68. dragon-mad alchemist
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“…come in.”
Winnie opened the door, her eyes flashing with excitement, under her thick robe and lush hair.
Doyoon, who entered her study, looked around.
While the floor and walls were filled with piles of books, I peeked at familiar content from the records scattered across the desk.
Doyoon also had some knowledge in alchemy, so he could recognize it. It was data about ministry skills.
Winnie-Kaysk. She is a master alchemist who is unified in all fields, but her main specialty is ministry.
‘It’s a ministry technique…’
Looking at the traces of the Familiar Art, Doyun’s heart was troubled as he remembered the little Familiar friend who had returned with him in his previous life.
‘I wanted to forget as much as possible until I went to see him…’
In any case, even if there is a small opportunity, it penetrates directly into the heart.
The nostalgia for the past, more intense than ever, tickled Doyoon’s heart.
“That, but… where the hell did that come from? Did you get it from the dragon lord? Hey, are you really friends with the Dragon Lord? If it’s really a friend… Did the Lord give you the dragon heart on your body? Is that really possible with the human body? Hey, hey… Can you cooperate with a few experiments? yes?”
After thinking about Winnie’s rapid-fire urging, Doyoon turned around.
She was looking at Doyoon with dark circles and eyes glistening with greed.
It was pure greed for the truth, not of a filthy nature for treasure or goods.
“There are six in total that I just showed you, and one more with a broken core that is more compatible.”
6 were the cores of the guardian golems that drove Leona’s team into the cave, and the broken one belonged to the guardian ogre that Doyoon had killed.
“Uh, uh uh…! Fuck this… 6, 6…! No… but it’s broken! How the fuck did you handle that precious thing… Oh, no… I’m sorry for getting mad at you…”
said Winnie, salivating.
When she heard that the core was broken, she felt like a different person for a moment, but soon realized that the core was still in Do-yoon’s hands and shut her mouth.
Contrary to her timid appearance, she seems to be the type of person whose personality goes crazy when it comes to alchemy.
She said that her ultimate goal after majoring in samurai was to recreate a creature that was as perfect as a dragon and was closest to a god.
Because of this, the dragon’s core was the greatest treasure on earth and an important clue to her.
A divine beast called the mother of magic, a dragon. No matter how great the core they made, it was a difficult thing to dare to imitate.
‘After embracing the dragon heart, I clearly realized its value.’
The core created by the dragon resembled a dragon heart.
Unlike normal cores whose magical spells resemble steam engines or thermal power plants, the dragon’s core resembled a nuclear fusion reactor.
And there was a huge gap between them that no small creature dared to catch up with.
Winnie, who is crazy about dragons, would know this too.
“But… are you here to sell that to me? well thought out! I really have a lot of money! You can buy it no matter how much you call! No, if my property doesn’t work, I’ll borrow it from the king…”
“The core is a down payment.”
“yes?”
At Do-yoon’s sudden remark, Winnie widened her bewildered eyes.
“I have been asked by Old Man Dokgo Moo-yeong.”
“Ahhh…”
At that, a sharp disappointment flashed in Winnie’s eyes.
Do-yoon was puzzled by the reaction.
‘Why are you disappointed? Could it be that this is not enough to entrust the request?’
Do-yoon changed his plan a little in his mind.
“…two cores as a down payment. At the end of the quest, we will give you the remaining 4 and 1 higher core. and…”
“I-I’ll give you everything!?”
Leaving behind Winnie’s astonishment, Doyoon opened Nebula’s subspace and took out an old notebook.
Seeing this, Winnie’s pupils showed complex spells again. It was analysis magic engraved into the eyeball.
“right! Just like you, what the hell is that subspace magic!? It’s not human magic! Ho, maybe that’s a Dragon Lord…!”
“yes. It was a gift from her.”
“You, you really! You’re really friends with the Dragon Lord! Heh, uhhh…!”
Excited Winnie made a strange noise and shook her body like she was peeing.
Either way, Doyoon handed her a notebook.
“Let’s read it.”
“yes…?”
Winnie, who received the notebook with a tilt of her head, hardened her face as soon as she saw the first page.
On each page, a magic circle was drawn one by one, without any content.
Memorial magic that records information. In other words, this notebook was like a library in itself.
It was a compilation of the ingredients of the various elixirs that the chief alchemist of Enoch’s guild had stored for him in Enoch’s elixir storage, such as analysis of the ingredients, handling methods, intake tips, and effects.
A magic circle appeared in Winnie’s eyes and interacted with the memory in the notebook. As she turned the pages, her pupils grew bigger and bigger with concentration and astonishment, and she finally returned to page 1 again and fixed her eyes, indulging herself as if possessed.
At that time, she just grasped the value of the notebook and clung to it.
Do-yoon snatched the notebook.
“Heh, uh…! Do, give it back…! This fuck is a baby! give it back!!”
“…originally mine.”
The most efficient way to deal with genius. Genius drives me crazy.
The best alchemist on the continent and the always selfish Winnie-Kaisk. She went crazy with Do-yoon.
“That, what the hell is that? Who left such crazy records!? It’s a dragon! That must be a dragon thing!”
Do-yoon said with great satisfaction at the tremendous high evaluation of his colleague.
“It’s from Enoch Roosevolnik’s Legacy.”
“ah…! The first guild chief alchemist…! no, that’s right You said you unearthed his legacy…”
Winnie shuddered and trembled.
