Chapter 20 Strongest Sage, Creates a Magic Sword
"T-that only took like five seconds didn't it? Just what kind of trick did you use? Did you maybe prepare a magic sword beforehand and secretly swap them?"
After checking the magic sword augnt out, Alma asked .
What do you want to say…
"I just augnted it like the usual though?"
"You can't call that 'the usual'. I can assert that."
"No no. It's usually like this you know. …Don't you think so Storekeeper-san?"
The magic swords sold in this store have skipped a process in their creation after all, I'm sure it only took them two seconds to complete one depending on its creation.
You might call it slow, but calling it fast is just--
"I'm in agreent with the young lady here. It's just impossible. …But the sword really has been augnted. I've made that sword myself so it's impossible for to mistake it, nor for it to get swapped. And the conclusion we can gather from those facts is…"
"The conclusion is?"
At Alma's question, the storekeeper replies with a serious expression.
"Lad, won't you be a magic augnter?"
"I won't!"
I replied instantly. I went all the trouble of even reincarnating myself to get a crest suited for combat, like I would take a job to do these poor augnts.
Ask that to soone with the First Crest please.
"Then please do it for today! Augnt my swords! Of course I'll pay ya handsoly! How does 300 gold coin for one sword sound!"
However, the storekeeper keeps on hounding .
I'm only here to buy a sword, why did this happen.
"Hold on, it's true that it was very fast, but isn't 300 gold coins a bit too much? An augntation that's the sa price as the magic sword itself, that's not gonna be profitable at all isn't it?"
It seems Alma found it hard to believe too.
"That's normally the case, but… The augntation of that sword looks different than the usual sohow. Young lady, would you like to test the sword?"
"Let do it!"
With that flow, we went to the back of the store to test the new sword.
The object of the test is a scrap wood. She's holding the sword on the side, ready to swing it vertically down. It'd be harder to fail here.
I'm worried about the test object instead, it's just too fragile…
"Here I go!"
Ruli greatly swung the sword while saying that.
No wait. If you put that much force against re lumber--.
"Huh?"
SWISH, the lumber cut in two along with that sound, and the sword plunged down into the ground with most of its force intact.
Then it hit the ground and stopped after sinking a bit.
"W-what's with that sharpness…"
"Hold on there, that's just weird…"
The two were surprised at the result of the test.
And the girl who wielded the sword herself is dumbfounded.
"…Eh…? I felt no resistance at all, so I ended up swinging the sword to the ground… Ah, the sword's!"
Ruli pulled the sword off the ground while shouting and checked the sword's condition.
"The sword would be chipped if I used it like that… There's none!"
"On the contrary, the stone looks like it's been cut a bit…"
Alma picked up a stone on the ground and muttered.
"500 gold coins, no 1000! Please augnt my sword, just one is enough!"
"Just what kind of augnts did you put on this!?"
"Don't you think it cutting stones is just weird!?"
And before I knew it, the three inched on without giving a chance to cope.
I'm only here to get a sword, why'd it co this, really.
"For now, calm down! Don't talk all at once! First, I augnted it with 【Iron Slash】 and 【Toughening】 magic. It's not unusual for a sword to cut stones with these two augnts."
"It is unusual! Isn't multiple augnts the national treasure-grade! How would I ever pay back such an augntation…"
And Ruli was extrely shaken.
This, national treasure-grade? That's really weird. If a magic sword created in five seconds by a Fourth Crest is national treasure-grade, then this world would have been full of national treasures.
"Please calm down. There's no way this thing is a national treasure. It's just two augnts you know? A proper magic augnter would laugh this one out…"
"Mathi-kun, are you being serious?"
Alma interrupted my explanation with a serious look on her face. Of course I'm serious.
"Of course I am. Augnts from this crest don't worth much. A magic augnter with the proper First Crest… I an, Glory Crest, should be able to pull off 10 to 20 magic augnts right?"
Judging from the ambiance of Ruli's mana, she's most likely a First Crest. As long as she trains properly, she can probably do this much in just a few years.
10 augnts should be possible in 30 years, 20 should be attainable in just 200 years.
"No, that's impossible."
"This kid's off the deep end. Soone gotta do sothing about him fast…"
"10 and 20, that's a tale from the world of myth…"
Why. Why do they react like this.
Is this also an adverse effect of chant magic? Is it due to that thing that this world now treats a re dual augnt as national treasures?
Now that I see it's gone this far, I feel like this is a malicious act by soone.
Right now, I won't be surprised even if you tell that the demon or such has infiltrated the country and made it so magic declined.
"OK I got it. It's useless to preach common sense to the lad. We should talk about sothing more productive now."
The storekeeper put the second chaotic situation into order. As expected of a storekeeper. As an adult, he's reliable--
"That being the case, I'm beggin' ya for an augnt. Your reward will be the whole property I own…"
Or not. He just went back to the beginning. Only that the amount of money being offered rose astronomically.
Un.
Just do whatever you want.
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In the end, the magic augnt cost 1000 gold coins and I only did it to one sword.
All this money of which I've no aim to spend at is piling up inside the Storing magic. Well, gold coins aren't too heavy so it's not like it troubles even if they pointlessly multiply.
At first I wasn't really going to ask for that much money from the storekeeper either, but I decided to after recalling the price of magic swords in his store.
An eye for an eye, a rip-off for a rip-off.
I'm gonna look for a motivated First Crest user, and teach them the art of augntation. In this present world, it appears that I have to raise a craftsman myself if I want to obtain a strong weapon.
While getting rolled up in such an affair (?) along the way, I got to the day of the exam.
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