Chapter 52: Equipment Enhancement

Chapter 52: Equipment Enhancement

With the completion of the adamantite alloy spear, we decided to remake our armors.

「Since I want to strengthen our armor now as well, if you have some requests, I’d like it if you don’t hold back and tell me.」

When I said so, Sophia and Maria pondered over it.

Right now we are using the Armored Boar Leather Armor and Spider Silk underarmor. I think that among those, leaving the Spider Silk underarmor as is will be okay. The fitted underarmor made with elastic threads that Sophia and Maria are wearing are exceptional items. No complaints even on its functionality. For the new armor and poise, I might change the style and color though.

「Takumi-sama, are you considering mithril for the armor?」

「Hmm, wouldn’t you agree that silver colored armor suit Sophia and Maria? Especially since Sophia is a knight.」

At Sophia’s question, I ended up answering obliquely.

「「..................Takumi-sama」」

Sophia left, astounded.

Regarding Sophia and Maria’s armor, I have a little idea.

Right now, the material used for our leather armor is the Huge Armored Boar’s hard carapace. This material is highly popular among adventurers. It is relatively light and very hard, so even veteran adventurers want this material. But that doesn’t mean it has no issues. Whether it is because the monster rank of the Huge Armored Boar itself is not that high, or the material itself not having any special effects, the number of bestowals that could be done on it is not a lot. Among the materials of dragon species and other high ranking monster, the materials that naturally have special effects are not few. Furthermore, for some reason, the number of times you can bestow items made of high ranking monster materials is plenty.

Therefore, with mithril alloy, the material itself has high resistance to magic attacks. It even has physical resistance that surpasses steel, and circulating magic power to it strengthens magic attack resistance and physical attack resistance. In addition, maybe due to mithril being a rare metal, the number you can bestow is plenty. In comparison to the heavy adamantite alloy, it is clearly a material suited for armor.

「Let’s make mithril alloy breastplate, bracers, and greaves.」

This is already a decided matter.

Their previous armor, instead of tassets, had a Spider Silk-made miniskirt with slits worn on top of the armor.

This time, it will be a mini dress.

Of course, it wouldn’t be your run of the mill one piece dress. Naturally, it will use Spider Silk, and mithril alloy will be processed to be fine and thready, then it will be intertwined with Spider Silk and woven together. It will be incomparable to the Spider Silk-made cloth used until now in both physical and magic resistance.

The body-fit elastic underarmor, knee length leggings for bottoms and long sleeved body-fit shirt, will be remade.

It will be enchanted with 『Automatic Size Adjustment』, 『Automatic Temperature Regulation』, 『Enhanced Physical Resistance』, and 『Enhanced Agility』.

Without delay, I processed the mithril alloy thinly.

This is also quite difficult. It’s metal so I can use Earth Magic, but making uniformly fine threads is more difficult than I had imagined.

Since I’m including the portion for Kaede’s clothes and mine, I had to make portions for 4 people, so I kept working silently as my nerves wore down. I’m glad working this way is my specialty.

Sophia and Maria’s one piece are colored white, and Kaede’s is white as well. My shirt had been dyed grey, and my cargo pants, dark grey.

The process of making thread surprisingly took time and I had gotten stuck solely processing mithril alloy for several days, but the fabric I found acceptable had been completed.

I made Sophia and Maria’s one piece according to their figure. This was a three-man operation since Maria and Kaede have sewing skills, so we were able to do it quickly even when Kaede’s and my shirts were included.

A magic crystal containing strong Wind and Lightning attribute magic power.

「Oooh, I did it. But the combination is important.」

I think it was fine because Wind and Lightning attribute are highly compatible. But it would be impossible with Fire and Water.

I think,

Fire + Wind = Enhanced Attack + Enhanced Agility

Fire + Earth = Enhanced Attack + Enhanced Defense

Wind + Water = Enhanced Agility + Enhanced Magic Power

Water + Earth = Enhanced Magic Power[2]+ Enhanced Defense

It’s probably something like this.

I refined the synthesized Lightning Wind attribute Magic Crystal and Mithril.

・Mithril Alloy ( Lightning Wind Attribute )

Mithril alloy made from Mithril + Magic Iron and synthesized with Lightning Wind attribute Magic Crystal through alchemy.

( Lightning Wind Magic Resistance ・Extra Large Enhanced Agility )

Yup, I’ve definitely made a terrifying thing.

I found out that combined attribute materials were possible, that’s why I will combine the mithril alloys for Sophia and Maria. I will synthesize Sophia’s existing Wind attribute with Water attribute. And Maria’s existing Earth Attribute with Fire attribute.

・Mithril Alloy ( Water Wind Attribute )

Mithril alloy made from Mithril + Magic Iron and synthesized with Water Wind attribute Magic Crystal through alchemy.

( Water Wind Magic Resistance ・ Enhanced Agility・ Enhanced Magic Power)

・Mithril Alloy ( Fire Earth Attribute )

Mithril alloy made from Mithril + Magic Iron and synthesized with Fire Earth attribute Magic Crystal through alchemy.

( Earth Magic Resistance ・ Enhanced Earth Magic ・ Enhanced Attack ・ Enhanced Defense )

Sophia’s green mithril alloy changed to a silvery-white tinged aquamarine, while Maria’s orange mithril alloy turned into a silvery-white tinged deep crimson.

With this, I’ve finished my preliminary preparations, so now I’ll make the breastplates, bracers, and greaves.

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Footnotes:

He was talking about the process and his actions when he tried making mithril out of silver. This is in chapter 36.Author Typo, it said agility in WN raw, but in the line before this it was magic power for water.