Unlike Winnie, who was proficient in all fields, the Alchemist of the Enoch Guild had not obtained the title of Master Alchemist.
However, she was a woman called the God of Elixir.
At least when it comes to elixirs, she was truly an unparalleled genius, unparalleled in the history of the continent. Seongsaengdan was also the result of such genius.
And, as in the past and now, in alchemy, its effectiveness was evaluated as the best, and it was the most valuable field.
It is a record that she carefully left behind every sweat for the man she loved.
If this is revealed to the outside world, the alchemy world will be completely upset.
“Oh, sell that to me. huh? I have a lot of money…”
“It sounds like something I heard before. This isn’t for sale, it’s a quest reward.”
“Oh, the fuck…”
She cursed again.
Doyoon wondered inwardly and asked.
“Why is that? It’s something that needs to be commissioned.”
“Do you speak? How absurd is the request requested by the alliance!”
“…okay?”
“Treatment of the ‘sun’ is not the realm of humans. It was truly an elixir that only existed in legends…! Of course, being able to handle something like that before you die is a huge honor as an alchemist, and it’s a lot of fun…”
Winnie said with a very serious face.
“This is a matter of possibility and impossibility, regardless of interest. I do not accept impossible requests.”
“The sun…!”
Do-yoon widened his eyes in amazement at the answer that far exceeded his expectations.
Was the sun really a real elixir? That it appeared in royalties?
“Uh… Why are you surprised? Didn’t you know?”
“…no. I was only asked by Dokgo Moo-yeong to persuade Winnie-nim. It is separate from the Union.”
At that, Winnie’s pupils constricted. She sighed and chewed on my lips.
“……B, keep it a secret. If it turns out that I disclosed this, I will be sentenced to death…”
“What the hell are you going to use it for? Who is eating it?”
“No fuck, if you speak out, it’s the death penalty!”
“…”
Do-yoon put the suspicion behind and continued the story.
“Is it really impossible? Even if you hand over that journal as a down payment, even if you refer to it?”
“Of course, a notebook would be of great help. Because it’s her record. But that’s not the problem, there’s nothing to kill the sun’s jaw-dropping power.”
“Well…”
Doyoon was well versed in alchemy, so he understood what he meant.
The power of the highest elixir from nature is so strong, you must go through a process to kill the power before ingesting it.
However, the sun is such an absurdly strong elixir that there seems to be no material that can kill it.
“If you really want it, bring me a few drops of the dragon lord’s blood. I’ll check.”
Dragon’s blood was the best material for killing the elixir because of the strong aura and exorcism flowing through it.
“But… there is a document left by our master, and according to that document, even dragon blood would be impossible. I’d like to know what’s different about Lord’s blood, but I’m skeptical of even that.”
Winnie said with a nuance of, ‘If you want to bring it, bring it.’
The Dragon Lord’s blood is also a great material, worthy of the supreme treasure. From her point of view, it was an efficient choice to trick Do-yoon into obtaining Lord’s blood by saying, ‘That’s absolutely possible!’
However, she really only talked about blood as ‘material to handle the sun’, and honestly said that it probably wouldn’t work.
Even though she treated the old man below her harshly, pursued only her own fun when it came to requests, and cursed at her own way.
Still, she was an infinitely serious woman when it came to dealing with alchemy.
Indeed, he was a person worthy of being entrusted with by the Union.
‘Is it really bad?’
After hearing her serious attitude and explanation, Doyoon let out a sigh. It was Dokgo Moo-young’s request, but it seemed like there was really no way.
Convincing her was not the problem, it was impossible in the first place. I’ve said everything about not being able to use dragon’s blood.
“…First, let’s get some Lord’s blood. Even if it’s just checking… Oh.”
“yes? what’s the matter?”
The moment both of them reached the heart of despair, an idea suddenly passed through Doyoon’s mind.
‘perhaps…’
Although it was an idea that had no basis, it was just an idea close to a challenge.
Doyoon put his hand in the subspace.
After a while, a thin test tube was placed in his hand.
It was a test tube with a red solution.
“Can you briefly analyze this right now?”
“what is that? blood? Is it Lord’s blood?”
Winnie, who had received the test tube insignificantly, tilted her head.
“Looking at the color, I don’t think it’s a dragon’s…”
“It is the blood of a divine beast roughly resembling a dragon. Let’s try it.”
“Dragon’s blood isn’t enough, but with this… um… Well, it’s me, because I want more data. Just wait 10 minutes.”
Doyoon sat in the study and waited for her to go down to the studio.
After a while, not even 3 minutes have passed.
thump thump thump!
Wow, Winnie! Climb the stairs slowly! Your precious body is hurt!
After some commotion outside.
bang-!
Winnie came in, knocking the door open with a blast.
“Hehe…! Heck…!”
She glared at Doyoon terribly with eyes full of excitement and thrill.
“you you…”
Shivering, she pointed to the half-reduced solution in the test tube.
“This, this… this… where the hell did you get this crazy thing…!”
“Well…”
Doyoon intuitively felt that his prediction was correct.
The red liquid given to Winnie.
It was the blood of Han Do-yoon, the best divine beast under the sky.
(Please see today’s review.)
(Summary for those who turned off reviews:
Power balance fix.
Holy King’s skill level 11 -> 10
Lion King’s magic level 10 -> 9)