Okay but how did the rest of that department ever get anything done before her? Like the protagonist isn't damn well old enough for the entire institution to be resting on her shoulders and for no one there to know how to get anything done without her? >.>
It's not like this should be a job with high turnover, either, if alchemists are so rare. I feel like it's about to frame things as though everything now rests on the shoulders of her (seemingly equally young, and apparently useless) peers and that doesn't make any sense! There should still be both the institutional memory and the expertise around for the organisation at large to do things without her.