Arc 22: If Winter cos, can Spring be far behind?
Chapter 188: Reorganization, and a Wyvern
「And, is it good with this?」
「Fuaah......。You’re absurd as usual......」
I finished renovating [Gintetsu] and jumped off from the rooftop.
The lodging beca insufficient after the number of adventurers increased, so I renovated and extended [Gintetsu] and built the second branch as well.
The second branch is a cheap inn with more rooms. Furthermore, it has been certified by the guild, thus making it an inn for adventurers. The place was also made to be near the transition gates.
On the other hand, I had setup the head branch to be a little more expensive in order to keep it as the main lodging for travelers and peddlers. Naturally, it’s by no ans a ripoff since it made a fresh start as an inn that offers comfort together with the appropriate facilities.
「Just when I was thinking that you ca in saying [Please let renovate it a little], for it to be finished in 2-3 hours....... Words can’t describe how amazed I am」
「It’s really amazing ~nee......」
The proprietress Mika-san and employee Furueru-san are looking at the newborn [Gintetsu] with blank faces.
「All that’s left is, I wonder, how many employees should we hire for this inn that’s larger than before?」
「Ah, I have so applicants if that’s the case. There are several acquaintances from Leaflet who say they want to work here」
Mika-san’s acquaintances? There is no problem then. I go to Leaflet town with Mika-san by [Gate] at once and talk with several of her acquaintances. Since we’ve asked them to co to Brunhild once they are ready to move, we should be fine on the worker’s side with this.
So people have even said they want to start working imdiately, so we’ve decided to ask them to temporarily return to their hos and have them co back together with their luggage. We are going to take them along when we return to the dukedom.
While we are waiting, Mika-san informs her father, Doran-san, of the current news after a long ti has passed. I’ve decided to take a little walk so that I won’t bother them.
While walking in Leaflet which I haven’t visited for a long ti, I’m thinking about the future of Brunhild.
「I guess all that’s left is the replenishnt of weapons, armor, and maybe so tools, right? Alba-san’s local business is also likely doing its best. If it’s transportation by carriage from Brunhild, it will take so ti no matter what」
I have given up on it once, but in the end, should I make a car? No, a train would be better in that case, but....... the speed of a horse-drawn carriage is higher. If its loading capacity is increased, then...... Ah, won’t it be fine to apply [Gravity] to make the carriage’s fra light in that case?
I see. I guess it will be fine to create a solid and light fra for an all-purpose carriage. If it’s Alba-san, he will likely buy it even if it’s expensive. The loading capacity will be far larger if I also apply a simple [Storage] on it as well.
How many vehicles should I try making? Like the [Coach of Perfect Safety] for the exclusive use of a royal family or any other important person. That reminds , there are no horses in our household’s castle. That’s because we a~lways use [Gate] for traveling.
All things set aside, It seems like the dungeons are successful. It doesn’t look like people are dying so far, but heavily injured people do appear occasionally. Once they descend to the first floor, the power of the magic beasts and monsters in that dungeon imdiately rises. Should they show a gap and cannot make that assessnt, it will result in them receiving a painful retaliation.
Going by the rumors, it seems like adventurers have broken through up to the fourth floor of [Amaterasu]. Apparently, there were parties that obtained so treasure as well. With this, the number of adventurers diving into the dungeons might increase again.
As I walk while thinking about that, I then have co as far as the front of Zanakku-san’s clothing store, so I try paying it a visit for a bit. How nostalgious. It’s the first store I entered after I arrived in this world.
However, it surely has been remodeled a great deal. The store has beco twice as big. Well, it looks like they are selling things like bathing suits and uniforms. They should be earning enough.
「Welco. Nice to see you in the “Fashion King Zanakku”」
When I enter the shop, an employee onee-san welcos with a smile. This employee, she probably cannot help doing sothing like that, right.....
This store has also started a branch in Brunhild. I can now say with confidence that its signboard is remarkably gaudy.
I ask the clerk-san to call Zanakku-san, and before long, the person himself appears from the back of the store.
「Well-well-well. Hello there, Your Majesty The Sovereign King. Is there sothing wrong for you to have co this far to Leaflet?」
「We are still looking to increase the number of workers at our [Gintetsu]. In fact, I have co to invite so of Mika-san’s acquaintances. Since I had so ti to spare, I’ve decided to pay this shop a visit for a short while」
「My goodness. So, does that an that you would like to order a uniform for the new employees? 」
Ah, that’s right. I forgot about it. How should I say this? As expected of a skillful trader as usual.
I can’t say anything for now since I don’t know their sizes, so it has been decided that the order will co from the branch store in Brunhild sowhere in the near future.
「Oh yeah, I thought that I should ask His Majesty, but..... As a matter of fact, there is an order for a dress from a noble-sama in Rodoa, but they are requesting for an unusual, unique design, unlike any others. If it’s His Majesty, I wonder if you have the knowledge about that sort of thing....」
「A design of a dress, you say? U~n..... Ah, can you lend several papers?」
While the clerk-san is bringing in the paper, I take out the smartphone, search for dresses in the net and pick out several designs. After that, I transcript approximately 20 dresses using [Drawing] and give them to Zanakku-san.
「This~, I certainly haven’t seen anything like that..... If we use this, the other party will also be satisfied」
「Well, this article is unmistakably a dress that even the royal family doesn’t have. If you recomnd sothing along those lines, you will be able to co to an agreent, right? 」
What such noble is searching for is most likely a one-of-a-kind dress, so they would surely be pleased if it’s sothing not even the royal family has.
