The Last Surviving Alchemist Wants to Live Quietly in the City

"Rebuild the store, it's done."

Gordon, Johann and Ludan's Dwarf Trio greet Mariela and Sieg with a full smile.

During the construction period of the store, the main entrance was not even shown inside due to the ban on use.

I could peek through the windows and rooftops, but as a "fun after it's done," I didn't see it.

Enter the finished shop through the front entrance.

"Ooh, bright"

Mariella is surprised by her poor vocabulary. There are several glass windows on the ceiling.

One by one, not big, but a plaid that mimics cute tree branches is fitted with small and large glass, and the shadow of the plaid falling on the floor is like it's in the shade of a tree.

"Is this the Holy Tree?

"And it's not the house where the Holy Tree is planted in the corner. So far, the branches of the Holy Tree have not been taken, but this is how it feels to be protected under the Holy Tree.

and Ludan the Glassmaker.

"Besides, this window, at first glance, looks normal, but it actually had a three-dimensional structure, and it's designed so that light always plugs in while the sun's at it. Moreover, it is meticulously constructed so that the light plugged into it extends into the store.

and Johann the Architect.

Wow, just looking at the size of the window, it seems like the light is plugged in and sunny, except for the space where the store medication is placed, even though it is not uncomfortable to the extent that it is slightly larger than other stores. Besides, I even feel secure like I'm in the shade of a holy tree.

"So. What is this table and chair?

Gordon answers Mariella's question, the last dwarf to sit around a table set in the middle of the Yang-man.

"Washi, I'm going to go through here.

That's not the answer.

Inside the store, as requested by Mariella, there is a shelf dedicated to clerks at the counter and back of the counter, and a display shelf freely visible in the back of the store. Apart from these, for some reason, a table for six people sat in the center of the town of Yang, and there was also a counter table for five people on the wall at the entrance. There are, of course, chairs lined up at each table. They made it out of scrap material that demolished the previous store, but they built it to fit the atmosphere of the store perfectly, and now it's like...

"Coffee shop?"

Gordon, Johann, and Rudan's Dwarf Trio flaunt their sunniest seats.

"Uh, it's great here"

"I'm motivated to create -"

"Yeah. Nooo."

When Sieg behaved tea, Dwarf Trio relaxed in earnest.

According to Dwarf Trio's description.

The day before Mariella and the others arrived, the three of them would see how well they were doing under the finished ceiling window.

"Nice work.

"Mm-hmm. It's too spacious for a landscape store.

"It's a shame you can't enjoy this sun."

"There was waste material, would you even make a chair?"

Tontenkanten

"I want a desk, too, Konko."

Tontenkanten

"This is not the right place for such a boneless makeover."

Tontenkanteng Tontenkanteng

"And well, this is not how it goes.

I didn't have to wonder how it was, but it's not a bad space for injured or sick customers to relax. So I decided to thank you for the service.

"Ooh, Miss Mari, you've finished the shop.

Fourth Dwarf, no, no, Grandpa Gark's here.

"Oh? This is so muddy and pleasant.

For some reason, even Grandpa Gark joins the Dwarves' circle. Even though it doesn't look familiar to me, I don't feel uncomfortable at all.

"Miss Mari, even your brother. No, tea for me, too.

Although there is room for relaxation, this is a pharmacy. It's not a coffee shop. No, seriously, calm down, and Zeke speaks to Mariella, who thinks that if she arranges medication on the shelf, she should look like a pharmacist.

"Mariela, what about the name of the store?

Watch the old men enjoy the sun as they sip Sieg's tea.

In no time, four old men. I'm eating in.

"Um, 'old whee'?

The name of the store was "Wood Leak Day".

I don't know what store this is, but I'm still not sure if I want to come in, so I think this is fine.

After enjoying a little sunshine, Grandpa Gark left. They're taking me to pick everything up the night after tomorrow. It's the first labyrinth. I enjoy it too much.

After Grandpa Gark left, the three Dwarves also seemed to have rebooted, guiding us through the store and the kitchen.

First, the kitchen next to the store. There is only a former kitchen and it has quite an area, and I have set up a new table so a couple of people can eat here. When the door is opened, the door is partitioned and the friendly design makes the inside of the kitchen invisible from the store side. Or coffee shop design? You didn't make it for me, this.

What surprised me was the demon prop, which can be done with one button until the firewood and ignition are regulated. When I asked where the firewood was to be put, Zeke

"Our village was rural. I don't need firewood.

And he demonstrated it to me. It was helpful because it was in front of the Dwarf Trio, but I never thought a childhood friendly setting would help here.

The water magic props are also attached to the kitchen, bathroom, toilet, and washroom, and each room is equipped with ventilated magic props and vents in the ceiling area.

I thought the labyrinth city house looked small and damp, but was it such a convenient mechanism?

