Chapter 20 – How to Become an Alchemist
Seongil remembers the Nerke Royal Alchemy Academy as a place with many hidden events.
This academy, which was originally the remains of a civilization that had collapsed in ancient times, was created 100 years ago when her first dean, Bel Anadoff, gained great enlightenment and settled down here while training, and disciples gathered to seek her teachings. Was
As an ancient site, the academy still had many unresolved mysteries, and dangers were scattered here and there.
For that reason, although it is called a school, it was a mysterious school with many controlled areas and many incidents.
‘Well… It’s me, because I know where there are dangers and no dangers. I can walk around without worry.’
And ‘a haunted house.’
Adenheim, a coastal city in the south where the Nerke Royal Alchemy Academy is located, was the second largest city of the Nerke Kingdom and was a well-developed trade center, but it was also famous for many accidents as it was a trading metropolis with many foreigners.
In particular, the notorious ‘haunted house’ among local residents is typical.
‘The Haunted House’ was a charming house with a well-appointed two-story house and a fairly large garden.
Still, why did the house get the unfortunate nickname of ‘The Haunted House’?
The reason is that not a single owner of the house who lived in that appearance was tragically ruined.
Most of the landlords die of unknown diseases, businesses that were going well went bankrupt, or normal people went crazy and committed suicide. He boasted of all kinds of heinous incidents.
In the end, no one wanted to live in the house because of the ugly rumors, and even though the mansion was for sale at a low price, it was not sold, and it fell into the city’s monstrosity.
‘Perhaps most of the problems there were actually due to the temporary temples of the cultists that existed in the basement of the house?’
It was Nerke Kingdom, which believed in polytheism, but there was a taboo god that could never be trusted…
Her name is Polke, the goddess of pestilence and curses.
Because she was an evil god who drove death and was a goddess who denied all existing gods, the Polke Church was an absolute target of oppression in the kingdom.
Thoroughly oppressed by King Gunther III 100 years ago, the Polke Church decided to escape to the Shadow Islands to escape the pursuit of the Nerke Kingdom, and after fleeing to Adenheim, the port city farthest from the kingdom’s capital, there secretly He began to let his followers escape to the Shadow Isles.
For that reason, the goods brought by her followers to Adenheim from all over the kingdom were gathered, and the ‘cursed house’ was used as one of the caches and temporary temples for those items.
However, some hideouts escaped urgently and were unable to take goods and images with them.
‘The Cursed House’ was a typical place.
‘Of course. It’s been more than a hundred years since the Polke Church was annihilated within the kingdom and left for the Shadow Islands, so it’s an object without an owner. Is the problem canceling the curse…?’
In fact, the reason why the heinous incident occurred in ‘The House of the Cursed’ was simple.
This is because the statue of Polke, placed in a secret room hidden behind the basement wall, slowly cursed and destroyed the people living in the house.
‘It wouldn’t be a big problem if I stayed in that house for a while… But if I keep being exposed to the curse, I’ll be in danger as well.’
After thinking hard about how to lift the curse, Seong-il came to a conclusion.
‘In the standard way, I’m going to get hit again because I’m weak.
First of all, I stole the goods from the secret room hidden in the academy library, and after I bought the ‘cursed house’, which is being put on the cheap because no one wants to buy it, I use the stolen goods to get the highest quality holy water little by little from the Church of Olta, the god of light, for 3 months. , Often buy in bulk.’
‘After that, every day, secretly visit the house, stop in the cellar, and sprinkle holy water on the cursed statue of Polke to purify it.
After the purification is completed, I graduate with the first grade in the first exam, and I move there as an excuse to work and secure the rest of the goods..!’
Seong-il, who made a plan that was so thorough that even thinking about it himself, lay down on the bed and prepared for her tomorrow’s class while sleeping.
The next morning, Seong-il, who confidently went to register for classes, was called and nagged by his advisor because of an unexpected fact.
‘Oh my god… Was there an entrance exam?’
As it turned out, the entire body of this body had passed the test at the lowest level.
Seong-il, unaware of this fact, frantically signed up for four lectures a week, and his advisor was bewildered and called him in.
“Did you register for the course with your mind right now?
In our university, if you fail the exam twice, you will be expelled immediately!
Because of your nature as a foreigner, even if you take classes and study to death, it’s not enough, and you only have 4 classes!”
Seong-il muttered to himself, his face flushed at Professor Geun-ji’s unholy order, lowering his head.
‘Damn it.
Professor Devon, who had been nagging for a while, started talking to Seong-il in a serious tone.
“Look, Seongil-kun. Aren’t you a young man with a passion for studying abroad who came here from far away?
I will do my best even now, so withdraw your course registration and take additional lectures.
It is impossible to amend the details of the original application, but I will help you just this once!”
