My Magic Tools Are Selling Too Well

91 – Adulter (3)

A son was born.

At those words mixed with his brother’s joy.

I went to him without saying a word.

I wanted to congratulate you.

My brother and my brother’s wife.

How hard the two couples have been without children.

Because I know about those painful years.

I wanted to congratulate the son whom I had obtained after hard work.

“Welcome, Cloudy. He will soon be my son.”

But at the end.

Human beings can’t contain it, and shouldn’t contain it.

A magical phenomenon close to forbidden was blooming.

“brother… .”

Cloudy couldn’t believe it.

A good older brother who always did good things for others.

I wanted to make a child, so I touched this taboo.

Homunculus.

Called the final stage of alchemy…

An artificial magical creature.

The older brother finally completed the taboo and claimed to be his son.

“Hey, don’t think it’s strange. It’s completely different from Chimera. It is truly a living being. My chromosomes are also included, so he really is like my son.”

like my brother said.

A homunculus is completely different from a chimera.

The process of making a chimera is almost the same as that of a golem.

An alchemist who creates a colorful appearance by an alchemist, and when equipped with a core composed of mana stones, becomes a pet with some intelligence.

That was the chimera conversion technique.

However, the homunculus does not use mana stones in the production process.

Quite a lot of divine materials, elixirs, and elemental crystals.

Deep traces of human flesh, bones and muscles.

And an unfathomable amount of blood… .

Literally ‘human’.

All the ingredients to make a human go into it.

The older brother who claims to be ‘really a living being’…

It wasn’t even wrong.

“… Did you put the blood of another hero in it?”

However, the reason why the homunculus was selected as a taboo and disappeared from the continent.

This is because the homunculus was the core of the ‘artificial hero production project’ to create a multi-talented warrior.

I talk about it with various excuses.

Claudy’s older brother had broken the rules and dabbled in the forbidden alchemy.

“You, you know. An alchemist is a warrior who only takes 1,000 units. What if I put my blood in and become an alchemist?”

Before Cloudy shows up.

On the continent, alchemy was a despised study.

It didn’t help at all in battle, and he was criticized for trying to eat the backs of the warriors if he made and sold magic tools at high prices.

in such an era.

My older brother was an alchemist who was ignored and looked down on countless times.

He created a homunculus, and is a multi-talented warrior who is not ignored by anyone.

Maybe he wanted to make the best son.

“… … .”

If you’re too flustered, why don’t you say anything?

In deep silence, Cloudy wanted to ask.

Was the intention behind creating the homunculus really pure?

I wonder if I really wanted to make a son and touched the taboo.

Or did he want to create a substitute for himself who had lived with an inferiority complex?

“Ha ha ha- Cloudy. will you give me a name If the great alchemist of the continent names it, the child will surely like it.”

But with a silly laugh.

To my older brother who said this to himself.

Cloudy couldn’t utter harsh words at all.

Blood.

It was the bond of blood and flesh that could not be held guilty for any action.

“Ther… Let’s do Adulter.”

“Hey, nice name! Adulter. It’s so good, Cloudy. hahahaha.”

So, Claudy Lajour made up her mind.

If we can’t avoid it, let’s face it head on.

Even if it means disappearing from the continent and abandoning all the honor that has been built up until now… Let’s raise this child who was born as a homunculus into a ‘real human’.

Adulter.

His first and last nephew in his life.

Cloudy gave up everything for him.

We headed to the slash-and-burn village of Mount Armain.

* * *

Time passes quickly like light.

A homunculus that was a shocking first meeting.

Now he is really his brother’s son and his own nephew.

Adulter was growing into a full-fledged human being.

“Little father! look at this! I succeeded in making a low-class potion!”

But contrary to his brother’s wishes.

Adulter was a child with great talent in alchemy.

He quickly absorbed all the basics and the essence of alchemy taught by him… He learned all the theories about advanced alchemy he had built up until now with his smart brain.

only 10 years old

Even at the age of 10, it was Adulter who had the ability to defeat quite a few warriors with alchemy magic.

“Didn’t I tell you to call me Master, not Uncle Father?”

“oh. I’m sorry, Master. lol.”

Cloudy became Adulter’s teacher.

Adulter was a strange child.

Like his older brother, he did not get discouraged by an inferiority complex, and like himself, he did not give up easily due to pessimism.

Neither his older brother’s flaws nor Claudy’s own flaws seem to resemble each other.

A clean and pure child.

He was always full of hope and loved himself and his older brother more than any other human being.

A homunculus is a living being.

The words of my brother who said so.

It seemed to make more sense.

“oh. Master. What is that?”

And one day when time passed like that.

