The Novice Alchemist’s Store

"Finally, the store is open!

After all, Mr. Geberg's work was quick.

The day and a half after the construction of the fence, the signage was completed, and they came in the morning to install it.

I was wondering if the old sign would be somewhat reworked, but the sign on the roof has a completely different vibe than before, something that feels soft and a little cute.

To be honest, you have such good taste that I don't think that Mr. Geberg made it!

For once, it looks like the original sign is also used as an ingredient, but I guess I could say it's completely new, this?

When I open the entrance door and go inside the store, I can still see the shelves lined with products while still scurrying.

The three windows were also decorated with empty curtains, so the atmosphere of the shop was a little bright.

Above the counter is my handmade 'I accept order production' sign.

If you turn around behind it and sit back in the chair, you're all set!

Come on, customers!

You're always here!

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"... no one will come"

Opened for about an hour.

I didn't expect much, but I knew not a single customer was coming.

I'm so free, I arranged the alchemy tools my master gave me behind the counter, and now I'm building the Demonic Crystal Stone at the end of time.

We can interrupt this as soon as the customers arrive.

"O-ri, o-ri, o-ri"

Crumb crystal stone, which is the raw material of the demonic crystal stone, is hammered and further finely refined by the pharmaceutical research Yasen.

Demon crystal stones of natural products are expensive anyway, so demon crystal stones, commonly used in the smelter Artifact, are artificial demon crystal stones made in alchemy, but it's pretty hard to make them when they're a little bigger.

Dissolve the finely scraping demonic crystal stone in an alchemy kettle and consolidate the impurities removed.

Every process requires magic, so it's pretty hard for people with less magic to make one.

By the way, some people have palm-sized alchemy cauldrons dedicated to this because using a large alchemy cauldron also consumes a lot of magic?

I do it in a one-handed pot size that my master gave me, but I used it in my school internship about twice as small, or a small teacup size.

"Crushing, I want the smelter Artifact, I will!

Dandruff crystal stone itself is a cheap object, but the less pure it is, the more it has to be crushed.

Therefore, of course, there is an object called the "artifact", which is a specialized smelter.

I can't buy it if I can't afford it like a master.

Because it's something you can handle by hand.

So I wave the hammer heartlessly.

Cancer, cancer, cancer.

"Kontachi - what is it, Mr. Sarasa?!

"Phew. Ah, there you are, Lorea."

It was Lorea at the grocery store who opened the store door and came in.

We made a futon together and had a women's talk, and we're already friends without a mess.

I also upgraded my parental density from "Mr. Lorea" to "Lorea."

Mine could have been with "Chan," but for once I was older and stayed with "Mrs". I thought the first one was the shattered way to talk was maybe younger......?

"Yes. Congratulations on opening the store.... and what were you doing instead of?

"This? Um, ready under smelting?

Show Lorea the finer powder as she peeks into the counter strangely.

This in itself cannot be called smelting, but it is also a manual labor that anyone can do because it is just crushing.

"Heh, alchemy, more like this... I had a shrugged image, but you're not"

"What, a shrewd image?

Are you trying to say sophisticated (smart)?

I know what you're trying to say.

Something that surprised me about the breadth of my scope of learning, too, by going into school.

"Well, do you do a lot more than normal people think? Because there are so many things to make, you have to be a carpenter, a glassmaker, a blacksmith, a cook, and so on."

It doesn't matter if you're good or not. Especially the food, because it had nothing to do with taste and performance.

Basic, rigorous Royal Alchemist Training School is also out-of-the-box sweet when it comes to parts that have nothing to do with direct alchemy.

For example, if you don't like woodworking, you just have to ask the woodworker for that part.

So if there's nothing functionally wrong, I can graduate even if it's slightly awkward.

"That's right. I knew it was hard to be an alchemist... Oh, is this cloth the same thing you gave me? This color is beautiful too! That's expensive!

"Uh, still a little cheap, huh? Because it's a king's capital, and it's 20 or 30% more expensive."

What surprised Lorea when she saw was the young grass, light peach, and empty environmentally adjustable cloth I arranged as a slightly better value eyeball product.

