Gold and Silver Alchemist

Shu Woo-wook-

Ancient artifacts were scattered throughout the 9 km long section.

Looking down at them, I felt as if I was swimming in the waves of an eternity of time.

Residential houses, public baths, roads, sewerage facilities, and various statues were visible.

Among them, the one that caught my attention was the lion statue.

It is so sophisticated that it is hard to believe that it was made thousands of years ago.

I felt a sense of vitality that would roar at any moment.

[You really mean this was made before 7,500 BC?]

[Yes, carbon dating of the artifacts here determined that they were made at least 9,500 years ago.]

When I was in middle school, I once visited a prehistoric site in Seoul as a group.

I was able to actually see comb-pattern earthenware and ground stoneware made of ground stones, which I had only seen in textbooks.

At that time, the artifacts I saw there were objects from about 5,000 years ago.

To be honest, what I felt at the time was that most of the relics were too crude to be distinguished from ordinary stones.

However, the lion statues made 4,000 years ago are so sophisticated.

‘I’ll have to throw away my stereotypes about the ancients.’

I thought that I shouldn’t blindly believe in the ancient history written in textbooks.

Well, there are many cases where even modern phenomena cannot be accurately identified by science, so how can we accurately know what happened thousands of years ago?

No matter how eminent archaeologists are, the moment they say ‘certain’ or ‘no doubt’ while discussing the past, it becomes arrogance.

‘Nothing is certain in this world.’

This isn’t just a problem with ancient history.

In the future, I will experience everything myself and judge for myself.

[Let’s scatter and investigate.]

[Yes, boss!]

Shu Woo-wook-

The entire site was thoroughly searched over several hours.

I used psychometry to read the memories of each artifact.

Because it was sunk on the seabed, the explorers’ hands were less burned, so the memories of the ancients were well preserved.

Most of the people who lived here were farmers.

They lived by growing crops on farmland outside the city.

Other occupations besides farmers included architects and masons.

There was also a potter who baked earthenware.

There was a ruling class that ruled the city, and there were priests who supervised the ancestral rites.

However, there was no memory related to gold or elixir.

In fact, this place was not a place where the elixir extraction facility was hidden.

The biggest reason for coming here was to satisfy my curiosity about ancient civilizations.

Anyway, the artifacts here are great, but there was nothing strange about them.

[It doesn’t seem like we’re looking for anything.]

[Yes, there are no other oparts.]

Artifacts that cannot be made with the technology at the time are called Out-of-place Artifacts.

The lion statues here are elaborate and beautiful, but you can’t call them oparts.

This is because it is no different from contemporary stoneware in that it is made of stone.

If it is an opart simply because it is so excellent, the score composed by Mozart and the theory of relativity thesis written by Einstein should also be classified as oparts.

If the lion statue were made of carbon fiber rather than stone, it could be called an opartz.

[Let’s go back.]

[Yes, boss!]

It’s quite unfortunate that there is no income from this expedition, but it doesn’t make sense to find a huge amount of treasure every time.

It’s normal to have a public day like today.

pooh-

came up to the surface

I took the boat out of my inventory and got on it.

It was still far from dawn.

I started the boat, but I felt a presence in the distance.

Someone was coming this way in a boat.

‘Let’s hide for now.’

Since I entered the ruins without permission, there was nothing good about being seen by others.

hiss-

I re-inventoryed the boat.

Then he hid himself in invisibility and rose into the sky.

After a while, a fishing boat came into view.

There were three men on deck, two of whom were wearing wetsuits.

‘It’s strange.’

Why do you want to dive into the ruins at night instead of during the day?

It was clear that it was not an authorized expedition.

‘Are you a thief?’

humming-

A fishing boat just passed the waters here and moved to another place.

‘Should I follow you?’

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I followed the boat and moved 10km south.

with a plop-

Two people in wetsuits dived into the water.

They packed their big gear and went down to the bottom.

I quietly followed them.

There was an undersea hill just below the ship.

There was a small cave at a depth of 20m, and the entrance was blocked by an iron grate.

The equipment they brought down was an ＜underwater cutter＞.

Chii Ik-

The work of cutting the iron bars has begun.

I watched their actions from nearby.

I worked for more than 5 minutes, but I couldn’t cut a single iron bar.

It seemed that he couldn’t even get a scratch, let alone cut.

It seems that the iron bars are not made of ordinary iron.

‘What the hell is in there?’

Shuuk-

I got out of the water and onto the deck of the fishing boat.

The captain was asleep in the cockpit and only one man was standing on deck.

self-

I turned off invisibility.

Then the man on the deck saw me and shouted in surprise.

“[Who, who!]”

It was Japanese.

“Stay still!”

He got caught in control and couldn’t move.

“What the hell are you guys doing here?”

The boy kept his mouth shut.

I put my hand on his head.

And read the 24-hour memory.

“Were you a professor?”

Nom was an archeology professor at a university in Japan.

And the divers, too, were Japanese, hired by the professor to be grave robbers.

My prediction was right.

They came here to steal relics.

They didn’t even know what was inside the cave.

They were just looking for an artifact that no one had found.

“A college professor is stealing artifacts from other countries!?”

The guy was startled.

Because I know my identity.

They probably consider me Interpol.

dump-

The boy knelt down and began to pray.

