episode_0024

“Lower… ha… .”

A sweet smell comes from my mouth.

I felt a severe sense of weakness throughout my body. In particular, the muscles in the calf area are tense, and just looking at this makes me feel like I am hungry tomorrow.

“Master, you’ve only run for 10 minutes.”

“Lord Mullers… Do you know what the principle of relativity is?”

“Yes?”

What is it? Hey, to you, the driver, it was only 10 minutes, but to me it was almost like running a full marathon.

The problem was that I enthusiastically accepted Sir Mullers’ suggestion to start by running for 30 minutes every morning.

Why did I underestimate Idaji for 30 minutes? No, I was younger than that, but my physical strength was completely poor?

When I was drawing, I thought I had good physical strength because I didn’t feel tired no matter how awake I was, but when I exercised my body, my body was completely useless.

In the end, I lay down on the floor of the parade ground in one of the mansions and fell out. Lord Mullers, who was watching, shakes his head from side to side and sighs.

“Master, didn’t you say you wanted to learn the Mana Practice?”

As I was lying on the floor, breathing heavily, Lord Mullers spoke to me.

‘Mana practice method’

It is said that knights who learn this special training method from another world can display superhuman abilities, such as jumping the height of buildings and breaking rocks.

I asked if I could learn it, and I was told that I could only do so if I had basic physical strength, so I started running.

Damn original author. I’ll just write down a setting that says you can learn the Mana Practice right away.

I was at a loss as I thought I would have to endure this hardship for at least a year to learn.

The minimum is 1 year, but with my current physical strength, it is likely to take longer, so this is taking too long.

Who am I? We are the people of Baedal. Only the Nordic guys over there can tolerate slowness, I can’t.

“Is there any faster way? It’s like a secret elixir that when you drink it, your physical strength suddenly improves and your muscles grow.”

“Master, such a thing does not exist in this world. Wouldn’t it be great if it were the legendary ‘Geumseok’?”

“Goldstone?”

Sir Mullers answered my question with a smile.

“It is literally a legend. A fantastic stone that can turn ordinary stones into gold. Among alchemists, it is said to be the treasure of dreams.”

Wait, turn stones into gold? Isn’t that the Philosopher’s Stone?

As I listened to the story of Hwageumseok, it occurred to me that there is a similar stone on Earth.

The ‘Philosopher’s Stone’, a fantasy substance that is the goal and dream of every alchemist.

Of course, it didn’t actually exist, but it’s such a famous story that even ordinary people have heard it at least once.

Well, since alchemy existed in this world, it was not strange that similar fantasy items existed.

‘Now that I think about it, it reminds me of a truly masterpiece.’

As the two stories about the Philosopher’s Stone and alchemy came up, there was a cartoon that suddenly came to mind.

A perfect shonen’s comic that once shocked and scared all readers, but also had a beautiful ending.

‘Wait a minute, does this work?’

I was already thinking about a sequel. I finally realized the perfect choice.

It’s a material that people in another world can easily accept, but are also seeing for the first time.

There have been works using this material that make you wonder how many comics are better than this.

“Story… Wait a minute, should I try to come up with a story line for this?”

Once the subject matter to be used for the sequel was decided, ideas on how to proceed with the work and characters that fit the content began to appear one by one.

An amazing phenomenon where you suddenly become energized when you think of a cartoon.

Before I knew it, I got up from the floor and ran frantically to the mansion’s studio, where Lord Mullers was watching me.

“Young Master!!! You haven’t even done any strength training yet!”

I heard someone shouting, but I ignored it. I never quit physical training because it was difficult. I just follow where my burning artistic soul leads me.

***

“DoU Warner Builder Iceman~.”

In the studio, Ada is wearing Elsa’s dress, holding a magic wand in her hand, and singing the song I taught her.

‘Hmm. It’s definitely in season.’

Originally, Elsa’s dress featured a narrow waist, but when it was made to fit Ada’s size, her stomach protruded.

I liked it because it looked cute, but Ada didn’t seem to like it, so she looked in the mirror and said that this wasn’t right and started not eating the snacks I gave her.

Still, Ada was excited to wear the first merchandise prototype for .

It’s about to be sold soon, so I tried it on with Ada to test it out, and from then on I don’t think about taking that dress off.

Is that it? There was an uproar when he showed off his prototype to young girls his age.

‘please… Please show some restraint, Mr. Rupert, or at least tell me in advance!!!’

Recently, there has been a steady stream of little kids visiting the mansion every day, perhaps because the rumor has spread that people can preview my works if they come to my house.

They went home and made a fuss with their parents, saying they wanted it too, so the nobles in the surrounding territories were embarrassed and begged me for it.

Since I couldn’t buy cheap stuff while looking like an aristocrat, I must have had to buy expensive custom books or hardbacks every time, which was more of a burden than I thought.

“But the nobles have a lot of money, so they can’t give up.”

