The Man Picked up by the Gods - Volu 2 Chapter 15
TL Note: The part with Japanese characters, is basically just Ryouma saying one word in borrowed English, and another in Japanese.
Volu 2 Chapter 15
The next day.
The first thing I did in the morning was to go the store. After I had confird that there were no problems in the store, I went to the abandoned mine.
I started the production of the waterproof cloth again when I got to the abandoned mine, but thanks to that I’m bored again. While I was thinking about what to do while waiting for the cloths to finish last night, I ended up falling asleep. Thanks to that I wasn’t able to co up with anything. In my previous life, I’d just read light novels or play so gas. But there’s nothing like that here.
I have already finished treating all of the cloths I received. I finished 30 yesterday, so all that was left for today was 20. With that, I finished faster than yesterday... Now what...? I’ve also already finished training the slis...
Because of that, I thought of turning the scavenger slis into a King Scavenger Sli and try fighting it 1 on 1.
This are the current skills of the Scavenger Sli:
Skills:
Disease Resist Lv7
Poison Resist Lv7
Eat Filth Lv8
Cleaning Lv8
Deodorization Lv8
Deodorization Liquid Lv6
Release Stench Lv8
Return Nutrients Lv7
Physical Attack Resistance Lv5
Enlarge Lv5
Compress Lv6
Jump Lv3
Overeating Lv4
Taijutsu Lv2
I wonder if it’s because the scavenger sli also learned the physical attack resistance, that the king scavenger sli’s physical attack resistance rose by a level. The Taijutsu of the scavenger sli is also only level 1. But after becoming a king scavenger sli, it’s beco level 2.
When you compare the king scavenger sli to an individual scavenger sli, the level of skills seem to increase wholly. While I don’t have any proof for it, I guess sothing is added to the slis’ individual experience, causing the level to rise.
By the way, I fought with the king scavenger sli, bare-handed. But because the effects of the physical attack resistance level 5 was quite high, my attacks barely had any effect. The entire body is elastic, so when you hit it, the impact just slides off. So while its techniques are still amateurish, defense-wise, it’s quite excellent.
When I put so serious effort in the power I use, I was able to get a hit in. My power, according to the status board, is B. It’s at the level of a first-rate adventurer. So the sli’s pretty good. Since, if I have to force my way in like this every ti, it becos quite exhausting.
Its weakness though, lies in its lack of offensive power. With ‘Enlarge’, the sli can increase its mass and pin down its opponents, but what about its physical strength? In regards to that, it has next to nothing. Putting it bluntly, its attacks have no power behind it at all.
With only this, it can’t be helped. So I taught it things like, stretching its body into a tentacle and using it as a whip to attack. Or using that tentacle to wrap around the opponents arm when the opponent cos attacking and using ‘Enlarge’ to stick itself to the enemy. Or using its elasticity while taking advantage of the opponent’s energy to throw the opponent. And a bunch of other stuff.
I also taught it a basic fighting tactic, where the King Scavenger Sli protects its body by parrying the attacks with its body. Then after using the opponent’s strength to throw them off, pinning them down with its body after using enlarge.
Doing all this took quite a bit of ti, and yet the cloths are still not done, drying. It would be a good idea to try doing sothing else, but if I get overzealous, I’ll lose track of ti again. So I took a walk with my slis instead.
As I was about to go out after I had thought that. All of the sudden, one of my slis started acting weird. I can understand to so extent the status of the slis because of the contract, but I don’t know what’s going on right now.
What is going on?
I quickly go over to the strange sli. The sli that had gotten weird, was the sli I caught for the tal sli evolution experint! Its body continued to shiver, but it didn’t seem like it was sick or anything. Then, in that case...
“No way. Could it actually be evolving?” [Ryouma]
It’s still far too early for its evolution, but aside from that, I can’t think of any other reason for its behavior.
