59-Chapter 3-14 Reward for G extermination

I've been in the dungeon since this morning. Jeanne and the others are with me.

We didn't come here to attack a dungeon, but to see what they can do.

The two men were given weapons and armor by a blacksmith before coming here.

It's not just a matter of time before you get to the point where you can get the best results, but also the best way to get the best results.

After that, they entered the dungeon, but immediately flew to a secret base.

The two of them seemed to have been disappointed because they only thought they would be fighting a demon, but I summoned a golem as their opponent and let them lightly match hands. What I found out as a result was.

'Weak ... no, not weak, but you don't seem to know how to fight.

I came to the conclusion that this was the case. From what I heard, the two of them had only learned it as a nobleman's etiquette, or at the very least to be able to protect themselves, and they only learned magic on the side because they happened to be talented at it.

I'm impressed that they were able to survive the dungeon.

Anyway, I decided to let the two of them train their magic in the same way I taught Aimee, while I had them play against golems.

It would actually be better to teach them the basics, but since there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with the basics they were taught, we'll train them in a way that's close to a real battle... We've set up the golem so that it can't attack, and we'll have Shiroumaru and the others to watch as well.

In the meantime, I had a number of things I wanted to do.

The first was to take care of my weapons. I wanted to repair the adamantine sword that was missing from my previous fight with the golem with Solomon.

Secondly, I need to make pork bone soup. This is my first attempt at this, as I have a lot of orc bones.

Lastly, I'm going to pick up where I left off yesterday by making armor. I want to finish at least one arm.

In order, the order is to repair the sword and then create the armor, and since the soup is mainly to be stewed, we can work on it in between.

But that idea was naive... no, too naive!

Because.

What's that smell? It stinks too much!

A smell that was unbearable even for me, a lover of pork bones, was wafting from the pot.

Naturally, even I'm reacting like that, so Jeanne and the others have already fled to the edge. As for Shiroumaru, he was writhing in agony while holding his nose.

''What was wrong with you?''

For now, I iced the pot, stopped the source of the smell, and used wind magic to change the air.

By the way, this space wasn't completely sealed, and I had made small air holes in places, connecting holes all over the dungeon. However, since there is a possibility that monsters like slime might invade the dungeon or be discovered by adventurers if it is left as it is, I've made it difficult for them to find me by fitting meshes in the middle of the holes and leaving holes in the ceiling, but there is a possibility that some people might notice the smell of this time.

Well, even if that happens, a very capable wizard would have to spend some time to discover it....

When I examined the excess bones and the inside of the pot, I didn't find anything particularly rotten or weird that had been put in it.

However, upon closer inspection, it was unusually slimy. To test it out, I dumped the broth in the pot once and then re-covered it with water and tried to simmer the same bones.

When I did so, it seemed to come closer to the smell of the pork bones I knew this time.

This is when I realized why. The point is that if you boil oak bones as they are, you can get a soup many times thicker than the pork bone soup I know. Furthermore, I noticed that one of the reasons for this is that I forgot to remove the dirt from the oak bones when I cooked them.

So this time I decided to pay attention to that and make the soup.......but everyone is still gathered at the wall, and apparently they will resume their training at that location.......

I got my mind back on track and decided to continue repairing the sword. The sword was chipped, but it was only about 5mm, so I heated up the sword with the fire of the furnace, magic and alchemy, tapping and stretching the chipped spot repeatedly, and then putting it in the water sphere I made with magic to cool it down.

When I took it out of the water ball, I could barely see the chipped spot, but of course it was no longer sharp, so I moved on to the sharpening process.

However, I didn't want my adamantine sword to be very sharp, so I decided to cut it in the right place.

The restoration was now complete.

I looked into the pot before starting the next task, and this time it was a good one. So I looked at the wall and saw Shiroumaru, who had been holding his nose earlier, looking at me... his tail was also wagging slightly... this time it seemed to be fine. So I'll take the lye and continue to stew it.

