After traveling for almost an hour from the train station Sarah and William finally arrived outside a large and beautiful villa. Made from stone and timber, its design highlights skilled craftsmanship. The interiors featured artisanal furniture, antique rugs, and large fireplaces, ensuring a warm and inviting atmosphere. Tall windows with wooden shutters fill rooms with natural light, while the simplistic design encourages simple living. Outside, a sprawling garden blooms with a riot of flowers and fruit trees, and a large magical pond filled the backyard with clear water which gave off faint magical fluctuations. Quickly after arriving, William inspected the new house under scrutiny, it was rather simplistic in design but that was the beauty of it, it was not grand like a castle or large family manor but took up a large amount of land for a large city like Starweave. A large part of the property was the main house where the residents would eat, sleep, and interact with each other.

Arriving at a work table filled with ingredients there were a variety of tools laid out with various purposes, from clippers to cut small branches of wood to a squeezer to juice fruits, almost anything related to processing ingredients was present. With Sarah standing next to him, William picked up a stock of a plant she did not recognize and began speaking. "These are the basic tools you will need for preparing most ingredients for the brewing process, this part is very important since some plants only need specific parts for the potion and any other unneeded parts will lower the quality of your potion." Picking up a small wooden branch and what looked like a peeler he began peeling the bark off the small branch while speaking. "This is a small branch of Moon Ash, one of the ingredients for a commonly seen intermediate healing potion, it is very important to shave off all of the bark because we will be leaving it to soak in our solvent to give it very weak healing properties. In

Sitting behind an oak desk while looking at a book that described many essential alchemy ingredients a boy who looked like he had just reached adulthood had his feet up while aimlessly flipping pages and vaguely learning what was on the pages. In all manners of speaking the boy looked completely average, maybe even slightly below, in a world with many knights who had very bulky physics his twig frame made him unattractive to the female gaze while simultaneously appearing like a weakling to other men. Yes, he was a mage, a mage with an unsymmetrical face and soft facial features, his only saving grace was that he was an alchemist or at least almost an alchemist. While mindlessly passing the time, the boy named Rory suddenly had his attention drawn to a short girl who entered the registration section of the first floor, she was just under 5 feet tall and was not overly beautiful but was still cute to the extent of being hit on at work weekly. "Jean, you are almost 15 minutes late a

While Sarah was taking her apprentice alchemist exam William was lead to a small room by one of the employees and given tea and pastries. It has to be said that rich and powerful people are treated completely differently than normal people who have to stand around and wait, because of his affiliation with the Goldridge family he was treated like the owner's son. Realistically it was not a big deal and in someways he would rather sit out and listen to what other mages in the guild talked about. In truth he was still imcredibly ignorant to many things in this world, the current social situation and news about the world that is not important enough to be main stream. It took a little under two hours before a middle aged man with thick glasses and a very thin frame walked into the small room William was staying. "Hello Mr. William, my name is Anton and I will be administering your offical alchemist certifiction test, I have been informated that you have not taken an apprentice test b

After leaving the alchemy guild, William and Sarah returned to the carriage that had brought them originally. It was situated less than a hundred meters away, and the coachman, an older gentleman named Oliver, was waiting for them. William had talked with him a few times and understood that he was Sarah's primary guard while living outside the country and was a very competent mage. Although he did not live in the villa with them, he would accompany them whenever they left for protection. As they got into the carriage, Sarah turned to William. "We should go to a nice restaurant to celebrate doing so well. Do you have anywhere you would like to go?" Hearing her question, William couldn't help but feel a little weird being treated like this but didn't overthink it. She was a wealthy noble daughter, and he was a broke kid from a working-class family. Even with his knowledge, it didn't change that he was currently lacking in his means. Realistically, he had been waiting for the potio