Lord of Training - Chapter 121



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121. Unfinished Elixir.

Michael accepted my offer.

He said that he would gladly do it, saying that it would be fun.

Even if the Empire didn’t know I had entered the secret passage, internal security would have been strengthened, so it would actually be very dangerous to enter alone.

But if you go with a named person like Brigadier General Michael, it will be much easier to escape.

Of course, Michael won’t know that I just turned on the secret base, so he said he would do it.

‘Why aren’t you coming?’

The sun has already set.

I was waiting in an alley near the temple.

WHEEK!

“I’m ready.”

For a moment I was dumbfounded.

Michael was dressed in black like a ninja, with a black mask on.

It was like advertising that I was a total thief.

“Wear this. That outfit is too flashy.”

He was given the imperial military uniform.

“Ah! I see.”

Michael changed into his Imperial military uniform.

“But why am I a sergeant and you are a lieutenant colonel?”

“Because I don’t know the way.”

“Ah! I see.”

I also handed over an Imperial rifle.

“Let’s go.”

We entered the temple easily under the cover of darkness.

And hid in the branches of the trees near the central temple building.

Chi-chik!

“Phelps, start.”

– yes.

After a while.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Explosions and flames erupted from the north gate of the palace.

“What, what is it?”

“The palace is under attack!”

The soldiers guarding the temple were all looking at the explosion scene.

The best thing to steal attention is fire.

Oh! Brigadier General Michael was also staring blankly at the rising flames.

Bam!

I signaled to Brigadier General Michael to go.

While the soldiers were distracted by the explosions and flames, we were able to leisurely enter the temple building.

Phelps attacked the north gate of the palace using steel fighting dolls.

The steel doll was impervious to bullets, and ran towards the enemy carrying a bunch of grenades and bombs on its back, blowing itself up.

Meanwhile, Phelps has escaped and is heading to the airfield to take off with Princess Sophia and the Empire.

“Are you really saying there’s a secret passage into this tomb?”

“yes.”

Crunch!

Squeak! Boom!

“uh?”

As the door to the Emperor’s tomb opened, Michael looked surprised.

“How on earth did you find out about this place? Our intelligence agency has been targeting the ventilation shaft for 20 years!”

“There is a way that everyone knows. Let’s hurry.”

We flew quickly down the passage.

And arrived under the vent.

‘I guess this place has already been investigated.’

There has been a significant increase in the number of devices on the ceiling that I had never seen before.

Stopped at the fork in the road.

“Let’s part ways here.”

“What? Weren’t we going together?”

“This is my first time here anyway. And if we split up, wouldn’t we be able to find out information twice as fast and pack twice as many things?”

“Ah! I see.”

“I’ll go to the left. Brigadier General Michael, go to the right.”

Let me try to move.

“I’ll go to the left. I’m a frog.”

He gave me a sly smile.

“Okay, then. And each of you will escape in your own way.”

“Let’s do that.”

Brigadier General Michael moved to the left.

The lab staff will have already left work, but security will be tight.

So you never know when Michael might get caught.

Let’s pack and get out as quickly as possible.

“Puke!”

“Kkuit!”

With Puke in the lead, we hurried to the laboratory we had just seen.

I was moving in the opposite direction from yesterday.

Soon after, I discovered a strange door.

There were no windows to see inside.

So far, there hasn’t been a single door in the secret base without a window.

Moreover, it was an incredibly sturdy door, made of steel.

The locks were also triple-locked.

Is there something valuable stored there?

“Puke, go inside and see what’s inside!”

“Kkuit!”

Since we didn’t have time, I asked Puke to go in and take a look.

Puke went into the keyhole and quickly came back out.

chuck!

“Kkuit!”

“So what do you have?”

Fouquet created a bed and a figure of a reclining person.

“There’s someone inside?”

“Kkuit!”

Then it wasn’t something I could take care of right away.

First, I need to achieve the purpose of coming here and then come back.

***

After wandering around for a while, I finally arrived there.

There were a lot of soldiers patrolling everywhere, so it was quite difficult to move around.

Fortunately, there were no soldiers or people here.

Went inside.

It was a huge circular space with hundreds of small rooms lining its walls.

And each room contained strangely shaped plants, insects, animals, and dimensional monsters.

But the plants were withered, the insects were feeble, and all the large creatures seemed weak.

It felt like I was dying.

‘As expected, it’s the extraction of Yeonseongjin.’

The thing drawn on the floor is an external duct.

I didn’t have time the other day because I had to get the dimensional battery for the orbital tank. So I just glanced at the shape of the filament and passed over it, but now that I look closely, it looks like a filament that extracts the bioenergy of a living organism.

