Eat poison and make potion episode 1

Episode 1. The poison tastes good (1)

“Lower-grade potions, cheap!”

“Selling armor that can withstand attacks from C-class monsters!”

The appearance of Dongro, where people used to buy and sell food, has disappeared.

In fact, buying and selling food on the street is something that only appeared in social studies textbooks in elementary school.

It was only natural, since 25 years had already passed since the world became like this.

“Haam.”

I yawned and looked at the stall.

Today too, only flies are flying.

“I wrote again today.”

Sigh.

25 years ago.

The world has completely changed.

A crack in the air that suddenly appears.

The crack that was slowly growing in size has become a gate, and beyond it is a monster.

And catching monsters is the job of the hunters who have awakened the system.

This has become common sense in society since 2000.

A world where the magic and swordsmanship of fantasy, which were once thought to be nothing more than illusions, have become reality.

“Of course, it’s a distant story for me!”

Yeah.

I stretched out my arms, rested my chin on my hand, and looked out at the noisy market.

Yeah, that’s a long way from me.

The system grants the target an appropriate job the moment they awaken.

Magic and swordsmanship are all for the combat profession.

People who make and sell equipment, like Mr. Kim in front of me, are blacksmiths.

People who make jewelry like Mrs. Choi are called jewelers.

And those who make potions like me were given the title of apothecary.

And what these jobs have in common is.

“Production work is boring….”

It is classified as a production job.

Many people say that repetitive labor in a factory is incredibly boring.

They also say that it is worn out because you keep repeating the same actions.

The same goes for production jobs.

“No. Only pharmacists are like that.”

A blacksmith striking a hammer or a carver working carefully with a magnifying glass will never get bored.

But the pharmacist was so boring that it was hard to put into words.

Use the ‘Potion Making’ skill to mix herbs from the dungeon in roughly the same amount.

Well, voila!

The potion is complete!

Okay, now let’s repeat this infinitely until we run out of ingredients.

This was the reality of being a pharmacist.

Of course, there is the point that you have to control the amount of mana that goes into ‘potion making’.

After making some potions, I got used to it and it wasn’t difficult.

“I wish I had been in a combat position.”

The location is so remote that business isn’t going well, so…

Now, it got to the point where we couldn’t even afford the material costs.

“Business is good, but I don’t have any regular customers….”

I could barely make a living, but it was so hard.

Besides, at this level, my goal would be impossible.

“Phew… .”

I let out a long sigh and stared blankly into space, when a shadow appeared in my field of vision.

“Potion, are you selling it?”

“of course.”

I sat up with a start and looked at the woman with her robe over her head, smiling brightly.

The only distinguishable feature is the red eyes hidden by the robe.

The woman wearing the robe turned inside out said, taking a card out of her pocket.

“Would you like all the potions here?”

“It’s quite expensive because it also includes high-quality potions. Is that okay?”

“it’s okay.”

Yahoo!

I let out a cheer inside and quickly turned around to put all the potions into the box.

Starting with low-level potions that are sold relatively frequently, to mid-level potions that are sold once every few months.

Even high-end potions that didn’t sell well enough to make you regret making them.

I received a card from the woman in the robe, who had been holding everything tightly.

“It’s a lump sum, right?”

“yes.”

Jiiing.

As I looked at the long, growing receipts, my spirits soared.

The woman in the robe who received the card along with the receipt looked at the receipt and muttered in surprise.

“It’s quite cheap.”

“Right? But strangely enough, business wasn’t going well.”

A robed woman carrying a box full of potions in both hands bowed her head slightly and walked away.

By the time the woman in the robe had completely disappeared from sight.

“Yay! It’s been a while since we made a profit!”

I shouted loudly.

I was always in the red and just throwing flies around, but for the first time, I sold everything.

I couldn’t stop smiling, feeling like I could fly in the sky right now.

“I should go home and order some Hawaiian pizza.”

It’s not even noon yet and I’m already getting off work.

I hummed a tune as I tidied up the store to close it up.

“Hehehe~”

I got on my bike, humming a tune of joy, and pedaled excitedly.

Just thinking about going home and rolling around watching YouTube made me feel like I had twice as much energy.

As I was going down the hill and enjoying the cool breeze, I soon couldn’t help but look dumbfounded.

“… It’s done.”

Unlike regular gates that appear with warning signs and cause damage to the surrounding area, sudden gates appear suddenly and suck in everything around them.

It is now classified as a natural disaster, like an earthquake or a storm.

I was just humming a song while riding my bike, and I got swept away by the sudden gate.

“They say I have really good luck.”

I guess it was because today was the memorial day.