As I’m drawing the designs for the mittens and shoes that match those dresses, a single man suddenly enters the store with a force almost as if he is smashing through the door. Just when I’m thinking who it is, isn’t it Balar-san from [Weapon Shop Bear Eight]? I was surprised. It’s as if a bear suddenly entered a shop....
「Ma~, Master Zanakku! A dragon! A dragon has appeared! Quickly escape!」
「Wha~ ！？」
A dragon!? As I jump outside the store in confusion, there is a flying green dragon darkening the skies.
It has red eyes on a rugged green scales and a great number of fiendish-looking thorns adorn its tail. Its size is approximately the sa as the black dragon I’ve t before. One thing that is different is that this green dragon has two back legs and large wings instead of its forefeet in comparison to the black dragon who has four legs. Is that a subspecies of a dragon, a [Wyvern]?
(TL: written as “飛竜” (Hiryu[Flying dragon]), read as “ワイバーン” – wyvern)
「Gogaaaaaaaa！！」
Each ti the wyvern roars, the town falls into panic. It then spits out large fla bullets from its mouth after it raises its crooked neck to the ground.
「Hey~」
I leap into the sky with [Fly] and stop in between of those fla bullets it has attacked with. I then invoke magic while holding my hand out.
「Absorb」
I absorb those lump of flas as I restore them back to magic power. It’s a non-attribute magic [Absorb]. This magic reverts a phenonon that has been created with magic into magic power and absorbs it. A dragon-breath attack converts the magic power inside the body into fire-attribute magic. If that’s the case, it should be possible to absorb it too.
However, it was really dangerous. Should the town been hit, it might have turned into a sea of flas by now!
「KURUAAAAAAAAAA！！」
The wyvern turns its angry eyes here simply because I’m being a hindrance. This rascal. I’m the one who’s feeling angry now.
I instantly accelerate, draw near the wyvern and give it a kick in the guts. I also simultaneously invoke on it the magic that increases its weight.
「Gravity」
Losing its flying ability with a jerk due to the sudden increase of its own weight, the wyvern falls down to the central street. The street has already been evacuated so there is no damage.
All the while, the wyvern is trying to escape from the curse of weight so way or another, but as I also land on its back vigorously while having my own weight increased with [Gravity]. As such, its backbone breaks with a snap and it dies.
「Good grief..... What a troublemaker」
Cheers erupt from the town while I’m looking at the body of the dragon that’s no longer moving. Relieved townspeople start approaching the location where I and the defeated wyvern are.
「Good gracious.... As I’ve thought, this is amazing. To defeat a flying dragon just like that.... We’ve been saved due to His Majesty staying in this town」
Zanakku-san murmurs while gazing at the dead wyvern. Balar-san opens his eyes wide and looks in my direction. From the opposite to the spectators’ side, Mika-san and Doran-san co rushing too.
「This is..... You have defeated sothing unthinkable... again. I’m glad that the town was not damaged, but... By the way, what are you going to do now with it?」
「I don’t particularly need it. That’s right. I will offer its at to Doran-san’s place. I’m certain that dragon at has good flavor based from what I’ve heard. Its skin will go to Zanakku-san. It should beco materials for items like a leather jacket or so. The bones will go to Balar-san. I believe they will be considerably useful as raw materials for your weapons 」
Everyone slowly gapes at what I’ve said, but eventually Mika-san draws closer in panic.
「Wa~ Wa~ Wait, do you understand!? Dragons are the source of supre raw materials, you know!? Are you okay with giving them up just like that!?」
「I currently don’t need them. These should help everyone, right? It’s not a form of repaynt, but I will be glad if you receive it.」
I’ve only spent a short ti in this town, but I’ve learned various things here. Therefore, I’m certainly indebted to the people here. It will calm if they can receive and be delighted with sothing like this.
「Ah, please be careful when tearing off the thorns on the tail. It looks like they have poison on them」
「E~to, is that so? I understand」
Doran-san promptly starts to handle the wyvern deftly with a stripping knife.
However, why did this wyvern appear here?...... If it was looking for sothing to eat, there should be a lot of one-horned wolves if it went to the forest south from here. It’s like it had pin pointedly aid at this place.
I’ve heard from Rerisha-san that this should be related to the eyewitnesses reports of dragon sightings frequently happening these days.
Low-ranked dragons were said to have appeared in Yuuron, Nokia and Sandora. Though this wyvern is a subspecies, it’s also a low-ranked dragon. Are the low-ranked dragons beginning to attack humans? It seems like it’s no mistake that sothing is happening to the dragons.....
「What’s this?」
Doran-san raises his voice while stripping off the scales. Right after the head has been removed, it looks like he had seen sothing at the part of the head where he tried to strip the skin off.
When I peek at the spot Doran-san is looking at, there is sothing driven right into the central part of the skull. Upon carefully pulling it out, we’ve noticed that it’s a needle about 30cm in length. Though its size is closer to a skewer rather than a needle. It seems that it has reached as far as the brain. I can feel the magic power it is carrying for so reason.
「Was, by chance, the dragon being manipulated with this?」
While looking at the suspicious skewer that has been erupted, I’ve started sweating unpleasantly while wondering if this possibly isn’t an artifact that fell down from the [Warehouse] too. I then put it away inside the [Storage]. I should try asking Shizuka’s group about it later. They might know sothing about it.
However, that’s a problem. If this is an artifact that has the power to manipulate dragons, then what happened today is a result of a wire-puller manipulating those guys from sowhere.
Fuu, I have a premonition that sothing troubleso is bound to happen again. My premonition is sohow god-like when it cos to things like these, much to my regret.
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