The more Barbara contemplated the situation, the more peculiar it seemed.

If she possessed Maria's immense power, she would undoubtedly refine pills of higher grades in the second round.

Imagine the astonishment that would ensue if a young female alchemist, merely twenty years old, successfully refined superior pills like grade four or even grade five in front of a captivated audience!

“Could it be..."

Barbara harbored a suspicion within her but uncertainty still clouded her mind.