Chapter 160 – How to Become an Alchemist
“Let’s stop arguing and let’s talk about everything with the results of next week’s exam. It’s annoying to quarrel with you who can’t study better than me.”
“Such cheeky…”
“Whether it’s arrogance or skill will be revealed next week, right?”
At Seong-il’s words, Vivian hardened her expression and answered the two with a determined expression.
“…You’re right. Let’s see. FYI, you! If you lose to me, you’ll have to be my servant for three months. Are you going to have me do all the chores? Prepare yourself?”
“Ah~ Yes, see you next week~”
After saying that, Seong-il left the academy and headed to the workshop, and Erica spoke to him in a worried tone.
“It feels good to see that little bitch swaying, but… Are you really confident?”
“Yes. Be confident. Let’s go back to the studio for now. I’ll surprise you in the evening.”
“…Why are you so confident?”
“Would you be surprised?”
When Seong-il said that, Erica looked at him with a blank expression, sighed, and quietly followed Seong-il back to the studio.
‘Now, shall we go copy the answer?’
Her restless Erica went into her own laboratory for a while to do her studies. Seong-il, who confirmed that she had disappeared from her sight, tried to return to her reality in her own room.
“Whoaam…”
Seong-il returns to her room after getting out of the Inner Plane with an expression that the world is annoying. He thinks while turning on the computer in the corner of the studio.
‘Hmm… Does the 『Inner Plane』 Unconditionally return to the place it teleported to…? It would be better to use the skill only at home if possible, even for the sake of excluding witnesses…’
Seong-il, who thought so, confirmed that the computer had finished booting. He immediately checks the strategy book downloaded from the Internet, copies the answers to the test questions, and then turns on 『How to Become an Alchemist』 And starts cross-checking whether the answers are correct.
‘Hmm… In my mind, I just want to copy the answers in the internet strategy guide. I’ve been wrong while reading strategy guides and playing games in the past, so I can’t not verify it… It’s really annoying.’
At least, Seong-il still has a save from the first semester exam, so he quickly tries to play with the second semester exam quarter. While Seongil is busy (?) Playing the game, a messenger alarm starts ringing on his cell phone.
“Huh?”
Late Sunday afternoon. Since he has no one to contact him, Seong-il turns on his phone, puzzled by the alarm.
‘Huh? Lee Ah-hyun?’
Seong-il feels his heart pounding at the sudden contact of the most beautiful woman in the department. He checks her messenger, wondering what she might have sent.
“Are you going to fight tomorrow? Tell me if you will You have to make a schedule.”
“Ah…”
Seong-il learns why Lee Ah-hyun contacted him. He smiles bitterly and continues his thoughts.
‘What else am I saying… It’s because I said last time that I wish I could do sparring steadily because I lacked experience in combat?’
Seong-il, who has grasped the situation, begins to answer her calmly.
『My classes are over by tomorrow morning, so I can do anything in the afternoon at any time』
“Okay? Then how about around 4pm? From then on, I use the training room alone for about two hours, so I can practice as much as I want.”
“It’s good. See you in the training room at 4:00 tomorrow.”
“Huh.”
‘I thought about it the other day… But isn’t it too much for an S-class prospect to monopolize the training room for two hours…?’
Seong-il feels dumbfounded by the way the department operates, which monopolizes one training room for each grade. He swallows his bitter heart and thinks of something.
‘Uh… Come to think of it, what was I trying to do in the past?’
Seong-il was sitting blankly thinking about something. He sits down on the bed and thinks about it, and suddenly an idea comes to mind.
“Ah! That’s right! Voodoo doll!!”
Thinking so, Seong-il takes out Lee Ah-hyun’s hair and 『The Voodoo Doctor’s Straw Doll』, Which he had carefully kept in the corner of the room.
