Alchemist In The Apocalypse: Rise Of A Legend!

First Home.

[Ace POV],

Before we went down the stairs to the dark room, I made sure to cover the entrance here with more leaves outside to provide a better cover and disguise for it, making it harder for anyone to discover it.

I wouldn't want a treasure I'd already claimed to be mine to be taken from me by a random rank 1 human who was stronger than me.

Fortunately, Chris and Anna moved their battle with the monster to a location far away from the hill that housed the alternate dimension's entrance, preventing me from taking any further action to cover the hill if the area around it was destroyed.

They also cleaned up after themselves, as I didn't see the body of the monster they killed or the blood that must have spilled when the monster died.

Overall, they handled it well, and I'm guessing the disappearance of the monster's body was due to one of them exchanging the monster for coins in the store.

As I was thinking about these thoughts as I and the team made our way down the stairs, Anna spoke behind me, jolting me out of my reverie.

"How long do these stairs go down?" Anna inquired, her voice quivering with tiredness.

Her concerns were understandable, given that I, too, thought the stairs were quite long.

Though it didn't matter because we wouldn't be exhausted from climbing the stairs, it was still a little exhausting to keep climbing the stairs.

As I reflected on these things and other random thoughts, it didn't take long for us to arrive at the dimly lit room, thanks to Anna's urging.

"You really didn't exaggerate when you said a door was located here," Anna murmured as she made her way quickly to the bronze door to examine it, but perhaps because she couldn't find any information about it with the primordial chronicle, Anna turned to me and asked a question.

"What is this?" She inquired, pointing to the bronze door in front of her.

Hearing this, I spoke up and responded to her without directly answering her question.

"This is what I wanted to show you," I explained, and Anna raised an eyebrow when she heard me.

"Is our home beyond the door?" "Is it a cave?" she inquired.

Hearing this, I decided not to respond and instead showed it to her before she had any more strange thoughts.

As I considered this, I approached the door and opened it without hesitation, as Anna, who was about to speak, was forced to swallow her words when she saw the scene in front of her and exclaimed in awe.

Chris was also the same as Mia, who had been silently observing before quietly letting out an exclamation.

"Wow," she exclaimed in a low, soft voice that struck me as odd.

Only Emma and I showed no reaction when we saw the scene beyond the bronze door.

The fact that we had already explored the area around the bronze door contributed to this.

As I considered this, I led everyone inside, closing the bronze door immediately after we entered the alternate dimension.

"Is this another world?" Chris asked, his face sluggish as he observed the surroundings, while Anna released Mia in her arms to play as Mia ran around the surroundings around us with a curious expression on her face, dirtying her clothes in the process.

While I would have responded to Chris's question, I unfortunately also didn't know the answer so I ignored him and turned to Anna, who asked me a question while I was observing my surroundings.

"What is this place, Ace?" Anna inquired, adding, "It's too big!" in amazement.

"Our home," I said, and Anna did not reply as she slowly observed the surroundings while mummifying the words I said multiple times before stopping after a while as she turned to face me and spoke.

"You say this is our home, huh?"

"Will that ever change?" Anna inquired as Emma and I turned to her with puzzled expressions, not understanding why she would ask such a question.

As I was about to respond, Anna burst out laughing and abruptly changed the subject, as if it had never existed in the first place.

While it was strange, I didn't bother thinking about it and instead focused on what Anna was saying.

"While I'm not sure how you guys got this place, it's amazing," Anna said as I immediately responded to her after hearing this.

"We didn't get it, but it's better to say we found it," I said, to which Anna tilted her head to the side and spoke.

"So why did you call it our home if it isn't yours?" She inquired.

"It's ownerless," I said, and Anna let out an 'oh' before continuing.

"However, this place is quite large. "Are you certain it has no owner?" She inquired as I fell silent upon hearing her.

It wasn't that I hadn't had this thought before Emma and I left the alternate dimension; in fact, I had it long before Emma and I left, but even if I was suspicious, this place was truly empty because Emma and I found no trace of activity in the distance we observed.

But that didn't put my suspicions to rest because no one knew if this bronze door was even the only entrance to this place.

However, I responded to Anna and told her that I was certain that the alternate dimension was ownerless as she began asking more questions, which I passed on to Emma to answer as I observed Chris try to calm his energized sister.

It felt peaceful.

This was one of the few times I could stand in a place for too long without a purpose and not be concerned about my life being taken away the next second.

As I considered this, Anna spoke up again and asked a very important question that I'd been considering for a while.

"It's good we have a place to stay now, especially one that's hidden like this, both inside, outside, and on the surface, but you can't really have a home without a shelter, right? And don't tell me you thought we should sleep in the woods for a while," Anna said, turning to point to a forest in the distance.

While it was true that I had this idea before, I did not intend to pursue it again because I had a better temporary solution.

My plan was to build a wooden house, which we could easily do with our physique.

Though it will take some time to complete one, we had all day and a time difference to boost.

As I was about to say something, Chris interrupted me and spoke first.

"E-eh, I think I have a solution right here," Chris said as he scratch the back of his head which was suspicious from any angle, and then he handed me a strange object.

"This...….

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