Seong-il was momentarily shaken by his sincere advice, but soon he answered by thinking of an excuse.
‘Crazy. Classes at school are tough, so why are you doing that here? I have to hit a ball..’
“Professor. The reason I signed up for only 4 classes this time is not because I disregarded alchemy.
I’m a stranger who doesn’t know the culture of Nerke Kingdom at all, so I want to take classes at least this semester and learn the culture, etiquette, and customs of this place for the rest of the time.
Even if a person has a lot of knowledge, how can he be respected if the way he expresses it is vulgar? Please excuse me just this once.”
Professor Devon made an expression as if he had been hit in the head with a hammer at Seong-il’s unexpected answer, then sighed and said to Seong-il.
“Hmm… If that’s the reason. I can’t just force my thoughts on you.
Remember it well though. Let me tell you that your grades in admissions weren’t good.”
“And, by default, this is something given from the second year, but since you seem to be deep in thought, I’ll give it to you.”
After speaking, the professor handed me a key.
When I made a puzzled expression, he said with a bitter smile.
“That’s the key to the east library. It’s a place where books from beginner to intermediate to lower are gathered.
If you have time to study the culture and customs of this place, be sure to read books in the library and study on your own.”
‘!!’
‘I’ve been thinking about how to enter the library to access the secret location hidden in the East Library, but it’s so easy.’
Seong-il couldn’t hide his excitement at the unexpected windfall and expressed his gratitude to the professor.
“Thank you Professor! Thank you very much!”
The professor laughed and patted Seong-il on the shoulder, probably mistaking Seong-il’s appearance as a young student’s passion for learning.
And the first class the next day.
Seong-il found out that bad rumors were circulating about him.
‘Fuck… You’re like a training assistant who doesn’t talk…’
The reason for the rumor is that a teaching assistant who knew Seong-il’s entrance grades laughed at Seong-il’s course registration and told a close student.
Thanks to this, Seong-il became widely known as an oddball who was the first freshman to sign up for only four classes in the first semester.
In front of Seong-il returning to her dormitory in annoyance with her, a beautiful woman with blonde hair and an impressive mole under her eyes approached.
“Ha.. You’re that cheeky oriental? Is your name Han Seong-il?”
‘Vivian Olke.’
One of the protagonist’s two rivals.
The daughter of an olke family whose father was a successful commoner businessman.
She is a girl from a rich family who has nothing to envy, but she has a complex about being from a commoner whose father bought her title with money.
In particular, she hates her main character, the fallen aristocrat Erica Portis, and is her rival who sets up a confrontational angle between her and her.
“Ah. Vivian’s sister. Do you have something to do with me..?”
“Heh. I just heard that a fellow from the East, whose grades weren’t a big deal, arrogantly applied for only four classes, so I was curious about what he looked like, so I just started talking to him.”
She said coldly to her Seong-il and left her seat.
‘What? That bitch.’
Seong-il left her seat, unable to hide her absurdity, seeing Vivian leave alone after talking to her.
That night.
After finishing all of her classes, Seong-il, who woke up quietly, maximized her ability to respond, and moved to the library, looking around her.
Thanks to Professor Devon handing her the key, she was able to enter the library without much difficulty.
Unlike the western and northern libraries, the security of the eastern library was poor because it contained only low-level alchemy books.
Seong-il, relieved by her poor security, put her mind at ease and began to look around her.
‘First… Go to the statue of Dogma, the god of knowledge.’
It was not difficult to find the new statue because he had visited once during work hours, and he easily moved in front of the new statue.
‘Fill the groove at the top of the book in the right hand of the dogma table with water, and take out the book in number 24 in row A.’
Seong-il started to act based on the information in his head.
Indeed, after filling the water and taking out the book, I saw a groove that was not originally visible behind the bookshelf.
When he scratched the groove with the knife he had brought before coming here, the dust was removed from the groove and he began to see a handle.
Grab the handle and pull it with all your might. In the library, ‘Kurrung!’ There was a sound and a hole began to form under the statue of Dogma.
“Done!”
After checking the hole, Seong-il quickly went inside, turned on the light of the lantern he had prepared, and inspected the inside.
“There is! There is!!!”
In front of Seongil’s eyes, he could see a box neatly placed in a secret room of about 10 pyeong, and all sorts of metals, glass bottles, jewelry, and books that he had never seen before on a shelf.
“First of all, the chest.”
When Seong-il opened the chest, which was the size of a human head, he could confirm that the chest contained a lot of gold coins.
“Crazy… How much is this!”
Seong-il couldn’t stop his excitement when he saw the huge amount of gold right in front of him.
Holding on to his beating heart, Seong-il calmed himself down and thought.
‘Let’s stop getting excited. Gold coins are only secondary items, so I need to check other items first.’
So Seong-il used emotion to appraise the items little by little.
