Gold and Silver Alchemist

On the way back to the hotel, a convenience store sign caught my eye.

‘Shall we have a drink of soju with snacks at the convenience store after a long time?’

Having more money did not change my diet and appetite.

I ate mostly expensive food to soothe the sadness of not having money for the past few days, but my ‘convenience store addiction’ flared up again.

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Why do I feel so clear when I hear the bell when I open the convenience store door?

Looking at the products neatly displayed under the bright white light, my mind seemed to be at ease.

I put sweet and salty side dishes and several bottles of soju in a basket and put them on the counter.

“It’s 23,500 won in all.”

I brought my black card to the card terminal.

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Back in the hotel room, I spread snacks and drinks on the sofa table.

I sat on the sofa and turned on the TV with the remote control, and a documentary was playing.

＜Finding the Hidden Gold＞

It was a documentary about gold, which is my biggest interest these days.

＜Did El Dorado, the city of gold that made explorers laugh and cry, and the golden town of the Amazon exist?＞

＜Who owns the 200-ton gold bars of the Spanish treasure ship that sank off the coast of Colombia? Ownership disputes between countries over treasures.＞

＜Is Yamash*ta Gold worth 1,000 won a Filipino urban legend or does it really exist?＞

＜Retrieve the 150 trillion won worth of gold ingot, the Donscoii, sleeping off the coast of Ulleungdo!＞

It was a documentary about gold hidden all over the world.

Watching a documentary like this makes my heart flutter.

Exploring jungles, deserts and deep seas in search of hidden gold was exciting just to imagine.

In fact, many people are looking for treasures around the world using state-of-the-art equipment with their personal property or invested money.

And there were many people who gathered investors to scam and disappear, saying they were looking for fake treasures that didn’t even exist.

In any case, the rumors about hidden gold are probably not all lies.

Somewhere on the earth, gold worth hundreds of thousands of trillions of won hidden by emperors or powerful people of the past may be asleep waiting for a new owner.

‘Shouldn’t I go looking for something like that later?’

As the Elixir Extraction Factory is upgraded, the gold consumption continues to increase.

Currently, it is enough to buy gold bars with the money stolen from Chairman Kim or steal gold from smuggler Baek, but in the future it will not be enough in that way.

Maybe in the near future you’ll find me exploring the world in pursuit of a golden legend.

‘Am I going to become a treasure hunter?’

Well, that’s for later, let’s focus on ‘Nearby Gold’ for now.

President Baek’s gold bar is a 100% real treasure to me.

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I drank a glass of soju and dipped a piece of sliced meat in salted shrimp and put it in my mouth.

‘Because there’s nothing better than this for soju snacks.’

When I tried to refill the glass, all the soju bottles were empty.

As I sipped while watching TV, I ended up drinking all the soju I bought before I knew it.

I haven’t even eaten half of it yet.

‘Should I go to the convenience store one more time?’

It was annoying to go out again, and it was late at night, so I did something like ordering soju through room service.

I knew this would happen, and I should buy enough soju and put it in my inventory.

But that was another waste of elixir.

The more items stored in the inventory, the more Elixir consumed per hour.

It was then.

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The cannon phone rang.

‘Who is this at this hour?’

When I pressed the call button, I heard Baek’s voice.

-Our customer, what are you doing now?

“Do you know what I am doing now?”

-I’m bored. Let’s have a drink with me. Come out, I’ll buy you a drink.

It’s not that he’s simply trying to get along with me, and he believes in false information about me and reorganizes the ‘board’.

Perhaps you want to increase your trade size.

The more gold he prepared, the better it was for me.

So there was nothing wrong with having a drink with him.

“Where should I go?”

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[ROMANCE SALON]

‘To come here again…’

The address President Baek gave me was a room salon run by Nom.

It was the same store where I worked briefly as a waiter some time ago.

It was closed for two weeks due to the stabbing incident, and then reopened.

“welcome!”

The manager leaned 90 degrees toward me.

He didn’t recognize me at all.

“Come this way. Our boss is waiting for you.”

The manager guided us to a room at the end of the hallway.

The room that absorbed President Baek’s gold bar.

This was a monumental place where I first used Alan’s emergency card.

When I entered the room, I was sitting alone.

“Come on! Is this your first time at our store?”

I sat down with him across the table.

After a while, the waiter brought drinks and snacks.

It was a senior assistant I worked with.

He set the table with a nervous expression, perhaps because he was afraid of President Baek.

“Eat in peace!”

After setting the table, he turned around and called the senior assistant.

“hey.”

“yes? Do you need anything?”

“this.”

I handed him two 50,000 won bills.

“thank you.”

The senior assistant took my tip and walked out of the room.

Then the boss asked me.

“Isn’t there a tipping culture in the first place?”

“What are you talking about?”

He opened the bottle of wine with a smile without a reply.

“This is the most expensive drink in our store.”

“Isn’t it fake?”

