"Mmm……."
The top-grade goose-down bedding, which was so plush it even created the illusion of floating on clouds.
Choi Yuna stretched and rubbed her eyes.
Beyond the floor-to-ceiling window, the Earth's blue atmosphere and the endlessly stretching spectacle of the universe came into view at a glance.
"Ah, I slept well. It's so incredibly nice here that I can't get used to it no matter how many times I come."
Choi Yuna slipped out of bed and stepped on the luxurious marble floor with bare feet.
It was the highest-grade VIP residential area of the space mothership Mary, Kim Minwoo's Mythical-rank summon with a total length of 150km.
— Yuna, are you awake? I have prepared eggs benedict with truffles and freshly squeezed orange juice for breakfast.
The skeleton maid Mary, appearing as a hologram in the empty air, greeted her politely.
Choi Yuna smiled broadly and sat at the dining table.
Opposite her, the witch Iris had already brought up a massive screen and was tapping on a controller, completely immersed in the latest console game.
"Yuna, this game is truly crazy! It's a new release from yesterday, but since it's running on the mothership's quantum core processing power, there isn't even a second of lag!"
Iris shouted without even taking her eyes off the monitor. Watching her, Choi Yuna took a bite of the freshly baked bread and let out a chuckle.
It was a prosperous and free daily life that was unimaginable just a short while ago.
In the past, when she first signed an exclusive contract with Kim Minwoo, Choi Yuna's existence was thoroughly hidden.
The reason she locked herself in the basement was simple. In exchange for receiving the top-grade elixir recipe Kim Minwoo offered, she willingly accepted the slave contract to work exclusively without taking a single step out of the basement for 7 years.
It was a voluntary confinement created by her thirst for exploration as an alchemist.
However, that strict 7-year non-disclosure clause was cleanly nullified less than a year after signing the contract.
[Ah, that 7-year secret clause? Do not worry about it anymore and live comfortably, roaming around and meeting people as you please.]
[Pardon? B-but…… Guild Master, it will become tiring for you…….]
[What is there to be tired about. If anyone covets Yuna and tries to play tricks or kidnap you, I just have to erase the country those guys belong to. There is no one on Earth anymore who can touch my private property and survive.]
That was right.
Kim Minwoo had become overwhelmingly strong far too quickly.
In front of a monster who had regained the status of a Higher God and operated a 150km mothership, there was no faction that would dare play tricks just to aim for a single recipe's secret.
At least, on Earth.
Thanks to that, Choi Yuna was able to escape that tiresome basement and get some fresh air.
The freedom to roam anywhere she wanted if she just made up her mind.
That alone was more than enough to be thankful for.
But right at that timing, the mothership Mary revealed its appearance. Its interior was truly no different from a floating ultra-luxury resort.
Choi Yuna and Iris packed their bags and moved into the Mary without a single bit of hesitation.
A human-like life without any restrictions on internet shopping or cultural activities.
Compared to the days when they only shook flasks in the basement, this was nothing short of heaven.
"Haa, our guild. Employee welfare is truly the best in the entire universe."
Finishing her meal, Choi Yuna pleasantly patted her belly and stood up.
"Now, we ate and played to our hearts' content, so shall we go earn our keep? Iris, turn that off and put on your work clothes."
"Ah, I'm right in front of the boss room! Got it, I'm going!"
The deepest core of the mothership Mary.
The heavy steel doors of Restricted Area 1, which was under strict security, opened.
"Kkeuaaaaaak……!"
As soon as the doors opened, the scenery of the room was revealed along with a desperate scream that seemed to tear their ears.
The center of the room.
A man hung in a terrible state, his limbs bound to a massive special alloy cross.
It was Baal, the 1st-ranked Grand Duke of the Demon Realm who had ruled the Demon Realm with terror for thousands of years.This chapter was taken from novelping(.)com without permission.
"Mary, I came to get today's material quota."
— [Yes, Yuna. Please wait a moment.]
The hologram Mary in the empty air answered with an emotionless voice. At the same time, the walls around the cross opened smoothly, and dozens of mechanical arms smoothly extended out.
At each end, magic power cutters, precision saws, and extraction tongs flashed.
Even beyond the soundproofed steel doors, screams like the death throes of a beast leaked out.
Choi Yuna and Iris sat on the sofa in front of the door as if accustomed to it, eating the strawberry cake Mary had served with forks.
"This is a new item. 300,000 won per slice."
"Oh, it's delicious."
A moment later, the screaming subsided, and a neatly packaged box quietly rolled out from the wall.
10kg of bones, 5 teeth, a clump of hair.
Labels were even neatly attached to them.
It had been a long time since the existence that was once the absolute of the Demon Realm was reduced to a raw material supplier for an automated line.
Iris also shook her head from side to side next to her.
— [Beginning treatment.]
Mary notified emotionlessly.
At the same time, a bundle of massive syringes poured down from the ceiling and stabbed deep into various parts of Baal's body.
Top-grade potions, commanding hundreds of millions of won per bottle, began to be injected rapidly like pouring bottled water.
Chiiiiiik—. New bones sprouted from his torn shoulders, muscles filled in over them, and skin covered it.
Pure white fangs sprouted jaggedly even from the spots where teeth had been pulled out.
In just a few seconds, Baal's body was cleanly restored without a single scratch.
