Gold and Silver Alchemist - Chapter 128

Space navigation using wormholes has already been discussed in the world of human physics for decades.

However, it was only theoretically possible, and a huge amount of energy was required to open the wormhole.

It took an energy equivalent to the mass of Jupiter to create a wormhole with a diameter of about 90 cm and pass one person through it.

Not the Earth, but the mass of Jupiter.

The combined mass of the rest of the solar system is less than half the mass of Jupiter.

After all, wormhole navigation was only possible in science fiction novels or movies.

Anyway, making a wormhole huge enough for a spaceship to pass through was impossible even with the technology of the giants.

So they decided to use a giant wormhole created naturally in space.

However, there was a downside that ‘error’ occurred.

When it came out of the wormhole space again into outer space, it had no choice but to bounce from several light years to tens of light years away from its destination.

So it will take years or even decades for the giants to reach Earth.

‘Arrival in two years.’

I had 37 elixir extraction facilities.

And the amount of elixir stored in each facility was approximately 2,000 tons.

Except for the elixir extraction factory in my inner world, the elixirs extracted from other facilities are mixed with the essence of desire.

Therefore, it cannot be absorbed all at once, but is absorbed in small portions.

The manager split each elixir block into 100 spheres.

There were 37 elixir extraction facilities, so the total number of spheres was 3,700.

To put it simply, there are 3,700 20-ton elixir pills.

Until recently, I took one pill a day, but now I am taking two pills a day as the tree has grown rapidly.

The tree will continue to grow and the number of pills I can take per day will continue to increase.

When they arrive in two years, the Earth Elixir will already be in my stomach.

‘by the way.’

I asked the dog sh*t a completely different question.

“Do you know how to make an arch?”

I mean the arch that opens the teleportation gate.

Compared to wormholes, it was a very useful item because it could teleport with very little elixir consumption.

“[No, Archie can only make Lua.]”

Unfortunately, Gadddong didn’t know how to make an arch.

Only Lua, the emperor of giants, could make it.

“There are many other things that only Lua can do. That’s why Lua can still rule the giants from generation to generation.]

Cheak-

The sound of the waves of the night sea filled the emptiness of the beach.

Now I’ve heard everything the dog sh*t told me.

I asked her

“Do you want to go to Seoul with me?”

She looked at the sea for a while without speaking, then shook her head.

“No, I like it here.”

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I broke up with Gae Ddong and returned to Seoul.

Thanks to her, I got a lot of information about the giants, but it didn’t increase the range of actions I could take.

Right now, there is no way to spy on or surprise their base.

We have to wait for those who don’t know when they will arrive.

As before, growing trees, improving your skills, and stocking up on gold and elixirs would be the wisest course of action to prepare for the future.

So, as originally planned, we will go to space to ‘mine the planet’.

But before that, there was work to be done.

‘Let’s do the base construction.’

Exploring space can happen when you return to Earth in a hurry.

It would be a huge waste of time to return on a spacecraft every time.

So I thought of another way.

‘Let’s use the teleportation gate.’

There are as many as 37 arched structures in the inventory.

All of them were able to open a teleportation gate to the elixir extraction facility.

Since the elixir extraction facility is in the earth’s underground space, you can return to Earth in an instant by using the arch from space.

‘Let’s go back to Korea if possible.’

Factory 5 in Korea is located deep underground in Gangnam, Seoul.

So, if we dig down the ground vertically at our house, we can reach Factory 5.

We will drill a tunnel connecting Factory 5 and the basement of our house.

If there is a need to return to Earth while traveling in space, open the teleportation gate and move to Factory 5, then go through the tunnel and come back home.

Also, when you resume space travel again, you can teleport to the point where the arch is located and continue your journey from there.

trudging-

I came down to the basement through the outside stairs.

hiss-

I took out a small ＜magic engineering excavator＞ from my inventory.

It is an unmanned excavator that can dig a hole about 1m in diameter.

Goo Goo-

The excavator drilled through the basement floor and went into the ground.

Chasing the excavator, I took out the Orichalcon pipe I had made in advance and put it in my inventory and installed it.

The pipe was the tunnel I would use.

Just as oil is transported through oil pipelines, I will also travel through pipes.

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The tunnel construction was very simple.

By connecting 400 10m long pipes in series, they were connected to the underground space of the 5th factory.

Whoops-

It passed through the pipe and returned to the basement from Plant 5.

And put a magic barrier at the entrance of the pipe.

I set it so that only I can see the entrance to the tunnel and pass through it.

‘Now let’s start for space.’

Put on the rocket suit and came out into the garden.

Then, with ＜invisibility＞, it rose into the sky, hiding itself.

We reached the stratosphere and took out the spaceship and boarded it.

After reaching the thermosphere, the spacecraft began to accelerate.

Woo woo woo-

The spacecraft accelerated and the Earth moved away in an instant.

I ordered Jessica.

“The destination is the asteroid belt!”

“Yes, boss!”

The area between Mars and Jupiter where asteroids are concentrated is called the asteroid belt.

And among the numerous asteroids there is a ‘metal asteroid’.

As an asteroid made of metal, like the inner core of the Earth, it is also called a ‘treasure asteroid’ because of its enormous metal resources.

