103 - - The Mountain

"No, no, no?"

That's not the same as a cavalryman, is it?

Definitely not, right?

Where are you going to ride?

How do I look?

A cavalryman is a kind of pet, right?

How can this be a pet?

Does such a culture exist in this world?

There should be no slavery on the human side, right?

I heard that the demons enslave the beastmen.

Master Parthin!

"I may have given you my power, but you are too metallic. This is a good opportunity for you to get away from me for a while. When you have matched your original attribute of water, you may return.

Mr. Dragonewt, who is sulking, flaps his hand toward Reno and gestures to me to follow him.

"No, no?　I want to be a cavalryman, something softer and hairier, you know?"

"There's nothing here that's soft and hairy and can run through the air, okay?　The most affordable because it flies is a griffin. The only flying, fluffy ones are the cavalry beasts of the elven continent, and I wouldn't take that long. You can hold out for a Reno and switch later."

"You gather all kinds of strange things around you. If this is the only way to find a site for the cavalry, for the sake of my people, I'll leave you alone in the meantime, find a home."

"......"

White's permission to pretend!

But ......!

I looked at Reno and saw that he was about to sink into the ground, and if left unchecked, he looked like he was about to grow mushrooms. I don't think he's going to get any help.

"No, I don't want Leno to stay with me all the time. I have five friends with whom I often work, though not permanently.

Six is the maximum for a party, give it up!　Don't let my temporary fluff get in the way of my fluff too!　Hang in there, me!

"Hmm, I'll lend you this."

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Then he puts something on Reno, not on me, turns around and says to me again.

"It is a ring of summoning. It summons the one wearing the other half of the <> by force. We can usually leave Reno free to do whatever he wants, and summon him."

I don't need that kind of bad taste."

You put a collar on Leno!

Don't be shy.

Paltin takes my right hand and tries to put a ring on it.

"No, no, no, don't be shy!"

I clench my fist and try to pull my hand out, but he pinches my arm at my side to hold it in place and try to open my fingers. Hey, Mr. Partin, your breasts!　My chest!　No, this is not the time, me!

"Give it up."

"Hey, white!　Don't tickle me!"

I...

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A few minutes later, Parthin looks refreshed.

The dragon was strong, and his equipment could beat him in terms of speed, but if he had been caught first, the game was lost.

I never succumbed to the ...... chest and the fluff. I knew the "ude hishi giju gatame" (腕挫十字固), but it was the first time I had ever been hit with it, and I wasn't upset about my thighs or anything else.

Mr. Dragon has no shame.

Apart from kicking Leo, I wonder if I should get some [Fighting] or something.

"You look around. Alone, or with Homura, or with someone else. It's nice to be single-minded, but you'll be crushed when your wish comes true."

He said this to Reno, who sank into a gloomy state as if mushrooms had grown, and flew away ......, returning.

"You can come back when there's a full moon, anyway. I'm sure you need something to protect your mystif."

I'm not sure if I have a soft spot for Reno or for Mistiff.

As I watch the golden dragon fly away, I try to gently remove the ring on the little finger of my right hand and sigh when it doesn't come off.

A slender ring of pink gold with light and dark pink gems like flower petals.

It is obviously a woman's ring.

This is another design change!

I leave the gloomy Leno to his own devices and start picking berries as planned, while Mistiff, who seems to be on a date, is in my sight. Now I want to be free.

I wrap most of my body in a hood, and pick berries impatiently, occasionally giving them to a happy white in a fixed position with his face sticking out of his shoulder.

Berries can be used in fruit water, jams, gelato, tarts, smoothies, even in brandy.

I thought carbonated water could be made with citric acid and baking soda.

It's too much trouble, and I wonder if there is a soda fountain somewhere.

After imagining delicious food and feeling much better, I ask White about Mistiff in between collecting.

"The trouble is that Mistyf can only take turns in the material world (here). It is similar to the story of the soul of the cavalryman, but in the spirit world, the individual is less important, and two Mistyphs can become one Mistyph if they are not treated together before they take their turns. We cannot stay in the spirit world.

On the night of the full moon, the spirit world and the material world were closer, and many mystics were misled by the moonlight and failed to return to the spirit world and were caught.

This explains why Paltin told them to come back to Reno at the full moon and to have a house by the full moon.

In the spirit world, not only mystics but also spirits gather and blend together at whim, creating powerful spirits that become close to the spirit king, and then split up again at whim, making the boundary between individuals a thin one. The reason why spirits, who are with names, make contracts with people in order to maintain their individuality is essentially the same as that of a mounted beast seeking an owner.

"Homura-san!"

"Oh?　You're back."

Please make me your beast!

"You've suddenly blown it."

More than blown off, shaken off?

"If Master Partin says so, then there must be something I'm missing!　Please help us find out!"

I think the direction I swung off in was a dead end direction, and my vision remained narrow.

"I will endure the humiliation of temporarily becoming a beast of prey in order to learn the teachings of Master Parthin and become a dragon!

Oh, it seems to have gotten rather bad, doesn't it?

"Are you desperate?"

Now, where is your first destination?

"Wait. I don't mind riding with you, but I don't want to ride on a humanoid, do you?"

"It's too dark today to search for an isolated island. I thought Homura was going to the Starry Hills?"

White says over the words I am speaking.

"Yes!　It's a starry hill.

"No, wait, how are you going to get him to ride?"

I was beaten quickly.

"Here I go, don't bite your tongue."

"Whoa, whoa, whoa!"

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh (Doppler effect)

Dear Sir or Madam　

To those who have heard my screams

The ride was terrible, but Dragonut's legs were fast.

Sincerely yours

VIT has been increased due to <.

Not!

I'm glad I have [Sickness Tolerance].

