Episode 192
53. That’s right! Alchemist!(1)
I woke up to the bright morning sunlight coming through the window.
Looking around, I saw a view of the neatly organized room.
“… … It seems that yesterday wasn’t a dream.”
I tried pulling the inside of my arm. It feels like the warmth of yesterday is still there.
As it was when she came, Camila didn’t open her arms when she left after eating.
【Good morning… … Oh, what? You’ve been making a face like a beggar since morning.]
“Be quiet, Lioner. I feel very good today.”
【It looks like a screw is missing somewhere because it is thin. Have you been walking around the back alleys lately and taking strange drugs?]
“Uh-huh, I need to write the right and kind words! Who do you think I am?”
I slapped my face.
It was to wake me up and get rid of the afterglow of yesterday.
Unlike yesterday, when I was wallowing with nothing to do, today I had work to do steadily.
“Wait, I’ll come take a shower.”
Having said that, I went into the small shower room in the room.
Even in a fantasy world, there is a convenient setting called magic engineering.
It was fortunate to be able to keep the same good hygiene standards as in reality.
‘It’s inconvenient to be small, but… … In real life, I lived in a one-room like this.’
However, the East Terrier’s House of Representatives dormitory is now over.
He was due to move into George’s Senate dormitory in a few days.
There, the bathroom and toilet were almost ‘banpo zai’ level.
Of course, I’ve never actually been to Banpo Zai, but… … Would it be roughly like that?
Reminds me of that kind of nonsense.
I finished showering and getting ready to go out in no time.
“Let’s go.”
【i get it.】
Lately, I’m a Lioner who has been walking around alone rather than with me, or going back and forth between the Spirit Realms more often.
Of course, I’ve reached a level where I can use the power of thunder to a limited extent even if I’m not attached to the Lioner.
As long as Lioner now has the ‘Spirit Stone’ developed by Lorna-senpai.
It was because the connection with me did not bounce even in a situation where a missing piece occurred.
Well, it remains to be seen if it actually works.
Once Rona-senpai said so, I have no choice but to believe it.
‘Where does a missing piece appear easily?’
Anyway, the place we headed to with such a Lion today is exactly that.
It was the Illuminati’s secret meeting place and Illyana’s hut used as an unofficial headquarters.
“Excuse me~.”
As soon as I knocked on the door, I saw Hafartel, who is still working hard on alchemy every day.
“Sanwoo, you are here.”
After carefully dropping the ingredients into the potion bottle, Illyana looked back and smiled.
I waved goodbye and walked over to her.
“Is there no class today?”
“Karin has an appointment.”
“Ahh… … .”
The two, who became unofficial members of the Illuminati, have been particularly close to each other lately.
Both of them are busy with classes and training, so they seem to want to stick together a little longer.
‘Damn it, it’s a couple.’
The colder the weather, the colder it gets, the colder it gets on my side.
“But why are you here today?”
“ah… … That’s it.”
I took a letter out of my pocket.
On the cover of the letter, a white dove wearing a laurel wreath, the symbol of the temple, and a cross are depicted.
[From: Acrion Holy Empire]
[Sender: Yelia]
“It seems that the trust has finally come down. It is said that Elijah will return to Paradise Island soon.”
At those words, Iliana’s expression hardened slightly.
“then… … Can you break this curse?”
“I do not know. I don’t think I can be sure about the contents of the letter. Because Elijah has good news. We should look forward to it.”
“In the end, it doesn’t matter.”
“I came here because I thought I should tell you. I’m busy, so I can’t disturb you.”
It was a no-brainer.
However, Illyana’s case was caused by my negligence.
I was going to take responsibility for sure until it was completely finished.
However, Illyana’s expression had gotten worse.
Could it be because it means that even in the Holy Empire, they couldn’t find a proper clue?
I glanced into her eyes and offered my condolences.
“it’s okay. Surely there must be a way. Would you like to die?”
“No, it’s not like that.”
But Iliana’s answer was the complete opposite of what I expected.
“You can’t let go. This curse.”
“Yes? What do you mean?”
When I asked in amazement, Illyana spread my palm out.
“Look closely.”
Something like a small dot is sprouting from the very center of her hand.
no.
Isn’t that a point?
There seemed to be some faint patterns on it.
I grabbed Iliana’s hand and brought it close to her eyes.
Only then did the shape of the stain, which I thought to be a dot, become clear.
“Is it a tree?”
“It’s not just a tree.”
Illyana pulled her hand out silently, then opened the drawer inside the alchemy table.
It was an empty space with nothing, but a strangely-looking magic circle was drawn instead.
“Look Carefully.”
When Illyana placed her palm on top of the magic circle, it felt like her consciousness was thrown away with a flash of light.
“Ugh!?”
without even understanding what had happened.
A white space appeared with a huge tree rising up.
The tree is so huge that it can be compared to the world tree made for Artel’s dormitory.
Illyana was standing right under the tree.
