~Summary from the previous chapter~
Ippei who left the meadow pass the road, then he meets Patty that was being chased by monsters.
Patty and I was setting up the camp. It seems that the closest city here called Nepia is still 20km away. There is a small village here but it doesn’t have any inn so we decided to camp near the river-side. Patty glared this way, then said.
[If you try to do anything strange, I’ll beat you up]
[Seriously, don’t do that. I’ll surely die]
I only have a Defense of only 5 while Patty have an Attack of 104.
Patty provided the ingredients for tonight as thanks for the recovery magic. I prepared a yellow flowered root herb called Yotaimo that I gathered along the way. The Yotaimo has a taste that falls between the taste of a potato and a sweet potato. The cooking was prepared by me who had the greatest skill. Beans and jerky, and Yotaimo soup. Even if I somehow manage with the cooking ingredients, I have no salt at hand. Good thing Patty have some salt, that really saved me.
[Ippei’s cooking, so delicious!]
[Isn’t it]
[I am again regretting it. I just wish that you at least had an average defense]
Definitely, my defense is surely low. However, that’s just the base of my current status was the fact.
[Wait a minute! Certainly my defense is only 5. But it’s the fact that I haven’t equipped anything]
Patty looks at me as if she lost interest.
[Do you really think that by equipping a good armor it will become somehow much better?]
[Doesn’t it?]
[Certainly, if you put on a good equipment then your defense will rise. But Ippei, can you move freely with your current strength? A fullplate is heavy you know]
[Th-that is, I’ll make a light and strong armor]
[That king of equipment is very expensive you know. Even the materials used are rare materials and magic stones that you can only loot from strong monsters. Does Ippei have that amount of money?]
[No…]
If I can be honest, I’m totally broke.
[It’s the same for weapons, no matter how powerful the weapon you possess it is meaningless if you don’t have the strength and skill to match it]
While being told that, I wasn’t able to talk back. But from what Patty just said, it’s an argument in the bounds of Patty’s common sense. For example, there are weapons with enough power to kill that requires no proper training. And that kind of weapons are the crossbow and types of firearms.
There are some anxiety because crossbows doesn’t have a rapid fire characteristics, this problem is sure to be solved by making firearms. However, the problems about defense still remains. I’ll be surely be killed if I don’t take the the first move. Even so, I won’t survive if my opponent can’t be taken down with one bullet or if they can evade the bullet.
But I still have one more trick on my sleeve.
It’s doping. By using Medical Refining, I can create a potion to increase my abilities. When examining the possible things to do with the materials at hand, I can make Physical Reinforcement Potion (10x) Let’s list it as current goal in crafting for now. However, it’s still terrible even when multiplied by 10x. Even if I drink the potion, my Attack will be 30, Defense will be 50, plus the equipment. I don’t understand it well, but seem to be still weak.
I found a lot of iron by the riverside on the campsite, I refine them into steel ingot between my guard duty. Next is refining the sword with my smithery skill. Honestly, I wanted to create an armor with the Tool Creation skill, but the materials such as leather and string was insufficient. But if it’s a sword, you can basically make it when there’s metal. Attack seems to have increased equal to the amount of mana loaded, although the maximum amount of mana that can be loaded depends on the material. With using a simple steel, not much mana can be loaded. I load the mana carefully. The shape will distort if I carelessly load uneven amount of mana. If that happens then the sharpness and balance will worsen. The steel ingots where wrapped in light while floating in air, I gradually form the figure of a sword. At last, as it blazed up and silently descended on the ground as if a soul has dwelled inside it.
―Will you sign it?―
Should I put my sign or not. I was troubled for a while but I chose the [No] option. I don’t want to live as a blacksmith. I want to be an adventurer. Therefore I don’t need to sell my name other than being an adventurer. It would be a problem if a request for a unskillful sword production comes. I have a characteristic of not being able to refuse when asked, as I’m weak to being pressured.
Total length is 120 cm. Blade length is 95 cm. The ice-like blade shines in response to the moonlight. I may be praising my own self but it was such an excellent blade.
Appraisal
【Description】 An unsigned sword. The acquisition of the skill Slash Wave is now enabled. |
Isn’t this such a good outcome? I equipped the newly made sword and checked my status.
|
Are~? The Attack that should be 127 is now 12. In other words, I can only draw 12 out of the 127 even if I equipped it. Well, Patty also said it, so I didn’t received that much mental damage. As planned, after a few days, I’ll create some firearms. My only advantage in a battle is my mana quantity. I’m unable to use any offensive magic, so when creating a gun with mana as it’s energy source, won’t it be quite effective? Therefore, a magic stone that converts mana into physical energy is needed. At any rate, money seems to be necessary. This is really hard. But I’m not that pessimistic. If I work as a healer I can expect some degree of income, there’s also the way by selling equipments and potions. When morning comes, let’s ask Patty the price of the sword by showing it to her.
