CH 85

“Gathering materials and making accessories.”

Translated by Dawn

“Gathering materials and making accessories.”

After requesting Greg to sell the accessories on consignment, I went to the dungeon right after that. First of all, to obtain the magic quartz that would be the material for the accessories, I went straight to the river in the forest from the transfer portal at the entrance of the 10th level.

“Ora ora ora ora ora ora ora ora!!”

What am I doing, you ask? That’s right, I was uprooting the magic quartz in the river and dumping it into storage. The river was only a few meters wide, but its length, or total length, was more than several hundred meters, and all of the riverbeds were dotted with magic quartz. 

Of course, not all of them were magic quartz, but they contained a fairly high percentage, so I obtained a fair amount. About 3,000 pieces of magic quartz should have been collected in Storage.

However, even after collecting such a large amount, it was only a few percent of the total, and there was still no shortage of magic quartz. The number of magic quartz at the bottom of the river was so large. With such a large amount, it would seem that adventurers would be collecting them in droves, but for some reason, they were not. Either they didn’t know there was magic quartz here, or they didn’t want to collect it for some other reason, but either way, it was convenient for me.

After collecting the magic quartz, I went to the mine and mined some ore while collecting threads from the poison mine spiders that appeared from time to time. Mining was just a simple matter of using earth magic to turn the walls into the sand and extracting the ore that was buried…….

Occasionally there might be some ore on the ground, so I would not forget to collect it. …My storage was going to be full of stones, I feel like. But there was still plenty of room in the storage room even after collecting such a large amount. I felt so glad that I was able to learn space-time magic.

After a short break for lunch, I resumed my work. As I went deeper and deeper into the mine, poison mine spiders and other monsters seemed to appear more frequently, but I used magic to kill them instantly and turned them into materials by Separate Dismantling and put them into storage as fast as I could.

“Is it my imagination that the purpose of the dungeon has somehow shifted from capturing to collecting materials?”

Despite the fact that what I was saying and what I was doing was not the same, I was still collecting the materials.

By the way, you might be wondering whether all the resources and monsters in the dungeon would not run out after I collected so many of them, but it seemed that all the resources and monsters in the dungeon were permanent and would be replenished after a day.

Although I couldn’t help but feel that someone had intentions for the conventional system, I decided to abandon my thoughts on that point because I could collect them without hesitation since they would not disappear no matter how much I took.

“Now, let’s defeat the boss on the 10th level.”

When I was able to collect some materials, I realized that I had reached the boss’s room, so I decided to defeat the boss immediately. The boss of the 10th level was, as expected, it was called Big Poison Spider, which was a bigger version of Poison Mine Spider.

Normally, I would have killed it instantly with magic, but a thought occurred to me and I watched it for a while, and my expectation was right.

“Fufufu, I could…use this.”

In front of me was a thread spit out by the Big Poison Spider. When I retrieved it, I found that the thread was a [High-quality Spider Thread], and it seemed to be a thread considered to be a higher version of the Poison Mine Spider’s thread.

If so, the situation would be different. The mission this time was to get the highest quality spider silk as much as possible by making it spit out to the limit.

After spending the next hour or two squeezing the threads out of the Big Poison Spider, I put a stop to it and the boss battle came to an end. Although it took me quite a long time this time, the only thing I struggled with was the process of making it spit out the threads, and all I had to do was to collect them while avoiding the opponent’s attacks.

I felt kind of sorry to see the spider slowly weakening, but I wanted its thread. ……forgive me, spider-chan.

After defeating the boss, I was about to open the door leading to the 11th level when a treasure chest suddenly appeared. I believe this treasure chest was probably a bonus treasure chest to commemorate the conquest of the 10th level, but I couldn’t help but laugh at how game-like this part of the process seemed.

I was inwardly excited to see what treasures were in there, but just to be sure, I used analysis to check for traps. I’m a cautious guy, you know……

I put my hand on the treasure chest again and opened it vigorously. What came out of the box seemed to be a fantasy ore of this world called “Magic Steel Stone”.

“I’ve been mining a lot until now, and the treasure I’ve got is another ore…….”

I was expecting to get something more amazing, like a magic item or a magic sword, but it seemed that I was wrong. Well, it was only the 10th level, so the grade of the treasures I could get might be moderate.

After unlocking the transfer portal at the 11th level, I decided to return to the city since it was a good time to do so.

***

“Now let’s get to work.”

After returning from the dungeon and selling off unnecessary materials at the Adventurer’s Guild, I returned to the inn. It was dinner time, so I finished my meal in the dining room and went back to my room.

In the past, I would have gone to sleep after my daily training, but this time things were a little different. What I wanted to do was to make some accessories.

I took out the magic quartz that I collected in the dungeon today and immediately started processing it. The last bracelet I made was a bit pricey, so I decided to try to keep the price down by adjusting the size of the stones used.

