Pioneering the Apocalyptic World - Chapter 88

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Chapter 23: The acquisition of an unexpected material

The next morning, we went to Grosso Village for a little while, and after being healed by the children, we moved to Bartle Village.
…… Is it because of the ratio of adults that there is such a difference in the alike beastman only villages?
That said, there were strange customs in Alness Village as well….. When I looked at Fricka with a questioning eye, she tilted his head in wonder. No, sorry, I have no complaints about you.

First of all, starting from cleaning up yesterday’s battlefield (laughs). It’s unavoidable to make a face that says it’s very troublesome. Uru looked apologetic at me, so I returned it to normal immediately.
After that, I went around the village and repaired the parts that were still broken, and the parts that had lost a lot of durability. There are architectural styles that I don’t know about, so it’s a great learning experience, so it’s a two-birds-with-one-stone method.
While I was moving and working, I was apologized to people who seemed to have joined the yesterday’s turmoil, but that was no problem at all. Some of them still didn’t give up and attacked me, so I quickly dug under their feet, buried them and left them alone. Among them, a small part of shouted “Fight with me, you coward!”, so I added a stone block above. Hahaha.…… If I fight with a weapon, I will surely lose, but I want you guys to think that I’m being kind because I didn’t use any attack items, okay?
Uru’s mood, which seemed to have healed with my aftercare, flew low. She seems to be uncomfortable in a different sense from Alness Village.

“I-I’m sorry…”

Someone must have told her what happened, Eris rushed over and the first words she said was an apology.
No, well, you’re better than them by just giving up after a single time. Or is it because I won a proper fight (even though I secretly boosted myself)?
A strong-looking woman came with a stern face, and I was a little wary, but after apologizing to me, she dug up the man who was buried, and when the man started making a fuss again, she said, “An loser’s ramblings are pathetic!” and shut him up with by force (stomach punch) and dragged him along, so I saw him off with a sideways glance while breaking into a cold sweat.
While doing so, the number of people around me increased. The majority are women and children.

“Miko-sama, you’re quite strong even though you’re such a thin figure.”

“When I saw him being buried, I feel sorry for miko-sama, but I laughed!”

Without being particularly blamed, I was relieved in the peaceful atmosphere. Because I understand that my way of fighting is not the right way, I thought that it might not be accepted depending on the place.
And while listening to their talk, I realized that I am surprisingly being appreciated.

“Eh? Because of that, you went alone against a large number of idiots, right? There are people who say that the body is everything, but I think that the miko-sama is also amazing enough.”

“The girl with horns* was amazing too! I was just watching from a distance, but seeing the goblins being blown away one after another was exhilarating!”

People who watched the fight and people who didn’t watched it praised me. Uru also seems to be blinking her eyes in confusion due to the temperature difference.
Regulus wasn’t active, but even he was told, “You’re also somewhat strong, right? Let’s fight next time!”…… Huh, so Regulus, good luck with that?
Meanwhile, Eris added something this.

“Ah, and my father also praised you. Or rather, he had a good impression from the beginning.”

“…… From the beginning?”

“Because Rion, you didn’t run away from my father’s gaze, did you? That, it makes all our people run with chills down our spines. That’s why he said, ‘She’s surprisingly brave.'”

… Ah, That first gaze.
But that… It’s because Uru was by my side… I feel like I’m a fox borrowing the power of a tiger.
… Let’s keep quiet about it.

In the afternoon, whether it was because the talk of being buried by me had spread, or because there weren’t many people who were persistent left, there were no people who approached me. Phew.
I continued going around the village with Uru, and Regulus went training after being dragged along by boys of the same age.
Eris had been acting with us for a while after that, but she parted ways after a meal, saying, “I have work to do.” Right now the one that is with us is the priest from Bartle Village ??Radi-san, a young looking rabbit beastwoman.
The reason we are with Radi-san is simply because the place where we are now is in front of the altar.

“It seems that we gave miko-sama a lot of trouble last night…”

“No, it’s not your fault.”

The reason is simple, it’s about the holy water spraying. Radi-san said that she was healing people injured in the disturbance, and when she tried to return to her work in a hurry after that, she was surprised to find that the area was already turned into sanctuary. Well, I was the one who hurt them, but… It can’t be helped because I just was stomping on the falling sparks.
Well, even so, it’s true that I made her work an extra work, so I gave her a small amount of MP potions as an apology.

“Thank you very much for such a precious thing……”

“Huh? That’s just a beginner potion, aren’t it? There are other people who can make it, right?”

“…… That is……”

According to Radi-san, most of the people in this village are from the physical-only faction, and there are few people who make things including alchemy. After that, there are many people with a rough personality, and it seems that is difficult to make a precise medicine. In addition, weapons and armor are an exception, and there are some people who are very skillful on making them.
…… Hmm…… My smithing relies on skills, so there is almost nothing I can teach them, and other than that, It would be difficult to teach this village how to make things…… No, I can’t give up without even trying it… …. Let’s think about this and that after the things calm down…

The durability around the altar was also low, so I repaired it, helped with the cleaning, and created the sanctuary deployment items.
Radi-san seems to have a reasonably high skill level as she is the one keeping this land. I always use holy water (it’s the cheapest to create, and the area around the base is peaceful, so it’s still acceptable, so there’s no need to raise the item rank), but Radi-san was using holy stones.
Holy stones are items that can be created by using magic stones as a base, whereas holy water is based on water. By burying them in the ground in a circle at regular intervals, the inside becomes a sanctuary. Magic stones are naturally more expensive than water, but they are more powerful. But the effect wears off in just one day and it returns to just a magic stone, so having to replace it every day is quite a pain.

At the end of the ceremony, it was praying time, and Radi-san took out something and tried to place it on the offering table in front of the statue of the wind god.

“What is that?”

“If you’re a miko-sama, don’t you have any experience? This is an object that is occasionally left in the place where the wrath of the god of the wind fell. We enshrine this and pray that the god of the wind release his anger.”

“It can be said that this event is just a form of event…… But I would like to see the wind god-sama show up even if it’s in the form of a divine punishment.” said Radi-san with a wry smile.
…… Well, that is, yeah. I will do my best.

But a relic, huh… A generated item, I guess. My curiosity ached, so I begged her to show me.
It was a whitish stone with a rough surface??

“… Huh?”

“What’s wrong, Rion?”

To that item that was too unexpected, I unintentionally raised a silly voice.
The thing that I had in my hand was not just a stone.

“… Fulgurite.”

“What is that?”

“… A catalyst with lightning attributes.”

“Mu?”

In other words… if you have this, you can make lightning-type magic tools. That’s why players, including myself, often called that lightning stone.
The wind god’s wrath fell??according to Tigar-san’s story from the other day, that’s where the lightning struck.
Even though it can be obtained in the middle of the game or later, to appear at this stage, I wonder if that is also an effect of the game restrictions being released.
…… I wonder if it was generated in mass in the place where we encountered Altair last time. I want to go there and search… I swallow the feeling of saying that. I don’t have much time right now.

“Radi-san. Can I have this stone?”

“Huh?… No, if it’s a miko-sama, it should be fine. However, is it okay if to be the next day?

“That’s enough. Thank you.”

Is this just a coincidence, or is it the creation god or the wind god’s will?
Either way it won’t be a demerit for me. I gratefully received it.

*Translator note: For the people that don’t remember, Uru has small red horns.