I ended up shouting, “It’s evolving faster than I expected!” And at that mont, the sli suddenly stopped moving. And although it was miniscule, I felt the presence of magic power. The sli sucked in the magic power that leaked out. And then again, and again. It continued this behavior for dozens of tis, and as it did so, its color changed. In the end, its color changed to a silvery-white color.
Did it successfully evolve? It seems to be fine and there are no abnormalities. Only, this isn’t the color of a tal sli. The color of a tal sli is dark grey, yet this sli’s color is like that of a lustrous silver. Realizing sothing was off, I quickly use ‘Monster Identify’ and look at its status. What I saw was...
Iron Sli
Skills
Harden Lv3
Physical Attack Resistance Lv2
Jump Lv1
Digestion Lv3
Absorption Lv3
Split Lv2
According to the information, its na is Iron Sli. The skillset is similar to that of the tal sli’s, but its ‘Harden’ skill level is one level higher. Iron... huh? Is it because I fed it iron that it beca like this?
“But the tal sli also eats iron, right?”
They eat the sa thing, so why did it turn out different?
“Iron(鉄) is iron(アイアン)... then, tal(メタル) is... tal(金属)...!!” [Ryouma]
As realization hit , I promptly took out the stone I used as feed, and used ‘Identify’ on it.
Building Stone (Red Soil)
A lump of the soil thrown in the mines, and hardened with earth magic. Includes the following tal: Iron Oxide, Aluminum Oxide
“As expected. I had forgotten about it, but while the red soil may include iron oxide, so of it also includes aluminum oxide.” [Ryouma]
A forr kouhai of mine, from my construction job, told about this before. That guy seed like the young master of a good family, but for so reason he worked part-ti at a construction job. Did his father make him work as a form of education?
That’s probably it. That guy was forced to work part-ti, so since he wanted to play hooky, he stalled for ti during breakti by talking about various stuff. I thought he was just a hindrance to work, so I just generally ignored most of his mumbling... But who would’ve thought that his knowledge would actually be useful here?
“tal slis didn’t only eat iron, they also ate aluminum. In fact other tals may have also been mixed up with their food.” [Ryouma]
I imdiately extract the aluminum and iron from the brick, with my alchemy. And then, I called over the tal sli and the iron sli.
What happened next, was that the iron sli only ate the iron. But the tal sli was able to eat both the iron and the aluminum.
I call over the tal sli, and caress it.
“You were actually omnivorous when it ca to tals? Iron slis are iron, but I wonder what’s going to happen to you. Will you turn to alloy, since you combined both iron and alloy? Hmm... I don’t know much about it, but...” [Ryouma]
I tried asking the tal sli, but naturally, it didn’t answer.
“Well, in any case, I‘ve co to understand the evolution conditions. Oh, and speaking of which, it’s my first ti seeing a sli evolve, huh?” [Ryouma]
Actually, this is my first ti, seeing a sli evolve. I don’t know why, but for so reason they all evolved while I was asleep. It may be true that as long as I give them enough food, they’ll evolve within half a year. But I don’t actually know the exact date of their evolution. And it’s not like I could actually watch them all the ti.
But still, to think that they actually evolved by releasing and absorbing magic power... this... ah, no good, no good. If I start thinking about this now, I’ll end up forgetting the ti again. I have to do sothing else...
“Co to think of it, I wonder if I’ve co to understand more about ‘Identify’.”
I don’t know how the neutral magic, ‘Identify’, worked, but it felt kind of similar to how you’d get information by searching on the web. When I ask, “What is this?” vaguely, all it does is give out the na. Even if I ask for sothing more detailed, all it gives is a bunch of basic information.
But, during the ti when I was cleaning the latrine pits. When I used ‘Identify’ back then, the word ‘sterilization’ ca out. And when I used ‘Identify’, the word ‘pathogen’ ca out.
That kind of knowledge doesn’t exist in this world. So does that an that the information that will co out, will change depending on the user’s knowledge?
