Xavier woke up and got ready to go to the Medicine Hall.
If you ask which hall had the most prestige in the academy, it will be the medicine hall.
First reason is that they are the lifeblood of the Academy. More than half of the monetary spending of the academy is taken care of by the Medicine Hall.
As the city was a bit city, it was constantly exposed to the wilderness and the city has many adventurers and mercenaries going into the forests to hunt for various resources, be it herbs or animals, and they inadvertently get hurt.
These people need a lot of potions and treatment for working properly. As a result these independent group of people will bring in a lot of income to the academy.
Even the herbs we which they have brought out from the forests will be sold to the Medicine Hall as they are a very credible institution and they also give a good price.
Even when asking for treatment, depending upon the severity of the injuries, the Hall would charge different prices and as these hunters have a lot of materials, they usually pay using them. After 10000 years of such accumulation, the coffers of the Medicine Hall were unfathomable.
Not only do the mercenaries and hunters, but even the City Lord values the Medicine Hall very much.
As a city bordering the wilderness, the are many breast tides which occur and they take place every 10 years or so and each time, the dead and the injured are enough to room the City Lord castle.
But the Medicine Hall, ever since the city was established voluntarily stepped forth and helped the City for a small price. As a result of this, the prestige of the Medicine Hall in the eyes of the people started to an even greater degree.
Xavier used the Academy map on his onubad and finally reached the Medicine Hall.
It was a large twin tower. It has two buildings which had 100 floors and the two were connected by 3 bridges from the sides.
One of these buildings was for the people who worked in the Hall. The Medicine Hall with all its prestige had their own pride. Everyone, from the meagre cleaners to the high level Masters were staying together.
The bottom floor has people of lower status while the top had concocters and the physicians.
While most concocters were well versed in medicine, not all of the ailments were cured by potions only. Someone, one needed other help as well and that's where physicians come in. While the status of physicians were not as high as the potion concocters, they still were a part of the medicine hall.
The rooms for potion concocters not only had workshops, they also had a variety of entertainment amenities including a 'Escort service' or to put it bluntly a prostitute service. These rooms represented one of the best places to live in the city.
The second building was the trade centre and the store house. It was the place where the major transactions take place. The bottom 10 floors are for buying and selling herbs, while the next 10 were for pills. The rest of the floors were for storage of pills and herbs.
These floors had the state of the art storage facilities provided by the County Headquarters of the Star Academy. They would be able to store both herbs and pills for more than a hundred years.
Xavier soon reached the entrance of the Medicine Hall and was recieved by a attendant near the entrance.
"What is your request sir?"
"I'd like to take the examination for the potion concocters test. Can you tell me what is the procedure to apply and participate in the test?"
The attendant lady was a little surprised. From the badge Xavier had, she knew that he was a freshman. They came to the academy less than a week ago and she knew that Xavier didn't have any big backing as she knew all those who did but this boy was taking such a difficult examination.
"First you must register for the exams. It has a fee of 100 credits and after that, you'll be taken to a room in which a concocter will monitor your performance and if you have passed the required standard, you'll be given a concocter badge."
"A hundred credits?" Xavier asked.
The attendant skilled and explained," This is the fee only for the freshmen. Every year, there will be a increase in price of 10 times. For the sophomores, the fee is a 1000 credit and it increases every year."
"This is done to weed out all the people who come here to just try their luck. And also the credits won't be refunded even if you successfully become a concocter as it will be taken as a fee for the badge and the herbs used."
Xavier understood after listening to those words. It was necessary after all. If everyone who thought were profecient enough tried for the exams, the system would fall as there are not many concocters and even those that attendee are too busy to supervise such a matter.
"Ok then, here are my 100 credits. Register me up for the exams." Xavier gave the Academy Card to the Attendant.
The attendant skilled and said," This sir here, can you consider it more carefully. You are a freshman and you only have 100 credits to spend for this while month. If you can't pass, you will find it hard to lead a life in the academy."
"Don't work, I will be able to pass. I have at least that much confidence in myself if I'm coming to take the examination." Xavier smiled and assured the attendant.
Saying his persistence, the attendant nodded and went away with a smile.
She came back after a few minutes and just as she was about to hand in his Academy card, a commotion broke out.
Xavier turned around to look at what all the noise was about and found out that a group of people were coming were coming into the Medicine Hall.
Along those group of people, Xavier recognised Richard Wade. But looking at the way he was fawning over the two people infront of him, it seemed that their status was far higher than his own.
One of the two was a young man who had a striking resemblance to Richard himself. He looked as if he was around 20 years old himself and was way more handsome than Richard's snobbish looks.
The other one was a young lady who appeared to be around the same age as the man. She was very beautiful, probably the most beautiful person he had seen since coming back to life.
She looked like a fairy with snow white skin which had shades of pink, fairly well developed curves in all the right places and most important of all her boobs! They were explosive. These melons seemed like they could not be held back by a mere piece of clothing and ready to jump out and about like 2 excited bunnies.
Xavier, while talking to for Clara had silently developed a fetish for huge boobs and often started at them in these two days. He didn't know of Clara noticed it but she would often giggle softly.
While Xavier was observing Richard and the two infront of him, Richard also saw Xavier.
He glared at Xavier and whispered something in the young man's ears.
The man heard this and looked at Xavier with a peculiar flint in his eyes. The man said something to the young lady and then the 3 along with their group walked up to him.