Chapter 22 - Story 6 Hyeminwon (1/2)
Story 6 Hyeminwon
[ Xuan Tian Xinghai is scouting immigrant alchemists from the Eastern Continent.
Accommodations, identification, and high-income occupation guaranteed.
Interested alchemists, please knock on the Grand Duchy of Lyonne’s door. ]
It had been a few months since the wide-reaching advertisement was put up. Every alchemist and apprentice across the country had started to flock to the Grand Duchy.
“I can get an identification and a job if I go here?”
“Yeah. Lord Xuan Tian has guaranteed it, so get a move on.”
To these illegal immigrants, the promise of identification and high-income occupations was a golden ticket which explained the endless line of alchemists dressed in foreign attire at the steps of the Grand Duke’s castle.
“Yooo, you’re here too.”
“Long time no see. Have you gotten an identification already?”
“Of course! The Little Angel inside the castle granted me a proof of identification, and permitted me to work in the Hyeminwon.”
“Little Angel?”
“Ya. There’s a Little Angel who has a kind heart and a beautiful face in the castle. According to Lord Xuan Tian, all of these were made possible thanks to the Little Angel.”
“Oooh! I wanna meet her soon too.”
“Hurry up then!”
Their faces aglow the alchemists hastily made a beeline for the castle.
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Meanwhile, Kynemeia, unaware she had now come to be known as the Little Angel among the alchemists, cast an eye over the knight sitting stiffly in the middle of the training hall.
“Sir Cordin, was it?”
At her query, James sprang up.
“Black Tears! Second Division! One-star Knight! James Cordin! Yes!”
“Sit down comfortably.”
“Yes! Master!”
Having assumed the habit of a private soldier responding to a general, James sat down again with a creak.
‘What if he sprains something while sitting down?’ His mechanical movements worried her, and as soon as he was safely seated, she turned to her retainers who were sitting side by side awaiting the potion demonstration.
“Apparently, Sir Cordin sustained a severe injury to his shoulder during the recent monster extermination.”
“I am fine! I can subdue the pain!”
“You don’t have to do that.”
“I’m really! Fine!”
Kynemeia ignored the soldier’s roar and called Xuan Tian over.
“Xuan Tian orabeoni.”
‘Orabeoni’ was the designation they decided on after Xuan Tian had waved his hand in dismissal of the term ‘Sir’, deeming it too stiff-sounding and suggestive of an old man. He plumped for it out of other titles such as ‘Uncle’, ‘Oldest Uncle’, ‘Mister’, and ‘Hey’.
“Oye.”
Xuan Tian swaggered over, blowing out a puff of smoke, then fished out a medicine phial from his voluminous sleeves.
“Hoo? Is that the rumoured potion?”
Count Brunn squinted at the potion that Xuan Tian was holding in concentration. The glass phial shaped like a bottle gourd contained a reddish liquid.
“It looks like any other medicinal herb-infused water. Does it actually have remarkable effects?”
Baron Romeo asked in apprehension, and Count Dennis slapped his back.
“It’s something that our Miss Faaaaaaairy is working on. Just watch with your eyes wide open. She’s definitely going to pull off something amazing.”
“Hohoho.”
Marquess Eli simply chuckled at the retainers’ bickering.
“This is a personal decoction of mine. I heard it’s called a potion in the Western Continent.”
Xuan Tian shook the phial. Though it resembled a normal liquid at a cursory glance, its consistency was different. The liquid didn’t slosh around but crawled as one lump.
“It’s very easy to use.”
Xuan Tian approached James whose face blanched when he caught sight of the suspicious-looking phial. He did not know the first thing about potions, so his fear was par for the course. Watching James’s eyes turn vacant, Kynemeia raised her fists and swung them.
“It’s okay, Sir Cordin! It’ll be done in a flash if you close your eyes!”
“Yes! One-star knight! James Cordin! Shall obey! Master’s order!”
“Show me the injured area.”
“Yes! One-star knight! James Cordin! Shall show! The Injured! Part!”
James quickly took off his top to reveal his injury. His shoulder which the monster had scored lightly with its claws was dyed red.
“You can just apply it like this.”
“Yes! One-star knight! —Ugh!”
Xuan Tian coolly poured the potion as James muffled a groan behind gritted teeth. Excruciating pain accompanied by seething spumes flooded him as the viscous liquid permeated the injury.
“Kuuuuugh—!”
James groaned and clenched his fists tightly. The retainers started to whisper to each other, worrying that it might have gone wrong.
But that lasted only a moment.