Death March kara Hajimaru Isekai Kyusoukyoku (WN) - Volume 7 - Chapter 7

Chapter 7: 7

7-7 . Scrolls and Cheat

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I'm told that the granddaughter of elder Dohar will be my wife if I stay, so I promise Zajir-san who glares at me when he hears that to part away, thus we leave Bollhart city behind .

The nearest city is four days away .

Since the path there is a mountain trail, it'll probably be five days .

There are several carriages going to the same direction as us, but since our speeds are different, we're not moving in caravan . It seems that normally, even if the moving speeds are different, many carriages join together to evade thieves, monsters and beasts .

Since we wouldn't be able to craft, experiment and do training if we're together with other merchants, I try not to intrude each other's turf as much as possible .

Even so, there are times when we meet them during the break, so I've put dummy barrels, boxes and various luggage around .

Currently, the coachman is Lulu . Arisa has installed a cushion on the driver's seat during our stay in the Bollhart city, so it looks comfortable now . It seems that the inside of the cushion seat contains coiled springs that she's asked the blacksmiths to make .

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Two days after we've left Bollhart city, the caravan of merchants aren't near our camping ground at last, so I decide to use the many scrolls that I've bought .

Before I use the scrolls, I finally activate the five kind of magic skills; Earth, Fire, Wind, Ice, and Light .

First I make a wall made from mud with [Mud Wall (Wall)] . It's a one meter tall, one meter wide, and five centimeters thick [Wall] . It looks like it'll collapse if it's just touched lightly .

Lulu and the others who are watching give an applause . Tama wants to climb it, but I warn her that it's fragile so she shouldn't .

Next, I harden the mud wall with [Hard Clay] . It's not glossy like a porcelain, but it's strengthened enough .

It seems that both the mud wall and the hardened wall would not return back to their original forms even with passing time . If I have a potter's wheel, I would be able to make pot for medicines . Come to think of it, I don't have Ceramic making skill yet, let's try it next time .

When I use [Rock Smasher] on the mud wall and the hardened mud wall, both of them break and become sand .

When I use [Freeze Water] on the water in the bucket, it freezes for three centimeters from the surface . Since it's winter now, it doesn't seem like it'd melt even if it's left alone . If I use it on a pond if we find one, we would be able to play on a skating ring made from it . I'll make skate boots while we're moving .

The [Air Curtain] could be used to make windbreak, but the effect disappear in about three minutes .

Since all the life magic I've tried have subtle effects, I'm omitting it . [Deodorant] seems to be usable for when I've moved my body like after training .

It's quite unpopular when I use it later . I've already expected the kind of Arisa's reaction, "Boy's sweats are proof of youth you know, and you're erasing that! erasing that!", but even Lulu looks really disappointed . When we're sleeping, even Pochi and Tama say, "There's no master's scent nodesu . ", they rub their noses while putting on strange faces, so I decide not to use it except when I'm really stinky of sweats .

Next I try using [Condense] . It condenses the moonlight and it does get a bit brighter, but that's it . The magic tool Light Drop that hasn't had role recently is much brighter . No wonder it becomes a bad stock .

I use the other bad stock [Furnace Flame (Forge)] from a place away from everyone . I ask Mia to standby with a long stick for if the fire spread . I change into cheap shirt and trousers since I don't want my clothes get burned . Arisa is saying some stupid things from behind, "Shirt is way better than robe isn't it . That slender body line is irresistible . "

I put a copper dagger I've got from the thieves back then on a rock and use the magic . The MP consumption is slightly bigger, maybe because this spell belong to intermediate class . Since the flame appears only one meter away from the scroll, I move it to the dagger's place in a hurry . Even though the copper dagger should have been more soluble than iron, it only gets hot and isn't melting . Since the nearby weeds are burning, I ask Mia to put down the fire .

I'll try the remaining nature magic . I use [Signal] to send Morse codes to Nana . I ask Nana to activate [Signal] too so that she can receives it .

"It's ton ton ton, tsu, tsu, tsu, ton ton ton . "

"Then, try to send the same thing back . "

"Yes, master . "

A signal sound from one scene of the movie I've seen a long time ago is playing back in my head .

Arisa who's seemingly bored begins to sing [SOS] song while doing strange choreography . I wonder if that's from olden idol?　Since the song is upbeat, Pochi and Tama have also begun to dance together . Even Mia is accompanying the music with reed flute .

No well, you girls, you don't have to force yourself to watch, if you're tired it's fine to do as you like you know?

I pull myself together and use [Sonar] . It's searching for enemies in 20 meters wide range . It seems that it doesn't detect small animals, and only targets dangerous ones like poisonous snakes and stray dogs . The effect only last for five minutes . I know now just how irregular the radar is .

