Dokmaeuiseon - Chapter 3
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Chapter 3
The Shopkeeper stayed true to his duties.
Even though he recognized Jung Myeong with his eyes.
He didn’t directly approach him.
Thanks to this, Jung Myeong was able to quietly enter the Guest Room.
“Haah. What a long day.”
A sigh escaped after unpacking his luggage.
Only after lying down on the bed could he catch his breath.
‘This is completely overwhelming.’
The commotion from earlier.
It was the first time in his life he had experienced such a thing.
Even in his past life, he had been an alchemist.
But he had never received this kind of attention.
‘The attention seekers must be excited. I don’t think I’m cut out for that kind of thing.’
It was hard to wash away the bewilderment he felt.
It seemed like it would take a while.
Still, there was something he needed to do right away.
The rewards!
[Profession: Warrior level has increased.]
[Profession: Alchemist level has increased.]
[Profession: Physician level has increased.]
[Physical abilities have increased evenly due to the level up effect.]
[You have gained 6 points.]
For some reason, all three profession levels had gone up.
“Why are the levels rising so quickly?”
Three level ups.
Jung Myeong felt bewildered.
Weren’t levels supposed to be incredibly hard to raise?
But now, that wasn’t the case.
The levels had just shot up immediately.
‘Level up from just one treatment? Is this even possible?’
The only action he had taken that could earn experience was treating someone once.
He had saved a person’s life.
But the process itself was simple.
‘Does experience not consider the process? Well, leveling up is good anyway.’
An unreasonable speed.
There’s definitely something going on here.
“Is there a synergy effect because I have three professions?”
The immediate suspected cause was the number of professions.
He had three professions.
Because of this, he thought leveling up would be slow.
Since he would need to fill three times the experience.
But that didn’t seem to be the case.
If what he was thinking now was correct.
‘The required experience for each must be calculated separately.’
The experience for each profession was separate.
It wasn’t that having three meant needing three times more.
If he gained 1 experience, all three would go up by 1.
That wasn’t the end of it.
Seeing how the levels went up all at once.
If he used the synergy between professions well, experience would be amplified.
At least doubled!
This meant leveling up was several times faster than in his past life!
“Insane!”
It was a situation that made him curse in amazement.
There was no other jackpot like this jackpot.
Thump- Thump-
His still heart began to race.
It wasn’t just a jackpot.
It was a mega jackpot.
He thought it was like winning the lottery, but it wasn’t on that level.
It was like cryptocurrency he had received as prize money for placing 5th in a competition ten years ago had skyrocketed 100,000 times.
If his current thinking was right.
‘Slow awakening isn’t a problem at all.’
He shouldn’t call it slow awakening.
It didn’t matter at all that he had just awakened.
‘Awakening itself is both the beginning and the end.’
As an alchemist, as a Murim person, as a physician.
‘If I mix all three, even becoming the best under heaven isn’t a dream.’
Best under heaven! Best physician under heaven!
Just hearing it was exciting.
Insane dopamine hit Jung Myeong’s brain.
Then he shook his head frantically.
“Wait… wait… let’s not get too carried away. This hasn’t been proven yet, has it?”
Good. All good, this is it.
But this might just be due to good luck.
Maybe it was just lucky that leveling up went so smoothly this time.
He didn’t know yet. There was no need to make a fuss about it.
‘I need to see if the fast leveling speed is real. It won’t be too late to celebrate after that.’
The speed of leveling up.
He had only seen it once so far.
In other words, right now it was just theory.
He needed to prove it in practice.
‘There’s already a way to prove the experience amplification theory.’
Wouldn’t it work if he acted as a physician tomorrow?
If he leveled up quickly then too, it would be immediate proof.
That what he had done wasn’t delusion but reality!
‘Will it really… work? I hope it does. Hehe.’
If it were real, it would be wonderful just to imagine.
The problem was how long it would take to actually prove it.
‘My reputation did spread widely in the market earlier… I hope proper patients come tomorrow too.’
He needed patients.
Proper patients to prove his theory with.
Would such patients really come to him, a wandering physician?
That was his biggest concern.
Without patients, it would all be for nothing.
* * *
The next day.
“Phew… shall I go?”
Jung Myeong maintained his tension and prepared himself.
His heart was half anxious, half excited.
‘Will they come? They will, right? After all that commotion yesterday, they’ll come!’
He set up his spot, hoping for patients to arrive.
“It’s the physician!”
“Divine doctor! Please take a look at me!”
“Oh… cough. Hack… kugh. Please, me first… cough. Please see me.”
What do you know. Patients flocked to him before he even finished setting up.
Far from having no patients.
There were too many.
‘Wh-what’s going on?’
Just as Jung Myeong was bewildered.
Someone appeared, volunteering to help.
“Form a line! A line!”
Old Man Jang, who had appeared without him noticing.
He stood there helping to organize the queue.
Old Man Jang was surprisingly swift for his age.
“Everyone be quiet! You need to let the physician concentrate!”
“That’s right. Exactly!”
“Hey now. He said be quiet!”
Was it thanks to yesterday’s treatment?
His voice boomed with vigor, full of energy.
Everyone naturally focused on the voice that echoed through the market.
“Ahem…”
“…”
“Good. Now line up in the order you arrived. You there! I’m watching closely, so don’t even think about cutting in line!”
Once Old Man Jang stepped in, the situation was quickly organized.
‘What a good local elder.’
As Jung Myeong conducted his examinations and listened quietly.
Old Man Jang was a respected figure in this Western Market of Hangzhou. In a good way.
