Chapter 139 – How to Become an Alchemist
‘…The fucking power is amazing.’
The power of the bankruptcy priesthood he unfolded is the power of the Black Slaughter Magic Field cast by Eun-wol, who makes it look like a joke. When everyone in the hall was shocked by that terrifying power and kept their mouths shut. The door to the meeting room opens and the rice cake stands come in.
“Is there a problem!!”
The guards enter, bewildered by the internal turmoil. When they attack, Pirina wakes up from her thoughts and stops them.
“…It’s okay! It’s nothing, let’s go out.”
“Yes? That… But the wall…”
“This bastard… Is he answering the words of your guild leader?”
“Crime…!! I’m sorry, madam.”
Contemplating Pirina’s words, he bent her back so much that her head touched the floor and apologized. Pirina responds in a sharp voice to his appearance.
“Shut up and try to get out.”
“Yes! I understand! Madam!!”
The rice cake stands bend over and over, go out again and close the door. After they completely disappeared, Eunwol started to open her mouth again.
“…Don’t you answer? You buggers?”
Eun-wol raises her hand once again and casts the Black Slayer, spewing terrifying demonic energy into her hand. A guild leader was frightened by her bloody appearance and quickly started to answer.
“Ah… I see! Please have mercy…”
“Joy!”
Apologies from the guild leaders. Eun-wol lightly snorted at their answer, then moved behind Seong-il like a ghost and closed her mouth.
“Come on!! Everyone, don’t be too vigilant. I’m here to help too.”
Seeing the guild leaders nervous, Seong-il brings out a chair and sits down with a friendly smile. And she continues her words towards Pirina.
“Pirina. How is my bodyguard?”
“…That’s amazing.”
“Yeah. In that sense, I’m thinking of sending my bodyguards into the war against Hendrick… Is that okay?”
“Yes?!”
Pirina looks surprised at Seong-il’s words that her Seong-il will use her power to defeat one fearsome strong man.
Seeing her expression, Seong-il puts on a confident expression and continues her words.
“For reference, I can guarantee that her skills are powerful enough to kill dozens of warriors as if playing with them.”
“…!!”
“So… I don’t think I deserve to sit here and participate in the meeting, do I?”
After saying that, Seong-il glared at the guild leaders around her, not Pirina.
Then, at Seongil’s cold gaze, her allied guild leaders nodded their heads in response.
“If you support someone with that level of skill, you deserve to say that.”
“You’re right!!”
Seong-il grinned at their reaction, took out an additional chair from her, and beckoned Eun-wol to sit down, then continued her words.
“Everyone. I am well aware that you are all in trouble due to Hendrick’s provocation. Therefore, I promise to do my best to support you. We will give you a separate reward of 1,000 gold per person. I promise.”
Guild leaders widen their eyes at the sudden offering of a huge reward for a holy day. Seeing their expressions, Seong-il opens the notary that he has prepared in his arms and shows it to them.
“Look…!! Whether I’m lying or not.”
He has Eun-wol show them the notary, and after seeing the contents, they reply to him with hardened expressions.
“Hmm… You’re serious…”
A white-haired man who had been sitting in the corner for a while, silently watching the situation. After examining the notary, he replies to Seong-il.
“Why would I lie? As you know, Madame Pirina and I are ‘close’ collaborators, so I can spend all her money on her like that for her sake.”
“Ummm…”
“So I won’t say much. I hope you do your best. Then this gold will be yours.”
Seong-il, who said that, seemed to have finished his work. He closes his mouth and sits in a corner and begins to observe the meeting.
As Seongil was silent, they started the meeting with a sneaky glance. During the meeting, they constantly noticed Seong-il, but when Seong-il remained silent without saying anything, the stuffy atmosphere gradually dissipated and an intense meeting began.
“We have to focus on defense!! Starting from the south of the Aden River, release the subordinates of each organization to the pier…”
“What are you talking about! Let’s take an active offensive by releasing gang members to the high-class entertainment district in the northern part of Adenheim!!”
“Stop talking bullshit! Then the officers…”
Opinions vary wildly from organization to organization. Looking at them like that, Pirina strongly scolds them.
“Stop! Rather than pursuing the interests of each faction, we should actually think about destroying Hendrick’s stronghold!!”
“But how? Their main base boasts impenetrable defense!”
In this way, as each faction continued to talk about each other, Seong-il, who had roughly grasped the situation, began to ask them questions.
“Wait a minute.”
“!!”
Seong-il, who had been silent for a long time, opened his mouth, and the thieves looked at him in unison. Seong-il starts to answer with a bitter smile at them.
“The point is… That the three places they use as their main base are heavily fortified, so it’s hard to hit them?”
To such a question on the holy day, Pirina gives her answer with a nod of her head.
“Yes. That’s right, Gongja. Their stronghold is numerous and well-prepared. However, we are outnumbered in terms of numbers to attack the base where we divided our forces.”
“Hmm… Is that so?”
At Pirina’s words, Seong-il asks her a question after smiling with her signature mischievous smile.
“What if… One day, suddenly, one of their strongholds was ambushed and completely destroyed?”
“That’s it… They’ll give up their main bases and businesses and flock to their bases. Even if the financial damage is great, they’ll have to get their organization together.
“Hmm… That’s right…”
Seong-il, who raises his hand and sweeps his chin, is deep in thought. He thinks for a moment, then raises her hand again and asks Pirina a question.
“And if… One of the three bases is completely destroyed. How do you think your odds will be in this guild war?”
