Ruby, the childhood friend and a genius alchemist, had become arrogant and regularly harassed Lloyd, her exclusively contracted mage. Lloyd’s material collection rate was a mere 40%, a significantly low figure compared to other mages, making him the laughingstock of the entire country. He was deemed worthless other than as Ruby’s childhood friend. That was the general opinion of Lloyd. Fed up with the power harassment and public backlash, Lloyd decided to sever ties with his childhood friend and resolved to live a slow life in a remote town where no one would know who he was. However, there was something that not even Ruby, let alone the public, knew. The materials casually requested by Ruby were all of S-rank rarity, impossible for any other mage to gather even a single one…