A neighborhood elder and a kind-hearted old man.
These were words of high praise for Old Man Jang.
That virtue was now being put to excellent use.
“Now! Deok’s Wife first, since she’s new here.”
“Oh my. Elder. Who here hasn’t been here before? I definitely came first…”
“I saw it. Deok’s wife has been here since the early dawn breeze.”
“Well…”
“You were sneaking in from the middle, weren’t you…?”
“Ahem…”
“If you lie, I’ll put you at the very back. Be careful.”
“I understand. I was in pain so my heart was anxious.”
“Now, Deok’s Wife, come this way first.”
“Yes, old man… Thank you!”
“Ahem.”
The gruff Old Man Jang.
No one dared to pick a fight with him.
If anyone tried to cause trouble, the other onlookers watching from the side would be ready to make a scene.
The line became unified.
The unified line naturally grew longer.
Thinking things were organized.
Old Man Jang spoke politely to Jung Myeong.
“Doctor. Here is the patient who came first.”
“Thank you. Thanks to you, I’ll be able to treat patients comfortably.”
“Oh my. Thank you? It’s only natural. You treated me yesterday.”
“Ahem… It was natural as a doctor. You paid for it yesterday too.”
“Oh dear. Payment? What kind of payment was that little bit?”
“Little bit? It was more than enough.”
“Hehe. You really have no greed….”
Old Man Jang truly treated Jung Myeong as his benefactor.
Thinking it would be difficult to argue more about treatment fees.
He immediately wrapped up the conversation.
“Now, now, please feel at ease and check the pulse first. Don’t worry about any other disturbances.”
“Understood.”
The woman called Deok’s Wife.
She approached with a haggard face.
Cough-
Perhaps because of her shabby clothes, the pity grew with each cough.
The sound of her cough was loud.
It seemed like it could be contagious at any moment.
However, Jung Myeong didn’t mind and grabbed her wrist.
“Now, then… let’s see.”
[Pulse Reading Skill is activated together with Analysis Skill.]
[Diagnosis succeeds.]
[High fever, indigestion, accumulated fatigue, and severe cough symptoms exist.]
The diagnosis was completed quickly.
‘High fever, indigestion, and accumulated fatigue are probably what most people have. The problem is the cough.’
The main problem was the cough.
This was serious.
A cough shouldn’t be ignored.
If left untreated, a cough can lead to pulmonary sepsis.
Moreover, wasn’t it described as a severe cough?
‘Analysis is usually divided into mild, moderate, and severe. This was marked as severe. I should consider it almost at the stage of developing lung disease.’
Deok’s Wife’s symptoms.
They were more serious than they appeared.
“Hmm….”
“Is it… very… ahem… cough. Bad?”
Deok’s Wife seemed to sense this and asked with fearful eyes.
“More than anything else, the cough is the problem. You’ve been suffering from this cough for nearly a month, haven’t you?”
“Gasp… cough… kuk… How did you know…!”
“I can tell by looking. Your lungs are severely damaged.”
“My, my lungs?”
“Yes. You’re just before developing lung abscess.”
Lung abscess. In other words, pulmonary tumor.
At this time, lung abscess was often used as a term encompassing lung diseases.
Deok’s Wife’s expression grew heavy upon hearing the diagnosis.
Lung abscess!
This was a fatal disease!
‘Even in modern times, lung disease was more difficult to improve than expected.’
Lung disease.
It was harder to recover from than it appeared.
Now it was even worse.
She had been coughing for nearly a month but couldn’t visit a doctor.
It was even worse.
‘It means she couldn’t afford to visit a local doctor.’
Deok’s Wife’s expression grew even heavier.
Not just because of the disease.
Not because she knew about the disease, but because she couldn’t do anything about it.
The high treatment costs she’d have to bear with her meager means.
This was a disaster.
A calamity she couldn’t overcome on her own.
“Well…. Treatment, no. Since you are a renowned doctor, you can… cough… treat it. But… the treatment fee….”
Treatment fee. This was the problem.
How could Jung Myeong not understand her feelings?
“Just give me twenty copper coins.”
He immediately brought up the treatment cost.
At this, Deok’s Wife was surprised.
“What? *Cough*. I think I misheard.”
“You heard correctly. Twenty copper coins.”
“What?!”
“Is that a lot?”
“N-no… but with twenty copper coins…! That won’t… *cough*. No matter how ignorant I am… that’s…”
Twenty copper coins!
This was Hangzhou, known for having high prices even in the Central Plains.
Here, even the lower class earned 100-200 jeon per month.
Though it seemed like a pitifully small amount of money.
If the whole family worked together, they could somehow manage their living expenses.
Compared to that, twenty copper coins was ridiculously cheap no matter how you looked at it.
Far too much!
But Jung Myeong was firm.
“Twenty jeon is more than enough. That will do.”
“But… that’s…”
As the argument seemed to drag on, Old Man Jang stepped in.
“Now, now. The doctor says twenty jeon is fine.”
“Still…”
“Well, if it bothers you, bring some food later. Deok’s Wife makes amazing jeon! Or when you’re weaving, bring something! Make some clothes for the doctor.”
“Yes, yes! *Cough*. I’ll do that.”
“Heh. You really don’t need to do that though.”
“No! *Ahem*, *cough*… *ahem*.”
Twenty copper coins plus weaving and jeon were added to the deal.
Though it was troublesome.
Still, it was good that the argument ended quickly.
‘Now I just need to treat him.’
It was time to prove the theory.
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