Gold and Silver Alchemist

When I came out of the bar, there was a garbage truck passing by.

In the chilly morning air, I started walking down the street.

‘How can this happen!’

What had just happened didn’t feel real at all.

It was so strange that I had this ability all of a sudden.

However, the ‘voice’ that used to tell me anything when asked was also silent now.

I called several times in my mind, but there was no response.

Anyway, I have a really useful superpower.

‘oh my god!’

I passed through the alley of the entertainment district where pubs were concentrated and entered the food alley lined with restaurants.

Growling-

There was a noise from the ship.

I couldn’t eat anything all night, and I was very hungry when I told the server to die.

The feeling of satiety after absorbing gold and the feeling of hunger in the stomach were two different things.

‘Let’s eat something first.’

The manager gave me money to buy gamjatang and soju, but I wasn’t in the mood right now.

It seemed like it would simply fill the hunger.

Just then, a dew point came into view.

The fragrant smell of fish cakes and spicy tteokbokki came out.

‘Oh, good!’

I ran and grabbed one from the skewer.

I dipped the hot fish cake in soy sauce and blew on it and took a big bite.

The salty taste and soft texture were not bad.

‘it’s good!’

I put the soup in a paper cup and slurped it while inhaling the skewers one after another.

“Aunty, please give me some tteokbokki and sundae.”

“How much would you like?”

“Two servings, please.”

Jjam jjam-

Whoop-

Fish cake, sundae, and tteokbokki.

I was full after eating all the representative menus of the snack bar.

‘I ate well!’

I opened my wallet and tried to pay, but suddenly the ability I used earlier came to mind.

I wondered if ＜Deceit＞ could still be used.

I looked straight into her eyes and said.

“I ate 2 servings each of tteokbokki and sundae, and 7 fish cake skewers. How much is all of it?”

In fact, I ate 8 fish cake skewers.

It was a ploy to manipulate her memories.

“You ate 8 skewers!”

But ＜Deceit＞ didn’t work.

The lady knew exactly how many skewers I ate.

“Ah, did you!”

I quickly gave 50,000 won and received the change back.

In fact, even if the memory manipulation worked, I tried to calculate the value.

Because I have no desire to cheat on the struggling merchant.

I was just checking to see if I could use ＜Deceit＞.

‘I can’t.’

They said it was an ’emergency card’, so it seems that it can only be used in times of crisis.

.

.

.

I came home by bus.

Originally, I was going to think deeply about psychic powers when I got home, but I was drowsy.

The eyelids were swollen.

It was only natural that I stayed up all night.

‘Let’s take a deep breath.’

I undressed, climbed onto the bed, and fell into a deep sleep.

**

I was standing alone in a place I had never been before.

‘dream?’

Yes.

I was dreaming now

It’s been a long time since I’ve had a lucid dream.

＜Safety First＞

＜Compliance with deadlines＞

＜Genuine, Quantitative, In-place＞

The building stood alone.

Looking at the writings on the wall, it looked like a production plant.

again and again-

With the sound of high heels, a woman I had never seen before appeared.

She was a slender beauty who seemed to be 180 cm tall.

Underneath, she was wearing a tight-fitting miniskirt, but the top was a factory work uniform over a white blouse.

“who···.”

“welcome. I was waiting.”

“uh?! you are···.”

“Yes, I am the manager who manages the elixir extraction system.”

I finally met the owner of the voice in person.

“Where is this?”

“This is your mental world. This is where the elixir extraction system took root.”

I pointed to the factory building and asked her.

“They extract the elixir from that factory?”

“Factories are the appearance, not the essence. Your consciousness has embodied the ‘intangible’ system as a ‘factory’. And I, too, am originally a formless being. Your consciousness has given me this voluptuous appearance. Well, not bad.”

s*xy woman working in a factory, I didn’t know I had such a ‘taste’.

I quickly turned around.

“Well, whatever that is… Why on earth is this in my psyche? Don’t other people have something like this?”

The manager smiled and replied.

“First, let’s start with a factory tour.”

.

.

.

When I entered the factory, I saw several people in work clothes.

“Those people…”

“They are also part of the elixir extraction system. They are originally formless beings.”

They, too, were shaped and created by my consciousness.

In a word, everything here was a product of my imagination.

Workers worked hard to carry something with a wheelbarrow.

It was none other than gold.

The gold transported from the warehouse to the center of the factory was put into a rough-looking machine.

I pointed to the machine.

“Is that an elixir extractor?”

Contrary to the grandiose name, the design was too shabby.

“you’re right.”

“It looks very dirty.”

“Yes, that’s right. It’s not just the design that’s bad, but the performance is also really bad.”

At my words, she took one more drink.

“But you don’t have to be disappointed. The performance of the machine will continue to improve in the future.”

“You keep getting better?”

“A portion of the extracted elixir is automatically fed into the extractor. Then the performance of the machine gets better and better. As the performance of the extractor improves, the amount of elixir that can be extracted per hour increases.”

I nodded my head at her easy explanation.

In other words, the more you turn it, the better the performance.

“And one more important thing. Please come this way.”

She led me to the backyard of the factory.