『Doll of the Voodoo Doctor (available once a week): Invade the dreams of others and control them to create the story you want.』
‘This… I have to use it… But at first glance, it looks like a good thing to trick Lee Ah-hyun…’
However, Seong-il, who has no idea about the effect and side effects of the item, continues to think about the item.
‘…This isn’t a game world. I wrongly used something I don’t even know what kind of ability it is on a famous up-and-comer like Lee Ah-hyun.
Unlike games, once a big mistake is made, it is impossible to recover from the situation in reality. Rather than taking a gamble, Seong-il contemplates how to use 『The Witch Doctor’s Straw Doll』 After conducting a stable experiment.
‘Where and whom should I experiment with first?’
Then, suddenly, a person pops into Seongil’s head.
‘Vivian Olke!! Do you think he’ll fit?’
Since she is moderately hostile towards Seong-il, Vivian doesn’t seem to have any problem even if something goes wrong. Thinking of her like that, her Seongil continues her thoughts.
‘What! She’s the one who will come to our workshop and become Erica’s slave(?). It’s perfect for use as a test subject!’
Seong-il puts the 『Wood Doctor’s Straw Doll』 Into his inventory while having dark thoughts. He puts Lee Ah-hyun’s hair back into the bottle and carefully puts it in the corner of the studio.
‘Now… Let’s stop thinking about useless things and continue with the verification…’
Seong-il, who thought so, begins to verify the exam questions of the second semester of the alchemy world for a long time, and begins to write down the answers on his smart phone.
‘…By the way, I killed Edward this time, so I wonder if the main quest point reward came in?’
Seong-il, who wrote down all the answers, turns on 『Game Master』 For the first time in a while and checks his status window.
User: Seongil Han
1. Current World: Reality
2. Possessed Abilities: Recognition, Game Master, Martial Arts, Inner Plane
– Sensitivity LV.1: Use electronic products to quantify and understand the abilities of people and items.
– Game Master LV.2 :
1) You can enter the world in the game.
2) You can check the quest from the person in the game.
(ON/OFF possible with a click)
– Heaven, Earth, Yin-Yang Bridge 4-Star: It is the ultimate unmanned man with inner strength.
– Bankruptcy priesthood 1 star: A young Kwonsa who trains Kwonbeop.
– Inner Plane LV.1: Han Seong-il’s soul world that no one can access. If Han Sung-il wishes, he can teleport to the inner plane with up to 6 people, 3 times a day.
3. Ability:
– Agility: 22
– Strength: 22
– Intelligence: 16
– Stamina: 24
– Magic attribute: 27
4. Points: 42,200 points (+15,000 points)
5 State:
– Color ball polishing (side effects exist)
※ Overall rating: Yes. I got a house, I got a safe place, but shouldn’t I get some cores soon?
‘Oh… I got main quest reward points for defeating Edward. I spent about 2,000 points to buy energy potion ingredients a while ago. Well done…’
Seong-il looks at the game master while thinking useless thoughts.
‘…No fuck, I don’t want to eat cores, so I’m not looking for them? It’s because I’ve been busy clearing the game worlds that have been pushed back, but this bastard is really…’
‘And how does dungeon information fall from the sky? Right now, the level of dungeons I can safely go to is limited…’
Wiing!!!
Perhaps reading Seong-il’s heart, the game master conveys a message to him through a general review.
※ General Review: Stop talking nonsense, go find a dungeon.
“?!?!?!”
Seong-il, taken aback by the sudden general comment, picks up his smartphone and looks around. Then, an alarm pops up in front of him, and he confirms that a new item called “Emergency Quest” Has been added.
‘…This is just the quest menu in the game world changed to the real version!! Now they make quests in real life.’
Seong-il presses the quest with his absurd mind behind. Then, a map unfolds like a navigation system centered on Seongil’s studio.
“How are you…?”
Seong-il starts to look around every nook and cranny of the map when a navigation system (?) Appears. OK…
Two or three small circle-shaped signs appeared near his house, and Seong-il was curious about the appearance of the circles, and when he clicked on them, something began to emerge.
