V3C76 (2/2)

She glared at me in tears while pressing onto her forehead.

After the carriage stopped, I looked at the cave Haru pointed out. It was in a hilly area so the cave was dug slantwise.

It did felt like it was a cave that was dug out by animals compared to a naturally-formed cave.

There were multiple presences.

“Alright, I’ll give it a try.”

I took out Asklepios’s staff and switched my jobs to Magician-type jobs and Apprentice Blacksmith.

Then, I pointed my staff at the cave —

“「Fire」!”

and chanted. A ball of fire immediately appeared on the tip of the staff and it left burn marks at the cave surroundings before landing on the bottom of the cave. The explosion caused a roar, smoke and dust scattered and the cave collapsed the next instant.

【Ichinojo Leveled up]

【Apprentice Blacksmith skill: 「Blacksmithing」 obtained]

【Recipe obtained]

The combat ended without me knowing what exactly did I defeat.

It also looks like I learned recipes related to blacksmithing.

I’ve been thinking of raising it but I’ve been raising my alchemy as my main so I only learned Blacksmithing this late.

It looks like I can create weapons and armor from stone, bronze, and iron now.

“Looks like they were exceptionally high experience point monsters. My Commoner level rose to 7.”

Level 7 huh? Then she’ll be able to change job to Hunter or Farmer.

However, her level rose not because the experience points were high but merely because of the effect of my 20x experience point acquisition.

“If I go to the church … mu, Ichino. It would be fine if it is a normal job change but how would I go about changing my second job?”

“Ah, I’ll do it for you. I can at least change the second job.”

I mentally changed Marina’s second job to Hunter.

“Oo, my Luck stat became 50 … hn? Ichino, did you perhaps use your blessing to greatly raise your Luck stat so that you can earn via the gambling parlor slots and in Rock Paper Scissors with Suzuki?”

“Great insight. You do have some sharp moments occasionally.”

“The ‘occasionally’ is unneeded.”

“Very well, please defeat more monsters and acquire my Bow Equip for me.”

“Don’t speak so patronizingly with honorific language … or rather, it’s impossible. Since there aren’t any enemies.”

I once again surveyed the grassland.

There wasn’t even a single child of a monster.

That day — in the end, we didn’t encounter any other monsters as we greeted a night of staying outdoors.

At the time when we were eating the cooking we ordered from the Adventurers Guild that we moved to another container and placed into my item bag.

“Erm … Ichino-sama. You wish to raise your level right?”

Carol looked at me with entreating eyes.

It’s rare for her to show such expression.

“Hn? That’s right. Maybe I should look for a labyrinth or something. Does Carol have a job you want to raise?”

“It’s just as you say … I do have a job I wish to raise … ”

Carol said hesitantly while casting her eyes down but she resolved herself and looked at my eyes.

“I’ve been thinking if you would like to raise Carol’s Temptress job!”

~Side StoryJourney of 5 people and a donkey~

The time was when Ichinojo and gang were watching the street performance on the bridge connecting the borders.

Jofre, Elise and Centaur, as well as Julio, Sutchino and Milky, 5 people and a donkey,were headed towards the labyrinth in the northwest direction.

Jofre and Julio were walking in front.

“Eh, Jofre-san and gang were Uncle Narube’s subordinates?”

When he was introducing himself to Jofre and Elise, Julio shouted excitedly when he found out that his own uncle was Jofre’s former boss.

“That’s right. My, so coincidental, to think that Julio is the boss’s nephew.”

It was true that Jofre was Narube’s subordinate but his first meeting with Narube was after Ichinojo defeated Narube and he had quickly changed his attitude.

“I admire you! Jofre-san! You’re seriously great!”

Julio was the leader of the secret society.

However, because Jofre was the subordinate of his respected uncle and also rescued him in a dramatic fashion, the usual Julio — showed an underling temperament and even his tone changed.

Sutchino was looking at those 2 from the position of one step behind.

Impatience could somewhat be felt from him.

And then, Milky and Elise who were staring at the 3 of them.

Because of ‘Ladies first’, the 2 of them were moving while riding on Centaur.

“Fufufufufufufufufufu.”

“You look like you are enjoying yourself, Milky.”

“Yeah, Elise-san. Please look at those 3. Julio who admires Jofre-san. Sutchino who’s wondering if Julio has been taken from him. What a wonderful love triangle.”

Milky had an ecstatic expression with a bleeding nose.

Centaur didn’t notice at all the nosebleed falling on his own back.

Normally, if one had a nose bleeding at such a location, the smell of blood would attract monsters but it didn’t happen at all, it was the picture of peacefulness.

Incidentally, what Sutchino was anxious about was if Jofre and Elise continued to come along with them, how would they split the share?

For Sutchino who faced death a few moments ago, it was clearly reassuring to have 2 people who are stronger than themselves but it was troubling to have their share cut in half — was what he was thinking.

That common expression painted on Sutchino’s face became a nosebleed-inducing painting after it passed through Milky’s maiden filter.

For her — Pinky Pants, 3 men would most likely appear in her next work.

“There it is. The labyrinth for beginners but — it looks dangerous from here so let’s carefully — eh?”

In front of the labyrinth building, Julio tilted his head.

Usually, at this timing, the soldier on guard duty would be patrolling around until their time to change shift but that soldier’s figure was nowhere to be seen.

An experienced Adventurer would have a bad premonition from this but,

“We’re lucky, looks like we will be able to easily sneak into the labyrinth now.”

He had such optimistic thinking.

However, with 5 people around, somebody else should likely stop him.

“Let’s quickly go in and return. Then, we’ll be rich men.”

“We sure are lucky, Elise.”

“My good fortune was meeting Jofre.”

“The new work will be Joff x Juli x Sutchi … no, Sutchi x Juli x Joff … ah, but ‘Hit by jealousy Sutchi x Joff’ can also work …”

A slave to gold, an idiot couple and a pervert. As well as a donkey.

Without a single person to stop Julio, the 5 people and a donkey didn’t think anything as they entered the labyrinth.