I’m Alone 100th Floor Episode 100
29. Shin-gung Lee Su-jin (3)
[Current floor: 20th floor]
Eugene, who followed Soojin into the alchemist’s area of the workshop, expressed his curiosity at the bubbling sounds coming from various places.
“Is there a reason why the alchemists’ area is separated from the blacksmiths’ and inventors’ area?”
When Eugene, who was following him, asked, Lee Soo-jin, who had witnessed his brutality a moment ago, looked around and answered.
“So far, it’s been fine… Some say that the climbers who come to the workshop have divided it up to make it easier for them to find it, while others say that they are at odds with each other… I’m not sure.”
Eugene, who thought he should ask Philip about this later after hearing Soojin’s answer, stopped in front of a store that had a purple hat hanging as a sign.
“Are you here?”
“yes.”
It wasn’t the largest of the alchemist shops that had passed through, but it was one of the largest.
Eugene muttered the name of the store as he glanced at the potions and scrolls neatly displayed beyond the glass walls of the store.
“It’s Maryni’s General Store… …
A general store, looking at its exterior, you wouldn’t think this would be the place to solve your ink-staining problems.
“Come on in.”
“Is it really okay here?”
As Lee Soo-jin opened the store door first and waited, Eugene entered with a very uneasy expression on her face.
“Haa, I’m still shaking from that gruesome scene earlier… Why would I try to fool you?”
Lee Soo-jin answered with a sigh.
“It says it’s a general store, but it’s a good place. The quality is good, and the items are good too…
Judging from the fact that the activated absolute domain wasn’t spewing out lightning, there didn’t seem to be any traps that could pose a threat to him.
“excuse me.”
Eugene stepped into Merini’s general store.
“Welcome.”
Inside the counter, a woman with horn-rimmed glasses and a warm expression greeted the customers.
“Oh, Soojin is here too.”
“It’s been a while, ma’am.”
“Hey, come by often. … … I didn’t hear from you for a long time, so I thought something was wrong.”
“You often hear about me on the bulletin boards. Unless there’s a post about Shin-gung’s death, you don’t have to worry.”
The woman who greeted Lee Soo-jin, who seemed to know her, looked at Eugene and asked.
“Do you need anything?”
“ah.”
Eugene took the letter out of his inventory and handed it to the old woman. He looked at his companion standing behind him and asked, “The ink on the letter has smudged, so I was recommended to take care of it.”
“Hmm??????
The old woman, who had been staring intently at the letter in Eugene’s hand, adjusted her horn-rimmed glasses and asked.
“Can you take a closer look?”
When Eugene hesitated to answer because he didn’t want the contents of the letter to be discovered, the woman noticed his feelings and added with a ‘haha’ laugh.
“If you can’t show me the letter… could you tell me why the ink smudged?” I could answer that much.
“The animal bit it and got saliva on it. I think that’s why it spread… because it’s important.”
“iced coffee.”
The lady at the general store nodded as if she had guessed what was going on and walked away.
“Could you please wait a moment?”
As the store owner left the store, telling them to wait for about five minutes, Eugene approached Lee Su-jin, who was looking around the store.
“How is it? Is it resolved?”
“Yes. I think it will be somewhat resolved.”
“That’s good.”
She seemed familiar with the items in the general store, fiddling with the shiny feathers and magic powders on display.
“I guess we know each other?”
“You also know one of the inventors of the workshop. It’s similar, you know.”
“sponsor?”
“Hey, Auntie Mary and I aren’t like that. It’s just… … Lee Soo-jin hesitated to answer for a moment, then spoke carefully.
“More than friends, less than family?”
“That’s amazing.”
Eugene answered honestly in a cautious voice and followed her, starting to handle the items in the general store.
“I’m a bit jealous.”
“Are you jealous?”
“I don’t have anyone like that.”
The ‘ordeal’ that became as close as family was because although I brought them around in pairs, there was no one I became as close to.
“What about that warlock?”
Lee Soo-jin, who was looking at Eugene’s profile, asked a question while recalling the past.
‘It’s a bit… … to mention him.
Eugene, who briefly recalled the girl he had hired as a guide, immediately shook his head.
We only knew each other for a short time, and there were many things we didn’t know about each other… It was impolite to judge on my own without knowing what the other person was thinking of me.
“We’re not close enough to be called that close. Just friends who are hanging out together like we are now?”
“Still, I think there must have been at least one person… at least one person.”
“Well, there was something like that… …
“Did you ‘leave’ the tower by any chance?”
“yes?”
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“That… someone worth keeping next to you.”
When asked about the dead here, climbers would ask like this.
Did you leave the tower? … … .
Eugene was silent for a moment at Soojin’s question, which was more cautious than before.
I was thinking about my teacher for a moment.
