My Magic Tools Are Selling Too Well

31 – Customers visiting the Alchemy Shop (3)

The gate exploration with Professor Bluecliffe was approaching until the end of the day.

Even in the senior year of the Faculty of Alchemy, monster hunting practice is rarely practiced, so there is little chance to visit the special gate dungeon.

Of course, in the case of me, I rolled so hard when I was young that I had some experience, but even that was a few years ago.

I felt nervous yet subtly thrilled at the dungeon exploration I hadn’t done in a very long time.

“You look excited.”

Looking at the day I was sorting out the papers in the professor’s office, Professor Meline said.

She and I were organizing work papers in advance for tomorrow’s dungeon exploration.

Since it might be a journey of several days, I had to check things that needed to be dealt with within the department.

In the case of the Alchemy Shop, Morphine decided to run a pinch hitter.

At first, he refused, saying that he had to play with his girlfriend, but when he offered double the salary, he accepted it like a ghost.

… It would have been too much to refuse.

Besides, his girlfriend, Anna, also had work to do.

After I first met Anna through morphine, I hired her as a temporary accountant.

To be precise, accountants and tax accountants and asset managers… should I say

It manages and arranges my profits from the alchemy shop, and also manages taxes to be paid to the empire.

As the scale grew, I thought that such an existence was necessary, but I was grateful for Morphine, who appeared like a lie and introduced me to it.

She was an outstanding talent in a field related to commerce, worthy of being called the Department of Commerce.

“It’s the first dungeon exploration in years. I am looking forward to it, and I am also worried.”

When I replied with a smile, Professor Melaine’s sullen face sighed and smiled.

“There may be no dungeons.”

“Well, it could be. There’s a good chance it’ll be there though. If it was a really pure invasion gate, it wouldn’t make sense with common sense as we know it.”

red gate.

It is a gate with a color that was hard to believe even after I first saw it.

Red is a special gate, black is an aggression gate.

This is common sense among common sense that even a hero who has not studied Gate, or even an ordinary person who has even the slightest interest in monsters can know.

And with the same common sense…

The invasion gate is a dimensional passage for the invasion of demons and monsters that only appear once every 10 years.

It was impossible for the invasion gate, which had already been opened once during the Demon War 4 years ago, to open already in less than 5 years, let alone 10 years.

Even if there is a chance of that happening, I’m going on this exploration to dig up that contradiction.

“I’ll do my best, but… If you go to a dungeon, don’t use golems.”

“A golem?”

“hmm.”

Professor Melaine, who had roughly finished organizing the paperwork, started making tea on the other side of the professor’s room.

“The head of the Faculty of Swordsmanship, Jake Darrensturd, is a person whose abilities are as good as his reputation. Even in the war four years ago, he made a big contribution to helping the great hero Sir Ludgale Liquid, and he is a veteran who has dug up and explored countless dungeons even in peacetime.”

He sighed and began pouring tea into the cup.

She was preparing two cups of tea, including mine.

“For such a person, the most dangerous thing is not the difficulty of the dungeon or the target to protect. Variables in unexpected situations are the most dangerous.”

“variable… ”

“hmm. Sacher, your golem boasts such great power and speed that it has been studied repeatedly in the academic world, but in the end it is only an obstacle in front of a hero with overwhelming power. Furthermore, summoning a golem in a dungeon could increase the risk depending on the structure of the dungeon. So in this exploration, fight mainly with combat magic tools, and use the swordsmanship you showed at the Colosseum.”

Professor Meline handed me the finished teacup and said.

What she said was absolutely correct.

In fact, it is one of the unusual cases that we rarely see in reality that a hero with the talent of alchemy goes out to explore a dungeon.

This is because alchemists, with the exception of special cases, are almost like ‘makers’ who make magic tools, and these makers do not directly participate in battle based on what they have made.

The same goes for the Demon Wars.

They only made magic tools to be used as supplies in the rear, but no one in the Allied Forces thought of putting an alchemist on the front line.

However, only two members of the Faculty of Alchemy have already participated in this expedition.

Professor Meline and I.

From an objective point of view, it was difficult to see him as an outstanding combat force, so it was the standard to focus on protecting himself and assisting party members rather than active in exploration.

Professor Meline said ‘Don’t use the golem’ and was telling the same story as above.

“yes. I definitely understand.”

“hmm. Potions do not need to be prepared separately. I’ve already finished all the production.”

These days, the magic tools I made are selling well, but if people had to choose between Professor Meline’s potion and my potion, they would choose the 100 electrons out of a hundred.

Professor Melaine is a powerhouse in the potion manufacturing industry that few people can follow even within the Faculty of Alchemy.