In Wang Du, an undyed thin dirty brown environmental conditioning cloth is this expensive and tens of percent more expensive if it is dyed beautifully.

"Was it good, even if I got it?

"I don't mind. In fact, I'm glad you came to help!

You're here to celebrate the opening, and Lorea, really, good boy!

"I've earned a lot... thank you"

"It's also advertised, so if you need anything, please buy it from us."

"Yes, of course! - Is the only other product available so far is the smelting drug Potion?

"You're lining up in the store. Honestly, I don't really understand the demand in this village."

"Uh-huh, ordinary villagers don't know anything but smelting drugs, so it's hard to say demand."

"... oh, wow"

Compared to the boiling smelter Potion in the image, you don't even want the smelter Artifact unless you know that it has something like this.

Wang Capital is something that nobles and rich people use, so I have a chance to know that in this village... isn't this an out-of-the-box fatal problem?

"Sample product, should I put it down?

"If it happens, you'll get a chance to know, but if you smash it, people in this village don't have that much money, do they? Some of them are from us or Mr. Dilal, and the village chief."

If it is a village capable of self-sufficiency, will it become so?

It may be difficult to do business with a villager if the money is about Dilal from the inn and dining room who is doing business with the collector, Darna from the grocery store, and the village manager who is doing the country's work.

I was wondering if I should think about something?

"Is that it? This sign, what is it?

"Oh, that? For once, preferential treatment for villagers and collectors based here, right?

What Lorea found was a sign I left on the shelf displaying the smelting drug Potion.

It says "We will sell discounts to people who have our used medicine bottles”.

For once, I thought about it a lot and decided, is that an appeal point for our store?

Typically, an empty bottle of the smelting drug Potion is only worth a bundle of three sentences.

Instead of making bottles, they need to be processed differently for each type of potion, so they simply cannot be reused where they are collected.

I can use it if I melt it and rebuild it, so I can get it bought out, but because it's really a bundle of threads, most collectors are bothered to take it back and throw it away on the spot.

But if that bottle made it yourself?

If it is properly marked and distinguished, it can be cleaned clean and reused as is.

Blah, most of the work involved in elementary smelting drugs (potions) is making bottles.

The smelting drug Potion itself can be made all at once if there is a large alchemy kettle, but the bottles have to be made one at a time.

Honestly, it's a pain in the ass.

Is that why you think this bottle making will be the first thing you will be entrusted to an apprentice who has entered the store for training?

The letter I get from my senior reads: 'I just make bottles!!' It said stupidity, 'and I made it well when I was a part-timer.

But next to that, my master was making it many times as fast as I was, and he made me do a lot of other things, so I wasn't particularly dissapointed.

I think it would be difficult in the city to buy only bottles of my own shop, but it is about the villagers and collectors based in this village who will buy them here.

I mean, if you're good, you're likely to be regular.

So why don't you buy this bottle high - for about half the price of the primary smelter?

As a result, smelting drugs can be used for half the price, so collectors can easily use them, and I'm glad the collection work is safer.

I'm glad I'm free from troublesome bottlemaking, too.

So even if the profit drops somewhat, it turns out to be worth it, doesn't it?

"I see. Is that so? Sure, that would make it easier for people in the village to use. Don't worry about losing the bottle."

"I usually use it at home."

"I'm pretty glad about this. We've been dealing with smelting drugs before, but trying to keep all the smelting drugs for diseases that we rarely use can get really expensive."

"Oh, could I be the commercial enemy of Lorea's place?

"No, not at all. As for the smelting drug Potion, it is completely unprofitable. It's a complete service for villagers that only increases transportation costs to the price they buy in the city."

The grocery store is one of the people who makes money in the village, so it still sounds bad if you don't contribute that much.

A complete deficit, as it can still occasionally be damaged during transport.

If we sell it, we won't need it, so you honestly think it'll help?

By the way, it seems to be okay with another earner, Mr. Diral, as he offers a place to relax at night.

Uh-huh, I knew it would be difficult to meet Village...

If I don't think about it, it's gonna be village eight?

"Oh, Mr. Sarasa's fine, isn't she?

"Really?

You noticed I looked anxious, and Lorea waves and laughs.