I try the remaining ones in turns . [Fence] creates transparent horse-rail-like fences that's one meter tall and one meter wide . However, it's quite fragile, it partially breaks from [Short Stun], and completely breaks when Liza lightly kicks it .

It might be usable if the opponent is just some low level thieves, but if it's a knight-class, then it would get broken without any resistance .

The last one I use is [Cube], and it's just like how Arisa has demonstrated, the activated cube is not more than 10 centimeters in size .

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It's the real thing now .

So that Liza and the others don't get hurt, I move two mountains away from them . Unlike from before I announce that I'm high leveled where they'd get worried if I go alone in uninhabited place, they don't object at all now .   However, when we're in place with people, there's always someone beside me at midnight, perhaps they're thinking that I'd go to have some night time . Good grief, it's no good . I've felt that my sexual desire has decreased sharply after I arrive at this world, but I'm still a healthy man . I'd like to have a nightlife once in a while .

My destination is a place with five monsters called Soldier Beetles . They're drone beetle-like monsters with the size of light cars, their level are lower 20s .

When I'm two kilometers away from it, I activate [Sonar] and go closer . It seems that the range of enemy search is around one kilometer . I think it's because the skill level is 10, it's quite different from the initial one . However, since I have radar already, it's regretful to think that I'd never use this magic . The effective time has been quite extended too .

Above all, judging from the name, it'd be bad if an enemy with good sense notice me when I'm searching using this . In truth I could sense radar-like wave of magic from [Sonar] when I'm using [Signal] magic . On the contrary, I think it could be usable for fake warning .

Since I've got to the place 500 meters away from the monsters, I shoot [Short Stun] to check its effective range . Just like Magic Arrow, the possible shot amount has increased . The amount is the same as magic arrow it seems . I shoot one to one of the beetle . The remaining 120 go towards the other three . I divide it to 20, 40, and 64 .

As the result, the beetle shot with one is fainted with dented shell, but the one shot with 20 gets its shell crushed and is half-dead . The beetles shot with 40 and more have been completely smashed .

It's disqualified as a magic for making thing faints .

It'd be fine if the opponent are knights or heavy infantries, but if it's civilians, they'd surely die . I'll analyze this spell, and I'll make one that won't increase in strength with skill level and status . The time limit is until I get to Toruma (Ossan)'s household to make scrolls . It's been awhile since I've got a work with delivery date, it's tensing me up .

Strangely, the only safe monster is coming toward here . Is it not running because its intelligence is low, or is it trying to revenge its friends .

Since it's vigorously flying here, I try to use [Mud Wall (Wall)]

I use it at maximum power, and a gigantic wall of 300 meters wide, 20 meters high, and 5 meters thick wall appears .

Since I create it just before the beetle, it hits the wall splendidly . I've thought that it would pierce through the wall, but seems that the wall is surprisingly hard, and the monster is stuck on the other side of the wall .

--Looks like I could build a castle overnight .

Since it'd only obstruct me if I leave it alone, I destroy it with [Rock Smasher] . The mud wall becomes fine sands and collapses . Since it looks like I'd get swallowed in it, I quickly jump onto a nearby tree and get out of the trouble .

Once again, I make [Mud Wall], and cancel it, it returns to the similar state as the original . As expected, the destroyed woods and undergrowth aren't restored .

The fainted monster finally recovers after 30 minutes, and it's going here . Since it's firing fire bullet even though it's just an insect, I take it with [Air Curtain] . Even though it's taking the fire bullet directly, the fire bullet is not piercing through and gets scattered away in front of the wind wall . It seems to be usable as defense if the opponents are just small fries .

The insect seems to have given up on fire bullet and begins to ram here, I'll put up [Cube] to stop it . Looks like I could create 300 meters cube at most, but the limitation is that I can't create one if there's something inside it . I make a cube of about 10 meters big in front of the beetle . The beetle can't break through the cube, just like with the mud wall . It loses its momentum and stops after pushing the cube for about 20 meters . The beetle stalls and begins falling, but by flapping its wings, it lands near me and runs on the ground attacking me .

Just as expected .

I make [Fence] in front of the beetle that's attacking on the ground . It looks like I could create multiple ones with this too, but since I could only create five spatially, I create five of it .

The fence seems to be fixed on the ground, and it won't move as long as it's not destroyed . The beetle which is moving at 30-40 Km/H is skewered by one of the fence and dies, but there's no trace of the fence moving . Since the fences could be canceled individually, I remove the unused ones and leave one alone . I leave it to confirm the effective time .

I put one complete corpse of the beetle into the Storage, and only collect the shells and the cores of the rest .

