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FAULT ; ARTIFACT chapter 53
- All right, it's the past.We are sitting on a fallen tree at the edge of the forest. Ahead is a huge field, on which castars grow at a short distance from each other. The bright sun hung in the middle of the sky, and it seems that the "flowers" of the castars instinctively, like sunflowers, turned to him, opening their mouths, as if wanting either to devour the rays they send, or the sun itself.- I hope now you understand how dangerous this world is?“Yes, quite,” he assured me.- Well, since you understand everything, then do not break into trouble. Sometimes it's better to run away.“And you still need to find loyal and strong comrades like you,” he suddenly said.I chuckled.- Yes, it will be easier and more profitable with friends. But don't count on me, I play solo.- That's how? It's a pity. Tim, you are very strong. I managed to see strong fighters, but I meet a magician for the first time. And I will say for sure that of those that I have seen, you are the strongest. Perhap
FAULT ; ARTIFACT chapter 54
- That's it, continue for another twenty minutes, - looking over his shoulder, said Alast.“Yes, teacher,” I replied humbly, but mentally grimaced.On the one hand, it seems that I am wasting my time instead of farming mobs, but on the other hand, in games, crafting is almost always more profitable than simple farming. However, it’s the same in life - it’s easier to carry bags of coal than to write programs and design aircraft, but it’s clear that an engineer or programmer earns more than a loader.Finally, after half an hour, only a small fine powder, similar to flour, remained.- Excellent. Now onto the scales. We need ten grams of powder and twenty grams of slime residue.I took a small spoon, scooped up “flour”, suddenly an inscription appeared above it: “22 grams of powder from the castar stem” .I raised my eyebrows in surprise.“We won’t need scales,” I said, shaking the spoon a little, dropping extra grams.As soon as it was ten, I turned to Alast.- Here's ten grams.The alch
FAULT ; ARTIFACT chapter 55
- And where is your friend now? I asked cautiously.- Over the ridges, in the outside world. Now we are cut off from it by goblins, so the only communication is either through magic crystals, or, when they are not available, like this - through mail karshans.Interesting. It turns out that there are faults in the outside world. That is, theoretically there are tunnellers who came out of them and now calmly walk around the outside world? Be that as it may, the presence of faults that are beyond the control of corporations is a very interesting thing.- And where did he find this gap? I asked.“Hmm… I’ll show you now,” he said.The alchemist moved to the back of the room, where there was a bookcase. Alast returned with a large bundle. It turned out to be a map depicting some country. I took a closer look, one of the areas is similar to the one in which we are.The area of the Kingdom of Santonia has been discovered.It's that simple. It is enough to see the map and the "fog of war" th
FAULT ; ARTIFACT chapter 56
Advanced Alchemy.From these words, I felt my back covered with sweat, but I restrained myself and did not let fear show on my face, remaining outwardly calm."I haven't found out yet who might have it," I said.Eugene looked at me for a few moments, causing my forehead to sweat, but due to the fact that the room is dim, my condition is not visible.“Something tells me you haven’t really looked for it.- Of course, I didn't look specifically. I follow rumors, but doing this is like looking for a person in an unfamiliar residential complex, not knowing his name and appearance. If there were clues, then I would somehow be able to move forward in this matter, and walking around and asking everyone: “Do you have an artifact” is a waste of time."Yes, I agree," Yuuji said after a short pause. “Still, Tim, I don’t trust you. You are clearly hiding something from me. Those four and a half thousand that you earned, exactly all that you took out of the rift?“Yes,” I lied without batting an ey
FAULT ; ARTIFACT chapter 57
I wonder if they will work in our world? Because if so, then improving the properties of materials using alchemical means is a breakthrough, as well as a big profit. I really should have gone straight to alchemy, though... given that the training costs a decent amount and the ingredients are not that easy to get, I probably did the right thing by focusing on leveling and getting the initial funds first, and only after that deciding to take up one of the crafts.“As you can see, alchemy is needed for many things in the world, just like magic. Has your head been spinning yet? he asked, smiling.“Yes, to be honest, I went,” I admitted. - I have a question. How to determine which ingredient is suitable for which potion. For example, which ingredient is suitable for a fire magic protection potion, and which, for example, enhances your fire magic?- Oh, it's simple. All alteration potions are made with a primary or two primary ingredients and a secondary. For example, salamander blood. It c
FAULT ; ARTIFACT chapter 58
- That is, potentially strong warriors have more resistance to poisons and other potions of destruction?- Right. So where to start? You can make a potion that turns into mist, and oil, and even a powerful acid.With these words, he took out various jars with liquids, powders and other things from the magical space.At that moment, a bell rang. Alast frowned and looked out the window.- Wait a bit, I have a client.- Of course, teacher.He quickly left, leaving me with the ingredients. As soon as I looked at the substance in front of me, an inscription appeared, what it is, but without any explanation. Here and the drool of some monsters, and dry herbs, and even charcoal.My eyes fell on a jar of dry, powdered salamander blood. Slightly reddish, like spices, it beckons my eye, but its properties are unknown. If I remember correctly, Alast was talking about a book with ingredients. I wonder if there is information about the blood of a salamander in it?I looked out the window. Alast co
FAULT ; ARTIFACT chapter 59
“The price is more than sixty thousand zen, and the power is about equal to a fireball,” Alast summed up. - As an experiment it is interesting, but in practice it is useless and expensive.I just chuckled. Here the alchemist is right. And I was dreaming at first. And not just to firearms, but to real machine guns. But here the gunpowder needs to be more powerful and it will be necessary to build several factories, one of which is for the production of cartridges. At the same time, the cartridges will be "gold" ... no, even "platinum", and the effectiveness, in comparison with spells, is doubtful. Perhaps someday in the future they will find a way to quickly and in large quantities to extract the blood of salamanders, which will help reduce the cost of producing gunpowder at least ten times, and then it will still be unprofitable. Here you need to reduce the price even hundreds, or even thousands of times. Because one grenade is equal in power to a fireball, but even at a price of six
FAULT ; ARTIFACT chapter 60
So the hunt for salamanders will have to be postponed until such time as I learn alchemy.With these thoughts, I went to the camp where Alex is serving at the checkpoint. Today without a "catch", but still it will be necessary to throw off part of the money to Yuuji. This time, five thousand, because if I send four thousand every day, it will be suspicious.An hour later, I was in the camp and was already moving towards the exit, when a familiar voice rang out from the left.- I told you, I'm not interested.I froze, looked to the side. There, leaning her back against the wall of the house and crossing her arms over her chest, Laska froze. Opposite her, with his back to me, is a guy in a metal breastplate, helmet, and mail trousers. On his left hand he has an iron shield next to a one-handed sword at his belt.“Come on, I said I would cry,” the guy said.My heart sank a little, because I recognized Galldin by his voice, a guy whom I had only recently helped with the castars. How the h