The Last Surviving Alchemist Wants to Live Quietly in the City

The potato worm, the demon called Caterpillar, a caterpillar demon, and Trent, a tree demon such as the human tree, are demons that have been more closely associated with human life than in ancient times.

Of course it depends on the type, the wood that can be picked from Trento is traded as a luxury product, more rigid and flame retardant than the normal one, and the thread throwing up in the Caterpillar is treasured as a high-performance cloth material that is durable, thin or warm, elastic and breathable.

By the way, I got it in the labyrinth city, and Mariella's underwear (tights) are also made from Caterpillar yarn, making Mariella's legs look more crisp and shy than they actually are. It's really high-performance.

By the way, Mariella somehow thinks that "Caterpillar” means that Cologne and some adorable potato worm eat mochi cucumber and grass, and then spit puffy thread.

In fact, Caterpillar used in the clothing of the general public cultivates a relatively easy to handle species among demons, so if it looks about five times more massive than Mariella imagined, and about twenty times more grotesque, and the fact that the meal is raw meat as well as grass, or if it is ravaged all the time, "Kisher Kisher" and thread scattered to collect it, it is necessary to say that it has enough filters to rewrite it into a picture book for toddlers.

At least, you don't have a weird pattern, you have hair and thorns that grow partially, your body itches just to watch, you don't look like that, and you don't fly poisonous hair instead of spitting yarn.

Raptor with Mariela and Yurique on board has never looked or attacked as viciously as a large army of caterpillars approaching "Gyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy".

"Mariella, flame bottle!

Eurike is going to cry avoiding poisonous hair while manipulating Raptor to the right and to the left.

"Yeah!"

Mariella, who throws a flame bottle, is also going to cry as she sees Eurique not to be shaken off of Raptor.

"Caw!"

The flames of Mariella's thrown flame bottle spread all over the aisle thanks to the salamander, swallowing the caterpillars.

There are several rooms along the hallway, but they came straight to the room where the "necklace” was located. Although there are gaps jumping into some room, Mariella's fate will run out there if the jumping ahead is a dangerous place.

So now, while responding with a flame bottle, we have to escape to the southwest tower.

But the flame of the flame bottle of the request, which burned out all the black demons, does not seem to stop the caterpillars, and whoa, the caterpillars chase Mariella after them as they thrust through the flames and extinguish the flames with their giants and their quantities.

"Wow! I'm here! Something's on my mind!

"Bye! They're here! It smells delicious!

Apart from whether or not the caterpillar that lightly punctured the surface is delicious, thanks to the burning of caterpillar thorns, the risk of being skipped by poisonous thorns has diminished, so the two girls are through tears to giant caterpillars that had a constant effect on the flame bottle, but also don't hate to be burned by the flames.

"Oh my God, why can't it burn ~!!"

"Probably, it's watery?

"Water........., don't tell me, Eurike!

"Mariella's the one who asked!

Mariella and Eurike screaming in confusion on Coo's back.

I don't know if Eurike is still a woman, either, or if she simply doesn't like bugs, but maybe it's a reasonable reaction because not many humans, regardless of their fighting power, would be calm after being chased by massive giant caterpillars with Ujolla Mojolla.

Roasted with flames, the surface of the caterpillar hardened, or perhaps the movement of the leading caterpillar became dull. There was enough distance between the caterpillars for Mariella and the others to be confused.

Huh, Tototo.

Roasted in flames and stepped on a slowed caterpillar, an intact caterpillar in the rear presses behind the Mariellas to fly poisonous hair.

"Gaw!"

"! Coo!

One of the poisonous hairs stabs the tail of the coo, and the speed of the coo sees it fall. Is this caterpillar poison also an action that deprives the body of its freedom?

"Just try harder!

Mariella throws one flame bottle after another at the caterpillars who come packing their distance while they watch. The southwest tower is just around the corner. If the firebottles have a slight effect on the caterpillars, but can slow the progression slightly, we might reach the tower.

"Caw!"

Salamander, who was snapping on Mariella's shoulder, honking to encourage her to fly over to Coo's head.

"Gah, gah, gah"

Cu runs diligently as he squeezes his voice to match his short exhaling breath and pulls his legs together.

Pushing caterpillars to eat the space that follows behind them. That distance keeps coming closer and closer comes through with the fiery heat that covers the caterpillar.

Even the hem of Mariella's coat is going to get bumped by that enthusiasm. Mariela clings to Eurike so she doesn't shake off the rupture she runs indelibly to tangle her legs, and although she can't afford to look back any longer, she must be, right up to it.

"Sir."

The whip of Eurike strikes, tangled in a knob of doors approaching a few meters away. The southwest tower is just around the corner.

Keep pulling and inside the open door, Cu jumps in to slip in.

When he entered the tower room, his legs snapped and he fell into the tower. With that recoil, both Mariela and Eurike are swung off Raptor's back and roll into the tower room.

"Geez."

Rarely girly screaming, but rolling like a golon and an animal child or something, Mariella and Eurike gently turning a turn to kill momentum and rebuild their posture, pulling the whip that remains entangled in the knob of the door and closing the door.

The entangled whip draws the door like a willed creature, yet comes off the knob and back to Eurike at hand.

Zdon, don, dos, dos, guja, guja, gusha.

A number of collision sounds echoing from the other side of a tight door and the sound of something crushing.

"…… Wow."

Mariella's first voice, standing up with her flipped coat over her head, said, "Thanks! It would also be inexcusable not to be an exclamation."

