Allrounders!! Chapter 97

The following floors were the problem. Sword and I probably wouldn’t be hard by poison, but I didn’t know how much the Ryoku’s shell could take.

Normal poison wouldn’t work on it. But, the poisons in this world most likely aren’t normal. That’s why you have to 『cure them with an antidote』.

“…The magic elents of this world are quite troubleso. Even if you call it Poison, there exist many kinds, and yet it’s all bundled up into one word with Poisonous Swamp. Don’t you think that it makes no sense that entering there will beco your end as you’ll be poisoned no matter what equipnt you might wear?”

Sword shrugged his shoulders, “Well, your ’bout the only one ponderin’ ’bout the anin’ behind it. No matter the poison, the antidote is goin’ to cure it. Also, it’s not like poison is goin’ to work on you, right?”

“What are we going to do about the Ryokus?” I retorted.

He rolled his eyes at , “Hey, you don’t even worry ’bout , but you do worry ’bout golems…err, the Ryokus!?”

“Poison doesn’t work on you either, right? But, it might work on the Ryokus.”

“Rather, it definitely won’t work on the Ryokus, damnit! Look, I’m a normal human! Got it?”

What is he talking about? A normal human would never rank above in a shooting ga.

“…I guess we can proceed normally if it doesn’t work on the Ryokus.”

“No wait, it does work on ! Normal poison is sothin’ I can handle sowhat, but I’ll die from deadly poison!”

I can’t hear aaaanythiiing!

Ignoring him earned a grinding of my temples.

“Ouch, ouch, ouuuuch! It’ll be okay. Sword, you’re a hero and an S-Rank, right? Isn’t it often said that 『Heroes don’t die』?”

“I’ve never heard of that!”

After grinding my temples, he sighed and then started to chant sothing under his breath.

“Ryokus, deploy the magic elent barrier. It looks…like it won’t work on you guys, but it’s better to be safe than sorry.”

“”Yessir!!””

They deployed the barrier after saluting.

As for …I’ll think about it when I get poisoned.

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We ran through the grass fields.

Certain Death! Ninja-style Running! Yep! I an the one where you wonder whether they’re able to move across water if they tap the foot off the surface before sinking.

Well, in reality it’s impossible to run across water in such a way, but I’m running while using my reaction speed and gravity control. I also cast a floating spell on the Ryokus.

Sword seems to sohow cope with magic as well.

…At the sa ti, insects flew at us! Like bullets!

I flicked them away with my wooden sword, the Ryokus repelled them with their magic elent barriers, and Sword cut them down or simply dodged them altogether.

――Hmm? Sword has started to chant sothing?

Just as I wondered, he apparently used a wide-area spell, giving off a loud cracking. The grasses were scorched, and the bugs died as they dried up with crunch.

“…So fuckin’ annoyin’!”

Looks like they pissed him off.

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Even afterwards, we continued to run in such a manner, arriving at the 60th floor in no ti. We didn’t get poisoned either.

Rather, I feel like strong acidic swamps, chlorine swamps, or very alkaline swamps would have been much more of a danger to us, if they had been around.

Anyway, nothing extraordinary happened, so I guess we’ll charge into the boss room just like that.

Or so I thought, but Sword raised a hand in front of the boss room, “Sorry, but I’m bumd out. I’d like to take a break.”

Hmm, yup, he looks kind of unwell.

“I see. You do look pale. Okay, let’s camp out here for today.”

As soon as he nodded, he flopped down. He was completely exhausted.

“How about sleeping inside Char? I’ll get everything ready.”

“…Thanks, I’ll take you up on that.”

Once I took out Char, he crawled inside.

…Is he suffering from so kind of abnormal condition? …Hmm, are Sword and I the sa, and yet slightly different? Or am I different?

I wonder why…I can’t really believe that it’s connected to my parents and family lineage, though… Oh well, whatever. I don’t have any interest in the lineage of this body.

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Since I’d be troubled if he died on , I went to check his condition.

“…Are you still alive?”

“…Barely.”

What’s wrong with him? Up until now, he never felt sick.

“Was there a poisonous swamp on the way? …I didn’t notice any.”

“…No, ain’t…poison. Used a bit…too much…mana.”

Mana?

“I drank…mana potions, but…wasn’t enough.”

Mana potions?

“…Is there no other way to recover your mana?”

“It’ll regenerate…naturally…over ti.”

…What should I do?

“Mana is magic power. And, you recover it with mana potions. Or, over ti. ……. Oh, I got it!” 1

I understand! It’s fuel, huh!?

“Wait a mont! I’m going to make it!”

“…Don’t mind and let sleep,” I was told.

But!

I’m going to make it! Anyway! I wanna make it!

