Chapter 144 – The Tower That Extends Underground (7)
“But I don’t have a weapon.”
While we were eating after the talk, I said so.
“Weapon? Why? Did you even lose it?”
As Dana spoke her words, she picked up a meat dish that was placed right in the center of the table. It was a main dish that was able to order because there were a lot of people.
“The black magician shack’s broth was very catfished. So I’m thinking of making a new order.”
“Yes? What weapon are you going to use?”
“Window.”
At my answer, Dana stopped her hand from drinking her beer. This guy drinks before work and drinks in the evening.
“Window? You originally used a sword.”
“When you were exploring ruins in college? Can you say you wrote it? There must be more enemies who cut beef jerky with a dagger than with a sword drawn.”
Exploration in college days was an exploration of words, and it was only carrying, interpreting, and bouncing from the back. Back in the days when I couldn’t handle mana, I was less practical than Pachirisu.
As she cut up the meat she had brought, Dana twisted her head into a corner.
“But why the window? You must know that it is a difficult weapon to use in ruins exploration.”
“In places where spears cannot be used, I will at least punch. And again, since I’m going to make a weapon out of this, a spear would be the best.”
─Thump. I take out the mithril dried on a cloth and put it down.
Why are you carrying this lump of iron? It’s because if you get robbed, you’ll be lost in your dreams for three years.
“Excuse me. What kind of iron is it?”
The place where the mithril was placed was in front of Tirsi’s water cup, so Tirsi, who removed the cup, touched the iron ingot.
“… Mana?”
Perhaps realizing the mana he felt there, Tyrsi opened his mouth.
“To? I-I can’t believe this… ?! Swimming?!”
“You are right about what you think.”
“Don’t take this out in a crowded place carelessly… !!”
Tirshi shouted softly as he held out the mithril to me with his trembling hand. It seemed to mean to hide quickly, so I took it and hid it.
Taking a sigh of relief, Tirsi drank cold water to cool his agitated heart. It looked like it was staring at me slightly.
“You were very surprised. Where is that?”
“As a reward for the last job. I got it from a whipping lady.”
“I am… I didn’t get…”
Tirthy, who understood it perfectly, muttered gloomily to the world.
After all, that armpit woman, did she just give it to me?
“Would you like to share some?”
“Whoa. That’s Okay. You gave it to Nord? All I did was buy some time at the end? Heh, heh.”
Tirsi only pokes the chicken.
It was regrettable because he thought that such a kind and generous person had missed the Mithril.
I remember that I wasn’t very obsessed with the pay when I was fighting the bandits, but since the level of pay has reached the level of Mithril, things like this happen. It must be because mithril is a good thing even for wizards.
‘Well, even if it was me, it would have been the same.’
If Nefertiti had given mithril only to the gold adventurer team that was driving the warlock’s aggro, she would have cursed inwardly.
Did your conscience die in a pyramid? She might have been whipped for saying the same thing. It’s not slap slap, it’s tuquaguagwang! I said.
“Nor. Is that, is this?”
─Tok tok. Fran said, touching her wedding ring.
The nickname of the blacksmith race is not decoration. Fran knew very well what our rings were made of.
I replied by showing the ring I was wearing.
“That’s right. They said the quantity to make it into a sword was insufficient. I’ll take a little and craft it into a ring, and I’ll make the rest into a weapon.”
“Good idea. Ah, I’m just saying this because I’m worried, can’t I make mine? It’s a waste to use as a throwing knife, but it’s too light to use as a hammer.”
“Ugh. When I asked, he said yes.”
A mithril throwing knife? It wasn’t even a platinum razor blade, and that kind of crazy thing was a stupid thing to do.
If you make it with a hammer, it’s a fucking light metal, so there won’t be any power. Since the amount is small, it is certain that it will be completed with a fucking heavy hammer.
It’s a little different if you become a master and can use auras.
“Anyway, that’s why I signed the contract. The window must have already been made. The rest is just the spear blade.”
“Hooheung~? Then, the next exploration must be a reception for my Ringling 3.5 and senpai’s new weapon, right?”
