V3C62 (2/2)

” … Carol … sorry. Please forget about what happened yesterday.”

” … Yes.”

In the end, it became like this.

Haru was also slightly depressed.

To Haru, Carol is something like a younger sister to her so it must be tough for her to be seen by her during such an act.

I also have an actual younger sister so I know the feeling well.

“Anyway, I apologize for ending up like that yesterday after reaching 0MP. I’ll bear that in mind from today onward.”

“Master’s MP is much higher compared to a normal Alchemist so it can’t be helped that master was careless.”

“However, when Carol checked the iron balls made by Ichino-sama, their quality has clearly increased. As expected of Ichino-sama.”

We exchanged unnatural smiles as the dining table was spread in front of us.

Yup, as expected, it’s better when stew has meat in it.

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Riding in the carriage, we traveled down the mountain.

Until my MP completely recovers, I explored if there were any jobs that could accumulate experience points without using MP but could not find any in the end, so I ended up searching if there were any monsters nearby by continuously using 「Presence Detection」.

However, there were only 1 or 2 monsters far away and there were completely no monsters at all along the highway.

By the time it reached the afternoon, my MP had completely recovered so I tried performing Alchemy.

I took out a box filled with iron ores from my item bag.

Incidentally, the result from my hardwork the whole day yesterday until I lost consciousness.

Apprentice Alchemist reached Lv37, Alchemist reached Lv18.

The skills I acquired are as below.

【Apprentice Alchemist skill: 「Metal Refining」 obtained]

【Alchemist skill: 「Metal Refining」has skilled up to「Metal Refining II」]

【Alchemist skill: 「Magic Metal Fusion」 obtained]

「Metal Refining」 is a technique used to extract impurities from metals. Apparently, the metals that are possible for me to refine changes according to the skill rank.

「Magic Metal Fusion」 is apparently the skill used to fuse magic metals that Carol told me previously.

Although at the moment, it’s a skill that has no relation to me since I only possess goblin iron now.

My recipes have increased too but as expected, it seems that I still can’t refine mithril from mithril ores.

I’ll have to raise my Alchemy level to be able to make mithril.

Currently, I have about 4 times more MP compared to regular Alchemists.

Since MP recovery amount is dependent on the maximum MP, my MP recovery amount is also about 4 times more than ordinary Alchemists.

Furthermore, thanks to my blessings, my growth is 400 times easier compared to other people.

In other words, now, if I accumulate experience points just for Alchemy without defeating monsters, I can level up 1600 times faster compared to other Alchemist who use the same method.

But then, I don’t think I would be able to beat those rich Alchemist who purchase mana potions for the sake of leveling up.

By doing so, once their level increases, they would be able to achieve what other Alchemists can’t. Like how they can convert mithril ores into mithril. If they do that, that would be converted into gold and they can further purchase even more mana potions.

It’s a vicious cycle.

It’s a system where gold gathers to the rich.

Mana potion huh? I wonder when would I be able to obtain them.

Since regular shops don’t deal in them, I guess connections would be required as well to obtain mana potions.

“Haru-san, please stop the carriage around that area!”

Carol said.

Toilet break? Or so I thought,

“Ichino-sama, apparently mana grass grows in clumps in that area.”

“Mana grass?”

Magical power glass? (TL: In Japanese, they don’t have the ‘L’ pronunciation so both grass and glass sounds the same)

No, since she mentioned clumps, it should mean grass huh?

The negative effect of not being able to distinguish between the pronunciation of ‘R’ and ‘L’ came out.

Magical power grass — is it a medicinal herb?

“Yes, it is an ingredient for mana potion. The village hunter-san stumbled across it and taught me. As long as I continue with my first job as Peddler, I won’t be able to enter the Herbalist Guild so I have to find the medicinal herbs myself.”

So what she was researching about yesterday was information on medicinal herbs huh?

Looking at Carol enter the forest according to the landmarks she heard from the hunter and dirty her hands with soil to extract the magical grass, I thought that maybe it won’t actually take that long before I obtain a mana potion.

I wanted to help too but it won’t become Carol’s experience points if I was the one who harvests it.

I thought that, in exchange, I’ll help clean her with 「Clean」 after she finishes harvesting.

Author’s note:

Comments section — Everyone’s thinking on how to use the 「Silent Room」 is way too alike.

Well, depending on its application, it is quite a convenient magic.

Tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. I’ll be going on a trip for 2 days 1 night.

I don’t know if I will be able to upload so this is an announcement just in case.

I plan for Jofre and Elize to appear in the Side Story during the next upload.