Chapter 546 - Growing Old With You (1/2)

”Who wants to try a new drink made by the House of Aldebar?” Suddenly, Aldebar's cheerful voice came from behind the door.

The emotional atmosphere didn't last long. From behind the entrance, several servants brought trays of various drinks, and Aldebar entered, followed by London and Rune, who came with wide smiles.

The three of them seemed rather surprised to see how emotional the atmosphere of the room was because they were previously busy doing something in the kitchen and missed the news.

”What did you make?” Terry asked. He grabbed a glass from the servant's tray and immediately inhaled the smell of the drink in his hand. ”Smells normal.”

He then downed the drink as though he had been trapped in the Sahara Desert for years.

”That's a new potion from Uncle Aldebar's experiments. For every gulp, the person who drank it will look ten years older,” London explained with a laugh.

”What...?!” Terry hurriedly spat out the remaining liquid in his mouth. Unfortunately, he had already swallowed almost everything from the glass. His face immediately showed panic. ”Jeez... What kind of experiment is this? Why do you always invent useless things?”

Aldebar, whose taste in clothes seem to be getting more ancient as more time passes, was wearing medieval clothing from the middle ages. He raised his hand with a grin.

”We, as Alchemists, will never know how it feels to grow old because our bodies are perfect. I used to often be curious about how it feels to be old and imagined how couples grow old together like in romance novels. Aren't you guys curious as to how it feels?” he asked everyone.

Slowly, he saw them beginning to nod in agreement.

”Well, that was why I deliberately created this potion for entertainment at parties. It just so happens that today is my dear niece's thirtieth birthday. As you can see, Aleksis still looks just like when she was 20.”

Alaric, who had released himself from his father, was now standing next to Aleksis, whispering affectionately into her ear, ”Your uncle is wrong. You're even prettier than you were ten years ago...”

Aleksis smiled at Alaric's words and squeezed his hand. ”Thank you...”

Aldebar took a glass of his party refreshments from the servant's tray and dramatically lifted it to his mouth, ”I'll drink two gulps, and you'll be able to see me getting twenty years older.”

Terry paled when he heard Aldebar's explanation. He glanced at a mirror on a nearby wall and saw how his face was beginning to wrinkle.

Dammit! Why did I thoughtlessly drink a glass just now? He cried in his heart.

Aldebar put down his glass and pulled Terry's hand to position Terry next to him. ”You can see that in a few minutes, we'll get older according to the amount we consume.”

A minute later, muffled exclamations could be heard. Aldebar now looked like a middle-aged man, while Terry's hair became white and his face wrinkled. He looked like a grandfather who was almost a hundred years old.

”Gosh... Your invention this time is not bad,” Caspar voiced. ”Have you made the antidote?”

Aldebar nodded. ”The red potion is the aging potion, while the white one is the antidote. If you're bored of being old, you can return to your original appearance.”

Terry hurriedly grabbed a glass of white potion and gulped it down.

”Eh... Is it okay to empty it like that?” he asked after it was too late.

He cursed himself who was always in a hurry. Fortunately, he wasn't so unlucky this time, as Aldebar nodded and confirmed.

”You can drink the white one as much as you want. There won't be a problem.”

Huff... What a relief. Terry immediately stood in front of the mirror and waited for his appearance to revert. Sure enough, two minutes later, his appearance was back to normal. The people present were excited to try Aldebar's new invention.

”Would you like to know how it feels to grow old with me?” Caspar affectionately asked as he took two of the red potions and handed a glass to Finland. His wife nodded and smiled brightly.

They looked at each other lovingly and drank them at the same time.

One gulp. The two seemed to grow ten years older.

The second gulp. They were becoming twenty years older.

The third gulp. Now Caspar and Finland both looked like a middle-aged couple.

”Ahahaha... You're still as beautiful,” Caspar commented in admiration. ”You haven't changed. Still as beautiful. I'm so lucky!”

They drank the fourth gulp, and now, they looked like a couple in their 60s. Without realizing it, both of them laughed.

Jeez, so this is how it feels like to live like ordinary people who grow up and age together...

Caspar brought his face to his wife's and kissed her lips with affection. ”I'll love you forever, even if we become old and wrinkled.”

The others also idly drank Aldebar's new potion and tried to see what they would look like if they were to age. Only Lauriel and Alaric weren't interested. Lauriel realized he was almost 600 years old, and he didn't want to imagine how he would look like if he was like a normal, aging human.

While Alaric thought that Aldebar's invention was stupid, he was polite enough to stay silent. He only waved his hand and refused when the servant came to offer the potions.

”You really don't want to try it?” Aleksis asked, a little disappointed. She personally found her uncle's new invention very funny, but it seemed that Alaric didn't like it at all.

Ah, well... Alaric was indeed a very serious person, just like Uncle Lauriel, she thought.

”Do you want to drink this aging potion with me?” Suddenly, Nicolae came over to Aleksis with two glasses of the red potion. He had seen how much Aleksis wanted to drink the aging potion, but she didn't want to pressure Alaric.

Alaric, who saw Nicolae coming with two glasses of the red potion, immediately became jealous. He stood in front of Aleksis and took the glass, ”I want to drink it with Aleksis...”