And while it looked like a simple first-order fusion, it was a different kind of fusion than any I’ve ever made.

When an Earth Alchemist Hunter reaches A-rank, he gains a unique ability to create external fusion circles, and when he reaches S-rank, he can create homunculi.

And I thought I could make this once I got SS rank.

Elixir!!

The elixir of immortality!

One day, I heard SSS-class alchemist Nicolas Flamel speak on TV.

He said he could make elixirs.

And he said that it was impossible to become immortal with the elixir he had created. However, he said that if a human drank it, their lifespan would increase and they would be able to awaken immediately, and if a hunter drank it, it would significantly increase their abilities.

That’s why many high-level hunters joined Nicolas Flamel’s clan, and his clan became the most powerful clan in the world.

If the current Emperor Karl knew about alchemy while traveling through the ruined world, I thought he would want to make an elixir if only to live a long life.

And maybe the world where Yeonseongjin was destroyed was moved to the elven world and then moved here again······.

I don’t know if it worked, but I had to try it anyway.

All the extracted ductile lines drawn in each laboratory room were gathered in the center.

And in the center a large laboratory was visible.

I moved towards it.

‘There’s something after all!’

Central Research Laboratory.

Experimental equipment was visible everywhere, and in the center of the laboratory there was a room with thick iron bars.

And on the ceiling of the iron-gated room was a large spherical structure, with eight legs beneath it supporting a small transparent cup.

So it was like he was collecting bioenergy from hundreds of strange creatures and putting it into that little cup.

What the heck? Is this all you’ve collected?

Looking closely, I saw that there was only a small amount of liquid in the small cup, barely enough to hold a sip.

And on one wall was written the date the extraction began and the date the collection had been made so far.

So you’re saying it took 14 years, 10 months, 23 days, and 3 hours?

And the extraction target period was 20 years.

If a creature died in the meantime, it would have been put back in, and the smelting process would have been continued without rest, but the amount extracted was very poor.

‘Is this really an elixir?’

It feels like a fake somehow.

How long will it take if I make an elixir later?

When I became an S-rank alchemist hunter, there was no such thing as elixir in the system.

That means you need to be at least SS grade to get it.

And if they had to capture so many creatures and extract them over a long period of time, it seemed like it would take at least 10 years at the fastest.

The emperor must have hoped that drinking this would extend his life.

And it’s been 30 years since they built a secret laboratory here, so it seems they’ve tested this duct to some extent to check its stability.

Then I guess I can just drink it!

There were thick iron bars, but that didn’t bother me.

“Puke!”

“Kkuit!”

“Get me the cup from over there!”

“Kkuit! Kkuit!”

As soon as Puke saluted, he went inside and came out with a small transparent cup.

I looked inside for a moment.

It just seemed like clear water.

I roughly looked at the amount and drank the liquid.

‘Huh? It’s nothing?’

I took out a water bottle from the alchemist’s workshop and poured water similar to that from before into a small cup.

“Puke, bring this over here!”

“Kkuit!”

“Yeah, me too!”

Puke returned the cup to its original place.

There was still no particular abnormality in the body.

Is this really a fake?

Or it could have been something that would take 20 years to complete.

I took a risk and came here because of this, so it feels a bit empty.

Still, it was enough to interfere with the Emperor’s work.

“Let’s go Puke!”

It was after I had walked a few steps.

Thump thump!

Suddenly my heart started beating faster and my stomach started feeling hot.

And then my body became heavy as if I was being sucked into an abyss.

thud!

“Kkuit! Kkuit!”

The last thing he saw was Puke running around before he lost consciousness.

***

It keeps getting hot and then cold.

When I was little, my mom told me not to eat anything I picked up······.

It reminded me of my very childhood.

So, memories of that peaceful time when there were no dimensional gates, no dimensional monsters, and no hunters.

I too grew up being loved back then!

And then there’s the gate, and the monsters come out, and you work in the mines.

Memories of my youth came back to me.

There was also the terrible memory of being locked up in a secret laboratory workshop for 15 years after awakening as an alchemist hunter.

‘Huh? This is a bit different······.’

I did not enter the abyss gate.

I barely escaped the underground laboratory and continued to learn the external chemistry while hiding.

After two years, he was able to use the external linkage of weapon reinforcement and weapon destruction, and with this ability, he started to enter the illegal gate like a villain.

And after two years of being a villain, he created his first homunculus.

When the C-class hunter who entered the illegal gate with me was killed by a monster, I turned him into a homunculus.

Now that I had subordinates, I could enter the gate by myself and start making more and more money.

