Chapter 386: The First Task
— Such promises are not trustworthy, I want to see something significant right away.
— Envy picked up a fingernail-sized philosopher's stone and tossed it to Su Xiao.
— This is an advance payment.
Su Xiao caught the philosopher's Stone and quickly examined it.
[Philosopher's Stone; Purple; Energy — 470/470 (Does not have Paradise confirmation).]
With this stone, Su Xiao will be able to easily increase the level of potion creation.
However, the energy of this stone alone is not enough to pump potion creation to the maximum. He would need at least four of these Philosopher's Stones.
— Every time you help us, we will provide you with the Philosopher's Stone as payment.
Su Xiao smiled at the words of Envy, but the negotiations couldn't end so easily.
His current identity is an alchemist who went through a war and got injured. If he agreed so easily, he would definitely be suspected.
After all, he had recently killed ordinary soldiers and ended up in prison.
— I want to ask you something.
— What is?
— If I'm not mistaken, the energy you consume every day comes from the Philosopher's Stone, and you must be consuming a huge amount of energy every day...
Although Envy looked like a teenager, his true body wasn't small.
— What do you mean by that?" Envy felt uneasy.
— You consume so much energy and are so strong... I've even seen you heal yourself. Su Xiao looked Envy up and down as if he was already his frog on the surgical table.
Envy froze for a second, then answered with a smile — - You can try it.
Su Xiao hesitated, but eventually turned around and left.
A couple of minutes after Su Xiao left, a voice suddenly rang out from a shadow of Envy, " He really wanted to dissect you. It's really normal to use such a person?
— That's why I released him. Do you think any normal alchemist would want to work with us? He's the only one, and Kimbley is the second only one, but we have to be careful with this guy, sometimes he's stable and sometimes he's out of control.
Envy had a headache. They had too few people.
— Reasonable. He has his weaknesses and shortcomings, but he is a good candidate.
— My father told me to find him.
— Was that my father's order? I see, " the shadow paused after these words.
It was Pride. He could blend in with the shadows and attack with them.
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After leaving the institute, Su Xiao began to walk through the streets of the city.
According to his new memories, Su Xiao's house was not far from the institute.
Walking to the door of a small two-story building, he pulled out a key and opened the door.
His house was the same as it looked in his new memories.
The only thing that was different was the dust. In his newfound memories, the house wasn't covered in so much dust.
After cleaning up the dust, Su Xiao went to the bathroom and washed off the blood and dirt, and when he returned to the bedroom, he found that Bubtney was already asleep on the bed.
Lying down on the other side of the bed, Su Xiao took out his tablet and started playing while thinking about his own business..
He was thinking about how he could leave the city without anyone knowing about it, since this city is a homunculus city, and today's evacuation of a couple of districts was just an exception.
If he starts killing homunculi, he won't be able to leave any traces, because just one single lead will eventually lead them to him.
He had an idea in mind, but it was necessary to wait for the right opportunity to implement it.
The next morning, Su Xiao washed up and immediately decided to start making potions.
Unfortunately, since he would be creating them with the Philosopher's Stone, which wasn't confirmed by Paradise, he wouldn't be able to take them out of this world.
Potions of even the first level were expensive, so if he could take them with him, he would end up earning a small fortune.
But since the Philosopher's Stone wasn't confirmed by Paradise, he couldn't take the potions created with it out of this world, nor could the stone itself.
Even so, he would still be able to level up his potion-making skill.
Of course, he will be able to bring potions out of this world if they are created using the philosopher's stone, which was obtained not from characters from this world, but from a treasure chest, but in Paradise he never saw a contractor or employee who sold philosopher's stones, because they were almost immediately bought.
Light kept flashing from Su Xiao's palms.
Three potions, eight, ten...
When Su Xiao's mana reached 400 points, he stopped making potions.
He also has 15 new potions in his inventory.
Seeing this, Su Xiao nodded in satisfaction. At least in this world, he wouldn't be short of potions.
And at that moment, a good idea popped into his head. Since he didn't have a Hunter mission, he could sell the surplus potions to other contractors.
However, before doing this, he will check whether these contractors were his allies or enemies.
Of course, it was unlikely that his mission to increase his rank would overlap with the usual missions of other contractors who came to this world as well as any other derived world.
Other contractors most likely received missions like "Defeat Father" or " Defeat Bradley».
Although the potions he created with the Philosopher's Stones won't be able to leave this world, contractors will happily buy similar potions, especially if they don't cost very much.
Since Heaven imposed a very serious restriction on philosopher's stones that were not obtained from chests, Su Xiao decided to find a small hole in the restriction.
Given that this world had a level 10 difficulty, there was clearly a large number of contractors who would be entering it.
If he can mass-produce potions, his income will be phenomenal.
*Ding-ding-ding~*
The phone in the house suddenly rang. Given Su Xiao's current identity as a battle-type alchemist, it wasn't strange for him to have a personal phone.
After picking up the phone, Su Xiao didn't say a word.
— We have a new assignment for you. You'll need to put down the Riesenburg riot, " came the voice of Envy.
— Riesenburg? In that small town near Ishvara?
— Right. You'll need to put down the riot for three days, and you can't kill many ordinary people, " he said as he hung up the phone.
Su Xiao started tapping his index finger on the table.
— Quell a riot in this small town without killing a lot of people? They don't want the Philosopher's Stone to lose even a tiny bit of its quality.?
If one looked carefully at the map of Amestris, they would see that the country's territory was circular.
Everything had already been planned by Father from the beginning, but the chaos caused by the war would reduce the number of people, and each death would reduce the amount of maximum energy in the resulting Philosopher's Stone.
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