Volume 9 - Chapter 3 – Smith (2/2)
Jin then again received the report about the aircraft carrier.
“Hmm, it really does take a long time.”
“Yes. That’s because we had to begin from building a dock on the beach to use for construction.”
“Ah, that’s true.”
Jin was the Magi Craft Meister. Just him being the leading Magi Craftsman didn’t mean he specialized in building gigantic things.
“Hmm, I suppose I’ll make factory worker golems.”
Jin said, and he got support from Ann.
“I think that is a good idea. Leaving the parts only master can build out of it, by letting golems build the rest of the parts master’s workload becomes lighter and the production efficiency increases.”
“That seems to be the case.”
And so Jin decided to start mass-producing factory worker golems.
The material was steel. There wasn’t a particular need to use the valuable Light Silver or Adamantite.
However, the steel was an alloy with nickel and chromium mixed in so as to make it less susceptible to rust. In other words, stainless steel. In addition, it was 18/12 steel.
18 percent chromium, 12 percent nickel. The reason was that with large amounts of nickel the color would become blackish, giving it a solid feeling.
“The strength is fairly good as is, but if they can’t use Craft Magic well it’ll be troubling, huh.”
As such Jin transcribed considerable portions of his knowledge to them, making them able to work on everything but the most precise formulas. Their physique was about the same as Jin’s. So that they could also work with small details.
He made 500 of them.
He first built five and activated them, and had them assist him in building a total of 50. With the additional support of these 50 he built 500.
Jin was finished in the middle of the morning.
“The efficiency really is different, huh.”
“My Lord, the name.”
Laozi and Laojun reminded Jin to name them as he became excited about how easy the work became.
“Hmm, let’s see, Smith.”
This was the creation of the worker golems Smith-1 to Smith-500.
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As usual, he went to have lunch with Elsa and Mine.
“Come on in, Jin-nii.”
“Hello.”
Today the weather was once again fine and it was warm, so they had lunch outside.
This time lunch was freshly-baked bread with thinly-sliced meat in between, vegetable salad, and Citran juice.
Jin noticed that the menu was a little scarcer than usual, but said nothing about it and picked up the bread.
“…”
“?”
While Jin did that, Elsa kept staring at him. Jin thought her unusual behavior was somewhat strange, yet didn’t stop his hand and ate the bread.
“?”
The second question mark of the day. The flavor was a little different from usual. The meat slice seemed to be thicker, but the flavor was somewhat weaker.
Although Jin was fundamentally not picky with his food, that didn’t mean he had no sense of taste. Rather, because he had cooked simple meals by himself, he thought he was as particular as anyone else. He just didn’t put it into words.
“…”
And then as he felt Elsa’s gaze as he was about to eat the vegetable salad, Jin suddenly came to a conclusion.
“Could it perhaps be that today’s lunch was made by Elsa?”
He said, and Elsa became visibly nervous.
“…Was it not good?”
She then timidly asked.
“No, the flavoring is a little different than what Mine uses, but it’s plenty tasty. So that was it, Elsa made the food, huh.”
“Mm. Because it would be shameful if, as Jin-nii’s sister, I couldn’t do a lot of things.”
Elsa said and slightly blushed.
“Mh-hm, thanks.”
Jin said and finished eating all of the remaining bread and salad.
“That was good, Elsa.”
Elsa and Mine both similarly finished eating, and for after-meal dessert Mine peeled some Pelshka.
Peeling Pelshka was probably still unreasonable for Elsa, at the very least in front of Jin while he was watching.
Jin remembered how Elsa’s aptitude with [Transfer Info] was greater than Reinhardt’s. If he had the spare time he might try teaching her some Craft Magic, he muttered to himself.