"There's an alchemist in the village, because it's worth it. peace of mind, is it?"

Whoa, that's just something I'm more trusted with than an alchemist, a doctor.

In fact, I'm studying medical knowledge in that area, too, so hey.

Unlike doctors who can be named even if they're not qualified, they're guaranteed to have a certain amount of knowledge.

"And no one is jealous even if the alchemist is making money. If that's what you envy, be an alchemist."

"... oh well"

Full meritocracy.

Alchemists who can even be from orphans are synonymous with successful people in this country, who are surprisingly less jealous, even though they are generally profitable images.

The door is open, so if you're jealous, it's Othi who tells you to work hard.

No excuse is allowed for the environment to be worse than someone qualified from an orphan.

Besides, when you are sick or injured, there are many people out there who have been helped by alchemy.

"But in fact, alchemists don't make more money than I thought."

"Oh really?!?"

"Yeah, at least not as much as I used to think. I'm sure that's what you think because it's expensive to handle."

I have a surprised look on my face, Lorea, but I can't laugh about her because I thought so too and went for an alchemist.

I know you think you're making money because you deal in products that cost tens of thousands of rare, but it's actually not that simple.

"For example, that cloth Lorea said was expensive"

"Yes."

"If you fail to smell, that will be worthless in an instant"

"... eh, really?

"Yeah. If I fail, material, because I won't be able to use it. Tens of thousands of rare to prepare, if you fail, it will blow up"

Once placed in a smelting kiln, it can never be separated again.

It also comes to the degree of failure, but mostly it is disposed of.

"If you fail to do something when you're making a million rare smelter artifacts, you won't be stylish ~"

Besides, there's no way you can say "I couldn't make it because I failed" while taking orders.

We need to buy new materials and make them.

In the first place, I can't even take an order if I don't have enough money to collect the materials I need first.

"So if the alchemist doesn't save some money, he's gonna lose his neck."

"Yes, it's not such a dream profession."

"I think if you're smart, you'll make money, but that's the same thing in other professions."

Still, I'm pretty sure I have a "dream” because I'm sure it's a profession where people from orphanages can make more money than crowds.

Because when you're really an orphan, it's not good for you to get a job.

I also know that artisans and merchants don't have to bother to hire orphans, but it's a lot safer to hire them on edge.

"If you say you don't have a body or a lid, it's probably the most solid way to earn money making primary smelting drugs (potions) with chimatima. Because it's low risk."

"Wow, the image of an alchemist making something kind of amazing, it's broken"

"Haha, if you want to keep your image, you might as well watch it from a distance. It's hard to make amazing things, in terms of money, in terms of risk."

I think I broke my child's (?) dreams a little bit, but it's the same in every profession where ideals and reality are different, right?

In the end, only a few groups of visitors arrived on the first day of opening the store.

All you have to do is Lorea and Elles, the village chief, who came to celebrate the opening, and Marie (Lorea's mother), who came to collect Lorea.

The sales are only a dozen smelting drugs, so subtle...... isn't it?

"If you think about it, it's not that bad for a day's profit."

The cheapest we have is 500 rare for primary wound medication.

Pretty good value compared to the city because almost all the materials can be collected in the garden.

The collectors were happy to buy it.

I was even happier when I explained the discount system.

"Even if you sell it for half the price, 200 rare is not profitable."

I order lunch at Mr. Dilal's and it's forty rare.

I have enough and I don't drink alcohol, so there's no extra charge.

Morning and evening meals are done with the bread I bought from Mr. Dillall's after all, or go eat.

The price is similar, so in other words, if you sell a bottle of primary wound medicine, you can cover the cost of living a day.

It's not what I told Lorea yesterday, but if you keep doing this, your life will be stable.

Well, I want to grow up more, and I want to send you to the orphanage where you took care of me, so I'm going to make the best of it.

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Opened for two weeks.

My shop also grew sales from time to time, and my collectors based in this village were roughly familiar with each other.

The discount service we offer is also quite popular, and we are delighted to hear that 'injury anxiety is gone' and 'the amount used has increased, but the earnings have increased even more'.

