Someday Will I Be The Greatest Alchemist?

The residents of the Sanctuary were working together in preparation for the Harvest Festival. On top of the work that comes with harvest season of the crops that they had worked so hard to cultivate, they were also busy with preparing the stalls, but they all seemed to be having fun.

The harvest itself will take ten days, so it’s been decided that the Harvest Festival will be held in around fifteen days.

Papeck-san will arrive before the third day of the festival. We had to set up the stands after that, so we had to arrange the number and variety of the stands.

It will also take time for Madam Lumia to summon servants from Yggurle Kingdom. Naturally, I was asked to handle the production of their stands.

The reason for the vagueness on details was because the circumstances of the harvest and the festival preparations may vary by a day or two.

Normally, it would be troublesome if the harvest festival didn’t have a set date, but put simply, the Sanctuary was quite lax in that regard.

Now, in the workshop, Laeva was making the target shooting and ring toss under Akane’s supervision. I couldn’t think of any other type of booths in a festival aside from food stands.

「The number of stalls will increase. The kids would probably enjoy target shooting and ring toss. I think everyone would be in awe at the sight of the loud and pretty firework magic. Is there anything else……」

The fire festival was extravagant but quite dangerous, and as for making a float at this stage…… can we manage if I use alchemy with the Elven craftsmen? But the mikoshi and floats don’t really fit with Goddess Norn’s image.

It might not feel like a Harvest Festival, but a speed-eating and competitive-eating might be interesting. I think it’s okay to have other events as well.

The ceremonious rituals were only at the start anyway, then it turns into a huge commotion, so it seems Sylph, Undine, Dryas, and the Great Spirits are okay with it as long as it’s fun.

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Simon, who was in the process of selecting people to send as civil officials to send to the Sanctuary to strengthen relations, had heard talks of a Harvest Festival in the Sanctuary.

「It’s a given if you really think about it.」

The Sanctuary not only produces alcohol, but also crops and fruits. There was no reason not to have a harvest festival in such a land.

Rather, it was natural that a Harvest Festival that happens in Valkyra Kingdom could also be held in the Sanctuary.

Hearing that a caravan of the Papeck Company’s carriages was making it’s way from the Royal Capital towards the direction of Volton, Simon hurriedly took action.

He managed to gain himself a holiday during the period of the Harvest Festival, and he, along with his wife and a few servants, headed for the Sanctuary in a Demon Horse-drawn carriage.

Madam Rosary, the wife of Valkyra Kingdom’s Prime Minister Simon, was told to urgently pack her things when her usually cautious husband suddenly came home and was in a rush to leave. Without so much as a proper explanation, it couldn’t be helped that she felt anxious as they seemed to be running away in the night, like a moonlight flit.

「What is happening, dear?」

「You know about the Sanctuary too, right?」

「Yes, of course. I reckon there is not a single noble in Valkyra Kingdom who isn’t aware of the Sanctuary though.」

「And it is currently the time for Harvest Festivals in the Kingdom.」

「Yes, they are occurring here and there even around the Royal Capital. I also look forward to it.」

Rosary was getting irritated by her husband’s usual meandering explanations.

「Then you should understand. We’re going to the Harvest Festival of the Sanctuary.」

「Oh my! We are traveling to the Sanctuary!?」

Having thought she could never enter the Sanctuary, the tone of Rosary’s voice grew higher.

At the salons open to noble ladies in the Royal Capital of Valkyra Kingdom, not only the wine, but also the various fruits produced in the Sanctuary were often the subject of conversations.

Since Simon was acquainted with Takumi and Papeck, it was easy to acquire Sanctuary Wine, so Rosary basked in a sense of superiority in salons.

「Yeah, so please bear with the strict schedule.」

「Of course! If we are heading to the Sanctuary, I will ride however many carriages!」

Rosary said that excitedly, but this carriage made by Takumi did not shake much at all. Simon was not a fool to point that out though. He knew that upsetting Rosary would make the journey longer so it was best to turn a blind eye to it.

As Simon’s carriage raced towards the Sanctuary, another carriage was headed in the same direction.

It all started when Lumia urgently summoned her servants by way of a communication magic device.

Naturally, this information was conveyed to her husband, King Forselty, and to Prime Minister Balza.

Forselty stood up vigorously.

「Balza, I leave the rest to you!」

「Y-your Majesty! Please wait!」

「Ooh! My Queen and daughter are waiting!」

「Neither Her Majesty nor Her Highness called for Your Majesty!」

「In any event, I leave the rest to you! If anything happens, the prince and the elders will handle it!」

「Ah-, Your Majesty!」

Forselty hurried his preparations.

「If not for this, I wouldn’t be able to meet my queen and daughter!」

It has been many years since King Forselty last left Yggurle Kingdom. It was definitely an abnormal situation, but he was also responsible for the Queen and Princess who have not come back at all.

The carriage boarding Forselty departed a day after the carriage boarding the servants that Lumia summoned left.

The King’s travel abroad was unbelievably swift.

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