The Last Surviving Alchemist Wants to Live Quietly in the City

We arrived at the Merchant Alliance just before sundown. Hurry to the store.

The merchant guild store had everything for merchants and craftsmen, and the pharmacist's corner had about two sizes of ginia cream retail cans that Mariella had been looking for, and about five cups of cans in a glass, or ointment cans to attach the medicine she had created. There are also a wide variety of medicine bottles and drug wrappers than the Garc herb store, and I also kept paper for labels, so I will buy some.

In rare places, there are catalogues of machines that have never been seen before, from commonplace utensils like breast bowls. It's painted and explanatory, and they say it's a manual machine to compress the powder and make the tablets, or a revolving disc-shaped machine to create the pills. I've never seen anything like this before. I'm going to feel technological advances and lose track of time.

Why don't you? My brother at the store is closing, so he looks at me.

Head to the blacksmith corner. My brother-in-law from the store came close to want me to finish shopping quickly, so I asked for 5 kilos (kg) of torona ore and 10 kilos (kg) of lambstone and 3 kilos (kg) of metal.

"Is it a small grain of metal? Splash during refining or forging? I think it was in the back.

It's an old one, but it's a disposable product, so I'll make it cheaper, and he searched for it and brought it to me.

Finish accounting and leave the Merchant Alliance behind. I need about 300 kilos (kg) of lambstone in total and this amount is not enough at all, but it should be available locally if Mariella's prospects are correct. Conversely, if the prospect comes off, we will give up the glazed ceiling itself.

Anyway, Gordon, Johann's parents and children say that we need as much as 2,000 kilos (kg) of glass to make the glass ceiling a reality. That's the amount of 20 yagoos coming in. It is also your noble mansion, and I do not intend to create such a conspicuous object. Mariella was thinking of giving her 1/3 or 1/4 of the sheet glass by 'stumbling upon it'.

In terms of the amount, a small crucible like the one that made the potion bottle does not reveal the crucible.

Tomorrow, you can go to your destination and have a few tiny windows put on if Ate is off.

Return to "Yagoo's Bouncing Bridge Pavilion". Pass the cookies to Mr. Amber while the guests' feet are still low just after sundown. Mr. Amber seems less energetic than usual.

"This is the cookie Emily said. She said she was feeling very well.

Cookies were popular with the women of "Yagoo's Bouncing Bridge Pavilion," and instantly disappeared. Although Mr. Amber was pleased, I guess the energy Mr. Amber needs is not the same as physical recovery, Mariella thought.

Listening to the voices surrounding the cookies, Emily ran with her.

"Welcome back, sister Mariela, brother Sieg!

You know, if you eat cookies, Dad, you'll feel so much better. We were in the grate market together! Because you're going to get lost, you're going to be so expensive on your shoulder!

They pink my cheeks and talk hard. It seemed like a lot of fun having your father (the master of the inn) set you up.

"Emily, it's time to take a bath and go to bed.

The Inn Master comes out of the kitchen and urges Emily to go back to her room.

"Still not sleepy."

When Emily pointed her mouth,

"Tomorrow, you're gonna have Sister Mariella tie your hair, right? What if I overslept?

The master of the inn spoke gently. Emily,

"Right! Get up early tomorrow and get ready for breakfast. Tie your hair tomorrow!

And I said, I went back to my room. She's a good listener. I'll make your hair look cute knitted tomorrow.

"Thanks for the cookies, more than usual, I could have stayed with Emily.

That's what the innkeeper said, he served me a tray with two different dishes on it. Looks like a special plate for all of today's menus. Appreciate being a master.

It was delicious and I returned to my room before night time began.

"Yes. I want to make 'General Oil' today. Created by Wax, Mariela, and her assistant, Siegmund.

"……, nice to meet you, please?

(Ooh, Zeke's coming up.

Sieg answers Mariela's unscrupulous gesture. Seems like Sieg and I got along a lot, and Mariela gets a little happy.

Sit facing a desk, arranging ingredients and tools.

First, a sleigh in the rind bowl. Lard of oak king on lard of oak. Oak King meat is often delicious and expensive, but large quantities of lard can be picked over meat, and the size of the cobbler can be bought cheaply with a few copper coins. The lard of the oak is what I got. Both remain fresh and slightly demonic.

Sprinkle one oak lard in Mariella's bowl and two oak king lards in Siege's bowl.

"Yes, I'm going to work on Lard. Oh, don't do the magic.

Practicing. Practicing.

Neri Neri Neri.

When lard stretches pasty, add a little water with 'Shizuku of Life' and refine again.

"GENERAL OIL" needs the magic of the remaining oak and oak king in the lard, so the creation is done by hand. I don't use skills or magic except for the Shizuku of Life, which I really need. Because using skills and magic temporarily causes the user's magic to transfer to the material and erases the faint magic that remains in the material.

Practice, practice, practice, practice.

Nellie, Nellie, Nellie, Nellie.

"Hey, Sieg. Zeke was born in a village by the Devil's Forest, wasn't he? I knew you were using drugs, not potions? What kind of medication was there?

"There was no potion in the village. There was a pharmacist who made medicine.

Nervously, he asks about the medication.

There are several healing magic users in any small village, and injuries are usually treated with healing magic. It seems common to use small wounds that don't even bother to use healing magic, or drugs that I said wound pills or blood suppression as a first aid until I show them to a healing magician.

