Snake Blood

The Whole Rose Garden barely had any other participants from the tournament, so Aethersage was going to have a much easier time finding the Lotus. While he was busy doing that, Alex went to meet Rosemist in the mountains.

"You returned rather quickly," Rosemist said as she appeared before Alex. "I thought you were going to take much longer than this."

"It ended earlier than I thought," Alex said. "So I could come here early."

Rosemist smiled. "Welcome back."

They talked for a bit with Alex mentioning what he did in the tournament. "Honestly, having the information I have now if I redid it, I could probably get over 9 thousand points," Alex said. "Especially with the fact that I can slow down time, albeit just a little bit."

"What you did is still amazing," Rosemist said. "Although, I can't really say how amazing since I don't know much about alchemy and pills at all."