Gold and Silver Alchemist

I will go to the Amazon rain forest in search of a boiling river.

But before you leave, there are a few things you need to take care of.

First was an interview.

Suddenly, a world-renowned magazine contacted me.

It was a fashion monthly magazine published in more than 30 countries around the world.

There is a ‘Korean edition’ publisher of the magazine in Korea, and our store was published in the ‘French edition’, which is the head office.

Even for the same magazine, the level of publicity effect differed between the Korean edition and the French edition.

＜Alchemy＞ seized the opportunity to be known all over the world.

Stella, a French jewel appraiser, owes a lot to this.

She praised our store’s jewels to the editor of a magazine she knew.

‘shake.’

It was my first interview, so I was a little nervous.

When I checked the time, it was not long before the people from the magazine were supposed to come.

Standing in front of the mirror, I adjusted my clothes once more.

I also put on a new suit for today.

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A taxi stopped in front of the store.

And white men and women got off.

They opened their mouths as they looked up at the gold and silver room sign.

I enhanced my hearing and overheard their conversation.

“[Alchemy, aren’t alchemists really making gold and jewels?]”

“[Probably not, because this place said they only deal in natural gems.]”

They joked about the name of our store in French.

The people from the French magazines were certain.

As they were about to enter, I opened the door myself and greeted them.

“Hello, thank you for your hard work! I am Choi Min-hyeok, president of Alchemy.”

Their eyes widened in surprise at my sudden appearance.

Then the woman opened her mouth.

“[It’s an honor to have the boss warmly welcome you in person! By the way, boss, were you born in France?]”

By magic, my Korean sounded like perfect French to her.

All the staff working at Alchemy, including me, could speak French, so I had informed them by e-mail in advance that a translator was not needed.

But I wouldn’t have thought that it would be at the level of a native speaker.

“I have never been to France.”

“[By the way, how do you speak French so well? You are at the level of a native speaker!]”

“I studied hard.”

“[and! I’m really looking forward to today’s coverage!]”

I guided the people from the magazine into the store.

The jewels in the display case shone in various colors.

Their faces brightened as they looked at the jewelry.

“[I think I did really well to come this far! Stella’s praise was not exaggerated at all!]”

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The man opened the aluminum bag and took out the camera and lighting equipment.

And the woman asked me various things, mixing casual and light conversation.

that was the interview.

It was held in a comfortable atmosphere, not the rigid atmosphere that was expected.

I confided my story as naturally as water through her lead.

Mixing lies and truth.

“[What inspired you to start the jewelry business?]”

“I saw the process of accidentally polishing raw stones and creating jewelry. At that time, I felt a feeling that is difficult to express in words.”

“[Sure, but what did you do before you started the jewelry business?]”

“I did this and that, but I never had a job I was particularly proud of. I didn’t know what I really wanted to do until I got into jewelry.”

“[You were born to run the jewelry business!]”

She interviewed the golems as well as me.

In particular, I had a long conversation with Lee Seo-yoon, a craftsman.

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In the meantime, the photojournalist took pictures of the shop and jewelry.

Then I filmed me and the golems too.

The interview went on for several hours.

“[When the magazine is published, we will send it by international mail!]”

The magazine people went back.

Now that the interview has been completed, the next thing to do is to create a golem.

I will take my manager and Kim Seo-yeon with me when I go to the Amazon jungle.

So, they needed golems to run the gold and silver stores on their behalf.

“Let’s make a lot while making it.”

He also needed a golem to refine the gold anyway.

All of the refining facilities in the Namdong Industrial Complex had already been moved to the second plant.

It can be started right away with only one worker.

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I locked myself in Factory 2 and made 6 golems.

They were all female golems.

It was judged that the jewelry store was more suitable for female employees than male employees.

Six people will not work in a store at the same time.

Three will work in the store while the other three will refine the gold.

And there will be job rotations at regular intervals.

The manager and Kim Seo-yeon taught the burial to the grown-up golems after the period of stormy rage.

With 8 golems gathered in the gold and silver room, the atmosphere in the store suddenly brightened.

“The staff here are all tax-free beauties!”

Customers praised their beauty.

After teaching all of the burial to the golems, they moved to Factory 2.

This time I will try the golden tablet.

No one had experience with refining.

Kim Seo-yeon had made a guideline on the refining process and how to use equipment by searching related books.

The golems started working according to the instructions.

But it didn’t work out all at once.

Kim Seo-yeon tilted her head holding the failed result.

“What the hell is wrong?”

Then one of the newly born golems suggested an opinion to Kim Seo-yeon.

“I think there is a problem with the second process! How about doing that part this way?”

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It took a few more trials and errors, but smart golems put their heads together and quickly came up with a solution.

And after two days, he succeeded in making a gold ingot with a purity of 99.99 for the first time.

‘Should I check to see if everything went well?’

I put my finger on the golden ingot.

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The gold disappeared right in front of my eyes.

It went to the gold warehouse.

And I felt the familiar satiety.

‘I ate well.’

Now you are ready to leave for the Amazon jungle.

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The Amazon Rainforest spans several countries in South America.

