Gold and Silver Alchemist

The battle that took place in the Grand Canyon 15 years ago was a clash between those who wanted to take away and those who wanted to keep.

As a result, after a fierce battle between one giant and six people of average height, they were annihilated as a result.

However, I don’t know which of the two sides made the golden box.

“Which of the two was the ‘thugger’?”

“I don’t know for sure right now, but I don’t know what clues will come out after the analysis of the great sword and armor.”

Kim Seo-yeon was analyzing the giant’s belongings in ＜Room of Leisure＞.

After the first discovery of the elixir extraction facility, he had studied the stone box and the altar sufficiently.

So, it was easy to find out that the golden box was a ‘almighty key’.

However, the giant’s keepsakes, which were weapons and armor, were completely different in character from the stone box and altar, which were locking devices.

It will take some time to get it right.

thud-

The elevator reached the floor.

Whoops-

It flew along the beam of light extending from the golden box.

And found Arch.

cool-

The space under the arch shuddered and the gate opened.

The manager teleported through the gate first.

I focused and checked her location.

Comparisons with satellite maps showed that she was now deep in the ground beneath the waters of Hudson Bay, 1,000 km northeast of Lake Superior.

hiss-

I went through the gate and entered the passage.

The size of the aisle was not significantly different from other elixir extraction facilities.

The tunnel was about 3m wide and 3m high.

I got out of the tunnel and moved 1 km in the direction of 1 o’clock to arrive at the place where the gold is.

The gold here was not the shape of an animal, but a huge ingot.

There were hundreds of ingots weighing about 10 tons each.

I put my hand on the golden ingot.

hiss-

gold is gone

And I felt the familiar satiety.

‘I ate well.’

The gold here was so pure that I could absorb it right away.

The gold from Factory 4, located at the South Pole, was also of high purity.

“The gold here and in Factory 4 may have been smelted by alchemists themselves.”

The low-purity gold nuggets in factories 2, 3, and 5 were smelted by workers from Mongolia, Wari, and Silla kingdoms, respectively.

At that time, mankind did not have the technology to make 99.99 pure gold.

So, it is highly likely that the ingot here was smelted by the alchemists themselves.

“What is that again?”

A small forklift was parked nearby.

It must have been used by Alex when he took the gold out of this place.

I put my hand on the forklift.

Then the psychometry kicked in and Alex’s memories came into my head.

As expected, it was the forklift he was using.

He didn’t have the talent to pull the 10-ton gold ingot out at once.

This is because the width and height of the aisle were so small that only a 1-ton forklift could barely pass through.

So he cut the ingot into dozens of pieces.

Gold is a fairly soft metal and could easily be cut with a power cutter.

The cut chunks were loaded onto a small forklift and transported.

What’s funny is that he only moved one ingot out in 15 years.

A single ingot costs about $500 million in today’s money.

The real estate assets Alex Nome owned were roughly that much.

He broke his friend’s head because he didn’t want to share the thousands of tons of gold.

However, in 15 years, only 10 tons of gold were used.

‘Only gluttony was ahead of me, but my digestive power was terrible.’

hiss-

hiss-

I absorbed all the gold.

Factory 1’s ‘Gold Warehouse’ can store an infinite amount of gold.

It took less than 10 minutes to absorb hundreds of ingots.

‘I ate well!’

Feeling satisfied, I told the manager.

“Should we go to the place where the elixir is now?”

“Yes, boss!”

Whoops-

It flew toward the center of the underground space.

And we arrived at a white building in the shape of a cube.

The building here was built of white marble blocks.

pat-

A beam of light emanated from the golden box and pointed at one of the blocks at the top of the building.

‘no way?’

I used my telekinesis to pull the block out.

Then a passage leading into the building was revealed.

The golden chest was even found at the entrance of the building where the elixir was stored.

It was a true master key.

‘It’s well made.’

He placed his hand on the marble block he had taken out.

Then the psychometry kicked in and the memory of the block came into my head.

This memory also belonged to Alex Nome.

He also came near the building with a golden chest.

Then, he paid attention to the block pointed to by the golden box’s light.

But he didn’t have the talent to pull out huge blocks weighing several tons each.

Attempts were made to break stones with power tools.

However, there was no way the block with the protective magic could be broken with power tools.

Eventually, Alex Nome gave up on taking the block out.

And I was worried that there might be danger lurking inside the building.

There were thousands of tons of gold out there, so he decided there was no need to take the risk.

Whoops-

Enter the building through a narrow passage.

Then, a large spherical elixir shimmering in golden light caught my eye.

[All settings have been reset due to no visitors for a long time.]

[User rights need to be reset.]

[I’m trying to give you the highest authority to control everything. Accept?]

I heard the voice of the system that manages the elixir extraction facility.

[accept.]

Acquired the highest authority here.

And that authority was given to the manager as well.

‘It’s so strange.’

I feel it every time, but I don’t know why the mysterious alchemists built this place and didn’t visit it for hundreds of years.

Until recently, it was vaguely assumed that all of them would have been wiped out for some reason.

Either that or they left Earth and migrated to a very far place.

With their abilities, space travel as well as survival on other planets would be possible.

