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Return of The 8th Class Mage (Web Novel) - Chapter 158 The Tripartite Expedition (1)
Chapter 158 The Tripartite Expedition (1)
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Ledio gulped at Baion’s words. How can a book make a third-class alchemist to a first-class? Any alchemist would want to lay his hands on it. Ledio’s heart began to beat faster, and his lips became dry. He even began to feel parched.
“How, how can that be possible?”
Ledio asked while trying to keep still his shaking hands and fast-beating heart.
“Alchemy is not a field where you can simply create whatever you want just by putting together ingredients. You need to do precise measurements, have to have the experience to confirm the status of the herbs that change by the second, and have to be born with a sharp eye…”
“Yes, you need all that. However…”
Baion spoke as he tapped his behind with the ‘alchemy book for experts.’
“Everything you just said is in there. Whoever reads this book will know the best ways to measure and will have eyes and experience up to my level.”
“What…”
“Why, you can’t believe me?”
“Even if the explanations are of the best quality, how can such a feat be possible? It would be impossible for even me, let alone a third-class alchemist.”
“You live in a world where your father, who you thought dead, comes back alive. How can you be so skeptical in such a crazy world?”
“……”
“You grew up to a boring adult! This is why a child needs parental supervision.”
Baion was speaking anything in his mind, and he clicked his tongue before staring at Douglas.
“Hey, grandson.”
“Do you also think like your father? Do you think what I just said was nonsense?”
“I…I…”
Douglas was now the one being questioned, and while he looked surprised for a moment at the sudden inquiry, he quickly came back to his senses and answered.
“I think it may be possible.”
“Your answer is the opposite of your father’s. Why? Explain. If you have spoken differently without thinking, you also do not have the right to get this amazing book.”
Was he not going to give the book to them? Ian almost spoke that he did not have time, barely managed to stifle his words, and instead quietly observed the situation.
“If you’re satisfied with my answer, you have to give some satisfactory explanations to my father regarding your identity and how you appeared from that alchemy book! You heard me, right?”
“You’re spunky. All right, let’s hear the quality of what you have to say. I’ll decide after that.”
Baion nodded like he was interested, which meant he would grant Douglas’s request.
“Then I’ll say the reason why anyone can become the king of alchemists with only this book…”
Douglas started answering, and everyone’s attention focused on him, including Ian, Ledio, and even the disinterested Evantus.
“It’s because… your level had been so high that you reached the sky…?”
“……?”
“I mean, you’re like Ian at magic…and you have used a way that we cannot even imagine creating such a magical book…”
Douglas’s voice became smaller with each second, and the difference was too much compared to the confidence he spoke the first sentence with.
“That may be why…”
What Baion said did not make sense. How can an alchemist with little talent change to one of the best with only a book? It would be nearly impossible even with great magic, and Douglas would have been unable to answer accurately.
“Is that your best answer?”
“……”
“Really?”
“Actually, I…”
“You’re correct.”
“Don’t know…what?”
“You gave the right answer, despite that you somehow just guessed it.”
Had Douglas really given the right answer? Everyone looked suspicious.
“Here.”
Baion seemed disinterested in how others looked at him and just threw the book to Douglas. Douglas’s body swayed only by receiving it standing up because of its thickness.
“Open it, and you can feel why that trivial answer had been the correct one.”
Douglas grabbed the ‘alchemy book for experts’ with both hands and opened it slowly, as Baion suggested. His breath came in and out deeply as he stood rigidly. Cold sweat dripped from Douglas’s forehead, and his face and expression that was in between a boy and a man could be seen more apparent than ever.
“Can I…open it right now?”
“As you like.”
The book opened, and only the beginning was the difficult part, as everything else moved along smoothly. Douglas turned over each page of the book and repeated the movements like he had been allured. It was at that moment when Douglas’s eyes grew wide.
“……!”
Words made of bright pink mana came out like flower pollen from the book, which was not the only thing going on. The words began to be absorbed through Douglas’s eyes and ears.
‘That’s…?’
Ian’s eyes brightened at the sight, as he guessed that what the process was for- even if the method used was a bit different. He had used a similar way in order to learn ‘black magic’ as fast as he could recently.
‘However…Douglas would not be able to endure for long if he used that method…”
Put simply, he was ‘absorbing an immense amount of information in his head.’ Even Ian had avoided using that method until he could protect his brain using the power of language.
