VRMMO no Shien Shokunin ～Top Player no Shikakenin～ Chapter 108: Usage Of The Reward From Our Travels

Chapter 108. Usage of the reward from our travels.

Hi there,

Just sothing small to point out this chapter. While “investigating” the na of the item they received for beating the boss. I ended with the na Rubrum, which is apparently the word for “Red” in Latin. (Feel free to correct if I’m wrong)

Just a quick small bit of trivia is that most of the sources for the na in the original text linked to a monster in older Final Fantasy gas called Rubrum Dragons in Japanese. However the localization for those gas changed them to “Ruby Dragons”.

Well, just so random thing I felt like pointing out, enjoy the chapter.

We had beco tired after this last fight, so we decided that stopping at floor twenty was a good idea.

There were stairs leading to further floors, but in everyone’s eyes it was reflected that continuing would prove to be difficult.

If a boss ca out here, it was expected that it would beco harder from now on.

Therefore, no one was against retreating here.

Furthermore, there were five treasure chests in front of us.

It’s the sa number as the number of people here, so would it be OK for each one of us to pick one?

「Good work everyone. Well then, shall we open these treasur-」(Hind)

「Hind, I’m hungry…」(Philia)

「Ah, eh…uh, hmm?」(Hind)

Imdiately after I placed a hand on a treasure chest, Philia-chan’s vigor plumted.

Our hunger gauges haven’t decreased that much though…is it a matter of her mood?

I rummaged through my inventory and took out the last remaining pudding.

「Here you go.」(Hind)

When I handed it to her along with a wooden spoon, the little girl thanked and imdiately started eating.

Even Albert, who was always calm, started to show an embarrassed expression on his face.

「Sorry that this is happening so often, Hind…however, it seems like my daughter has taken a liking to you. It’s rare for her to show this amount of selfishness to other people.」(Albert)

「I get the feeling that she has taken a liking to the food rather than though…」(Hind)

「…That’s not true, I was happy that you revived first.」(Philia)

Eating while wearing a blank expression, she denied my words.

Behind Philia-chan, Selene-san was trying to keep Riizu, who was raising her eyebrows, in check by wrapping her arms around her from behind.

It’s not like…I revive people to gain likability points though…

When I told her that, as you’d expect, Philia-chan tilted her head.

「I guess it’s like that. You are recognizing as a player. To be recognized by soone like you, makes happy.」(Philia)

With that, as if she had gotten tired of speaking, Philia-chan shut her mouth.

Oh, that’s wrong. She only opened her mouth to eat the pudding.

Albert nodded at her daughter’s words in agreent, to be honest, I was a bit shaken by the fact that they held in that high regard.

…Wait…ah, that’s right! The treasure, the treasure chests!

Let’s get rid of this delicate and tepid atmosphere by moving things forward, yeah. That will be fine.

「…I-In that case, shall we check the contents of these treasure chests? I doubt these ones will have any traps placed on them after all.」(Hind)

Once we simultaneously opened the chests, the contents inside all of them were the sa.

They felt warm when we picked them up, they were fist sized clear red stones.

It seems like they are called 『Rubrum Stones』, they are classified as elental stones and others…others?

While shaking on the back of the cal, I inspected the gems.

When it cos to elental stones usage, you could place them in the grip of a weapon, and in the case of a staff, you could place them on one end of it…

「Leaving aside the fact that this stone is clearly of the fire elent, I wonder what the other usage for it is?」(Hind)

「When we touched them a pop-up saying “Do you want to use it?” appeared but…it would be scary to use them here.」(Selene)

「It would be troubleso if they started blowing fire, let’s do it once we get back ho. Leaving that aside-」(Hind)

Riizu was glaring at .

Though it’s true that I was currently riding a cal with Philia-chan.

「Why are you not riding one with your father!? When we ca here you did that, right!?」(Hind)

「I feel bad for the cal because dad is heavy. It looked exhausted by the ti we were reaching our destination.」(Philia)

He should weigh around 150kg if you add the armor and the greatsword after all…I wonder if it’s his policy? He refuses to unequip his gear.

Philia-chan is light, but even if she removed all her gear, she should weigh between 30~40kg.

If we count that as the reason, I guess it’s not that odd that she moved over here.