The dying one becomes a sacrifice for [Condense] . It seems that the focus power is increased with skill level, the condensed moonlight becomes laser-like . Unfortunately since the original light for the amplified one is weak, the power isn't that strong . It's about as powerful as one Remote Arrow . Furthermore, the effect only materialize after five minutes, so I think it's only usable during daytime as point attack . If it collects sunlight, the power will surely increase . Since it somehow feels cruel to keep doing this, I end it with Remote Arrow .

Continuing on, it's time to experiment with [Furnace Flame (Forge)] .

I've thought of making furnace with [Mud Wall] reinforced with [Hard Clay], but I decide to use [Cube] instead .

I create transparent furnace by using several [Cubes] . It looks like the cube is reinforced if they're connected . Even though I could erase [Cube] blocks that has been connected whole, I could not separate them once connected so I have to be careful .

And then I put copper and iron daggers inside the transparent furnace made from Cubes, and activate [Furnace Flame (Forge)] . Three minutes after activation, the copper dagger melts, and in five minutes, the iron dagger also becomes liquid . It seems that [Cube] is about as durable as [Shield], it could withstand [Furnace Flame (Forge)] for 30 minutes before breaking . I found out that I could extend the endurance time to 50 minutes by creating two Cubes layered .

I open the menu and narrow the search on the map . I search for places where there are metal veins on the mountain nearby . There are veins for metal called [Iron Stone] and [Uutz Steel] it seems . I mark them, including the copper vein .

The former is approximately 30 meters away from the ground surface, so I expose it by skillfully using [Mud Wall (Wall)] . The rest of the work is done by adjusting the power of [Rock Smasher] to cut the ores . I've thought of using the sharper holy sword for an moment, but I decide to use [Rock Smasher] as a training for using magic .

Then I put the iron ore inside the transparent cube-made furnace, activate [Furnace Flame (Forge)], and begin the refining process . At first, I fail at the adjustment and the finished product is unusable, but by the third time, I'm able to refine normally . The light is dazzling, but thanks to Light Adjustment skill, it doesn't become a problem . Even while being discouraged by the small quantity of ingots refined from large quantity of ores, I continue the work .

Since Uutz Steel would darken and become brittle if I go too far, I have a hard time in adjusting the heat level for refining . I might've not been able to refine it if I don't know the accurate temperature from AR .

Thanks to the complex refinery from before, the copper one is easy .

I've thought that my magic power would be exhausted halfway, but maybe thanks to the quick MP recovery rate, it isn't even depleted by half . I've made 100KG iron ingots, 20KG Uutz steel ingots, and 70KG copper ingots before the sky turns white . The copper ingots alone worths 200 gold coins huh . Magic is tremendous after all .

I take out an anvil from the Storage, and try to create an iron sword using the same process of creating the fairy sword, but I'm only able to make a brittle sword . It's not like it could not receive magic power, but it's cracked even before I put 10 points on it . So the process is for mithril after all .

Let's try to look for mithril veins when we're moving .

>Title [Magic Blacksmith] is Acquired

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I'm going back by strolling on the sky by using Cubes as footholds . I've changed into Silver Mask since I don't know if anyone's watching .

At first I make cubes in the shape of stairs to play around with, but since it's fun to walk on the air, I try to see how far I can go up while shouting, "I can fly" . I'm unusually in high tension if I do say so myself .

I keep making footholds as I jump from them, and I'm become able to see the morning sun on the horizon . I could see a white line leading up to the sky at the southeast direction, I wonder what's that? Judging from the map, it's on the direction of Bornean forest . Well, I will probably know about it in time .

Since it's become hard to breath, I try to see below, and my back grows cold .

Huh? Did I get too carried away?

According to the AR, the altitude is about 4 kilometers . Even I would probably die if I fall from this height . I must be careful not to run out of magic power .

Even though I'm at this altitude, I unexpectedly don't feel fear, since the stratosphere should be about 10 kilometers high, there's no worry of jumping out to the space yet .

For approximately 10 minutes, I practice fighting in the sky . 3D Maneuver, and Space Grasp are doing nice jobs . I've become able to understand the minimum [Cube] size needed too .

I feel like I could fight dragons or demons in the air if it's like this .

There's a hawk with five meter wing-span near the mountain, so I try practicing air battle with it during my way back . If I have wings to glide through air, there would be more usable tactics .

>[Sky Drive Skill Acquired]

Sky Drive is a skill with similar effect as using [Cube] as footholds to fly in the air, it uses less magic power .   I would be able to have midnight stroll easier with this . Since the only one who could endure the wind pressure and decompression is me, it's too bad that I can't invite Arisa and the others to have some air night strolls . I think there's a wind magic called [Windbreak (Canopy)], I'll request it from Ossan's household when I'm getting scrolls from them .

>Title [One who Flies without Wings] Acquired