The Novice Alchemist's Store

Finish your lunch and take a breath.

I'd love to take it more slowly if I had the time, but after this I can't even relax very much because I'm waiting to say hello to the village chief.

Besides, I'd like to clean the house a little before sundown.

"Welcome, Mr. Dilal."

"Aye, crude lady. Oh, wait a minute!

Mr. Dilal, who stopped me from leaving the store, once in the kitchen, came back with a pot and a bag.

"Take him home. You're moving, you're not cleaning up the house, are you?

"Oh, but..."

"I won't hesitate! Come on, come on!"

When I glanced at Mr. Elles, he nodded, "Take it, so I can push it in half and take it."

"Thank you"

"Ha ha, because the countryside needs help. That bread, we sell it in the morning, so it's a hassle to bake it yourself, if you like it, come buy it."

"Yes, I understand"

I know how to bake bread myself, and I've done it before.

But the mindset is the level of help in the orphanage.

Meals came out in school dorms, so I've never made them in the last few years.

Honestly, I don't think I can make anything tastier than the bread I just ate, so I think it's more likely that I'll take care of you.

"Ma, even if you don't like it, there's nothing else you can buy in this village but hard-baked bread from the grocery store! I mostly buy troublesome retreats here."

"What are you talking about! Even you sometimes say," I forgot to plant it! 'Cause you're running in!

That said, when Mr. Elles mixes it up, Mr. Dillall's flat hand bursts into the bassin and back.

Um, this is normal.

Should I work out my body?

"Come on, let's go. Your daughter's busy too, isn't she?

"Ah, yes. Thank you, Dilal."

"Aye!

Again, we left the dining room thanking Mr. Dilal, all the way to the village chief's house… of, before, Elles had a moment to wait and rushed back to the house once.

It's not good to go say hello, but keep the pan in your hand, is it?

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"Um, what kind of a village chief are you?

If you are a difficult person, you are a formidable enemy to me because I have little experience with people.

"Hmm, you're a pretty old grandpa already. I'm a little jerked off, but I'm not going to get tired of it yet."

"... are you scared?

"Huh? Oh, it's okay! Because he's a laid-back grandfather."

"Oh yeah!

Good for you!

Sarasa, great victory!

No, it took a little despair when I came to this village, but not a pretty good one?

Maybe thanks to Mr. Elles' introduction, but they're all nice to me for being a lousy mouth.

It's easiest to live!

See, that's the village chief's house.

What Mr. Elles points to ahead is an ordinary private house.

It is neither extra large nor luxurious compared to other houses.

Locally, it's near the center of the village, but if you don't tell me, you don't realize it's the village chief's house, this is...

"In this village, I don't think Sarasa has much to do with it, because she only has about a tax collection."

"Perhaps."

Although the tasks required of village chiefs vary from village to village, tasks ordered by the state may include collecting village taxes and handing them over to tax collectors.

When it comes to taxes, it's not just about money, it's also about storage in crops and specialties depending on the industrial structure of the village, so it's commissioned by the state to save the tax collectors time.

However, the tax on merchants will be treated differently, and the amount determined by the size of the business, the population of the location of the store, etc. will be paid once a year at a flat rate.

It's basically the same with us alchemists, but in the case of alchemists, we have to calculate and pay the amount according to the sales.

Well, it's self-declared, so I'm gonna deceive you to some extent.

False declarations are a crime for once, and given the profit and tax rates, there will be a small number of people who deceive until they commit a crime.

However, "It's a pain in the ass to record, make it easier because you can increase taxes," the master was disapproved.

"He's a village chief, even if he rots. Your face is huge, so it helps a little when you're in trouble. It doesn't hurt to say hello."

"Ha..."

Is that how it feels right?

"Come on, Elles. Isn't that a terrible way to say it?"

I came all the way to the village chief's house talking about that, and my grandfather, who came out of the back of the house, approached me saying that.

So this guy's the village chief?

"Oh, Grandpa, were you listening?"

When he asked me, I thought it would be a bad idea, and Mr. Elles didn't look bad, so I returned the words.

"Elles, who used to be cute, could have been so..."

"Don't say 'honey' or anything! This is why Grandpa is here. This is Sarasa, the alchemist who came to the store."

