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I thought that the more magic I poured in, the stronger metal it produces, but it turned out that the magic liquid metal had a property that if the magic exceeded a certain threshold, it wouldbecome brittle.
Meiya and I made the same part, but somehow, there were a lot of cases where hers was abnormally brittle.
At first, we thought it was because she couldn’t imagine vividly, but the fault seemed to lie in pouring in too much magic.
If I recalled correctly, it was the same with alcohol; at 90%-plus, the sterilizing property drops instead.
At about 70%-85%, the sterilizing property becomes its highest, or so I read in some medical manga.
Magic liquid metal probably has the same property.
It’s a property that was only discovered because it was made by B- rank magician Meiya.
It went gone undiscovered because it was been made by the no-talent magician Moi. It was one act that made me realized again that my magic pool was really low.
But it was a problem that could be solved by adjusting the amount of magic poured in.
The problem was then gone because Meiya adjusted the amount of magic she poured in.
Again, about AK production, I designed some small parts to fit the girls’ personalities.
Snow’s design was almost the same as mine.
The only difference was that it wasn’t black but white.
Maybe it was because of her name, but she liked to use white.
That’s why I changed the colour so they could be differentiated at a glance as to whose was whose.
In Xiah’s case, the stock (the farthest part at the back of the gun that is placed against the shoulder) is not metal frame. The open hole is filled up, thereby making it heavier than our guns.
According to the person herself -- she didn’t like it because it was too light and thus made her feel as if she’s not carrying anything.
After training, I briefly asked everyone, but it seemed there was no special inconvenience.
“Well then, tomorrow let’s go to the guild and see if there is any Level III quest.”
Everyone agreed.
Finally, we started to do quest to get to Level III.
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The next morning, the four of us—Me, Snow, Chrisse, Xiah—had breakfast.
Since we weren’t likely to go on a quest right away, we did not carry AK-47s, and we went to the Adventurer’s Guild in plain clothes with only gun belts hanging from our waists.
This is the first time we came with Xiah, but she took a wooden tag branded with a series of numerals with practiced hands.
Soon our number was called.
”...... tch, welcome, did you get another wife?”
The demon race oneesan, who always looked after us, received us in an irritated manner.
”No, she's not my wife. We were about to rank up to Level III, so we employed her. We're still beginners, so there are lots of things about adventuring that we still don't know about.”
There was no need to expressly state that Xiah is our slave in public.
If we hid the brand on her arm and took off her collar, n.o.body could have told by looking.
Being accompanied by a magic-user’s slave might have troubled us by causing something annoying.
We told that to the person herself.
Xiah took out a tag from her neck and handed it to the receptionist.
”I'm Xiah. Pleased to meet you.”
”Excuse me. I'm pleased to meet you, too. Xiah-san is a Level III, aren't you? So you're taking on a quest to raise the others to Level III, is it?”
”Yes, please.”
Having Xiah's answer, the receptionist fluidly turned over some doc.u.ments.
She's good at what she did and had a good appearance and character, so I wondered why couldn’t she get married….
The receptionist presented us with a sheet of paper.
Without looking at the doc.u.ment, she read out the terms written on it.
”So how about this one? The requested matter is to guard the transportation of some packages. The destination is from here through the dragon mines to the dragon kingdom. It will take about 16 days, and because of the long duration, each person gets two gold coins this time. Food and drinks are to be prepared by yourselves. The employer prepares nothing other than a carriage. The day of departure is in the morning the day after tomorrow. Should you accept, you are to come to the Adventurer’s Guild at noon tomorrow to meet with the employer.”
The transported goods were something related to magic tools.
There was already one team working as guards, but the employer seemed to want another team just in case. Because it was so sudden, there was no problem with using it to rise to Level III—that's the situation.
It was certainly convenient for us.
Xiah examined the request and told the receptionist that we accepted it.
”Well then, we'll take this, please.”
”All right. All of you please lend me your tags. Also, from Level III onwards you're going to have to put in some deposit money. That'll be one silver coin per person this time.”
The procedures regarding our quest acceptance that time were handled by the only Level III with us, Xiah.
We handed tags and the deposit money (4 silver coins) to the receptionist.
She smoothly filled in the quest with a magic-quill pen.
Once she finished, she returned the tags to us.
”Then see you at the Adventurer’s Guild at noon tomorrow.”
”Understood. Please tell the employer that we won't be needing a carriage.”
”Alright. I'll be sure to tell them.”
Her work finished, Xiah left her seat.
We followed along behind her.
”Hey Xiah, why did you refuse the carriage they prepared?”
Since she refused, we had to prepare one by ourselves.
Which meant there would be extra expenses for that.
Xiah explained to us as we walked.
”If we don't prepare one ourselves, they're going to put us with the other team on a cheap carriage and horned horses. The employer would want to pin down their expenses. For our own safety, we have to loan or prepare a carriage ourselves beforehand, that's how adventurers do it.”
It seemed that if the adventurer didn’t have money, they would be using the allotted carriage and horses.
We never knew of anything like that.
I was really glad that we bought Xiah.
Then we turned towards the carriage-sellers.
Once we loaned a carriage, we went to the marketplace to buy everything else we needed.
In order to go on the Level III Quest the day after tomorrow, we began our preparations.
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