All hail junior brother!

The Alchemy Hall disciples were surprised by how quickly I admitted this.

They were even a bit confused as to why I seemed so confident.

This made them forget their anger for a bit as they wanted to see what I would have to say.

I knew that it would have this effect, which was why I had said it like this.

So after a pause to let this sink in, I continued in the same confident manner, "I know that this means that I will be taking an opportunity from one of you, so I want to give you some kind of compensation."

Their eyes immediately lit up when they heard this.

Since they recognized who I was, all of them knew that my compensation would be very generous.

But they didn't let their emotions show on their faces since they knew that this alchemy competition was also a big opportunity, so they wanted to see if this compensation was something that could make up for this.