1st Place In The Ranking Is A Villager

Chapter 39

1st place in the ranking is the villager

– Volume 2 Episode 14

14. Lencia Greenwood (1)

You have to cut down the tree to make the paper for the book.

It is possible to make paper from dead wood, but humans do not wait for the tree to die at the end of its lifespan.

Most of the paper in the human villages is made from cuttings of live trees.

Animals must be killed to make parchment.

So, in the village of the elves, among the leaves that naturally fall to the ground by the wind, they are weaved and used instead of paper.

Or, after giving thanks to the dead trees, they make woodblocks by tying them together in a line that does not harm the original shape as much as possible.

The elves are using it as a blessing that nature left for them.

A bookstore full of papers.

Elves do not use paper that has undergone numerous processes and processes as it is an insult to nature.

For that reason, it was a place where there could be no gift for an elf to like, but Rencia opened the door of the bookstore and entered as if drawn to something from her.

daughter-.

“welcome.”

Upon entering, the owner, who was sitting at the counter reading a book, heard the bell ring and greeted him indifferently, keeping his eyes fixed on the book.

Ren Xia, who greeted him lightly, looked around her bookshelf and pulled out a book in her hand.

Understanding and beginning alchemy.

It was the name of the book.

Lencia opened the book as if possessed and began to read the contents.

The owner of the bookstore looked at Rencia, who was only looking at her without buying a book, with only a slight gaze, but she did not specifically restrain her.

This isn’t the first time I’ve read a book.

He did not have any complaints even if he did not buy it, as she did not have money for the purpose, and she created a bookstore to earn extra income while reading books.

She focused on the book she saw under the hood and didn’t want to disturb her twinkling eyes.

Lencia spent hours on the spot, painstakingly reading the book.

That was the moment when the archer, who would later become a legend, first encountered alchemy.

* * *

“Lencia, are you back? It took a while this time.”

“I’m sorry, mother! We’ll talk later!”

“Oh my?”

Returning to the village with a large luggage, Rencia immediately locked herself in her room for several days.

Her Elysia was worried about her because she had not touched her meal and her door had been locked.

But before locking herself up in her room, she could see Rencia’s twinkling eyes, so Elysia didn’t really care about her.

If she had one complaint, it was that she wanted the rice to be eaten on time.

“Lencia~ I’m leaving my rice behind, so I must eat this time~?”

“……”

There was no answer from her back in the room.A few days later, Lencia opened the door and left.

She was dressed to leave the village at any moment.

Elysia was slightly saddened, as she went back to town and she went out again right after she was in her room and went back to town.

“Are you leaving already?”

“I’m sorry, Mother. But it’s important!”

Lencia held her Elysia’s hands warmly and continued her words.

“I will make sure her mother is healthy!”

“what?”

“I’ll go!”

Leaving behind her puzzled Elysia, Lencia left her house like the wind.

She turned around and saw that Rencia’s door had been opened and she had been left unattended.

Elysia looked inside her with her curiosity and was startled.

Papers and books scattered all over the place.

One by one, letters were written on the scattered sheets of paper.

If the other elves saw the paper-filled room of Rencia, what would happen?

In the worst case, it could even lead to deportation.

While Elysia was worried about her Rencia, she quietly closed the door and buried what she saw deep in her heart.

* * *

Lencia entered a large hole in a tree far from the village she had seen as a child.

The entrance to the hole was small enough that she had to lean down to get in, but it was wider than her room.

Lencia quickly unpacked her luggage in no rush.

Grasses and powders whose names are still unknown.

She is a piece of paper on which the recipe for alchemy that Lencia devised herself is written on.

A bowl needed to make medicine.

She was full of contents that other elves would have heard of what she had done to nature if they had seen it.

Lencia, she first organized the herbs that she had purchased in advance in the village of humans.

Papers with recipes written on them were pasted on the wall, and the bowls were organized according to their use and size.

Come to think of it, did she lock the door when she came out?

She probably locked her up.

Her own room was full of papers with recipes for alchemy that were excluded from her nominations, so she would be in trouble if other elves saw her.

“Let’s move fast.”

Once she had finished cleaning her up, Lencia ran through the forest in search of the ingredients she needed for alchemy.

alchemy.

It was a term used to refer to a magical technique that created new objects by paying a price or gave new powers to objects.

And she glimpsed her hopes that Rencia would be able to make her mother healthy from it.

The potion, that was her hope that her Lencia had glimpsed.

Among the elves, potions themselves did not exist.

There were several types of potions she knew only to heal her wounds and restore her magical powers, even for Rencia, who was wandering around the human village.

A recovery potion that basically restores HP and MP.

A status ailment removal potion that instantly negates status ailments.

A buff potion that shows a slight increase in certain stats for a short period of time, etc.

There were hundreds of types if we were to further subdivide them according to their efficacy.

And since Rencia came into contact with alchemy, she stopped by the villages of humans and devoured alchemy by visiting only bookstores and libraries.

And ‘Tears of Eve’, a legendary potion that she found cures all ailments.