If you are ill, you may 'recover to the disease' and therefore often use medicines. Especially if the patient is a child with low health, it seems that sometimes the child dies from losing to the recovered demon, and healing magicians often don't like the treatment.

Sieg explained to me that there is a potion if we go to the capital, so a low-ranking potion is used instead of medicine.

"Where do you sell potions in the imperial capital? How much?"

It is gratifying that the story was directed at the Imperial Capital. Mariella was hard to hear because it was where Zeke had been "bought".

"Intermediate ranks and below are grocery stores, but they sell them. Buy advanced ranks from potions, specialty stores.

Potion stores are open to alchemists who can create potions of higher rank or higher. There are only 12 alchemists in Imperial Capital who can create advanced ranks, and when it comes to premium potions, there are only 3. Siegmund also explains the price of the potion in detail to the best of his knowledge.

"Advanced rank, only 12!?

"Two hundred years ago, was it more, more?

Sieg asks, Mariella realizes.

Two hundred years ago, there were more people with alchemy skills than the number of bakeries, but Mariella didn't know how many alchemists could create superior or advanced ranks.

"Even in defensive cities, advanced ranks were only handled in potion stores. I don't know how many specialty stores there were in the kingdom, but there were only three in the defensive city......

When Mariella was able to create the advanced rank, she negotiated whether she could put the advanced potion in the store. But every store was pre-paid for 'don't lie to me'. Because I had a lot of alchemy skills, there were a lot of alchemists who could make advanced ranks, and I thought they got rid of me because of the competition, but I wonder if it was different.

(I shouldn't, my hand stopped.

My hands stopped working on lard. Add water with "Shizukuishi of Life" and refine again. Lard's fat content emulsifies and floats in a white cream containing air bubbles.

Practicing, prancing, prancing.

Nellie, Nellie, Nellie, Nellie.

The price of low- and intermediate-ranked potions is not so different from the market in defensive cities 200 years ago. After all, only labyrinth cities seem unusually expensive.

"What kind of labyrinth city from the outside?

"I think it's an image of a resting place in the labyrinth, a safety zone. Do you think of the Devil's Forest and Labyrinth as a place where you can flip over and wander around like a demonic labyrinth, where you feel safe enough to sleep? A place of permanent residence is not thought to be.

I was going to come when I got to A-rank because I was a B-rank adventurer.

I never thought Sieg would tell me a story about my past.

(I was a B-rank adventurer...)

It seems that an adventurer's rank can be promoted by achieving a predetermined number of requests for difficulty determined by rank. They need to do far more requests to get from B to A, the majority of which are concentrated in labyrinth cities. It is more efficient to get a request in a labyrinth city to advance to A-rank.

Labyrinth cities are eager for highly-ranked adventurers, so they even have the service of bringing B-ranked adventurers wishing to go to Labyrinth cities to A-ranked adventurers belonging to Labyrinth cities. By the way, you can't send me home on my own.

The approximate strength of a single rider through the Devil's Forest is the A-rank equivalent.

If it is a B rank, if it is deducted to the A rank, it will come out, but if it is below the C rank or has a lot of luggage, it has to run through it with an armored carriage that can prevent demonic attacks, like a black iron convoy, with an insomniac rest.

A B-rank adventurer who comes to the Labyrinth City has no way out of the Labyrinth City other than to build his A-rank strength and go through the Devil's Forest on his own, or accompany the Yagoo Merchant Corps to hang through the mountains in January, or pay a private convoy like the Black Iron Transport Corps to carry him as luggage.

Zeke told Mariella as he worked out a lard about such a story.

Practicing, prancing, prancing.

Nellie, Nellie, Nellie, Nellie, Nellie.

Lard's emulsification is going on and on, fluffy and uplifting like whipped cream.

"Yeah, sounds good.

Mariella moves only the top 2/3 of the oak whip over the new rind bowl. I can't use the lower part because it has a mixture of impurities other than fat. When Zeke receives the Oak King whip he trims, he puts about half the amount of the Oak whip in a rind bowl containing the Oak whip and gives it to Zeke.

"Yes, practice."

Practicing, prancing, prancing.

Mariella adds a little oak king whip to the rind of whip Sieg is working on. The amount here is difficult. Fewer oak king whips will weaken the effect, and too many will separate them.

Practicing, prancing, prancing.

"Is that about it? Well, I'll fry this up.

Once the oak whips and roughly double the amount of oak king whips mix nicely, stay in a large one-way container with water strained for each rind bowl and stir slowly.

After a while, the whip dissolves and separates into fat and water. Oak and oak king fat, which are not inherently mixed together, are evenly mixed into one layer. This grease is' General Oil '.

It's an advanced recipe in Mariella's Library, in Finished Products that Make Living Convenient.

"General Oil Kansai. Now use the finished General Oil to create a Oak Leather Care Cream.

The fat floating above is' General Oil '. The rind bowl where the oak and oak king lard were being worked out is washed and dried during the hot frying. One of these is about three pieces of "ginia cream" that I bought from a Merchant Alliance store.

"Yes, Sieg, practice and practice.

I looked at Sieg as to whether he would still practice. Good luck with your assistant, Mr. Sieg.