The Owner of the Healing Therapy Shop Is Ranked 0th in the World - Chapter 73

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The Owner of the Healing Therapy Shop is World Rank 0

Chapter 73

All eyes in the conference room were fixed on Sohee.

Sohee hid the cold sweat running down her spine and forced a relaxed smile.

“A secret technique? Guild Master, you know this too, don’t you? Enchanting requires the perfect combination of materials, luck, and the hunter’s mana wavelength. I’m going crazy wanting to recreate it myself.”

Despite Sohee’s brazenly confident improvisation, Choi Changheon didn’t withdraw his suspicious gaze, but the Doubleroom Guild Master interrupted and broke the flow.

“If materials are the problem, our Doubleroom can provide as much support as needed. But since you say luck is also necessary, would it be useless?”

At the statement flaunting Doubleroom’s wealth, Jinseong looked at her with bored eyes.

Flaunting wealth was the most meaningless thing to those sitting here.

He withdrew his gaze, thinking her thoughts were shallow since she hadn’t been sitting in this position for long.

Yuin-a, who had the same thought, shrugged her shoulders and displayed different data on the central hologram.

“The place with the most rapid and bizarre changes is currently the Songpa Gate at Jamsil. The mana levels have already hit the lower A-rank range. It’s too risky to send only our guild members, but if we leave it alone, the heart of Seoul will be blown away.”

Jeong Sihwa, the Doubleroom Guild Master, immediately chimed in with gleaming eyes as if she had been waiting.

“Korea’s heroes should be able to easily investigate this level of anomaly, right? If you two team up and report just the internal situation of the gate, it would be very reassuring.”

It was blatant work dumping.

Sohee was disgusted by their greedy intentions, but she couldn’t just watch the gate explode.

It wasn’t because of any sense of duty or mission as a hunter, but because she knew from experience how dangerous Red Gates could be.

Jinseong stood up from his seat and spoke briefly.

“Let’s go.”

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The air in the remodeled store was distinctly different from before.

Previously, there had been the smell of years seeping through old wallpaper mixed with slight dampness, but now there was the cool, smooth texture of marble and the subtle scent of luxurious aroma.

I was sitting with my chin propped up in front of the counter with its smooth glossy finish.

The time when I had shouted in amazement at the store that had instantly transformed into a top-class aesthetic shop already felt like ancient history.

Now I was gradually becoming numb to the unfamiliarity of this spacious and glamorous space.

“…Mimi.”

Mimi, who had been swishing her tail on my lap, only slightly lifted her head to look at me.

“What.”

“Everything’s good, but what’s the point if the store is all shiny like this but there’s not a single customer? It’s not like it’s a model house or something.”

Business hadn’t been good before either, but at least back then there were occasional customers who came to buy air fresheners. But now, with the cognitive distortion skill on the store, natural encounters with customers were impossible to even dream of.

At my lament-like question, Mimi snickered mockingly.

“If you want customers, it’s simple. Report to the media right now. Say that the rumored enchanter isn’t Shinnara but you. Then you’ll get customers until you’re sick of them.”

“…Who doesn’t know that? I’m just saying, you know. If I did that, would people like Jang Dohun or Alice leave me alone?”

I slumped and collapsed onto the counter.

Thanks to Senior Jinseong and other hunters, plus the system, I had gained safety, but the price was harsh.

I had to play store owner alone in this glamorous but silent prison.

Without the fun of chatting about trivial things with customers while running the store, I felt lonely, and since I was always making products for bulk delivery to guilds, I sometimes felt like I’d become an item-making machine.

“I don’t know if it’s good or bad. I want customers, but I don’t want to be famous. I want to do business normally, but my items are far from normal.”

“You’re complaining about being well-fed. Now that the gates are quiet, you must be bored to death.”

“It’s not that… It’s just that I was super busy and then suddenly became idle, you know.”

Mimi jumped up from my lap onto the counter.

Then she added with bright, clear eyes.

“Since you’re so bored, I’ll give you a gift.”

“A gift? Really? What’s gotten into you?”

I sat up with sparkling eyes. If it was a gift from Mimi, I was filled with anticipation that it would surely be an amazing buff item or rare material.