Adulter pointed to a bizarre object buried in one corner of the room.

Cloudy took it and looked at it, then smiled and explained.

“This is the heart of a demon.”

“The heart of a demon?”

“okay. It’s a very dangerous, yet precious thing. For an alchemist, there is no magic item that is worth researching as much as this one.”

and.

Claudy Lazour still regrets it.

That day, the request that Adulter, full of curiosity, made.

I shouldn’t have listened.

“Can I take it home and study it? I am so curious!”

The demon’s heart is magically dismantled, and when the warrior directly faces the dark energy, there is a possibility of encroachment.

It was a very dangerous phenomenon that could lead to the death of a hero right away, and that was what Cloudy meant by ‘dangerous object’.

However, Adulter was in the stage of learning alchemy at the time.

The level was not raised enough to completely dismantle the demon’s heart.

So maybe I left it prematurely.

Aside from the possibility of encroachment by magicians, I thought it wasn’t that dangerous.

… but.

“Ter! how did this… !!”

“S-Master… .”

That was a complete miscalculation.

Adulter took the demon’s heart, the exact next night.

Adulter’s House…

The house of the older couple, Cloudy, has become a brutal scene that cannot be described in words.

The whole house was overflowing with the blood of the brother and sister-in-law, and the bodies of the brutally murdered couple were scattered on the sofa and the porch.

Adulter is in that hell.

It stood trembling like an aspen tree.

without saying anything or doing anything.

His only blood relative died suddenly.

Without a chance to deal with the sadness, Cloudy had to quickly review the situation.

Because he knew that if he left it as it was, Adulter would completely collapse mentally.

“Bill… What to eat.”

And only after completing the investigation.

I found out that the suspect of the murdered brother and his wife was a party of warriors who stopped by a slash-and-burn village.

They settled down on one side of the village and were taking a leisurely rest.

“Ahh!”

“Ouch… !! Yes, save me… !!”

It wasn’t difficult for a hero like Cloudy to catch and interrogate them.

And the truth I got from them.

He informed us that the starting point of all incidents was toward the heart of the demon.

A party of warriors who happened to stop by a slash-and-burn village and a married couple who warmly welcomed them as residents.

However, the demon’s heart was hidden in one corner of Adulter’s room, and the party of warriors who found him immediately murdered his brother and his wife.

A clan of vampires who take out their hearts during the day and harm humans at night.

The hero’s party mistook the older brother and his wife for ‘vampires’.

“Nonsense… .”

A very shocking truth.

But that’s why it was more convincing, the justification itself was an understandable death.

If it becomes almost certain that the human who is benevolent in front of you is a demon who disguised his identity.

It’s a warrior’s duty to kill without fail.

But even if I understood it with my head, I couldn’t understand it with my heart.

To understand the death of his family for such absurd reasons, the older brother was too precious to Claudy.

Thus, the party of warriors faced death as it was.

Whatever the reason, the people who murdered the family couldn’t be left alive.

“… … .”

before that terrible tragedy.

Cloudy stood there blankly, unable to say anything.

Who was the cause of the tragedy?

A party of warriors who committed direct murder?

Adulter who took home to study the heart of a demon?

If not even that…

Claudy herself who allowed dangerous magic items to be taken to her pupil?

Guilt only faces the penitent.

A homunculus that was the crystallization of creative alchemy.

But now he knows his family and has become a human being by realizing his emotions.

Adulter.

He is this terrible tragedy.

I just thought it was a cruel ending brought on by my own curiosity.

The boy, who learned to feel with the loving love of his parents without prejudice, lost his feelings again after that day.

“Ter. Let’s leave this place.”

So, Claudy Lajour made up her mind.

This boy who contains all the mysteries of alchemy.

This miracle that all mankind considered taboo.

To get me out of my hometown full of trauma.

go anywhere

to settle there and give them a new life.

He will remain here to comfort the spirits of the dead and continue his research, but…

Adulter wants to live in an ordinary place, as a ‘human’ who gets along with ordinary people.

As Adulter’s uncle, I sincerely hoped for that.

“You grew up well, though.”

10 years passed like that.

Cloudy looked at his nephew, who had become a full-fledged adult.

Adulter.

He still hasn’t completely washed away his past.

I was living with the wounds that never healed.

Sacher Philip.

He makes a precious person once again.

I was living with them in a new place.

The homunculus Adulter was in the process of becoming a human corpse.

It still hurts a lot and it’s hard…

He found a place where he could lean on and held on as best he could.

“He grew up so well. Sacher.”

Cloudy called his name softly.

He is a man who stands only for himself, not for anyone else.

It was Sacher Philip.