While I heated up the armor I was making, I looked at Jeanne and the others and found that they seemed to have gotten used to the golems in a tame state, so I re-set them to mix in some light attacks and feints this time.

After working on it for about an hour, I was able to finish the armor. Now I just needed to match it with the base part and repeat the fine tuning.

When I put the base material and the armor together and put it on my left hand, I didn't feel that much discomfort... or maybe it's better to say that I didn't feel it because I've never equipped any armor before.

If I had to say anything, the area around my wrist was bothering me, so I decided to adjust it just a little bit, and then I'd think about the rest after I actually used it.　

I looked at the pot to see if the soup was ready to go by now, and there they were, No. 1 and No. 2... and also Shiroumaru and Solomon, all together, looking into the pot.

Jeanne and the others seemed to be slightly uncomfortable with the smell of pork bones, and they still kept their distance. The golems seemed to be taking a break to keep up with Jeanne and the others, and the four bodies were aligned together.

''Wahhh?''

Cui?

However, we still use the bones in this pot, so I decided to give them the extra bones I had just given them. The bones were rinsed with water to remove the dirt and lye, so they didn't smell as strong as the ones I gave them earlier.

They were happy to take a bite out of it, so I decided to leave them alone for a while to see how the soup tasted.

''It's a bit smelly...''

So while remembering my previous life, I choose vegetables for odor removal.

The things I picked out of my bag that could be used to remove the smell were ginger, green onions, and radish leaves... I'm sure there are others, but I can't think of any, so I settled on just those three. I've seen other things with egg shells in them as a lye remover, but I'm not sure how effective they are at the moment, so I don't do that.

I also put in the chunks of meat that had been cooked on the surface, along with the odor-eliminating vegetables, and covered the pot with a lid and turned the heat down a bit.

I decided to leave the pot aside for a while and check on Jeanne and the others.

Since Jeanne and her friends didn't seem to be injured, I decided to see how far they were able to go. However, since we were indeed hungry, we decided to have a late lunch first.

Jeanne and the others got defensive, as if they thought they were going to get that (pork bone) soup, but today's lunch is all the food from the food stalls we had in our magic bag.

The menu consisted of a large number of pork, chicken and beef skewers, soup made from dried meat and a few types of bread. All this, along with shredded cabbage and torn lettuce, and we were done.

I quickly cut the bread open and put the cabbage and pork skewers between them. Then I pulled out the skewer and made a simple pork sandwich. By the way, all the skewers are salty, but I also have a jar of my own special sauce, so you can taste the teriyaki sandwiches.

Jeanne and Aura are making their own sandwiches like I did. Next to them, Shiroumaru and Solomon are trying their hand at grilled skewers.

Jeanne and Aura are confused by the food at first, but after taking a bite, they like it and are trying different combinations. For Shiroumaru and the others, they took the items they had saved separately off the skewers and placed them on their plates.

As I watched Jeanne and the others eat, I thought to myself, the women of this world basically eat well. I know that men eat well, but women are not to be outdone.

Probably because death is closer to us than in the previous life and female adventurers are also commonplace, we naturally eat more... However, the common thread in both the previous life and this life is that touching a woman's weight is dangerous.

We prepared quite a bit of food, but as it turned out, there was no quicksilver and three of them to remain.

After lunch, we decided to take a break and put out a bed (of course, there are two) to replace the sofa to relax on.

By the way, I'm secretly mixing my blood in from this meal. To be honest, it's disgusting, but I put up with it because I thought it was necessary to break Jeanne's curse... But after eating, I was lightly depressed when it occurred to me that I could have given her a bottle of blood in a bottle, pretending it was medicine, without mixing it with the meal.

By the time we finished eating, the soup seemed to be nice and complete, so I strained the bones and such and put the remaining bones in the bag for Shiroumaru and the others to snack on.

Then I took out the chunks of meat that had been boiled together in the soup and marinated them in the jar that held the seasoning liquid. Now if I let it marinate for a few hours, I should have something like char siu.