“[Forgive me just once! I needed evidence to support my claim…]”

“What claim?”

“[The hypothesis that there was a super-ancient civilization in Japan…]”

He was claiming that certain terrain found in the sea near Japan was the trace of a super-ancient civilization.

However, other archaeologists, except Nome, insisted that the terrain was not man-made, but was formed by natural erosion.

Nome tried to steal artifacts from other places and bring them there to validate his claim.

That’s why I needed an artifact that hadn’t been discovered by anyone else yet.

Nom found a cave by chance while secretly rummaging around without permission from the Indian government.

‘A piece of trash.’

Japan has had many archaeologists who have made absurd claims since ancient times.

One of the representative ones is the claim that Genghis Khan was Japanese.

It is said that a Japanese military commander crossed over to the central plains and unified all the Mongolian tribes and became Genghis Khan.

So the reason why the Japanese Empire invaded the continent is to regain the land of their ancestors.

It was an absurd claim that had no basis at all, but it received enthusiastic support from the Japanese public at the time.

The Japanese simply insisted that their culture was the best and that the Japanese were the most excellent race, and they wanted to get drunk on the so-called ‘Gukppong’.

As the public’s wish was, archaeologists with even more absurd claims poured out.

It was argued that the first birthplace of human civilization was the Japanese archipelago and spread to the Asian continent via the Korean Peninsula.

There was even an argument that the Peking man was Japanese.

But today, I saw someone claiming that an ultra-ancient civilization existed in Japan.

If you go a little further from here, there will probably be people who say that the Japanese are descendants of aliens who came to spread civilization on Earth.

‘what the.’

hiss-

I put him in my inventory.

And the grave robbers who went into the water and were cutting were also put in the inventory.

These guys have a place to use later.

hiss-

I put the entire iron bar that was blocking the entrance to the cave into my inventory.

And went into the cave and looked around.

But there were no artifacts.

There were only letters written on the walls of the cave with unknown meanings.

Kim Seo-yeon looked at the text and said.

[It has nothing in common with any ancient writing ever discovered!]

[Can you decipher it?]

[yes! But I think it will take some time.]

I put my hand on the cave wall.

It is to read the memories dwelling on the wall with psychometry.

But there were no memories on the walls.

Someone engraved the text without touching it.

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They took lodgings in the nearby town of Vadodara.

I will stay here until Kim Seo-yeon deciphers the text.

Since it has nothing in common with any existing characters and the sample is small, it will take a considerable amount of time.

That’s why I’m detoxifying in the ‘relaxation room’.

Even if you spend a year there, only three days pass outside.

‘Are you doing well?’

I sat down on the sofa and closed my eyes.

‘Deep sleep.’

***

I entered the 1st factory.

It will be lucid dreaming.

The trees were giving off a bright light.

During that time, the tree has grown a lot.

So I was able to pass on 5 pieces of knowledge to myself in one day.

Tok tok tok tok-

I put my finger on the 5 leaves.

Pot-pot-pot-pot-

Light emanated from the leaves and five pieces of knowledge entered my head.

Three of them were magical knowledge.

And one helmet recipe and one greatsword recipe came out.

Previously, armor and weapon recipes were considered useless.

But now it was different.

After I knew that one day I might be fighting the Demon King, I was making it into a real thing right away.

I looked at how to make a helmet.

‘The spirit king’s helmet.’

To craft the Spirit King’s Helmet, 5 types of materials were needed.

They were iron, ivory, diamond, charcoal, and nephrite.

All of them were in the 2nd factory.

Just as the gold of Alan’s world was the same as the gold of the earth, other materials were the same.

These days, they have been continuously producing weapons and armor, so all the materials were prepared in the 2nd factory.

I’m going to go to the second factory later and make it right away.

This time, I looked at how to make a great sword.

‘It’s a great sword of destruction.’

To make the Greatsword of Destruction, seven materials were needed.

Six of them were obsidian, platinum, emerald, ruby, jadeite, and amethyst.

These, too, were all prepared at the second factory.

However, there was a material with an unfamiliar name.

‘What is this?’

The last one of the 7 ingredients to make the Greatsword of Destruction was ＜Orichalcon＞.

‘That Orihalcon from fantasy?’

I asked the manager nearby.

“What is Orichalcon?”

“It is an essential material for making powerful weapons and armor. However, I do not know the exact physical properties.”

“Is it on Earth?”

“It only exists in literature.”

The manager did not have the hobby of collecting various information like Kim Seo-yeon.

However, information on metal was carefully collected.

“It says that there are many Orihalcons in Atlantis.”

Plato recorded various information about the continent of Atlantis in his writings.

Among them was something about Orihalcon.

It was said that among the specialties of Atlantis, there was Orihalcon shining in the color of the rainbow.

“It’s rainbow colored…”

It was then.

“president! Detox finished!”

Kim Seo-yeon came out of the free room.

The deciphering of the ancient letters found on the cave wall is complete.

“okay? What is it?”

“It was a description of a certain metal!”

“if···. Orihalcon?”

Then, Seoyeon Kim was surprised and asked back.

“How did you know?”

hiss-

I took out the metal I had put in my inventory.

The iron bars that were blocking the cave.

Glitter-

The iron grate was shining in rainbow colors.