Few days gone by, and Albert officially arrive at lk. He will take care of the city for a while and appoint soone to be in charge of the area after Luiz's death.
Of course hearing the king himself arrive, the people beco busier preparing to receive him. And I got more bored since I don't have much to do.
I wanted to go sowhere and hunt monsters, but when I went scouting, the monsters near the city hasn't increased much. But it's a good thing that they are returning little by little.
Since I am no longer needed by the others, I went my own way deep in the forest with Victoria. To where I store the Giant Salamander's tail. I'm thinking of making so protection for . And if there are so leftovers, I would make so for the others as well. I think mostly it would be for Kayla since her fighting style is a close combat. And since she's a healer as well, protecting her is the most important duty as a group.
"Roy. You can't just keep running away from works. You are needed by everyone." Sonia said as she suddenly appears out of nowhere like usual.
"Actually, I can. The stampede is over now and whatever works needed to be done, anyone other than can do it. And although the numbers are few, Albert also brought so people that can be used as manpower to help as well. I can leave everything to them." I said.
As for Victoria, since she can't go hunt monsters as well, she followed since she was bored. And with her knowledge of armor from her previous world, I hope I can make more things.
"Well, since that's what you think. Anyway, what are you two doing going into the forest? I heard that you two just beca lovers. Don't tell you want to do it in the forest!?"
"As expected from a succubus. Your thoughts went that way in an instant. We're going to where I store the tail of a Giant Salamander is. I'm thinking of making so protection garbs for myself."
"Why? What's wrong with your Aura? You can just use Aura for protection, right?" Sonia asked.
"Having double protections an I can endure more attack. And also, Giant Salamanders are monsters with resistance toward fire attack. I hope with this new equipnt I'll make, I can resist magic attack. At least from fire magic. I can't cut magic with Aura after all. I hope I can do it in the future."
Being unable to protect myself from magic attack is the biggest weakness an Aura user has. Sonia and also Victoria has told the legend about an Aura user that can cut magic, but I think that's still too far for if the story is true.
At least for now, my goal is to be able to improve my Aura so I can step on air first. My air elent magic should be helpful so I can do that, but the magic stones for cultivating my air elent is not done yet.
And I also wanted to improve my summoning level as well. But there are no monsters nearby. If I want to do that, I have to go further from the city. But if I go too far, the others will be worried.
I have too many buts and ifs here. Since the stampede is over and the future is unknown, I started to overthink about everything. Maybe I was overthinking in the past as well, but now I do it more frequently.
In the end, everything is for the sake of my survival. Overthinking is fine as long as I don't overdo it.
For now, since there is no urgent matter at hand, I can overthink as much as I want.
Well, not for long. Since I have arrived at our destination, I will focus myself on crafting so equipnt.
"We're here. Let's start making sothing."
We entered a cave inside the forest where I store the Giant Salamander's tail is. I haven't even taken the scales off of the tail, so that's the first thing I do after I arrive despite saying things like let's start making sothing.
"By the way, does Salamander's at edible?" I asked the two old- I an experienced ladies.
"Whatever the case, this one's at is already rotten. Why didn't you pick so at right away and brought them to the hotel?" Sonia said.
Well, the sll is terrible. She's right, the at is rotten. But I think the scales are still fine. So, let's take off the scales off first.
"Yeah, I forgot about that. What about the body of the Giant Salamander?" I asked Victoria.
Since Victoria is helping Shirley and the others much more often than , and she also often goes to the guild, she should know about the aftermath of the Giant Salamander's body.
"After being taken by the guild, they grabbed so volunteers to taste test the at. So far, there have been no side effects. Which ans soon everyone would be able to taste it. This is the first ti we tried to consu Giant Salamander's at after all, so they need to be careful first." Victoria explained.
Then she continued and told that although there had been multiple cases of hunters subjugated Giant Salamanders, none of them brought the Giant Salamander's at before since Giant Salamander's nest usually deep in a cave and is difficult to bring back their at. And its other parts of the Giant Salamanders are valuable, like its claws, fangs, and scales. So, they are more important than its at.
Although I don't know what they were being used for since there is no blacksmith in this world. Maybe they are being used as knives or other kitchen utensils? Or maybe they are being processed into so kind of jewelries?
