CH 81

"I tried making some accessories."

Translated by Dawn

“I tried making some accessories.”

Upon returning from the dungeon, I immediately went straight to the Adventurers’ Guild. As usual, I delivered the obtained materials and was about to leave the guild when Sakol approached me.

“The Guildmaster would like to see you.”

“Okay.”

I didn’t know what exactly she wanted, but I decided to ask her for more details anyway and came to the office where Isabella was located.

“… is there, something, you need from me?”

“W-what’s it all of a sudden? Put that murderous intent away.”

Since she had sent me a surprise murderous intent last time, I tried to take the initiative this time to avoid lagging behind, but apparently, that wasn’t the case.

“Your killing intent is too much for me, boy. Are you trying to kill an old lady?”

“Hmph, that old lady looks like she’s going to live another thirty years, though?”

“If I live that long, I’ll turn into a demon or something.”

“Ha…so, what is this about?”

“Ah, actually…”

Isabella began to tell me about the situation. According to her story, the Adventurers’ Guild had received a request for an escort from a daughter of a certain noble family, but the conditions were so specific that I was the only person who met them.

So, they practically asked me, the only one who met their requirements, to escort the young lady.

“What are the conditions, by the way?”

“The boy must be around 12 years old, between 150 and 155 centimeters tall, and must have a rank of B or higher. In addition, he must have blond hair and green eyes.”

“That’s practically asking for me!!”

“Apparently so.”

ISABELLA answered my cry with a wry smile. There was only one person who would do this to me in such a roundabout way. And she was someone I had only recently become acquainted with.

I didn’t know what her purpose was, but the request was for an ordinary escort. She wanted to collect a fruit called “Pipple” on the seventh level of the dungeon, and she wanted me to escort her along the way.

I had to wonder if such a thing would be done by a daughter of a noble family in person, but this was obviously a trap to lure me out. There was nothing else to it.

However, even if she did summon me, she would not do anything to me, and I could somehow tell that she probably wanted to increase the number of times she could make contact with me.

Although there was a high possibility that I would run into Kukkoro-san, I would not mind accepting her request, and if she were to use force, there would be no problem as long as I could return the favor. Besides, the reward for this request is quite good.

“Are you sure these fee request numbers aren’t wrong?”

“No, the receptionist who took care of the request confirmed it several times, so there is no doubt. The reward for the request is three large gold coins.”

“What is that stupid young lady thinking?”

What kind of idiot would pay 300 million yen to hire just one B-rank adventurer? Do you mean there is one here? This is no joke.

Moreover, these three large gold coins were the amount paid to me, which meant that when she submitted a request at the guild, she paid an additional fee on top of that. I didn’t know whether she wanted to make contact with me that bad or whether her sense of money was broken like a daughter of a noble family, but I decided that if I could get that much just for escorting her, it wouldn’t be a loss for me to accept this request.

“Okay. I’ll take this request.”

“I would appreciate it if you would do that. I will take care of the request procedure, and you can meet them at the entrance of the dungeon in the early morning three days from now.”

“I understand. Then, I will take my leave.”

I felt like I was being played in the palm of her hand, but I decided to let that go because one could never have too much money for the future.

Having finished my business at the guild, I decided to return to the inn for the time being. It was just about dinner time, and the inn’s restaurant was quite crowded. Since it would be a problem if the restaurant was full later, I decided to sit down at an open table and eat my dinner before returning to my room.

After dinner, I finally returned to my room and fell into bed with a deep sigh. While I was out in the dungeon, someone at the inn seemed to have changed the sheets, and the scent of the sun was filling the room.

I laid on the bed for a while, enjoying the after-dinner rest while being soothed by the smell. After a while, the feeling of fullness in my stomach eases, and I take out some materials from the storage to check the results of today’s work.

First, I took out the magic quartz I got from the riverside, the gemstones I mined in the mine, and the poison mine spider thread. Incidentally, I was able to obtain the poison mine spider thread by wrapping it around a piece of stick that had fallen around there.

Looking at the results of today’s work again, I felt satisfied with the harvest. What was particularly fortunate was the Poison Mine Spider thread and a number of gems.

“Now, let’s give it a try.”

Saying this, I picked up a piece of magic quartz that I had found lying on the riverside. Many of the magic quartz that had not yet been processed were rounded into an oval shape, perhaps due to the fact that they had been lying in the river for a long time.

As for the current attempt, its shape was very convenient, so I began to process the magic quartz in my hand with magic. Specifically, I used the compound magic called storm magic to generate a small palm-sized tornado, and by addressing it to the surface of the magic quartz, I made it possible to grind the magic quartz to a precision finer than a millimeter.

