Chapter 197: I want a Similar Sword

Translator: Mete

ED:Lisyche

Early Morning.

When the sky began to lighten, the residents of the Nameless Kingdom started to move.

Most of the residents engage in agricultural and pasturing, but there are also people who are working on other expertise.

The demon tribes that are proficient in blacksmithing engage in manufacturing of magic tools such as farming tools and cooking utensils, while the beastmen who are superior in physical ability along with the demon tribe, head to the west where the mountains are located to hunt monsters such as big boars, one-horned rabbits, or deer such as Udon Deer.

When the morning work is finished quickly, then it is time to start the daily training routine.

In the training ground which was built in a place away from the village, each would pick up a weapon and would simulate a battle as if it was a real one.

「U*o*ooooooo!!!」

Raising a roar similar to that of a beast, Agafon swings his huge steel sword.

It was a blow where the power was completely concentrated on a brute force strike.

In terms of strength, sword technique, and speed, he is not inferior to an adventurer who was at least a D-rank vanguard. However, the roar along with the large steel sword that was approaching from overhead, was received by the tip of the spear by the Demon Tribe Young Chief Machupi.

「Che!」

Agafon clicked his tongue while removing the steel sword that was buried deeply in the ground, casting the skill 『Blink』. 『Blink』 was a sword technique which had an emphasis on speed, but Machupi's spear technique 『Two Step Thrust』 caught Agafon faster than he could do so. Agafon twists his body and evades the first thrust, but on the second thrust, a part of his left arm was scraped.

「gwu! DAMN! NOT YET!」

The cut on Agafon was so deep that one could see the bones.

The beastmen who were watching did not come close around them, so as to not get swallowed by the attacks of Machupi.

「Nonetheless, you are a mighty beastman! Do not run away. COME AT ME! 」

Machupi became enraged that Agafon was able to evade the attack. This anger caused light to shine in Machupi's eyes and so he activated his skill, 『Spear Technique: Heavy Cyclone』. By rotating the spear at high speed, the surrounding air was starting to get sucked up. Rapid airflow was being drawn towards Machupi, it was so fast that it was even effecting the beastmen surrounding them.

「Wh-what is this!? I am being drawn in.」

「Gunini......! This........who was the one who escaped?!!」

「Damn demon tribe, they are always at peak condition! 」

「Beastmen, don't underestimate me!!」

Agafon who belonged to the beastmen tribe, plunged towards Machupi.

In another place, Nina and the gang were at the center, training with empty hands.

「YOU! TAKE THIS! TAKE THIS!! Wh-why is it not hitting?!!」

Flavia of the cat people released an attack one after another, but Nina kept on dodging lightly.

「Eee~ You will not be able to hit me that easily~」

「U~nya!!」

「Nina-san, you showed a gap!!」

「TAKE THIS!!」

Just like how Nina and Flavia were having hand to hand combat, there were also people who were waiting for their turn in order to compete.

「Ho, yo, you still have a lot to learn~」

「Don't make fu~!!」

The number of people who were participating went from two to three. One after another it was increasing and before you know it, Nina was facing dozens of people. Nevertheless, Nina was dealing them with ease.

「Lena-dono, if you’re fine with it, do you need any help? 」

「......there is no need. 」

Lena and Russ were confronting each other.

There were about 50 members arranged in formation on each side.

「Aa. Even I wanted to join Agafon na~」

「.....grumbling?」

「Not really~ Lena-san, I have no complaints~ haaa.....」

Narumo of the tiger people was being stared down by Lena. Noticing this, he immediately started to panic and tried to hide his face. The same was true for the other people, training their body was greatly welcomed but the training that Lena and Russ would dish out was just lunacy.

「Let's go, we cannot lose.」

「Everyone, even if you're about to lose, make sure to heal yourself. 」

To the words of the man of the demon tribe, everyone replied with 「That's right, that's right.」.

「........I will get angry if I lose.」

「Uhee......」

Narumo leaked his voice showing how scared he was, but Lena tightened her grip on the cane while straightening her face.

