The Last Surviving Alchemist Wants to Live Quietly in the City

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The Kingdom of Endalgia was destroyed by rampaging monsters coming from the Demon Forest.

The alchemist, Mariela, was able to escape almost certain death by using the “Magic Circle of Suspended Animation.” Although it was somewhat inadvertent, she awoke nearly 200 years later, in a time where all other alchemists had died out.

A labyrinth was left where the demons had stampeded through. In this labyrinth, a city formed from what little remained of the Kingdom of Endalgia. Its purpose was to manage the Demon Forest.

In this city, the only remaining potions were decades old and the effectiveness of these potions had deteriorated. This caused the price of potions to increase by nearly 100 times.

Mariela became the only alchemist left in the city able to make potions. This story is about Mariela secretly selling potions while trying to relax and enjoy life in the labyrinth city.

Associated Names
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Ikinokori Renkinjutsushi wa Machi de Shizuka ni Kurashitai
The Alchemist Who Survived Now Dreams of a Quiet City Life (LN)
The Survived Alchemist With a Dream of Quiet Town Life
生き残り錬金術師は街で静かに暮らしたい
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Bizmatech
Bizmatech rated it
May 3, 2019
Status: c14
The slice of life aspect is fine, but the rest is rather subpar.

1. Lots of inconsistencies.

She is a completely average alchemist... except when the author wants her to do something cool. Then she's an amazing alchemist without peer.

... more>> Sometimes she needs to spend time and effort to make an important potion that does something. Other times she uses magic to produce the same effect and it's treated like no big deal.

2. The magic and alchemy system is overcomplicated to the point that even the author can't understand it, which leads to a lot of point 1.

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Mandrake, mandragora, and alraune are the same exact plant. Different languages have different words for it, but because the plant is famous they are all commonly used. The author however, either doesn't realize this, or doesn't care because...

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3. The author seems to love showing off how much fantasy there is in this fantasy world.

Why do anything the normal way when you can do it with magic? Don't know how something worked in the medieval/renaissance era? Who cares? Replace it with a magical version of modern tech and nobody will notice. Just make sure to tell them that it's powered by magic stones so they don't get suspicious.

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And seriously, what's with Japanese author's obsessions with having their characters eat orc meat? It's basically one step away from cannibalism, and there's no way you can convince me that's healthy.

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4. The rest of the worldbuilding is rather meh, and equally inconsistent.

The very existence of this city seems questionable. At first, it was explained as a city of opportunity where everyone was welcome. Later the MC remembers it as a place where only refugees or the equally desperate would come. How this place became a capital is beyond me. Now, the city is controlled by the neighboring empire because... reasons. They seem to spend more money on the place than it's worth. Its only purpose is to contain a labyrinth that's so remote that most adventurers don't bother to visit. It produces no goods of value, and the few things it has worth trading rarely leave the place, again due to its remote and dangerous location. If the city was abandoned overnight, nothing of value would be lost.

5. s*ave magic.

It's a crap gimmick. Does no one realize how incredibly dangerous this is? All it would take is one person abusing it, building up a secret s*ave cult to take over a kingdom. This could easily be a 40k Chaos heresy level nightmare, but nope. Everyone just treats FREAKING MIND CONTROL magic like it's a perfectly normal thing instead of the absolute horror that it is. This is the sort of thing that could fuel the premise of an entire series, but here it's just a convenient way for the MC to meet her husband, and will probably never be important in the future. <<less
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2Girls1Cupcake
2Girls1Cupcake rated it
November 25, 2018
Status: c20
This is clearly a shoujo novel and should be tagged as such.

This is the story of the last surviving alchemist, well.. Only the last one in this city, and then again, not really, there's a family that was the pinnacle of the alchemist families before her suspended animation and it's apparently still there, they're just selling lower quality potions, clearly a scheme to earn more money.

