Chapter 365 – How to Become an Alchemist
“Well… I like it because it’s comfortable.”
After muttering that, he takes out the magic-infused jewel from his bosom and starts scattering it on the floor.
Then, alter egos resembling Seong-il appeared from the scattered floor. All of them wearing masks are arranged left and right, and Seong-il waits for customers with his feet on the desk with a relaxed look.
Quaang!!!
The door of the office being smashed in front of such a holy day. Then, heavily armed soldiers appear in front of him.
“Criminal Pirina Elsrid, kneel down immediately!!”
“Who?”
“Who are you?”
The soldiers rushed to this place after hearing that Pirina was in the basement of the Night Dancer and that she was going to escape.
However, despite hearing the informant’s report and quickly looking for the night dancer, the soldier frowns when Pirina is nowhere to be seen and only men wearing bizarre masks are here.
“Me? I’m a guest. What about you?”
“You arrogant bastard!! I have come here to carry out public duties with Baron Rondel, who was ordered by the crown prince!! Be polite!!”
A soldier pointing at Seong-il with a high-handed attitude. Seong-il openly laughs at his appearance and replies.
“Really? Then where is Baron Rondel?”
“…Who dares to call me by my first name?”
A heavily armored knight entered quietly following the soldier. He enters the office with two men, presumably a wizard and a priest.
“Oh… You’re the crown prince… No, since you’ve been dethroned, you’re now the first prince. Anyway, is the knight he sent better?”
“This guy…!!”
Baron Rondel was enraged when Seong-il openly mocked his lord. He puts his hand on the sword at his waist and glares at Seongil.
“Hmm… The bastard is well trained, right? When he curses at his master, he immediately sticks his teeth into it.”
“Dare!!”
A blatant mockery ensued. Seeing this, the baron as well as the soldiers all take out their weapons from their seats with enraged expressions.
“…You dare? What’s so good about the hound of a bastard who stole the god-given right of nobles with mean tricks?”
“!!!”
“Did you think ‘we’ would still be patient with a guy like Edward doing that?”
When Seong-il speaks of himself as if he were related to aristocrats, the baron’s eyes leak thick blood.
“…Really, was Pirina a nobleman’s dog?”
“It’s not her dog. Her we only made her deal with her. Her dog barks like you, and if she bites, she calls her pup a dog.”
“Inoum!!”
The baron finally exploded in a series of sarcastic remarks. He refrained from wielding the sword for a while because he was worried that Seong-il was a nobleman, but at the mockery of Seong-il, he eventually became impatient and began to wield the sword.
“…Sweep it out.”
And Seong-il looks at him and calls out to his alter ego in a low voice. Then, despite the narrow space, the alter egos swiftly charge at the enemy.
Quaang!!!
In the meantime, Seong-il was sitting arrogantly on a high-end office chair. He kicks the desk hard at his feet as soon as the battle begins, blowing his desk to the baron who lunges at him.
“What!?”
The baron flinched when he lightly kicked the heavy metal desk and threw it at himself. As it was an ornately decorated steel desk, it was a heavy object that weighed almost 100 kg. However, when such an object flew towards him as quickly as a light stone, the baron ducked down in fright.
“Bastard… He spoke so slickly, but he couldn’t stop it properly.”
“!!”
While he was slightly bending over and avoiding the desk, a mysterious man appeared in front of his eyes like a ghost. He was punching himself in the face with his leather-gloved hand.
Awesome!!
“Khehe!!!”
His face had been hit so hard that the sound of his nose bones being smashed sounded as the baron flew into the air.
He was wearing plate mail, and even though his weight was not a joke, he was flying in the air like a piece of paper.
“Innoom!!!”
And the middle-aged wizard, who saw that, quickly raised his staff with an angry expression and taught the holy day.
“Hah? Wizards cast at such close range? Are you insane?”
A distance of less than 10m. When he casts magic behind a narrow hallway, Seong-il laughs at him.
Knowing that wizards are basically very vulnerable to defense if the safety distance is not secured properly, Seong-il rushes at such a wizard without hesitation.
“Heung!! Eat this!!”