At the words of such a holy day, Pirina shrugs her shoulders and answers him.
“Your chances of winning will be very high. If you secure one of the three bridges that cross the Aden River, you will be able to easily pressure their stronghold. Still.”
“I mean… If the base gets destroyed by a few unexpected enemies, morale will drop…?”
“Sure.”
Seong-il, hearing Pirina’s answer, puts on a strange expression and she shuts her mouth in silence again.
Pirina is taken aback by the strange expression he makes. Then she asks her Seong-il.
“…You’re not trying to invade one of their strongholds, are you?”
“No way~ I couldn’t have done that? Now! Now that I’m done with my questions, I’ll just quietly listen to the meeting. If there’s anything you want to say, please share it.”
Having said that, Seong-il thoroughly shuts his mouth again and just sits by the sidelines at the meeting.
Seong-il really shuts up and doesn’t say anything, so the guild leaders open their mouths again and start a fierce discussion.
However, after discussing for a long time, nothing came of it in the end, and they decided to continue the meeting the next day, blushing, and ended the meeting.
“Pirina? Can you give me a minute?”
As the guild leaders leave after the meeting, Seong-il asks Pirina for a private meeting. Pirina nodded her head as if she understood what he said, and after ordering her subordinates to stop people from coming around her, she said.
“…By the way, I heard he was looking for a trustworthy ally yesterday… Is that him…?”
Pirina asks Seong-il a question while looking at her silver moon. To her, Seongil nodded her head and replied.
“That’s right. One of the best in my family. Do you remember the elder who told me about my past?”
“Yes. He is the one who told me to run away to the east if he doesn’t want to serve as head of household…?”
“Yeah. He came to Adenheim just to see if I was doing well, and to do market research.”
“Hmm…”
“So he told him about you and me, and he assigned me one of the family’s best escorts, whom he had secretly brought.”
“Is that him…?”
“Yeah. It’s called an escort. By the way, even if I can’t be that escort, I can say that it’s a level where I can knock out 50 thugs by myself.”
As if Eun-wol’s pride was hurt by Seong-il’s words, he cuts off his words.
“…What are you talking about. Gongja-nim. I can kill 100 people alone, let alone 50 people.”
“Ah~ There’s no need to brag about being in front of the flute. Being objective is important. Silver escort.”
At Seong-il’s words, Eun-wol snorted, and then she resented him.
“I never bluffed…? Did you say flute or sheep? May I ask you a question?”
“Yes? Tell me.”
“What’s the level of the thugs in the group led by that bug named Hendrick? Is the level much higher than Madame Pirina’s subordinates out there right now?”
At Eun-wol’s words, Pirina frowns at her and replies as if what she’s talking about.
“You’re welcome. Hendrick’s men may be more numerous, but his men’s combat power is clearly inferior to mine. I can swear on that by my name.”
“Huh… Really? Then it would be easy for 200 people, let alone 100 people?”
Seeing Eun-wol look very confident, Seong-il is puzzled and asks a question.
“Is that enough?”
“Sure. Young master. I’m sorry for Piri or Yang, but even if dozens of her subordinates come, they won’t be able to hurt me in any way. If you don’t believe me, shall we go out and prove it?”
After saying that, Eun-wol immediately draws out that terrifying force and starts spraying it everywhere.
‘Huh… That’s bloody.’
Although Seong-il boasted that he had become quite strong through steady training in martial arts, Seong-il flinched and trembled involuntarily as the momentum emitted by Eun-wol was beyond imagination.
“…I’ll believe it.”
And it must have been the same for Pirina as well. She hardened her expression and answered Eun-wol. Then Pirina began questioning her seongil.
“Um… If someone with such powerful skills continues to help us, it will be easy for us to win the Guild War.”
“Um… That’s impossible…”
“?”
Pirina is taken aback when Seong-il, who had said she would help, suddenly gives a negative answer.
‘… Even if she says she can’t use Eunwol because she doesn’t have enough points, she won’t be able to understand me, so I’ll just have to put it aside…’
To the bewildered Pirina, her holy day explains the situation.
“Um… As you know, it’s a difficult situation if news of me leaks into the family, so I can’t openly send the silver escort into the war.”
“Ah…”
“If she goes to escort her elders and continues to leave her seat, she will surely become suspicious from above. Then, when she finds out I am here, her family may come to get me.”
“Hmm…”
“That’s why I can only borrow the silver escort’s force and use it twice at most. That’s why I want to make a suggestion.”
“Which?”
“It’s simple. I’m leaving one of the main strongholds this evening and the silver escort will go and destroy it. I’ll just follow and watch. The escort will do all the fighting.”
Pirina makes an absurd expression at the words of such a holy day. Then she asks her Seong-il.
“Yes? Are you serious? Just the two of you… No, alone?!”
“Yeah. I’m just worried…”
“…?”
“If I kill them all, there will be problems, right?”
In fact, at Seong-il’s bloody words that she will kill everyone through Eun-wol, Pirina responds in fright.
“No!! No matter how guild civil war, if there is such a massacre, the city council will never leave us alone! You’re talking about trouble!”
“Huh… That’s right…”
After saying that, Seong-il looks at Eun-wol and asks her.
“Silver escort. Can you beat them so that they can’t fight for months without killing or maiming them?”
“Well… It’s annoying, but I don’t think there’s anything I can’t do. Master Young master.”
Looking at the two, Pirina asked.
“…You really want to attack the base alone…?”
“Yes. I really will. The only time I’ve been helped by the silver escort, including today, is only twice. I should use it right away.”
