Chapter 37 - Things from now on (2/2)

I will keep it as a water container when I have found a clean river.

I started walking through the forest again.

There are many things for me to think about.

However, I need to confront them just one at a time.

I would get too confused when I think about all of them at the same time.

Besides, Multitasking has never been my strong point.

[Now then…]

I guess I should find a village or town first.

I want to take a proper rest at some inn.

I also want to buy some new clothing.

It’s because I want to change out of this uniform under my robe.

This uniform from my original world is too conspicuous.

With the situation I am right now, I need to avoid standing out as much as possible.

I also want to know where I am now.

Is this place within the territory of the Allion Kingdom?

Am I closer to the center of the territory?

Or am I somewhere near the frontier?

Or is it that I’m in an another country?

Worst of all, there’s a possibility that I’m even in the other side of the sea.

I want to get a map if I can find one.

Fortunately, I have found some silver coins and jewels in the ruins.

It’s reassuring that I’m not completely broke.

However, I think I need to know how much is the worth of the silver coins and the jewels.

I also need to know the market price of the commodities.

I’ve also received some macro informations when we were just summoned by that goddess. (T/N: macro information = public info.)

However, I haven’t heard of the section where the micro information was explained.

I think I need some suitable confirmation myself.

[After that—]

I glance at the leather bag that I am carrying.

The Forbidden Archives of Spells and Curses.

I can’t gather any information from this.

This may be the power that would help fight that goddess.

[Now that I think about it…]

Is it possible for me to learn the contents of this book?

Can I become a forbidden spell-user if I were able to learn how to read the language used in this book?

Or the ones who could learn these spells are limited to their race?

I want this to be clarified too.

[I have to gather information about forbidden spells as much as possible.]

And then…

[I want a sword.]

Unintentionally, I muttered.

My status other than my MP is low.

That’s what I had been thinking until today.

I recall the memory of when I was in the ruins.

I almost haven’t used any of my stamina around the second half of when I was there.

I haven’t gotten sick even once.

I also feel that the fatigue I feel on my feet as I ascend the ruins got diminished and it’s as if my feet feels lighter than before.

There’s also the luggage that I have been carrying in my leather bag that I feel is lighter than before, even though the things that I had been carrying has increased.

That’s why I think that the effect of the correction value has certainly started to show.

However, the Soul Eater and the various monsters has continued to recognize me as someone who is “weak”.

Even after I had broken through Lv 1000, I was still the weakest in the ruins.

So to speak, I’m probably the magician types who stays at the rear guard.

I’m not the warrior type who fights in the vanguard.

That’s what I think.

That why I suddenly said that.

“I want a sword.”

That’s why I murmur such a thing.

[It would also be reassuring if someone like a shieldbearer could be my escort…]

If I have a “sword” that protects me when I was casting my abnormal state skills on the rear, I can concentrate on invoking my skills without worry.

In the ruins, I don’t have to worry about blind spot if I just put my back against the wall.

Removing the blind spot can be used at that ruins since that place has numerous walls that you could also hide in.

However, that is not always possible when I’ve arrived here above ground.

[……..]

Hiring a skilled mercenary could be one of the possible actions I could take if I wanted an extra helping hand in the fight with the goddess.

[–Or I could just make my own mercenary group.]

In order to achieve my revenge, I would have to exert double… no, triple counter-measures for every possibility that could happen.

This unidentified forbidden power.

It would be dangerous if I bet too much hope on just these forbidden spells.

I scratch my head.

[If my abnormal state skill works on that sh*tty goddess, it would have been easier for me to exact my revenge… well, it seems you can’t be hasty on the things you do even in this world.]

It can’t be helped.

There’s nothing convenient in this world.

On the contrary, I think that things have been too convenient for me since I have the abnormal state skill and the convenient ability of my leather bag.

[After that… I should also find some time to look through the contents of that book that I had received from the Great Sage, “Encyclopedia of the Forbidden Arts”—]

(T/N: I’m going to rename the book to synch it with the one written on the manga.)

A presence.

I close my mouth and raised my vigilance upon my surroundings.

I can’t feel any thirst for blood.

However, I could feel its intent to attack others.

Is it a monster?

I investigate the source of the presence as I hide behind the trees.

[Pigi!]

[Pigi!?]

[Piggiggiggiiiii!]

[Piggi!]

A translucent creature that is blue and round jiggled on the ground.

[Aren’t those—]

There are apparently six of them, as far as I could see.

[–slimes?]