It was a substitute for a grinder, as in the technology of the Earth in the previous world. Unlike a grinder, this method was not motorized, so it didn’t make a lot of noise, which was an advantage, and because it used a natural phenomenon, its grinding power was far greater than that of earth’s grinders.

Taking care not to break the stone itself by applying too much force, I processed it into balls of about eight millimeters in diameter. After making several dozen balls, I transformed a small tornado into a wire and drilled a small hole of about 2 to 3 mm in the center of the ball.

“Then I just have to put the thing through the hole I drilled and tie it so it won’t come undone, and I’m done.”

As a final touch, the magic quartz bracelet was completed when several processed magic quartz pieces were put together like a loop using the threads obtained from Poison Mine Spider……

Immediately after the Poison Mine Spider’s threads were spat out, it had both adhesive and adsorptive properties in order to capture prey, but after some time had passed once captured the prey, its properties seemed to change into two completely different properties: elasticity and durability.

As an ex-Earthling, I was inclined to doubt whether a thread with such an unorthodox nature really exists, but I convinced myself that it was possible, given what I was actually seeing with my own eyes and in a world where there was fantasy element everywhere. I mean, it’s called opportunism, opportunism.

So, I checked the accessories I made for a trial using Analysis, and this was the result I got.

[Amulet of Purification]: A bracelet-shaped amulet made of demon quartz that, when imbued with magical power, becomes transparent like a crystal and simultaneously purifies the bad energy in the body. It is effective in relieving fatigue, stomachaches, and other minor ailments.

Market price: 1 to 3 medium gold coins.

“S-seriously…this one turned out to be a little crazy.”

Hey, hey, this might be a pretty amazing accessory. Even on Earth, such amulets and crystals healing were available, but only as a kind of comfort.

However, this accessory in front of me now was like a wonderful tool that could replace nutritional drinks or stomach pills. From the earthling point of view, nutritional drinks and medicines were familiar to us, and we would not often feel the need for them. However, this world was a world where medical science had not progressed that far. In such a world, if there was an item that was effective in relieving fatigue and stomachache, one would honestly want to have it.

But this was troubling. I could no longer carelessly sell this one. Moreover, the level of analysis skill seemed to have improved with today’s dungeon attack, and the market price of the analyzed item was now displayed, which made the value of this accessory even more conspicuous. What kind of ordinary people would pay 30 million for a single amulet? This useless–

Personally, I would ideally like to keep the price range down to a few small silver coins to a couple of medium silver coins at the most, for everyday use. Damn, I didn’t expect them to be too rare to sell.

“Right. Should I make this amulet available in limited quantities and only put a couple of them up for sale?”

As I was pondering this, I noticed a certain ore among the loot I had put out on the table. I casually picked it up, and when I performed an analysis on it, the following information was displayed.

[Dark Magic Ore]: A black-colored ore that has the effect of absorbing the power of purification. After absorbing a certain amount of purification power, it changes into various shades of stone.

Market price: 3 to 4 large copper coins.

Hey, hey, Isn’t this too opportunistic? Isn’t it strange that what I wanted just now is coming right away? Thinking this, I look up and stare into empty space. …No way, it’s not his work, right?

Well, even if that were the case, there was no way to avoid not using it, so I processed it into an 8mm ball, the same as the magic quartz, and re-produced it with one dark magic ore sandwiched between every three magic quartz pieces, and again checked it by analysis.

[Magic Quartz Bracelet]: A bracelet made of magic quartz and dark magic ore. When magic power is channeled into it, the magic quartz has the effect of becoming transparent, but other than that, it is just a bracelet with no other effect.

Market price: Two to three small silver coins.

“This is it. The second part is complete!! My journey’s over…not. I haven’t even been to the rest of the world yet.”

I had to say and listen to my own joke by myself since no one was there, but anyway, the accessory was completed just as I wanted it to be. Moreover, the dark magic ore used will change to different colors over time, so not a single bracelet will be the same. Oh, shoot…….If this was the case, I should have taken magic quartz as many as I could.

At any rate, all of the magic quartz brought back was processed into bracelet beads, and four more magic quartz bracelets were completed. With this, one purification amulet and five magic quartz bracelets were completed, which was just the right number needed for retail.

“Well, that’s enough for today, I’ll go out and try to sell at the Commercial Guild tomorrow.”

I noticed that it was already dark outside, and I was working while illuminating my hand with light magic from halfway through. I had finished making an accessory for the first time, so I decided to call it a day and went to sleep.