Chapter 58: Level III Promotion Quest (1/2)
About a month and a half later, we were running quickly while wearing full equipment in the middle of a thick, verdant forest.
We were wearing field clothes with belts around our waists, equipped with several pouches attached to those belts by ALICE clips.
We had combat protectors on our elbows and knees.
Our combat boots were firmly planted on the ground.
Xiah was at the lead, followed by Snow, Chrisse, and I lining up behind.
Through her eye-protection gear (goggle-type), Xiah aimed her Meiya-made AK-47 at the prepared target and fired.
BANG!
The target on the ground had its center blown away.
Snow and I with AK-47s then shot through targets hanging from tree branches.
Chrisse stayed behind while watching our surroundings.
Once all targets were shot through, we started moving again.
We continued the training until all the prepared targets were destroyed.
The final target was shot from 100 meters away right on the bullseye by Chrisse.
“Welcome back, everyone!”
Once we finished training, we slipped out of the forest to where Meiya was waiting.
The Meiya Residence maids prepared chairs, a table, and a parasol—making a simple rest area.
We were outside of town at a nearby forest.
We put on a notice at the Adventurer’s Guild and did some outdoors training.
Monsters were previously driven away.
But still, there seemed to be some left, so we dealt with those that we encountered during training.
The one who sensed the remaining monsters faster than anyone else was Xiah.
Before she became a slave, when she was an adventurer, it seems she took the role of a scout, sensing monsters’ movements before anyone else could.
Her presence-sensing towered above others’ by far.
It was to the point that Xiah declared that “While I was an adventurer, I never got caught in a surprise attack even once”.
We believed her and made her a scout that time—in my previous world, she’d be called a Pointman.
The result was beyond imagination.
We’d probably have used this formation again the next time it’s needed.
We took off our eye-protection gear and put down our AK-47s and M700P.
I took off my helmet and sat on a chair alone.
I wiped my head and neck with a cold, wet towel the maids handed me; it soon became stained with dirt and sweat.
I took off the cap off the canteen that was attached by ALICE clip, then I emptied the lukewarm water.
After I rehydrated myself, the sweat poured out again, and I received a new towel.
After I enjoyed my little break, I checked everyone’s equipment’ conditions.
“In the training, have you noticed anything that bothers you ? Like, is your movement is restricted, or does the size not match or is it hard to use?”
“As I thought, I don’t need the helmet!” x3
OH, all the girls objected with “HELMET, NO!”
I gave them before training, but they all had their reasons and didn’t wear it even once.
Snow’s was because “My ears hurt.”
Chrisse’s was because “Uncomfortable so I can’t concentrate.”
Xiah just said one word in “nuisance” and put it away.
Even though I diligently made them ….
As a result, I was the only one who was using it.
“An..anything else ?”
[Onii-chan, can’t this eye-protection gear be easier to see through ?]
“Yeah, I did my best though …”
The eye-protection gear was goggles-type glasses.
In battle, there are many potential damages to your eyes–wind and dust, ejected cartridges from allies, and scattering pieces of wood or rock caused by a bullet. There are also fragments from the blast of magic and such. If your eyes get hurt, then your combat potential will drop significantly. For those reasons, it becomes a necessity.
The problem is the glass part.
Some products like [Ess Ice] that is currently adopted in the American army have strength that can even withstand shotgun buckshot.
But that stuff doesn’t exist in this world.
Meiya and I collaborated and did a lot of trial and error; as a result, we chose goggle-type eye-protection gear. For the glasses part, we made them in the shape of beehive with magic liquid metal. For the gap, we used the magic stone’s power placed at the back of the head to create a thin water membrane to prevent small dust, sand and such.
But using it in reality does obstruct your visibility a lot.
But if I make the beehive hole bigger, then it won’t be able to block incoming fragments. The water membrane isn’t that strong, so I could only experiment over and over to find the balance afterward.
“Understood, I’ll devise it to make it a little easier to see. Anything else ?”
“For me it’s this … bulletproof vest? …It’s a little tight, especially around the chest area.”
The bulletproof-vest name is the same as the previous world’s, but I made it to defend against arrows, spears and swords but not bullets.
The material I’m using is a monster called Pterosaur that resemble dragon, they have wings in place of hands.
Even though the defensive power is lower than a dragon’s, the price is reasonable, I lined the scales up and fixed them to a khaki-coloured clothes.
A light but also high-defense product.
But the elasticity is pretty low.
Snow’s then growing breasts were being cramped at that point.
It was the night-hustling fault of mine though!
“Go..get it, I’ll tide it over. Anything else? Any problem with the AK, Xiah?”
“Absolutely none.”
“That’s obvious! Because it’s a product that has been made by my and Lute-sama’s teacher-student lovey-dovey collaboration! Please handle it with care, Xiah-san”
Right. The AK47 Xiah was using was made together by Meiya and I.
Ever since Meiya met me, she had been studying everything about guns all the time.
Furthermore, in order to remember the iron plate not with just her head but also body, whenever she had time, she touched, licked and smelled it to experience the strength, and she punched it, chewed it, and pressed it against her cheeks to feel the coldness, too.
The result of that endeavour: she finally acquired the power to imagine it vividly.
And as I took care of Snow’s AK, Meiya did Xiah’s. While checking the parts together, we assembled and made it.