There were some guys trying to get at the jar with the char siu (planned), but I went through and put it in my bag... I'm still concerned about Solomon's behavior lately, which is becoming more and more Shiroumaru....

I was about to lie down on the bed with that thought in mind when I noticed Jeanne and Aura still standing there.

'What are you doing?'　

My casual question caused Jeanne and her friends to quickly distance themselves from me... I was a little hurt by their behavior, but upon closer inspection, they seemed to be concerned about it because they were sweating all over the place.

Reflecting on the fact that it was not considerate to ask a woman to use a bed while she was sweating, I used my earthen magic to build a roofless hut-like structure a short distance away, with a barrel of water inside to provide a simple changing room. I gave them both towels and instructed them to use them as they wished, and then I built another identical one away from that spot for my own personal changing room.

After the break, I watched Jeanne and Aura train as planned. After watching them for a while, I thought that both Jeanne and Aura's sense is not bad, but they are overwhelmingly inexperienced, and I feel that their progress would be faster if I taught them how to fight while actually hunting demons.

So I decided to teach them both some fighting techniques today and let them gain experience in the shallow levels of the dungeon from tomorrow onwards.

I made Jeanne do the bare minimum gestures from the kesa-slash, thrust, and karatake splitting stance, and taught her how to use them and how to be effective.

For Aura, I made her learn the timing of the spear and repeat the gestures of striking, cleaving and sweeping.

I had her continue to practice the swings for about two hours, with a break in between, and at the end I had her practice attacking with the two of us working together.

I let them practice this practice for about an hour, and then we ended it for today.

They were both exhausted, and it was good that they got out of the dungeon on their own, but it looked like they wouldn't be able to walk from there, so I decided to take out what looked like a rear car from my bag, put them in it, and asked Shiroumaru to pull it.

This rear carriage is small but sturdy, made when they were in Gunjo City, but it was made from leftover materials from the carriage's construction, so it hadn't been used very often and had become a fertilizer for the bag.

They looked embarrassed, but I told them they couldn't help but be unable to walk and carried them to their rooms, albeit somewhat aggressively.

An early dinner, bath, and bedtime today would keep him from getting tired tomorrow.

When he woke up, the sun had just risen, but he went to bed early last night, so he woke up feeling refreshed.

Jeanne and Aura were still asleep, so I decided to make them a quick breakfast.

In the middle of making breakfast, Aura woke up and apologized for not being able to make breakfast, but I told her not to worry about it because I like doing it.

Jeanne didn't get up easily, but just before breakfast was ready, Aura forced her out of the covers... Jeanne's clothes were in disarray as she slept and woke up, and she looked more like an eye sore than an eye sore.

After breakfast, I quickly cleaned up the dishes and then headed to the dungeon.

Today, we didn't use warp, but instead used the stairs as we would be attacking the dungeon from the first level. I've told Jeanne and the others to deal with the demons beforehand, so I'm not going to mess with them unless there's something wrong.

It seems that they didn't have to worry about dealing with goblins, and Jeanne and Aura are slaughtering goblins smoothly... most of all, if they practice against golems, and then struggle against mere goblins, then they can't even look at them. .........

The way the two of them are fighting has been steady so far. It was good to give them advice in places, letting them fix what was wrong, and their understanding of each other was better than I thought it would be.

We tried not to dive too deep today and only dealt with the goblins, but the pace of the two of them was faster than we expected, so we collected roughly 50 magic stones in about six hours.

Well, it could be said that it was enough of an achievement for two beginners. More than anything else, the fact that the two of them were not injured was a good achievement.

We left the dungeon and headed to the guild to have the two guild cards issued to us at the reception desk.

Up until now, the two of them were my slaves, so registration was unnecessary, but I still think registration is necessary, so I tried to issue the card, but unwisely, Jeanne was not yet old enough to do the main registration.

So, only Aura was registered for real registration and Jeanne was registered provisionally. However, Jeanne was going to turn 15 in a few months, so we decided to re-register her again at that time.

The next day, we started hunting goblins in the dungeon in the morning. After that, I trained against me at the secret base for a week, and after that, I was able to fight reasonably well.