Later on, Zeke told me that life magic is largely propagated. In order to compensate for the shortage of manpower in labyrinth cities, one of the policies promoted by historical peripheral ambassadors is also set up in common houses because there are subsidies in labyrinth cities.

However, they seem to consume a few times more magic than life magic, and they often do it with life magic even if they have magic props? Especially long-running magic props such as safes of ingredients and air conditioning, because they're the type that moves with demon stones, demon stone bills don't fool around.

There are also magic items that will remove laundry, heating, and dust from the floor, but they are not even attached to Mariella's new home because they are expensive enough to work with manpower.

Combined maintenance costs seem to be cheaper than hiring people for housework or buying debt slaves, etc.

Nevertheless, Mariella was surprised that it was an amazing advance.

The quality of the medicine is bad, but I think the potion replacement will come out soon.

I have been living there for two days, so I can generally understand the residential area. The living room I used as a material storage area is now clean up nicely. Other than the chairs and tables left by the previous inhabitants, I miss them as garans without rugs or furniture, but hey, I want to get them all together. The beds that Mariella and the others had repaired were only furnished with the same amount of furniture, so I thought they were inns.

If Mariella was thinking about what kind of furniture to put in,

"Ooh, I almost forgot.

And, Gordon took me to the basement.

Three rooms in the basement are connected in series, and the first room is stocked with material from the creeper that Sieg knocked down and is to be used as a warehouse.

The second room is equipped with a quantity of emergency food and evacuation tools specified by the Labyrinth Cities Special Law on Housing Management, and can be evacuated fully by two people.

There was a crate in the third room.

"There's a big hole right here. The roots of the Holy Tree stretched down to the great underground water supply and collapsed. I dived and checked, but it continued to the large water supply. Hey, I heard the story, but it's rare to see a big water supply, Mon. Yeah, it doesn't affect the drainage, and the walls are buried in this street. The demon won't come up because it's directly beneath the Holy Tree, but there's a lot of slime in the big water supply, so you left a crate filled with Daisies just in case.

Gordon went home explaining the most important thing at the end.

(This place was sold out, wasn't it because of that?

The underground water supply is a sewer that has existed since the time of the Kingdom of Endalgia and, 200 years later, still functions as a sewer for labyrinth cities. Even when it comes to sewage, each dwelling is equipped with a drainage tank called a slime tank, which contains a slime dedicated to sewage treatment adjusted by the trainer after the tame. It does not become a source of infectious diseases because clean water is flowed into the underground water supply, where the sewage treatment slime has been purified.

However, it seems that the underground water supply is heavily bred with wild slime.

Slime is an indeterminate, mucus-shaped demon with no intelligence. It's a weak demon that vanishes if you crush the nucleus, and you can defeat it if you step on the nucleus unless it grows too much. Also, because it does not have an outer shell, it is so weak in absorbing magic that it does not come close to the daisies that absorb magic. Simply planting a daisies around the piping that leads to the large water supply can prevent slime from entering from the large water supply.

Although slime prefers magical carcasses, it can be broken down to inorganic objects depending on the general organic matter and objects, so it is utilized for the treatment of shiatsu and raw debris. The wild slime is attacked by generating a lysate with decomposed ingredients, but the adjusted slime spits out a mound of soil during decomposition. This earthen mass is regularly collected by a dedicated supplier as a fertilizer.

Slime is thus a familiar demon close to life…,

(It doesn't feel good to be connected to a large underground water supply with plenty of mucus-shaped demons (slime).

Just leave the dried daisies without the holy tree and you will be able to inhibit slime intrusion, but logic doesn't make you feel good, even if you know it. I imagine it will just come out of the stone wall.

(Later, let's fill the spot with Daisies fiber. And let's water the saint tree properly so it doesn't wither.

In the meantime, Siege and Mariella nodded, trying to leave the third room open.

Glad to have a nice house completed in a nice store, though the last unexpected big hole (physical) was waiting for me. We have to celebrate.

I bought some oak king meat, turned it into a steak and the two of us celebrated. The extra deliciousness made Mariella cry a little. After all, the meat cooked in general oil tasted like oak general, not oak king.

Oak king delicious. Oak King sucks. He's a nasty demon who walks on two legs and especially likes to attack women, but he just looks like meat anymore.

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"We'll be able to defeat any number of them, so let's either eat or cry or talk.

The store is due to open in a week. If we don't create products for grocery shopping, harvest tamales and various mushrooms outside the labyrinth city. There are many materials that can be harvested this time of year. I also want to go back to the cabin where Mariella lived and replant the surviving herbs.

The day after tomorrow, Grandpa Gark said he would take me to the labyrinth to pick it up. I wonder what I'll collect.

The unreserved conversation lasted until late at night.