「Oraa! You just made Lena-san mad!!」

「「「Ouu!!」」」

「I know, if we were to lose this, then who knows what Russ-san would do to us.」

「「「That's right! That's right! 」」」

A total of one hundred people clashed each other head on. The sound of flesh and steel colliding could be heard even from afar. Noses were broken, people were spewing blood, ribs were getting cracked, but neither side were willing to give up. Even so, there was no one who was not moving. That is of course, because there was a magical thread that was connected from Russ and Lena's body to the 100 people, so that those who were injured would forcibly heal with recovery magic immediately.

This exercise was also a way for training Lena and Russ’ magic power control.

By continuing to apply appropriate recovery magic while granting magic power to those injured people with poor physical abilities; that's right this was a situation where controlling MP was important. Someone who has a Common Rear Job, could at most be able to grant magic to seven or eight people, however not even half of their MP would remain. MP would immediately be emptied as soon as recovery magic was applied.

Lena was excellent in controlling magic power than Russ, but the total MP that she had was inferior to Russ. Since Russ had a huge amount of MP, he had never been able to consciously and precisely perform Magic Power Manipulation and would end up wasting MP when using magic.

「WOW! Agafon, lost yo~」

「King-sama, the beastmen are weak, no?」

「Aa, that is the Fallen Demon tribe people, kid! 」

「FuFu~! The demon tribe people are strong~! 」

Children watching the training from within the barrier from the top of the hill were both in joy and sadness upon the victory and defeat.

「Are the beastmen weak? There is no way that's possible. A man of the beastmen tribe that I fought before was really strong.」

Yuu, who was lying down on the grass while looking at the sky, spoke while recalling the fight between the beastmen that he had fought before Goria.

「Look! Even King-sama says that they are strong!!」

「O-Odono-sama! What about the Demon tribe? ne, ne ne? What about the Demon tribe? 」

「Namari, please keep quiet. Goshujin-sama is resting right now desuyo.」

Looking at Namari who was scolded by Marifa, the other children immediately quietened down as well. Marifa nodded satisfactorily at their conduct.

「Ne-ne. Won't Marifa onee-chan play with everyone? 」

A child who was of the demon tribe enquired while pulling the hem of Marifa.

If you looked closely, you will witness the bloody battle that was going on from far away. But for the children, it looked like they were playing.

「I have to serve Goshujin-sama, no this is god's will. Besides, I have my hands full raising these girls right now. 」

When the children looked behind Marifa, there were girls waiting behind her, wearing similar maid clothing that she wore. These girls are the ones who were sent from various tribes such as: beast tribe, fallen tribe, demon tribe, and devil tribe. Each race respectively anticipated this, but came to feel very happy looking at Marifa’s styl— education. They felt utmost happiness that their people were serving Yuu in the same way that Marifa did.

After that, the training lasted for several hours but the children got bored halfway from watching and started to play on the slope of the hill. The inclination of the slope was just right to act as a natural slide.

「King-sama」

With satisfactory and gentle smile, Impika squatted down beside Yuu and was looking at his face.

「What is it? 」

「Please tell me about that labyrinth. 」

「It’s troublesome. 」

「Ehh, please don't be so unkind to me, please tell me. 」

Impika was rocking Yuu’s stomach while shaking his body.

It should have been a warming sight, but Marifa's eyes had narrowed, while the maids behind her were feeling uneasy.

「Ok. Before this, I had been to the 『Great Garden: Giant’s Garden』 labyrinth, but all the trees and monsters there were all bigger than regular ones.」

「All of them? Even the fruits and berries? Even the flowers? 」

「Aa. Everything. It was just that, there were no giants like the place was named after. 」

「Isn't it strange~ But if everything was big, then was the appuri also really big? 」

「Probably」

「That is such a nice place na~ If you were to find one, can you please tell me? 」

「If I find it」

「I really love appuri! I wonder if it really is so big, then just how big could it be na~」

Appuri is a red-coloured fruit which looked exactly like an apple.

