Episode 7. Lucia Everlast, Collaboration and Success
Most mages wanted to enter a prestigious mage tower or family unless they dreamed of becoming a court mage.
The biggest reason was none other than money.
As with most wizards, their research and experimentation involved a huge amount of money.
And the higher the name of the mage tower, the more enormous support and donations it received from all nobles as well as from the country.
You might think of pouring water into a broken saucepan, but if you get caught properly, the level of the entire country has changed.
For example, there were mana injury trains installed throughout the empire.
Thanks to this, travel time has been drastically reduced and a logistics revolution has occurred.
In addition, the mage tower played a very large role in life, such as extending people’s activity time by illuminating the night streets with mana lamps or solving food problems by developing fertilizer with the corpse of Popus.
But in the end, what I wanted to say was this.
If the wizard’s research succeeds, there is a huge expectation of profit, but until then, it is said to be a money-eating hippopotamus.
“Fuck.”
Looking at the potion that failed this time, I quietly chanted Korean.
Looking to the side, the few remaining ingredients were laid out in a shabby place.
When this is all used up, there is only enough money left to restock one more time.
‘I got paid quite a bit. I underestimated the re-rule value.’
I thought it would be a piece of cake to make a stamina boost potion without knowing the recipe.
but what about this
‘The mixing ratio of each ingredient was not implemented in the game.’
In the game, just put the items in the recipe and press the combination button to get the result.
However, in reality, the amount or ratio of each ingredient was very important.
I had been trying for two days already, but I was on a losing streak.
When I checked the time, it was time to close the lab door.
In the end, I packed the ingredients in my backpack and finished the day.
‘Should I increase the ratio of leaves more than Morheim fruit? No, seeing as the side effects are still coming out, the ingredient that acts as a neutralizer is… ….’
I came out looking at the notebook where I wrote down the results of the experiment.
Coincidentally, the person in the next lab opened the door at the same time as me and came out.
“uh? senior.”
When I took my eyes off the note at the strong voice, Lucia with pink sandalwood hair was waving happily.
“Did you study it until now?”
“uh. you also?”
“yes.”
Lucia, who nodded, glanced at the notebook I was looking at and asked.
“What experiment did you do?”
“secret.”
“I’m curious, but I’ll also tell you about my experiment, so can you tell me?”
“huh. no.”
In particular, I can never tell you.
No hint should be given to these geniuses.
If you know one, they know ten, so if you blindly inform them, you could be stolen.
“senior. Was this your original personality?”
“Don’t speak suddenly. I won’t tell you though.”
“no no. Really. Originally, when pretty kids like me talked to me, I acted as if I would give everything for my liver and gallbladder.”
“Do you even say that with your own mouth?”
“It’s true that I’m pretty, but what can I do? Are you going to pretend you don’t know, after shunning me?”
At first glance, you can see a blind corner, but when you see it like this, you are bold.
By the way, when I heard Lucia’s words, I vaguely remember being bullied.
아드리아스 이 개새끼. Even if you don’t have money, you said you don’t have much, but I went around scattering money in strange places.
‘I was embarrassed when I saw only the freshmen.’
One of them was in front of my eyes.
For the money I spent on this guy, I could run five more experiments!
“It seems to have changed a little like the last herbal medicine lecture.”
“I’ve grown a bit.”
“Does it seem like the same thing when you say that?”
“If you have nothing to say, I will go.”
“Wait! Are you really not going to tell me?”
“No work.”
“Bloomer mushrooms!”
My footsteps, which I tried to ignore and pass by, stopped.
I sank my emotions as deeply as I could and turned around.
“Right?”
“what.”
“Ah, that’s right. That’s why it stopped.”
“So what?”
“Hehe~ If you want to hear what it is, tell me what experiment you did.”
At that time, I wasn’t talking about what a horn fish was or what a matarata was.
After all, the world is unfair.
How did you get the most important secret ingredient at once by listening to just those two?
In the game, he said he just had talent, but he didn’t know because his skill proficiency was climbing rapidly.
Geniuses in real life are monsters.
‘If I keep going like this, it looks like I’ll be taken away.’
Of course, I have many combinations other than this.
The problem is that there is not much money left.
Not even half a penny’s worth of money to experiment with different recipes.
It is painful to me that I never imagined that this much money would be spent on research.
I tried adding to my worries, but I knew that it would be meaningless even if I didn’t tell you what kind of experiment I did here.
I’d rather be honest and glar at even a little sympathy.
“ha. I was researching a stamina boost potion.”
“lol. I knew that too.”
“Are you the same?”
“that’s right. The senior’s advice was very helpful.”
At that time, I wanted to have my snout sewn up.
At the time, I was so taken aback by the fact that a playable character was talking to me, so the words came out as I asked without thinking.
“senior.”
“why?”
“I’m angry?”
“fury? It happened to myself.”
“Oh come. Do you really think things have changed?”
“Stop playing around. It really sucks.”
“senior.”
“Why?”
“Do you want to join us?”
My eyes froze at the sudden suggestion, wondering if I had heard it wrong.
together? I? With Lucia Everlast?
