Chapter 403 – How to Become an Alchemist
Saying so, Seong-il starts questioning Pirina, who is by her side, about her sacred tree.
“Do you know about the ‘sacred tree’ in the southern country of Piri?”
“Ah, are you talking about the sacred tree? Of course I know.”
“Sacred tree? What is that!?”
After hearing the conversation between Seongil and Pirana, Charlotte expresses curiosity. To her, Pirina gives a short answer about her sacred tree.
“The Divine Tree is the name of the great tree that allows this ‘Southern Country’ to exist?”
“Hehe… Really? How is that even possible?!!!!!”
“Ummm…It’s too long to make it short…”
“Okay, explain it. Even the kids from other worlds should know about it anyway.”
“Are you going to do that?”
At Seongil’s words, Pirina begins to explain her sacred tree as if she understands.
“This southern country is actually part of a huge ‘desert.’ It is a land where not even a single drop of rain falls except for the rainy season for about 15 days a year.
Hehe…? There are a lot of people for that kind of thing?!?! There are quite a few trees around!!!!!!”
“Isn’t it strange? How many people live in a land that has no wells, let alone rivers, even though there is a huge ocean nearby?”
“Yeah! I don’t understand!!!! How can we survive without water?!!!! I know that normal civilization is closely related to drinking water and agricultural water…”
“Whoa… That’s right. It’s originally impossible. But, the existence that makes that possible is the ‘sacred tree’ of the southern country and the blessings it bestows.”
“Wow… What a blessing…?!?!?”
Charlotte asked with sparkling eyes at Pirina’s exciting explanation.
“Whoa… According to one theory, the divine tree sucks up a huge amount of water that pours in during the rainy season and stores it in an underground cavity. Then, when it starts to dry out, it raises the water to the ground to create an oasis for life. .”
Hehe!? Trees do that?! Isn’t it just a coincidence? Just spits out water at the right time…”
“No. The Sacred Tree is a being with ‘will’. He obviously blesses living things with his own will.”
“Of… Will?!?!?!?”
Charlotte looks in disbelief. To her, Ruru, a cat-footed beast who has followed her as her guide, approaches and replies instead of Pirina.
“It’s real. The Divine Tree sometimes ‘talks’ directly to the residents nearby and conveys his will.”
“Speak?! What are you talking about!?”
“Uh… Um… It doesn’t happen often… Occasionally, if it seems like a natural disaster is about to happen, it seems like he gives our cats a revelation through dreams?”
“Wow…”
“It’s like the Divine Tree looked down on our cat tribe, provided an oasis here, and created green spaces so that life could live there. Without the divine tree, this place would have been just a desert with nothing.”
“Hehe…”
Lulu shrugs her shoulders with pride as she explains her sacred tree to Charlotte. In the meantime, sarcastic noises flowed out to her from the vicinity of her group.
“Huh. The divine tree is giving blessings for you cats? There’s no nonsense like that.”
“Hmm?”
At the sudden voice, the party naturally turned their heads to look in that direction. Then, the appearance of a large dog-like man with impressive fluffy brown hair appeared.
“What are you?”
“Me? I’m a dog-tribe warrior, Rototo. I dare to pretend that the cat-clan beasts are protected by the divine tree that protects the dog-tribe. It’s disgusting!!”
“What?!”
An unseen war of nerves begins to spurts between the canine man and Lulu.
‘Hmm… That’s fun. Even though the relationship between the two races was bad in the southern country during gameplay, I don’t think they clashed so openly on the roadside.’
Thinking so, Seong-il steps in between the two and tells the young man.
“Hey, don’t talk nonsense to our guide and go away. Don’t make me feel bad while sightseeing.”
“What? This human… Dare…”
A young man with an angry expression at Seongil’s rude words. Instead of answering, Seong-il draws out his inner energy and grabs the young man by the neck by stepping on foot at a speed that is invisible to the naked eye.
“Kek… Kekek.”
“If you talk nonsense one more time, will you pull out your tongue?”