I don't know if the tower door is much tougher than it looks, or if some strange force is working, but Mariella and the others were able to escape the pushing caterpillars. I guess it's easy to imagine from the sounds that echo what tragedy the momentum that all those groups have been pushing forward without slowing down at all has been transformed into, but I can't dare mention it.

"Coo!"

"Mariela, hurry up and potion!!

I'm more worried about Ku than the caterpillars across the door.

Ku's tail, hit by poisonous hair, is covered in scales and it's hard to tell the degree of discoloration, but it looks more discolored to red purple than the others. Most importantly, it is swollen on the bread and very painful. Ku himself, he has repeated tingling and cramping, remaining in a system slipped in with his back leg stretched belly.

"Eurike, let me drink this for now!

When Mariela hands Eurique a potion that has the effect of recovery and detoxification, she washes away the poisonous hair while neutralizing it with a potion of detoxification on Ku's tail.

"I think this is some kind of poison that stops the body from moving. This potion made of ingredients in time is the best way to alleviate it. I guess if I put him to sleep for a few days, he'll recover..."

The potion I have now is a similar product made from the herbs I collected here, and it is not as effective. The poison of caterpillar demons inhibits the movement to capture prey, and although the heart will not stop because it was able to neutralize it to some extent, it will take a considerable amount of time to be able to move.

"I wish I had the ingredients?

"Yeah. But I don't think it's up there......"

I've climbed up and collected some towers before, but they were similar vegetation everywhere, so climbing this tower won't get the medicinal herbs I need.

Then there is only one way to go.

"Coo, I'll be back. I'll be right here."

"Gu......"

Coo responding weakly. He has his eyes narrowed so that he feels comfortable in Yurike's hand.

Eurike and Mariella walked towards another door, one that leads north.

"Now I'm going to check the room."

"Yeah. Let's go with caution."

The east door is already quiet, but you should stay away for a while. The caterpillar demon may or may not be nearby, but it must be terrible.

Mariella and Eurike open the door on the north side and step right out into the hallway.

"There are no demons. The first door, open it."

"Yeah."

In a system where you can escape at any time, it's time to open the door, Eurike.

"... normal room... but?

"Really. Isn't this the workshop? I wonder where the workshop people are?

The first room in the north hallway was like an alchemy workshop lined with glass and metal equipment, as seen in Cal's workshop.

There are dried herbs in the corners of the room, and expensive materials are kept in bottles on the shelves. There are medicinal herbs on the desk that are in the process of being processed, and there seems to be no one here but Mariela and the others, although there seems to have been people from the medicinal herb state until just now.

"... it's too much to happen by chance? But this is gonna help you, right?

"Yeah. Probably. Uh, Ent's actually... There it is. Lund's leaf pattern is also, um, badly handled, but I wonder if I can go critical."

Nevertheless, the handling of the material is terrible. It seems like an alchemist's workshop where advanced and specialized potions can be made, but from Mariella's standards, I wonder if it would be better if it could be intermediate.

However, it seems to be a wealthy workshop with a number of complex and shiny magic items.

Most importantly, this is a common workshop for alchemists who can make advanced potions. Normal alchemists are not restricted to the Library, so make up for their lack of abilities with expensive tools to create the highest ranked potions possible.

Even if it's a crude advanced potion, it sells for a lot more than an intermediate.

I just feel uncomfortable because Mariela still can't get out of the feeling that her proficiency as an alchemist is crowded.

"Mariela, there's Renamaggia in this refrigerated demon prop over here!

"Really!? It's the one we haven't processed yet. Maybe we can do this."

Thanks to the fact that untreated lunamaggia was stored inside the refrigerated demon props, it seems possible to make advanced antidotes of that quality.

Mariella unfolded the "Smelting Space" on a familiar hand and quickly created an advanced detoxification potion, which drove her back to the waiting southwest tower of Ku.

"Thank you for waiting, Coo. Yes, it's a potion!

"Gu............, Gu? Gawu!"

"Hey, Coo, you're getting too well."

The boulder should be called Mariella's potion, Ku's condition, by the way, soothes and rises, licking Eurike and Mariella with the barley.

"Coo, good. But how could there be such a demon?

After Eurike thinks a little about Mariela's question, he answers.

"There were fish demons even during the day. The only thing that shows up at night is a black demon. What?

"You mean the normal demons operate even during the day, just because they weren't there by chance?

Looking out the window of the tower, it was dawn for a long time, and the fish demons occasionally swim away around the tower looking at the Mariellas with a slight eye.

Every demonic fish just doesn't strike me because it's so big that I can't get through an elongated window, it's just a bunch of fierce fish with gizzards and sharp teeth in their big, developed jaws.

"Mariela, Donino's waiting. We're moving on."

We're safe here, but we have to meet Donino. "Let's meet on the other side," Donino said. The failure to designate a safe southwest tower second floor may be for some reason. At least he said he'd meet us, so if we go down the north corridor, we can get to the first floor.

"Yeah. But yeah."

Mariella takes a sigh of relief when Cu recovers, thinking only a little.

An earlier caterpillar. I haven't observed it closely, but isn't that a venomous moth larvae called Mojolaus Mayo? Because it's supposed to be material for a certain potion.

There are demons that are not potions that can be used to attack, but cannot be defeated by a flame bottle. There should be more means.

What is in the room lined up for retrieving caterpillar material? In the first room on the north side there was an alchemist's workshop. I wonder what else is in the other room as we collect the material there later.

(Mr. Donino, when did you say rendezvous...? It's okay if we have a little time back and forth, right?

Though I have a promise to Donino, the prerequisite is to get there without being attacked by demons.

We've already been attacked by trees and caterpillar demons. Not necessarily without other demons ahead.

Mariela suggested to Eurike to consult her future policy.