『Grade 9 Dungeon (2nd day of creation)』, 『Grade 9 Dungeon (7th day of creation)』…
‘Hey… If you click it, does it tell you the location of the recently created dungeon? It’s strange…’
Admiring the game master’s kind (?) Guidance, Seong-il starts to make a plan.
‘Hmm… I still have to get cores to expand the game world. Sooner or later, I need to clear some dungeons with Eunwol. I want to take care of my core.’
Seong-il, who has built up such thoughts, tries to enter the world of alchemy again.
Smart!!
As soon as he entered the world of alchemy, Sungil knocked on the door of Erica’s lab. At such a holy day’s visit, Erisha leaves her room with a puzzled look on her face.
“What? Why all of a sudden…”
Seong-il pulls out a smart phone from Erisha’s arms and puts it in her face.
“What… What is it?! This strange magic tool is…”
“Ah, this is the trump tool I was talking about. Take a good look at the contents!”
At Seong-il’s bizarre request, Erisha takes the smartphone from him and starts looking at her contents.
“What… What!!”
“What is the answer?”
“I… Have you really been looking for trouble?!”
“Yes. I told you not to worry that this body will save you. Take it and copy it.”
“Oh my god…”
“Erisha is shocked by Seongil’s ability and daring to really steal the exam questions from the Nerke Royal Alchemy Academy, which is famous for its impenetrable security. She holds her smartphone blankly and looks at her Seongil before talking to him.
“What the hell is this magic tool? How did you steal the test questions…? To be honest, I know that the dean tells the professors three days before the exam and makes the test papers to prevent the test questions from being leaked… What is the true identity of 7 days ago…”
“I have to explain it now. You don’t understand or you can’t. Just memorize the answer because I’ll let you understand naturally as time goes on.”
“Huh…”
Erica looks at Seongil with melted eyes as if she saw the savior. Seong-il waits for her leaning on the sofa in the corner of her workshop with a wry smile at her new attitude, not her usual angular attitude.
After a while, Erica handed him her smartphone. She starts questioning Seong-il again if she is still doubtful.
“…Is it really right that the problem comes out as it is? Really?”
“That’s right!! How could I have won 1st place as I am always training martial arts at home or rolling around!! If you don’t believe me, just study separately!! If you’re not going to do it, don’t do it!!”
“No, it’s not that I don’t believe it…”
Trembling at the torch on her holy day, she puts down her phone with a bashful laugh and quickly goes into her studio.
‘…It really bothers me.’
Seong-il, who solved the exam-related problems at once, goes out to the yard with a comfortable mind and starts practicing martial arts with a wooden sword.
Test after 7 days.
Seong-il solved the problem in an instant, as she had done before.
Seeing him like that, the students start whispering once again with a look of disgust.
“Again… Again?”
“…How on earth could he do that? Are you really a genius?”
“Isn’t that a bluff?”
Etc
Ignoring their agitation, Seong-il sneaks around and looks for Erica.
‘Huh… He hasn’t finished it yet even though I told him about the problem? What are you going to do? Tsk…’
Still, Seong-il, who believes in Erisha’s talent, believes that she will have done well, and tells the professor at her podium that her exam has been completed.
“I finished the exam first this time, Professor.”
“…I can’t say anything negative about the first place last time, and I don’t want it.”
Devon, the professor in charge of the first year, looks at Seong-il with an absurd expression. He sighed lightly and spoke to the assistant next to him.
“Owen. Take it.”
“Yes! Professor.”
Assistant Professor Owen very skillfully received the test answers and practical results from Seong-il, put them in a box, and sealed it. Seeing that he sealed the item, Seong-il questions Devon.
“May I go out?”
“…Of course.”
“Thank you!”
After saying that, Seong-il left the exam hall and went to the workshop. About 10 minutes after he came to the workshop, Erica arrived.
