Chapter 44 – How Much! All It Takes!(2)

I no longer felt the clamor of after school that I had felt around me before I knew it.

It arrived at the workshop street.

When I lifted my head and looked around, the overall well-established scene of the street unfolded in front of my eyes.

Tidy floors, flashy signboards, and some stupendous objects adorning the show windows.

Easy-to-understand equipment such as swords and staffs, as well as jewelry-studded accessories and unknown potions, were nicely displayed.

Like District 1, the atmosphere gives off a strong sense of luxury.

But this isn’t where I’m aiming.

“Let’s go.”

“Yes. You can go in like this.”

Carla nodded and continued walking. Inside. A little further inside.

Starting with the flashy District 1, the straight District 2, and the somewhat neat District 3, the atmosphere changed completely at some point.

“Sold practice longsword cheaply! Buy two and get one more!”

“Selling a set of 10 low-grade vitality potions! It’s watery, so potion addiction isn’t too bad! A bottle of this will give you a fresh start in the morning!”

“I just give you a prototype shield ring! It’s free. It’s free! Instead, write it in the next dungeon practice and leave a review! With good content if possible!”

It was only a few meters in, but the atmosphere changed like a sledgehammer market.

Here is District 4.

In fact, if you think about it, it makes sense.

Which class takes up the most weight in the academy? It is class C, the lower class.

At the same time, it is also the class with the highest proportion of commoners.

Apparently, nobles recognize their talents from a young age, and there are many cases where they have an environment to train their talents.

Conversely, due to the nature of commoners who have little exposure to swordsmanship or magic, they often become aware of their talents while working at blacksmiths or herbalists.

That’s why there are especially many commoners in the Faculty of Production.

Thanks to this, Workshop Street District 4, where Class C of the Faculty of Manufacturing is gathered, is no different from an outside market.

“It’s always noisy here, Master.”

“It must be desperate in its own way.”

Due to its nature, the department of production costs a lot of money every time it tries to do something, so it must be trying to find a good sponsor somehow.

If the goal is simply selling money, there is also a way to deliver it to the academy.

However, the product that was delivered was not marked by the producer, only that it was made by the academy, so the name could not be announced.

It is said that it is impossible to find a sponsor by supplying the academy.

For your information, there is no other department where sponsors are as important as the production department.

As long as I can’t create a masterpiece or a great product, I have a strong feeling that I’m improving my skills by pouring money into it.

It is different from knights who only need a weapon to train, or priests who only need a quiet closet.

Wizards cost a lot, but… Most of that is labor cost.

Wizards who create magic with their own imagination and will usually have a strong ego, and as a result, they demand a lot of money to teach someone.

It’s a story that doesn’t matter at the academy that teaches for free.

Anyway, in this situation, only the students of the Faculty of Production are struggling with funding.

Most of the commoners don’t have money, but every time I try something new, the money is broken.

Of course, the basics are all provided by the academy, but… Ordinary materials have their limits.

No matter how hard you hit steel, it doesn’t turn into mithril.

Even if you have the ability to make things that go beyond the limits of materials, it is only natural that better things come out if you make them with better materials.

So, even if it is a quiet season when the 4th graders have just graduated and the new students are screaming, they will still be desperate.

Because you can’t waste even a single day of an opportunity to increase your ransom.

In addition, aristocrats who wanted to recruit decent people among them, or students from other departments who were similarly poor came to buy necessary things at a cheap price.

With so many people mixed together, it’s bound to be noisy.

But the person I’m looking for is far from here either.

“From here on out, I’ll take the lead.”

“Uh… Yes.”

Carla paused for a moment as if she was worried about something, but soon nodded and stood behind me with a calm attitude.

He must have wondered why I was so unconcerned with the appearance of District 4, and how I was going to find it by myself when I had been guided all this way because I didn’t know the way.

I can’t answer you though.

I’ll have to come up with a good excuse for this, though.

He sighed lightly and headed to the nearest alchemy workshop. It was a place that had been touting customers for selling vitality potions a while ago.

At least this place has a workshop set up in a decent place in District 4.

“Excuse me.”

“Yes! Welcome! … Freshman?”

A senior who tilts his head at the small book and staff badge on the chest of my school uniform.

“If you were a freshman, today would be your first day of class, right?”

