310 – Side Story: The Golden Key – 3
The Alchemy Workshop.
In Brightest Darkness 4, this is a place where you can change the various drop items that drop when you defeat the boss into weapons or other equipment.
And, there is only one place in the entire continent, and it was also a place full of geeks, as befits the continent’s only collection of alchemists. To the extent that I wondered if it would be comparable to the Mage Tower of Minerva.
Of course, it was rude to the wizards to compare them to the wizards of the Mage Tower. If the wizards of the Mage Tower were crazy about new knowledge, the alchemists of the Alchemy Workshop were just crazy people.
Even by the standards of Brunet 4, which is not in this world.
ㅡQuaaang!
If I wasn’t crazy, I wouldn’t do anything like build an alchemy workshop on a cliff with only one road and then paper the road with traps.
“Kyaaa! Save the fetch!”
Fetch collapsed and trembled at the grandiose explosion that erupted right next to him. It was worth it because I wasn’t caught in the explosion by a single point.
I calmly moved on. It was because he knew that the explosion just before hadn’t been aimed at this side and detonated anyway. Traps that target the intruder directly will come a little further.
On the contrary, if you shyly try to avoid the explosion, you will be swept away. It was right to walk the same way now.
“Now, can we take a break?”
The trembling Petch grabbed my sleeve and looked up with a desperate expression.
“I told you I knew where the traps were and how they worked. Why are you so weak when you’re a lot older than me?”
“… ….”
The hot pink twin tails drooped down as if expressing the feelings of their owner.
In the end, Fetch hid his age until the end. It’s certain that he is over 200 years old, but no matter how much I ask for the exact number, the answer is silent.
‘The hypothesis that all the fetches in the Brunet series are the same person might not be very wrong.’
From Brightest Darkness 1 to 3, the world itself is different, so it’s a bit ambiguous.
“It’s not long now, so let’s go quickly and rest. If you sit still, stones will come rolling?”
“Huh?!”
At the word that the stone was rolling, the fetch jumped up and clung to my arm.
As I walked with my fetch dangling like a hump, I glanced out of the corner of my eye at the small window in front of the alchemy workshop, which was probably still watching us. The saying that stones are rolling is not a metaphor, but a real thing.
Because the owner of the alchemy workshop is watching us through that window. Even in the game, if you stop for more than 3 seconds in the middle, the stone rolls right away and forced you to move.
‘Things I really don’t understand.’
The cost of a trap would not be insignificant, but it’s a big deal to potential customers. So, the question was, how the hell was the funding going?
“Oh, you should avoid this. Hold tight.”
“Yeahhhhh?!”
I grabbed the fetch and leaped away. A bolt of fire made of sulfur rained down on the spot where he had been standing until just now. Fetch let out a shrieking scream.
I stopped in front of the Alchemy Workshop after breaking through all the brilliantly prepared traps. When he put down the lifted fetch, the fetch seemed to have lost its strength in his legs and sat down gasping for breath.
If teleportation was used, there would be no need to break through the traps, but these guys were designed so that they would not react to the player character at all unless they passed the trap section.
Brünü 4 was modeled after this world, so it might be the same here. I didn’t want to go back and forth twice to people I’d never see again after the Golden Key.
ㅡ Bang bang bang!
I knocked on the door of the alchemy workshop, leaving Petch alone to catch his breath. Then, as if waiting, the door opened.
“Huh, welcome back. Customer.”
The woman who came out from inside greeted me and smiled grimly.
The hair, which was so long that it dragged on the floor, was tangled up and scattered all over. The jet-black eyes were close to so-called dead eyes, and there were a lot of dark circles under the eyes.
The clothes that looked like loose robes were also tangled. It was stained, frayed, crumpled, ripped, torn, and even gave off a strange smell.
It was a bonus to have huge breasts that looked like two heads put together. She was generally a thin woman, but her breasts alone were unrealistically large.
Even with Lizena Nix and her papal sister, it seemed that the other side would have the clear advantage.
‘It’s pretty even after that.’
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Stuffy and scattered hair, dead eyes with no vitality, dark circles around the eyes, sloppy clothes and a strange smell, he was wearing debuffs, but his appearance itself was outstanding.
As expected, it was like a creature that Eclipse had put all its heart and soul into.
‘Am I going to be backwards compatible with Nyx?’
To put it in conclusion, it gave the impression that Nix had been aged in the corner of the room for several years, but the difference was that the woman in front of her was incredibly tall. Even compared to hers, her eye level was not very good.
“You are the first guest who has never fallen into our trap at the first meeting. When I first came, everyone died or was injured at least once. I liked it.”
It was clear that she was a crazy b*tch just by looking at her words.
“Come in. You can’t leave guests outside. Come in and talk.”
The sullen woman smirked and turned her body. As if I had caught my breath, I gestured to Fetch, who had come behind me, to enter.
“Ugh! What does this smell…….”
As soon as Fetch entered the alchemy workshop, he covered his nose. I also slightly frowned. At first glance, it smelled the same as that gloomy woman’s body.
Flasks with all sorts of liquids bubbling were scattered everywhere, and dozens of plants and minerals were scattered randomly on the workshop floor. It was a more strange environment that there was no stench.
“Hey, you don’t look like anything.”
The woman clutched her nose and looked back and forth between her teary-eyed fetch and me standing still, then she smirked again.
