Divinity
The next morning, Leon, standing in front of the fortress wall, spread his magic to make sure there were no people around, and jumped out of the family at once.
Today’s schedule was to receive money from selling the by-products of monsters from the attackers’ guild and to purchase chemicals to process the leather of sneakers, but somehow the atmosphere in the slum was not so good.
From the beginning, Leon did not blend well into the atmosphere of the slum, but for some reason, today, more people than usual are looking at Leon and even talking directly to Leon.
Leon was already wearing a hood, but he pressed it deeper and hurried his steps.
However, the eyes around them had to become stronger as they got closer to the attackers’ guild.
His doubts were resolved by Laila, whom he met in the attackers’ guild.
“female! who is this Isn’t that Shinsung?”
As soon as she saw Leon, Layla pretended to know and giggled.
“···divinity? What is it?”
“what. Haven’t you heard it yet? It’s your nickname.”
“A star?”
“Yesterday, rumors spread that you defeated the House of Shadows. That mage trio was so excited that they started spreading rumors about you. That’s why it got its name, a new star that illuminates the darkness, hence the name Nova (新星; Nova). Isn’t that a suitable name for you?”
Saying that, Layla closed one eye and made a gesture as if she was measuring Leon’s height with her hand.
The new star was not really a new star, but the original faint star was newly discovered for various reasons.
For example, when a star nearing its lifespan causes a supernova explosion and emits strong light, it becomes visible only when it is called a new star.
However, it was later revealed that it was not a real new star, but the fact that starlight, which was usually dim and difficult to see, became visible as the weather improved, or that the starlight became stronger for some reason without knowing the concept of a supernova explosion, adding a new meaning.
“It’s a small star, so it’s perfect for you.”
The word divinity also meant a faint star or a small star.
Lila was making fun of Leon’s small stature by comparing it to that.
Leon frowned for a moment at Laila’s grim expression as if it was so funny, and immediately decided whether this was good news or bad news.
Once, making a name as an attacker was an opportunity to earn more money.
Looking at it that way, it wasn’t bad news for the attacker Leon, but the problem is that he has a secret identity from the attacker Leon.
The more famous Leon’s name becomes, the more people will try to follow him.
Of course, the name Leon Farostel was a secret name that even within the family shish, but,
‘There’s nothing wrong with being careful.’
Leon thought about whether he should wear a mask or not, but he was able to come up with a solution soon.
sneaker leather.
Originally, it was an alchemy material that I brought with me to erase the magical light generated from the subspace pocket, but if I use it to make a robe, I can offset the light around me and make my face invisible.
Leon, who added a reason to process the sneaker’s leather, hurriedly went to the counter of the attackers guild and submitted his attack certificate, and the staff checked it by stamping it on another artifact.
Since the capture certificate was an artifact that records the number of times its owner has attacked which dungeon, there should be a record of where and what dungeon Leon captured yesterday.
“yes. The identity of Leon’s attacker has been confirmed. In Leon’s name, 3 gold and 45 silver are accumulated as by-products. Would you like to withdraw money?”
“yes.”
Leon looked for the 3 gold and 45 silver offered by the staff, and then to the jeweler.
When I went to the same store where I had done business before and took off my hoodie to show my face, the jeweler’s owner greeted Leon with amazement.
“Gosh. Did the master come?”
“This time it is.”
Leon immediately took out the warm mana stones that he collected from the hearts of the demons yesterday and showed them.
The jeweler’s owner was startled by the appearance of the dazzling green magic stone, took out his magnifying glasses and looked at it carefully.
“You traded enough manastones and this time it’s a C-grade manastone, so are you sure it’s a problem-free item?”
Since Leon’s identity wasn’t clear, he seemed hesitant to trade.
Even if the items Leon sold were really stolen goods, the jeweler’s owner would have no choice but to use the dump.
The more it happened, the more confident Leon said.
“Are you saying you won’t believe me?”
“no! No!”
Looking at the attitude of the jeweler like that, Leon thought that trading mana stones at this jeweler would end today.
If you submit your capture qualification and trade as the attacker Leon, you will be able to get more reliable credit, but Leon made the transaction as the son of the sorcerer at this jeweler, so the information ‘Restraint of the sorcerer = Leon the attacker’ did not want to provide
From then on, it was decided that it would be safer and simpler to trade mana stones as attacker Leon at another jeweler.
Leon rushed out of the jewelry store with the 20 gold the jewelry store owner offered him.
The next place Leon went to was the administrative office.
The land in this world was only the property of the powerful.
If commoners buy a house, they own a ‘building’ built on the land, and since the land on which the building was built is still the property of the lord, they have to pay a monthly living tax on the house.
In the same vein, it was the family retainers who managed the real estate.
This meant that if Leon wanted to rent a workshop, he would have to meet with the administrator who was in charge of the administration of the estate and handle the work.
But, of course, high-ranking officials, such as administrators, do not handle everything.
Leon put his hood on deeply and entered the administrative office, and the junior staff in charge of Leon confirmed Leon’s identity only with his attack certificate.
That was the end of it.
In the first place, even the guards guarding the main entrance do not recognize Leon’s face.
Even if an administrator, a vassal of the family, directly responds to Leon, he would not be able to recognize Leon’s face.
Naturally, there was no way that a low-level official in the administrative office, who had never crossed the family gate, could recognize Leon’s face.
After consulting with a senior civil servant, Leon was able to rent a workshop for 1 gold per month.
It was a very cheap price compared to the size of the workshop.