After so ti of taking off the scales, I threw away the other parts since they are not needed. The fact that the at is still there after a few days ant that there are no monsters nearby. Which is as expected after the stampede.
"Alright. Victoria, please show a good armguard for . One that is fit to be hidden under my sleeves." I asked Victoria.
Then Victoria transford into an armguard which is the one I used to have her transford into before I used her as grappling hook. I already wore it before so I got used to it quickly and I decided I will make one similar to that.
I didn't do anything fancy to build the equipnt. Just hamring and cutting the scales so I can shape them into what I want them to be.
As a prototype, I turn one scale of the Giant Salamander into an armguard. The shape is quite simple. Simpler than the armguard that Victoria shows before. But since this is just for experint, it's fine.
"Alright, Victoria! Attack !" I ordered Victoria to test the endurance of the prototype.
Victoria in her human form, has one hand transford into a hamr and strikes lightly. I blocked it with the armguard without using Aura at all.
And I stopped the hamr easily. The experint was a success! The scale armguard is working!
"Good! This size makes it easy for to hide it under my sleeve. But before that, let's try hitting it until it broke. Victoria! Harder!"
"Okay! You're the boss here!"
Victoria said as if she was forced to do it.
This ti Victoria used various weapon to attack. A sword slash, hamr strikes, spear thrust, axe swing, and my armguard able to protect . Her attacks make a scratch on my armguard, and finally, on the 12th attacks, my armguard broke. Luckily before the axe hit my arm, I covered it with my Aura so I'm not hurt.
"12 attacks! Great! Next, let's make another one and try attacking while I covered the armguard with my Aura!" I said.
I quickly made another one similar to the one that got broken. Since I made one before, I did it faster and tried it with Victoria again.
This ti, the protection on my arm is stronger than before because of my Aura. After having Victoria attacked for a hundred ti, there's no sign that it will break at all.
"Great! With this, I can make a great armguards and shin guards for !" I feel excited that I can build my own armor.
But when I looked at Victoria, she seems worried about sothing. It's the first ti I see her like this.
"Victoria, what's wrong?" It was Sonia who asked first. Seems like she also noticed that Victoria is weird today.
"Nothing. Just… I can't seem to get any stronger than I am. No matter how much I trained, I won't be able to get stronger or faster. The best thing I can do is to alter my weight to improve the damage. And now the duty of being your armor is disappearing, my job is getting lesser and lesser." Victoria says her worry.
"…that's it?"
"What!? We're about to enter a war against the cult! And you think these thoughts of mine is useless!?" Victoria is angry at . It's the first ti I've seen her like this. I always thought that Victoria is the most chill person I have t. But even she has so worries.
"Well, first, you are from another world. Your imagination is your strongest weapon now since you can transform into anything you want now. Strength? Rather than improving your power, you can increase your arsenal. Transform into sothing else instead of sword and hamr. There's no magic in your world, right? But you have the idea of air gun. That ans there's a way for you to compress so air without magic and use it as a gun."
"Hmm… you're right! My worry is totally useless now. I still have a lot of ways to get improve other than physical strength. Thanks, Roy!" Victoria smiles at .
"Rather, I was confused since you should have known about it more than I do. Does the stampede affect you in a way?"
"I think it did. There are several tis that I was outmatched by a monster."
"Sigh… my sli forgets that she is a sli… anyway, I haven't done talking about your strength yet. Did you forgot that just the second ti we talked after I summoned you for the first ti that you told you have other abilities from the sli that you can use after I improve my level?" I remind her of the ti she told that ti travel is one of the sli's ability. And there are other abilities she will regain as I improve my level.
"…right! And I have transformation ability and weight changing skill. As for the next one… it's probably… I got it!"
"What!? Do you know what ability you will regain?"
"I won't tell you about it! I'll show you later when I can do it!" She said.
Seems like she has returned to her cheerful state. That's good. The gloomy Victoria is not sothing I want to see.
After that, we made the armguards and shin guards for . When I tell Sonia to ask if the girls wanted to get so equipnt, they refused since they think it might look ugly on them since I'm not a professional.
I guess I'm the only one getting so new equipnt.
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