LATEST UPDATES

Published at 5th of March 2021 11:02:37 AM


Chapter 129

If audio player doesn't work, press Stop then Play button again




Author: Ash Original Source: Syosetu Word Count: 2998 characters
Translator: Mii English Source: Re:Library Word Count: 1262 words

 

Good day! This is Ren.

It’s been around ten days since we left the royal capital, but we hadn’t arrived in the next town yet.

We were currently staying at a random campsite for a few days. If I remember right, it would take another four days to go to Mubarro from here. It’s actually not that far away.

Hey, we weren’t rushing at all, so let’s go slowly! Unlike when we came to the royal capital, I moved lazily at the same speed as the caravans of other merchants. As for our movement speed itself, I went together with a group of caravans when going to O’Neill in the winter before, so I got this. There’s no problem.

Then if you’re asking what we were doing in this kind of place, then I can answer that we were preparing many things… Well, you could say that we were training. Myself included.

Our original plan was to stay in a village on the way and take on requests when needed, but there were quite a lot of merchants coming and going to the villages near the royal capital. With many adventurers, too.

Even if we had many things to prepare, I didn’t enjoy being seen by so many people. Hearing that, Arisa came up with the crazy idea of staying in a random campsite for a while… And the thoughtless me also agreed with it, so we decided on the majority vote and put it into practice.

That being said, spending many days in a campsite on a large hillside road would make us stand out. Instead of actually using the campsite, we were camping a little deeper in the forest near the campsite.

Specifically, I stored the trees into my [Storage] to make a small vacant lot. Then I used earth magic to make a simple house next to the carriage.

It was a simple one, so I didn’t put too much thought when making it. We used the simple bed in the carriage as it was. The golem horse didn’t need this, but I made some kind of tent to cover them. That could also serve as an excuse when someone saw us.

The floor plan was a living room with a corridor to the carriage instead of the bedroom. The toilet was at the left end of the corridor. The doorway to the stable was right next to the toilet. There were tables and chairs for meals in the living room, and benches to relax at the corner of the room. Also, you could also go to the kitchen and the bathroom from the living room. Since I could go out directly from the living room this way, I also made an entrance door just to be safe.

It’s quicker if I took out my house, but having a house of that size suddenly appear would cause a ruckus. That’s why we settled down like this.

Eh? It still stands out? Well, you’re right… But renting a house in a village and doing my preparations there would make me stand out even more, so I had no other choice than doing this… I guess I also choose this after considering my ‌comfort as well.

I said we were preparing a lot of things, but it was mostly mastering our party cooperation and making new equipment.

First, the party cooperation. This was actually the biggest problem… To be honest, the difference in fighting ability between Lily and Arisa with Norn and I was… too different.

Let’s ‌look at Lily and Arisa first. The cooperation between them was perfect.

Arisa’s strong forte was competing with speed, but she was also skilled with swordsmanship, so her blows weren’t light at all. She could easily decapitate an orc’s fat neck.

Behind her, Lily secured her safety with barrier magic and supported Arisa with attack magic and auxiliary magic. Both of them seemed to be the cautious type of adventurers, prioritizing their safety above all. Their policy was not to overdo it. That’s great.

Then, let’s go to Norn, Bell, and I.

(This chapter is provided to you by Re:Library)

(Please visit Re:Library to show the translators your appreciation and stop supporting the content thief!)

I was completely a rearguard1. What I usually did was put Norn and Bell in the vanguard and make a long-range attack after taking a distance behind them. It’s possible to carry out mobile combat by riding on Norn just like when I was fighting the giant, but I would only do it when it was an emergency. To tell you the truth, participating in a battle was too much for me, so I didn’t really want to do it.

Well, our fighting styles were basically the same, but our annihilation power was different.

We once tried to show each other our battle against random monsters, but… if we fought together, the monsters would be annihilated by Norn, Bell, and me. Lily and Arisa wouldn’t get any experience out of it.