However, as if to face the ridicule of such a holy day, without a proper casting, by throwing a strange potion, the wizard demonstrates the skill of using two spontaneous magics at the same time.
‘Ah… This was the alchemist’s world.’
Each world is different, but wizards who develop their own instant magic and use it in times of crisis. Seong-il has a feeling that he has been frequently victimized by the tricks of that line recently.
‘Hmm… I think I can write a low-level crisis response with 『The Book of Wonders』, Shall we try it? However, the lower classes can only store 2nd class or lower magic at most, so there is nothing particularly useful…’
Seong-il’s [Advanced Crisis Response] Spell, which can immediately use magic of 5 classes or less in a crisis situation, is a class 6 spell, so it feels very regrettable that it cannot be used as a magic book of wonder.
‘Erisha, shall we discuss it with Yuna? Advanced Haste is also 6 classes, so use Crisis to increase the number of spells… Or, use a powerful potion to aim for additional reinforcement…’
Even in the middle of a short workshop, Seong-il has a lot of thoughts. It was an arrogant act that would make Eun-wol hear it loudly, but Seong-il was now full of confidence in battle.
“Are there any more?”
“!!!”
Despite casting a restraint spell on slowing down, the magician lightly releases the debuff magic and tries to quickly step back when Seong-il appears in front of him, frightened.
“What are you doing!! He… Kkeok!!”
The wizard who tried to tell the guards beside him to stop the holy day quickly. However, the soldiers couldn’t stop Seong-il, who uses advanced acceleration and uses terrifyingly fast steps, and he avoids between the soldiers and puts his fist into the wizard’s abdomen.
“Kek!!”
“He’s too fast…!!”
Pew!!!
The soldiers are taken aback by the sight of Seong-il moving in a narrow place so fast that it is hard to recognize. In the meantime, when a smoke bomb explodes on the floor and Pia cannot be identified, they panic even more.
“Damn it!! They’re trying to escape!!”
“Escape? Me?”
“!!”
The soldier probably recognized the smoke grenade fired by Seong-il as a signal to escape. However, Seong-il laughs at the soldier’s words and punches him in the stomach.
“Keep it off…”
He was a soldier wearing strong chain armor, but he sat down on the floor feeling extreme pain from Seongil’s punch.
‘Now… Shall we go to the hallway?’
Seong-il grabs the baron’s hair as he struggles in pain and quickly runs out into the hallway. He rushes out into the sewer clearing and orders the alter ego to self-destruct.
‘Self-destruct!!’
A holy day that is commanded only by thought without shouting. However, with just that thought, the alter ego immediately explodes like a bomb by exploding the remaining magic power of the body.
Kwaaaaang!!!
Pirina’s office was destroyed with a roar. Fortunately for the soldiers, apart from the roar, Seong-il deliberately lowered the lethality of the explosion because he did not want to kill innocent people, so they only felt great fear and were not killed or seriously injured.
“Hey!!”
Seong-il arrives in the middle of a wide sewer vacant lot. He looks at the soldiers filling the clearing and shouts.
“Uh…?”
Unreal situation. With a roar, someone jumped out of the hallway, jumped to the ceiling of the sewer system that looked 20 meters away, and landed on one of the protruding walls. The soldiers looked at the ceiling with a dumbfounded expression.
Seong-il gives the soldiers a mocking look and pours a potion into the baron’s mouth to wake him up.
“Cook… Cuckoo…!!”
“Are you awake?”
“Yes… You bastard!!”
“It’s you? You see the cheeky one? Haven’t you figured out the situation yet?”
“!!”
As soon as he recovers from fainting, Seong-il raises his hand and slaps him hard on the cheek, sarcastic at the baron who is glaring at him.
Damn!!!
“Kek…!!”
The blow was so strong, teeth and blood protruding from the baron’s mouth.
“Hey. Say it again.”
“!!!”
Taking a grotesque dagger from his waistband and putting it to his neck, the baron turns his face blue and puts on a terrified expression.
“I… If you kill me, you will be wanted in the kingdom and I will definitely kill you!!”
“Do you think I’ll be wanted to kill you even if I go on like this?”