She was able to identify all kinds of rare combination materials such as devil’s horns and meteorites, as well as powerful artifacts such as thunder stones, but only one caught her eye.
‘Devil’s Temptation!’
There are three main ways to earn money while playing the game.
The first is to receive the request fee through the guild request.
The second is an intellectual property right that sells the association law to the Chamber of Commerce and Industry and receives a certain percentage of the sales revenue for 5 years.
The third is the sale of illegal goods through the thieves’ guild’s request.
It is divided into three categories:
The Devil’s Temptation is an item that is frequently requested by the Thieves Guild against the Alchemist, and at the same time, it is an item that is expensive to call.
What kind of thing is this?
To use ‘Devil’s Temptation’, first melt the candle in a double boiler to make it liquid, sprinkle the liquid Devil’s Temptation into it, mix it, and harden it.
When a candle made with the devil’s temptation is used in a closed room, the gas released from the candle becomes a substance that causes a strong aphrodisiac effect on women.
In other words, it is a dating rape drug for aristocrats.
It sounds obvious, but it was an illegal item.
‘I must use this when I enlist Elisha.’
So, Seong-il put a candle in his bosom, burning his black heart toward Erica.
Seong-il, who rummaged through the secret room for about an hour, got out of the secret room with only a few potions and a chest of gold.
Fortunately, it wasn’t too difficult to close the secret room, so I closed the door and erased the traces as much as possible before returning to the dormitory.
After staying up all night like that, Seong-il woke up the next day holding her head and breathing heavily.
“Kuhh… Has it already been 3 days since the last time you had sex with a girl?
It seems that the side effects of the color ball are circulating. I need to fix it right now.”
After coming to the world of alchemy and adapting to the life pattern here, Seong-il kept away from women, and the side effects of the color ball, which he himself had forgotten, began to appear.
‘Huh.. How should I solve it? I don’t even have a year to fuck yet.’
After thinking about it for a long time, Seong-il let out a sigh and took her last resort.
‘Ho.. This is the red light district of the fantasy world.’
That evening, Seong-il first moved to the red light district of Adenheim to extinguish the fire that had fallen on her feet.
In fact, Seong-il’s reason for visiting Chang-gwan was not only for the purpose of quenching her sexual desire, but also for her to make friends who could wash the unowned items she brought with her in the future.
‘Pirina Elsrid. The president of Changgwan Night Dancers, and the second in charge of the Adenheim Thieves Guild.’
“For the time being, I will become a regular here and impress him. After building a friendship with him like that, let’s try to connect with the world behind her…”
After Seong-il finished her thoughts, she moved into the window.
“Welcome… Oh? You’re from the East? I’m new to you. Are you a trader?”
A woman dressed as a dancer with a veil over her face spoke to Seong-il.
‘Jade-like skin, silver hair on her veiled face. Does that woman play the flute?’
Contrary to her beautiful appearance, which looks like Pirin and slender, she is a heroine who dominates the underworld of Adenheim and protects the rights and interests of prostitutes.
Later, in the latter half of the game, she was a positional figure who succeeded in taking control of the thieves’ guild by fighting and winning a war with the boss.
“Hello. I’m not a trader, I’m an academy freshman.”
“Foot. The freshman from the academy are already coming here? There are quite a few customers.”
She giggled at her holy day and asked me about business.
“Yes.. It’s none of my business whether you’re a trader or a student, as long as you have money. So, do you have a style you want?”
“Well, of course she’s the most attractive lady in this store. What are you asking?”
At the words of such a holy day, Pirina said with a sneer.
“That’s it.. If the student has a lot of money, I can meet him.. But what about the student…”
Seong-il threw one of her gold coins at her as if to interrupt her.
“It’s paid in advance. If you bring a girl I like, she’ll give me another gold coin.”
Her Holy Day showed her her own wealth, spending her money lavishly on her relationship, which this time earned her around 3,000 gold from a chest in her secret room.
‘It makes a strong first impression of her. This is a must if I want to get help from him in the future.’
Then, startled, Pirina spoke her words to her Seongil with her eyes wide open.
“Ah.. Sir. I’m rude.. Please wait upstairs for a moment. I will take the best dancer in our Changgwan.”
Having said that, she gestured to her maid and took me to her room.
“Ha. It’s pretty flashy..?”
The secret room the maid took was a rather luxurious-looking room.
The room was luxuriously decorated with fluffy pillows made from the feathers of unknown birds, a luxurious looking red carpet, and purple silk, with strangely scented candles burning.
“Candles are unusual..?”
Just as Seong-il was curious about the candle and was about to use it, he heard someone knocking on the door.
“Come in.”
As Seong-il answered, calming her slightly beating heart, her door opened and a woman entered.
Seongil was startled and she muttered involuntarily.
“Uh… You?”