Once I finished and brought it over, Sword was already asleep. Since I felt bad about waking him up, I pulled a blanket over him, placed the energy drink down next to him alongside a note from , and went outside again.

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Since I was bored after preparing the camp, I had Sword’s personal Ryoku watch over his master, and went out hunting again.

The bullet insects seem to drop carapaces. Hmm, they’re kinda…hard. I’ll use them as reference for Ryoku and Char’s shell. If I change the server program for the next update, their shells might beco tougher during their next shedding!

I also found so frogs. They dropped poison sacs! But, I have no use for those.

The frog at looks like it’s edible, kinda? But, dungeon monsters disappear when they die, don’t they? And then they seem to be revived again.

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Once I returned to our camp, Sword was back on his feet.

“Oohh! You’re awake! Are you alright? Did you drink my energy drink?”

“Rather, what’s that? It worked a lot faster than a mana potion.”

His complexion had visibly improved.

“Really? I mixed milk liquor and apple vinegar, and added liquefied magic elents to it. Hehehe, I got it totally right! In short, you were in the sa state as the Ryokus when they’re out of fuel!”

“Ugh.”

Sword beca speechless, for so reason…

“It worked, didn’t it? The nutritional value of milk liquor is high, and apple vinegar removes one’s exhaustion! It’s perfect against physical weariness! Well, it’d also have been fine to let you drink Ryoku’s fuel just like that, but then it’d have tasted dully, you know?”

Sword stared at while still remaining speechless.

“…Sword? Is sothing wrong?”

“…Tell , is it really alright to drink that stuff?”

I tilted my head, “Why wouldn’t it be? In the first place, magic stones can be retrieved from monsters, you, and . In other words, they’re internal organs, right? They should be made out of sothing consisting of body parts and magic elents. If you heat them up, they’ll liquify. It might be possible to extract the magic elents if you let them soak in alcohol, but I never did that.”

“Please use that thod next ti.”

Ehh? Even though the liquefied version has proven to work…

“It’s nothing you’d dislike, though? It’s the sa as eating monster at, you know?”

Sword clapped his hands together, “I see. You might be right. No, I’ll just consider it to be like that.”

…I don’t quite get it, but he seems to have co to terms with it, despite apparently disliking it.

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Just like that we had a al which simultaneously counted as lunch and dinner. For today’s nu I went with a tender stew with high digestive and nutritional value for Sword’s sake. The bread was a soft, stead bun this ti, too.

“…Magic stones, you see, are basically nothin’ you’d eat normally, so I feel sowhat avert to doin’ it. They’re bein’ used as fuel for blacksmiths or as power source for magic tools. Well, your right that you can probably eat ’em if you think of eatin’ magic stones as eatin’ at…no, I s’pose that’s only natural.”

“Yep, it’s natural. Of course, even I wouldn’t eat hair since there’s no good way to make it taste good, but if it cos to bones, they can be used to make great soup if you cook them thoroughly, right? Sotis they’ll also reinforce your own bones if you drink bone powder. …Still, you draw the power for your spells from the magic elents in your body, huh? That’s incredible.”

“Your the incredible one for bein’ able to use magic without usin’ mana! You…never run out of mana ’cause you don’t use mana for your magic in the first place, do you…?”

I an, I’ve learned all my magic through self-study! Even the books didn’t ntion anything like 『You’ll need to use your own magic elents』, okay?

Sword sighed, and then requested, “…Please prepare ten potions for . The mana potions I have on have a bad efficiency and on top of that, they taste like shit.”

I wonder, how are those made anyway? I tried sampling a liquefied magic stone, but it didn’t really taste like anything.

“Then I’ll make them while adding your beloved distilled liquor. Adding alcohol will also make them last longer.”

“Yahooo!”

He cheered up at once.

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Afterwards I received an explanation by Sword. Healing and mana potions apparently ca out of dungeon treasure chests. However, great wizards could create low-grade healing potions.

“High- and special-grade healin’ potions are impossible to make for ’em.”

Or so he said.

“Putting special-grade healing potions aside, low-grade healing potions frequently appear in dungeons. We also got one in your first dungeon, rember? High-grade healing potions can drop in any dungeon as well, but with a lower probability. Mana potions only have one type, and they drop at the sa rate as high-grade healin’ potions, but since demand for ’em is low and because of their nasty taste and low efficiency, they’re bein’ treated as misses and sold off for cheap,” Sword explained in detail.

Translation Notes:

A little explanation…I usually translate 魔力 (maryoku) as mana since it’s a common fantasy asuring unit, but normally it’d be more proper to call it magic power (MP). Sword used the word “mana” here while Indra has always been using magic power. That’s why Indra’s confusion.