* * *

The woman in the robe arrived in front of a tall building with her hands full of boxes.

The woman in the robe turned sideways at the front door and went downstairs.

The woman in the robe, who was walking through a space so quiet and still that her footsteps could be heard echoing, stopped in front of the door.

“I am here.”

“… … .”

“Mr. Im Dong-hwan?”

Squeak.

As the woman in the robe spoke, the door began to open on its own.

“Welcome, Guild Leader.”

“Yes. I managed to obtain the potion somehow.”

The robed woman handed the box containing the potion to the blue-haired man, Dong-Hwan Lim, and took off her robe.

Then, waist-length, obsidian-like hair and ruby-red eyes are revealed.

“Guild Master. I hope you didn’t find out that I’m the sword master Yu Ji-ah.”

“I wouldn’t have gotten caught because I kept wearing it upside down.”

“… Yes. This fact must be kept hidden. If it leaks out, our Black Moon Guild will no longer be… .”

Yujia, an S-class hunter and the owner of the guild Black Moon, ranked 50th in Korea, bit her lip.

okay.

This fact must not be discovered.

It’s ridiculous that a guild ranked 50th in the country has no choice but to wander around like this because it can’t find a potion dealer.

“I don’t know what the Getia Guild wants to do to us.”

“… … .”

Yujia let out a small breath, her fists clenched tightly.

“Okay. I already got the potion.”

“By the way, Mr. Hwang Ho-young said he needed a potion.”

“Then let’s go test the potion’s effects right away.”

It’s been five years since the #1 ranked guild in the country, Getia Guild, started messing with Black Moon Guild.

I had somehow managed to hold on until now, but around this time last year, the company that had been supplying me with potions suddenly stopped delivering them.

Even if you try to contract with other companies, you cannot transact because they are all under the control of the Goetia Guild.

Because of this, the Black Moon Guild had to go to the market to buy potions for the past year.

However, buying from the market has become less reliable.

This is because there were often potions that were fraudulent and ineffective.

That’s why Yujia always tested the potion at least once whenever she bought it.

“Miss. Over here.”

“…Please call me Guild Leader.”

“Oh, that’s right. Looks like you got it mixed up again, sir.”

Hahaha!

The name of the man who laughs heartily is Hwang Ho-young.

He was the second commander of the Black Moon Guild.

Lim Dong-hwan handed Hwang Ho-young the box he was holding.

“This is the potion you requested.”

“Where did you buy it today?”

“I bought it at Dongro Market.”

Hwang Ho-young nodded and rummaged through the potion box.

“But why do you need a potion?”

“I got injured. Maybe it’s because the future is gone, but the healers in the guild right now can’t cover it.”

As he spoke, Hwang Ho-young’s hands were trembling.

The hands of Hwang Ho-young, the strongest vanguard in the Black Moon Guild, are shaking in pain.

However, Yoo Ji-ah bit her lips at the reality that she had to endure the pain, and took out a high-quality red potion that sparkled like a ruby ​​from the box on behalf of Hwang Ho-young.

“This is a high-quality potion. Please drink it.”

Mulberry!

Hwang Ho-young opened the lid and drank the high-quality potion in gulps.

“Kyaa!”

Hwang Ho-young opened his eyes wide, wiping his lips as if he was drinking makgeolli.

“Huh? What is this?”

“Why are you doing that?”

It was so cheap, I wonder if it’s fake again.

Hwang Ho-young waved his hand to Yu Ji-ah, who was frowning, and said that was not the case.

“This tastes good.”

“… How does it taste?”

“Yes. It’s a potion made by an apothecary with A-class potion making skills.”

Hwang Ho-young jumped up from his seat and hit his stomach hard with his fist.

A force so strong that if you were injured, you would spit out blood from your mouth.

But Hwang Ho-young showed no sign of pain and was in good spirits.

“Besides, the potion’s effects feel better than those made by other pharmacists?”

“Guild Master. How much did you pay for this potion?”

Lim Dong-hwan opened his eyes wide as he looked at the receipt that Yu Ji-ah had quietly handed him.

“Why on earth does a store like this exist? No, more importantly, why isn’t it known?”

“I don’t know. I just heard that business is strangely bad.”

Yujia put her hand on her chin and thought about it.

This pharmacist was a talent that had to be brought in at all costs.

However, the possibility that it was a splinter group of the Goetia Guild could not be ignored.

“Mr. Dong-Hwan Lim.”

“yes.”

“Would you please investigate the owner of the potion shop?”

“All right.”

If you investigate the past and confirm that he is not a spy of the Getia Guild, you can formally request a potion delivery.

