episode_0009

No, let’s not be cocky.

Still, it is an opportunity to select employees for the Adventurer Academy.

It is obvious that only people with enough skills to not be left behind have come.

Let’s just focus and do what we have to do.

Light the lamp, add clean distilled water to the flask and heat it first.

Temperature is important.

It should not be too hot or too cold.

That slight temperature difference is what determines perfection.

As the temperature inside the flask rises, place the herbs in a bowl and begin to mash them.

When crushing herbs, do not overdo it.

There is a risk that the ingredients will be destroyed, and as the bowl is ground, more impurities will enter.

The resulting herbal mass is placed in distilled water at an appropriate temperature.

Slurp─

The water spreads.

Adjust the lamp light while paying attention to temperature changes.

And if you think the water has some herbal ingredients in it… Here’s Ethereum ore powder.

It felt a little rough, so I ground it a little more finely.

That way, it can be extracted well with high purity.

Ethereum ore that absorbs ingredients above a certain temperature and stores them within itself.

The powder naturally absorbs the medicinal ingredients of Krish grass dissolved in water.

Powder of Ethereum ore that has absorbed a lot of the healing ingredients of Krrish Grass, which is the raw material for healing medicine, settles at the bottom of the flask.

Grass residue with missing ingredients rising to the top, distilled water that absorbs the ingredients and becomes transparent again, and etherium ore powder that absorbs the herbal ingredients, turns green and sinks to the bottom of the water.

The three floors were appropriately divided.

It is now.

Grumbling─

Skim off the grass residue on top and filter out the etherium powder from the water.

Well, it looks like the extraction and separation were done properly.

I’m in good condition today.

Now, after purifying it and going through a process to increase its purity, it is concentrated and made into a thick liquid.

And if you go through the same process with other ingredients and mix them in the correct ratio…

“It is done.”

The healing potion has been completed.

I was in a good mood today, so I think it took about 30 minutes to make one.

The speed is quite good, and the quality of work seems to be quite high, perhaps because of the good materials, so I quite like it.

Then next time.

Let’s make a sticky throw potion.

Let’s see, the ingredients…

#

“……”

Mureos Avantreddin came for a special review and was only looking at one person.

That is a C-rank adventurer and alchemist named Edin, whom Lunarin recommended.

The existing judges will take care of the judging anyway, and he came to see Edin’s skills under the pretext of special judging.

There was little interest in the other participants.

Of course, the other participants did not know the inside story and did their best to impress the chairman.

Whatever it was, it was a good thing because it would have a positive impact on the evaluation as a result of putting more effort than usual.

Anyway, she was only focusing on Edin to see his skills.

And the result.

‘crazy.’

She cursed under her breath.

Still, out of respect for herself, she couldn’t say it with her mouth, but she was barely able to suppress the thing that was rising up her throat because she couldn’t hold back after living for over 70 years.

I was that surprised.

The reason was simple.

‘What Lunalin said was true.’

As Lunarin Brettis said, he was a crazy monster whose talents could not be compared to Lunarin or himself.

At first glance, they are no different from ordinary alchemists.

No, if you think about how talented people add their own special ingredients to enhance the performance of potions.

Rather, it is too ordinary.

But that was really crazy.

Would you say that this ordinary process feels like it has reached its extreme?

If you look at the process through emotional magic, or a special technique called ‘Jinlian’ that penetrates all essence.

Also, if you have some knowledge of alchemy.

Only then can you appreciate Edin’s true value.

The entire process was perfect, as if it had been planned.

The process of adjusting the temperature did not differ by even 0.1 degrees.

Appropriate extraction timing, purification, mixing ratio… there is no error in any of it.

The margin of error is small, it is not a matter of this dimension.

There is simply no error.

Since we are humans, there is bound to be a margin of error, no matter how small.

Even when Mureos Avantreddin himself uses magic, there is a very small error in the distribution of magic power.

It’s something no human can do.

No matter how much you master it, all you can do is reduce the margin of error.

Very occasionally there are times when it fits perfectly.

but…

‘That’s just unconditional.’

If that happens continuously, shouldn’t it just be seen as skill?

‘Is it really a person?’

It was like looking at a highly developed, ultra-precise machine.

Even that is made by humans so there may be slight errors.

‘This… is definitely a monster.’

A monster is a monster.

However, if you look closely, it is a monster.

There are probably very few people who know Edin’s identity.

Maybe you don’t even know your own talent.

So, isn’t he just living as a C-rank adventurer?

If it weren’t for Lunarin, I probably wouldn’t have known about Mureos for the rest of my life.

