Chapter 36: Notes of the elders

Yuna look quietly at the middle ages elders of apothecary guild that surround her. Watching closely as she makes a potion. Their eyes widen when she does not use a runic spell when integrating the elements of the world with the potion. After making the potion, they clamor among themselves to be the first to inspect the potion purity.

Master Zahia stood at the side calmly, folding her hands in front of her, her chin tilted up quite arrogantly.

Carefully making the potion, the middle age mages gasped in amazement when she don't used the elemental runes to channel elements.

Pursing her lips, Yuna carefully store the potion inside a bottle, pass it to her master and then shift behind her, hiding herself.

She wants to avoid conversation as much as possible. If acting timid and shy can let her avoid conversation, she will shamelessly do so.

Ai...social interaction is annoying.

"How can this be!"

"This is the perfect purity!"

"How??!!"

The bunch of mages pushed and shoves each other, clamoring and making noises.

"How is this possible? How come it has to be you that find her?" One of the elders said, pointing finger at Master Zahia.

"Your master doesn't know how to care for you, why not follow me instead? She even leave you behind in a small town!" The other elder have an indignant expression.

"This is too much, of all among us, it has to be you who find her!"

"Why didn't you bring her back sooner?"

"Why didn't you even inform us?, Guild master, this is too much!"

The five elders of the apothecary guild kept on chattering making Yuna restless, it was noisy and annoying.

She feels like she is in a market and she is the goods that people vie for. What a not so pleasant feelings. Its' annoying dealing with people. If its other thing, she will be happy to be a hot commodity but when it comes to apothecary skills, the only advantage she has is her 100% purity aside from that, she has not much merit in other aspect.

She is not like those main characters who can produce heaven defying potion, learn all knowledge in one go, a medicinal genius.

This people might have expected her to be brilliant, to have great passion for apothecary, but she does not have that. She has no passion in apothecary, she learns only in hope of taking care of her grandfather potential illness later.

She hates expectancy placed on her, expectancy bears responsibility and that is the last thing she wants in her life.

If it was in her past life, Yuna will bear this kind of expectancy helplessly, not daring to fail their hope of her. Maintaining a façade even if she hates to work on it. There was that slight pleasure of people viewing her in a higher ground but that also means they expect something more, something extraordinary that seperate herself from them.

It is a burden and the pleasure of being looked up upon became a shackle.

She cannot be choosy and whimsical in her previous life. Maybe, even if she can, she don't have the guts back then. She just try clumsily, tiredly to lived up to the expectation. She should not have succumb to the pleasure of being put on a pedestal, the pleasure was so short lived and it was so hard to lived up to it.

But this is fantasy world, she has more courage now, she didn't need to please society and she didn't want to interact with people much either. She became more arbitrary, more care free.

So, Yuna tug at her master, displaying her discomfort and annoyance. She can act a bit willful, her grandfather spoiled her greatly, even though she has not become a spoiled rotten brat, she has undeniable become more willful, her grandfather indulge her and that indulgence gave her the courage to act willfully, he won't scold her. In a way, she indeed in spoiled.

Just like her grandfather, the cheap Master she gains also silently acquiesce of her willfulness.

"Enough, so much noise" Saying so, Master Zahia shield Yuna a bit more from the prying eyes of her colleague.

The mages bristled at their grandmaster action of hiding away her disciple from them. The treasure of apothecary world.

"What is the meaning of this?"

"Do we look like bad people? I can barely let it slide for leaving your amazing disciple behind but to not even want us to interact with her when she is in front of us is unforgivable!"

"Grandmaster, have shame!"

Master Zahia ignore them and demand plainly "Take out the little notebook you used to make when learning apothecary"

It was their own note where they were young and started learning apothecary, they write down their understanding and simplify potion making according to their own understanding. Their notebook just like a guidebook from an actual textbook.

Frowning, the five elders although reluctant still take out their notebook. They may display their discontent all they want but they are quite obedient to the grandmaster.

Master Zahia put all the notebook in a storage bag and gave it to Yuna.

"Learning apothecary will be much easier with this" Master Zahia told Yuna.

"Hey! Grandmaster! You are too much!"

The five elders look wide eyed.

"Don't be stingy towards juniors" Master Zahia said without an ounce of shame. Her expression composed.

The elders nostril flares "This is not about stinginess! I barely get to know your amazing disciple, you don't even introduce us, also, why don't you give your own notes! you cannot abuse your authority like this!"

Yuna demand not to be introduced, she is not interested in making acquantance or gaining a familiar stranger.

"I never need notes to simplify things, so I don't have a note to give her" Master Zahia said plainly, the unintentional show off with her natural cold and arrogant look make even Yuna itch to beat her up.

Geniuses are so darn hateful!

"Okay, you can go back, my plan on giving you notes is done"

Aside from pettily wanting to ravel in the jealous looks of her colleague, Master Zahia also want to give the notes of her colleague to Yuna so that learning apothecary will become less cumbersome for her. After all, her disciple does not have passion for apothecary, she was learning just for the sake of learning it and will not go out of her way to understand and learn each and every aspect of apothecary, possibly skipping things that she find it hard to learn and understand and the genius master Zahia is not good when it comes to explaining things in a simplified manner because she never need to.

Yuna not wanting to be held behind quickly leave the room with the storage bag that contains the 'Stolen' notes. She felt a twinge of pity for the elders who have to deal with her obnoxious and shameless master, but she is not them. Her empathy ends at that.

Gleeful that learning apothecary will become less tiresome and headache inducing, Yuna left the apothecary guild in a light brisk step.