Now I understand why parents in my past life were so afraid of the children’s toy section of department stores.

But that is none of my business as it is the situation of other nobles.

After all, they are wealthy people.

Rather than selling something at a high price to ordinary people, it was better to sell it at a high price even if it meant getting criticized by wealthy nobles.

So this time, was also published not for the cheap commoners but also for the nobles.

This was no joke, it was popular.

Since I couldn’t afford the custom-made version, I released it as a limited edition and a high-quality hardback.

Since nobles could not purchase products for commoners for the sake of respect, demand poured in for this product, resulting in quite a bit of sales.

In particular, the strategy of selling this limited edition through a waiting list rather than a lottery format was used.

‘Master, we need a more tangible strategy this time.’

This was my idea after hearing the complaints from the upper management.

It is said that there has been a lot of dissatisfaction among the nobility as many slander have been spread so far regarding lottery sales, such as whether it is a manipulation or a sale based on friendship.

So, I took this opportunity to adopt a first-come-first-served basis, so I couldn’t complain about manipulation or selling friendships.

According to the Sangdanju, the imperial family’s attendants were also standing in line, so this speaks volumes about fairness.

Anyway, due to the effect of first-come-first-served basis, there was a long line at the main branch of Yuren Sandan, which I had never seen before.

It was a bonus that even people who didn’t know about it became interested in looking into it, which increased the number of book purchases.

“Oh, this part is really ambiguous.”

However, despite making good money, the work on the sequel was not progressing as much as expected.

The difficulty we faced now was not the story or the characters, but the problem of ‘Yeonseongjin’, which is a minor setting in some ways.

‘I can’t think of Yeonseongjin!’

Since , which I am currently making, deals with alchemy, Yeon Seong-jin appears often.

In fact, even in the work that took this motif from it, it didn’t have much meaning, so it could have been roughly made.

‘That’s another shame.’

For research purposes, I looked at several alchemy books and tried to copy Yeonseongjin that actually exists in another world, but it wasn’t very cool.

Maybe it was because only simple things were included, but I didn’t feel like drawing according to the personality of Yeon Seong-jin that I thought of.

Moreover, if you make it roughly, you will definitely get caught later.

‘Hmph, real alchemists don’t use crude Yeonseongjin like this!’

Considering the possibility of leaving malicious comments, it was necessary to take care of even the smallest details.

However, studying alchemy for the sake of a work seems like too much, and is there a book full of plausible explanations? Let’s even think about it.

“Even when I think about it, it’s ridiculous. How can you imagine such a book appearing appropriately?”

For now, Yeon Seong-jin decided to consider it again later, and started working on the storyboard starting with the remaining parts.

***

“Start freezing!”

When Ada pointed at me with the Erza wand in her hand and said the line, I had to stop on the spot.

To be honest, I wish they would let him out quickly because it was hard to stay still like he was frozen, but this guy was very meticulous about who he resembled.

Only after poking my body here and there with the cane I was holding and carefully checking to see if there was any reaction.

“Free yourself!”

“Thank you. Princess Ada.”

“I’ll take care of it!”

Seeing Ada looking so proud, I could barely breathe a sigh of relief.

In the past, when imitating the main characters of children’s books, all you had to do was roughly match the lines.

In this , the difficulty of guessing has increased significantly.

Still, it’s okay to hang out with me while I’m working because I can change my mood from time to time, but it might be really difficult later on.

‘Ada goes on an adventure, Sipper!!!’

Last time, he made a fuss about going on an adventure like Erza and Hannah, so he had to go on a picnic in the forest within the territory.

That’s not all.

“Mana is a mysterious substance that exists in nature and cannot be seen with the eyes, but can be felt… .”

After the role play was over, Ada sat down next to me while I was working and started reading a book, but quickly fell asleep.

In Ada’s hands, there was a book.

‘Fundamentals of Magic – Justav Heindel’

It’s an introductory magic book I bought for her when she complained that she wanted to use magic like Elsa.

‘I haven’t been able to get past the first page for several days.’

It seems like he’s trying his best to read it, but every time he reads it, he can’t get past the first page.

It seems that the book, which still only has text written on it, is nothing more than a sleeping pill for Ada.

“Ugh, I heard you shouldn’t sleep here.”

As I was moving Ada, who was sleeping, to the bedroom, the contents of the book Ada was reading caught my eye.

After moving Ada to the bedroom, I was curious and looked at the book ‘Basics of Magic’ that Ada was reading.

In fact, every modern person has a dream about magic, so I paused what I was doing in anticipation of what might happen and began to read the book with concentration.

However, the only thing worth reading was the first part, and even after reading the content, I couldn’t understand it, so I quickly lost interest.

“It wasn’t used as Ada’s pillow for no reason.”

It makes even me want to sleep. Just as I was about to cover it up, something interesting caught my eye.

‘The role and meaning of runes and shapes’