Chapter 171 – How to Become an Alchemist
“Huh. That’s how I ended up in the tomb of the master paladin who believed in the sun god. Then some crazy necromancer found me while digging up a grave, and he, unknowingly feeling the powerful necromancer magic created by the demilich, took a strange interest in me and stole me away!!”
When Seong-il learned why a fairly powerful magic sword was hidden in the beginning dungeon, Seong-il was very interested and thought to himself.
‘…Oh my God, I thought it was just an Easter egg, but this kind of content was hidden. It’s amazing.’
『Easter egg? What is that?”
‘Huh? Oh, nothing I just thought about something else for a while.’
“Hmm! Something stinks though! Today is a happy day, so let’s move on.”
‘…You’re pretty dizzy too. Anyway, as a result, your specialty is to defend against mental attacks, right?’
『Well… I have it during battle, and I can do many other things!!』
Seong-il, frowning at the tone of the sword, which smells like a cheater, starts asking him questions in a suspicious tone.
‘…What can I do?’
『First of all, although this body is small! Because the soul of a lich is mixed, I have some knowledge about magic~ I mean!”
‘…Is it possible to use magic?’
“No. I just have insight.”
‘Then it’s useless!!!’
Seong-il is taken aback by the absurd sword skill show. He screams inwardly without realizing it and presses his sword. However, Black replies to Seong-il with a shameless voice.
“What. Ill. Hey, like the story of the death knight earlier, if I had no knowledge of magic at a certain level, would I have been able to explain it to you so ‘greatly’?』
‘That’s true, but…’
『Use is not everything! To have various perspectives on knowledge!!』
‘Crazy…’
When Seong-il tries to curse at the absurd logic of the sword, the black ghost notices Seong-il’s feelings and cuts off his words.
“And!! I have a good understanding of swordsmanship.”
‘Under! Do you have ‘multiple perspectives’ like magic?’
『No, swordsmanship is much better than that!!』
‘Hmm… Really?’
Seong-il holds the sword without realizing it and glares at it with a suspicious expression. To him, the sword desperately begins to appeal to himself.
“Really!! As for magic, I have ‘learned’ because of a piece of the soul of a lich, but most of the souls that make up me are the souls of famous warriors buried in Solanium, so I’m proud to say that I’m a master at swordsmanship… No, weapon skills!! 』
‘Oh…Then can you look after my swordsmanship?’
“How long have you been looking for it? Customer?”
‘A crazy bastard… If he keeps talking nonsense, won’t he give me magic and put him in a warehouse?’
Seong-Il, who is tired of Geum who keeps talking nonsense, pours out abusive words at him. I try to evoke the atmosphere by trying black jokes, as if I was stingy at his appearance.
“I’m kidding man! Joke!! We’re going to be partners in the future, of course we’ll do it for free! Oh, isn’t it free? Sometimes you need to recharge your mana…”
Seong-il roughly grasped the nature of the sword in less than an hour. He starts to cut his words, recalling the color horse of the past.
‘It’s done!! Can you watch doesn’t exist!!’
『I’ll see you!! I’ll see you~”
“Ha…”
Seong-il got tired of the talkative nature of the sword. He sighed for a while, then went out to the back door with his sword and stood with his sword in the clearing of the back gate.
‘I’ll start.’
“Yeah! Yeah!”
He picks up his sword and starts practicing 『Taegeuk Sword Gyeol』 As he trains with all his might. Seong-il practiced swordsmanship for a long time. Then he asks the sword.
‘Whoa…How is it?’
“You look so sick. Even though I don’t know exactly about the swordsmanship you practiced… Aside from that, you can evaluate that you have no understanding of the swordsmanship at all.”
‘…Fuck. But isn’t that enough?’
『No, you just don’t even know what the principle of the swordsmanship you are using is, you bastard. My judgment is accurate even if I just look at the movement of breathing and the incongruity of the muscles.”
‘Hmm…’
『Didn’t the swordsmanship master tell you? It looks like a standardized swordsmanship, but it is also a swordsmanship based on breathing.”
‘…Actually, I only studied for about 10 days and then I studied on my own.’
『Oh my God… How could a 3-year-old kid wriggle a sword like he was joking around to rip off his grandfather’s pocket money…』
‘…’
The expression of a sword that was not so naked that it was even cruel. Hurt by his expression, Seong-il loses his mind to reply and sits down on the floor to sigh.
『Uh… Um… Hey, are you crazy?』
‘What. I’m just a bit out of energy.’
『I’m pissed off.』
‘…Is this bastard?’
“Don’t worry! If I give you a map, you too can become a great swordsman in the future~ This is it!”
The words of the sword soothed Seong-il, perhaps because he felt that he spoke a little harshly even if he thought about it.
‘Shut up!’
“Really! I’ll teach you how to practice! Even if you harmonize the way you use your muscles and how you breathe, your swordsmanship will improve a lot!!”
‘…Really?’
“Really!!”
Seong-il was curious about the sword’s boast, but when she saw Erisha returning to the workshop, she opened her inventory and answered the sword.
‘Hmm… Let’s do it later, it’s already dinnertime, so I’m going to go eat.’
“Oh! Who came? Lover? Aren’t they so pretty?!”
‘I don’t know. See you next.’
After saying that, Seong-il put the cursed sword into his inventory and approached Erisha who returned to the studio.
The next morning.
“Okay…”
Seong-il woke up to a familiar chill. He could see right in front of his eyes the endless stretch of barren wheat fields he had seen before.
‘Whew… Fortunately, the napkin seems to have been eaten. Thank god.’
The world of voodoo dolls that I had been to once before. Unlike the previous time, Seong-il begins to walk through the desolate wheat field with a comfortable mind.
