Baron Territory's Guild
Sebas has been busy lately...
It is natural.
It's because I selfishly said that I wanted to learn blacksmithing, apothecary, and alchemy.
Because of that, he is adjusting various schedules, searching for the right person to be my instructor, and dealing with contacting and consulting with the guild I want to learn from.
His work is similar to that of a skilled manager at an entertainment production company.
I'm really sorry for keeping him busy.
However, for some reason, I can't understand why the person himself is working happily.
Now, let's talk about the guilds in the territory.
Basically, there are guilds of craftsmen and artisans in every domain.
A guild is a kind of association of craftsmen and artisans who discuss mutual support, job segregation, and so on.
However, in some small localities, the number of guild members is extremely small. In the worst case, there may be only one guild member.
In such cases, they belong to a guild in a neighboring or more populous territory and are treated as a distant branch.
In the case of the guilds in this territory, the three I mentioned that I wanted to learn from are treated as branches of the guilds in the frontier country.
There are only 5 blacksmiths, 3 apothecaries, and 3 alchemists in this territory.
As a form, it takes the form of saying [I am dispatched from the guild of the Frontier Count territory].
This form can be surprisingly convenient.
This is because the lord of the land and the guild can build an equal relationship.
Because they are [dispatched], if the lord makes unreasonable demands, they can use the threat of [the guild will withdraw from this territory].
For this reason, negotiations with these three guilds must proceed carefully and cautiously.
I can't let the pressure from the lords' family force me to not do what I want.
Discussions with each of the guilds took quite a while, but they managed to work out a solution.
That's how I became able to train as a blacksmith, apothecary, and alchemy.
One week after the agreement was reached, I first visited the Alchemy Guild.
The Alchemy Guild was like a small warehouse.
The warehouse was overflowing with tools and materials, and there was no place to step.
In the midst of all this, there were three people who looked like scientists. Apparently, these people are alchemists.
I asked them, [What kind of work do you usually do?] as I observed their work.
They are alchemists who, at the request of the blacksmith guild, remove impurities from metal, or pour mana into ingots such as iron to turn them into magic steel, or at the request of the apothecary guild, extract the necessary ingredients from medicinal herbs to make high-performance medicine.
The Alchemist Guild's main job is to create magic stones.
The magic stone is a familiar thing in fantasy.
An excellent item that can easily produce various effects by channeling mana.
It is a useful item that can be used as a stove if it has fire magic in it, or as a substitute for water, or as a blower for wind, but it is expensive.
The reason for this is that magic stones can only be obtained from inside the body of a monster. The size of the stone varies depending on its use, and a large stone can only be obtained from a large monster.
Magic stones from goblins, wolves, horn rabbits, and other commonly hunted monsters are of little value.
Alchemists can artificially create such magic stones.
There are two manufacturing methods: one is to crush and collect worthless magic stones from goblins, wolves, horn rabbits, etc., and when they reach a certain size, they contain magic power, and the other is to process the stones that are easy to contain mana.
By the way, if you have [Life Magic], you don't need magic stones, right? That is an outrageous argument.
[Life magic] always consumes mana, whereas magic stones do not require mana other than for activation.
Once activated, fire will continue to burn, water will continue to flow, and wind will continue to blow.
It's designed to stop if you apply mana again when you want to stop it.
Well, alchemists were wary at first. Why would a noble child be interested in alchemy?
I honestly answered, [In the future, I want to learn alchemy because I want to make everything from scratch].
"By from scratch, do you mean, for example, that you want to make your own magic steel and forge it to make weapons and armor?"
I nodded and then added.
"The same goes for medicines. I would like to make good medicines by extracting and mixing them myself."
The alchemists were a little taken aback by that answer.
"That's called arrogance. We can make good things because we complement each other's strengths and weaknesses."
"Still, I cannot give up my dream of making everything from scratch.''
The alchemists thought about those words for a while before answering.
"I see. Understood. Then we will teach you what we can for that dream."
"Thank you!"
Thus, I was able to get an alchemist teacher.
Tftc.
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