Seong-Il was very annoyed with the recent Lord of the Abyss and accidents that popped up out of nowhere. He threatens the young man who pops out of nowhere and fights with him, spewing out his life as if to vent his anger.
“Hee… Hee!!”
A young man of the dog tribe who instantly makes an expression of shrinking from living a terrifying life. As Seong-il glared at him with cold eyes, the dog’s tail and ears began to go down.
“…Enough of that, human warrior.”
“Hmm?”
Seong-il looks at someone talking to him.
“What are you? Did you come to quarrel with me and our guide like this bastard?”
The appearance of young men with good looks. However, despite their appearance, Seong-il does not change his expression and spits menacing words at the guy who seems to be their leader.
“…I didn’t mean to quarrel with the tourists. There are many people in our dog family who make a living from tourism in southern countries, so maybe they tried to bully the tourists? Perhaps, that young friend had a lot of personal connections with the cat family, so I was moved to tears. I must have done it. I’m going to give that friend a sharp admonishment, so I’d like you to go over it.”
“Well… If that’s the case.”
Perhaps he is a seasoned man, when the captain of the dog tribe bows down slightly and enters, Seong-il, who has lost his justification, calmly loosens his hands and frees the young dog tribe.
“Ke… Kheeng…”
After a majestic attack, when the holy day comes out strongly, a young man of the dog tribe runs away in the direction of Burinake’s party with his tail lowered in fear.
“…Have a good trip.”
After those words, the dog people take the young man and turn around and start to leave somewhere.
“Are they them?”
“Yes?”
“Things that hang in the business.”
“Whoa… You know exactly?”
“Well, it’s perfect if you look at it.”
Seongil seems to know why Pirina wants a reliable guard. Apparently, due to the nature of the species, dogs seem to have a habit of instinctively grasping the strong and bowing down.
‘Actually… Maybe the way the main character in the game hires canine companions as mercenaries is to fight and win?’
That’s when I was roughly grasping the situation here.
“Hehe… Thank you.”
“Huh?”
“These days, I’m tired of fighting with those dog people.”
“…Doesn’t they fight only against the weak?”
“That’s right!! Despicable dog people!! When our warriors pass by, they just stare at me… If there’s an ordinary cat like me, they’ll come running and quarrel.”
“Hmm…”
Quite a lot of shapes. As her Ruru roars her way with an expression of her exasperation, Pirina pats her and walks her way.
“…I know it wasn’t like this originally, but why has the tension between the two races increased so much lately?”
“Ah… That’s it?”
At her Sung-il’s question, Pirina carefully examines her surroundings, then she approaches Seong-il and she whispers to him.
“…It’s kind of hard to talk about that on the roadside. It’s a little bit related to the master, too.”
“What…? With me?!”
Pirina’s words are absurd. Seong-il has a lot to say, but he swallows her words and continues on her path.
“Oh… This is the sacred tree…”
At first glance, the appearance of a huge tree. At first glance, it was a size that could be mistaken for a small mountain rather than a tree.
“Wow… That’s really big…”
The size of the divine tree surprised even Elisha, who doesn’t express much emotion at all.
In this way, Seong-il and her party return to the villa after touring major tourist attractions in the southern country under the guidance of Lulu.
“Wow!! It was fun!!!”
“Whoops! It’s been a while since I felt relaxed!!”
Charlotte and Vivian run around the room wearing vacation dresses. Seong-il leaves the two excited women alone and approaches Pirina.
“…What the hell are you talking about?”
“Ah, that’s what you mean.”
Seong-il felt very uncomfortable when he heard that the conflict between the dog and the cat tribe had something to do with him.
“…Did you know that the Nerke kingdom’s political turmoil has intensified this time?”
“Ah, Prince 1 and Prince 2?”
“Yes. As the royal party and the aristocrats began to fight fiercely, the damage started to come to the southern country.”
“…What?”
“As you know… The South is a land dominated by the Beasts. There are many Beasts, but the Dogs and Cats are the most dominant among them.”
“However…?”
“The problem is… The Dogs are making a lot of money trading high-quality herbs with the Royalists, while the Cats are making a lot of money trading valuables with the nobles.”
“…No way?”
