Alchemy is Correct

9 - A Brief Farewell, and a New Beginning (3)



Having heard all the explanations about the magical stone, Wolhwa continued to mull over what Silvia had told her.
It was a form she had never seen before.
Storing magical power—while people had tried to create batteries to utilize the tremendous energy source that is magical power, she had never seen anything like that magical stone.
An overwhelming object that would render all magical power storage devices created by humanity so far worthless.
That was the magical stone Silvia had created.
‘It’s a conversion of a monster’s body and everything contained in it, including its soul, into an ore containing magical power as an energy source. It’s a type of soul alchemy.’
In other words, turning an entire living being into an energy source.
Alchemy can never create something from nothing, but with enough tremendous energy, it can induce irreversible reactions that would otherwise be impossible.
In other words, that magical stone was the snake itself.
‘Magical beasts don’t have souls, so there’s no need to worry.’
Silvia asserted this, but Wolhwa had goosebumps all over her body.
Making a living being into an energy source, that means…
‘Even to humans…’
It means it could be used on people too.
‘That’s right. It can be used on people too. However…’
That’s forbidden alchemy.
The forbidden alchemy Silvia told her about consisted of three types.
‘Life alchemy, soul alchemy, and mana alchemy.’
She said that since monsters formed in dimensional gates are not beings with souls, there’s no problem using the magic circle of power conversion, which is a kind of soul alchemy.
Having learned continuously from her teacher and sister Elrina, who created alchemy, Silvia knew well.
The two of them had never used it on humans in all their lives, and since only they could use alchemy, there was no need to worry, she said.
Although she said that…
‘Sigh…’
Wolhwa couldn’t erase her anxious feelings.
After all, that huge magical stone was something that anyone who knew the infinite possibilities of magical power couldn’t help but covet.
Just the magical stone itself had a value where the price would be whatever you named, but more important than that was the being who could casually create such a stone.
That’s right.
Silvia was the problem.
‘I’ll have to hide this matter…’
She wouldn’t do something stupid like selling the magical stone or openly utilizing it.
For now, she needed to research the magical stone to find a way to make it.
‘Draw attention to our guild.’
The spotlight shouldn’t shine on Silvia.
Even if attention is drawn to her, she should be made untouchable.
And she should be kept disconnected from the guild.
For her sake, and for the guild’s sake.
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.
.
“Phew…”
Did I get too excited?
I was pondering as I looked at the herbs and flowers that had filled my inventory.
Honestly, it’s nice that they’re easier to obtain than in the world I originally lived in, but…
‘If I can’t use alchemy, isn’t it meaningless…?’
Basically, I make potions through alchemy equipment, but the magical power formation method is the most convenient.
It was more comfortable to quickly proceed with most aspects using the magical power formation method.
Especially for reactions that take time, I could either directly become a catalyst to induce a reaction, or I could reconstruct from materials after the reaction has already occurred.
If you can use it well, there’s nothing better than this.
The question was whether it could be used in this virtual reality.
‘Since they said it’s the same as reality, it should be possible.’
If not, I might have to reconsider using this game.
It’s certainly good to be able to make materials without spending a lot of money outside, but if the making process takes forever, it’s the same thing.
Since it’s inside a game, it probably won’t take too long, but it’s extremely inefficient to spend hours on something that could be finished within seconds if done quickly.
‘The magical power density is sufficient.’
This is enough to increase the magical power put into the formation circle.
Looking around briefly, I moved magical power.
Unlike before when it wouldn’t move freely due to calibration, now the magical power moved as I wanted.
A smooth blue flash continued over my hand, and instantly a formation circle was created.
This formation circle is just to input what I’m requesting into this world.
The energy source uses the magical power in the atmosphere.
Gather iron from sand within a 10-meter radius and carbon from surrounding organic matter and soil to create a form.
Based on the iron and carbon mixed in the sand, draw in trace elements to form an alloy.
The form being created is that of a sword.
‘Done…’
Having successfully created a formation circle, I unhesitatingly stamped it down on the ground.
Then, the materials drawn up from the ground clumped together to form a sword.
It happened in an instant.
□#$%@#$#@# Sword
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“Oh.”
Is it because I made the sword myself?
Thanks to my memory that remembers everything I’ve seen, I should have made the best sword I could currently make from the knowledge I received from Elrina…
‘There’s no information about the sword.’
It’s natural, if anything.
Looking around the sword, I noticed that alchemy had been well applied, and I smirked.
“This should be fine.”
If I can even create a sword, which is relatively difficult to make, then making medicine shouldn’t be a problem.