[What’s with this sword!]
[I tried making it last night while on guard duty. So?]
Patty then grips the sword and swung it several times. The first was agile. It eventually hasten with power.
[It’s pretty well made… Unn, It’s very good! It’s so light and the balance is good. What’s this feeling like it adapts securely to my hands]
It doesn’t feel bad to be praised to this extent. However, that sword is light? It was really heavy for me…
[Will this be sellable?]
[Un, With this level it can be sold for a hefty price]
Appraisal
|
Yup. She can firmly draw out the weapon’s capabilities. The skill Slash Wave has been also learned.
[Does Patty know the skill Slash Wave?]
[Un, It’s a low tier finisher similar to Wind Cutter that can make any one fly away]
[Perhaps, if you practice with that sword you can use it]
[Hou~, so it’s a weapon with a skill. As if Ippei can create anything]
[Well~]
[But it’s really sad that you’re this weak~]
[Please don’t say it…]
I faced Patty and she listen seriously.
[Hey Patty, please teach me]
[Ok. Patty-sensei will teach you anything. Ah, but ecchi stuff is forbidden]
[Can you tell me the minimum requirement to become an adventurer?]
It came to that I was seriously asking questions, Patty also changed an expression and began to talk.
[For us adventurer, status value is nothing. But there is a minimum line]
Patty took out a card from her bosom.
[This is my guild card. I think that you already know, but on the backside are my Attack and Defense that are converted to numerical value and are written there. I cannot tell anything more of the details]
I didn’t know that. Oh so that’s it, adventurers checks their status with the use of a guild card instead of Appraisal or Status Open.
[Did you know that a status review is necessary in order to be register as an adventurer? And the minimum value required to be registered is to be 30 or higher on everything]
[In other words…]
[That’s right. With Ippei’s status, you cannot be registered as an adventurer]
Tears blurs my view.
[I’m telling this for your own good. You better just give up. Even if you become an adventurer, you’ll just die out there]
For my own sake, I’ll consider. Patty severs my dreams with those brief words. However.
[Patty…, I’ll give this sword to you]
[Eh? Really?!]
[However, I have a request. I require a silver cliff grass]
[What kind of thing is it? …mou, Wipe those tears, you’re already a grown-up man… Hora, I’ll listen so tell it to Patty-sensei]
[Patty-sensei!! I want to become an adventurer…]
[Un. I understand your feeling]
[That’s why, I’ll make a potion that will raise my status]
A star shoots out to the sky.
~Summary from the previous chapter~
Ippei who left the meadow pass the road, then he meets Patty that was being chased by monsters.
Patty and I was setting up the camp. It seems that the closest city here called Nepia is still 20km away. There is a small village here but it doesn’t have any inn so we decided to camp near the river-side. Patty glared this way, then said.
[If you try to do anything strange, I’ll beat you up]
[Seriously, don’t do that. I’ll surely die]
I only have a Defense of only 5 while Patty have an Attack of 104.
Patty provided the ingredients for tonight as thanks for the recovery magic. I prepared a yellow flowered root herb called Yotaimo that I gathered along the way. The Yotaimo has a taste that falls between the taste of a potato and a sweet potato. The cooking was prepared by me who had the greatest skill. Beans and jerky, and Yotaimo soup. Even if I somehow manage with the cooking ingredients, I have no salt at hand. Good thing Patty have some salt, that really saved me.
[Ippei’s cooking, so delicious!]
[Isn’t it]
[I am again regretting it. I just wish that you at least had an average defense]
Definitely, my defense is surely low. However, that’s just the base of my current status was the fact.
[Wait a minute! Certainly my defense is only 5. But it’s the fact that I haven’t equipped anything]
Patty looks at me as if she lost interest.
[Do you really think that by equipping a good armor it will become somehow much better?]
[Doesn’t it?]
[Certainly, if you put on a good equipment then your defense will rise. But Ippei, can you move freely with your current strength? A fullplate is heavy you know]
[Th-that is, I’ll make a light and strong armor]
[That king of equipment is very expensive you know. Even the materials used are rare materials and magic stones that you can only loot from strong monsters. Does Ippei have that amount of money?]
[No…]
If I can be honest, I’m totally broke.
[It’s the same for weapons, no matter how powerful the weapon you possess it is meaningless if you don’t have the strength and skill to match it]
While being told that, I wasn’t able to talk back. But from what Patty just said, it’s an argument in the bounds of Patty’s common sense. For example, there are weapons with enough power to kill that requires no proper training. And that kind of weapons are the crossbow and types of firearms.
There are some anxiety because crossbows doesn’t have a rapid fire characteristics, this problem is sure to be solved by making firearms. However, the problems about defense still remains. I’ll be surely be killed if I don’t take the the first move. Even so, I won’t survive if my opponent can’t be taken down with one bullet or if they can evade the bullet.
But I still have one more trick on my sleeve.
