Chapter 54 – Results of Fixed-point Overhunting
When I returned to the stone pillar after the first fixed-point overhunt, I could no longer find them.
There were no signs of their digging holes, and the stone pillar I had created had several footprints with dirt on it, so I guessed they had given up on the idea that it would not fall over even if they kicked it.
I was relieved for the time being that I didn’t have to worry about them hiding somewhere because of the good visibility.
It was exactly noon.
Leaning against a stone pillar, I took a sandwich from a small leather bag hanging from my waist and chewed it while thinking.
“(It’s good that this stone pillar was made with 48 magic power consumption, but the problem is to get the basket…)”
Of course, there is no way that I can handle the basket of the stone pillar with just my strength, which Adent and the others could not do even with brute force.
Therefore, the task of taking out the basket is a new trial, and I must succeed in this experiment.
I rested for half an hour, ate my meal, and stared at the stone pillar in front of me.
“(I’m getting nervous…)”
From this point on, the work is a bit tiring.
Naturally, I am getting tense, but I have no choice but to put my energy into it because I will not be able to do a stable fixed point hunt in the future if I do not resolve the situation here.
After checking the status screen once, I placed my hand on the stone pillar in front of me and muttered to myself while staring at my feet.
“Generate a five-meter-long stone pillar.”
Rumble, rumble…
“Ooooooooohhh!!!”
The stone pillar rises from beneath my feet.
My vision gets further and further away from the ground, and I can feel the power of my hand touching the stone pillar with the basket on it.
And at a good height, where I could reach the basket by stretching out my hand a little, the stone pillar that was still supporting me stopped moving.
“(T-That was scary…but the experiment was a success!)”
Since this was just one of the fixed-point overhunting trips, I haven’t gone down with the basket yet.
After transferring the contents of the leather bag I was carrying into the basket and rehydrating myself, I slid down the stone pillar, clutching it like a climbing pole I used to play with as a child, with a diameter of about 30 cm.
Now, the question is whether I can continue this way.
I immediately checked the magic power consumed by this stone pillar and found that it took 26 magic powers to create a 5-meter stone pillar.
Well, if that amount of magic power is consumed just by touching the basket, then, of course, it is heavy.
Even though it was heavy if it was only this much, it could be adjusted, and I don’t know how long I’ve been doing this kind of maximum rate adjustment in games.
“First of all, while measuring the recovery time of ’26’, let’s adjust it with the travel range of the expedition…”
I decided to do this and worked on a serious fixed-point hunt as long as I did not exhaust my magic power and physical strength.
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“(I got too carried away… it’s hard…)”
Nevertheless, I didn’t stop jogging, mainly because today is the first time my basket is full on the Rocker Plain.
In fact, it overflowed a bit, and I was about to drop it on the road, so I had some material in my leather bag as well.
This is my fourth day of taking the pills.
The return trip was even harder because my stamina was at a low point, but I couldn’t beat the joy of getting back on track with my fixed-point hunting.
I couldn’t stop feeling like I was hitting maximum efficiency.
It feels like it would be a shame to stop, and it makes me want more and more.
If this were a game world, I would have stayed on the Rocker Plain, run another account, carried food and cashed in materials, and not even gone back to town.
“(Hmm, is that idea even possible? But it would require a very trustworthy transporter… and a person who could walk across the Rocker Plain with ease…)”
It would be great if it were possible…
I had such a fantasy, and before I knew it, I was standing in front of the demolition site with the help of a stick.
“Hey. Hey. Are you okay?”
“Huh? Oh, I did it again. I’m fine… My head was full of delusions…”
“Well, if you can hunt that much in one day, you must be worried about how to spend the money…”
When Roddy-san saw the contents of my basket after saying that, his face clearly twitched.
That’s to be expected, right?
I was surprised myself when I realized that my basket was overflowing.
However, I was only thinking about the skill experience, not the material.
“Hahahaha…then please take this one. Oh, and this one too.”
“I’ll take a look at them after I finish this one, so leave the materials on the counter and wait a minute.”
I handed him a large leather bag along with the basket, and he held his head in his hands, but I didn’t feel guilty at all, knowing that this would help him earn money as well.
“I don’t know what time I’ll be home today…”
“Well, that’s okay. Roddy-san will get more money for it, right?”
“That’s true… but there’s a limit, you know. Are you aware of that? The mayor and the guild master were up in arms about the increase in Poison Mice because of you. They even issued an emergency request for precautionary measures.”
“I saw it this morning. The reward was a bit higher.”
“When I asked other hunters, they said it’s the same as usual… and they must be mistaken because of the large number of Loki’s hunts.”
“But it’s not my fault, is it? I never said that the number of Poison Mice is increasing, and it’s very hard!”
“Of course, it’s not your fault. It is not your fault, but… it is definitely the trigger.”
Roddy-san, who seemed to have finished checking the materials for another party while his mouth was still moving, wrote a few words on a wooden board and handed it to that party to check.
