Alchemies

Chapter 38: Home with Page

Alex got up from his bed. He feels bad at the moment. All of the pain she suffered today was so real, that she began to wonder if she was playing a game.

He went and took a cold shower, relieving all the fatigue he had been feeling all along. The near-death experience had traumatized him to some extent, yet somehow he did not consider it a bad thing.

She went to lunch with her roommate and went to her class.

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In Deva's company, a bald man in his late 40s was sitting in a meeting room, seemingly waiting for someone. He seemed nervous as well as excited about who he was going to meet.

"Welcome Miss Hao, I hope you're okay." He said with a smile that was unable to hide his excitement. The girl felt disgusted but said nothing as she walked forward and sat down at the table.

"Is it ready?" she asked.

The man practically ran towards her to bring her a neatly-woven stack of paper. “This is a note from the Eternal Cultivation Miss. We have prepared it as you requested.”

The young lady glanced at the papers and nodded to herself. "Good, I'm leaving." He stood up and started walking away.

"Miss Hao," the man immediately called out to her, stopping his steps. “Can we meet the genius who made this game?” She asked.

The woman simply turned around and said, "You don't deserve to meet her. Just sit back and hope something new comes to you. That's all you deserve." He then left.

The company has made billions of dollars from the games that the Hao women gave to Deva Corporation, and he as president will get most of the profits. So, she happily accepted the woman's insults without feeling upset.

He is now beginning to hope that the woman will bring something else from the creator of the game. He could only hope for that much.

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Alex is back from his class. He didn't learn much today because he was mostly distracted by thoughts of what happened this morning.

He returned to his room after lunch. As soon as he finished changing his clothes, he returned to the game.

He opened his eyes inside the random room he entered when he logged out this morning. He walked around the house to check on her. The house had about 5 rooms in it, with 4 of them being ordinary rooms, and the last one was an alchemy room with a fire pit in the middle.

What he saw was an unknown man with long black hair and blue eyes. The man was wearing a light green robe with the entire color red.

'Is that me?' he thinks. He only saw his appearance in the game once when he first created the character. It was a glance for 5 seconds and he did not examine it any further after that. Looking at it now after almost 2 weeks. He was surprised at how different his appearance was from real life.

He decided to take a bath here with the water in the pool. He took off his clothes and saw his sturdy body. 'I don't mind having this body for real.' He thinks.

He used Qi manipulation to bring water from the pond and pour it onto himself. He began to wash away the hardened blood in his hair and skin.

The water flowing in his body turned red as it cleared all the blood. As he rubbed more blood, he realized something.

On his left arm, where the wolf had first attacked him, was a red scar. The scar was in the shape of a monster's leg.

'Did the wolf hit me so hard that it left its claw marks even after the wound healed?' he thinks. He slowly touched the tattoo-like scar, wondering if the scar could heal.

"Hmm.." she thought she felt something from the scar. Something like the vibration of a sound. He touched her once more, but nothing happened. So, he went back to cleaning himself up.

After he finished bathing, he took out the rest of his clean robe and put it on. After that was done, it was time to descend into the valley of the sect for the many things he had to do.

He walked down the mountain of the sect leader and quickly reached the bottom. As he walked out, an elder he had never seen before, came up to him and asked, “Are you, Yu Ming?”

"Yes," he said skeptically, not knowing what the old man wanted.

"Give me your nameplate" he asked. Alex took out his signboard and handed it to this elder. The elder took out a medal and held it while putting Alex's nameplate on his forehead.

Soon after, he handed back the signboard and said, "With this, you have the freedom to go to the alchemy garden, and can take whatever you want from there without charge. But make sure not to overdo what you take. Even though you have the right to take the ingredients from there, you have no right to waste those materials for your own selfish reasons, understand."

The elder looked a bit too firm. Alex agreed without question. After all, he had no intention of using much of the resources from the garden. He would only use it when he was unable to find his item anywhere else.

After the elder released him, he began walking straight into the Disciple Hall. He had taken 3 days off and needed to tell them he had returned.