Impika particularly liked apple the most among all the other fruits. While listening to Yuu's story, Impika's stomach growled, thanks to imagining the apple which was larger than her body and bigger than a tree, her stomach made a cute uuu....sound.

「N? Is it that time already? 」

If you looked up at the sky, the sun was directly above with the sunlight shining down.

Yuu rose while patting his butt to remove the dust, while Impika stood on the side as her stomach was making sounds. When Yuu turned his eye towards Marifa, Marifa and the other maids were already preparing lunch. They spread the carpet on the lawn, set up tables and chairs, and arranged the dishes and glasses. Children who noticed that the meal was being prepared, gathered together.

「King-sama, lunch? It is lunch, right? 」

「My stomach is going *PekoPeko*. 」

「Aa! I will sit next to Odono-sama dazo! 」

Namari and the children moved to secure the seats next to Yuu.

As usual, Momo would sit on the head of Namari while looking at this scene, but today there was no such figure. Because Momo was forcibly dragged away by her pixie friends to practice fairy magic. Looking at the Nameless citizens training so hard, the pixies also started to train with other pixies secretly while being lectured by either Momo or Hisui.

「Yuu, how was it? 」

Nina and gang who finished their training surrounded Yuu on the table.

There were also figures of people who had participated in the training in the surrounding areas.

「Nina does not have any problems. She was always paying attention and there was no real gap to speak of. Sometimes she would purposely show an opening to invite attacks. 」

「Nina-neechan is strong na. 」

「Yes. Nina-neechan is really strong! 」

「Alright~」

Praised by Yuu, Nina took the worshipping games from the children and did a “guts pose” while being embarrassed.

「.........What about me? 」

「Lena still has a long way to go. There is uneven distribution of magical power to the fifty people, while your recovery magic is biased.」

「...muu. If I get used to it, I will be able to do it. 」

「King-sama, how was mine ssuka! 」

Agafon raised his blood soaked left arm while asking Yuu.

「You are really bad. The blood gets to your head and you don't even look at your surroundings. 」

「That's right, that's right」

「Agafon is really useless. 」

「He is a bear after all. 」

「Agafon, the way that you handle your sword is really dirty! 」

「That's right yo. Even mother showed you how to do it properly.」

When Yuu said he was no good, the surrounding beastmen children also got together and beat him down in words.

「S-shut up! I told you all that I am a brown bear! 」

「Agafon is really useless nya. Moreover, doesn't your wound hurt at all? It feels all creepy man, you can see the bones and everything.」

Flavia felt that the lunch became unappetizing while looking at the wound on the upper left arm of Agafon.

「I’m really strong so this degree of injury is nothing. 」

「Agafon is really a liar. Saying that you’re really strong in front of King-sama is just asking for your friends to make fun of you nya~」

Blood was still pouring from the upper left part of Agafon’s arm without stopping.

Agafon's face turned blue while hearing the words that Flavia said.

「Lena-san, can I please get healed now? It's really paining right now.」

「....Agafon is an idiot?」

「It is as Lena-neechan said, Agafon is stupid.」

「Okaa-san said, never to get married to a guy like Agafon dayo~」

「Ahaha. Bear is useless~~」

「S-SHUT UP!!」

It was certainly quite a noisy table but Yuu looked warmly at the interaction with Agafon.

「Machupi」

「Odono-sama, what is it? 」

「The Spear」

「Aa, I got the crack from the training that we did previously. It had been used for quite a lot of years desho. 」

As Machupi said, there were countless cracks on the spear, it was probably due to the many years of use.

Yuu took out a flying dragon spear from his item pouch and handed it to Machupi.

「Odono-sama, this is? 」

「It's fine. You can use this one until you get a new spear. 」

Machupi who was mentally slow for a while, immediately knelt on the ground and corrected himself and received the flying dragon spear with both hands. It was received as if it was a national treasure.

「Thank you very much. I shall do all I can to become a suitable owner for this spear and meet the expectation of Odono-sama. 」

Yuu gave it lightly without much thought, but the way that Machupi and the demon tribe received it was completely different. The spear of flying dragon that was passed to them by Yuu was worshipped in the demon tribe in the same way as if it was a treasure given to them by the gods themselves.

