In creating the Homunculus, I need three materials.
First, the body of a corpse that is still fresh.
Second, the ingredients of a monster.
Lastly, I need a philosopher's stone.
However, in order to unlock this feature, I also need my [System Alchemist] skill to be at the max level. Luckily, thanks to my abundant medicinal points and the materials the Elf gathered, I was able to level up my skills quickly.
Honestly, if I could I do not want to use this method. Because this was a somewhat inhuman power.
I can resurrect the dead, that might sound great. However, in exchange, I have to transform the body of that person into the body of a monster. It felt like I was toying with the body of someone's corpse on a whim. Just thinking about it makes me sick to my stomach.
By the way, this was also the plan that I had previously discussed with Alicia, and one that I vehemently rejected.
I can't believe now I even have to swallow my own spit.
Geez, this sucks.
"I'm sorry, Elvy-chan. You are free to curse me or whatever later. But, please allow me to use your body as a vessel," I said guiltily.
At that instant, I started doing the creation of the Homunculus. Here I'll be using Elvy as a requirement for fresh corpses, and for the ingredients for monsters. I opened my [Inventory], and there I picked up an item I had previously gotten while looking for food.
[Teeth of the Dragon of Destruction, Ragnarok]
From its terrible name, it should be a strong monster. I'll use that as the monster ingredient requirement.
"Now only the philosopher's stone remains."
I opened [Integrated Materials] and searched for a philosopher's stone from the list of items I could create. There, I found it at the very bottom, and I immediately pressed it.
[Philosopher's Stone]
[The legendary stone that is supposed to turn any material into gold and can also grant immortality. The final quest as a true Alchemist.]
[Required ingredients: 100,000 mana points]
"Uuh…"
Seeing the amount of materials needed to make one philosopher's stone, my shoulders slumped glumly.
I couldn't believe it would be this expensive, I did have a decent amount of mana points to make, but it would almost use up all my mana points.
Currently the number of mana points I had was around 102,493. It was all thanks to the materials from the monsters that the Elf gathered as well as the Crsyta that I previously obtained. If I were to make one philosopher's stone here, it would drain a large amount of my mana points.
"Aarrggh! Whatever! I have no more time to hesitate!"
'Click!'
I pressed the [Start Blend] button, and a few seconds later the philosopher's stone was successfully created, at the cost of a large amount of mana points.
At that moment, I started putting all the materials I needed together near Elvy's body and reopened my [System Alchemist].
There I unhesitatingly pressed the [Homunculus Creation] feature right away.
"I can't believe I'd use the philosopher's stone I've wanted for something like this. It's a bit of a pain."
[Do you want to create a Homunculus?]
[Yes/No]
Seeing the panel appear in front of me, I took a deep breath.
After confirming that I was fully prepared, I pressed the [Yes] button.
'Click!'
"—Wooh!!"
At the same time, Elvy's body and all the ingredients I put down were suddenly swallowed up by the black smoke that was churning like a hurricane, it took me by surprise.
I stepped back a little when I saw the black smoke which was starting to get bigger and bigger.
Witnessing all that happened, I held my breath.
"Does this work?"
But, while I was thinking about that, Rodan started to pay attention to what I was doing. He looked at me intently.
When I felt a piercing coldness from the dragon's gaze, I quickly turned to look at him.
There, even though he was constantly being attacked by the Elf, as if all the attacks were just ant bites to him, he stared straight at me without minding all the Elf attacks.
"I don't know what you're up to, but don't even think I'm going to let you go! I won't let my guard down like before, this time I'll make sure I kill you!!" shouted Rodan and without thinking he directly breathed his fire at me.
Seeing that, I gave a stiff laugh.
"This is bad."
Right now I can't leave this place since the creation of that Homunculus isn't finished yet. Whereas I don't have the strength to withstand the attack from that dragon's fire breath.
"Seriously, what should I do?"
While I was thinking that, Rodan was ready with his fire breath.
This is bad, this is really bad!
"W-Wait! Let's talk about this carefully!! I'm sure we can solve this by talking! The key to peace is communication! So if we communicate, I'm sure we can understand each other!!" I screamed hastily, trying to buy time.
But—
"There's nothing to talk about with you!! Die you damn brat!!" squealed Rodan, and he immediately shot his fiery breath at me.
At the same time, I felt the aura from the hot flames that started to approach me.
Shit, isn't it done yet?
I looked back, and the black smoke still hadn't cleared, I winced.
That means the creation isn't finished yet, if I leave it halfway, it will mess up the creation, so I can't just run away.
What should I do?
But, while I was worrying about that, a notification suddenly appeared in front of me.
[Congratulation! Your Homunculus creation was successful!]
Seeing that, a big smile appeared on my face.
Instantly—
'Boom!'
Before I was hit by the flames, I closed my eyes, and in that instant, I realized that my feet were no longer touching the ground. My body flies at a very dizzying height.
At this time, someone held me in hers arms like a princess, she smiled gently and said in a familiar voice that I missed so much.
"Aren't you injured, Riku-san?" asked Elvy, with her usual innocent face.