Pioneering the Apocalyptic World - Chapter 23
Chapter 17: Preparing for the Chimera Battle
“What I’m asking you guys to do is to hunt.”
Next day, after the breakfast.
Facing Uru, Regulus, and Lieze, I dare say it solemnly. Well, it doesn’t have any particular meaning, I’m just playing around with them.
Uru is just “hmm” but the other two are like “???”. Well, it fits their image.
“Anyway, please hunt for food. Anyway, please became hungry. Anyway, please eat the food I made.”
“Huh? Cooking?”
“……Eat?”
They just tilt their heads and don’t move.
But they are the ones who will be in trouble if they don’t start to move. Because they eat so much, the stock of meat is almost at the end.
“If you are fine with vegetables only, you don’t have to hunt separately?”
“I don’t like that!”
As expected of Uru, you have an unwavering appetite.
Having said that, my explanation was too short.
“Well, it looks like my cooking skill level will go up with just a little bit more of exp, if I can level it up, I’ll be able to add a slight buff to my cooking.”
Food item with buffs, It is a type of item that give some kind of positive effect to the person who eats it.
However, my skill level is still low, even if the food gave a buff, it’s really only a little one.
But… That small buff can make the difference between life and death.
“So, the only way to raise your skill level is to cook. Cooking requires ingredients. What the point is… if you want to eat meat, work for it!”
“Umu, I understand!”
“”Yes!!!””
With the high-spirited Uru in the lead, I see off the backs of the other two who chase her.
Now then, I have to do my part of the work.
“Alright, the flowers that i planted around here have changed into sacred flowers. With this quantity it will probably be sufficient.”
The first place I visited was the flower bed around the altar.
The altar is the place in my base where The Creator God influence is felt at most and things around it could be changed by its influence.
One example of this is the sacred flower.
As the name suggests, it is a flower with holy attribute.
I can’t enchant holy attribute to things yet, but I can get material items that already have holy attribute like this.
Well, it’s just a small amount and the duration of the effect is short and the effect isn’t that strong.
Even if I say miasma countermeasures, all I can do now is just the basics of the basic, that chimera’s miasma is thin and have a narrow range so it’s effective, is just to this level that it capable of protect the user from miasma.
For example, to go to the abandoned continent with just this is not hard, it’s impossible.
“But it’s still better than nothing.”
I gently picked up the flower and stored it in the item box. I don’t forget to plant more seeds so it can grow again.
Before returning to the workshop I pray to The Creator God statue.
“Creation God, please watch over us.”
“Hmm… Maybe my alchemy skill level wasn’t enough, I couldn’t do it better than I thought…”
The item [Holy Mist] created by extracting nectar from a sacred flower and stirring it with holy water while pouring MP in it until I run out of it.
It’s shaped like a capsule, but when used, it turns into a mist that envelops the user’s body and protects them from the miasma for a certain period of time.
“Well, in the first place, I didn’t think that I would have to deal with miasma so quickly.”
In terms of the game, it is necessary in about the middle stage and it wasn’t an item that would be needed in the early stages where it was difficult to even obtain ores.
I’m happy that I was able to make it properly, but there were only six pieces that were made by fully consuming the all the ingredients in the inventory, It means that there is only enough to each person use it one time and its duration is only 10 minutes
I have the feeling that if is the four of us and we have 10 minutes it will be enough to defeat a mid-boss, but considering that here is the reality, I want more safe numbers.
“At worst case we should run away, or hand over the excess items to Uru and have she do her best… Although I’m very reluctant to use the latter case.”
I’m just relying on her for combat all times. Although it is the case of right person in the right place, I can’t help but feel mixed feelings about it.
Sigh… I wonder if a Miko won’t grow any combat skills…
“Also… I have prepare a spear for me because the bow doesn’t work. Ah, I guess I’ll try applying a little bit of left over holy nectar water to the blade.”
Of course, there is no easy enchantment like that. However, I felt like It is wasteful to just leave it as is, so I decided to use it up.
“Let’s paint it on Regulus and Liese’s weapons later, Uru’s… Well, she normally fights barehanded…”
I want to quickly have materials and levels that allow me to create a appropriate equipment, while thinking that, until everyone came back, I continued to make various items that could be used.
I heard a lively voice through the window, so I went outside to see if the three of them had returned from hunting…but Regulus was in a strange state.
“Uru nee-san* is really amazing!”
……nee-san, that’s a bit… Uru looks like the youngest though!
Regulus and Lieze are about the same age as me (in appearance), but they’re both taller than me.
Especially when the biggest Regulus calls the smallest Uru a nee-san, it’s quite funny.
“Especially when she defeated that big one with a single blow, I became electrified! I thought she was amazing from the time of the spear throw!”
“Okay, I understand, so…!”
In contrast to Regulus, who was praising Uru with twinkling eyes like a small boy, Uru can’t feel so bad if she’s praised so much, but even so, she’s being overwhelmed by Regulus’s spirit and look a bit uncomfortable with the situation.
I quietly approach Lieze, who is a bit flustered while taking a distance, and ask her.
“Hey, that, what happened…?”
“Rion-san. That’s-”
Anyway, in order to hunt a large amount of prey, when they went deep into the forest… it seems that they went too deep and ended up in a dense forest that was dark even during the day.
Darkness alone is dangerous. The state of ground are uncertain and it’s hard to tell what’s lurking out.
Above all, the lack of sunlight meant that monsters that were supposed to appear only at night could appear at any time.
Therefore, in addition to dungeons where the power of God of Destruction was originally strong, in caves such as abandoned mines, and in the bottom of the sea, you have to be cautious even during the daylight time.
However, when they had continued hunting for meat——Should I get angry around here……No, it was my fault because I incited them ……?? as expected, it seems they’ve encountered a monster.
Two rather large orcs and one very big orc.
When Regulus and Lieze thought “This is dangerous” and panicked and took a fighting stance, but……Uru just threw stones that were laying around her feet and all three of them were defeated in no time. Well, she is really strong, Uru.
Seeing that Regulus was moved? by Uru’s out of standard strength in front of him and seems that he was in high spirits all the way until they came back.
“I fell in love with Uru’s nee-san strength! Please, make me your apprentice!”
“Ehh…”
At Regulus’s line that popped out, made Lieze who hadn’t been able to get her mouth shut, to tremble. Ahh, this is ‘that’.
I put my hand on her shoulder who was frozen and unable to move.
“That was just he being a meathead, so I think you shouldn’t worry about it?”
“Huh!? I was not w-worrying over it!”
She is really worried about it.
Well, if one of the indicators for evaluation of Regulus is strength…
“Just do your best and be strong enough to make him turn around? I won’t say who.”
“Th-that’s, you are wrong!”
Ohh! Her face turned bright red, it’s good to be young~!
But, it hurts a little. Well, It’s my fault for teasing her, but she keeps hitting me hard trying to hide her embarrassment, its starting to really hurts. I’m sorry! Please stop!
…Let’s make her favorite food later as an apology.
In addition, the cooking skill level rose on the next night and I safely became able to make dishes that give buffs.
*Translator note: nee-san could be tranlated as big sister or just sister(formal) but i felt that the sentence would lose its original meaning, so i just translated as nee-san.
Probably it could also be translated as anego or aneki in this connotation.