How long did it take A familiar scarecrow appears in front of him.
‘Uh… It’s still creepy.’
The scarecrow’s very ominous appearance and eyes. Even though Seong-il sees him for the second time, he approaches him, feeling that he is not used to it.
“Caw! Long time no see! Teacher!”
When Seong-il appears, a crow greets him, and Seong-il raises his hand to greet him and then begins to answer.
“Yeah, it’s been a while.”
“You must have called us today because you needed our strength, right?”
“Yeah, I want to manipulate the dreams of other people from last time… Is that possible?”
“Of course you can! Caw! Are you going to start right away?”
“Yes. Now that you have a rough idea of this place, let’s start right away.”
At Seong-il’s words, the crow smiled surprisingly (!) And flapped its wings, beckoning Seong-il to come closer. Following his guidance, he approaches the scarecrow and begins to touch it.
“Keugh…!!”
Even though I’ve been through it before, I feel like something intense that I’m not used to invades my mind. He closes his eyes for a moment in the intense pain he felt, but opens his eyes naturally when the pain subsides. And the unfolding situation before your eyes.
“Hmm? Who are you? Why did you come with my daughter?”
“Father! He is the colleague I mentioned earlier. His name is Seongil.』
『Hmm… Really…?』
“Ah! And this time, I’m the main player in the vitality potion business that my father highly praised. That’s why I brought her to lunch today…”
The world in Sir Brenner’s dream, where even Seong-il is familiar with the situation. Looking at the situation, he smiles and starts thinking.
‘Oh… If this is a dream, it’s a daytime meal situation that I know well, right? In a familiar situation like this, it’s easy for me to play with my dreams.’
Seong-il was well aware of the situation as he was also one of the parties in the dream. He starts making plans without paying attention to the contents.
‘Hmm… How can I remodel this dream to my advantage…?’
Seong-il pondered for a long time. He smiles his signature smile and starts talking to the crow.
“Hey buddy.”
“Yes. Teacher. Caw!!”
“Is it possible to correct a dream right away?”
“Kayak? Are you not looking at it anymore?”
“Do we really need to see more? You know from the dream situation, but I’m a character too. That’s the real situation that happened yesterday during the day.”
“Aha! I understand. Caw!! Then how can I correct it?”
Seong-il starts to ask the crow what he was curious about.
“Before editing… Is it possible to add new situations to the dream?”
“Kaak? Well? I guess I’ll have to listen to what the situation is like?”
“Ah, just in that situation, Vivian… So, I want to create a situation where the woman leaves for a while near the end of the story, and I want to decorate the story in a way that the man of my dreams and I are alone…”
“Hmm… If you make a ‘new’ story at the end of the story, I don’t think it’s too difficult since it doesn’t greatly distort the causal relationship of the dream. How can I change it! Caw!!”
“Ah… The story I want is…”
Seong-il revises his dream in the style he wants, and a new story begins to unfold before his eyes.
“Father! For a while… Take a seat to do something…”
“Ah! Do you want to do that?”
When Vivian uses the bathroom as an excuse to leave, Brenner bluntly talks about the recipe to Seong-il again.
『Hmm… Seongil-kun. My daughter has been away for a while, so I’ll be honest. Sell the recipe. I’ll pay whatever price you want.”
“Oh, I will sell it. But, can you make it?”
“…What does that mean?”
『Actually, I made a deal with Vivian.』
“What…?”
『If you work as my ‘subordinate’ in my studio from now on, I will give you the recipe unconditionally.』
『Hmm…But what does that have to do with not being able to make…?』
『Actually, one of the key ingredients for that potion has to be imported from the East, and that material is handled exclusively by my family.』
『!!』
『That’s why you have to know the recipe to make a potion.』
“Dare!! Did you play with my daughter!!”
Sir Brenner with an enraged expression. Seong-il quickly changes his attitude toward him and answers him.
“Look at this. Sir Brenner. Do I look like the son of a poor third-rate family?”
“What…?!”
『Not too long ago, fools like you died in my hands without even realizing it. You better refrain from pretending to be strong in front of me. Unless you want to be like Hendrick or Edward.”
『Stand… No way?!』
Brenner with a shocked expression. Seong-il gives him a grim smile and continues to answer.
“Okay. It was so arrogant that I got rid of it. If you’re irritable, you can be too. So, cover your mouth and do it.”
『Everything… Do you know how to do it without any problems!!』
『Of course it’s okay. It’s okay to leave for the east if you have to.”
“Hmm…”
『Now, since we seem to be on an equal footing, let’s make a deal.』
“…A deal?”
Sir Brenner puts on a puzzled look at Seong-il’s sudden offer of a deal. Seong-il continues talking to him.
『Don’t give me the right to trade. Not a monopoly One of my girls has the deal. She can’t cancel her stock to give her, so she’ll give you the rest.”
“…Remain?”
“Okay. As long as Vivian is her my ‘her subordinate’, I’ll give her the qualification to make her corresponding potion. Later, when her workshop grows, she will also set up her own workshop. The potion from that workshop allows you to have a monopoly.”
『Hmm… What is the price?』
Sir Brenner looks at him with a greedy expression on the condition Seong-il suggested. Seong-il begins to answer him.
『10% of sales revenue. And hand over Vivian as my concubine.”
『What!! Dare…!!”
“If you don’t like it, quit. However, I assure you that the potion will dominate the market in the future. You know because you’ve tried it too, right? Earning huge profits even with monopoly rights… It’s kind of like the goose that lays the golden egg.”
“Hmm…”
『And don’t forget that the key ingredients are monopolized by our family. Me. To be precise, no one can start a business without the protection of our family. So think carefully.”
Sir Brenner frowned at the words of such a holy day. He asks Seong-il.
