The Novice Alchemist's Store

"It's time to get to the second place...... this is a hit, isn't it? You can tell from here."

The cave I saw at the end of my gaze.

To the magic flowing out of it, I looked back and nodded at Mr. Iris and the others.

The third cave is a little far away, so I might have been a little lucky to pull the hit here.

"Really? Though refreshing to me. You know what, Kate?

Kate shook her neck vertically, vaguely, against Iris, who twisted her neck surprisingly.

"Just a little...? Does this have to do with practicing magic?

"Right. I think Kate has a sharper sense of magic than before."

That's what's important in using magic, so why don't you tell me that Mr. Kate's training is going well?

At this rate, I think maybe with a little more, we'll be able to use magic.

From there to practical magic, there are a few more walls to cross, but that's as far as I can handle with my efforts.

Quality says things, slightly different from 'magical activation'.

"If you two are going to say it, I guess there's no mistake. So we're finally going to confront Salamander."

The look on Mr. Iris's face to say so is slightly stronger, and if you look closely at his gripped hand, he is slightly trembling.

Kate, too, although not as much as Iris, has quite a bit of the tension she is causing to drift.

Honestly, that tension is going to contagious to me too, so I just want you to relax a little bit more if you can.

The better the tension you need, but the more nervous you get, the harder the movement becomes.

"Are you scared, Mr. Iris?

"Oh. Quite, if I'm honest. Challenge enemies you can't beat at all. It's the first time I've fought like this."

"No, don't fight!? Just buy time and cover. If Mr. Iris tries a melee from the front, he's totally incompetent with that gear, right?

I shook my head in a panic to Mr. Iris, who answered with his hands on his hip sword.

This coat has a level of heat protection that means it's okay to use lava if it's slight, but if you can withstand the attack of the salamander, that's never the case.

You'll be able to withstand the braces a few times, but in terms of simple defense, to the extent that it's 'somewhat better than a sturdy leather coat'.

This leather draws more heat resistance than the strength of a lava lizard, so there is no strength to play the sword when the lava lizard is alive.

If we gang each other in melee and eat salamander attacks, we'll be able to break them light, and then the surroundings will be pretty hot.

At once your health is lost, and if you eat a brace in that state, there you go.

In the first place, with Mr. Iris's weapon, the weapon he attacked breaks more, so it makes no sense at all.

If I'm wrong, I don't want you to pull that sword out of your hand.

"I know that..."

I don't feel comfortable knowing.

I smile and stretch my chest to Mr. Iris, who took his hand off the sword in that manner.

"It's okay. There can be no struggle."

"Mm, really? I don't think the manager said he was very good at offensive magic...?

"It's true you're not good at it, but it's not like you can't use it, is it?

Master says, in my case, 'the magic you hold is too great'.

Normally, something called magic gradually grows according to magic training.

If you have the right training, with it you will also grow the control of magic, and you will have trouble without your own magic being able to control you, I can't believe it.

But in my case, they had too much magic to begin with.

That in itself is a very advantageous thing to do as an alchemist, but in terms of the treatment of magic, this advantage turns into a disadvantage.

Even though control does grow, magic grows together, so I can't fully control it for long.

To put it, it's like pouring wine directly from a giant wine barrel into a small glass.

It's hard to just lift a wine barrel, and it's hard to move it delicately and pour it out so it doesn't spill.

Even if you work hard to gain muscle strength, there's nothing you can do if you grow to the barrel in proportion to your muscle strength.

Compared to pouring from a wine bottle, the difference in difficulty will be clear.

"So I, too, at the beginning of my apprenticeship to my master, was quite a failure and a nuisance, wasn't it?"

"Heh, the manager? My image is that the manager doesn't fail."

I shake my head and laugh bitterly at Kate for saying it unexpectedly.

"Well, for once, you're admitted to serving, now. That's why I'm properly qualified. I only met you two after that."

Before and after qualification.

There's no way that that success rate is the same, and there's no way that an alchemist who owns a bent shop can show that he's so unsuccessful.

Regardless of the "potion", which is a familiar smelting drug, this is still the first thing to try, and it can fail. Just don't you dare.

"Well, thanks to this smelter Artifact I got from my master, it's a lot easier"

That being said, what I showed the Iris and the others is the necklace that I'm always wearing from my neck.

