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Chapter 61 – Day 6 of Exploration
“Hey, Makyo-san, why don’t we make some shelves?”
Jennifer suggested when I woke up that morning. She had been sorting through the things I brought back from the capital, but there weren’t enough shelves, so she just left them on the floor. So when Sylvia started carving the bones, they got dirty.
“It’s true, we don’t have any shelves. Do you have a saw?”
“Yes, I do.”
We have the shipbuilding tools. The furniture P.J. was using was old and in bad shape.
“Let’s make some new ones. We’re going to need them.”
After breakfast, we went right to work. I cut the wood, removed the branches, and cut it into slices of the right length. Then, I cut them lengthwise with the saw to make planks.
Even though I’ve become stronger, beads of sweat form on my forehead as I pull the saw. Even when I cut with the saber, the cut is crooked. It’s not that easy.
I shape it with the sap of the palm tree and hammer in the nails. I also bought nails and hammers at the training facility.
“I think I’ve begun to live like a human being.”
I also prepared a log for Hel, who was kneading clay.
I made a new, sturdy workbench and carried it into the cave. I put new magic stones in the magic stone lantern and brightened the room so that it was possible to work at any time of the day or night. After all, Hel and Sylvia are night owls, so maybe we should have more magic stone lanterns.
“I’ll ask at the training facility.”
We spent all morning making furniture.
“Isn’t the cave getting a little cramped?”
It’s a little late to say this, but the women’s room is being used by four people, so it must be hard.
“Shall we build a house? Have the giant monsters come?”
“That’s the thing. Even if we build one, it’ll be destroyed every three months.”
“Can’t we make it mobile?”
Hel asked.
“A tent would work. But what about monster attacks?”
“W-w-what about the shell of a haze turtle!”
Sylvia suggested.
“Oh yeah, that’s a good idea. The shell of a haze turtle would keep out the rain, so it wouldn’t be impossible to live in.”
“What about the one by the river?”
There was a huge turtle shell on the riverbank to the south, like a mountain.
“It’s not like we can carry it, but if we scrape out the mud inside, it should be possible to live in it. But we have to go to the desert or something, right? We’re going to need a camping kit that we can carry with us.”
“If we go with Makyo, we can camp even if we don’t have anything.”
“Don’t be ridiculous. I don’t want to dig a hole and camp every time.”
“But it might be the quickest way. Why don’t you try and see which is faster, making a cave or putting up a tent with cloth?”
Even Hel says that.
“Y-y-yes. Please.”
Sylvia handed me a pickaxe made from the bones of a monster.
“There’s no choice.”
I said and lifted the bone pickaxe towards the cliff.
“Wait a minute! Makyo, use your magic!”
“What do you mean, use my magic? I don’t have the power to open a hole in the cliff, so I can’t use my magic, right?”
“No, no, try using your magic on the bone pickaxe. The bones of monsters might have good conductivity for magic.”
That might be true. I tried to put magic power into the pickaxe.
“It doesn’t look much different, though.”
Despite my complaints, I swung it at the cliff.
BOOM!
A hole the size of the large shelf I had just made opened up, and crushed rocks flew through it like pebbles.
“No, it was just an accident. It was just a little more fragile than usual.”
When I tried again, swinging down with the pickaxe, a hole about the same size opened, and the stones flew out.
“Is Makyo human?”
“That’s… starting to sound suspicious.”
“We’ll have Makyo-san expand the cave. And it would be a good idea to start building a base.”
“Ma-Ma-Makyo’s weapon is a pickaxe.”
As a result, I ended up digging every room in the cave.
Once they knew they were going to get their own rooms, everyone helped with the cleaning. We also added more storage space with shelves. I also made my room a little bigger.
“Can’t Makyo make a dungeon?”
Hel said as she swept up the small stones.
“What’s the point of building a dungeon?”
“We will attract adventurers. Even if it’s a demonic land, if a dungeon is found, adventurers will come!”
Jennifer is also excited.
“We have to prepare the treasure for the dungeon ourselves, right? Running a dungeon is a lot of work.”
“It’s easier to find a dungeon core.”
Chel seems to know a lot about dungeons. Come to think of it, I seem to have seen something about ‘a giant monster stealing a dungeon’ in the dried-up well in the north.
“Is there such a thing as a dungeon core?”
Hel asked Chel.
“There isn’t?”
“Have the demon tribes confirmed the existence of a dungeon core?”
“Ahh… Eh? No, because it’s been passed down from generation to generation by the Demon King.”
“Didn’t you say earlier that the dungeon was stolen by a giant monster? Does that mean that the giant monster ate the dungeon core?”
“Huh? Oh, is that what you mean? No, that’s impossible, right?”
“What exactly is a dungeon core?”
Hel asked Chel.
“It’s round, it floats, it shines, but you can’t touch it. So you can’t eat it. I think.”
“Oh? What’s that? I don’t understand.”
“I only saw the previous Demon King use it. I don’t know much about it.”
So the Demon King of the demon tribe was a dungeon master?
“Hmm, whatever. But everyone should remember that there might be a dungeon inside the giant monster.”
“Wait a minute. The pendant with the thunderbolt pattern that Makyo has is the key to the dungeon and the royal family’s crest, right? And it’s also drawn on the entrance to the ruins, right? Historically, ruins can become dungeons.”
Hel began to gather information.
“Oh, I knew it! So if we want to excavate the ruins, we have to get on the back of the giant monster, don’t we?”
I tried not to think about it too much, but the possibility started to come up.
“That may be the case, but I don’t think the ruins are in Midgard, do you?”
“True, there is a dungeon near the capital of Estinia, but the capital itself is not a dungeon.”
Jennifer added.
“B-b-but we have to capture that giant monster for clues…”
Sylvia looked at me.
“Even though you are looking at me with such hopeful eyes. You may not have seen it yet, but getting close to such a disaster is suicide.”
“That’s why we need space-time magic, right?”
Chel asked.
“Oh, that’s what P.J. wrote about. Eeehh!”
My heart was about to break that day.
“Well, even the royalty couldn’t find it, so even if we fail, it’s no big deal! Let’s believe that the meaning is in the challenge…”
No one responded to my words, and the women began to take their luggage to their rooms.
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