Soul Monarch: The Eclipse Feast Online

The arkemi ... Archemic

Booms! Booms! Booms!

 

    I was stunned for a moment by all the explosions. After all, all of that was clearly 'stronger' than what Arkemi had ever shown at the time we first met.  Well, I guess the word 'stronger' isn't too good to explain this. Both the strength, scale, and impact of the explosion were clearly far away and yes, far higher than anything he had ever shown.

 

    It was clear that all that was enough to determine the fate of the Zioraph. Crushed, yes, completely destroyed laterally, okay.

 

    "Uh .. aa ... Uhm ...."

 

    What is that sound? I thought to myself on the fact of how strange this sound that my mouth could make was.

 

    First impressions are not everything, although they are very important.

 

    "Uh ... mm ... Archemy?" ask after a little trouble. But ...

 

    "Yes? ... YAAAAAAAAAAAAAA?!"

 

    ... He had died with his elegant screams. Yes, of course not, but it seems Arkemi has fainted instantly when her vision managed to capture an image of a pool of blood splattered around her. The result of the explosion he made himself.

 

    And yes, I was silent again. It turns out that people who can faint instantly due to phobias actually exist in this world, huh?

 

    "He's really a useless person," Oku commented instantly as if not caring for Arkemi in the slightest.

 

    Uhm .. shouldn't this be when someone should be sympathetic, huh?

 

    Look at Oku for the comment she made. And as if caring about my gaze, or maybe not at all, he just walked over and lifted Arkemi's body as if lifting a plastic bag.

 

    Well, I didn't expect there to be a sling like a princess that Oku did because Arkemi's own body was like that, but yeah, it's a little bit ....

 

    "Dirae," call Oku wake me up. "Let's finish your needs immediately.”

 

    "Yes, sure," I answered briefly. Removing all sorts of thoughts from my mind about the relationship between the two of them was more complicated than I thought. Yes, it is someone else's problem so it is better not to mix it up too much.

 

    "But aren't we taking some parts of this monster?" Nature is useless if it is not used.

 

    "I don't think that's necessary. It'll only keep us from knowing."

 

    Yes, it's true so ...

 

    “Alright."

 

   ... But still, it is better that I suck the blood of this monster secretly. Thought. Anyway, it's clean, okay?

 

    Leaving the area that had now become an open area, we started walking back.

 

    "OKu?"

 

    "Is there anything you want?"

 

    "The explosion .. yeah, the explosion that Arkemi made was not a bomb or some kind of spell, was it?"

 

    "Yes, you guessed it right."

 

    "So yeah, what is it exactly?" ask me after some trouble.

 

    I know this is very disrespectful. In EFO, where the growth rate is represented by a Skill, this sort of thing is quite disrespectful. Well, I guess it can be compared to someone who suddenly asks how you grew up and your surroundings.

 

    In other words, personal information. Although, yes .. I feel the need to know what it is for my own good in the future. It's quite selfish but I don't want to meet the same thing and can't make adequate countermeasures at all.

 

    However, contrary to my thinking that Oku would not answer him, he replied easily, very easily. "Alchemy."

 

    "Hmm? Alchemy?"

 

    "You know, most people probably think that alchemy is related to Potions (medical). But it can also be used for other things."

 

 

    "... Didn't Arkemi study Alchemy where she focuses on the medical field?" tanyaku.

 

    Eastern Alchemy and Western Alchemy. Although both are equally alchemy, the two are quite different. Yes, it is not impossible to learn both simultaneously but it will only make you unable to learn it to the fullest.

 

    It's like a scientist wants to fuse fire and ice, okay? Yes, although both involve heat energy (calor) in it but both are completely different.

 

    And from the potion I received from Arkemi earlier, it was clear from Appraisal's results that it was his own made potion. Besides, I don't think Arkemi's that stupid to take two different branches together.   

 

   "True," Oku answered briefly and ... "Un? Your arkemi's awake, isn't it."

 

    "Yes" he replied weakly. "Can't mika take me better?"

 

    "Thank God I didn't leave you there."

 

    "Well, well, Thank you,” he replied without the slightest hint of sincerity.

 

    "However you wake up at the right time."  And as if seeing many question marks hovering above Arkemi's head, Oku continued. "Dirae asked how you made that explosion."

 

    "Yes, if you mind I'm fine if you don't answer."

 

    "Ahh, it's not something special." Arkemi answered while jumping towards me. "Even I'm sure all alchemists can do it" he continued.

 

    "Yeah? All alchemists?" Those words even add more question marks to my mind, okay?  "So does that mean you also study Western Alchemy?"

 

    I can only think of this answer. Well, I guess this is the only thing that makes him capable of 'all alchemists'. However, Arkemi just shook her head, and said that she did not do it.

 

    "Alright, let me straighten out the mica perception. The explosion was even a common thing in the Eastern Alchemy process, Dirae."

 

    "But yes, isn't Eastern Alchemy an alchemy that produces potions?"

 

    Yes, this was even a major alchemy stream that was quite popular among players. And does that mean the alchemist players are some kind of bomb factory? Thought silly.

 

    Okay, that's definitely not possible, right? Don't you? Don't you?!

 

    "Yep. Mika's right. Then what happens if mica fails in the making of a potion?"

 

    Well, thinking for a moment, in a normal depiction in an RPG game, I guess it will ...

 

    "... That ... will explode?"

 

    "Yep, that's how the explosion was made. It is a common thing — is so common that it is often overlooked — in Eastern Alchemy."

 

   So, the strange liquid I saw in the explosion was the rest of the failure to make the Arkemi potion, huh?

   

   "And if I slightly amplify the explosion that can be produced from it then the result will be like what mika saw before." Arkemi replied proudly before then chuckling and muttering, "I can even defeat that cruel and heartless fox."

 

     And yes, I guess I have heard the hidden reason of why he went to such great lengths to find hidden pieces that could be utilized from non-combat classes to battle. Even if he was indeed completely unable to fight for different reasons ....

 

    However, if such a powerful explosion was 'only' the result of the failure of the potion making he did then .. uhh, uhmm, yes, yes, wasn't it just a form of advancing one step to retreat three steps? Does that mean Arkemi will always be killed in her own potion-making efforts if she fails?

 

    Well, I even felt my gaze continue to change uncertainly before finally turning to Oku for help ...

 

    "Didn't I have said it before, Sirae, Uncontacted Slime is stupid."

 

   ... And that was all he could say in response to satisfying me.

 

    "Hey?! How could mika say such a baseless thing?!" arkemi shouted as if what Oku said made no sense.