The most famous of such treasure asteroids was ’16 Pushike’.

The money mass planet, which NASA is also planning to explore, has an economic value of 1,000 trillion dollars.

Simply put, it cannot be converted into money.

It was said that if this asteroid could be brought to Earth and used, the existing economy would collapse.

So, in order to prevent the collapse of the global economy, I must have Pushke.

Woo woo woo-

It has to fly about 200 million kilometers toward the outer part of the solar system to reach the asteroid belt.

It was more than 500 times the distance from the Earth to the Moon.

Finally, it is to move the proper space travel-like distance.

“Raise the output to 20%!”

“Yes, boss!”

Woo woo woo-

As Jessica increased the power of her rocket engine, she felt a tremendous acceleration.

The acceleration fighter pilots could withstand was about 9G.

Most people lose consciousness at around 6G.

“What is your current acceleration?”

“That’s 1,000G!”

1,000G is 1,000 times the Earth’s gravitational acceleration.

A person who weighs 70 kg feels that he weighs 70 tons.

Ordinary people would be crushed like bindaetteok.

But it didn’t matter too much to me.

“What is your speed now?”

“Breaked 200km per second!”

It is already more than 10 times faster than Voyager’s speed.

But even at this rate, it would take more than 10 days to reach the asteroid belt.

“Breaked 300km per second!”

As the rocket engines did not stop pushing, the spacecraft continued to increase in speed.

However, I wanted to increase the spacecraft’s acceleration even more.

“Raise engine output to 40%.”

“yes! president!”

Woo woo woo-

I felt the acceleration of 2,000G.

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Eventually, I raised the rocket engine output to 100%.

And in just a few hours, it reached the asteroid belt.

Countless asteroids were orbiting the sun in a giant donut shape 100 million kilometers thick and 200 million kilometers wide.

Some of the asteroids were large, up to 100 km in diameter, while others were less than 10 m in diameter.

‘That’s a lot!’

When I checked the radar, there were asteroids with high gold content scattered all over the place.

Originally, I was aiming for 16 pushes, but I didn’t have to.

The spaceship is equipped with a magical engineering device called ＜Golden Radar＞, and the detection range is 300 million km, and areas with high gold content are displayed in yellow.

There was an asteroid that appeared very bright yellow 700,000 km away from the spacecraft.

Woo woo woo-

The ship was moved to the asteroid.

It was an elliptical, very small asteroid about 1 km in diameter.

hiss-

I put the ship in my inventory and landed on the planet.

And he called Kim Seo-yeon.

She began analyzing the composition of the materials that make up the asteroid using precision exploration equipment.

After a moment of analysis, she opened her mouth.

“What a treasure asteroid! 0.7% of the total mass is gold!”

“What is the total mass?”

“About 1 billion tonnes.”

omg-

0.7% of 1 billion tons was 7 million tons.

This tiny asteroid contains as much as 7 million tonnes of gold.

So far, the total amount of gold I have obtained is about 300,000 tons.

They found 20 times more gold than that.

“There are several nuggets of gold that are close to 100% pure at the center of the asteroid!”

First of all, it will dig into the center of the asteroid and absorb the high-purity gold right away.

Then, the rest of the gold will use ＜Smelting＞ magic to increase its purity.

hiss-

I took out the engineering excavator and got on it.

When Kim Seo-yeon started the engine, the Orihalcon drill began to turn vigorously.

Goo Goo-

It burrowed straight into the center of the asteroid.

It was only 1 km in diameter and quickly reached the center.

“We have reached the 100% pure golden layer!”

pat-

illuminate the surroundings with lights.

Then everything around was golden.

The excavator was surrounded by 99.99 pure gold.

Rather than finding gold, it was more like falling into a huge lump of gold.

I reached out of the excavator with a little excitement.

When my hand touches the gold,

hiss-

As the gold nugget disappeared, the surroundings became empty.

It absorbed a huge chunk of gold the size of a middle and high school auditorium.

I felt a different sense of satiety than before.

‘I ate well!’

Wow-

The manager at Factory 1 let out an exclamation of joy.

[You got 500,000 tons of gold!]

Goo Goo-

Dig into the center of the asteroid and absorb all the giant gold nuggets with a purity of 99.99 or higher.

In all, it exceeded 1 million tons.

From now on, it was meaningless to convert gold into money.

It was a staggering amount that could really collapse the human economy.

“Let’s get some rest.”

“Yes, boss!”

Now that I’ve absorbed all the high-purity gold from the asteroid, I’ll take a break and start ＜smelting＞.

Goo Goo-

The excavator is pulled out of the asteroid again.

I got off the excavator and looked into outer space.

Metallic asteroids like this are abundant in the asteroid belt.

I will have to live here for a while.

It was then.

Telepathy came from the golem managing the diamond mine.

[president! Armed forces have invaded the mine!]

I expected it to explode at any time, but it happened now.

The golem alone is enough to block it, but it would be better for me to go there myself to properly understand the situation.

After returning to Earth for a while to sort out the diamond mining problem, we will continue the asteroid mining operation.

[okay. I am coming.]

hiss-

I took the arch construct out of my inventory.

cool-

The space under the arch shuddered and the teleportation gate opened.

hiss-

Passed through the gate and returned to Earth.