“What do you see me as? I don’t deal with fake liquor. Both gold and wine are real.”

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President Baek filled my glass and then filled his own.

And he spoke.

“At first, I thought you were a young boy from a rich family running errands for my dad to buy gold bars. But unexpectedly, he was a giant.”

“What do you want to say?”

“I got to know you a little bit. Mr. Yeom Jeong-hak.”

I almost burst out laughing when President Baek put on a serious expression as he mentioned the name ‘Yeom Jeong-hak’, which I had casually coined.

I bit my molars and told him, holding back a laugh.

“President Baek has better intelligence than he looks.”

“It’s about that much while doing this job.”

“So what’s the point?”

“If you want to convert all the money you earned in Korea to gold, will it be 300 kg? Don’t you need more?”

“How much can you prepare?”

“How about 1,000 kg? Is that enough to return home right away? ”

I smiled and replied.

“Get 1,000kg and 1,000kg more.”

He said he would buy 2,000 kg of gold bars.

It was an amount that reached 150 billion won at today’s market price.

Upon hearing my words, President Baek’s mouth was torn open and hung in his ears.

“Okay, that’s how it should come out.”

We toasted and emptied our glasses.

Sandy Beach said, refilling my glass.

“End this and go home and eat your fill of malatang.”

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returned to the hotel in the morning.

‘He was a noble person to me.’

To prepare 2 tons of gold bars, President Baek is a mean smuggler, but he was very grateful to me.

‘Now let’s wash and sleep.’

It’s late, so let’s go to bed

I have a lot of work to do tomorrow as I prepare for moving.

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I took a cool shower in the bathroom.

Then I climbed onto the soft bed and went to sleep.

I had a drink and immediately fell into a deep sleep.

***

I was standing in the backyard of a factory.

I was having a lucid dream.

The trees were emitting bright light.

“The tree has regained its strength. I am ready to impart knowledge to you.”

The manager smiled broadly and approached me.

“There is something I want to ask you.”

“Yes, ask me anything.”

“How long can the factory operate if the gold warehouse is filled with 2,000 kg of gold?”

“Adding 2,000 kg to our inventory now will allow the plant to run for another 227 days.”

It was 227 days, more than 7 months.

If you successfully steal only President Baek’s gold, you won’t have to worry about hunger for more than half a year.

‘I really need to go to Hawaii once this is over.’

I wanted to enjoy a life with a work-life balance, not just chasing gold because my eyes are wide open every day.

So, if you succeed in absorbing 2,000 kg of gold, you will enjoy a vacation while spending money.

I smiled at the thought of drinking a ‘mojito’ on the South Pacific beach surrounded by exotic beauties.

“Is something good going on?”

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I cleared my throat at the manager’s question and approached the tree.

Then he picked a leaf and put his finger on it.

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As the leaves emitted light, a piece of knowledge passed into my head.

It was one of the 10 divided golem recipes.

It was useless if there was only one, like a split compressed file.

You must put all 10 knowledge into your head to be able to create a golem.

“You can take over one more piece of knowledge.”

I nodded at the manager’s words and put my hand on the other leaf.

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The leaves gave off a bright light.

Then a piece of Alan’s memory entered my head.

***

One day, while Alan was preparing to return to Earth step by step,

A guest came to him.

It was Helen, the last remaining god in this world.

When she visited Alan’s garden, she wasn’t as gigantic as the last time we met.

It was the size of a normal human.

Alan hit her.

“Why did you come all the way to such a shabby place?”

“I was wondering if your business is going well.”

“as you see.”

Alan pointed to the tree he was growing.

Then Helen looked at the tree and opened her mouth.

“It is a tree of records. You intend to use that tree to bring your knowledge to Earth. Alan, I really need to know your tricks. You intend to put all your knowledge in a leaf, then turn it into a seed and plant it in your soul.”

“That’s right. It was the only way to put my knowledge fully into the little reservoir of my soul.”

“But even if I brought my vast magical knowledge to that world, I wouldn’t be able to use it. The universe to which the earth belongs is so rare that mana is almost non-existent. What will you use as the source of your magic power?”

“I will use the elixir.”

“You’re going to use magic by extracting an elixir from gold? That would require a ton of gold.”

“I came to know through the memories of my past life that you showed me. The world there was rich in gold instead of mana. To the extent that even poor people own one or two jewelry made of gold.”

If gold had been as commonplace as Earth in Alan’s world, alchemy wouldn’t have advanced so much.

“Even a small planet has that much gold, so if you search the entire universe there, you will be able to collect a considerable amount of gold.”

Alan knew through the memories of ‘Choi Min-hyeok’ that the diameter of the universe observed by Earth humans was 93 billion light years.

By substituting the variables calculated based on his knowledge there, he was able to roughly calculate the amount of gold existing in the entire universe to which the earth belongs.

Alan smiled and said to God.

“I think that would be enough for me to write alone.”