The Goetia Guild would never have thought of entrusting potions to a small shop in the market, so only the few people who knew the truth could keep their mouths shut.

‘If this happens, I won’t have to worry about potions for a while.’

Lim Dong-hwan nodded and disappeared to go to the investigation, and Yoo Ji-ah turned around and went up to the office.

That moment.

-Urgent! Urgent! Sudden Gate appears at Dongno intersection!

Stop.

Yujia paused for a moment and then quickly ran to the office.

Now was the moment when we had to hurry even for a moment.

* * *

I can’t die like this.

After my parents passed away and I was sent to an orphanage, I lived a tough life.

Then I woke up, saved up all the money I had, and even took on debt to open a store.

And since I saw a huge profit after a long time, I was going to order some mint chocolate as a bonus, but what?

Memorial Day?

“Don’t be ridiculous. I like boiled pork better than boiled pork.”

I can’t die until I write in my will that I want boiled pork rather than boiled meat to be offered on the ancestral rites table.

I looked around with my teeth clenched.

It was not the time to panic.

It was a moment when I had to use all the knowledge I had to survive.

“Crystal Cave. Does that mean the monsters that appear there are insect-like?”

Thud, thud.

The sound of a giant giant walking toward you is heard.

For the time being, I hid behind a rock and held my breath.

“Kirik.”

A locust with a huge foreleg scurried around.

The creature, whose forelegs were covered in sticky purple mucus, stood still for a while before slowly disappearing.

Only then did I let out the breath I had been holding and swallow my saliva.

“Poison Mentis… .”

This is really well done.

Why is it that the B-class monster Poison Mantis appears here?

I felt cold sweat running down my cheeks.

It was natural.

Poison Mentis’ venom is a deadly poison that causes death in less than a minute.

Because it was a deadly poison that would melt the skin of an ordinary person just by brushing against it.

“… Now that I think about it, I saw it in a news article.”

At the gate where Poison Mentis appears, there is also a grass that can detoxify Poison Mentis’ poison.

“Phew… .”

I exhaled with nervousness and carefully walked in a different direction.

The cave wasn’t that dark because of the crystal light.

Thanks to that, I was able to proceed through the cave without getting caught up in anything and ended up discovering something.

“Found it.”

Not far from the rock where they were hiding.

I found the green grass growing in abundance and ran into the field with a big smile.

“Is this the antidote?”

widely!

After breaking the blade, I used one of the two skills I had.

[Herb identification]

A skill that determines what effect a medicinal herb has.

However, the system was quiet, as if it was not enough to determine the plants in the gate where the B-class monster Poison Mentis appeared, perhaps because the skill level was D.

That means you have to try it yourself… .

“Phew… .”

Crunchy.

I chewed the grass as it was and opened my mouth.

‘It’s tastier than I thought.’

The refreshing yet tangy taste spread through my mouth.

“Cough!”

Cook, Kellogg!

Blood gushed out.

I held my heart that was pounding as if it would burst at any moment, and looked at the system notification that had just appeared.

[Mentis Flower]

[A poisonous plant that Poison Mentis eats to make its sticky venom. If it cannot be detoxified, it will kill you within a minute.]

What the hell.

Why do locusts eat grass?

Thinking that this was a desperate situation, I ate the grass next to me.

I thought that since there were so many weeds, I would probably need at least one antidote.

“Coolook!”

I guess not.

For a moment, everything flashed before my eyes and a piercing pain engulfed my entire body.

But I can’t die here.

Grit your teeth and pull out the next piece.

After eating the next piece of grass, I stretched out on the large bed, feeling my breath getting thinner.

“Shit… This is, what’s, happening, to me… .”

Die.

In fact, I knew that whether I could get the herb or not would make the difference between dying sooner or later.

So, dying wasn’t really that shocking.

That wasn’t the biggest shock.

“The last poison I ate… why is it so delicious and so gross…?”

A taste that is refreshing yet tangy.

Is this what they mean by the taste of something that two people eat together and both die?

Even though I couldn’t see anything in front of me, I pulled out the grass growing next to me.

“Fuck… .”

Even if you go, it’s okay to take one poisonous plant, right?

The moment when you are about to die while feeling the refreshing taste of Mentha Flower until the end.

[congratulations.]

[With your perverted eating habits, the unique title ‘Feeling the Poison’ was created.]

[The effect of the unique title ‘Feeling Poison’ prevents you from dying from poison.]

[S-class skill, ‘Effect Save’ is created.]

[S-class skill, ‘Effective Burst’ is created.]

[S-class skill, ‘Effect applied’ is created.]

My eyes were filled with systems.