The elixir extraction facility is located deep underground and is an isolated space with no pores.

If you make these same things underground on other planets, you will be able to survive for a long time.

In any case, if they all died or left Earth, that would explain why they never came back.

But 15 years ago, a battle of gangsters took place in the Grand Canyon.

There is a high probability that one of the assailants is a descendant of the alchemists who built this place.

They have existed on Earth until recently.

But why is the elixir extraction facility neglected?

hmm-

We need more information to know exactly why.

‘I’ll find out sooner or later.’

***

Woo woo woo-

He put on a rocket suit and headed for the Arctic Ocean.

Over the past four days, I’ve traveled the world in supersonic flight, visiting 31 of the 32 coordinates that Alex Nome had memorized.

One of the 32 was a race and the gate there was already in hand so there was no need to revisit it.

So I was able to get 31 teleportation gates.

He told them to take out the horns as well, and started looking for other altars.

Altars in harsh environments like polar regions or volcanoes were out of reach for Alex Nome.

I found one more altar in the hot volcanic area where the lava was boiling.

And now they were moving to the North Pole where the last altar was.

If you take the gate there, you will have access to all the elixir extraction facilities on Earth.

‘Feel so good!’

Including those in the Arctic Ocean, there were a total of 37 elixir extraction facilities.

Each elixir extraction facility contains, on average, about 10,000 tonnes of gold.

Together, they amount to 370,000 tons.

Experts estimate the total amount of gold possessed by mankind around the world at 200,000 tons.

However, nearly twice that amount was stored in the elixir extraction facility.

However, this is a very small amount compared to the total amount of gold buried inside the earth.

Gold is a heavy material, so it sinks to the deepest depths during planet formation.

In the end, only a very small amount of gold is left on the surface.

So far, mankind has been mining and using that very small amount of gold.

Deep beneath the Earth’s surface lies the inner core.

And most of the material that makes up the inner core is iron.

However, the very core of the inner core is made of metals heavier than iron.

Hundreds of billions of tons of gold that is close to 100% pure are entangled there.

There is also a report that says that if all the gold in the inner core can be removed, the entire surface of the earth can be covered with a thickness of 33 cm.

‘But if I pierce the inner core, won’t there be any problems?’

I don’t know if it’s okay to mine gold in the center of the earth.

If an unexpected situation such as the Earth’s rotation suddenly stops, it will give you a headache.

So let’s safely go to another planet and collect gold.

To do that, you have to go into space first.

When I return to Korea after work, I will start with the production of spaceships.

‘For now, let’s go around the inside of the solar system.’

Whoops-

After traversing seas of ice and glaciers, we finally reached our destination.

pat-

A beam of light from the golden box pointed into the cold sea.

with a plop-

dived into the water

The rocket suit I am wearing now can be used in any environment.

It can withstand the high pressure of the deep sea as well as space without air.

Shu Woo-wook-

Descending at high speed, we finally reached the bottom of the ocean floor.

I checked the depth and it was 3,000m.

A stone altar lay asleep there.

I put the golden box on the altar.

Goo Goo-

Then, an arched structure rose from the seabed plain behind the altar.

cool-

The space under the arch shuddered and the teleportation gate opened.

‘Shall we go in now?’

He hesitated whether to go directly to the Elixir Facility or leave with only the Gate in his inventory.

At that time, telepathy came from Kim Seo-yeon.

[president! The analysis of the giant’s remains has been completed!]

She had come out of the ‘free room’ after finishing her studies.

Three days passed outside time, so it was almost a year of research.

[Did something special come out?]

[There was ‘information’ inside the armor!]

The giant’s armor also had the function of storing information.

In order to record or transmit information, a medium such as text is absolutely necessary.

Giants also used letters like humans.

The letters were not simply engraved on the surface of the armor, but were encrypted and embedded in the armor.

[I cracked the code and got the text out! It was that ‘ancient letter’!]

The ancient script that marked the location of Orichalcon Grassland, discovered in India, was the one used by the giant.

[However, most of the information has been damaged.]

Perhaps because of the battle 15 years ago, the armor was damaged and the information was also damaged.

[But I was able to restore 2 documents.]

[okay? What is it?]

[One was about an elixir extraction facility in the polar regions!]

One of the two documents restored by Kim Seo-yeon stated that something very special was kept in the elixir extraction facility in the polar region.

However, at the Antarctic elixir extraction facility, nothing special was found.

‘What on earth are you talking about?’

There was nothing in Antarctica, so if there was anything, it would be in the North Pole.

hiss-

I teleported through the gate.

Concentrating, I confirmed my current location.

It was deep underground beneath the ocean floor at the North Pole.

Whoops-

It flew straight toward the center of the underground space.

If there’s something special hidden here, it’s probably in a building in the center.

pat-

A beam of light emanating from the golden chest pointed to a boulder blocking the entrance to the building.

I cleared the rocks and entered the building.

A spherical elixir caught my eye.

And items that had never been found before were placed near the elixir.

‘What is that?’

Judging from its size and shape, it was a coffin used to contain a human body.

Six sarcophagi were arranged in a circle around the elixir.