Chapter 13 – Chaper 13 – Goodbye everyone~!

Park Taeyang, who works as a Counselor at the Seoul Central Alchemy Center, unwrapped the package sent by Alchemy Slime-nim.

Inside was an object with a color and size reminiscent of a 20L water jug.

Smooth on the outside, full of elasticity inside, and faintly sloshing, it was.

‘A Slime?’

Seeing the note asking for immediate contact upon receipt, he made a call.

-Did you receive it?

“Yes. Alchemy Slime-nim. Is this perhaps a new product?”

-No. If it were a new product, I would have sent it to the warehouse. And that’s not a liquid. If I only send one, it just gets a safety inspection and ends up being disposed of, right?

“Our center also provides consultations for new products.”

Not every alchemy product an Alchemist makes can be a hit.

An Alchemist who has hit products selling hundreds daily can still have dismal sales for new products. There are also cases where this dismalness spreads to existing products, causing overall sales to plummet.

To prevent such situations, alchemy centers also offer new product consultations.

-Ah, is that so? I’ll keep that in mind next time.

“If it’s not a new product, what is this?”

-It’s a child who will work in my place.

“Yes?”

-If you put in materials, it spits out <Insole Slime>.

“Have you succeeded in automation?”

-Since it’s a living child, please don’t handle it too roughly.

Park Taeyang swallowed his breath and covered his mouth.

‘An artificial life form!’

An Alchemist’s manufacturing method is protected like a patent by the first-to-invent principle, even without formal application.

But in the world of alchemy, adding just one ingredient can significantly change the effect.

It’s not uncommon for someone doing licensed production to bypass the original inventor’s rights with a slight improvement.

The moment you provide your manufacturing method to another Alchemist to increase production volume, you have to throw yourself into even fiercer competition.

Alchemists who dislike this take in disciples.

Because the master takes a certain percentage of the results produced by the disciples under them.

But there are people who dislike even this.

One conclusion reached by Alchemists who want to completely monopolize their results.

Artificial life form.

Alchemists reach this conclusion because the core of alchemy cannot be replaced by machines.

“What was the price?”

But the creation of life always comes with a price.

Even if you don’t need to open the Gate of Truth, you still have to pay a considerable price.

That could be a vast amount of precious materials.

Or it could be the Alchemist’s body.

-Thank you for thinking of that first.

-A newly acquired skill was consumed and disappeared in creating that child.

-The levels of other skills also dropped significantly.

Sometimes, it is fragments of the accumulated past and future.

“You made a great decision.”

Park Taeyang felt regret that he couldn’t create a new artificial life form himself, but was relieved that it wasn’t an illegal act.

-My skill levels dropped, but that child will do the work from now on, so you don’t need to worry.

“This child’s stats…. How much work can this child do?”

-I don’t know that either, but the 500 pairs I sent this time. It didn’t even take an hour to make them with that child.

“Operation…. How long can it work?”

-24 hours a day. It doesn’t need sleep or rest.

‘At least 12,000 pairs a day!’

This amount is enough to make one consider limiting the supply, going beyond just meeting demand.

-And you can also change the items it produces.

-Currently, it can make four types.

-<Insole Slime D>, focused on deodorizing and antibacterial properties.

-<Insole Slime+>, which enhanced all aspects of the existing <Insole Slime>.

-<Pack Slime>, which reduced elasticity, increased stickiness, and enhanced the skin regeneration effect.

-<Pack Slime C>, which reduced the effect compared to <Pack Slime> and made it a bit more like a toy.

-You can change the color and adjust the size when producing all of them.

Insole market, athlete’s foot remedy market, foot care market, atopic market.

After explaining these four markets, it completed products tailored to each market.

In the world of alchemy, adding just one ingredient can significantly change the effect.

This means there is much room for product improvement, but at the same time, changing a product in a desired direction is very difficult.

To think it would disappear for a few days and come back with four derivative products prepared.

Any other Alchemist hearing this would have shouted, telling them not to lie.

Due to insufficient data, we don’t know how effective the new products will be.

As the alchemy product market is conservative, sales volume will temporarily decrease.

There will be quite a few voices saying they don’t need new things and should just keep making the existing ones.

But if the effects of all derivative products are proven.

12,000 units a day might not be enough.

-It has enough intelligence to understand simple text.

-If you install a screen inside the machine and input the type and quantity from the outside, it will make them.

Furthermore, convenience in the production process was also considered.

Just how great is this Alchemist’s talent?

But it’s still too early to rejoice.

Materials are important.

Unless it is a god who creates something from nothing, this artificial life form will produce products using what it consumes as material.

Sometimes there are Alchemists who invest 10 times the material cost to improve the effect by 10%, thinking they are making improvements.

There are also Alchemists who put in rare materials that rarely appear on the market.

If you have to grind in the same amount of natural pearls to make <Pack Slime>, then you have to give up on <Pack Slime>.

-Magic stones must be supplied.

Magic stones are the basic ingredient of alchemy products.

It’s as natural as licorice going into traditional Korean medicine.

“What grade should it be?”

-As long as the total energy is satisfied, you can fill it only with Lowest grade magic stones.

“What is the total amount?”

-It varies depending on the quality of other materials, but one magic stone yields about ten pairs of <Insole Slime+>.

The grade and quantity of magic stones consumed are truly optimal.

How great would it be if other Alchemists could produce so efficiently?

-Next are caloric content and mass. For caloric content, any organic matter is fine, and for mass, it doesn’t matter the type. It can literally be plastic.

Park Taeyang flinched at the words conveyed over the phone.

“Is plastic that is mixed with various things and cannot be recycled also possible?”