“…”
The appearance of the baron who didn’t say anything as if he was stabbed in the middle of the day. Seong-il threatens the baron by putting 『Devil’s Tooth』 On his cheek.
“Listen.”
“…?”
“This Edward’s death is just the beginning.”
“!!”
“1 Tell the prince. 1 We’re going to get your head.”
“What… What?!”
At the words of the masked man, who arrogantly predicts that he will kill the royal family, the baron puts on an expression of absurdity.
Seong-il spits out the plot he had in mind with a fishy smile, probably feeling the baron’s gaze.
“Why? Does it seem absurd? But, didn’t the first prince get hit by ‘us’ this time? If he had persecuted our aristocrats in the meantime, he should have thought that something like this would happen someday.”
“…No way.”
When the assailant speaks as if he were a member of the aristocracy who was victimized by Prince 1’s scheming, rather than simply a minion of a nobleman, the baron feels a chill in his spine.
“Well… We’ll talk more about it later. We’ll be going to visit Prince 1 in person sooner or later. In that sense, we won’t kill you. We need a messenger to deliver ‘our’ declaration of war.”
“…”
The baron feels relieved at Seongil’s words. Seong-il looks at him and thinks.
‘Well… If I act as if there is a ‘behind the scenes’ in Alfred’s case, even the first prince will feel threatened and will not act recklessly.’
‘Even if I’m not fooled, it doesn’t matter. Even if he hesitates for a while, Pirina will be able to safely escape to the southern country.’
“Ah…!! This is a present for the dog of Prince 1.”
After thinking about it, Seong-il gives a short shout to the baron, then swings the dagger without hesitation and cuts the back of the baron’s right hand with the dagger.
“Kwaaaaa!!!!”
‘Even if I don’t kill him, I can’t just let go of the guy who scared my woman.’
The baron’s hand rots alive when the back of his hand is cut off with the 『Devil’s Tooth』. Seong-il quietly whispers in the ear of the suffering bastard.
“This is the price to pay for being arrogant with me. If you don’t want to be killed, you’d better decipher it quickly. It’s a pretty lethal poison.”
“Keuk heuk… Kkeuh heo…”
The pain of the poison spreading from the decayed parts was so terrible that the baron couldn’t even answer and only moaned in pain. Seong-il throws him to the priest he saw before because he will surely die if he is left alone.
‘…I’m sure you won’t fall behind, will you? No matter how strong the poison of the devil’s teeth is, there are priests and even potions.’
In order to take out his anger on the person who bullied Pirina, Seong-il stabs Baron Rondel on the back of his hand, but he is slightly worried when his condition deteriorates in an instant due to the additional poison effect of the devil’s teeth.
‘Shit… Did you just say shit with the devil’s teeth? It would be difficult if he died before he even delivered my deceit to the first prince.’
It’s been a while since I’ve been thinking about it like that. Seong-il, when the soldiers shoot crossbows at him, he again bursts his smoke screen and uses the 『Inner Plane』 To leave.
“Whew… I hope the deception works…”
“Hmm? Did you come soon? Huh…!?”
Erica is startled when Seongil’s body is soaked in blood. Seong-il waves her hand and responds.
“It’s not my blood, don’t worry, I came after beating the bastard who bullied Pirina.”
“Oh yeah?”
“Yes. Get some bath water.”
“Huh.”
The figure of Erica obediently following Seongil’s words. Looking at her back, which has changed 180 degrees compared to the beginning, Seong-il takes out her phone and checks her new passive.
“Hmm… What kind of passive would you give Pirina?”
『Scent of Enchantment: Wear this passive, touch a person of the opposite sex to identify it, and shout the skill name in your mind to use it.
In that case, as long as you are wearing the passive, the particular member of the opposite sex will always feel a very pleasant scent from you.
The scent is not overpowering and never overpowering. Prolonged exposure to this scent will cause the target to develop friendly feelings towards you. (If your emotions are positively charged, you will feel a more addictive scent.)
If you use a skill on another member of the opposite sex, the skill will be canceled for the existing target.』
“Oh… Isn’t it really sweet for teaching assistants?”
When a passive that is perfect for her color ball appears, Seong-il is delighted with a strange smile.