"Nice to meet you. My name is Sarasa, and I'm an alchemist. I'm going to live in this village, thank you."

As I panicked and lowered my head to coincide with Mr. Elles' introduction, the village chief waved at ease.

"Ho ho ho. I won't be so afraid. Alchemist is super eri and (...) Later. You're welcome to come to our village."

"No, no... I'm still a young man..."

"No, no, just being an alchemist is helpful enough for our village. Nice to meet you. I'll help you with anything you need, so feel free to talk to me."

"Yes, thank you"

But in fact, the village chief is certainly not wrong.

In small villages without doctors, the presence or absence of alchemists can be quite a dead and alive issue.

Any novice alchemist can definitely make some smelting drug Potion, as well as medical knowledge.

So much so that the alchemist has more credibility than the doctor in that area when he does poorly.

Well, if that's why you get arrogant, it's imperative for Village Eight, so I'll go humbly, humbly.

Then for a little while I turned over Mr. Elles to the village chief and asked him what he would have known better about living in the village, etc., and I quit the place by telling the village chief that I didn't seem to have enough to talk about yet "because the house has not been cleaned up yet".

Of course, I had the information I needed, but 80% of what I talked about was chatter.

Is the village chief actually free?

Mr. Elles said he didn't have a job.

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"Well! I have a lot to do, and I need to get rid of it crisp!

Leave all the stuff I've received at the grocery store in the corner of the room for now, laundry first.

Move to the bathroom and throw the laundry you saved during your journey into the bucket you bought and wash it.

I bought a fishing bottle, but it's a pain in the ass, so the water used magic to get it out.

... Yeah, actually, if it's just me, you don't have to use the well to figure it out.

There is a difference between using a fishing bottle to draw water consumes strength, and using magic to get water out consumes magic, but when it comes to me, the latter is easier.

Then why did you buy a fishing bottle... what kind of well can't draw water?

Well, not only is it such a sensory object, but sometimes it is more desirable if you use it for alchemy, if you grow herbs, if you treat it using the smelting drug Potion, etc., because it is not magically served water, so you need it.

"There's a place to dry... no vestibule, right? Let's use magic."

If I dried it in front of the store, it would be just lame, and the backyard is not rough enough to dry the laundry all you want.

I feel like I just want to dry out into the sun, but for today, let's deal with this magically again.

Squeeze the washed clothes tightly, spreading them clean and then magically drying them out.

At this time, if the wrinkle "wrinkle" is dried without stretching, it will become wrinkly, so be careful.

The magic of drying won't remove wrinkles.

When the laundry is done, clean up next.

It's not that dirty thanks to the engraving, but there's dust on some furniture that doesn't work.

I opened the windows of the house and cast the primary magic 'Breeze' of the wind system, also known as cleaning magic.

This, in the wind system, is the first kind of magic I can remember, but it's actually quite difficult.

No, if it's just the original “just a little wind” feature, it's really easy.

Because it's elementary magic.

However, as is also known, it requires a lot of advanced magic control to be used as cleaning magic.

If you make it too strong, it will blow up to what you need, so you have to turn the wind all the way around with moderate strength and then successfully carry the dust collected out the window.

It is quite difficult and is ideal for practicing magic control, so cleaning with this was normally done in the dorm.

And it can be a new year's festive poem, in a sense, for paper and sheets to fall out the window.

What an alchemist needs is not mighty magic, but elaborate magic manipulation, so if you can't do this much, you can't graduate very much, yeah.

The general public may not recognize that magicians — alchemists are also magicians, even though they recognize them.

Most importantly, what is needed for alchemy is precise magic manipulation, so I can be an alchemist even with less magic. I mean, he's a magician, but he's not always strong.

Fortunately, my magic is a lot to the extent that I can do it as a mage - no, clearly, it's more than enough, but I don't practice that kind of magic much.

Because alchemists are safer and more profitable than magicians.

I don't know what to say instead, but I practiced quite a bit when it comes to some handy magic like cleaning magic, and I took great care of it when cleaning dorm rooms.

Now you can clean without even dancing paper.

Well, there's nothing right now, so there's no need for such elaborate manipulation at all.