I arrived at Jorge Chavez International Airport in Lima, Peru.

Because the boiling river is in Peru.

This time, he did not enter the country without smuggling, but bought a first-class plane ticket and entered the country fairly.

The official purpose of the visit was to purchase gemstones.

Every country on the South American continent had gemstone mines, but Peru was famous for its opal.

‘I’ll have to collect the slush funds as well.’

Since I came to South America, I decided to do something I had been putting off.

Chairman Chun’s hidden assets will be collected.

He had a good amount of cash hidden overseas, half in Europe and the rest scattered across the continent of South America.

First of all, I will find the elixir extraction facility and collect Chairman Chun’s slush funds.

Then, before returning to Korea, meet James and hand over the cash.

The cash will be cleaned and deposited into corporate accounts in Nevis.

Then everything will be neatly done.

After the immigration procedure, I came out to the airport lobby.

Then, in a deserted place, he changed his face.

It’s been a long time since I had a South American face.

I got out of the airport and took a taxi.

We will drive to the nearest town to the Boiling River.

“[Where can I take you?]”

When I mentioned my destination, the driver smiled broadly and cracked a joke.

“[Are you going to find El Dorado?]”

I also smiled and nodded.

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Arrived at the destination town.

It was a place where the natives lived, but there were also many outsiders.

They were scientists and documentary makers.

‘Boiling River’ was a section of the Pachite River that flows deep into the jungle.

Of course, you can’t get there by car.

It is usually approached by boat.

Just then, there was a group of scientists departing for the boiling river.

They got into the boat and set off.

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I hid myself and rose into the air.

Then quietly followed them.

After a while, we entered the Amazon jungle.

‘Awesome!’

The tropical rainforest seen from high in the sky was spectacular.

Dense trees stretched endlessly.

I understand why this place is called the ‘Lungs of the Earth’.

All around was green, so even I, flying in the sky, would get lost if I didn’t record the GPS coordinates.

So how did the old explorers who moved on foot through the jungle feel sad?

They probably didn’t even have a proper map, let alone a GPS.

Rumors that there is a ‘golden city’ in South America spread to Spain, and many explorers found it.

Actually, I didn’t quite understand that part.

If the Golden City really existed and there really were Europeans who visited it, why would they tell others about it?

Want to share the gold with everyone?

Originally, I don’t tell others about the really good things.

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Just as most people who want to share stock investment secrets or lottery numbers are scammers, people who talk about the Golden City are likely scammers too.

They could have easily received large sums of money from royalty and nobles by spreading rumors about the existence of a golden city.

And it was clear that some of the investment money was appropriated and the rest was spent on the voyage.

Sailors could have been easily recruited.

There must have been a lot of people who wanted to get on board with the goal of making a fortune.

Anyway, believing the rumors of the golden city, many Spaniards flocked to South America.

The first thing they did to find El Dorado was torturing the natives.

It was assumed that the natives would know where it was.

On the way from the airport to the town, I heard an interesting story from a taxi driver.

In fact, there is no golden city in the Amazon rain forest.

It is a story invented by the natives to take revenge on the Spanish conquistadors.

The tortured natives must have said, ‘There is a golden city in the jungle’ in a fit of evil.

Because the natives knew the horrors of the jungle well.

In the end, the Spanish conquistadors wandered in the jungle in search of Eldorado, as the natives wished, and were swallowed up by the wild.

‘It makes enough sense.’

As I chased after the scientists while thinking about this and that, I arrived at my destination before I knew it.

It reached the area where the river boils.

There was steam all around like an open-air hot spring.

Shuung-

I flew ahead of the scientists.

Now that they’ve come this far, they have nothing to do with them.

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I took out the manager and Kim Seo-yeon from the inventory.

And with them, we investigated the 6 km section where hot water flows.

Since the depth of the river is 6 m on average, there was no difficulty in examining the river bed.

But I couldn’t find anything special.

I wanted to investigate thousands of meters underground, where the water was supposed to be heated, but I couldn’t.

Because you can’t dig down the river bed.

It has the ability to explore the deep sea, but it has not yet had the ability to explore underground.

If there really is an elixir extraction facility underground here, there will be an elevator that can go down underground like the structure in Lake Baikal.

“Let’s find out if there is a stone altar nearby.”

“Yes, boss.”

Shun-

Me and the golems flew around the river in an invisible state to find the altar.

About an hour later, Kim Seo-yeon flew to me with an excited expression.

“president! I found it!”

She found an altar.

“Where are you?”

“It’s where the shaman is!”

The river here is considered sacred to the natives, so the shamans were guarding it.

Shun-

I flew to where the shamans were.

The shamans stood in the thick steam.

Kim Seo-yeon spoke to me telepathically.

[There is an altar behind the shamans.]

It was obscured by steam and could not be seen.

I quietly moved behind the shamans.

There was indeed an altar of stone.

As I got closer, I saw that a groove had been dug on the altar.

It was a place to put a stone box.

‘Really!’

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I took a stone box from my inventory and filled up the elixir.

Then it was placed on the altar.