That’s natural.

‘No matter how precisely it is made, no matter how good the quality of the materials is. If it were just an ordinary process, no products higher than B rank would be produced.’

This is something I heard from one of the elders of the Alchemist Guild a while ago.

That’s why alchemists are obsessed with their own special materials and special processes to improve the quality of their finished products.

It is said that the process is rarely shown well.

Of course, if it is a B-rank item, it is not common, but if you pay some money to a skilled alchemist, you can get it.

Perhaps, if he had worked hard to produce B-rank items, Mureos would not have paid much attention.

There are often alchemists with that level of skill.

But that… that’s different.

If only time, materials, and appropriate special processes are added.

A rank… No, you can look beyond that.

S rank consumables.

The elders of the alchemist guild gathered together and after days of hard work and trial and error, it was said that they could make it using an ultra-precision machine.

Even the country or large guilds keep it for use in times of emergency… It might be possible to create an item with terrible performance.

And that’s just one individual!

‘This, I have to catch this.’

You must catch it before the old men of the Alchemist Guild find it and take notice.

Do whatever it takes!

She thought so.

Fortunately, he doesn’t know his talent yet, and fortunately it’s not a very noticeable talent.

Whoever finds it first wins.

Mureos thought so and decided to pick him up and raise him.

‘Hehe, does this… feel like a windfall?’

However, there is one fact that even she does not know yet.

The fact was that Edin could already make a B-rank level potion even with the lowest-grade ingredients he had hastily collected.

Lunarin was not that knowledgeable about alchemy or potions, so she didn’t know that B rank was the highest level that could be made with an ordinary process.

I didn’t even specifically tell Mureos that.

When Mureos found out about this, he was astonished as ever in his 70-year life, and his legs gave out and he collapsed on the sofa.

That’s a little later.

#

Around the time when Edin was working hard to make a potion and Chairman Mureos was freaking out.

Meanwhile, in the branch manager’s office on the 4th floor of the Adventurer’s Guild building…

“You idiots!!”

Kwaang!!

A man was extremely angry and was smashing the desk.

A huge man with a fist as big as a person’s head and over 2 meters tall, with a bushy brown beard.

His name is Vito Takmin.

He was a former S-rank adventurer who served as the head of the Preta branch of the adventurer guild.

And three men and women sitting in front of the angry man.

“……”

“……”

“Kuhm.”

They were the ones responsible for this serious accident: Claude, Mary, and Sophia.

“The number of deaths is as high as 26, 26!! Plus, Clamp Village is half-destroyed… Damn, it’s a good thing there’s an A-rank party nearby. Oh, fuck.”

Wyvern attack on Clamp Village.

This is an incident in which seven wyverns nestled in the Valley of Twilight suddenly attacked, killed the villagers, and destroyed the village.

In this incident that happened two days ago, the villagers were evacuated with the help of an A-rank party passing by.

The Imperial Knights hurriedly stepped forward to eliminate the Wyverns, and they were finally cleared out this morning.

A total of 26 Clamp village residents died.

Should we call this fortunate? There were not as many deaths as expected.

Most of the villagers were able to escape alive.

Of course, the village was destroyed in return…

Fortunately, there were no deaths among adventurers or imperial knights.

The biggest injury was Claude, who was bitten on the shoulder.

Anyway, after it was all sorted out, the branch manager brought in Claude Partey, who was, of course, the culprit of this incident.

“Fuck you from above… Ugh, I trusted them to be warriors and entrusted the subject to them…”

Branch Manager Vito was on the verge of exploding due to this incident.

Naturally, the survivors of Clamp Village made a huge protest to the Adventurer’s Guild, and the Imperial Knights, who had been dragging their feet without resolving the issue with the excuse of procedural issues, also actively blamed the Adventurer’s Guild and criticized it.

As a result, the higher-ups in the Adventurer’s Guild… the guild elders are desperately craving Vito, the head of the Preta branch.

That’s not all.

“Fuck, Wyvern, that’s not a big deal. This bitch…”

“What? year…? It’s true that I did something wrong, but why are you being so mean to me!”

“Two, calm down… Mary, it’s true, but it’s not the time to fight like this.”

“Huh! Are you saying there is nothing wrong with it? You come here pretending to be nice.”

The three bastards who are actually the culprits of the incident are busy fighting amongst themselves instead of reflecting on themselves.

“Haaa…”

Just listening to it made me sigh.

Those are A-rank adventurers, and one of them is even a hero.

I felt like I knew how much the higher-ups in the guild judged people based only on results and performance.