Someday Will I Be The Greatest Alchemist?

At the time when Takumi’s children were born and the Sanctuary was in a festive mood, in the city at the border of the former Sydnia Empire, an evil child was given birthed.

In that city at the border, it was dead silent.

Not a light could be seen at night, only darkness spread.

Yes, there was not even a single person in that city, a ghost town.

The reason being…………

Away from the city, the church…… in the location of what was once the church of the former Light God Faith was in decay and crumbling down.

And in the spot where the altar should have been, a huge tree-like lump of meat stood.

It was a sinister tree with countless faces and body parts on its surface.

Indeed, the large tree, which originated from the fragment of the Evil Spirit that the priests of the now defunct Light God Faith had offered sacrifices to, had grown so much that it looked so ominous with miasma so dense it’s visible to the naked eye.

In this place devoid of people, a being that was hardly human-like was taking care of the solidified meat tree.

That caretaker, which was something close to a human but was enveloped in dense miasma that people would have unable to endure, and had deviated in some way from humans, like having four arms, more than two legs, and even multiple heads, was loitering around the meat tree to take care of it.

To take care of that tree, it sacrifices humans and monsters to it.

That was one of the reasons why this city was a ghost town. That didn’t mean that all of its residents had been sacrificed though, many of them became victims, and as a result, people fled from this town one after the other.

Eventually, this city in the borderlands will be corrupted by miasma, and would become a place that no man would come near.

Taking the continent in its entirety, the Earth Vein is being purified because of the World Tree and the Spirit Tree in the Sanctuary, which is leading to a decline in miasma in the continent, with exception to this city located at the very center of the continent, where the opposite phenomenon is occurring.

However, that miasma does not have the capability of spreading over a wider area.

Compared to the Sanctuary where the Great Spirits have manifested, the influence that a monster raised by feeding the Evil Spirit’s fragment with the malice of men was known. It did not have the power to spread miasma to the entire country.

As such, it was growing slowly.

As it stored power little by little.

And on that day, from within the trunk of that sinister tree emerged a large cocoon-like thing.

Hands protruded out from the meat tree and cradled the newly birthed cocoon, like a mother tightly embracing a child to protect it.

The cocoon pulsated as it waited for an opportune moment.

After thirty days passed, a change occurred within the cocoon.

Crick!

A small crack appeared on the surface of the cocoon, eventually extending the length of it.

Boosh!

With the sound of glass shattering, the cocoon’s shell burst open.

The hands protruding from the meat tree reached in and held up a dark-skinned, red-haired baby.

Without a cry or a sob, the infant slowly opened its eyes, revealing its shining red pupils.

The beings that were once human in the meat tree rejoiced at the birth of the child.

They could no longer speak human words. They only amounted to scream, yet there was no doubt that they were overjoyed.

The people of the world did not notice.

The vestige of the Evil Spirit that once caused the fall of a nation and plunged the continent into chaos was growing……

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