Well, if you get hurt, you won't be able to work in the meantime, so it's a better deal to use smelting pills than to save poorly, actually.

However, because it is not a cheap item, it depends on whether or not you can use it, and I think the hurdle dropped thanks to the discount service.

Plus, we started buying collectibles, so more items are eligible for collection, and we're making more money than usual.

You can't buy things that don't get sunny to other towns without an alchemist.

And of several smelter artifacts made and arranged with "For Collectors," quite a few are sold by the insect repellent smelter Artifacts.

It's never cheap because it costs 20,000 rare, but most parties that are coming to us say, "It's cheaper than buying in the city! I bought it."

I guess that's all bug-plagued in the great tree sea.

Well, I know how you feel.

There is also a curriculum called Collection Internship in schools, in which you also learn the basics and practices of collection.

I mean, I'm actually going to collect it, and of course I went through it... honestly, it was a pain in the ass.

Even though it is nothing more than an imitation to be done in a relatively safe place near Wangdu, it naturally plagued the beasts and insects, besides the heat, the cold, because it actually goes into the woods.

There's a pull rate, so it's not dangerous, but that was a kind of survival.

With that in mind, the usefulness of insect repellent is very understandable.

What didn't sell the other way around was the light smelter Artifact.

I made it because I thought it was convenient, but the collectors in this village are basically like day trips, and it seems the basic pattern is to go out early in the morning and come back before dark. I mean, we don't need lights.

Because of the abundance of prey, it seems like it's because you don't have to take the time to get to the back to make money...... I'm a little sorry as an alchemist because the real rarities are only in the back.

Because it's hard to get the rare material I send to my master.

Besides, that kind of material sells high, so if you do it well, you can grab a thousand bucks as a collector.

Well, I'm not going to ignore the danger and incite it because it's irresponsible.

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"Hey, Sarasa, you got a minute?

"Yes, what is it?

As usual, I heard someone familiar coming from in front of the store as I was doing a simple job at the counter.

When I stopped my hand and got out of the store, it was a giant bear sitting there.

Standing before it with a good look was Andre, a relatively skilled gatherer in this village.

"Welcome back, Mr. Andre. That's a brilliant angler bear."

"Right? I was able to shoot him relatively close, so I didn't rest and dragged him, but would you buy him out?

You didn't literally rest, two of the party members - but was it Mr. Gill and Mr. Gray? - throwing out a rope hung by a bear and going beside it.

"Yeah, I'm fine. The main wound is the head. You're crushing one eyeball. My gut looks fine. Freshness also...... you don't seem to have any problems. The fur is slightly damaged, so how about 43,000 rare?

"Seriously!? Will it be that much!

Andre raised his voice on my offered forehead, and the two people who were going in and out are also shining their eyes.

"Yes, because I can handle this. It hasn't been a day since he died."

"Wow, I've been struggling to kill you, but it only helps about meat..."

"It can be worthless if it's dismantled halfway through, so it's a tricky prey."

The three things that make the most money out of Anger Bear are the heart, liver, and eyeballs.

But if you take them all out poorly, they won't be available.

If you bring it all, like this one, the alchemist can handle it, but the size of the anger bear is just the size, because I can't really bring it back in a short time.

The best part is that the alchemist goes to collect... well, you're barely there, such a peculiar alchemist.

Basically, I'm a brain worker, so stamina, less, and it's a profession I can earn without risking.

"Forty-three thousand rare...... Sarasa, thank you so much for coming to this village!

"No, because this one's profitable too"

As I was impressed, Mr. Andre, Gil and Mr. Gray, who were in for more, also asked me to shake hands alternately.

I'm glad you're happy, but you're strong and your hands hurt a little.

Gently strengthen your body and endure with a smile.

"Well, I'll get the money."

Once he entered the back of the store and gave Mr. Andre the money he had brought, he grabbed it with a full smile and raised his voice.

"Yikes! Now we're going for a drink!

"" Ouch!

"Come on! Sarasa! Don't ask me again!

"Yes ~"

Three men rush there with my words like that, too.

Even though the sun is still high, is it alcohol?

It's a celebration, so I guess it's a good idea... but I have to hurry up and process it.

Because I bought something in good condition.