Chapter 56 – How to Become an Alchemist
Seong-il begins to look back and reflect on oneself. He began to talk to her, chewing on her bitter heart.
“You remember the assassin came at dawn, right?”
“Assassin…? Not just an armed robber?”
“I don’t think so.”
“What…? In the morning, the constable must be…”
“No. I’m sure.”
Erica is embarrassed by Seongil’s resolute appearance. Then she questioned him.
“Why do you think so?”
“I think Edward was behind the scenes because you paid off all your debts.”
“What?! What the hell are you talking about?!”
Erica, shocked by Seongil’s bombshell remark, asked him out loud.
“Literally. I think Edward played a trick.”
“Uh… Why?”
“Well.. Of course, I’m sure it wasn’t because he wanted to kill me and take control of you. Especially seeing as he swung his sword at me without hesitation, it seems even more fitting…”
“…”
“For now.. It may not be so don’t worry too much. However, just in case you don’t know, stay calm in the studio until this week, or take me with you wherever you go. Got it?”
“Uh…? Uh uh…”
Erica is terrified when she hears that Edward might be playing tricks on her.
Reason says no, but somewhere in my heart I started to think that maybe he was right.
Her holy day that brought her back to her extensive reading and her studio.
Seong-il sat down on the sofa in the living room and began to think quietly.
‘Hmm… Just looking at the current situation, it seems like a guild civil war, a hidden event in an unofficial setting. Are you sure…?’
‘How to Become an Alchemist’ was famous for having many hidden events that happened as if passing by.
Especially widely known is the event where the owner of the black market changes for no reason.
When played in a standard way, the player pays off debts by earnestly researching and studying during the four years that Erica attends college, and receiving requests or making and selling items in her spare time.
After playing like that, by the time she was in her 3rd year, she would naturally pay off more than half of her debt, and for the rest of the year, it was standard to make high-end items to pay off the remaining debt and see the ending.
If you play the game in the standard way as above, the owner of the black market will be fixed as Pirina throughout the four years.
However, if you pay off very quickly (within 2 years) through the trick I mentioned a while ago, the owner of the black market will change from Pirina to Hendrick for no reason.
In the process, players cannot intervene in any way, and since they cannot hear any explanation as to why the owner of the black market has changed, most users thought it was an Easter egg for users who have seen the ending several times, but…
Then many years passed. The truth is revealed in the unofficial worldview of the brute writer.
It doesn’t appear in-game, but Pirina and Hendrick seemed to be having an invisible conflict.
It was Adenheim’s thieves’ guild that seemed to balance power and maintain the balance of power within the city in its own way, but…
In reality, Hendrick felt threatened by her rapid growth of Pina, and was preparing her trick to get rid of her one day.
The problem is that Pirina was aware of his intentions, so she pretended to be loyal to him without saying anything, growing her strength in her cancer and preparing for her betrayal.
The time when the two powers maintained an uneasy peace.
A girl comes to Adenheim.
Her name is Erica. With huge debts, she comes to Adenheim to become an alchemist in order to fulfill her grand ambition of repaying her debts and reviving her family.
Having a natural talent for alchemy, she surprisingly quickly develops her skills, and based on that talent and skills, she starts her business and quickly begins to pay off her debt to Edward.
By the time Erisha paid off half of her debt. Her Edward, amazed at the speed with which she pays her debts, decides to sabotage her.
The problem was that Adenheim, as the second largest city in the kingdom, was not fully within its power, so it had difficulties in hindering it.
To solve the problem, Edward decides to enlist the thief in the underworld of Adenheim.
The target is none other than Hendrick, the leader of the Adenheim Thieves Guild.
He offered to become Hendrick’s support and fundraiser if he gave his allegiance to him, and Hendrick pondered over his proposal and said that he would become his subordinate if he helped to eliminate Pirina.
Edward readily accepts his offer, which eventually leads to a civil war between the thieves’ guilds.
Of course, Pirina is a heroine who is not easygoing with her, so the result varies greatly depending on how much time she gives her.
If given a time exceeding two years, she uses her secretly cultivated power to completely block her surprise attack on Hendrick, kills Hendrick, and becomes the head of the thieves’ guild.
Being a hostile force to Edward and subtly supporting Erica in the dark is a bonus.
The problem is, if she’s less than two years old, she’s running out of time to prepare for her rebellion.
Because she has not fully developed her powers, she loses the war against Hendrick and ends up being possessed by Hendrick.
And Pirina, captured by Hendrick, pays a terrible price…
A collection of settings by the author.
When Pirina is defeated and captured by Hendrick, she is forcibly addicted to various drugs and becomes Hendrick’s sex slave and lives a miserable life.
Then, when her Hendrick gets tired of her body, he makes her a whore, forcing her to sell her body for a cheap price because she is an example.
Pirina, who sells her beautiful body at a cheap price, was of course very popular. Thanks to her, Pirina’s body and mind are thoroughly ruined by endless customers who covet her body.
In the end, she couldn’t rest until her death and was forced to receive guests, and she died living a tragic life.
‘I can never make Pirina like that.’
‘The problem is, if he’s really an assassin, and if Edward had instigated Hendrick to use his hands… Pirina couldn’t deal with her properly and she would eventually lose. What should she do..?’
Seong-il, who had been thinking about it, spent the day holding her head and thinking about how to solve her problem.
Next day.
Seong-il visited her at the promised time as a night dancer to meet Pirina.
However, when she wasn’t there to meet her, her seongil was embarrassed and asked her staff about her.
