Alchemist In The Apocalypse: Rise Of A Legend!

Runes And Inscriptions[4]

[Ace POV],

Because I had to restart from the beginning, I took a short break to catch my breath. I also used this short break to bring a bottle of water out of my storage ring to quench my thirst.

Although I didn't have a clock or watch to check the time, I knew that with everything that had happened in the basement from the time I began arranging it until now, an hour had already passed.

As I reflected on this, and somehow managed to extend this 'short rest' for a few more minutes, I returned to what I was doing before and took out another scroll, or more accurately, three more scrolls.

Because it was already obvious that I was a total noob at this, I decided to start from the very beginning by making everything easier for myself, thus the three plain scrolls.

I planned on using one to map out the rune lines I could use to see which one would connect.

I was going to use another plain scroll to draw the bone dagger so I could experiment with the rune lines I was able to link and see how the engraving would work in the model, and the plain scroll was for the final sketch that would be my visualisation, but because that would be left until later, I set the third scroll aside for a while.

I was only going to draw on it if I was certain of what I was doing.

With these thoughts in mind, I finally got to work, first drawing the model of the bone dagger before moving on to the next step, which was sketching out the rune lines to see which one would work.

These two steps appeared to be simple, but it wasn't until one began the actual work that one realized how difficult everything was.

Drawing a model was not at all difficult for me.

My problem began when I began attempting to connect the rune lines.

While it was easier to simply map everything out on the plain scroll and begin linking the randomly scattered rune lines on it, everything appears to be fine until you try to replicate the rune line on the experimental bone dagger on the plain scroll in front of me.

As a result, I had to waste several plain scrolls after that, until I gave up trying to replace plain scrolls and just started cleaning the charcoal on the scrolls with my hand rather than wasting more scrolls.

The sketch did become more cluttered and untidy, but I was still able to complete it.

When I couldn't seem to link the right rune lines, I started forcing them together until it looked like it made sense and after a few more hours doing this, I later succeeded in doing one that looked like it could work and when I tried to replicate it on my bone dagger sketch, it fortunately matched.

But I couldn't take a break because I hadn't even begun with the main work, but since the difficult part for me appears to have been cleared, I didn't think I'd have as much stress with engraving the inscriptions and connecting them with the rune lines.

All I had to do was find a suitable part of the already mapped out rune lines to clean out and replace with an inscription, while ensuring that the lines remained connected as a whole through the inscription.

And I was supposed to repeat this process three times, so I returned to work without thinking about anything else.

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'Ah' I sighed.

After a relatively long sign, I drank the remaining water in my hand and placed it in my storage ring before turning to return my attention to the 'mess' in front of me.

What I thought would be simple input of the inscription turned out to be not easier than mapping out the rune lines.

Fortunately, I was only engraving three inscriptions, so I made it out alive.

Because there was already a beginning, I engraved the 'Ah' around the tip of the bone dagger, the 'Soh' around the middle area, and the 'Bb' around the bone dagger handle.

After connecting all three inscriptions with the rune lines, I linked the loose end of the entire rune line to the bone dagger's end hilt and linked in to the engraved 'Absorb' rune, 'ASB#'.

The 'ASB#' rune represented the 'Absorb' rune.

The name alone gave a good indication of what the rune did, which was to absorb.

According to the primordial chronicle in my head, the 'Absorb' rune had the ability to absorb and return the magical properties of an unranked rank magical attack or spell.

This was quite simple to understand, but until I tested it, I tried not to make any assumptions about the rune.

After finally visualising the rune I wanted to make through a sketch, I dragged my wheeled chair to the table where I was going to perform my other step in rune making, which was the table where the monster corpse was.

But before I went there, I went to the table that held the relatively small knife I brought from the store from the other table, and even when I got to the table that held the earth rat corpse, I still had to move the bottled blood surrounding the earth rat corpse back to the table I just left that held the stove, pot, and others.

And rather than calling what I was about to do another step in rune making, it was much better to simply call it processing the material object required for the rune, which is also a step in its own right.

I stood up from my chair, unable to process a monster corpse while sitting, and briefly examined the earth rat corpse in front of me.

Since I was going to make a bone dagger from the earth rat's bones that wouldn't be longer than half a meter and wouldn't even reach it, I needed to decide which bone part in its body would be best for what I had in mind, and after a few seconds of deliberation, I decided on the leg bone.

It should be strong, but when I tried to cut the leg off with the gradeless knife in my hand, the knife broke instead.

When I saw this, I had the urge to do a facepalm because I should have expected it.

Why did I think an ordinary knife could even cut a layer of a rank 1 monster, even if it was now a corpse?

Perhaps its body defense should have weakened with time after death, but the fact is that the earth rat corpse had not been dead long when I placed it in my storage ring.

With this in mind, I placed the now-ineffective knife in my storage ring before calling the primordial chronicle in my head and proceeding to the general sub option of the store to look for a better knife now and one with a grade.

Fortunately, I didn't have to look long before I found what I was looking for.

[High Grade Normal Grade Magic Steel Knife],

A magic steel knife at the top of normal grade items created by an Advanced Blacksmith in his spare time, but because he was only doing it for fun, the magic steel knife could not rise in rank.

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[Buy for 25 Gold Coins?],

[Y/N],

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'25 gold coins?'

That was only ten gold coins short of purchasing the magical structure that I and my team had brought.

Normal grade items are really too handy.

It appears that I was also correct in stating that even in mini grades within a grade, there were differences between items of the same grade.

​ If I succeed in making a rune, I'm curious what grade it will be.

As I considered this, I confirmed my intention to purchase the magical steel knife via the primordial chronicle, and when it finally appeared in front of me after my coins had been reduced yet again, I immediately got to work with it.

With this purchase and the previous ones, the total amount of gold coins I spent was close to 50.

It would have been more if I hadn't already prepared materials for myself.

This was also the reason I didn't try to buy another bottle of crystal powder because, aside from the fact that I didn't need another, one bottle alone cost 10 gold coins.

Even without it, the items I've brought up to this point have successfully reduced my over 1000 gold coins to 982 gold coins.

It appeared to be many, but given that I had just spent close to fifty gold coins after receiving a 'huge' amount of gold coins, it didn't appear to be that many again.

As I considered these things, I continued with my work, and when I was finished cleanly cutting off the earth rat's leg, I returned the remaining corpse to my storage ring and began the next process.

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