A Monster Who Levels Up

Chapter 32

< 10. The Quickening (2) >

As soon as he came back home, Sae-Jin scoured the internet to find the cure for the Goblin’s curse.

There were two ways to deal with it.

One was to find a Wizard specialising in buffing magic to cast the purification spell, or to wait for the curse to naturally dissipate all on its own.

The former option took around four days to cure but it would cost him a pretty penny, while the latter required him to wait around for a minimum of three weeks.

"Hello? Miss Hazeline?"

That’s why he called Hazeline first. He figured that the professions of alchemists and Wizards had to have some kind of relationship with each other.

– "Oh, it’s you, Mister Sae-Jin. What’s up~?"

Fortunately for him, she happily greeted him while extending the end of her sentence.

"Ah, that is… I was…"

Sae-Jin significantly shortened the event as much as possible and explained it to her. As he was out hunting in the low Mid Tier hunting ground, he encountered a wayward Goblin Witchdoctor and ended up getting cursed by it.

– "Oh my gosh. Really? And it’s your arm, of all things… It’s a big trouble, that thing. Oh, but I’m currently in the airport getting ready to head overseas on another assignment right now… What should we do?"

"Maybe you know some other Wizard that can help me?"

– "I do know someone. But, will that be fine?"

Hazeline carefully asked him. Most alchemists hated, like a pathological illness, letting other people into their homes.

However, Sae-Jin didn’t suffer from such inflictions.

"Yes. I’ll be fine."

– "Ah, if you say so… I’ll send a Wizard who’s my junior to your home. Don’t worry about a thing and just wait for him to show up later. Ah, and I won’t tell him that you’re an alchemist so you should also watch what you say around him."

"Alright. Thank you so much. Well, I didn’t have to worry at all, then. I should have just called you the first thing."

– "Hehe. It’ll be fine. Then, please wait for him~."

The call ended with the friendly words from Hazeline. It looked like that this curse might be taken care of much easier than he thought.

Now that he didn’t have to worry about the dang thing anymore, Sae-Jin put the phone down and headed to the basement. It was the time to check out the witchcraft techniques he earned after killing that boss Goblin.

The spacious basement was divided into left and right workshops.

The one on the left was the alchemy workshop packed with tools, ingredients and Mana Stones for potion crafting, while the right side featured a sofa, the storage cabinet that stored several metal ingots as well as a glass display cabinet to show off all the items he had created so far - it was a blacksmithing workshop that just happened to not resemble one.

‘Let’s try out Spiritualisation first.’

Turning matter into a spirit form and storing it within the body, the so-called Spiritualisation. In order to test this technique, he took out a steel ingot from the storage cabinet.

While holding it, he closed his eyes and activated the spell. The solid steel became pliable like liquid, and then turned into a metal-coloured gas before entering his body.

[The spiritualised plain steel ingot has been absorbed into the host’s body, increasing the overall sturdiness. ⸢Level of Saturation 5/100⸥ (This increa

se is carried over to the other Forms.)]