We decided that Arisa and Bell would be the vanguard. Lily was in the rearguard. Further back was me as a backup and Norn as my escort. Since that’s how it went, Lily, Norn, and Bell trained cooperating with each other.

The reason I didn’t train? That was because of my low self-defense ability. Norn became my escort to make up for that, but I didn’t want to be in danger during training. That’s why I was absent.

I made an excuse that Norn had to move around to follow up during the training, which would leave me having no defense. The truth was, Norn hated putting me in danger.

Norn’s overprotection had increased since that incident… What the heck happened to Norn’s title, it changed to ‘Ren’s Guardian.’ I was happy and thankful, but also felt a bit complicated.

Also, there were a few other reasons… First‌, we were at a party, but also not. I think calling us a clan was more suitable.

Clan was a large-scale party where multiple parties gathered2.

A typical adventurer’s party usually comprised four to six people on average, up to eight at most.

However, the larger the number of people, the more different the field of expertise would be. The advantage was we could adapt to various situations. Having over ten people move together would make things complicated, the operation would change. Usually, clans like that would group teams according to the request, and some members could take a rest when the clan was taking a request they weren’t good at.

Well, there were cases where a party with around six to eight people had to work separately according to the request, but with many people, it would be better to register as a clan than becoming one ‌party.

That way, the guild would have it easier in managing various difficult special requests, large subjugation, mediation of such jobs, and more. That’s what Lily heard from her older sister, who was a guild staff.

Lily also learned a trick from Salena. That becoming a clan might be a method to deceive our rank and age difference during registration.

In our case, the rank difference between Lily and I mattered little, but my age was less than thirteen years old. That’s why we couldn’t take subjugation requests if I joined a party.

However, we weren’t forming a party of three people, but a clan with ‌three people; me as a solo, Lily and Arisa as a pair. That way, they could take subjugation requests.

Apparently, when some parties have differences in rank between the members or unable to take requests because of age restrictions, they will take this method. It’s not very common, though.

 

References

Robinxen: This reminds me I’m still behind on Worlds Strongest Rearguard. Robinxen: Google for some reason flagged “gathered” as incorrectly spelled which is really amusing because it was spelled correctly, so when I accepted the google suggestion for spelling it didn’t change.

 

Author: Ash Original Source: Syosetu Word Count: 2992 characters
Translator: Mii English Source: Re:Library Word Count: 1242 words

 

However, the guild wasn’t stupid. The assessment for clan registration for a small number of people with large age differences and rank differences would be harder, or so I heard…

Eh? Did we manage to register our clan? Of course we did. What?

I have a high contribution to the guild; you know? That made the guild’s evaluation of me quite high, so we didn’t meet any problems. I always did my work seriously, okay…

Then, what was it again? Ah, why did we act separately?

As I just explained, we were at a separate party for convenience, but my other reason was to renew their equipment. I also wanted to make a present to thank them.

There’s too much gap between the level of Lily’s party equipment and mine. But she gave me hairpins when I got into my rehab, remember? That’s why I wanted to make equipment for the two of them as a thank-you gift.

And what I had created was these.

First, Lily’s ring.

I bestowed [All Attribute Strengthening LV5], [Magic Power Consumption Reduction LV 5], [Magic Power Recovery Promotion LV5], [Magic Power Operation LV5], and [Magic Effect Amplification LV3]. Lily had her own cane, and she seemed to like it, so I chose an accessory for her. The name is… Hmm, how about [Amplification Ring] or ‘Magic Ring’?

Next was ‘Mithril Robe’. It used the same Mithril fabric as my clothes. A magical robe you put on your clothes. I bestowed [All Attributes LV5], [Defense Strengthening LV5], [Durability Strengthening LV5], and [Weight Reduction LV5]. The level of the bestowal was slightly lower than my equipment. I watched myself.

And then Arisa’s sword.

It was a one-handed sword made of Mithril. I bestowed [Wind Attribute LV5] [Non-Attribute LV5] [Attack Enhancement LV5] [Durability Enhancement LV5] [Muscle Enhancement LV5] [Agility Enhancement LV5] [Weapon skill: Acceleration].