Instead, let the wind dance all over the room pretty strongly and let the dust spit out the window at once.

"Um, roughly good?

From what I've seen, there's no more dust on it.

If you want to say the details, it would be a good idea to clean the wipes in the house, but since it's a hassle, let's hope for the rest of the engraving features.

"But just the room I'm going to sleep in today, let's clean it up"

I don't have a bed or a futon yet, so I'll be sleeping on the floor with a cape and a blanket.

Even if it's obvious that it's a wild lodge, I just want to keep it a little clean in my own house.

"Water and rags... oh, you don't have a rag"

I've just thrown away what I used in the dorm, and I just bought it, and it's too much for me to use a cloth for futon.

I stick my hand in my backpack and indulge in what I bring.

"I can still wear this. This one... it's beautiful, so maybe I can use it for something. So this...?

What I took out was a piece of clothing. Clothes that have gotten a little tight in size to wear normally.

I would sell these clothes to an old clothing store, make other cloth products, and if the fabric was rags, they were a little memorable and left behind.

That was when, yes, I decided to enroll in school and was about to move to the dorm.

Words the dean said away to me in a bit of good clothes because it was dorm day.

Sounds a little narrow to me, Misubo. It's Halle Day, so why don't you get some good clothes?

As a dean, I got a scholarship, so naturally I just thought clothes and other things were different from the time of the orphanage, words I said without offense at all.

And the fact is, the seniors of the past seem to have been.

I just got in trouble because I was completely unconscious of buying anything but essentials and wore good things in the clothes I had until then.

But it's been a long time since I got into school with clothes that just seem to be narrow to look at, so I quickly had Dean hang out with me, and one of the clothes I worked so hard to fit is this rag candidate.

At that time, I bought clothes that were just a little bigger because they would grow up soon anyway...

"You wore these clothes a while ago, didn't you? I..."

No, no, it's just so small right now, you can't wear it anymore, can you?

The clothes I bought when I was ten!

It's pretty grassy "every time" and I can't wear it outside very much.

Instead, I don't think I can handle sleeping clothes. Never.

It's okay, it's growing properly.

I'm sure there are about the same age averages!

... should?

- Speaking of which, I didn't ask about Mr. Lorea's age, but how old are you?

I'm just a little less developed than she is... a little, just a little!

"I wonder if there's a growth drug or something with alchemy drugs?

The old clothes are cut appropriately and wet with water, and the walls and floors are wiped, even though there is no great stain thanks to the engraving, which ends in a short time.

Still, by then, the sun was quite tilted, so when I finished cleaning up quickly, I would make dinner easy with what Mr. Dilal gave me.

And he wrapped up in a blanket early that day, finishing his first day at his new home.

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"Uh-huh, haven't slept well in a while!

The next morning, I woke up stretched out as much as I wanted, and I lost all my strength.

I haven't slept well in a long time, so I feel pretty neat.

It was on the floor that I slept, so my body hurts a little, but unlike during my journey, I'm pretty healed mentally, even if I can just sleep distracted.

The sun plugging through the window feels good too......

"But again... this room, it's a killing scene, right?"

Only the biggest room upstairs is more than twice the size of the dorm room you've ever lived in.

Furthermore, there is not a single piece of furniture in the room, so it feels bigger than the area.

It's a bright room with two windows, but me sleeping around in a blanket in the corner of that room. What a subtle picture.

Honestly, it's a killer landscape - no, no, let's think this isn't a killer landscape, there's room to arrange it. Because it's a house I bought!

The orphanage room was a common room, and there was no room for that in the dorm room.

But I can coordinate as much as I want here, as money permits.

If you think about it, it's not bad to have nothing, is it?

"Well, we're finally at the workshop today! Hmmm......"

Workshop I put up with entering yesterday.

My own workshop!

This lovely sound, an alchemist would surely empathize, wouldn't he?

Stick around, laughter spills out of your mouth.

Yi "Hayaru" suppresses his mind, and the breakfast packs the rest of the dish that Mr. Dilal received yesterday and stands in front of the workshop door.

"No!"

Open the door, step inside, and light the light.

"- Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa."

Oops.

When people asked me, I got a bad feeling.

But I don't have a choice.

