Chapter 343

355. What Gold was hiding

“Excuse me.”

a few minutes ago.

While Kang Seung-hyeon and Lee Ji-ah were looking at the warp portal, Kim Ho-jeong was looking around the lab.

The interior of the lab, which had been neglected for over a month, was filled with dark magic, and the walls and floor were severely corroded.

If an ordinary person had entered, they would not have lasted even a minute.

‘What kind of experiment did you do, and you left it like this for a month?’

No matter how much alchemists can withstand dark magic longer than wizards, there is a limit.

Perhaps some of the alchemists who were researching under Doradel’s order were knocked out or died in this incident.

‘Isn’t it not enough to call someone right now?’

If you have to hide it from the outside world, it is better to ask for help from Kang Seung-hyun and his party, who have made it this far.

Anyway, Kang Seung-hyun and his party came because of Da-il’s order to ‘ostensibly’ seek the position of the next master, and ‘ostensibly’ they won’t do anything to harm the Golden Magic Tower.

However, even though Luten was caught, he tried to hide it until the end, saying that it was an experiment that could not be disclosed to others.

‘Should I think about it?’

Doradel joined hands with an alchemist because of the family curse, and the curse of the Lophemus family is that they die when their magic power runs out.

‘An alchemist is a job that changes objects into other objects, and Doradel needs a lot of magic. However, the first floor has become a sea of water and black magic is overflowing...’

Kim Ho-jeong shouted as if she had attained enlightenment.

“The accident happened while experimenting with turning plain water into magic potion!”

The mystery is all solved.

Alchemists accidentally created a potion of black magic while making magic potion with water drawn from a water pipe, and this mess started.

‘Of course it would be illegal to make an expensive magic potion into wild water. To compare it to Korea, they were like gas stations with no conscience who made and sold fake gasoline because real gasoline was expensive.’

If it’s something like this, it’s worth hiding desperately.

Then there was a gas leak accident, so he must have tried to hide it even more.

‘nice! I do it when I do too! I have to tell Mr. Kang quickly.’

Kim Ho-jeong, who became proud, was so excited that she ran away without looking ahead.

thud! puck! widely!

“Ouch...”

I bumped into something like a shelf or bookshelf wall.

Bad eyesight is bad, but it was because he was a human with a very narrow field of vision.

profit.

At this time, the iron door opened due to the shock of Kim Ho-jung hitting the wall and

took! puck!

Courage!

As the iron door opened, there was the sound of something falling.

“huh?”

What came to Kim Ho-jeong’s eyes as she looked inside, wondering what she was talking about,

“Wow!”

It looked like horribly broken glass cases and piles of corpses strewn about.

– “Sir Gagang! The corpse here is like a mountain...”

“Calm down. You must have died often.”

“That’s true, but you don’t see my corpse in third person.”

Kim Ho-jung was in awe, but Kang Seung-hyun, as an incumbent savage healer, looked at the corpses calmly.

“This is a corpse, but not a human corpse.”

“Aren’t you a four person?”

“It’s a homunculus corpse.”

At first glance, it is so well made that it is indistinguishable from a real person, but if you look closely, the fingers and toes are unfinished.

It looks good on the outside, but the internal organs are probably unfinished.

“It seems that an accident occurred while it was being produced for a long time, so it was abandoned without being completed.”

“When mass-producing for research purposes, it is most efficient to adjust the age of the body to those in their 20s. Aging on purpose costs money, and if you’re too young, the results of the experiment will be inconsistent.”

So Kang Seung-hyeon thought the piles in front of him were real human corpses.

“Wow, I know you very well. Did you go through an alchemist as a sub job?”

“It’s not like that, I heard it as a bonus while ‘interviewing’ the current alchemist.”

“Interview....”

Kang Seung-hyun said with a fresh face, but Lee Ji-ah heard that and thought, ‘Threat or torture.’

“Well, by the way, this is the easiest way to tell a homunculus apart.”

“What? Eyes of Observation?”

“Kim Ho-jung can do it too.”

Kang Seung-hyeon took out a magic potion and scattered it over the pile of corpses.

“If these are homunculus, they cannot accept magical power, so even if you sprinkle it on top, it will flow back.”

“Oh, there’s such a distinction...”

“But if it’s a human corpse, magic will be absorbed.”

“Because humans are human even after death.”

through.

“It disappeared....”

“It was absorbed neatly.”

just as expected.

The magic potion that Kang Seung-hyeon had sprinkled was permeated and was instantly contaminated by the surrounding dark magic.

“So it is.”

It was as expected.

The corpses piled up in this room are real humans, not homunculus.

“Uh...”

“Then this...”

Realizing the identity of the pile in front of their eyes, Kim Ho-jung and Lee Ji-ah stepped back in disgust.

“Are these the corpses of the Lophemus family?”

“I must be really crazy!”

It’s shocking that these are all real human corpses, but the most shocking thing is that they all look exactly like the Lofiarmus family.

‘It’s not bad for something that’s been neglected for a month.’

While the two screamed in astonishment, Kang Seung-hyun got down on one knee and inspected the pile of bodies of Lofi Armers members.

Examining it with the [Observing Eye] revealed that some of the dummies were still alive right before this event occurred.

‘Well, it must be because of the anti-corruption magic circle installed inside the lab.’

Most of them are probably broken due to dark magic, but one or two will be lucky enough to survive and work.

‘Otherwise, hell would have unfolded in a different way.’

If all the anti-corruption magic circles were destroyed, all the corpses here would have turned into natural undead due to the influence of black magic.

Unlike the artificial undead crafted by necromancers, the natural undead created by exposure to black magic on a rotten corpse is extremely unlikely to retain its sanity.

If all of these corpses had turned into undead and ran out, the alchemists’ manpower would have been limited and the Golden Mage Tower would have been a mess.

‘Anyway, this has made it clear.’

Secret experiments have a reason.

alchemists.

No, Doradel was conducting human experiments.

The reason he hid the experiment from not only the Mage Tower but also the family members was because the materials for the experiment were ‘family members’.

“I finally found out this far...”

Then someone’s voice came from behind.

Kim Ho-jung looked back with the mindset of ‘Please, Cheol-hyeon.’ But, like a man who always betrays expectations, Alec was of course not.

“Hey, you’re that human too.”

“What is the person who should be lying in the hospital doing here?”

The protagonist of the voice was Doradel, the current head of the Lofiarmus family, who was the master of the golden tower and led the experiments by the alchemists.