Anomaly detected.
Unidentified item found.
Analyzing data…
Completed.
Ding!
Nameless Sword
It’s a good sword with nothing to criticize.
Wouldn’t it deserve a place in a small village’s blacksmith shop?
[Attack Power 130]
“Hmm.”
As expected.
Like a mass-produced sword, it’s not that good.
Of course, if I made it with optimal ratios, I could create a masterpiece sword that wouldn’t lose to any other, but what I made this time was just for demonstration.
And to make that kind of sword, you need the appropriate magical power.
Here…
‘It seems like I could make an infinite number…’
As long as the resources around here permit, I could mass-produce swords here, but still, it’s a game, and I don’t want to do that.
I’ll save that for when I really have no money.
Anyway…
‘It’s fortunate that I can use alchemy.’
It was then.
Unidentified unique magic detected.
Searching data…
Data doesn’t exist.
Analyzing magical power pattern…
Analyzing result values…
… … …
Analysis complete.
Ding!
The status window appeared, and something was added to the skills section.
[Silvia]
Lv.1
HP: 40/40
MP: 60/60
Strength: 3
Agility: 3
Vitality: 4
Intelligence: 6
Divinity: 4
Skills
Unique Magic: □□□□□
Would you like to set a name for the unique magic?
“So I get to choose the name.”
Unique magic.
I don’t know what this is, but somehow it seems to be treating it as magic, which made me feel uneasy.
Why is the world always so lenient towards magic?
I puffed my cheeks and set the name.
Would you like to set it as [Unique Magic: Alchemy]?
‘That’s not cool…’
Would you like to set it as [Unique Magic: Alchemist]?
‘This is… hmm…’
It has a certain feel, but it’s no different from Magic: Alchemy, which is disappointing.
Would you like to set it as [Unique Magic: Magical Power Alchemy]?
“Ughhhh…”
Would you like to set it as [Unique Magic: NotMagicButAlchemy]?
“Is there really nothing good…?”
Would you like to set it as [Unique Magic: ReallyNotMagic]?
Just writing alchemy doesn’t seem cool enough.
Aren’t magic spells usually given several cool names?
Hmmmm…
This is difficult.
Since I had never named anything before, I was more lost than I expected.
Everything I knew was created by Elrina.
I just thought she had made them intuitively and simply, but I didn’t know it was such a big deal…
‘Hmmmm… Ah, that’s it!’
After pondering for a long time, a good idea suddenly occurred to me, and I smiled.
There’s something worth naming it after.
When it comes to alchemy, it’s this.
Would you like to set it as [Unique Magic: Tabula Smaragdina]?
“All things are made of magical power, and all things are connected as one.”
“You will receive all glory.”
Adding an explanation to complete it.
[Unique Magic: Tabula Smaragdina] has been set.
Tabula Smaragdina.
Also known as the Emerald Tablet, it’s the essence and foundation of alchemy.
It’s the first gate of alchemy.
[Unique Magic: Tabula Smaragdina] has been born!
“Huh?”
Wait a minute, what is this?
Seeing it suddenly appear as a public announcement, I gaped.
If there was something like this, they should have told me in advance.
Why announce it to others without even getting my consent?
I inwardly expressed my shock and dissatisfaction, but the water had already been spilled.
?
What’s this announcement?
Is there such a thing?
I don’t know how great unique magic is, but if it’s announced like that, it’s probably not an ordinary thing.
The moment I saw the chat messages posted by users around this village, I had an intuition that something had gone wrong.


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