-Yes. But don’t expect too much. How much can that small thing decompose and absorb?

“That’s true, but it’s a shame.”

The problem of household waste is perhaps a problem that will never be solved.

If the amount this amazing life form could process in a day were large, there could have been an innovation in the waste treatment industry.

-Still, it can probably handle the amount of alchemy waste generated at a single center without issue.

“Really?”

-Yes. You don’t have to worry about getting sick from side effects. I ordered and fed it Grade D alchemy products, so I’m sure.

-Even so, waste from products made by Alchemists Grade C or higher would be burdensome, so it should be kept below that.

In the first place, products Grade C or higher don’t produce much waste themselves.

Because the number of products is small and the disposal rate is low.

‘This is… an incredible matter.’

The claim that too many alchemy products are being discarded has been endlessly raised.

The basis for this claim is always the cost of disposal.

Alchemy waste is even harder to dispose of than pharmaceuticals.

It must be incinerated at extremely high temperatures, which naturally costs a lot.

Environmental pollution controversies always follow.

It doesn’t end with just one center being freed from that controversy.

Such precedents lend strength to counterarguments.

-Oh, and as that little one grows, the amount it processes and produces will increase day by day.

Park Taeyang silently stood up and placed the cushion from the chair under the sacred life form.

‘If I take this raw, I’ll definitely get sick.’

Under the pretext of supplying materials, if I pocket the disposal costs, the relationship will soon collapse.

It’s better to keep the person rather than chase immediate profit.

While it’s impossible to pass on the disposal costs entirely, I must offer the maximum benefit to Alchemy Slime.

Who knows?

Perhaps one day, a new Slime might be granted to me.

As an Alchemist, your level is bound to rise over time.

How wonderful would it be if, with every skill gained, a new lovely and sacred Slime is created for me?

If just one were placed in every Seoul and metropolitan city, no one could even open their mouth about disposal costs.

Because every time waste is processed, there’s something to sell.

Isn’t that what alchemy is?

Turning trash into gold-that’s true alchemy.

-Oh, by the way. Please keep the Slime from being exposed outside. Who knows who might target it?

“Yes. We will ensure strict security.

-It might be fine to just put it in a machine and weld it shut. No, please do that.

“Huh?”

Lock this lovely and sacred Slime in a machine?

-And since that little one will do the work, I don’t have to move, right?

-The materials go in, and the products come out on that side, don’t they?

-There’s no way my address will leak and someone will come to my house, right?

-So, I’m not moving.

Could it be that the only reason this great Slime was created is because they didn’t want to move?

Park Taeyang added a line in red text to the Alchemy Slime response manual.

[Never bring up the topic of moving!]

***

-I’ll request the design and send you the estimate.

-Don’t worry about the cost; half will come from subsidies, and the rest will be a low-interest loan.

-Also, most of it is just a conveyor belt, and the core part is handled by Slime, so the cost itself won’t be large.

“Yes. Thank you for your hard work.”

After the farewell, click.

The call ended.

“I’m free!”

Slime is free!

“Goodbye, everyone~!”

I’m throwing off all the shackles and chains of the world to find my happiness!

Operation Name <<Slime Tail>>.

I’ll detach a part of my body, throw it as tempting bait, and escape.

This operation was inspired by a case of an Alchemist in the HowToAlchemyShop2.pdf that Makina sent me.

A certain Alchemist, disillusioned with humanity, created an artificial life form to boost production.

[Gongdori

Skills:

Decompose Lv. 16.

Absorb Lv. 16.

Analyze Lv. 16.

Divide Lv. 15.

Control Lv. 15.

Transform Lv. 15.

Store Lv. 15.]

My Gongdori, who inherited my skill levels entirely and even leveled up during experiments.

Gongdori does the work, and the main body reaps the money.

Now that’s the spirit of a black company.

By the way, Counselor Park Taeyang’s expression looks a bit strange.

It’s the look of someone gazing at My Precious.

How do I know?

Naturally, because our senses are shared.

Gongdori is me, after all.

If you think about it, it feels similar to controlling a game character in VR.

I can move it if I want to.

When I’m not paying attention, it acts on its own, like an idle game with auto-hunt turned on.

Might as well share the skill levels too.

I heard alchemy products use a lot of monster materials.

I could have leveled up for free.

My Gongdori, eat well, grow strong, and come back.

When you return, you’ll probably have maxed out your skills, right?

It’s such a shame that Gongdori doesn’t have a trait level.

Anyway, the Alchemy Slime matter is settled!

Let’s not see each other for a while.

Starting today, I’m back to being W-tuber SLimelove.

I haven’t been able to focus on it properly lately.

“Wow. Amazing.”

Sugar Short.

The digits have become one.

100 million views. Since the revenue application passed and the views have gone up quite a bit, I’ll probably make a few million won, right?

Money is multiplying.

100,000 subscribers. Oh, I need to apply for the button.

Applied.

Wow. The views on the sugar original have gone up a lot too, huh?

It’s already hit 1 million.

“Why?”

Why are so many people coming in?

Curious about what search terms they’re using, I moved to the research tab.

My viewers’ search terms.

-Insole Slime

“Why are you showing up here?”

There’s no place untouched by the feet of <Insole Slime>.

It seems this happened because of the word ‘Slime.’

Since <Insole Slime> has become a terrifying hit.

Naturally, there would be a lot of search terms.

If four new types of Slime are released, the influx will increase even more.

Suddenly, another search term caught my eye.

-Sugar Manipulation

Sugar Manipulation?

I looked it up.

[15kg Sugar Mukbang Challenge. This doesn’t seem to be manipulated.]

What is this now?