“The Poison Mouse material’s rank C is 3, B is 4, A is 8, the rest are the subjugation proof, and the magic stones are 15 each, and the subjugation proof of Air Mantis and the magic stones are 5 each. Is that correct?”
“Y-yeah, no problem…”
The hunter with a stubbled beard who said that, who was about 30 years old, replied while looking at my materials placed beside me.
Or rather, he was responding to the material.
“(As I recall, Poison Mouse is about 6,000 beeke per mouse if the material rank is decent, and Air Mantis is about 10,000 beeke each, so… I don’t know how many people are in his party, but the total reward is around 140,000 or so.)”
If there were 4 people, that would still be about 35,000 beeke per person.
The more I think about the rewards of Zink-kun’s and Adent’s parties, the more I realize that the Rocker Plains are a good hunting ground at a good price.
“(I wish Zink-kun and the others had gone there too…)”
I thought about that when my material judgment seemed to have ended.
“Huh… How can you keep hunting day after day and keep increasing the amount of materials? All the materials are A-rank, 53 Poison Mice and 12 Air Mantis in total.”
He handed me a wooden board and said this, but there was no point in confirming it since I couldn’t remember how many I had hunted myself.
“No problem. Please leave them with me.”
“Okay.”
“Oh, and by the way, Roddy-san. You don’t have any baskets bigger than this, do you?”
“There’s only one in this town. Besides, it’s always used by one person, so if you’re asking me if there’s one or not, there isn’t.”
“I see… that means that if I need one, I might as well get one custom-made, right?”
“Well, yes, but… are you going to increase the amount of material even more? Pretty impossible considering your figure, isn’t it?”
“That’s the thing, isn’t it? It was pretty hard to carry that thing and run after the hunt was over.”
“Huh? …Run? You mean running, not walking?”
“When I say running, I mean jogging. I wanted to increase my physical strength.”
“I can see why you came back with such a ridiculous amount of material… Hey Waldan! If you’ve got time to fool around, you should be working hard like Loki! That’s how you got what you got!”
“I-I know. There’s no way I could carry that much on my way back.”
It was a flow that I couldn’t quite understand, but I was glad for the time being that the expression on the face of Waldan-san, who was looking at me with a somewhat Adent Party-like gaze, changed to a wry smile that was almost like resignation.
If more than one such party appeared, I wouldn’t be able to handle it.
“(And I should also report on today’s events…)”
With that in mind, I went to the reception area and found the people I least wanted to meet.
The Adent party was waiting for me.
Chapter 54 – Results of Fixed-point Overhunting
When I returned to the stone pillar after the first fixed-point overhunt, I could no longer find them.
There were no signs of their digging holes, and the stone pillar I had created had several footprints with dirt on it, so I guessed they had given up on the idea that it would not fall over even if they kicked it.
I was relieved for the time being that I didn’t have to worry about them hiding somewhere because of the good visibility.
It was exactly noon.
Leaning against a stone pillar, I took a sandwich from a small leather bag hanging from my waist and chewed it while thinking.
“(It’s good that this stone pillar was made with 48 magic power consumption, but the problem is to get the basket…)”
Of course, there is no way that I can handle the basket of the stone pillar with just my strength, which Adent and the others could not do even with brute force.
Therefore, the task of taking out the basket is a new trial, and I must succeed in this experiment.
I rested for half an hour, ate my meal, and stared at the stone pillar in front of me.
“(I’m getting nervous…)”
From this point on, the work is a bit tiring.
Naturally, I am getting tense, but I have no choice but to put my energy into it because I will not be able to do a stable fixed point hunt in the future if I do not resolve the situation here.
After checking the status screen once, I placed my hand on the stone pillar in front of me and muttered to myself while staring at my feet.
“Generate a five-meter-long stone pillar.”
Rumble, rumble…
“Ooooooooohhh!!!”
The stone pillar rises from beneath my feet.
My vision gets further and further away from the ground, and I can feel the power of my hand touching the stone pillar with the basket on it.
And at a good height, where I could reach the basket by stretching out my hand a little, the stone pillar that was still supporting me stopped moving.
“(T-That was scary…but the experiment was a success!)”
Since this was just one of the fixed-point overhunting trips, I haven’t gone down with the basket yet.
After transferring the contents of the leather bag I was carrying into the basket and rehydrating myself, I slid down the stone pillar, clutching it like a climbing pole I used to play with as a child, with a diameter of about 30 cm.
Now, the question is whether I can continue this way.
I immediately checked the magic power consumed by this stone pillar and found that it took 26 magic powers to create a 5-meter stone pillar.
Well, if that amount of magic power is consumed just by touching the basket, then, of course, it is heavy.
Even though it was heavy if it was only this much, it could be adjusted, and I don’t know how long I’ve been doing this kind of maximum rate adjustment in games.
“First of all, while measuring the recovery time of ’26’, let’s adjust it with the travel range of the expedition…”
I decided to do this and worked on a serious fixed-point hunt as long as I did not exhaust my magic power and physical strength.
