It only took him a moment to realize that he was seeing the varying energy present inside the ingredients; it was as if he had gained X-ray visions that could see through the outer surfaces of herbs and flowers!

Whoever created the spell matrix filtration was a genius!

Vincent thought that this spell matrix was truly an incredible marvel!

Vincent's lips thinned into a slight smile. He had never expected that he could use the spell matrix filtration this way, and finding out that he could, made him happy.

Usually, it was hard for a person to determine where impurities were in the ingredients. But now, because he could see where they were and how many there were, the purification process became a hundred times easier for him!

He directed his mana threads towards the impurities!

Under Vincent's careful control, the mana threads went on to annihilate and push the impurities out of the ingredients.

[You've completely purified the mid-quality Magic blueberries. Quality increased. It has become a high-quality berry.]

[You've completely purified the Flower of the night.

Quality increased. It has become a high-quality flower.]

[You've completely purified the Mulberry's branch.

Quality increased. It has become a high-quality branch.]

[You've completely purified the Red leaves. Quality increased. It has become a high-quality herb.]

A few moments later, more than a dozen black debris the size of a single sand grain left the four herbs. Immediately, several notifications popped up in Vincent's mind, telling him that the ingredients had become good enough to get used by him to create a pill.

Vincent's smile deepened. Not only did he prepare them, but he also had upgraded their quality! An upgrade in a herb's quality could only happen due to two reasons. The first was that it was extremely close to leveling up. The second was that a master alchemist had used his skills to free it from impurities. The last was that someone injected it with quality upgrading dew that was so hard to come by and so costly that no sane person would use it on cheap ingredients like the ones Vincent recently purified.

Now that he got done with purifying them, it was time to inform the substitute teacher of his success

Vincent picked up his tray and started walking towards the front of the class. At one side of his tray was a glass prison. Inside of it was the debris he got from purifying the ingredients. On the other side were the mentioned ingredients, and all of them looked healthy beyond compare. Some had even adorned a shiny luster after getting their quality increased.

The sound of his footsteps attracted many pairs of eyes. Everyone who looked at him thought that he had given up. Why? Well, it was because they hadn't even purified a single ingredient! Some of them were attending this class for the ninth time, and even they had only purified a single herb. So, how could they believe that Vincent had purified all the thins on his tray?

"Bro, you're not in this alone. Don't give up, right? You giving up is like disheartening all of us. And it hasn't even been five minutes since we started purifying. Why give up so soon?" One of them blocked Vincent and told him to go back. He was a head shorter than him. He had blonde hair and eyes of the same color. He was wearing the second-year uniform. Beside him stood Eric, his knight, and some other first-year students. All of them didn't want anyone to give up, at least not so fast.

It's because they would all fail if less than 30 students managed to complete the ingredients purifying process. Instructor Alex would use their failure as an excuse to not teach them the next step of alchemy. They were sure that he would do that because he had done it previously too! That instructor was an asshole!

Hearing his words, Vincent rolled his eyes. Even though he could tell Gale didn't mean him to harm, he was still annoyed because the person assumed something without even making sure of things and then even went as far as to block his oath and accuse him of giving up.

"I don't know what misunderstanding you've about me, but a, my name is Vincent, and I only conquer things, not give up in the middle of them, and b, I would like you to stop blocking my path."

When he said these words, Vincent's eyes flashed a trace of red. Paired with his pale skin, it looked so terrifying to the newborn calf that he subconsciously moved three steps to the side.

Vincent took this chance to slip past the shorter guy.

"Hey, wait. I have not finished talking."

The shorter guy wanted to stop him once again and even took a step towards Vincent, hoping to drag him away from Mr. Holmes, but one of his friends stopped him and pulled him back to their table.

Eric's knight said, "Gale, stop it. Since that person wants to leave, we should not stop him. It's not like we've any rights to interfere with his decisions."

The shorter guy hung his head low and replied in a disappointed voice, "If you say so, I will."

Eric said, "Ahem! I think we've misunderstood the situation."

He had heard what Vincent said about not giving up, so he came to believe that they had misunderstood Vincent.

"Huh?"

"What misunderstanding could there be about this situation?"

His words caused his knight and Gale to glance at each other, only to see confusion in each other's eyes. Why did Eric say that? Didn't he know that it was impossible to purify all the ingredients in such a small time? It was obvious that Vincent had given up. As for the words he said, wasn't it only because he was too arrogant?

"Well, whatever it is, we shouldn't just assume that we're absolutely right without seeing the whole picture. Early judgments are sometimes too wrong and come to bite us back. You two should stop doing that."

Eric blessed the two stupid guys with words of wisdom.

"Okay, okay, we will see."

Whether they were right about Vincent or not, they will soon find out anyway!