An estimate that comes out just by looking at it. When Seong-il hears Pirina’s words, cold sweat starts to flow on his back.
“Yes. As the political strife in the Nerke Kingdom began to intensify, divisions began to occur among the beastmen in the southern country, who had a close relationship with them.”
“Sickness…”
“The southern land is vast, but most of it is made up of huge deserts except for the sacred tree and some oases, so if there is no trade with Nerke Kingdom, life becomes very difficult.”
“It’s a pain in the ass.”
When she learns that the ripple effect of her actions has spread to this faraway southern country, Seong-il feels his head hurt.
“…So what about the two races?”
“It’s the Middle Ages. There are slightly more Cat Beasts than Dogs, but the Dogs have a bit more individual fighting power than them.”
“Um…”
“Isn’t it a headache? In the past, ‘Divine Tree’ appeared in the dreams of shamans of both races and intervened… But the problem is recently…”
“Isn’t the frequency of divine trees appearing in dreams and giving revelations decreasing?”
“…Huh? How?”
“Puha. Have you already forgotten who I am?”
“Ah… Can’t you?”
Pirina expresses joy at Seongil’s confident face. Her holy day answers her by showing her the special nutritional supplements that Erica has prepared.
“I already know the reason why the divine tree’s will weakened through gameplay. Don’t worry.”
“Uhuhuhu… He’s the owner after all.”
After having a business-related chat with Pirina, Seong-il takes nutritional supplements and heads to the bedroom.
‘Whoa… Leave the nutritional supplements by your bedside…’
An event that occurs 100% if the quality of the nutritional supplement is certain. Seong-il prays for everything to go well, and lies down on the bed Pirina has prepared for her.
“Cool…”
***
“Ah… Ah…”
“Uh… Um…?”
Early morning in a deep sleep. Seong-il wakes up with a dreamy expression when a warm voice calls to him.
“Who is this early in the morning… Oops!!”
After waking up and clearing her mind, Seong-il realizes what situation she is in.
‘It’s that event!!!’
As soon as he seems to have reached his intended situation, Seong-il looks around with a slightly excited expression.
“Who are you?”
“Don’t be too afraid. I am just an old tree living on this earth.”
‘Also!!’
Seong-il gets excited when the ‘sacred tree’ appears as she intended. However, he calms down his excitement and answers him pretending not to know anything.
“…But why is the tree me?”
“I haven’t been feeling very well lately. In the meantime, did you feel like you sprayed a special elixir near my body today?』
“Uh… Are you talking about nutritional supplements?”
“Okay! That’s it…!! Could you please give it to me? If you give me that, it will be of great help to me…”
‘Done!!’
Seong-il knew that if he handed nutritional supplements to the divine tree, the sacred tree would steadily mediate the ‘conflict’ that Pirina said.
‘In addition, if you bring nutritional supplements to the Divine Tree, he will tell you the ‘Laying Place of the Thousand Year Turtles’ in return! If you get an egg from there and give it to Erisha, she will be able to make the highest quality mana potion!!
Seong-il feels so desperately about the importance of potions lately. In the case of a battle with a powerful enemy like the Lord of the Abyss, the strength of the mana potion would be sore, so Seong-il is determined to make use of this opportunity.
“Ah, there is nothing difficult about giving nutritional supplements. How can I give them?”
“You can leave it by the window. Thank you.”
“You’re welcome.”
After answering that, Seong-il takes out a potion from his inventory and puts it by the window.
『Umm… Kid?』
“Yes?”
『At the moment… It seems like you opened a special ‘space’, is that right?』
‘…You figured it out?’
Even though he secretly opened his inventory under the blanket, he seemed to have easily figured it out. Admiring his majesty, Seong-il carefully answers.
“Ah… It’s magic… Any problems?”
“No… No… That’s not it. Isn’t there a ‘tree’ inside that magic space?』
“!!!”
Seong-il feels a flash of consciousness at the question of the sinmok. He involuntarily swallows dry spit and asks him.
“Why is that…?”
“The child over there seems to be very hungry. I wonder what the hell is going on.”
“!!!!”
