Pioneering the Apocalyptic World - Chapter 14

Chapter 08: To explore again

After that, I spent the next two days mainly preparing Uru living environment.

Clothes first. She can’t keep wearing my clothes that are slightly different in size forever.
In addition, I have no sewing sense in the real world, so when it comes to clothes, I just think of a design that ‘roughly looks good’, and leave the rest to my sewing skill.
Unlike the game era, the finished product form is not fixed, and it’s nice to be able to change the design freely to some extent…I’m starting to want a sense to fashion …
I wanted to let her wear a skirt or something like that, but she seems like an active child, so I didn’t. She didn’t like the long length either, so she basically wore half pants or shorts. The top is a long-sleeved inner + sleeveless tunic with a design similar to mine.

Next, to prepare a protective gear… I tried, but she refused, saying “My scales are harder”.
And what about the parts that has no scales? That’s what I thought, but using the race skill of scaled races?Hard Skin?made her whole body hard. Come to think of it, there was a skill like that too. Miko(player) doesn’t have even offensive skills, let alone defensive skills, so it was out of my mind.
On the other hand, I couldn’t let her walk barefoot, so I prepared a pair of leather boots to her.

Weapons and crafting tools are still being smashed, so I’ve decided to put them on hold until I get more durable materials.
No, I was about to cry at the end…I’m sorry for being a low-level miko.
Well, as for weapons, She is strong enough with her bare hands, so it should be fine for a while. She has more offensive power than me with a knife, or rather, it’s completely a overkill, so I wonder if that is the cause to make them break everytime.

I also made lanterns and potion bottles with the glass I got. Both are important.
According to the game, there should be no electricity in this world of Asteria, so fire will be the light source at night and in the dungeons. After a while, it will be possible to substitute it with magic stones, but magic stones have too many uses, so they end up being used for other priorities.
I can make a torch with a wooden stick and charcoal or oil, but a glass-covered lantern is a must, as one hand will be blocked and it will catch fire if placed in a bad place.
Torches are cheap to create, so they’re easy to throw away, like placing them on dungeon to mark a path.

A potion bottle is exactly as named, a bottle for potions.
Since my alchemy skill is low, I can only make beginner level LP potions, but I thought it would be better than nothing, so I made a lot of potions to raise my skill level.
I tried to see if I could make something like a cold medicine, but… I could make it, but the quality wasn’t very good. I think it’s better than nothing, so I stocked a small amount. I also made some stomach medicine.
Furthermore, even though a panacea exists, it literally works on everything??poison, paralyze, curse, and everything else?so the difficulty of creating it is rather high.

At night, Uru still says “it’s cold” and crawls into my futon. Although she seems fine in the daytime.
She is weak at night… but it feels that is too weak to be normal. Certainly there are races that power down at night, but lizards shouldn’t fit that bill. Rather they power up a little bit at night.
In addition, almost all beings that power up at night are monsters, and this is also one of the reasons why lizards are treated as monsters by the residents.
At first, I thought she was just like to being spoiled, but her body really becomes cold at night. I didn’t have any clues to investigate the cause, and even when I asked the person herself, she only replied “… I don’t know”, the lack of clues is really troublesome matter…

“Ah… it’s about time I have to do my next move…”

While throwing a glance at Uru, who was sleeping next to me, I muttered to myself what was wrong.

I must not put down roots in this base and settle here forever.
Of course, there are times when I have to stay in order to do this or that for preparation, but I absolutely have to travel.

To beyond the sea, beyond the mountains, to the ends of the world, without leaving anything behind.

To spread the power of creation.

The land other than this place of origin belongs to the God of Destruction. It will be dangerous, without any doubt.

On such a dangerous journey, I hesitates to take anyone other than myself, who is a miko, with me.
That’s why.

‘I want you to stay home and protect this house.’

I was thinking of saying that.
Even so.
What did I actually say in the next morning?

“Hey, Uru….Want to go together? ”

“Umu. Let’s go.”

I didn’t say where, but Uru probably guessed that I was going to ask her, and she answered without any pretense of worrying.

“Oh, it’s was really in a moment!”

Uru raised a voice of surprise when we used the return stone to instantly move from the plain where the base was to the sandy beach where the statue of the Creator God was installed.
Glancing at Uru, who was running around in high spirits, I lightly cleaned the statue of the Creator God and put it in the item box.
I was debating whether to leave it where it is, but since there’s nothing special about here, i decided to set it up again the next time I found a suitable spot and started moving.

“Uru was lying down here. Do you remember anything?”

“Hmm… nothing…”

While securing ingredients and walking along the beach just like a few days ago, we reach the place where i found Uru.
Just to be sure, I lightly searched the surroundings, but I didn’t find anything that seemed to belong to her that had been fallen.

“… I was very lucky.”

While looking at the wide, wide ocean, Uru muttered.
…Well, that might be true.
I don’t know where the ship broke, but she was able to come all the way here by holding on to a piece of plank, and if I came here even a day earlier or a day later, Uru wouldn’t have been saved.

“Let me thank you again….Thank you for helping me.”

“…Yeah, you’re welcome”

I’m glad I was able to help you.
After all, I went looking for a resident because “I missed people”. That’s how I was able to encounter a travel companion… To be able to make a friend.
It was a disaster for Uru, who lost her memory after being in an accident, but I’m grateful for this coincidence.
No, really, the first month was a battle against loneliness.
……Even though I had the power of a miko, I didn’t have the resistance to loneliness……fufufu…….

“Rion? What’s wrong?”

Oops, it seems that my eyes were a little hollow. Let’s return to reality.

“Well then, let’s move along the sandy beach.”

“Umu… But there aren’t as many monsters as I thought?”

“This area is where the power of the Creator God remains. I don’t think they will come out unless it’s night or we enter the dungeon.”

Or rather, I choose the time to move so that monsters don’t appear.
I want the materials, but I don’t like fighting, and I hate being in pain! I don’t like it!

While chatting and collecting materials, we took a lunch break and started walking again, and after a while.

“Mu?, Rion I can see some smoke over there.”

I looked hard at the direction Uru was pointing at… but I couldn’t see anything that looked like it. Is there a difference in specs even in eyesight?
But smoke… eh, smoke?

“Is that black!? White!?”

“Huh? Whitish, I guess.”

If it’s black smoke, it’s most likely the smoke from a fire or volcano, but if it’s whitish, it’s often cooking smoke.
in short!

“There’s a village! It’s nearby!… Maybe!”

“Oh, oh?”

Excited, I involuntarily raised my hands to the sky.
Uru is puzzled because she can’t keep up with my tension. Sorry for being such a weird person!

“I can’t stay still like this! Let’s go!”

“Nuwa!?”

And with that momentum, I take Uru’s hand and start running.

And then, we arrived at my first village since coming to Asteria.