Fast, fast, but it's hard to have your organs shuffled around without any maintenance.

I wonder what it would be like to ride an ostrich at high speed. I've never even ridden an ostrich, but I'm sure it's probably just my body posture?

Thanks to Leno's dexterity in bending forward, I was in a more stable position than I expected, but my upper body was agitated by the strong winds at speed and I had a hard time staying on the boat. If I was not careful, I might have fallen backward and been dragged by the back of my head.

By the way, White returned home quickly.

And here comes the effect of training.

I had heard that it could be increased outside of battle, but I never thought it could be increased by something like this. Was it so severe that it counts as training? I am lying on the ground on the starry hill.

The last time I was here, I was lying down and enjoying the starry sky.

Humans are weak in the outer shell.

I don't have anything like that in the first place.

"Tigal's stardust, I'll dig for it, I've got [mining] too.

He seems to be willing to help me, though my appeal was pleasantly ignored. I was not surprised to see a mining point at Paltin's roost, but considering Paltin's words, Reno is water-based. So it's not "fishing.

I wonder what he chose to do before he met Paltin.

I'm still a bit wobbly, but I can't leave the digging to Raino, who has nothing to do with it, so I begin digging.

After digging two places, I finally remembered the existence of recovery and refreshment.

I still don't know what my titles and skills are. I still don't know how to use the right skills and magic when needed, and I still have a long way to go.

I received the stardust of Tigal from Reno and tried to pay him for it, but he refused.

I am going to fall asleep in the real world. It's my day off, but I have a lot of things to do at home and at the store, so I'll get up early and log in.

I tell him that I'll be asleep for almost two days because of my gentile nature (...) and that I have some errands to run afterwards and that I'd like to leave to find a place to live.

He said he would clean up the place he had been living and a few other things he had left undone.

I've pushed a few meals on him, since it would be too much trouble to cook for him now.

As for the "feeder," I was told lightly, "It's not like we're only involved because we like each other, and if we're going to be involved anyway, it's better if we like each other.

I'm going to skip the explanation of this title now, since it's too tedious.

I have to deal with the general store when I wake up.

Then I'll check with Al of the Adventurers' Guild to see what the ownership of an island far from the continent is. It would be a disaster if it turns out to be a water supply for a ship when I thought it was an isolated island.

Come to think of it, I wonder if Reno would make a scene if it entered a human town. I'll have to check on that, too.

More things to check!

We will magically transfer to the diaspora, and then to the store through the temple gate.

Check the consignment of dexterity rings and buy some materials. Search for metal materials to make accessories.

Silver seems to be expensive since there are still many players who use it to raise the level of production. There were a few items for sale in magic silver (mithril), so I sold the silver and other things I found with <> at the Starry Hills and bought some items.

After I bought them, I noticed that they are made by a player. I wonder what it is?

Is it a skill of the smith?　Or is it possible to synthesize around dark or light magic in silver by alchemy?

I've already sold my silver, so I'll experiment next time I get it.

is transparent like a drop of water.

Tascha told me to work on the shape when I made the . We can cut it to increase the reflective surface, but it will be difficult to use it if it shines during the adventure. I wonder if a round or teardrop shape would be better?

I have a smooth cut with low reflection, a round brilliant cut with high reflection, and a pear-shaped brilliant cut.

By the way, the cuts were produced by skill.

< or something like that. The written explanation of the skill did not make sense to me, but after I bought a book on jewelry at Isle, it became easier to imagine the skill because it is illustrated. I would like to have a preview of the finished product.

The <, refined from the cut , shines very pale and blue.

What color would be best to put a magic circle here?

Assuming that it will be left on for a long time, the finished product should be simple enough to never get tired of. In addition, it should not be distracting when other precious metals are attached.

What would be the best color for a modest piece of jewelry?

It's a hassle, so I'll just go with blue.

The inks I purchased are blue, red, and green.

By the way, red and green together make yellow, which seems to be the three primary colors of light. If all of them are combined, it will be white. I'll make my own ink one of these days.

Thanks to [Storage], I don't have to worry about the amount of stuff I have. Well, I'm not so good with the items I'm forgetting.

There are levels of [Magic circle], but as the level goes up, you can use more ink, paper, or leather, instead of learning magic circle. Eventually, it is said that it is possible to create attack magic from magic circles in the air or summon something, but for now, I am satisfied with being able to create magic stones if I can write on paper with commercially available ink.

A too strong magic circle will break if it is not placed in a larger gemstone or a gemstone of higher rank.

<, I can make bigger ones if I keep stacking the same ones with alchemy, but that doesn't fit the purpose of this project. It seems to be possible to make one with <<>, but I haven't tried this one.

I have not tried this one, but it is small but of high rank, so any magic circle I can make seems to be OK.

The magic circle can be as simple as runes, or as complex and bizarre as a hexagram, pentagram, or star symbols in a double or triple circle.

Once you have drawn all of them without making any mistakes, you will be able to draw them easily, but once you have to draw them by yourself.

Since <<> is not bad with blue ink, and it seems to be a good effect for anyone to put it on, <> should be put in <>. It should increase the critical rate and the drop rate during the battle, though only slightly.

If my level of "magic circle making" is high and I can prepare non-commercial ink, I can make a more effective <<< good luck magic circle>>, but I am afraid of being too particular and missing the time.

Making pendants, rings and ear cufflinks, I made a ring and two ear cufflinks made of mithril using <<>, which was a little more effective than the others.

The shape is simple, but I worked hard on the openwork and so on.

Yes, it is inevitable that the amount of ear cuffs and rings is a bit large. I chose the best ones for Galahad and his friends out of the several I had made.

When I finished the work, I forgot to buy bedding and had to run to the inn.

That's all for today.

Good night.