It was fortunate that both of us had talent, especially when it came to magic power, and we were getting close to an intermediate level of magic power.

Therefore, I decided to make them learn simple attack magic, recovery magic and supplementary magic in addition to their previous training.

The training of magic is simple. First, either Jeanne or Aura would be the wall player.

While the wall player is keeping the goblins in check, the other one will release magic from behind the wall player, that's all.

The attack magic is also taught mainly in the ball and blitzing system, and while I haven't completely mastered it yet, I'm able to produce enough power against goblins.

The magic is helping me expand my attack range, so once I get a little more comfortable with attack magic with goblins, I'll let them take on a different kind of demon.

It's the fourth day since I started practicing attack magic, and today I've decided to switch to training while attacking dungeons. The plan is to reach the 10th level by the end of today.

Before that, the two of them will be upgrading their weapons and armor to increase their strength. Jeanne's sword and Aura's spear will be the ones I made for her. It's not just a matter of time before you'll be able to get a good deal more out of it.

In addition to the weapons, I gave him a pair of armor made of magic iron. The rest of them were used from before. The two of us are basically the type of people who fight with light armor, so leather armor is the main focus, but we decided to make some modifications to it.

Specifically, the centipede's instep with anaconda leather affixed to the back of its back was affixed to the surface of the leather equipment.

Because centipede shells are light and thin in comparison to their hardness, the back of a centipede shell is not very thick and the weight of the shell is not a problem. However, because it would interfere with your ability to move if you put it all over your equipment, I only put the centipede shell on the breastplate and the part of the back and sewed the anaconda leather on the back for the rest.

The anaconda is a dark rubber anaconda, as the name suggests, the leather is very similar to rubber, so if it is used as a lining for the equipment, it will absorb some of the shock.

Since I changed the equipment to something like that, it won't be enough for goblins. So, let's dive right in.

1-5 levels........there's no way they would stumble in such a place, Jeanne and the others aim for the stairs at the shortest possible distance and slaughter the goblins standing in their way without using magic.

However, there are many goblins and only the occasional slime, so as you get used to it, your speed will return to normal.

Seven levels...........................Here, Jeanne gets injured for the first time. The moment she defeated the goblin, she lost her mind and got hit by a slime that was hiding behind a rock and scraped her body, causing her to scrape her leg at the time.

The slime was easily killed by Aura, but she was confused about how to treat the wound. In the meantime, I taught her how to treat it before, so I remembered that, and cleaned and disinfected the wound, and didn't use potions or magic.

This is unusual, but since they are only goblins and slimes, the difficulty level doesn't change much whether they are together or not. However, Jeanne and Aura seem to be a little nervous, and they seem to be overkill from earlier.

The ninth level........here, too, is a set of goblins and slimes, but Jeanne and Aura, who have begun to get used to it, have become good prey for them. It's been about five hours so far, and we're almost at the target level 10. At this rate, it's a sure bet that they'll be able to reach the 10th level.

I've asked the two of them, and they're both fully motivated!

When this happens, we'll change our plans and go as far as we can!

Eleven levels I was wrong I could handle these two guys, the caterpillar, but he's out. ...the black one. The most hated thing in all of insect world, the black devil!

Even I've only seen this guy once at level 30, and I don't know if Jeanne and her friends are a good match, but I've encountered more than 10 of them so far (probably because I didn't look directly at them).

These demons are about sixty centimeters in size. They are really creepy.

Where have these guys been? I thought, so I used my search to check it out and found countless responses at a nearby dead end. I looked in fearfully and found nothing there.

Using the search again, I found that the passage was apparently buried in the middle of the pathway, making it look like a hidden room. The black demons seemed to crawl out of the slightest of gaps, and there were a few gaps in the corners of the passage that G could pass through.

So I took out about 10 golems and made them wait in front of the wall and used earth magic to turn the wall into sand.

The moment the wall is gone, I activate the wards and take the form of covering the passage with wards in front of us.