There was a small flower bed, and a small seedling was growing among the flowers in full bloom.

“That tree is also an indispensable element of the elixir extraction system.”

“What is it doing?”

She held her hand close to my face.

He had a golden ring in his hand.

“How do you feel when you see gold?”

“hmm···. Want?”

“Yes, that’s right. Anyone who sees gold will have a similar mindset. It is because gold contains a special ‘ingredient’ that stimulates human desire. After extracting the pure elixir from the gold, the true essence of its ingredients remains. It’s kind of industrial junk. If you don’t handle it properly, big things will happen.”

“What happens?”

She replied with a serious expression.

“The ooze of desire will eat away at your mental world. Then you become a slave to your desires. It turns into a monster that no matter how much you own, you want more of it, devouring everything in the world and still hungry.”

I nodded and looked at the sapling.

“So that tree blocks it?”

“That’s right. The tree decomposes the ‘sap of desire’ and uses it as food. It is like purifying industrial waste that is difficult to dispose of.”

“He’s a special guy.”

“Besides that, there is one more use of trees.”

“what is that?”

“The tree serves as ‘Ellen’s storehouse of knowledge.’”

“A warehouse of knowledge?”

“Would you like to put your finger on a leaf?”

As she said, I put my finger on the leaf of the seedling.

Then an amazing thing happened.

“Oh!”

I was so surprised that an exclamation came out of my mouth.

Why am I so surprised

‘I learned magic!’

Just as the main characters in the movie ＜The Matrix＞ downloaded the helicopter control method directly into their brains and mastered it in one second, I also learned one magic in an instant.

It was magic that could control the actions of others.

It was a kind of ‘light version’ of ＜Deceit＞, except for memory manipulation.

In the future, you can use this magic at any time by using an elixir.

“oh my god!”

When she saw my surprised expression, she smiled and opened her mouth.

“Eren, an archmage before being an alchemist, stored his knowledge in the leaves of a tree. Every single leaf of the giant tree is Ellen’s knowledge.”

“A huge tree? Does it look too small to me? There are not even a few leaves.”

“Due to unavoidable circumstances, Alan turned the huge tree into a sapling. If you grow with the essence of desire as nourishment, your branches will become thicker and your leaves will increase. In the end, we can get all of Alan’s knowledge back.”

Her words made my heart pound.

When a tree grows and has many leaves, it becomes possible to learn a great variety of magic.

“So absorb more gold. That way, the factories will keep running and the trees will grow.”

It became clear what I was going to do next.

It absorbs and absorbs gold.

But there was one question.

“Who the hell is Alan?”

In response to my question, she made an expression asking why are you asking something obvious.

“Alan is just…”

**

shoot-

I woke up to the sound of water.

‘what?’

When I woke up, there was a person standing in front of the sink.

She was the landlord of the multi-family house in which I lived.

I screamed in surprise.

“What are you doing here!?”

“What do you mean, you come to collect the rent and check if the water is working well.”

“The rent was sent by bank transfer!”

“Is it?”

She takes out her cell phone and checks her bank account details, then smiles.

“Really.”

“You transfer on the same day every month!”

“Right, it was. I forgot because I was getting older. Ooh, I might have forgotten! What are you so angry about!”

“You just broke into the house without permission!”

That lady, on a regular basis, would open the front door and enter the house without my permission.

It’s been a few months, and it’s starting again.

“what? home invasion? It’s like a star! I come into my house, how can that be a home invasion!?”

“How can this room be my aunt’s house? I paid my own money and rented it, so it’s my house! Shall we call the police and see who is right?”

Even if the landlord enters the house without the permission of the tenant, it is a crime of trespassing.

Residential trespassing is punishable by imprisonment for up to three years or a fine of up to 5 million won.

“No, that’s not what I meant…”

When I said that I would call the police, the lady lowered her tail.

He also knows that his actions are against the law.

The aunt turned around.

“Bachelor, why did you suddenly become so picky? Not like that before.”

I didn’t get picky, it was normal now.

I used to be sick

I lived enduring the atrocities of the landlord…

“Get out quickly!”

“I just came to check if the water is working well, people are very embarrassing!”

“As long as the water comes out well, what do you do? It doesn’t go down well!”

When I first moved here, the sewage system was not cool.

So, I talked to the owner a few times, but each time, the tenant just said that the tenant should fix it on his own.

He saw me as a complete asshole.

‘I was right.’

I haven’t been able to turn the shower head on properly for the past five years because of the drain that doesn’t go down well.

I just washed it with running water.

“Fix the sewer quickly!”

“I tell you how many times! The tenant has to fix that!”

“Because it was a problem before we moved in!”

“You are funny! I had no problems before you moved in!”

No matter how young she is, ‘you’, anyway, that lady’s mouth was dirty.

“So if you’re going to leave the room, fix the sewerage and get out! Otherwise, the deposit will not be returned!”

under-

I can’t communicate with Jinsang Ajumma.

Let’s just call the police for a home invasion.

‘No, it would be a pity if it ended so simply.’

Emotions that had been suppressed for five years exploded all at once.

“Pump the head!”

thud-

Auntie hit her head on the floor at my words.