“Looking around, I’ve come this far.”

“Okay? He’s also diligent. Well, a guest is a guest, freshman or not. Anything you’re looking for? It’s from the lowest to the lowest grade, but there are pretty much all the potions, and there are a few intermediate potions of recovery and vitality potions.”

“Then can you show me the vitality potion? From the first day, the class was a bit tough.”

“Aha? Are you in class A? There, Professor Iona said that from the first day, she rolls a lot. Anyway, if that’s the case, come in. I will show you things.”

As soon as he entered the store, he looked around the corner and placed three small test tubes filled with yellow potion on the table.

It is characteristic that the color gradually becomes more vivid as you go from left to right.

“From the left, the lowest, lowest, and intermediate. It’s made according to the official recipe without much arrangement, but it can be mass-produced instead. It’s not that the effect is inferior. This is a sample, so you can drink it and check it out.”

No, self-appeal here?

What… In a world where there were no factories, mass production of potions was a major issue.

If I were the heir of a certain territory, I would have been tempted.

However, I shook my head because there was no such thing as Young Ji-min to feed, and what I was trying to buy here was a kind of information fee.

“Well. That’s fine. I’ve already decided where to live. 10 intermediate bottles, please.”

“Uh… There are only 7 bottles?”

“Then seven bottles, please.”

It is possible to mass-produce low-grade potions, but is it the type that makes it difficult to make even if the grade is slightly higher?

Maybe it has that kind of trait.

After confirming that the senior’s attendant, who was watching the counter, took out the potions one by one with skillful movements, he handed over the payment.

The senior who still puts the money in his pocket with a bewildered expression. I also put the potion in my inventory and opened my mouth.

“Anyway, I have a little question.”

“Yes?”

“Do you know where Fay Jarnshad’s workshop is?”

“…….”

Momentary silence.

But even though he was embarrassed, he nodded his head obediently.

“Looking at it now, he wasn’t a customer who came to buy potions. Well, I don’t know why the freshmen are looking for him… I bought you a lot, so there’s nothing I can’t tell you.”

He bowed lightly to the senior who gave him the way to go in detail, and only then did he step out of the workshop.

And as soon as I got a little further away, Carla tugged at my sleeve.

“Master, master.”

“Yes?”

“Did he ever know someone?”

“Well… It is. It’s just that I knew it myself. Carla, have you never heard of that? I’m in the second year now, so I’m the one who entered while you were in school.”

“A. How many people are in the academy, students from other departments. And how do I know the name of the person who was in first grade at the time.”

That’s it too.

“What… First of all, since you’re in Class A, your skills will be certain.”

“Yes? Uh… Master? That’s it… If you’re in Class A but pushed to District 4….”

“You mean there’s a problem outside of your skills?”

“Yes. Even in District 4, it’s a corner like this, so it’s probably for sure.”

That’s not wrong.

This guy has a lot of problems, but….

“Your skills are good enough to take on all that. More than anything, it’s not that Faye herself is the problem.”

“Is that enough?”

“Uh. You’ll know when you see the details.”

Just as Elisha can grow to become a great mage if she applies properly, Faye will eventually succeed in becoming a sage if she supports her in time.

… On the contrary, he is also an extreme guy who quietly commits suicide if he misses the timing.

There was still some time left before Fay took her own life… Still, wouldn’t it be better to contact them as quickly as possible?

That’s why I decided to visit him as soon as class was over.

Support is also simple. Didn’t you say Faculty of Production Hamara, who eats money, says sponsorship is important.

In H&A, it was Faye’s side story that the main character sold her footsteps and connected her with the alchemy guild, and in the process they got closer to each other….

You don’t have to follow it. In the end, if money is an issue, wouldn’t it be okay if I became a sponsor?

If Elisha had put her Sylvan Magic Tower on her back, and she had offered me a sponsorship.

I can put my play time on my back and become Faye’s supporter.

When I sneakily checked the balance of my inventory, a hearty smile came out of me.

As if he didn’t know why he was acting alone all of a suddenheheaded to a corner in District 4 with a tilted Karla.

“How much is it! How much is it!”

“Eugheek!”

“How soon will you become my exclusive!”

“Eh, money isn’t everything in the world… !”

What? Isn’t money everything in the world?

It can’t be!