▽ ▼ ▽ ▼ ▽
“(I got too carried away… it’s hard…)”
Nevertheless, I didn’t stop jogging, mainly because today is the first time my basket is full on the Rocker Plain.
In fact, it overflowed a bit, and I was about to drop it on the road, so I had some material in my leather bag as well.
This is my fourth day of taking the pills.
The return trip was even harder because my stamina was at a low point, but I couldn’t beat the joy of getting back on track with my fixed-point hunting.
I couldn’t stop feeling like I was hitting maximum efficiency.
It feels like it would be a shame to stop, and it makes me want more and more.
If this were a game world, I would have stayed on the Rocker Plain, run another account, carried food and cashed in materials, and not even gone back to town.
“(Hmm, is that idea even possible? But it would require a very trustworthy transporter… and a person who could walk across the Rocker Plain with ease…)”
It would be great if it were possible…
I had such a fantasy, and before I knew it, I was standing in front of the demolition site with the help of a stick.
“Hey. Hey. Are you okay?”
“Huh? Oh, I did it again. I’m fine… My head was full of delusions…”
“Well, if you can hunt that much in one day, you must be worried about how to spend the money…”
When Roddy-san saw the contents of my basket after saying that, his face clearly twitched.
That’s to be expected, right?
I was surprised myself when I realized that my basket was overflowing.
However, I was only thinking about the skill experience, not the material.
“Hahahaha…then please take this one. Oh, and this one too.”
“I’ll take a look at them after I finish this one, so leave the materials on the counter and wait a minute.”
I handed him a large leather bag along with the basket, and he held his head in his hands, but I didn’t feel guilty at all, knowing that this would help him earn money as well.
“I don’t know what time I’ll be home today…”
“Well, that’s okay. Roddy-san will get more money for it, right?”
“That’s true… but there’s a limit, you know. Are you aware of that? The mayor and the guild master were up in arms about the increase in Poison Mice because of you. They even issued an emergency request for precautionary measures.”
“I saw it this morning. The reward was a bit higher.”
“When I asked other hunters, they said it’s the same as usual… and they must be mistaken because of the large number of Loki’s hunts.”
“But it’s not my fault, is it? I never said that the number of Poison Mice is increasing, and it’s very hard!”
“Of course, it’s not your fault. It is not your fault, but… it is definitely the trigger.”
Roddy-san, who seemed to have finished checking the materials for another party while his mouth was still moving, wrote a few words on a wooden board and handed it to that party to check.
“The Poison Mouse material’s rank C is 3, B is 4, A is 8, the rest are the subjugation proof, and the magic stones are 15 each, and the subjugation proof of Air Mantis and the magic stones are 5 each. Is that correct?”
“Y-yeah, no problem…”
The hunter with a stubbled beard who said that, who was about 30 years old, replied while looking at my materials placed beside me.
Or rather, he was responding to the material.
“(As I recall, Poison Mouse is about 6,000 beeke per mouse if the material rank is decent, and Air Mantis is about 10,000 beeke each, so… I don’t know how many people are in his party, but the total reward is around 140,000 or so.)”
If there were 4 people, that would still be about 35,000 beeke per person.
The more I think about the rewards of Zink-kun’s and Adent’s parties, the more I realize that the Rocker Plains are a good hunting ground at a good price.
“(I wish Zink-kun and the others had gone there too…)”
I thought about that when my material judgment seemed to have ended.
“Huh… How can you keep hunting day after day and keep increasing the amount of materials? All the materials are A-rank, 53 Poison Mice and 12 Air Mantis in total.”
He handed me a wooden board and said this, but there was no point in confirming it since I couldn’t remember how many I had hunted myself.
“No problem. Please leave them with me.”
“Okay.”
“Oh, and by the way, Roddy-san. You don’t have any baskets bigger than this, do you?”
“There’s only one in this town. Besides, it’s always used by one person, so if you’re asking me if there’s one or not, there isn’t.”
“I see… that means that if I need one, I might as well get one custom-made, right?”
“Well, yes, but… are you going to increase the amount of material even more? Pretty impossible considering your figure, isn’t it?”
“That’s the thing, isn’t it? It was pretty hard to carry that thing and run after the hunt was over.”
“Huh? …Run? You mean running, not walking?”
“When I say running, I mean jogging. I wanted to increase my physical strength.”
“I can see why you came back with such a ridiculous amount of material… Hey Waldan! If you’ve got time to fool around, you should be working hard like Loki! That’s how you got what you got!”
“I-I know. There’s no way I could carry that much on my way back.”
It was a flow that I couldn’t quite understand, but I was glad for the time being that the expression on the face of Waldan-san, who was looking at me with a somewhat Adent Party-like gaze, changed to a wry smile that was almost like resignation.
If more than one such party appeared, I wouldn’t be able to handle it.
“(And I should also report on today’s events…)”
With that in mind, I went to the reception area and found the people I least wanted to meet.
The Adent party was waiting for me.