And a few years later, he secretly participated in the conquest of a giant dimensional gate, and at that time, he stole the body of a dead S-class hunter and created an S-class homunculus.

From this point on, there was nothing rough.

But there were only homunculi around me, and no colleagues.

To people, it must have looked like I had killed my comrades and created a homunculus.

I only used dead people······.

This was a life I had never experienced.

‘Is that so? I’m dreaming right now!’

If I had safely escaped the lab instead of the abyss back then, my life would have been different like this.

Suddenly I feel light!

The feeling of floating through the endless sky, the sea, and the weightless space.

I flow here and there.

It is not a place as suffocating as an abyss, but as free as the sky.

And there the sun rises.

I had a feeling I had to go there.

It flew by quickly.

I reached out.

But the sun didn’t get any closer.

Why, why, why! Why, why! Why, why!

‘Huh? What does this mean?’

And the ball felt cold.

***

I opened my eyes.

“Kkuit! Kkuit!”

Chooah! Chooah!

Puke was mercilessly slapping water at my face.

‘what?’

I got up.

Did I lose my mind?

This was the lab that had collapsed earlier, and I was next to a pillar in the corner.

“Puke, did you bring me here?”

“Kkuit!”

He’s a smart guy.

Aaaaaaaaaa! Aaaaaaaaaa!

But the siren kept on blaring.

“Oh! Looks like Brigadier General Michael has been caught.”

Now I had to get out of here.

I got up from my seat.

But you feel lighter than usual?

No, I felt a lightness that made me feel like I was flying.

It felt like I was using the Body Strengthening (lv.3) skill.

‘Did that unfinished elixir increase your physical abilities?’

My whole body was filled with strength and vitality.

The energy of the elixir is flowing through my body.

It would have been more effective if I had done it for 20 years, but I am satisfied with the changes in my body now.

“Puke, let’s go!”

I put Puke in the water bottle and picked up the Draco assault rifle.

Wheezing!

Surprisingly, I used the Slow Flight (lv.3) skill and was flying faster than usual.

Moreover, I felt mana overflowing in my body.

‘Huh? When I concentrate, I can see the flow of mana!’

As I focused my eyes, I could see the Mana Wind skill phenomenon that Lieutenant Franco Vidali was talking about.

At that moment, I saw the flow of mana breaking and merging at the corner of the passage.

There seemed to be some movement.

Aimed the gun.

Turned the corner.

“omg!”

“I am the enemy!”

Tata tata tang! Tata tang!

“Ugh!”

“Ugh!”

He easily took down six soldiers.

The passage was already lined with soldiers.

Has Brigadier General Michael already run away?

I headed towards the secret passage I had come through.

But I couldn’t get out through the passage.

“Over there!”

“Shoot!”

Tututututu! Tata tang!

There were soldiers lined up everywhere.

I entered a wide space.

This was under the ventilator.

But flames were rising above his head.

And the ventilator was stopped and bent.

‘Michael got out of here!’

Then me too.

I went up the path Michael had made.

As I climbed up, flames rose and smoke filled the air, but I had my dimensional oxygen mask.

This is used here.

The passage was quite deep.

Wheezing!

I came out soon.

This is between the exterior and the interior.

“There are more intruders over there!”

“Catch him!”

Aerial magic knights rushed in from all directions.

[Use the High-Speed ​​Flight (lv.3) skill.]

[Use the Overlap (lv.3) skill.]

Paaaaang!

Flew towards the south.

A great number of aerial magic knights follow me.

They are also using high-speed flight skills.

But in an instant, the distance between him and most of the aviation magic knights widened.

And the elite-level aerial magic knights who had awakened high-speed flight and overlapping skills like me and were chasing me closely also began to move further away.

‘Ah! I’ve really gotten faster!’

It’s faster than before, perhaps because of the elixir’s effects.

Besides, my eyes didn’t feel hot or sore even though I wasn’t wearing goggles. And why can I see so well at night?

Paaaaang!

Then a sound is heard from behind!

Are your ears sharper too?

Someone was chasing me alone.

‘Ah! That must be Brigadier General Beckenbart.’

A named person who can chase after me as I get faster.

As his nickname, the Lightning Knight, suggests, he was a 5th-year named-class aerial magic knight of the Empire who excelled in fast speed, evasion skills, and multi-linked techniques.

Is that why? It flew south for a long time, but it didn’t seem to fall down.

‘Wait a minute! If I’m alone, there’s no reason for me to run away!’

He turned around, aiming the rifle.

The energy of the elixir flowed through my whole body, making me feel hot and full of energy.

I was getting stronger now.

End