“Illiana!!”
“Sanwoo.”
With her back on her back, Illyana slowly turned her head.
“This is the essence of alchemy. It is called the tree of the beginning.”
Sephiroth tree.
Illyana defined it that way.
* * *
Sephiroth tree?
It was a word I had never heard while playing Paradise Academia.
It’s not surprising now that all kinds of additional settings have been added to the DLC.
If such a subspace was prepared separately, it didn’t seem like a level to be taken lightly.
“Illiana, when did you start using this?”
“Since I was cursed.”
It must have been Snow White, at that time it must have been Thanatos. This is the curse she left on Illyana before she died.
The concentration of magic was not high, and all the casters had disappeared and disappeared.
Above all, it was judged that there was no problem with health or life.
‘But suddenly you can handle things like Sephiroth’s trees?’
That may not be a very good sign.
that too.
『Bug occurrence / Data error ERROR CODE: MISSING NO.』
『Bug occurrence / Data error ERROR CODE: MISSING NO.』
『Bug occurrence / Data error ERROR CODE: MISSING NO.』
[Bugs found: ????]
[Fixed bug: ????]
Because this was a sewing machine.
“… … Illyana?”
I asked in a worried voice at the error message that filled my eyes.
A no-nonsense answer came back.
“yes.”
After erasing the holographic screen that covered my eyes, I looked at Illyana.
The space-time stone on her ring finger was shining and shining.
An artifact created by Lorna-senpai.
Like the last Heukrona incident, Illyana was also freed from Missingno’s influence.
“What were you doing with this?”
“Whatever you do, of course it’s alchemy.”
“no way… … The reason why I have been able to create so many elixir so far… … .”
“right. I extracted Sephiroth’s tree sap.”
As she said, there is a small alchemy table at the base of a huge tree.
I am then
Recently, I was able to understand why Illyana’s alchemy had been greatly improved and the reason she was willing to give up her one and only hut.
“That’s why I said it was a secret.”
“Until then, I didn’t know. by the way… … .”
said Illyana, slowly approaching the tree.
“I think I know now.”
She looked at the tree with her eyes wet with rain. A look I had never seen on Iliana before.
“So, what the hell is this Sephiroth tree?”
“It is a legendary tree from the tradition of Artel. It is said that the tree that was planted by cutting the trunk of this tree was the beginning of the world tree.”
But why did such a divine tree appear to Illyana?
This was not a normal space. Like a demon realm, an area completely separated from the real world.
It would be irrelevant to see the whole root extending from the huge tree as a separate territory.
So, does that mean that the tree directly invited Iliana to her territory?
Why the hell?
And why was Thanatos’s curse a trigger?
It was full of things I couldn’t understand now.
“Sanwoo, I told you that you have the power to change the laws of the world.”
“Oh, what. That’s how it feels… … .”
“If it’s okay, won’t you unseal this tree?”
Hafartel lightly walked over and grabbed my hand.
Every time her shiny black hair fluttered, a sweet scent wafted out.
“I don’t know exactly what this is, but I can’t turn it off at will.”
It felt a little daunting though.
Still, it was not easy to listen to. Because this part was really uncharted territory.
At the point where the Sephiroth tree was a sewing machine in the first place.
I needed to be sure what the update was for.
Was it simply to create a richer world like Taehoon, Soyoung, and Lioner?
Or is it related to the Fragment of Chaos DLC like Black Rona and the Demon King’s Pendant?
The aftermath that will return when this is fixed is not at all predictable.
“Sanwoo… … .”
“Instead, I will find out for sure. It’s purely for Iliana. You never know what will happen to Illyana when I unseal it.”
First of all, it was said that it was also mentioned in Artel tradition, so if you look for related materials, you will be able to understand roughly what it feels like.
As much as the developers of Paradise Academia emphasized useless details.
Because I was able to obtain various information through the contents of books in the library or library.
“yes. All right, if it’s a Sanwoo.”
Illyana didn’t ask for more than that.
She knows what I’m worried about.
I said, making eye contact with Iliana.
“Thank you for telling me now. If something happens in the future, should I be the first to let you know?”
“Okay. I will definitely do that.”
After several times of proclamation.
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Me and Illyana have escaped from Sephiroth’s realm.Getting out wasn’t as difficult as I thought. Just open the stone door that pops up across the tree and you’re done.
As soon as I opened the door, a white light dyed my eyes just like when I entered.
The moment I opened my closed eyes, I was inside the hut.
“Now is the time… … .”
“It must have been only five seconds. The flow of time stops within me.”
Illyana replied.
Does the flow of time stop?
It wasn’t very good.
It’s because I’ve never seen a good thing with time.
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Moreover, in this case, the probability that the tree of Sephiroth is the content of my DLC increases.‘How to use it, I have to decide carefully.’
There is only one month left until the start of the new semester.
I was going to take a break while grasping the situation in the back alley, but… … .
It seems that this world has no intention of leaving me alone.