Said Ralilura, who tore up the bread and dipped it in the soup.
The four-dimensional head that matches the psychedelic pink hair must have come up with some absurd logic, he shouted while making a V shape.
“Like. Let’s compete to see whose weapon produces better results♡! The winner gets the right to ask the loser for anything!”
“If your request is not ‘give me the enchantment book,’ I will accept it.”
“… Heeing. Senior, aren’t you cold towards me these days?”
Lalilura grew sullen and complained.
“Really, I’m super focused on the atmosphere. An offer made ready to lose a bet and hear harsh orders like ‘don’t wear clown clothes’? How do you view the determination of a lovely junior like me?”
“A wrong equation?”
Sloppy?
“Anyway, if it’s a book, can I borrow it and read it?”
“It’s not like that! Don’t you understand this feeling of wanting to collect all the books of someone you respect as a fan?!”
“My.”
I don’t know.
I affirmed that, but the female team—Dana and Tirsi to be precise—nodded.
“I know, I know. If it was Professor Hi Romain’s essay, I put it in my personal luggage and brought it. Even if it was lost, I wouldn’t be able to open my eyes and see it.”
“I understand. Letters that your favorite writer exchanged with friends during his lifetime, or things that are sold at an extremely high price to maniacs at auctions?”
It feels like our perspectives are similar, different.
Although the two women are equally scholarly, their personalities and ways of thinking are very different. I swallowed the meat I put in my mouth.
“Yeah, well, it’s enough for me to just copy the magic tricks. I’ll accept that bet. Do you roll that hard?”
“Sure! Aha♡, it’s good that our seniors are like this~!”
“That ‘because of this’ isn’t ‘because it’s easy to use and eat’, right?”
“… ♡”
Fuck you, answer me.
I yawned at Lalilura, who laughed, but the guy just avoided her eyes.
Fuck it. I can’t help but win. But I don’t know if I’ll get anything by winning against him.
At that time, I’ll have to ban any mention of the proposal.
***
A few days later, I went to Clara’s weapon shop with a mithril ingot.
—If you’re going to make the spear blade out of mithril, then the spearhead won’t be made out of ordinary stuff either.
That’s what Clara said. In other words, in order to achieve a level of perfection that can be proud of as a mithril weapon, it must be made from the spearhead.
Of course, that doesn’t mean it’s impossible to make even the spearhead out of rare metal.
Even if it became as heavy as a bench press bar, it wouldn’t be difficult to carry it if it was my strength, but I didn’t have the money for that.
So, I went to see Clara today, a few days after I asked for a custom-made window stand.
“Sorry, Nor. Is it heavy?”
Fran said, looking at the box I had on under my armpit. It was a box containing a golem core.
I thought that Franc would sell his share of the core, but he said he wanted to make something with this core, so I gave it to him instead.
“Hehe. At all.”
I answer with a smile It really wasn’t very heavy.
The first time I brought it from the wizard guild, it was heavy, but this time there was no problem at all. Is it because of the three pieces, or is it because Fran is next to him?
Anyway, nothing was difficult. I went to Clara’s weapon shop holding hands with Fran.
“Oh my gosh? … Whoop whoop.”
Clara, who was cutting something on the counter, saw us and put her hand to her mouth. It seemed that he had barely noticed what was going on between us.
Since you are holding the hand with the ring on, it will be clear to anyone who sees it.
“Welcome. I got the ring the other day and didn’t come, so I thought something had happened and I was nervous.”
“There were twists and turns, but it was an opportunity to feel my wife’s broad heart and affection again. What about the spearhead I asked for?”
“I’m done. I was fortunate to have the material.”
─Less. Clara brought her spearhead and showed it.
It was a wooden window. It’s so cool that you can easily tell how hard it is just by touching it.
Is the length a bit short considering the length of the spear blade? Still, it seemed to be longer than the sword I was using.
“It’s a spearhead made from the wood of a tree monster. It is made to fit the size of the customer’s hand. Now I just need to make a spear blade.”
-Haha, haha.
Did he even get excited about what he said? Clara looked at me with her excited eyes.