There is nothing that cannot be cured, there is nothing that cannot be cured, and it is uncertain whether the potion, which is named after a god, meaning that it heals everything, even the existence of it is uncertain, and not even the tip of the recipe remains.

However, being handed down as a legend means that, even in the worst case, something similar exists.

Thinking so, Rencia hid her identity as an elf and studied theories while learning techniques from the alchemists.

In the end, as if dismantling the completed potion, it reached a point where you could see what materials and how much magic was used and what techniques were used.

After that, Rencia gathered up the knowledge he had and came up with a recipe for making Eve’s Tears.

Among them, he selected a recipe with a high probability of success and left the village to experiment.

As far as using paper, there is no fear of being found out if it is left in the room thanks to the elves’ tendency to respect individual privacy.

However, if you cut live grass to make a potion, light a fire to brew it, and use your magic power, the story is different.

There was a high probability of being caught due to the smoke or the light of the magic circle generated during the manufacturing process.

Are you experimenting with destroying nature?

If the other elves knew, there was a possibility of being expelled from the village, saying that those who do not know how to protect nature will not be forgiven.

Even for Elysia, who would become healthy by eating the potion she had made, Rencia could not be expelled from the village.

So, the place I chose was this tree hole that I secretly found when I was a kid when I escaped the village.

Rencia ran through the forest and gathered the necessary medicines through the knowledge he had put in his head.

And the things that were not in the forest went back down to the human village and repeated various attempts to procure them.

But despite Rencia’s efforts, ‘Eve’s Tears’ felt too far away.

Not even a shadow could be seen.

And while Rencia was concentrating on making Eve’s Tears, the situation in the village was taking a strange turn.

* * *

“Ugh, isn’t something a little cold?”

“The sun is so warm? Isn’t that just enough?”

“Yeah? Is it because of your mood… Why are you doing this…”

There were people complaining about the cold in the village of elves.

At first, there were only one or two, but as time passed and half a year passed, almost all of the elves in the village were complaining of the cold.

When he realized something was strange, the first elf who had already felt the cold was complaining of symptoms.

Some parts of the skin turned blue and black.

A strange stench wafted from the degenerated place, and he began to complain of intermittent pain, coughing and vomiting blood.

The severity of the symptoms was different, but all those who felt cold for unknown reasons began to change like that.

Then, from the few who did not feel the cold yet, they were told that they should be isolated and that they should just be expelled.

“We never know when it will be like that!”

“They need to be quarantined right now, so we live! I couldn’t even figure out how it’s contagious! It’s urgent!”

“Everyone, calm down.”Warin lowered his voice heavily and calmed them down.

After checking them with his mouth shut, Warin continued.

“…I think the first step is to find out the cause. Focusing on those who have not yet complained of the cold, we divide the teams into those who find the cause in the village and those who find the cause in the forest. The decision is the cause. After finding out, it won’t be too late.”

An investigation team was set up to investigate the disease that is now prevalent in the village.

The forest investigation team ran out of the forest to see if the cause was from the forest, but found nothing.

The village investigation team investigated whether there was a cause in the village.

Of course, the scope of the search also included individual homes.

* * *

“Ahhh-!”

Lencia loudly vomited the stuffiness that filled her stomach, and then lay flat on her back on the floor.

Near the place where she was lying, vials of unknown medicine were rolling around.

She tried to make ‘Tears of Eve’ but failed.

“Fuuuuuuuuu… good!”

Taking a breath in to calm herself down, Rencia slapped her own cheeks and went back into her manufacturing.

A handful of dry spina grass, two old cane grass, and a spoonful of the dust of the spirits hanging from the tree…

After mixing and extracting dozens of ingredients based on her experience so far, she carefully infuses her magical powers.

‘Please, I wish you success this time…’

Such a wish was also put in, but what was completed was just an ordinary recovery potion, except that the effect was very superior to other things.

It was a failure.

“What should I change…”

Lencia took another failure as a stepping stone to the idea of ​​her next experiment.

As Lencia mumbled softly as she pondered her concerns, she could feel her presence in the distance outside the tree hole.

She went out of the tree hole and checked a little to see that several elves were behaving in groups.

In front of the direction they were moving, looking around slowly, there was a hole in the tree that Lencia was using.

‘Oh, I can’t…!’

The tree hole itself is small enough to be covered with grass.

However, the smoke from the experiment she had just done was still escaping out through the hole in a long tail.

If they saw it, they would know that they were practicing alchemy, or at least damaged nature.

That would have been difficult.

Rencia returned back to the hole several times faster than them, but the ceiling of the hole was still full of smoke waiting to escape.

Since the inside of the hole itself has a similar shape to the dome, the smoke only accumulates on the top, making it easy to breathe, but the smoke escaped too slowly.

Ren Xia felt a sign of getting closer and tried to find his way, but couldn’t think of a specific way.

Whoops-.

At that moment, a strong wind blew and all the smoke that had accumulated in the hole in the tree was blown out.

All the smoke that had escaped immediately dispersed and disappeared.

When all the smoke is gone, the elves pass in front of the tree hole covered with grass in good timing.

“Hey, what are you doing here?”

She turned her head back at the familiar voice, and there was a little girl in blue with her long hair hanging out.