a Master Alchemist was awed by him.

But Merlin was truly too young... He wasn't even twenty. Even if he had started studying the intricacies of alchemy at his birth, he could only have accumulated twenty years worth of knowledge. No matter how talented Merlin was, there would inevitably be some shortcomings when it came to his experience.

And cracking an array relied mostly on experience with other arrays.