“In fact, it’s as if you found all of them.”
“It’s me, but why?”
Why do you want to share with me?
It was clear that a genius like her would find the mixing ratio before me anyway.
You can eat alone, but you dare to share it with me.
“I’m looking for a cure right now. It hasn’t been discovered yet, so I have to research and find it on my own.”
“so?”
“Even slugs have a knack for rolling, so I didn’t know that seniors had this ability. One day, seniors might develop the cure I’m looking for, right? Buying a favor in advance.”
Does the word that buys favor have a knack for rolling slugs too?
It’s the first time I’ve seen a guy with less social skills than me.
Surprisingly, the world might be fair.
anyway what… ….
“thanks.”
“What are you thankful for? Wasn’t your senior studying anyway? Maybe seniors developed it first.”
do i beat you
Absolutely impossible right now.
It’s nonsense.
“Then, are you going to join us tomorrow?”
“okay. I’ll see you tomorrow.”
I’m glad it ended like this.
If I hadn’t run into her today, the patent right for the health potion would have been taken away without knowing why.
‘I was lucky.’
okay. It’s luck.
It doesn’t matter if you’re always this lucky, but it can’t be.
There’s nothing more stupid than relying on luck.
So, in the sense of self-reflection, today is a 6km run, which is twice as long as usual.
It was a steady exercise after going to the cemetery, but there was no improvement in this guy’s poor physical strength in just a few days.
‘Still, for a bright tomorrow.’
I will run today
* * *
“Fail again.”
“Sunbae~ Let’s rest for a while!”
Lucia let out a hoarse voice from the side.
Since Lucia was there, she thought that making health potions was over, but it was a big mistake.
I had already used up all the last ingredients I had, and even the materials she had were showing the bottom.
“This time, the drug substance came out thick. It wasn’t that the matarata was lacking, was it?”
“Just because there is a drug ingredient, it doesn’t mean you need Matarata unconditionally. There is such a thing as synergy. Rather, try reducing the matarata and adding a little bit of todol tree sap and bloomer mushrooms.”
Well that makes sense.
But I’ve been feeling it for a while… ….
“Lucia.”
“Yes?”
“Why do you seem to be the only one experimenting while you’ve been talking?”
“It’s because of my mood. It’s because of my mood.”
It was hard to see Lucia lying face down on the lab table eating snacks.
Still, it was ironic that the direction of the experiment was well set with such occasional advice.
‘Well, a thirsty person should dig a well.’
It is me who is in need of money, not Lucia.
Lucia was the only daughter of an aristocratic merchant family, so she was far from short of money.
It seemed like a waste of materials to do an experiment right away, so I opened the book on herbalism that Lucia had brought.
“Todol Tree, Todol Tree…. we are here.”
Unlike the description of the item in the game, there was a long content attached.
Of course, most of them were irrelevant to the current research, but there were definitely things to learn.
Heading on the ground without knowing this is a bit absurd… ….
“I’m bored, senior.”
“okay. wait.”
After reading the book, I started manufacturing again based on the results of the experiments and Lucia’s advice.
The sense of hand touching the ingredients was better than ever.
“Oh oh. Does it feel good this time?”
“okay?”
I didn’t say anything, but somehow it felt good.
I think I’m going to get negative, so I only think about it inside.
Let’s make the 702nd potion like that… ….
-Titling!
[I made a potion of physical strength increase (intermediate).]
“Ah!”
A phrase that had never appeared before covered my vision.
is it real? did you really make it?
My body is shaking and I can’t even move.
“why? What is it? It’s all done? Then let’s put it in.”
Unlike me, Lucia, who had no way of knowing the results, put the potion she had just made into a testing device.
The resulting value was, of course, pointing to success.
“Huh? No side effects whatsoever? what?”
“You did it. made it.”
“yes…?”
Lucia, who was blank for a moment, looked at the results once again and turned to my face.
Soon, a smile like a spring flower bloomed on his face.
“Wow! You did it! I did it!”
It’s not me, it’s us, man.
understanding goes.
Even I, who knows how to craft a game, succeeded with such hard work, but those who start manufacturing from zero will be as hard as picking stars in the night sky.
Before I could fully enjoy the joy, the phrase once again covered my eyes.
-Titling!
[You have acquired the talent ‘Potion Manufacturing Buff Series (Primary)’]
[Conditions have been met]
[An object that can be evolved has been found.]
What is it all of a sudden?
[Adrias Cromwell’s Talent: 32% chance of evolution of potion-making buffs]
[Do you want to evolve?]
It says that the talent you just acquired can be evolved.
It’s amazing just to get a talent, but I couldn’t keep up with it because it was said that it would evolve right away.
‘32%?’
In fact, since I have never obtained an evolutionary trait in a game, I have not yet understood the mechanism.
At first, it was put on hold for a while.
There’s also Angela’s case, so we’ll have to put up with it for now.
And I didn’t like that it was only 32%.
“Senior quickly! Let’s go register this quickly!”
Yes. Putting everything aside, registration came first.