Fuck. You and I have owners, so let’s not do that. I put out a mithril ingot at the silent request.
“Come!! I missed you!!”
Clara was as delighted as a bride welcoming her groom back from a business trip. It seems that even a beam will shoot from her eyes.
“Ah, haha…”
Indeed, even Fran’s mouth trembled a little at that scene. I understand. Even if you didn’t curse, it’s great, my franc.
By the way, what is this lady’s husband really doing?
It’s not like a humanoid robot.
“No, what’s so…”
“Is it that far?! Look at the quality of this brilliant Mithril!! I became a blacksmith to knead metal like this!!”
“Then you must have lost half your life by now.”
I wanted to skip this pointless conversation and get to the point. I took out the request fee and the contract and put it on the table.
“I brought the production cost. Please complete it according to the blueprint you made last time. And here, my wife also wants to make a request.”
“Yeah! Please speak!”
“Uh, that’s it… ? I want to process the golem core and the throwing knife I bought the other day.”
Fran pulled out a knife from the 〈 Portable Subspace 〉 enchanted armor.
That… Damn I forgot the name Anyway, it wasn’t the knife that Clown dropped, it was the throwing knife I bought here.
The circus juggling knives are quite large. About the size of a meat cleaver.
And the knife I bought here was about the size of a fork.
“What kind of processing is it?”
“I am learning the magic of making golems. Can this knife be given the core function of a golem?”
“So, you want to use it as a golem core and throwing knife?”
“Yeah.”
To Fran’s affirmation, Clara crossed her arms and took the quote.
Then he nodded her head.
“It is possible. However, I do not recommend using all of them. Isn’t that stone the core you got from catching the golem?”
“Ah yes. Yes.”
“Then leave half of it. It’s because it’s slightly different from the golem crafting magic material at the point of processing.”
“I will. Because I won’t be using golems as my primary focus.”
A franc that puts half of the golem’s core down.
The reason I gave Fran the golem crafting magic was for one reason.
‘It was given to me to use for disassembling locks.’
I hope you think about it.
Those who hide treasures in safes or treasure chests set all sorts of traps to avoid being robbed. Poison darts sticking out of locks, collapsing floors, poison gas, anyway, there are so many.
Dismantling it is the main task of an adventurer thief.
‘Because I can’t have my Fran do 3D work like that.’
Golems are good in this respect.
It’s not up to Frank’s dexterity, but you can control the golem and pick it up instead of the lock. Caught in a trap and destroyed? Nana Fran wouldn’t even blink an eye if the instant golem searched for it.
It’s a shame if the core is smashed. But that was it.
If you had to choose between life and money, wouldn’t you have to choose life if you weren’t an idiot?
And an adventurer was a job that aimed for money while taking care of one’s own life.
“I’ll send a note to the inn when it’s done! Don’t worry, I’ll make it perfect even if I stay up all night!”
Saying goodbye, we left Clara’s weapon store.
‘There’s nothing more to prepare now.’
I just need to wield the spearhead I received this time and continue practicing 〈 Lightning Arrows 〉.
‘Let’s borrow the magician’s guild practice book as I heard from Tirsi.’
If it was an indoor practice field, it would be possible to train comfortably without worrying about who might come, like at the well of an inn. According to Tirsi, the training ground is a private room that no one else can see.
Because wizards don’t like to show their research to others.
That’s how we worked hard at the bar we were assigned to for a week.
I practice spearmanship and magic.
Fran is 〈 Puppet 〉 self-taught knife training and golem crafting magic.
Dana is busy laying the groundwork for the research center, and Tirshi is also adjusting the alchemy school’s schedule.
A Lingling named Lalilu acquired the magic combination magic that I used to propose during the adjustment and trial run of Unit 3.5, as well as during my private time. He’s floating again.
Anyway, each of them practiced and prepared for the exploration of the ruins, and inquired about the news of the adventurers who entered the ruins first.
And listened.
– Hey, did you hear? The creepy story of that underground tower.
─Yes. Horrible monsters you’ve never heard of crawling out?
This time, too——that it would never go smoothly.