By the way, the reason Philia-chan doesn’t have her own cal is because “It’s scary to ride one alone”, or so she says.

Even when they ride a horse, it seems like they usually ride one together too.

When it cos to fights, he positively seeks them out and acts as so sort of barbarian. I actually don’t get Albert’s standards and the way he acts. Isn’t he just too overprotective…?

Albert looked over here in sadness as if he was saying “Philia-chan, co over here”.

I don’t think I can consider this action of hers as one of being independent of one’s parents though.

If you hate it that much, take off your armor and put away that sword, I would honestly prefer it if she rode a cal with you.

「In that case, wouldn’t it be fine if you rode one with or Secchan!? We are lighter than Hind-san!」(Riizu)

「Riizu seems like the type of person that’s quick to anger so no. Selene becos frightened if I get close to her」(Philia)

「I-I’m sorry. For still not being able to get used to you…」(Selene)

「Riizu. We’ll arrive in Waaha shortly, so it’s not sothing you should be that bothered by?」(Hind)

She has grown strangely attached to , but she’s not one to pull pranks like Siesta-chan and remains silent.

In reality, it was as if I was holding a slightly heavier doll, so it was not as if I was against it.

It was as if I was looking after a relative’s child, a feeling akin to babysitting.

I’ve rode along with quite a few girls by now, so my feelings have gone numb in a sense.

「Whatever! I’ll go to your room once we log out, you better prepare yourself, nii-san!」(Riizu)

What should I be prepared for…?

I exchanged glances with Philia-chan and we both tilted our heads.

Once we returned to the guild ho, we moved close to a source of water and placed the 『Rubrum Stone』on top of a tal plate and used it.

We were curious about what kind of item it was, so even if it was quite late, everyone remained without logging out.

Once we used it…

「So hot!」(Hind)

I retracted my finger in reflex.

It didn’t blow fire, but it released heat high enough that it warped the air around it.

「A-Are you OK, Hind-kun?」(Selene)

「It didn’t really happen imdiately after using it, but that’s so terrifying heat. Actually, look…」(Albert)

The iron plate started to turn bright red and smoke ca out of it.

The liquid that was once a plate started to spread on the ground, like that, the surroundings started to lt and the gem proceeded to start sinking.

…

「-Wait, this is bad, Hind-san! How are we going to stop this!」(Riizu)

「W-Water! For now use water!」(Hind)

「Leave it to ! Everyone, step back!」(Albert)

Using the buckets we had prepared beforehand, Albert drew water from the canal and threw it on top of the stone.

A large amount of vapor was produced and when it seed as if it had settled down we cautiously ca closer…

The 『Rubrum Stone』 had stopped emitting heat and was laying there.

T-These are so hard to use…

It seems like they are the type of items that don’t get consud on use, but on top of taking a bit of ti to increase its temperature, it seems like it’ll be impossible to throw them and use them as a way to attack.

Watching these chains of events, Albert finished it with this.

「As an item, it is hard to use. However, there’s the fact that it’s possible that you’d be able to deal high rank fire elent attacks if you attached them to a weapon.」(Albert)

「W-What do you want to do? If you leave it to us, we could use them for your greatsword and axe.」(Selene)

After Selene-san suggested that, Albert crossed his arms and started to think.

And after exchanging so words with Philia-chan, he said this.

「In that case, make Philia’s axe an elental weapon. In our case, there are a lot of tis where we lack attacks with magical properties after all. Since I want to request mine to be non elental, you can keep the remaining stone.」(Albert)

「Are you sure? This item, I believe it’s extrely valuable given the current state of the ga.」(Selene)

「I don’t mind. They might be difficult to work with, but you guys have sothing in mind, right?」(Albert)

Albert said that as he looked at us.

Well, I guess he guessed that by looking at our faces…if it’s this item, the number of uses it has is limited.

As a test, we all said out loud what we were thinking, and it turns out that we were thinking the sa thing, naly…

「Fuel for the furnace.」(Hind)

「Fuel for the furnace…maybe? If everything goes well, the amount of alloys I can make will increase.」(Selene)

「Fuel for the furnace, right? I can’t think of anything else.」(Riizu)

The answer we arrived at was this one.

If it turned out that it was impossible to use within the firebrick, it would have no other use like the rest of the elental stones. (TLN: As in, no other use but to add elental properties to gear)