Probably because the location of the workshop was in a slum.
Normally, the price of an alchemy workshop was very expensive, but Leon ignored various conditions and looked for a workshop that was as cheap as possible.
Alchemy workshops are generally operated as shops selling processed by-products.
The people who buy such expensive things are, of course, people with a lot of money.
In the first place, such guests would not come to the slum, so the slum’s workshop was relatively cheap.
However, it was a good thing for Leon, who had no intention of selling the by-products of monsters he had processed himself to unspecified people.
The primary reason for processing the by-products of monsters was to use them directly, and for the remaining processed products, they were confident that they could make enough profits even if they were supplied to the Alchemy Guild or sold at the top.
Another issue is security, that is, theft, but it was good for Leon, who also had a subspace pocket.
There was no reason to make unnecessary expenses because of concerns about theft because it was done by arranging things when working and storing them all in a subspace pocket when the work is finished.
Because the only thing Leon needed was a personal space where he could process the by-products of monsters.
After receiving directions directly from a government official, Leon went to the workplace and had to go back to another busy place.
He had gone to the Alchemy Guild to purify the magic from the sneaker’s leather and obtain chemicals to process the leather.
Materials to purify magic were purchased from the Alchemist’s Guild, but the materials to be used for skinning were ordered separately.
In the Radiant Continent, tanning was usually done by removing the fat, pulling out the hair, and then boiling the dried leather in oil mixed with paraffin and drying it in the shade.
In this way, the oil mixed with paraffin, a kind of wax, permeates the leather, making it denser and very hard.
However, what Leon wanted was not the hard leather armor.
Because I was planning to make a leather that will be used as a material for a soft and comfortable robe to decorate the subspace pocket.
On the other hand, the method widely used in the modern world was chrome tanning.
A large amount of leather can be conveniently cleaned by simply turning the leather soaked in the dichromate solution in a machine that looks like a washing machine, and 95% of leather products in the modern world are made in this way.
However, the chromium tanning method was not a very good way for the human body to use chromium, that is, a heavy metal.
So Leon decided to use a different method.
“The fruit of the raquerah? Where the hell are you going to use it?”
The alchemist looked at Leon with an expression of incomprehension, but Leon did not respond to him.
Raquerors were very common plant-type monsters.
Normal monsters harbor magical energy, so even if they purify them, no one wants to eat them.
However, there were many geeks in the world, and a chef who was famous for cooking and eating monsters purified and ate the fruit of raquerah and said:
‘The bitter taste of the fruit of raqueror must have been a weapon for survival itself.’
No matter how full of magical energy, even if the same monsters prey on each other, it has no effect.
Rather, the monsters mutate and become stronger in the process of killing and eating each other, and the Raqueror is the world’s most astringent fruit, meaning that it survived the predation competition of the monsters.
Eating monsters will make you stronger, but no beast wants to become stronger by eating the most astringent fruit in the world.
And that astringency was what Leon wanted.
The tanning that Leon was trying to do was tannin tanning, which is often called medium-tube tanning, and the tannin component was the cause of the astringent taste that is usually felt in plants.
In other words, the fruit of raquerah was a medicinal product containing a very high concentration of tannins.
Usually, tannins have medicinal effects such as disinfectants and hemostatic agents, but in the case of the fruit of raquoia, the concentration of tannins is too high, and even a very small taste causes gastrointestinal disturbances, so it was treated as a kind of poison fruit.
However, in the case of Leon, there was no problem because it was used for leather processing, not medicine.
In addition, since the poison contained in the fruit of raquerah does not reach the level of death, it was an unpopular by-product that no one was looking for, so it was possible to obtain the product at a relatively low price.
Leon, who carried the items in and out of the alleys several times, and stored them in his subspace pocket, immediately moved to the slum and started work.
First, I drew a magic circle on the floor of the huge work container prepared in the studio.
To tell the truth, Leon was not very versed in alchemy.
It was because the alchemy books that had flowed into the attic before returning were torn to shreds, as if someone had been annoyed, and could not study properly.
However, while studying quantum magic, Leon was able to develop the basic alchemy theory to a new level.
Humans on Earth cannot feel and move directly, so even if one day proves the existence of magic on the modern Earth, I thought that alchemy and artifact crafting skills would be necessary to make a magical civilization blossom in the modern Earth.
Therefore, of course, the magic circle that Leon drew was made up of a shape that the alchemists in this world could not even imagine.
The magic circle used in alchemy was originally a symbol for borrowing the power of a mysterious god that the human mind could not understand.
In order to borrow the laws of the world that wizards do not understand themselves, they engrave magical pictures and runes, the secret characters of the gods, as if chanting a spell to reproduce God’s miracles on this earth.
But Leon didn’t need to borrow the power of such a god.
In the first place, Leon was reincarnated as a binary type without properly learning the magic circle used in the Radiant Continent, and in the process of independently developing the magic engineering theory, the magic circle that borrowed the power of God had to boldly give up.
Because it was an unpredictable realm whether the gods of another world could lend power to the symbols drawn on the earth.
Naturally, in order to blossom a magical civilization on the modern earth, knowledge to reproduce the power of God with human ability was necessary, and fortunately, science on the modern earth had already reached the divine state.
Scientists who greedily search for all truth by placing all laws of nature under human understanding.
Having absorbed their theory, Leon obtained the ability to borrow all the laws of the world with only human understanding.
The technology to be completed by connecting the drawn magic circles was the power of God itself reproduced only by Leon’s theory.