Alex spent the night inside the alchemy room doing nothing but cultivating. He had taken a particularly large Alchemy task that would normally take about 10 hours for a normal cultivator.
However, he had finished it in just 3 hours and had spent the remainder of the time simply cultivating.
Alex walked out of the room a bit after noon and looked outside. It was just an hour before he got to meet his mother again.
'I can do one more pill,' Alex thought and walked out from the back of the guild to the front where the mission board lay.
As he was about to place his badge on the carved spots, he heard someone shouting behind him.
"Hey, you!"
Alex continued with his task, wondering why someone would dare be rowdy in the guild.
"Can you turn around, please?" the voice continued. "I'm talking to you, the one with the missing arm."