"Hey everyone, I want you to hear out. I’m Carl Brown, an alchemist from the Kingdom of Dawn. Not long ago, I saw a quest on the Quest Board from an elderly minor noble who’d lost all his relatives in the recent war. So he posted a quest looking for soone to help ease his loneliness and let him spend his final days in peace. So I created this—a talking crystal parrot."
As soon as you click on Reverse rlin Carl Brown’s video, you hear him earnestly explaining the backstory: "My crystal parrot can talk and chat, and its intelligence level keeps growing over ti. More importantly, if you encounter soone you don’t like, you can push it forward and it’ll start going off with colorful language. And you don’t have to feel embarrassed because, hey, it’s just an alchemical product, right? After the crystal parrot finishes its rant, you can just explain to the person."
"Now, let demonstrate the parrot’s two main functions."
With that, Reverse rlin Carl Brown started chatting with the crystal parrot.
"Hey, little guy, say hello to everyone!"
"Yo-ho~ Hey everyone, I’m Master Carl’s brilliant creation, the talking crystal parrot! Don’t let this fool you—I can keep you company till the end of ti..."
"Why don’t you explain your features."
"Yo-ho~ Hey everyone, I’m Master Carl’s brilliant creation, the talking crystal parrot! Don’t let this fool you—I can keep you company till the end of ti..."
"I said, explain your features."
"Master Carl is a truly excellent alchemist..."
"I want you to explain your features. You should tell everyone that you can chat and ease loneliness and stuff. Got it?"
"..."
Over the next few minutes, Reverse rlin Carl Brown perfectly demonstrated to viewers what "artificial stupidity" looked like. Almost every answer was completely off-topic. But you had to admit, this parrot was really chatty. The weirdest part was that whenever it encountered certain keywords, it would start cursing up a storm, and it could do it in dozens of different languages simultaneously.
Good thing Ren’s video system didn’t have content moderation—otherwise this video would never have made it through.
Even so, Master Carl nodded with satisfaction. "As you can all see, my crystal parrot has excellent logic and learning ability. With just a little training, it’ll definitely be an outstanding companion. If that elderly noble had taken it ho, he’d have sothing to chat with, sothing to teach like a grandson. But he rejected my work and even cursed out. So tell —doesn’t he just not appreciate quality?"
In these early days of internet video, people were pretty accepting, and this Reverse rlin Carl Brown actually had decent editing skills. The video was legitimately funny and quickly attracted so attention.
But soon, the comnts section exploded.
"If I’m not mistaken, that elderly noble probably wasn’t looking for this."
"Forget everything else—Master Carl’s thinking is really sothing else!"
"This is wild. If you want an alchemical companion to ease loneliness, shouldn’t you make a bigger, humanoid alchemical creation?"
"Ha ha ha, this is killing . The crystal parrot’s answers are completely random—is this supposed to be cody?"
"Suggestion: turn it into a music box that doesn’t need commands. Just make it sing."
"It’s not completely useless. When you’re bored, you could practice patience with this crystal parrot. Might help with ditation. Though now that I think about it, you could also put it at your treasure vault door, tell it a fake password, and let it play mind gas with anyone trying to break in."
"Does Master Carl have other works? Let us see more!"
Watching his published video rack up likes and comnts while his follower count shot up, Reverse rlin Carl Brown nodded with satisfaction. "So of these comnts are kinda confusing, but since so many people are liking it, they must really appreciate my alchemical creations. Hmm, they want more? Well then, I’ll go film so new videos!"
Master Carl’s thought process had always been unique. Anyone else would probably figure out that people were gathering here just to watch the trainwreck. But Master Carl genuinely believed everyone appreciated his work—otherwise, why would they spend their valuable ti on this?!
Right then, he headed toward his alchemical vault. This vault contained years of accumulated works—lots and lots of alchemical creations he thought were great but nobody else appreciated. Perfect ti to show them off.
He wasn’t trying to sell these alchemical creations—he didn’t need the money anyway. His alchemical skills were solid. As long as he wasn’t making up his own projects, his creations sold for good prices. He just wanted more people’s recognition.
In a noble estate near the capital of the Kingdom of Dawn.
A young noble watching Reverse rlin Carl Brown’s video suddenly had his eyes light up. "That makes sense! So things I can’t say myself, but my toy—a silly-looking alchemical creation—totally can. It could even curse people out and that’d be fine. Nice, this Reverse rlin Carl Brown has finally invented sothing interesting."
Clearly, he’d heard of Reverse rlin Carl Brown’s reputation. Or rather, any noble near the Kingdom of Dawn capital knew this guy’s na. Countless nobles had been burned by him.
But maybe that made it even better—he’d have the perfect excuse. He could just bla Master Carl, saying alchemical creations made by Carl Brown inevitably have so side effects...
This young noble thought about the scenes he’d had to face these past few days—a bunch of so-called relatives interrogating him—and his head throbbed. Then imagining using the crystal parrot to handle all that, he couldn’t help chuckling. He imdiately opened a private ssage: "@Master Carl, I’d like to purchase your crystal parrot. My family’s in the Dawn Kingdom capital—is that convenient? What’s the price?"
Whether it was the noble’s words that triggered so keyword or not, up in the Goddess of Magic’s divine realm, Ren—who’d been rocking back and forth in his old man’s chair—suddenly felt sothing and directly switched the screen in front of him to this video!
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