8 - A Brief Farewell, and a New Beginning (2)
I’ve bought time.
That alone is enough for me.
What I lacked was absolute time.
‘If they just let me freely develop medicine, I can make it.’
Since I still have all the research I’ve done so far, it won’t take that long if I’m given the time.
I don’t know how similar Adenia Online is to reality, but if Wolhwa, the Guild Master, says so, then it must be identical to reality to that extent.
All I can do for now is trust her.
Following the staff member Wolhwa assigned to me, I looked around.
Cheongwol Guild’s building was very spacious.
Of course, that makes sense since they’re ranked 2nd among Korea’s guilds, but with such a large building, there were also many staff members walking around inside.
But…
“My, whose daughter is she?”
“Is she an elf? She’s so cute…”
‘There are so many… really…’
Isn’t this too many?
Especially, all the staff walking around were showing interest in me.
This is the first time this has happened, so I’m too embarrassed to raise my head.
‘How long has it been since I met so many different people…’
Having lived in the forest continuously before coming to this world, I couldn’t help but shrink even more.
“But I’ve never seen her before… whose daughter is she?”
“Her hair is like leaves… that’s fascinating.”
‘Ugh…’
At first, I was acting without paying attention to my surroundings due to my obsession with saving Elrina, but now that I’ve regained some composure, I’m newly having such thoughts.
That I’m embarrassed, that is.
.
.
.
Come to think of it, I…
Have I initially returned to my hometown…?
Ten years have passed since I crossed over to that world.
During those 10 years, while learning alchemy from Elrina and getting used to life in that world, to think I would return to Earth this way.
‘Though it seems quite different from the Earth I knew…’
Simply put, it’s true that I’ve returned to my hometown, but looking at how all the details are different, I wonder if a person like me from the past even existed in this world.
It is the Earth I knew, but with bigger differences… such a world.
In that case, it might be more accurate to call it a completely different world.
Right away, in the world I lived in, there were no different races or guilds, and magical tools like the Eternal Coffin didn’t exist.
Of course, things might have changed in the 10 years since I crossed over to another world, but seeing how there were stories about dimensional gates even in ancient times, it’s probably correct to view this as essentially a parallel world.
“You’ll be staying here.”
Perhaps because Wolhwa directly ordered them to guide me, the staff’s attitude was extremely polite.
‘I’ll be staying in the guild…’
What I was given was more like a luxurious house than a personal room, which made me feel a bit dazed.
“The laboratory will be completed in the near future.”
While creating in the game is important, I did need a place to create outside as well, so the talk about a laboratory was good news.
After explaining the other things in the house, they also explained the most important thing, the capsule.
Adding that an identity had already been created for me to use.
‘So quickly…?’
Creating a new identity can’t be an easy task, but seeing how quickly it came out, the claim that they’re Korea’s 2nd-ranked guild wasn’t wrong after all.
‘My age is…’
[Silvia Akemir]
[20 years old]
‘… Phew.’
I was slightly worried they might have set me as 10 or 15 years old or something like that, but fortunately, that didn’t happen.
Going to a place like school at this age would have been really too much.
‘I have an identity, and the capsule is ready.’
Then now it was time to go in and check.
I immediately entered the capsule.
Since there were no such things on the Earth where I originally lived, and I had been living a fantasy life for 10 years after crossing over to another world, I did fumble quite a bit, but…
‘This should be enough…’
I left the settings at default and started connecting first.
The capsule was prepared enough to have already purchased and installed Adenia Online.
User authentication complete
Nice to meet you, ‘Silvia Akemir’
‘Ooh, it talks…’
Is this really AI?
It’s a word I’m hearing again after 10 years, but was this word always this exciting?
Although I had thoroughly enjoyed life in another world, VR was something considered a romantic ideal in the era I lived in, so I couldn’t help but be amazed seeing technology far more advanced than the time I lived in.
Scanning body… Analyzing magical power pattern… Optimization complete.
Applying optimized settings.
Optimized settings?
Since I didn’t know well, I just went with whatever it decided.
When asked if I wanted to change my character, I decided to leave it as is.
I couldn’t think of a better model than my current appearance anyway, and above all, it was bothersome.
After fiddling with various things, it seemed to be finished as the menu disappeared and a screen appeared before my eyes.
Welcome.
Then, just as my vision turned completely white…
“Ah.”
I was somehow already inside a new world.
On a meadow with a cool breeze blowing, I was somehow standing there.
‘Isn’t there something like a tutorial here?’
Looking at how nothing appears, it seems not.
With nothing forcibly guiding me, it felt as if I had really come to a different world.
It was so similar that it made my heart sink.
Is there something like a status window?
“Status window.”
Ding!
Oh, it appeared.
[Silvia]
Lv.1
HP: 40/40
MP: 60/60
Strength: 3
Agility: 3
Vitality: 4
Intelligence: 6
Divinity: 4
Looking at the roughly appearing window, I couldn’t help but lament.
They said they would analyze my body and create my stats, but this…
‘Intelligence is the highest.’
Well, given that I have the body of a young girl and I’m an elf, it’s not unreasonable to set intelligence high.
How would you play the game if everything was low?
Looking at the total stats, it’s 20, which means the basic stats seem to be 20.
That’s fine.
I didn’t come here to raise a character anyway.
‘Magical power is…’
As long as the magical power moves as I want…
‘Huh?’
M-magical power…
It’s not moving…?!
That’s ridiculous, no.
It’s not that it’s not moving.
‘It doesn’t move freely…?!’
The sense of feeling magical power itself is dull.
It’s so dull that I questioned whether I was moving it at all.
Feeling like the game system was telling me not to move like this, my mood rapidly deteriorated, and I hastily opened the settings window.
Since it said it had set optimized settings earlier, I opened it just in case.
Magical Power Calibration: 100%
‘Is this it?’
I could tell just by looking at the word “calibration.”
I immediately changed the magical power calibration to 0%.
Only then did the magical power, which had seemed restricted, move as I wished.
That wasn’t all.
As I manipulated magical power, I began to feel the magical power around me.
But something was strange.
‘What… is this magical power…?’
The magical power is overwhelming.
An incredible density.
Much higher density than the modern era where magical power seemed to have dried up, or even the world I lived in.
It wasn’t as much as the place called the Forest of Dark Night or whatever, but even with this density, it felt like a fish finding water to me.
After all, I didn’t always move the magical power in my body but used the surrounding magical power.
For some reason, using the magical power in my body in the form of alchemy was too difficult.
The fact that it’s green magical power is one thing, but since something felt strange, I had been using alchemy by handling the surrounding magical power, so the current situation was a blessing in itself for me.
“This will do. Now all that’s left is…”
Making medicine with materials that exist around here.
For that…
I looked around the vast meadow.
I approached one of the plants.
Then…
[Sweet and Sour Flower] X 1
It showed exactly what flower it was.
Moreover, it’s a flower that existed in the world I lived in.
‘The status window even shows what kind of plant it is?!’
I looked around with an astonished expression.
It was then.
Would you like to set item information alerts?
I reflexively pressed yes.
Then information about certain flowers visible to the eye appeared.
Are all the herbs around here materials…?
‘Insane…’
Even if you know flowers well, you’d have to approach directly to check what they are and verify they’re not something similar, which is a time-consuming task.
This world didn’t have that.
It was truly an alchemy paradise.
I went crazy.
The more materials, the better!
I ran around until all the herbs in this meadow disappeared.
And the items obtained were even stored in my inventory!
It was a very, very, very, very satisfying task.