‘Leaving him like that…!’
However, Douglas did not even have similar mana, let alone the power of language to protect his brain. He was an ordinary person, and it would be nearly impossible to avoid the side effects.
“Stop!”
Ian separated Douglas and the book, but it had been too late. Ian could only see the whites of Douglas’s eyes, and reddish bubbles were coming out from his mouth, nose, and ears.
“……!”
Ian’s face distorted after confirming the side effects, and Ledio looked the same. The two men glared at Baion simultaneously, but he only walked to the sculpture where the book had been stored like he did not care a bit.
“One did not come out yet.”
Baion mumbled like he wanted them to hear and breathed mana into the sculpture once more. An object came out from deep inside the sculpture’s head, but it was not an alchemy book, let alone a book. A vial containing a pale green liquid fell onto Baion’s palm.
“Have him drink that.”
Baion spoke as he threw that vial to Ledio.
“What is this draught?”
“It’s for the head. He might become smarter if he’s lucky.”
“Can we trust you?”
“He will die if you don’t in a minute.”
Ledio threw away all tenacity at Baion’s definite answer and had Douglas drink it after opening the vial’s cap. Douglas’s eyes returned to normal, the reddish bubbles calmed down, and his pale face quickly found its blush again.
“What, what is this?!”
On the one hand, Ledio was relieved at the speedy recovery but could not hide his surprise and amazement as an alchemist on the other.
“A draught like this existed…?”
According to Ledio’s knowledge regarding alchemy, he only knew one medicine that would immediately show a biological response in full effect after drinking.
‘It has to be a deadly poison.’
Unless it was a poison of the highest levels that a high-class assassin would use, all medicine in this world needed time to take effect and spread in the body.
“Hey, are you surprised?”
“Ah…that’s.”
“Expect much. A mere draught like this will be the basic of basics for that kid now. He would make it without much effort while picking his nose.”
“That means.”
Ian intervened in Baion’s speech.
“Can Douglas make that draught I spoke to you about?”
“Oh, of course.”
Baion did not hesitate a moment in his answer.
***
Even if he had so many problems to prepare for or solve, time did not care a bit for Ian’s situation or any others.
‘Except for Fran Page, who is the cause of all these problems.’
While Fran, who used the power of time as he wanted, would not know what the pressure of time meant, it was different for Ian. The ten days had been breathtakingly busy.
“We will sally soon.”
The mechanic Siram approached Ian and spoke. They were at Siram’s underground workshop, the massive space where the airship ‘Dragon’s Heart’ was stored.
“All right.”
Ian nodded lightly as Siram went up the airship, saying that they will proceed.
“You have to unload everything we prepared and shoot the flare immediately, so the tripartite expedition troops will move without any hesitation.”
A large portal appeared in the underground workshop space with Ian’s last request, which was the passage the Dragon’s heart could come in and out.
With a rumbling noise, the airship’s head turned to the portal as it started to rise using the dragon heart, which creates mana on its own, as its resource. The ship started to move, and a vast sky showed through the portal. The sky was above the Eastern Plains, where the preparations would begin a battle that would become history.
“Umm, I have come at the right place.”
Siram mumbled in satisfaction, and he continued to fly above the empty sky of the Eastern Plains. The enormous shadow of the ‘Dragon’s Heart’ rolled over the quiet grounds.
“A little bit more, a little bit more…”
The ship seemed to be headed at the center of the plains for its first destination from its regular direction and slow speed.
“All right, now’s the time for…”
They had crawled for quite a long time until the Dragon’s heart arrived at the center of the Eastern Pains. Siram had been given three missions from now, and he now had to perform the first and most important task.
Siram’s right hand wandered over the handle that appeared near the pilot’s seat as he took in a deep breath. He seemed to need to pull the handle.
“I’m going, going…should I?”
Siram hesitated longer than he expected, and he covered his eyes with his left hand before fumbling his right hand on the handle.
“Here goes nothing!”
The ‘red handle’ next to the pilot seat, which was the ‘unlocking handle’ for the oval-shaped object fixed under the airship, was pulled without delay as Siram shouted. The metal locks and safety devices connected to the oval structure were unlocked with speed.
“Let’s go-!”
Now, the black oval shape under the airship, which remained a mystery, dropped down in the middle of the Eastern Plains.