Specifically, the size of the last bracelet was 8 mm, but this time I decided to use stones processed to 6 mm and 4 mm. I concluded that by doing so, the value of the bracelet would be reduced because of the smaller size of the stones used.

The use of smaller stones also had other advantages besides keeping the price down, one of which was that more pieces could be processed from single magic quartz. The size of a small magic quartz stone was roughly 2 centimeters, and a large one was about the size of a tennis ball.

The number of stones that could be processed with magic would be limited to one for the smaller ones, but for the tennis-ball-sized ones, many could be made. Last time, because the size was 8 mm, only one magic quartz stone could be made for one magic quartz stone, but this time, it would be possible to process one magic quartz stone into multiple stones.

However, the small size of the stones made it difficult to make the holes for the bracelet strings, but I had to work on that. For now, I decided to make one hundred 6mm stones and two hundred 4mm stones.

“Sigh, this is quite a task.”

By the time I got a break, two hours had passed. Apparently, I had been concentrating quite hard. Drilling holes in the 4mm stones was particularly difficult, and I failed on the first few.

From there, I used Poison Mine Spider thread to process them into bracelets. Incidentally, though, I also remembered to put a stone processed from the dark magic ore I got from the mine between them.

This dark-magic ore was processed to fit each size of the stone, and it looked good to the eye. Well, that’s just my personal opinion.

At any rate, 6 bracelets of 6mm and 11 bracelets of 4mm were completed, and I decided to take a look at them once with the analysis.

[Magic quartz bracelet (6mm)]: Bracelet made of magic quartz and dark magic ore. When magical power is put into it, the magic quartz has the effect of becoming transparent, but other than that, it is just a bracelet with no other effect.

Market price: 7 to 8 large copper coins.

[Magic quartz bracelet (4 mm)]: Bracelet made of magic quartz and dark magic ore. When magical power is put into it, the magic quartz has the effect of becoming transparent, but other than that, it is just a bracelet with no other effect.

Market price: 4 to 5 large copper coins.

Apparently, it was successful. It should now be possible to keep the selling price down to between one and two small silver coins for the 6mm and no more than one small silver coin for the 4mm. I did it.

Also, just to be sure, I made purification amulets in 6mm and 4mm sizes, and the results were as follows.

[Amulet of Purification (6mm)]: A bracelet-shaped amulet made of magic quartz that, when enchanted, becomes transparent like a crystal and at the same time purifies bad energy in the body. It is effective in relieving fatigue, stomachaches, and other minor ailments. After a certain number of uses, it loses its effect and becomes just a bracelet.

Number of uses: 100 times 

Market price: 1 to 2 small gold coins.

[Amulet of Purification (6mm)]: A bracelet-shaped amulet made of magic quartz that, when enchanted, becomes transparent like a crystal and at the same time purifies bad energy in the body. It is effective in relieving fatigue, stomachaches, and other minor ailments. After a certain number of uses, it loses its effect and becomes just a bracelet.

Number of uses: 30 

Market price: 3 to 5 large silver coins.

Hmmm, apparently there was a limit to the number of times it could be used depending on the size of the magic quartz it was made of. Incidentally, the 8mm amulet I made last time didn’t seem to have a limit on the number of times it could be used.

This was a good piece of information. If I didn’t make an amulet using a stone larger than 8 mm, the number of times it could be used would be limited and the amulet would no longer be in circulation. The first one was just a trial, so let’s just forget about it:……yeah.

After that, I further processed the magic quartz and mass-produced a total of 20 6mm bracelets and 30 4mm bracelets. As for the amulets, I limited the number to 5 6mm bracelets and 3 4mm bracelets because of their magical effect.

By the way, I decided not to produce the previous 8mm bracelet, but to keep it as an experimental one. It wasn’t like it was a chore to make, by any means, you know? Perhaps……

“Okay, then let’s do a little bit of the daily workout and go to bed.”

As for making accessories, I had finished with that for the day and went about my daily training routine.

There was one thing I had not mentioned, but in this world, the culture of bathing was only enjoyed by aristocrats and other wealthy people. So how in the world did I clean my body? At first, I filled a bucket with water, turned it into hot water with fire magic, and wiped my body with a hand towel.

But then one day it occurred to me. I decided that I didn’t have to do such a prehistoric thing, I could magically wash my entire body like a washing machine…….

“[Clean wash]”

I took off all my clothes, stripped naked, and jumped into the water that was created by the water magic method. I felt as if I had become the laundry being washed, and this was the most efficient way to remove dirt.

After removing the dirt, I put my clothes in the water and wash them as if they were in a washing machine. By the way, since I used water magic to operate the process, the room was never flooded, and since I used wind magic the moment I got out of the water, there was no possibility of moisture being transferred to other places.

There was originally an option of taking a bath, but since there was generally no such thing as a bathtub itself, it was necessary to first build one in order to take a bath. I would like to build a bathtub when I build my own house, but for now, I think this method of laundering would do.

The dirt was removed cleanly, so I decided to go to bed that day.