The surrounding demon tribe people immediately knelt as if to imitate Machupi. The response from the other races was also remarkable. Namely it was jealousy. They were staring at the flying dragon spear that Machupi received with absolute jealousy.

「Odono-sama! Wh-what about me? 」

「Since Namari does not use weapons you don't need it. 」

Workshop of the Fallen Demon Tribe.

In a corner of the workshop where Uzzu, who was known as Yuu's acquaintance, was assigned to. At first, the fallen demon tribe people were watching the dwarf Uzzu, but they had eventually come to acknowledge his skills in tempering swords, armor etc. Now the people had opened their hearts and were applying to become his apprentice. Among them was a woman of the fallen demon tribe, she was working at the smithy as a disciple.

「Naa, please I beg of you. 」

「I refuse」

Uzzu refused Agafon's wishes without even thinking about it for a second.

「Why not yo?! I told you that I have the money darou. 」

The citizens of the Nameless Kingdom were paid wages according to the type of work that they do, but there were only a few places for them to use it at. Thanks to this, Agafon's savings only increased.

「I sell only to people that I like, not for others. If you really want weapons, there are those made by my disciples, you can buy it from them.」

Uzzu kept telling Agafon to go back without even turning to look at him and kept hammering.

Previously, he would not have so much work to do, but after he met Yuu he had begun to receive massive materials which were incredibly expensive or rare and continued to swing his hammer every day. The useless fat had fallen off of him, his cheeks were visible and he looked somewhat slim.

「Ke. Oy disciple over there, wait isn't that a woman---owww!?」

Uzzu dropped a fist right on top of Agafon.

「Is a woman blacksmith wrong? 」

「N-no... it's just strange. But still, I just wanted from you-----guooo!? Why did you hit me again?」

Again, Uzzu dropped a fist right at the same place while Agafon raised his voice in pain.

「You don't request something from someone without honorifics, right? 」

「Gu. U-Uzzu...san」

「Large sword. You also said that you wanted a black one, right? If you do not like the sword that my disciple has made, then there are many other fallen demon tribe blacksmith men whom you can get it made from.」

「There is no way that I want something like that! I want a similar one like what King-sama has... I want Uzzu-san to make me that sword... th-that sword. 」

Agafon who was until a while ago grabbing Uzzu’s legs, suddenly attentively looked at the work of Uzzu's disciple. He swooped over to where she was and suddenly stopped.

「Uzzo-san, that sword. 」

「Ah? 」

In Agafon's line of sight.

His sight landed on one of the myriad of weapons hung on the wall.

The weapon was a large sword made of Black Evil Iron, it was made ruggedly but it was black and somehow it had the same smell as Yuu's long sword.

「That is a no go, ok? 」

The voice of Uzzu seemed to not reach his ears, Agafon's sight was completely on the large sword made of Black Evil Iron.

「That is fine. No, that is absolutely fine! 」

「Didn't I already tell you that it was no good? That is, that, that is. It was a sword that Yuu and I made while playing. 」

It was a large sword made of Black Evil Iron which was made by Uzzu and Yuu, they had used a Rank 7 Demon Core to bestow a skill on it. Usually it was impossible to use a Rank 7 Demon Core and Black Evil Iron to make a weapon. It was actually a funny thing, since a complete Rank 7 Demon Core was used as a substitute and it could be considered as a national treasure of a small kingdom. Uzzu regretted after the sword was made because an inferior large sword had been produced.

「King-sama......made it... the sword? 」

「Listen to the story, it was a sword made by Uzzu and Yuu. It is not for sale. 」

「Nooo. That sword is good!!」

「Didn't I already tell you that it was no good. 」

「I will not give up on it!!」

From then onwards, Agafon would return every day to the workshop.

And he would ask Uzzu to sell him the sword every day. Uzzu who eventually could not take it anymore would explain the situation to Yuu and will ultimately sell it.