“Hey. Where is Pirina by any chance?”
“Ah! Seongil-nim, are you here? Madame is out of town right now…”
By the time the female employee was talking, a rice cake stand said to Seong-il.
“Sungil-nim. If you’re a madam, you can follow me.”
A rice cake that speaks to him in a polite manner.
Seeing him, Seong-il nodded and walked after him.
The place where he took Seongil was a secret place he had visited once. After going there, he moved to Pirina’s office as usual.
“Came?”
Pirina looking up at her Holy Day with her hands resting on her desk. Looking at her like that, her Seong-il replied.
“Yeah. Did you recognize it?”
“Yes… I think the master is right. Assassin.”
“No way?”
“Yes.. I think Edward instigated Hendrick to assassinate the master.”
“Also…”
“And it seems that Hendrick, who knew that the master and I were having a tryst, promoted it without my knowledge.”
“…”
“Whoa… I can’t help it.”
“…What?”
“I was thinking of putting it away someday.”
“…Who?”
“Who is it? It’s Hendrick. You can see that I’m wary of growing up. We both knew this was going to happen someday.”
“…”
“In the meantime, you laid your hand on my man. Isn’t this… Declaring war? So you have to kill him. What…”
“That…But…”
“Don’t worry. It’s not like I didn’t prepare. I’m a little worried. If you use the money the owner gave you to find a lot of mercenaries and buy the neutral factions with money, it will be a rough fight.”
Seong-il felt her spine grow chilly at her words.
‘Fuck… I was too hasty. I forgot that there was a hidden event like this because I was drunk playing with Erica for a month…’
‘No, apart from that, it’s not an official setting, so it’s partly because I ignored it halfway. So, was the author’s settings really all right?’
Seongil swallows dry saliva in fear and anger.
He was silent for a while, then quietly began to open his mouth.
“Wouldn’t that be easy?”
“Of course. The opponent is the king of the underworld. But what can I do? If I don’t hit him, I’ll die.”
“…”
‘What can I do? Should I ask to run away because I’m about to lose?’
Seong-il shakes his head after thinking about that for a while.
‘No. Anyway, I’m sure I’ll get hit by Edward again. The answer is to fight back…’
Seongil thought so and said to Pirina.
“When are you planning on holding a gig?”
“Well… It won’t be right away. There will be a bit of a search battle with each other. Maybe it will start in earnest around next week?”
“Hmm…”
Seong-il begins to worry with his arms crossed at her words.
‘So you’ve got at least a week left?
Then. Enough time to create variables. If I get out of the way of becoming an alchemist anyway, time here will stop. If I ask Erica to make a lot of recovery potions for six days…?’
‘Yeah that’s it! Let’s make a potion and go to the Laughing Martial Arts Battle to learn martial arts in earnest. Now that the simbeop has reached 3 stars, it will be possible to grow quickly through Eunwol. That’s the only answer.’
Seong-il, who had thought so, replied to Pirina.
“Okay. Then I’ll have to prepare myself.”
“Yes…? What kind of power does the master have?”
Saying that, Pirina laughed lightly.
However, seeing her expression, which seemed to have no malicious intent, her Seong-il smiled broadly and answered.
“Don’t worry. I’ll bring you a colleague who will never disappoint you. Look forward to it.”
“Oh, thank you~”
After saying that, Seong-il listened to some recommendations from Pirina, and then she went back to the studio and met Erisha.
“…So. As you said, it’s true that Edward played a trick on us. Did Hendrick and Edward, the leaders of the thieves’ guild, team up in the process?”
“Yes.”
“And… Madam Pirina, whom I met last time, is actually the second person in the thieves’ guild and your concubine?”
“Huh”
“Hey you bastard…!”
“…”
“You… You… Have been playing with me from the beginning?”
“…”
She is shocked that Seongil and Pirina are in a relationship from the beginning, so Erica pours out her last words.
In response to her reaction, Seong-il could not say anything and remained silent.
‘Huh.. It would have taken me someday. It takes this.’
Erica, who had been cursing Seong-il for a long time. Then, after a while, she exhaled heavily and told him.
“Whoa… Whoa… Yeah. Well, it’s the same that you played with me from the first meeting anyway. In the end, I became yours, and it’s true that you made a huge profit by fulfilling your long-cherished wish.
“Okay.”
“And whatever the reason, you and Madam Piri are in danger because of me, and you two are even preparing for war to protect me, so I can’t just blame you guys. So I’ll put up with it.”
“Thank you.”
“So. Why did you tell me this? What do you want me to do?”
To her saying so, her holy day explained her own plan.
“Yo… In preparation for war, please make as many stamina and wound healing potions as possible?”
“Yes. According to Pirina, it seems that the war will begin next week at the earliest. For that reason, I want you to make many potions to help in the war. I will provide any amount of funds.”
“Hmm…”
As she let out her troubled spittle, she thought of her holy day.
‘Actually, I’m going to use it for martial arts training… But if there’s any left over, I’m actually going to give it away, so I’m not lying!’
As she was thinking about her holy day, Erica gave a small sigh and she replied to him.
“Okay. I can’t catch you guys either, so I’ll desperately make a potion for you.”
“Thank you! I want you to hand it over to the people who make it. I’m also going to supply them right away.”
“Okay.”
When she gave her affirmative answer, she thought of a relieved Seong-il.
‘Good. Everything is ready. Now, let’s put the potion in the inventory by using the Jokjok points where the potion comes out. If I collect potions for 2-3 days like that, I’ll go back to the martial arts battle!’
