Chapter 62 Arriving at the village? (1/2)

The party of four set up cah that it was only occupied by one giant spider type monster It didn’t even have any babies and was easily dispatched by Roland who tossed a fire blast spell in there

The monster went up in flames nicely and had been almost instantly cooked in the process No one was actually willing to eat the thing, not even the half-orc companion who didn’t look like a picky eater

Theyht vision and specialized skills to wander through the dark areas Most of the ti fireplace would keep those types of beings away Traits and skills that worked in darkness were quite susceptible to light

Roland was a bit deeper in the cave, next to alost its life He was using his runecrafting ha the day

There were a lot e The decision to free the slaves and have theht one If he was alone, it would have been many tih his rune scroll reserves as well

He wasWhen a ot too close he could also use his enchanted sword The charges on it were also limited but the e coear Roland took soone by since leaving Edelgard but he had ed to level up once

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Nae L25 [ Secondary ]

T1 Runic Mana Scribe L 25 [ X ]

T1 Runic Blacksmith L 20 [Main]

HP

713/713

MP

2099/2599

SP

526/1019

Strength

54

Agility

38

Dexterity

81

Vitality

53

Endurance

61

Intelligence

114

Willpower

101

Chariser L 6, Circuitry L 7, Tinkerer L 8, Identify L 8, Basic Mana Shaping L 9, Basic Mana Regulation L 9, Mana Sense L 9, Basic Rune Mastery L 9, Basic Rune Scribing L 9, Basic S Mastery L 8, Basic Runecraft L 7, Runic Blacksmith’s Eyes L 5, Blacksmith’s Heat Sense L 6, Basic Rune Compression L 3, Ethereal Pathways L 6, Basic Mana Reinforcement L3, One-handed Swordsmanshi+p L 4, Hand to hand combat L 1, Spearmanshi+p L1, Blunt Weapon Proficiency L1

Roland paid attention to his combat-related skills They had inning stages During his stay at the Arden estate, he was forced to raise them to L9 of their basic versions but since then they had been stagnating

He focused on increasing his crafting professions and then his mana related skills That left less time for combat practice He did use the sword from time to time which increased this skill the ht choice to only focus on that one

He was going to be a runesmith and would be able to produce various weapons and tools Swords were nice against other people but against ht have been better Increased reach and thrusting attacks could win out over sword slices

Then if a person was up against a heavily armored monster, or maybe one with a hard shell a blunt weapon would be a better choice Even an ax or a war hammer that had a more concentrated point of impact would be better than a sword in that situation

There were just too h but he did have tiht ht and constantly receive experience

Even nohile he was fixing hissmall amounts of experience With time this would certainly stack and let him increase his levels fast First, he would need to escape this foreign canyon and get to that next settleh that village, I er one on foot if they don’t…’

Roland grues were rarely visited by outsiders Mostly some merchants came once a month or every other month to sell and buy some iteoverning lord would send people to pick up grain

If he arrived there just after the ht have to wait over a month for another one to arrive There was also the problem with his three new companions They stood out too e mountain ofquestions about theht that they were escaped slaves then he h he knew they were innocent and were not cri was probably soot involved with it at this point in his life he ht end up as a slave too

‘Well, they didn’t seeh The border to their country is to the west’

They agreed to split up after reaching the village It was only a place to get so with mana stones These he wanted to keep for now as he had et a neorkshop out there in the sticks

The city he wanted to go to was a frontier town, just an old village before people took notice With the arrival of the dungeon things would be taking off but how far it had advanced was still unknown He only wished that he wasn’t too late and he would et himself a house of his own

With one last hit, the wand that produced the fire arroas finally repaired He looked over the runic structures He could see thea bit and the runes started to erode into the hard steel The more he used and repaired it the less steel there would be until finally, it would be unusable

“Should last h more repairs… I wish I could smelt those collars down and use deep steel instead…”

He was already thinking about i his sword but it wasn’t that easy The better the metal the harder it was to place runes on it The reason deep iron or deep steel could hold es was that it was somewhat resistant to mana The runic structures burned up at a much slower rate but were also harder to inscribe

Roland finally decided to stand up and join the others at the caet soh which a lot of the them with a sharpened stick With a few thrusts, he i roasted on the fire

“Here you go, Mr Carer than you…”