"Hi…… Kkeuk…… Kill me instead…… Kill me instead……."
Leaving behind Baal sobbing with a cleanly restored body, Choi Yuna dusted off her hands.
"You worked hard today too, Mr. Baal~ See you tomorrow."
Chiiiiiik—!
Just as Choi Yuna satisfyingly gathered the harvest and turned around.
Jiiiiiing—.
[Yuna, the Captain is calling for you to come to the main lab immediately. He says there is an urgent new material delivery.]
"Huh? The Guild Master? Got it, I'm going now!"
Mary's main lab.
Inside the room, dozens of transparent magic power tanks as tall as an adult were packed, and True Blood was sloshing around inside them.
Kim Minwoo pulled over the tank with the thinnest concentration among them and set it down with a tuk in front of Choi Yuna.
"I will give you just this one container for now. Please start by analyzing it."
Dropping the red blood from the tank onto a microscope with a pipette, Choi Yuna let out a cheer bordering on a scream.
The fanatic tenacity of an alchemist burned in Choi Yuna's two eyes.
"With blood possessing this level of regenerative power…… a potion that restores even completely missing body parts by growing them anew might come out?"
Kim Minwoo twitched his eyebrow as if he found it interesting.
By common sense, missing limbs do not grow back no matter how many recovery skills or potions are poured on them.
The only possibility was a high-ranking priest pouring out heals while holding the severed part exactly in place immediately after amputation. But making bones and flesh grow anew completely?
"Do you think it can be used on people too?"
"Yes! For something drawn from entities that became undead, the blood is far too clean without any magic power pollution. I think it's entirely possible!"Follow the newest chapters on novelping.com.
Choi Yuna nodded her head vigorously.
The corners of Kim Minwoo's mouth curled up slightly.
Such items were incredibly rare across the entire universe. If circulated to all dimensions through the Witch Coven, the profit would be tremendously lucrative.
"Once the analysis is finished with this container, I will supply you with as many identical samples as you need. Please extract everything this can be used for."
"Yep! Just leave it to me! Starting immediately with missing limb recovery medicine…… Ah! If I twist and design this regenerative power in reverse, a potion of death that forces cells to overgrow and burst just by touching them might also be possible!"
Choi Yuna's eyes sparkled even more with madness.
Infinite top-grade material support.
As an alchemist, there was no environment more perfect than this.
Kim Minwoo also bore a satisfied smile.
'Handling it internally is indeed the answer.'
Although he was in an alliance with the Witch Coven, it was ultimately someone else's household.
The moment he handed over a production request, brokerage fees and the risk of technology leaks would follow suit.
Even if he just wanted them to analyze a new substance recipe, it was obvious the elders of the Witch Coven would try to take a cut, citing shares and rights.
But Choi Yuna was different.
A clear exclusive alchemist belonging to his own guild.
He just needed to extract raw materials infinitely from Baal and leave the processing entirely to Choi Yuna.
There was no worry of external leaks, and labor costs were drastically saved. Furthermore, Choi Yuna was a workaholic who would voluntarily shake flasks all night long if she was just given a research environment instead of a salary.
'The epitome of vertical integration.'
From raw material mining to processing and distribution.
The corners of Kim Minwoo's mouth curled up even further.
Taking advantage of the moment Choi Yuna became engrossed in the container of True Blood and started setting up cauldrons, Kim Minwoo swept all the remaining tanks left in the lab into his inventory.
It was because a true core experiment that would elevate a Necromancer's innate martial prowess to the next level was left separately.
The mothership Mary's outdoor observation deck.
Kim Minwoo stood alone and took out an item from his inventory. A geometrically shaped bead emitting a faint crimson light.
The item that had greatly evolved once after meeting the Blood Witch Medea, one of the Seven Venerables, in District 8 of the Heavenly City in the past: the Blood Witch's Blood Water Jade.
Kim Minwoo's gaze alternated between the Blood Water Jade and the dozens of True Blood tanks he had just swept up.
He had upgraded the performance of this Blood Water Jade with the first wish he received in exchange for finding Medea's heart.
It could absorb even the blood of high-ranking existences without restrictions.
Beyond storing blood, it could freely combine different bloods to create a completely new bloodline.
Additionally, injecting such a combined bloodline into an undead could grant them special mutations that far exceeded mere spec enhancements.
The bizarre enlightenment he obtained after slicing the Primordial Abyssal Beast at the bottom of the Sea of Destruction a while ago.
[Skill, Compression: You can compress and fuse materials and summons to transmutate a new result.]
The hypothesis was already established.
Fill this Blood Water Jade with the True Blood drawn from the 50,000 True Blood vampires and refine it into a special immortal bloodline.
What if he forcibly fused that blood into the legion's skeletons through the compression skill?
It meant a blood-sucking Dragon Tooth Soldier that manipulated blood and regenerated infinitely might be born.
Kim Minwoo slammed Hell Rhapsody onto the floor with a kwang and opened the belt's subspace.
"Entire legion, assemble at the main deck."
Cheolgeureok!
Cheolgeureok!
The elite Dragon Tooth Soldiers densely filled the space in front of Kim Minwoo.
Soon after, dozens of tanks that poured out of the inventory floated into the air, and the True Blood clan's blood contained within them began to be violently sucked into the Blood Water Jade imbued with Medea's authority.