At first glance, it only looks like a normal necklace. That's what Mr. Iris, approaching, looked at strangely seriously.

"Lord Store Manager, what's this?

"This is my magic artifact, the smelter that suppresses the upper output limit. In an earlier example, did you just say something that closes the lid securely and creates a better pour so that it doesn't flood with doba from the wine barrel?"

Exactly. If it's a normal task, I can handle it without this, but it's not the same without it after all.

Let's use some magic, the situation is still good.

But when it comes to situations that require a lot of magic, it's hard. The adjustment is that while giving out a lot of magic, don't let it go too far.

And in the case of attack magic or magic that uses massive amounts of magic, this becomes very important.

Ordinary people seem to just have to do what they want, so I'm a little jealous of that.

"Does that mean that when the manager removes the smelter Artifact, he can use powerful magic?

"You could say that. Because of the control problem, I can't do it except use it to the best of my ability."

"Is that what you're not good at?

"Right. When it comes to magic on more than a certain scale, you can't use it if you're wearing this smelter Artifact, and if you remove it, you'll feel half rampant... Well, it aggregates to the word lack of practice"

But if you want me to make an excuse, I'm an alchemist.

Unlike wizards who belong to the military, doccan, boccan, it's not my job to do it.

What an alchemist needs is stability and ability to manipulate magic.

There is no need for instantaneous high output, and at least at the level I am involved in, I have not had trouble wearing the smelter "artifact" and not enough output.

And there's usually no chance of practicing magic that can't be used with capped magic in that state.

Clearly, because it's too powerful and the neighborhood is too annoying.

I can't even rent an army training ground.

"Well, when you say runoff, you just run out of magic, so don't worry about it."

"That's what the manager said," I can't move. "

"Yes. That's why, stretch or go against it. Can you succeed and take it down lightly, or will you fail and run back? Either that. There is no redo. Rest assured."

"Is that safe and sound...?

"Isn't it a reassuring point that if you work a little harder, you might be able to defeat them, or you don't have to fight them while you think about it?

At a time when you can't defeat them by magic, you can make a decision to hit the run.

You don't have to hesitate as long as the attack doesn't work halfway, do you?

"At that time, I need you to hold me and get away with it... Exactly, I don't think there's anything intact about eating my magic, and I think I can get away with it without any problems. If it's dangerous, can you leave me?

Leave me alone with powerful magic and go after Mr. Iris, there will be no such thing.

Even I can't move, I think it's useful enough as a decoy.

"In that situation, can we leave the Store Manager! It's like involving the manager in our situation. Whatever happens, the manager returns safely. Don't worry there."

"In that case, I'll do the stopping. It would be more physically appropriate for Iris to carry the manager."

"Ahhh, no, I don't think that's pretty much the case, so you don't have to decide to be ready for that..."

I feel sorry for the words I said half-jokingly, the words of Mr. Iris that are stronger and more serious than I thought, and the look on Kate's face that makes me even feel slightly sadder.

"If it's dangerous, if you sprinkle all the ice stones you keep, you can hold back, so please do that then, right?

For those of you Iris who do not have the means to attack, this time I have prepared two things: "Ice Stone” and “Ice Arrow”.

Disposable attack smelters (artifacts) that can be made from ice tooth bat fangs, etc.

This is also what Mr. Leonora sent me.

Basically, it's for towing, but I've seen quite a bit of room and I've prepared it, so if my calculations aren't wrong, even when I'm supposed to run back, there must still be quite a few left.

In addition to that, Mr. Leonora gave me something. You won't have to worry.

"Ice Stone... one of these stones, over 3,000 rare, right?

"Yes, the store sells for 3500, and Kate has 4,000 ice arrows."

"That's so..."

Kate sighs when she sees the arrow packed in the arrow barrel she carries and the leather bag that Mr. Iris was in charge of.

"That's a very luxurious weapon."

"Well, you don't use regular gatherers. If you don't do well, you're in a deficit."

I don't care what you think about fighting while consuming this stuff. It's not normal.

If I'm not in this situation either, 'I'm still short on strength', and I'm somewhere to refrain from fighting.

But even if I push it, I want to do something about it.

That's all there is to it.