The alchemy system in itself is dumb, to become an alchemist you have to enter a contract with some spirit of the mana vein or... more>> w/e they call it in this novel, to be able to use special spells, these spells is what alchemy is all about, there's also processing the materials, but that's done with spells as well. This is the reason there are none in this city, they can't find the spirit after a monster stampede annihilated most of the population. All of this is probably a mechanism to make it more "unique", but in the end the author could just have extended it to 1.000 years instead of 200 years in the future and make it a completely lost art, it just makes no sense.

there are inconsistencies in this novel too, for some reason she has a lot more mana after waking up, this is all well and good and it's hinted at on several occasions, yet when she makes a certain potion, that she should be able to make before the suspended animation, yet for some reason she's faint from using too much mana. Then there's the fact that the MC goes around saying someone else has no negotiation skills while freely giving away 10% of all her profits for free, even after the other party gave her a clear offer that was clearly more advantageous for her. <<less
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TerraCeline
TerraCeline rated it
May 19, 2017
Status: c3
This is a very cute story so far. Reminds me of Miniature Garden Chemister. I love potion making stories and stories where the MC is very self sufficient, similar to the witch of 300 years killing slimes... etc. I think the translator is doing a good job at keeping the nuances, wit, and humor of the story. Mariela looks to be very likeable 3 chapters in. I'm ready for more!
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GlitterGoblin
GlitterGoblin rated it
October 22, 2021
Status: second book
READ THE FIRST, BURN THE SECOND.

Alright y’all. I hate to write this but, the first book was phenomenal to me, the second made me regret having ever even seen the title of this series. It was seriously the worst thing I have ever read.

The protagonist was determined and silly, but kind and genuine, talented and humble in the first novel. It is slice of life and adventure, with plot and interesting side characters. An easy and relaxing read.

In the second novel she is little more than the punchline to sexist... more>> and derogatory jokes. She is portrayed as a complete idiot, with no ambition, and no depth. I suspect that the second book was written by a 11 year old boy and edited by a pe*verted middle aged man sitting in his underwear in his mom’s bas**ent. <<less
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Nixx
Nixx
May 13, 2018
Status: c10
I really realllyyy love this!!! Although it's just starting and the first 10 chaps is like an introduction (kinda), it has a really great plot similar to those stories with normal MCs that somehow became OP in a degraded version of their normal world or err timeline (?)

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Sieg is such a cutie that doesn't deserve that treatment at all!! I liked mariela and his interaction, tho it still a few you could already see that they would have a superr loyal servant and easy going friendly master relationship in the future. Though I hope that sieg becomes a bit tough (?) Or more reasponsible I guess in the future because mariela seems kinda naive to me and I felt she was being duped by those black iron transportation mercenaries (?) At one point. I just don't like the fact that she easily agreed to what those guys said, I just need seig to be open minded and not naive. Pls. T.T

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I don't usually read novels that just started translating so I put this off for a few weeks but still, I couldn't help reading it despite knowing it will make me cry when I ran out of chapters to read (which it did). I reallyy hate that it still doesn't have a fixed update schedule and not knowing if the translator would continue this or not so I reallyyy hope you stay strong on this translator-sannn!!! I'll support you all the way!!! <<less
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Kalmaegi
Kalmaegi
November 19, 2018
Status: c25
It has a similar vibe to the Atelier video game franchise so fans of the game would no doubt enjoy it. From the ridiculous on the sly innuendos, a troublesome Master, dodgy useless adults; I like it so far!

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Spoiler

It makes me think having the characters visit a shop with the name "Meruru" is a deliberate reference from the author. Mariela reminds me most of Rorona (Atelier Rorona: Alchemist of Arland). Just with a bit more spunk. It doesn't help that she has a handsome man following after her lmao.

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About the man depicted on the cover alongside our girl:

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Our man (?) Sieg has done a lot of s*upid things in his life thanks to his blessed circumstances as a person with a spirit eye. Once the thing that made him special was gone, his arrogance further doomed him in a life of servitude as a s*ave. He made a lot of s*upid decisions and his gamble of saving his former Master's son caused a chain reaction that led him to meeting Mariela. While he was still over the moon at meeting his Goddess, Lynx decided to crash his delusions and make him truly question his life choices as a dedicated freeloader.

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