When I tried it out several tis. I ca to understand that it showed more detailed information, when I better visualized the specific things I wanted to know according to my knowledge.
For example, the weight of this stone, the percentage of its contents and their weight.
Building Stone 503.9g (Red Soil)
A lump of the soil thrown in the mines, and hardened with earth magic. Includes the following tal: Iron Oxide 4.2% 21.1638g, Aluminum Oxide 5.1% 25.6989g
Look, it beca this specific. By visualizing it, I was able to make it more specific. I can use this! ... Right?
Although it’s good that I’m able to get more specific information now, it’s not like I need it for sothing now... Or, I guess could gather the iron ingots I bring to Serge-san by grams.
Or I could get the iron ingots that are circulating in the market of this world, use ‘Identify’ on it, and then pattern my own iron ingots according to it. Since I don’t want my own iron ingots to get attention, there’s so value in doing that. But there’s really not a whole lot of application for this new ‘Identify’ right now... Besides, everything’s been fine so far.
After thatb while waiting for the waterproof cloths to finish drying, I made a bunch of 500g 80% ingots and aluminum ingots.
And as soon as the cloths finished drying, I took everything and dropped them off at Serge’s.
After that, I took 300 sheets of cloth, and went back to the lodging. It was at an odd ti when I got there, so Elia and the others were not yet ho.
So I decided to go the store. After all, it’s already too late to get requests, so I thought I’d take a look at the store.
When I got to the store, there were plenty of people as usual. Actually, doesn’t there seem to be more people than usual?
I entered the store through the employee door, and then went to the lounge... but no one was there. Could it be, that there’s so many people, that unless they all work, they can’t make it?
When I thought that, I went to the store, opening the doors one after another, as I briskly walked. When I got there, one of the three girls, Fina, was there.
“Boss, you ca?” [Fina]
“Good work, today. I went to the employee lounge, but no one was there, so I thought you guys had your hands full.” [Ryouma]
“While we’re not free, we’re not that busy either. To say the least, there is quite a number of people. We’ve started to understand when the peak ti is, so in order to match that, we’re all dealing with it.” [Fina]
Looks like they’ve gotten completely used to the job while I wasn’t here. I was worried, but it looks like I’m not needed.
While I was thinking that, I noticed.
“Ah...” [Ryouma]
“What’s the matter?” [Fina]
“Looks like the cleaner slis are ready to split.” [Ryouma]
“Eh?’
To the cleaner slis, this job is basically eating. And since, they’ve been eating a lot for a few days now, they’ve reached a point where they can split again.
“The slis doing the laundry are going to increase. Since the preparations for that have already been completed, they’ll increase a bit, and the efficiency of the laundromat will rise.” [Ryouma]
“Really!? That’s amazing!” [Fina]
“Yep, slis are amazing, you know? Well, don’t mind .” [Ryouma]
“Ok!” [Fina]
As Fina-san said that, she took a nearby laundry and ran along.
Let’s do this!
After that, I had the slis split and contracted with them. Because of that, the cleaner slis now total to 54. Even though cleaner slis don’t split much, there were 10 of them that split twice.
As expected, by eating so much every day in a store like this, they’re able to split quickly. Moreover, once I let the cleaner slis split, their numbers will increase, and their work will beco even faster, increasing the store’s efficiency rate by folds. This rise in efficiency won’t be put to waste.
I’m here too, so I decided to have the people that can receive the custors, receive them. Because of that, the ones who ended up working as receptionists are, Karma-san, Karla-san, Fei-san, Li Ling-san, Maria-san and Fina-san. While and Jeanne-san carried the laundries.
Because of the rise in efficiency, and the increased number of receptionists, the transactions were able to flow smoother.
After a while, the peak ti subsided, and the employees were able to get so rest by alternating. In the anti, I went around performing so maintenance on the store’s surrounding.
After that, we were able to safely close the store again.
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