She was the only ‘person’ I thought I was close to like family, but I couldn’t be with her.
“Yes, well… …
Eugene answered appropriately.
“???That’s too bad.”
Lee Soo-jin, who had been silent for a moment, whispered words of comfort.
“Excuse me, sir?”
“yes.”
Inside the table, the owner of the general store, who had left his seat to look for something, returned to his seat and looked for Eugene.
“Can you solve it?”
“That… can be restored, but it might be difficult right now.”
“Is there a reason?”
“If it’s something that spread that much, I think I’ll have to use a paper restoration potion… but I don’t have any in stock right now.”
As the owner muttered with a troubled expression, Lee Su-jin, who was standing behind him, joined the conversation.
“Huh? You’re saying we’re out of stock of paper restoration potions?”
Paper restoration potion.
It was a material used to improve and repair magic scrolls produced with the scroll production feature.
In addition to that, there were also widely used potions such as magic books used by the wizard class, summoning books used by the summoning class, and contracts used in guilds and auction houses…
“You don’t have any crafting materials?”
“I had left my seat to look for it, but it wasn’t there.”
Lee Soo-jin, who showed a disappointed expression, began to give training to the management of her regular store.
“How can there be no paper restoration potion in the alchemist’s shop?”
When Eugene noticed that it seemed like they would have to find another store, he looked around and the owner answered with an awkward expression.
“Not just our shop, but all alchemists are having a hard time these days. We need ingredients to make paper restoration potions, but the seeds for those ingredients have dried up.”
The owner, with his arms crossed as if he wasn’t trying to make excuses, explained why he couldn’t produce the paper restoration potion.
“Because of the chimera.”
“chimera?”
“ah??????
Eugene frowned.
Soojin sighed briefly.
“The seeds of trials that can be used to obtain crafting materials have dried up… so they are not easy to obtain. Just like the trolls on the 44th floor disappeared.”
Yu Jin noticed the reason why Serin was sighing and asked with a frown.
“Then, should I go to another store?”
“Yes. Most likely, you will be told to look for another store.”
The owner nodded with a bitter expression as he mentioned the extinction of the ordeal.
“Because the trial that gives you that material isn’t one that multiplies infinitely like the slime you see on the 4th floor.”
Lee Soo-jin’s expression also hardened.
“You knew this, didn’t you?”
Any suspicion that he might have had something to do with drugs was completely dispelled.
‘That crazy kid, he has no luck.’
Eugene muttered to himself.
“I heard that the Gift Guild is tracking down the Drug Guild to solve this problem… but it doesn’t seem to be going well.”
Eugene, who had pulled his chin once when the shop owner mentioned the gift guild, asked about the material.
“Where can I get that?”
“yes?”
“If it’s the same at other stores, I think it would be faster to just get it myself.”
The owner, who had a bewildered expression on his face at Eugene’s answer, told of the ordeal of obtaining the ingredients for the paper restoration potion.
“12th floor?”
If it was the 12th floor, it was the floor with the forest as the background where Rasil asked, “Oh my god! Is this heaven?”
‘Huh, it’s a good thing I left Rasil behind.’
Eugene, who had woken up from his sleep and was thinking of the World Tree, suddenly twitched his cheek muscles.
Although I had to take a bit of a detour due to bad luck, I couldn’t be more thankful that I wasn’t there.
“Are you going?”
“uh.”
“Then, I’ll go too.” As Eugene turned to leave the store, Soojin followed him.
“Follow me?”
“We still have our own dealings.”
“Hmm?…”
Eugene muttered to himself.
‘Is it because of the chimera problem?’
Eugene shrugged, knowing she was chasing the warlock on the drug side.
There was no way to know if the warlock who created the chimera drug was on the 12th floor right now, but what could you do?
If no special traces had been found so far, it would be best for Shin-gung to go out and find some clues himself…
[Current floor: 12th floor]
In the forest, a climber wearing a black cloak that didn’t fit in here began to giggle, unable to contain his joy.
“Heh, heh heh… Mhhhhhh!”
The climber who was manipulating the living plants was a warlock.
A black magician who was particularly good at handling curses, he was once criticized as being mentally ill… a terrible being.
[heroin]
[Level: 11
He didn’t wear a level cap.
“Next time, what kind of guys should I combine?”
Level 110.
It was an abnormal level to stay on the 12th floor.
“Should I do it with you?”
“…Squeak! Shhh!”
“Let’s do it with you.”
A level 110 climber ripped a lizard off his arm and threw it at the 12th floor challenger.
[Use the curse of the mixed.]
The dark arm of the grinning climber was revealed through the fabric.
The black color covering the skin looked like a tattoo at first glance, but it was not a tattoo.
It was his pride.
The arm of the level 110 madman, covered in all sorts of curses, began to emit a black aura.