It’s doping. By using Medical Refining, I can create a potion to increase my abilities. When examining the possible things to do with the materials at hand, I can make Physical Reinforcement Potion (10x) Let’s list it as current goal in crafting for now. However, it’s still terrible even when multiplied by 10x. Even if I drink the potion, my Attack will be 30, Defense will be 50, plus the equipment. I don’t understand it well, but seem to be still weak.
I found a lot of iron by the riverside on the campsite, I refine them into steel ingot between my guard duty. Next is refining the sword with my smithery skill. Honestly, I wanted to create an armor with the Tool Creation skill, but the materials such as leather and string was insufficient. But if it’s a sword, you can basically make it when there’s metal. Attack seems to have increased equal to the amount of mana loaded, although the maximum amount of mana that can be loaded depends on the material. With using a simple steel, not much mana can be loaded. I load the mana carefully. The shape will distort if I carelessly load uneven amount of mana. If that happens then the sharpness and balance will worsen. The steel ingots where wrapped in light while floating in air, I gradually form the figure of a sword. At last, as it blazed up and silently descended on the ground as if a soul has dwelled inside it.
―Will you sign it?―
Should I put my sign or not. I was troubled for a while but I chose the [No] option. I don’t want to live as a blacksmith. I want to be an adventurer. Therefore I don’t need to sell my name other than being an adventurer. It would be a problem if a request for a unskillful sword production comes. I have a characteristic of not being able to refuse when asked, as I’m weak to being pressured.
Total length is 120 cm. Blade length is 95 cm. The ice-like blade shines in response to the moonlight. I may be praising my own self but it was such an excellent blade.
Appraisal
【Description】 An unsigned sword. The acquisition of the skill Slash Wave is now enabled. |
Isn’t this such a good outcome? I equipped the newly made sword and checked my status.
|
Are~? The Attack that should be 127 is now 12. In other words, I can only draw 12 out of the 127 even if I equipped it. Well, Patty also said it, so I didn’t received that much mental damage. As planned, after a few days, I’ll create some firearms. My only advantage in a battle is my mana quantity. I’m unable to use any offensive magic, so when creating a gun with mana as it’s energy source, won’t it be quite effective? Therefore, a magic stone that converts mana into physical energy is needed. At any rate, money seems to be necessary. This is really hard. But I’m not that pessimistic. If I work as a healer I can expect some degree of income, there’s also the way by selling equipments and potions. When morning comes, let’s ask Patty the price of the sword by showing it to her.
[What’s with this sword!]
[I tried making it last night while on guard duty. So?]
Patty then grips the sword and swung it several times. The first was agile. It eventually hasten with power.
[It’s pretty well made… Unn, It’s very good! It’s so light and the balance is good. What’s this feeling like it adapts securely to my hands]
It doesn’t feel bad to be praised to this extent. However, that sword is light? It was really heavy for me…
[Will this be sellable?]
[Un, With this level it can be sold for a hefty price]
Appraisal
|
Yup. She can firmly draw out the weapon’s capabilities. The skill Slash Wave has been also learned.
[Does Patty know the skill Slash Wave?]
[Un, It’s a low tier finisher similar to Wind Cutter that can make any one fly away]
[Perhaps, if you practice with that sword you can use it]
[Hou~, so it’s a weapon with a skill. As if Ippei can create anything]
[Well~]
[But it’s really sad that you’re this weak~]
[Please don’t say it…]
I faced Patty and she listen seriously.
[Hey Patty, please teach me]
[Ok. Patty-sensei will teach you anything. Ah, but ecchi stuff is forbidden]
[Can you tell me the minimum requirement to become an adventurer?]
It came to that I was seriously asking questions, Patty also changed an expression and began to talk.
[For us adventurer, status value is nothing. But there is a minimum line]
Patty took out a card from her bosom.
[This is my guild card. I think that you already know, but on the backside are my Attack and Defense that are converted to numerical value and are written there. I cannot tell anything more of the details]
I didn’t know that. Oh so that’s it, adventurers checks their status with the use of a guild card instead of Appraisal or Status Open.
[Did you know that a status review is necessary in order to be register as an adventurer? And the minimum value required to be registered is to be 30 or higher on everything]
[In other words…]
[That’s right. With Ippei’s status, you cannot be registered as an adventurer]
Tears blurs my view.
[I’m telling this for your own good. You better just give up. Even if you become an adventurer, you’ll just die out there]
For my own sake, I’ll consider. Patty severs my dreams with those brief words. However.
[Patty…, I’ll give this sword to you]
[Eh? Really?!]
[However, I have a request. I require a silver cliff grass]
[What kind of thing is it? …mou, Wipe those tears, you’re already a grown-up man… Hora, I’ll listen so tell it to Patty-sensei]
[Patty-sensei!! I want to become an adventurer…]
[Un. I understand your feeling]
[That’s why, I’ll make a potion that will raise my status]
A star shoots out to the sky.
