Alchemists do not need self-cultivation

"Isn't this useless?"

"I told you long ago that the golem is immortal, and we can't stop it without dealing with the Seventy-Two Sacred Sounds."

"Could you say something I can understand?"

"Don't blame me for your lack of education!"

“Wait, the Seventy-Two Sacred Sounds?” Hugh, who was holding the stone tablet, suddenly remembered something. “I remember that the Lilburn family made their fortune with music boxes, and the huge music boxes they collected were the mechanism in the clock tower.”

Why are you suddenly bringing this up?

"It's the sound of a bell, with seventy-two different sounds produced by the seventy-two-tone scale. The true form of the Illusionary Book is a bell tower!"

"...Although I didn't understand, destroying the clock tower should be enough, right?"

Isaac sighed and snapped his fingers at the clock tower outside the window.

boom----

The massive, ancient clock tower shattered into pieces in an instant, its fragments scattering across the ground.

Just as the clock tower was being destroyed, the golem that was about to attack suddenly stopped moving.

Chapter 987: The Incident Ends

The moment the clock tower collapsed, the golem stopped moving, and after shaking twice, it broke into pieces and fell to the ground.

"...It was done so easily?"

“This clock tower was originally designed as a music box, with seventy-two notes, each corresponding to one of the seventy-two sacred sounds of the golem,” Dallian said. “The power of the Phantom Book doesn’t necessarily require words to be used; punctuation, Morse code, and pictures can all be used.”

Colonel Lilburne once designed the clock tower in the shape of a music box, translating the contents of the Phantom Book into the cylindrical structure of the music box to produce notes that only the golem could understand, so that even after his death the golem could still protect his granddaughter.

boom--

The surroundings began to shake. The lightning bolt that Hugh had summoned earlier had set the entire villa ablaze, and cracks had appeared in the ground where the group was standing.

"Run! Before the villa collapses!"

"Estella, you should leave here too!"

Even knowing that the girl was a murderer, Hugh couldn't help but speak up to warn her.

As the boulder fell from the roof, Estella maintained her gentle smile.

"I... am right here."

"what?"

"I won't feel lonely anymore, because this way... we can all live together forever."

"Wait……"

Boom! !

The roof tiles crashed down, blocking the path between Estella and Hugh, and the raging fire acted as a wall separating the two.

"hateful……"

"You're really that eager to save her?" Isaac asked, "to save someone who wants to kill you?"

"I……"

"Fine, I'll help you out since you let me stay at your place temporarily."

Isaac smiled slightly, and a large amount of lightning surged from beneath his feet.

A blinding blue lightning bolt illuminated the night sky, instantly transforming the burning villa and repairing the damaged areas in the flash.

The enormous villa looked brand new, with no trace of a major battle that had taken place there.

"..."

The crowd was utterly astonished as they stared at the wall that should have been destroyed by the golem but was now intact, and at the renovated ceiling.

"Is this... alchemy?"

"exactly."

-

The incident is over.

The police arrived the next morning.

After finding a total of nineteen bodies hidden in the villa, Estella, the murderer, was handcuffed and taken to a police car.

"Do you want her to be saved but also want her to be punished?"

"I just feel it's not right for a girl who has locked herself in a villa her whole life to die there in the end," Hugh said in a low voice.

Even after rescuing Estella, Hugh's final choice was still to notify the local police.

"If you really care about her, at least let her choose where she dies... Never mind, she's just a nobody, no need to care."

"But I still don't understand why this family has a tendency to kill. Is it really a curse?"

“It’s related to my previous education,” Darian said.

"educate?"

"The daughters of the Lilburn family, in order to induce this tendency, are inseparable from the distorted education they received in their childhood."

“I’ve heard some things like that too,” said Geese, who had been silent until now. “I heard that Estella received a very strict, even pathological, upbringing from her grandmother when she was young. I guess it’s related to that.”

"I see..."

“There’s no point in worrying about these things anymore,” Isaac sighed. “Anyway, you’ve received the check, so just take the money and head home. This trip was a waste of my time.”

"That's true, we owe you a lot for protecting us this time."

“Wait, Lord Isaac.”

Just as the group was about to leave the villa, Geese called out to him.

"what happened?"

"I am very grateful to you for saving me from Estella this time... Without you, I might not have been able to go back to see my wife."

"No need for thanks..."

"You must be a legendary alchemist. I thought there were no more alchemists in the world, but the abilities you have displayed are truly eye-opening."

Whether it was his unparalleled combat prowess or his ability to instantly repair a massive villa, these things seemed like miracles to Geese.

"It is truly a shame that such a powerful alchemist as Your Excellency has remained unknown. Rest assured, I will spread the word about Your Excellency's great deeds as soon as I return."

"No, no, I know I'm very capable, but I don't need fame. That kind of thing is useless to me."

"I understand. Are you saying that ordinary people are not qualified to know your name? I was being rude."

"I didn't say that."

“Isn’t this great?” Dalian grinned mischievously. “Let people in the circle know the name of the alchemist Isaac, and a lot of people will ask you for help. At that time, you can ask them for information about the Book of Illusions. This is much more convenient than following us around to look for it.”

"...I feel like I've gotten myself into trouble."

Despite this, Giss seemed intent on promoting Isaac, since the wondrous sights he had witnessed today were certainly a topic of conversation among the nobles.

Geese left first, while Isaac, Darian, and Hugh got into the car they had driven and planned to return to their original location.

As the car drove off, the group moved further and further away from the villa that had long since been abandoned.

"By the way, Hugh, can I ask you a question?"

"Excuse me?"

“I saw a world map when I was with the Lilburn family. Could you tell me about that country called ‘Suvar’?”

"Suvius? That country must be quite famous, don't you know it?"

"No, I've never heard of it."

"It seems that the rude alchemist used to be a guy who liked to stay in dark rooms all day fiddling with those flasks and basically didn't care about worldly affairs."

Dalian would never miss an opportunity to harm Isaac.

“It was a small country located between Italy and France, and a member of the Allied Powers,” Hughes explained. “It was also one of the victorious nations in that war.”

"Really? I've never heard of them being a powerful nation."

"A little weaker than Italy next to him."

"A little weaker than a slacker, then he seems just average."

"You've suddenly become interested in this country?"

"Zhi Shu is worried that the textbooks I wrote might have been picked up by them. Anyway, it would be best to investigate all European countries."

Chapter 988: The Alchemist at the Beginning of the Century

Appearing with the arrival of the new moon, wielding the power of creation and destruction.

Its voice is majestic and powerful, its appearance is breathtakingly beautiful, its kindness is as vast as mountains and rivers, and its anger is as raging as stormy waves.

He is the last inheritor of the mystery.

He was an alchemist at the beginning of the century.

Its name is—

Isaac.

……

"In short, your reputation has indeed spread among several nobles now. What do you think, Isaac?"

"I'm just looking at random things."

Isaac slammed a book on the table in annoyance. In front of him stood Hugh, who was trying to suppress his laughter, and Darian, who was already laughing out loud.

"I won't delve into the cultural level of these nobles. Is 'beauty that could topple kingdoms' meant to describe me? And that 'across mountains and rivers,' does he think it means finding a feng shui treasure land suitable as a grave? And mountains and rivers."

"Don't take it too seriously, pfft... cough, sorry, I meant your name as an alchemist has already spread, and recently more and more people have been asking you for work."

Hugh couldn't help but laugh out loud in the end.

"I get angry just thinking about the jobs they ask me to do. They all want to drag me to their family banquets to show off. These guys will make any request just to save face. Do they think I'm a circus clown?"