Awesome stuff, this workshop!

Alchemy cauldron first.

Tools so important that most alchemy cannot be performed without this.

Maybe I was also thinking about the possibility that it didn't come with it, but instead of being decent, its size is big enough that I'm likely to get it inside.

If the alchemy cauldron contained in the alchemy set (a luxury item that ordinary people cannot buy) that I was given by my master is a one-handed pot size, can you figure out how awesome it is?

Next, a glass furnace.

The main use is to make medicine bottles for the smelting drug Potion, but the presence or absence of this is quite important.

Because the glass used in the bottle may also need to be adjusted depending on the type of smelting drug "potion", purchasing the bottle from elsewhere is quite a hassle.

In addition to other fine tools, various materials are also placed, so strangely that they are too full compared to the fact that the other rooms were suckalakan - or a tear away wonder.

That's not as good as the master's workshop, but it's a pretty luxurious workshop for freshly out of school alchemists to use, and I'm going to be dazzled considering the amount of money I need to get this all together.

"This house was 10,000 rare..."

It's obvious, but not even a single alchemy kettle can be bought for 10,000 rare.

On the contrary, just selling some of the remaining material would lightly exceed 10,000 rare.

"Actually, maybe it was a great deal?

No, definitely a good deal.

I was startled when I saw the look, but I guess the guy I used before was a pretty high-ranking alchemist?

He said he was a grandfather, but what was he like?

I don't think you understand the value of this room because you're an alchemist.

... No way, there's no such thing as a sooo flawed property, is there?

Even in Wang Du, if it becomes the scene of a tragic incident and the grudging spirits possess it, it can be so cheap... then does Mr. Elles have that attitude?

I'm a little concerned, but the school mediates, so it shouldn't be such a weird property. Yeah, let's think so. Otherwise, I can't live with it because I care.

"Cleaning seems so necessary."

Only in the workshop, is the effect of the engraving of the cleaning strongly set or less dirty than in other rooms.

"Oh, yeah! We need to line up all the alchemy!

In one corner of the workshop, there is a bookshelf just to ask you to line it up. Or maybe they were lining up, something that's an alchemist!

I quickly get my backpack and put away all my alchemy there one book at a time.

Plus, I can clean up the tools my master gave me.

None of those tools are as cheap as they were used in school, just beautiful to line up.

"Hehe hehe... this is exactly the alchemist's workshop! Highest!

I'm not a freak!

It was somewhat anomalous, but having your own shop and workshop is one reach for alchemists.

I can't help but be happy!

Instead of laughing, as much as I want to laugh, I'm getting high now!

"Hehe, what shall we make at first?

Walk around the workshop lightly, taking the tools one by one and looking at them.

This kind of situation makes me want to try it right away.

Naturally, right?

or so, making a simple smelting drug Potion is a bit......

"Uh-huh......, ah! That would be just right for the situation!

I run back to my room and when I bring the cloth I bought yesterday, I stick it together in an alchemy kettle.

I bought a cloth quite sparingly to make a futon up and down, but this alchemy kettle would go in at once.

This task cannot be done if it is just the "one-handed pot" of a hand-held alchemy kettle, so it must be appropriate to get this workshop and make it first.

"And then..."

I remember when I made it before, I put water and some ingredients in the alchemy kettle to make the drug solution, put fire in the magic furnace and heat it as I stir.

Saying “fire” doesn't actually light firewood and heat the alchemy kettle, it just pours magic, but it consumes quite a bit of magic just because the size of the alchemy kettle is large.

"This... you see why large alchemy cauldrons are not common."

Even I'm quite tired with a lot of magic.

Considering that, I wonder if about half the alchemists wouldn't be able to use this size alchemy kettle?

We need to instill magic in both the Magic Furnace and the Alchemy Cauldron.

Once boiled as it is for about thirty minutes, drop the fire of the magic furnace and unload the alchemy kettle from above...... unload...... drop, rock, shih!

"Shit, it's too heavy to get me down..."

The weight of the Alchemy Cauldron was more than I could have imagined.

No, it was unimaginable, right?

A metal cauldron like the one I would put in, with plenty of water in it, it was only natural for its weight to exceed a few hundred kilograms.