“It’s just tolerable.”
It was insignificant compared to the smell of slowly decaying thousands of bloated corpses that I had smelled during my first year in Brunet. I answered Fetch by using magic to block the smell.
As the stench stung her nostrils disappeared, Fetch bowed her head at me.
“Heh, hehehe. Are you just choosing what you like? I just liked that too.”
The place we were guided to was the deepest part of the Alchemy Workshop. The gloomy woman cast out the other women in it like a dove. All the women in a gloomy atmosphere walked away.
Each of them had different appearances, but they all matched as if they were weaving each other at least in their messy, scattered hair, dark circles in their eyes, and sloppy clothes.
“Hey, sit here. Hi-Hi. I’ll give you something to drink.”
The chair I was invited to sit on had all sorts of stains on it. Fetch sat down in her chair, looking unwilling. I also clenched my butt.
The woman who put a test tube with some liquid and a juice bottle on the desk was watching me with her saliva dripping down on her. Her saliva dripped onto her chest, which seemed to be well over twice as long as her head.
“Why are you here, sir?”
“It would be faster to see for yourself than to explain.”
I put the golden key on the table. The eyes that had died in black flashed light for an instant.
“Where did this come from?”
“Do you know anything?”
“Yes. Of course there is. Hee hee hee A long time ago, one of my students ran out of the studio to make this. I didn’t hear the news, so I thought he died, but he succeeded.”
“…… Are you a disciple?”
Then how old is the woman in front of you?
Go back in time when Fetch used this key 999 times, go back in time from when he found the key to the weathering of a dead body into a skeleton, and go back in time when that apprentice invented the golden key. I have to go back, go back to the time I was a disciple at the alchemy workshop, and go back to the time when that woman was called a teacher to find out my real age.
I was stunned inwardly by the staggering number. Fetch and the woman in front of him were like that, and in a world where the concept of aging doesn’t exist, it was filthy difficult to tell age based on appearance.
“Oh, I said it wrong. Hi-Hi. Not my disciple, but my master’s master’s master’s…… Anyway, a disciple of a rather old master. When we die, we pass on our memories so that the knowledge we have accumulated so far does not disappear, and sometimes chaos arises in our memories. My real age is not even thirty yet?”
I don’t have much trust because it’s the person speaking, but I decided to think that way for now. My head hurts from having to doubt it.
“But why is this?”
“I came to ask if you could duplicate the key. I have one other request.”
An item obtained by killing a creature abandoned by the gods in the past. I was thinking of processing it into a weapon.
With wingless nightmares and immortality, it’s a weapon that doesn’t mean much to acquire, but you can’t just leave it in a corner of a warehouse.
“Hmm, it must have been a defective item. Let’s see…….”
A woman with a dark smile suddenly inserted her key into her chest bone. Then he squeezed her breasts from both sides with her arms and began to move her up and down. Her chest thumped.
I just stared blankly at the unexpected eccentricity. But unlike me, Fetch had a very calm face. She leaned over and asked a question.
“Why are you doing that all of a sudden?”
“That’s how alchemists identify things. Don’t you know that too?”
“…… Can you tell the difference?”
“Can you identify with that, you know that’s a very strange question, right? Do you want to test whether I have common sense or not?”
“… ….”
For some reason, the answer reminded me of her first meeting with Stella.
Paiz Lee, no, the sullen woman who had finished her discernment took her golden key from her breastbone and laid it on her table. Steam rose little by little from her breastbone, which opened slightly to her side.
Her hands, which had been shaking her breasts, grabbed the juice bottle and the test tube that were on the table one by one. Then she tilted her left hand to drip the liquid from the test tube into her juice bottle.
“There was only one count left, so you asked me if it was possible to clone it. It was made to be used a thousand times, but I guess the two of you used it a lot?”
In the meantime, getting it right again was the key.
“I’ve never used one. Right, fetch?”
“Yes, yes! I wrote everything! All 999 times!”
Of course, I didn’t forget to clarify where I was responsible. Dead eyes with thick dark circles stared intently at Fetch. Fetch’s body stiffened.
“Then you two have nothing to do with each other?”
“If I had to argue, it would be the relationship between the debtor and the creditor. I am the creditor.”
“Heh, hee. You mean that?”
The woman with a sullen grin put down the test tube she was about to pour into her juice bottle and held out the juice bottle to Patch. Fetch’s face went white.
“Uh…… What were you trying to do…….”
“I was going to poison the juice, huh.”
“Yes?”
People say that if a certain emotion exceeds the limit, it becomes calm, but the present Fetch was just like that. The whitened face quickly regained its original complexion.
The woman looked at me instead of fetch and answered.
“I like you, I like you. Yes? Ah, you looked at me when breaking through the trap earlier. We met three times here. I know everything. Because I have large breasts and are sensitive to gazes. And even when I came here, you put up with the smell because you liked me. Right? Yes?”
“…… What did you just say?”
Because of my dizziness, I asked back in plain language without even realizing it, but the woman didn’t seem to care at all.
“I like myself, but I was hesitant because of the girl next to me. That’s why I tried to kill him instead. Because I have nothing to do with that woman. hehehehe. How many children do you like? Me, since I have a big chest, I can feed a lot of children, so I think twenty people is fine.”
‘Am I crazy?’
The original Alchemist, who was also a geek in Brunet 4, was a crazy b*tch beyond my imagination.