She doesn’t particularly care about the field of magic tool production, but when she is in charge of potion production, she demonstrates her skills more clearly.

The biggest reason she was chosen as a professor at such a young age was the potion.

This is because the thesis titled ‘The dynamic relationship between the advanced stamina potion and the Flemish leaf’, which she submitted as a researcher, gave a great shock to the academic world.

When it comes to making potions, she always came up with surprising theories, and her sensuous manufacturing method became a hot topic within the department even after becoming a professor.

It is a potion made by Professor Melin.

It was sure to be of great help in this exploration.

“and… ”

With a hum, Professor Meline drank a cup of tea.

“Don’t get hurt.”

After that, Professor Melaine stopped looking at me.

Beautiful brown eyes wandered and tried to look out the window.

It was evident that she cared for me a lot.

The first time I saw Professor Melaine, he wasn’t such a friendly person…

This awkward appearance of her was definitely a positive change for her, who was like a maverick who tried to handle everything alone.

I replied with a slight smile.

“Can I use a golem if I feel hurt?”

At that careless joke, she looked at me again.

A look as if at a loss for words.

But soon, a smile hung on Professor Melaine’s lips.

“I won’t.”

* * *

“I’m sleepy.”

“also?”

“Shunika. I’m sorry, but we’re seeing each other for the first time today?”

Schnika and I had been together at the Alchemy Shop for the first time in a while.

On the day I first met Ariel Tirfe, Schnika came to visit me when it was time to close the alchemy shop.

Even after sending Ariel and the others back, she didn’t come back for a long time, so in the end, she ate lunch with Ruen.

After that day, Shunika sang a song about wanting to eat lunch at the Alchemy Shop.

the result today.

With just one day left until the gate exploration, we were having a late dinner after finishing all the work at the Alchemy Shop.

Unfortunately, Luen could not attend this meeting because he had a night supplementary class.

Schnika said with a happy face as she ate the cherry tomatoes for dessert.

“Satchel, you slept through the lecture yesterday too. Sleeping like that will make you more tired.”

“I couldn’t sleep yesterday because I was making magic tools… .”

“today?”

“I couldn’t sleep during the lecture… .”

“You’re stupid, Satchel.”

Hmmm- While humming, Schnika ate the fruit.

… At some point, I feel like I can’t win an argument with her.

It must be because of the mood.

“Do you like bento that much?”

“huh! My mom makes great lunch boxes. I never get tired of eating it!”

“Admit that.”

Even when I leaned my face on the desk, I nodded my head.

Shunika’s mother is nothing more than a bento god.

From the main dish boasting a familiar taste, to the colorful side menu, to the decoration that goes well with the appropriate dessert.

Of all the lunchboxes I’ve eaten in my life, there was no box that surpassed hers.

Come to think of it, Schnika had been eating his bento since the first time we met.

The first time I met her was in a classroom when I was a freshman, but I forgot to fall asleep in the classroom and woke up to find her eating a boxed lunch next to me.

With a happy face that doesn’t even care about me sleeping next to you.

It’s embarrassingly absurd, but…

I looked at it and thought ‘I want to eat too’.

That lunchbox looked really delicious.

And I still can’t forget what Shunika said when she saw me suddenly wake up.

‘Do you want a sandwich?’

Is there a special reason why you are close with your peers?

Our meeting was ordinary, and it was for such a trivial reason that we became close.

And I liked the plainness and triviality of it.

“Satchel, what are you thinking?”

“An old idea.”

“A long ago?”

“uh. The days when you were eating boxed lunches.”

“cellar… There are too many to count.”

“so do i.”

He smiled and said, then stretched.

The lunch box was finished, and it was time to close the alchemy shop.

I also have to prepare for the gate exploration tomorrow.

Exploration experts participated, but there were quite a few things I had to prepare myself.

Anyway, the main purpose of my participation in this exploration is to analyze the magic circuit inside the gate…

I felt comfortable when I read even one more line of related theories.

If there’s one concern, is that you might oversleep tomorrow and be late?

The meeting time wasn’t that early, but it was morning anyway, so I was uneasy.

I felt like I should ask the dormitory head hyung to wake me up.

with my daughter-

The moment I was about to go back with Schnika after finishing it like that.

The closed alchemy shop door opened with the sound of a bell.

Business hours are over… I was trying to say

The familiar face of the person who opened the door.

With silver hair full of eyes like lies.

It hardened as it was.

A person who has been forgotten for a while.

The person I tried to forget.

The one who thought that only then could each other stand right.

Nonetheless,

The person who rose like a calm wave from the deepest place inside me.

to me… who informed the family.

Karin Phillips was standing there.

“Hello, Sacher. I miss you.”

She still has a pretty smile on her face.

He was talking to me in an unchanging voice.