But what appeared before my eyes wasn’t an item box with cheesy sound effects.

^[Sub Quest Generated!]^

^[Path of a True Craftsman (1): Register original item recipes! (0/10)]^

^[Upon Success: Special Subspace Pouch, 2 Stat Points]^

“…This is a gift? It’s homework!”

I pouted my lips and glared at Mimi. My balloon-like inflated heart deflated with a whoosh.

Mimi shamelessly washed her face with her front paws and replied.

“If there’s no time limit and no penalty for failure, it’s a gift. Do you know how good that subspace pouch is? No capacity limit and you can take out materials or your items from anywhere.”

“I know how amazing and good subspace pouches are. It’s just that the gift comes with conditions.”

“Get moving. If you sit there blankly, you’ll only have idle thoughts. The materials you bought from the Hunter Market last time will rot.”

“That’s true.”

At Mimi’s words, I reluctantly got up from my seat.

Seeing how idle thoughts kept popping up, it really seemed like I was well-fed as Mimi said.

I had momentarily forgotten that gates being quiet meant the calm before the storm, not peace.

I headed toward the inner part of the store, which was now filled with professional equipment that should be called an experiment lab rather than a workshop.

On the table were precious materials that Ohyeongtaek and I had procured from the Hunter Market before.

I had only organized the materials after returning from the market and hadn’t used them yet.

Among the many materials Ohyeongtaek had gifted me, the first thing I picked up was an item I had chosen myself.

‘Moonlight-Gathered Milky Way Willow’ and ‘Abyss Verdure’.

The Milky Way Willow was emitting a gentle light like stars in the night sky, and the Abyss Verdure had a cool blue tint as if it contained coldness.

‘Both items have cold properties, so couldn’t they counter skills like fire or magma?’

I took a deep breath and gathered my mana.

Since I had decided to give Ohyeongtaek a gift, I hoped an item effect suitable for him would emerge.

First, I finely chopped the Milky Way Willow branches and put them in the mana distiller.

The silver liquid flowing through the transparent glass tubes began to shine brilliantly like moonlight.

I very slowly pushed my mana into it, thin as drawing thread.

“For Ohyeongtaek and everyone…”

Since the materials were expensive, I did my best to compose my heart so that a low-grade item wouldn’t appear.

I had learned from experience that the more sincere my heart was, the higher the item’s grade and success rate became.

The silver liquid absorbed my mana and condensed, then soon hardened into a small, square patch form.

“Huh? It’s not oil?”

^[A new recipe has been registered.]^

^[Dawn Milky Way Tears (Grade: S)

Form: Adhesive patch item

Effect: Instantly cools overheated mana circuits and suppresses mana rampage with 90% probability. Continuously injects cooling mana when attached.]^

My surprise at creating a new form of item was brief, as I doubted my eyes.

“S-rank?!”

My heart pounded.

While system descriptions like “high completion” and “perfect” made it hard to gauge the efficacy, having the grade displayed like this really hit home.

“Wow… I might be pretty amazing.”

The corners of my mouth twitched involuntarily.

Instantly cooling mana circuits.

This item would be useful not only for Ohyeongtaek but for other hunters as well.

Fortunately, it was a successful start.

I didn’t stop and immediately began the second task.

I thinly sliced the Abyss Verdure and soaked it in a special solution.

The blue leaves melted away, instantly freezing the surrounding temperature.

My fingertips ached from the cold chill, but I tried not to lose concentration.

I collected the blue essence falling drop by drop and let it fall into the special glass storage container in the shape of a bead that Ohyeongtaek had given me as a gift.

Then once again, a status window appeared.

^[A new recipe has been registered.]^

^[New Recipe: Breath of Eternal Snow (Grade: A+)

Form: Throwable Concentrated Ampoule

Effect: Instantly freezes all targets within a 5m radius for 1 minute. Deals fatal freezing damage to targets of higher grade than the item.]^

Two items were placed on the table, radiating brilliant light.

I smiled with satisfaction. The emptiness I had felt in the vacant store was nowhere to be found.

My heart swelled with the thought that these small items I had created would save someone’s life.

“This should be good enough to give as a gift to Ohyeongtaek.”

I carefully placed the items on top of the luxury display case.

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