At this time I made a big mistake that is, the warding was transparent.

I knew there was a group of demons on the other side of the wall, but because I left the ward invisible, I looked directly at the group of demons... what if they appeared in my dreams...　

Jeanne and Aura are on the verge of fainting. I wouldn't want to see such a scene...or any other person in my right mind would not want to see it.

In the event you're not a fan of this, you're going to be able to get a good idea of what to expect when you see a group of 60 centimeter class G's rushing at us in packs of several hundred... Fortunately, there weren't enough of them to break the wards, but the ones that collided with the wards and got crushed, and the ones that stuck to the wards and moved around like they were showing off their bellies, that's something you never want to see again. The lightscape was spread out before me.

I gave orders to the golems to exterminate the demons, but it was also a series of gross scenes.

So, as a last resort, I made a hole in the ward that even G couldn't pass through at the top, and released an ice and snow-based magic 'blizzard' from there.

In a past life, I had heard that G was vulnerable to the cold, so I used it, and it works great!

The more I look at it, the more I see G and the others slowing down... or rather, freezing... it doesn't seem to matter if they're weak in the cold or not...

But I think it's the most effective way to get G.

I can only imagine, but if you burn them over a fire, they will move around and smell the burning until they die.

With water, they'll be less effective, as they're also known as "oil bugs," so they won't be as effective.

With dirt, you'll see crushed Gs, and even if you try to bury them alive, there will be too many of them, and many of them will be able to escape with their natural quickness.

Even if you chop them up with the wind, it's a stubborn G, so even if their bodies are chopped up, they'll still be moving for a time, and I don't want to see them in shreds in the first place because it's disgusting.

When I think about it, freezing them seems like the right thing to do...

When all the Gs were completely frozen, I moved the golem to crush the frozen Gs so that no one would come back to life in case they melted.

The crushed Gs were gross, but I guess it was better that they didn't get splattered with body fluids.

I sent a golem to the back of the space to check for any surviving Gs, and then had them explore the space.

As a result, I found something unexpected. This G's nest was also a mithril deposit.

Probably because even demons that didn't have much magical power like G and the others had gathered and solidified on the spot in hundreds, the density of magical power had increased, and as a result, the silver that was originally there had reacted and turned into mithril.

It was a complicated feeling, but I wanted to keep the mithril in my hands, so I scraped the remnants of G from the nest (by the golems) and once I placed them in the corner of the passage, I applied earth magic to the entire wall inside the nest to turn it into sand, and then collected the remaining mithril.

The collected mithril, made into 1kg ingots, amounted to 34 pieces, with a market price of 17 million Gs, a whopping amount of money. In addition, 40 1kg ingots of silver were also found for 1kg ingots. This one will probably fetch around 200,000-400,000 G, but this one will be needed for processing mithril, so I won't be selling it as long as I have mithril... I have to admit, my financial sense is paralyzed these days.... ...

Anyway, if I have this much, I can sell it off in small pieces and use it to enhance my equipment. I'll think about how to use it for now, but I tried to examine Mithril again using the search, but it didn't get caught in the search.

The only thing we could find was something as small as a grain of sand, which was either exhausted or too small to be trapped in the search.

So I dug a hole to turn this place into a graveyard for G and the others, and ordered the golems to dump the wreckage into the hole.

When they finished carrying everything out, they covered it with sand and hardened it with earth magic.

Then we all went outside and decided to seal the space by breaking the ceiling part of the entrance with magic.

I tried to return the golems, who had finished their role, back to the dirt to collect the nuke, but I was somewhat confused to pick it up. However, I couldn't just abandon them, so I washed them with water before putting them in my bag.

Since I didn't feel like attacking the stones from now on, I decided to call it a day and go to the ground from the nearby warp zone.

Jeanne and Aura seemed to have been mentally beaten down by the last Gs, so they didn't speak a word until they were on the ground, and were languishing.

By the way, it seems that you can get a magic stone from G, but we haven't recovered one from G. I left the dungeon, wondering if there was a brave man who would dismantle it.