While increasing Arisa’s strengths, I tried to make up for her weakness. [Muscle Enhancement] and [Attack Enhancement] made up for her light blow, while [Agility Enhancement] and [Wind Attribute] raised her speed. Since a single attribute sword lacked versatility, I chose [Non-attribute].

The weapon skill was a technique that ‘accelerates all actions,’ ‘accelerate attack power,’ and ‘accelerate thinking speed.’ It was a strange abnormal technique that could strengthen anything depending on what the user made it be. Well, it would be hard for her to master it, but Arisa should do her best!

Eh? The name of the sword? The name is… thinking about it was too bothersome, so I’ll leave it to Arisa!

And the last one was the gauntlets. Or maybe something similar to that?

Arisa told me ‌she would rather have both of her hands free so she could flexibly move. That’s why I thought gauntlets would be better than a shield ‌she had to grip all the time.

Apparently, Arisa could maneuver herself depending on the equipment she had in her hands. She could punch using a gauntlet, stabbing the enemy within a gap and parrying using a dagger, and naturally ward off an attack using a shield.

In addition, Arisa also had a dual-wielding skill, so she used her swords in parallel like that before. That would make her have more equipment. However, Arisa told me with a friendly smile that she’d rather have gauntlets than a shield since increasing the weight of her equipment more than this would become a problem.

(This chapter is provided to you by Re:Library)

(Please visit Re:Library to show the translators your appreciation and stop supporting the content thief!)

And she learned how to fight by experiencing the real battlefield over and over again a long time ago… scary.

Anyway, she made such an order, so I made a Mithril gauntlet for her left hand. I tried to cover her upper arm and attach a slightly larger plate armor to the forearm side so she could use it as a small shield. Choosing a safer way, I bestowed [Non-attribute LV5] [Attack Strengthening LV5] [Defense Strengthening LV5] and [Durability Strengthening LV5]. A gauntlet in the right hand was unnecessary for now. I decided to create it when she needed it.

Hmm, a gauntlet with [Attack Strengthening], huh… It might be interesting. Nn…?

As a bonus, I also bestowed [Non-attribute LV3] to the narrow-bladed sword she originally used. It was made of magic steel, so I could finish it soon.

Lily was watching us with a distant look when I handed over this equipment, but there should be no problem.

Arisa was joyful and said, “I’m finally a magic swordsman!” I think Lily should be happy too!

With that kind of feeling, I renewed their equipment. And practical training was essential for mastering the equipment.

It took me a long time to make them… or that was my excuse to stay in my room for around a week. I actually completed everything in two days.

What was I doing the rest of the time? Of course it’s my daily routine. Don’t make me say it, it’s embarrassing.

Well… I think there shouldn’t be any problem? Perhaps I didn’t notice myself making a mistake, but I didn’t think there was anything in particular.

That being said, I made a bluff that I had a habit to seclude myself when concentrating on making items. That way, no one would bother me.

We were going to be working together from now on, so it would be hard for me to make time to do my daily routine. So it couldn’t be helped.

Eh? Could I do it even if I wasn’t at my house? Well, it wasn’t that simple.

This time, I built a separate work hut for making things. I also set up a bed and told them I would sleep there. Then I dug an underground passage from the work hut, created a large space deep inside the ground, and took out my house there. Even if someone called me during my work, I could say I didn’t reply because I was too focused. My preparations were perfect. Hahaha1!

Ah, by the way, we took turns in the meal duty since all of us had the [Cooking] skill. That was Lily’s suggestion since she didn’t want to burden me alone. In fact, most of the large luggage was carried in my [Storage]. Considering the division of roles of all the members, it’s undeniable that my burden was quite large.

However, Arisa was a little dissatisfied. Arisa’s [Cooking] skill was LV2, so she didn’t want to be compared since her skill was the lowest among us three? By the way, Lily was LV4, the level enough to open a restaurant. Mine was LV10. I had to live quietly to make it inconspicuous! There are also problems with my recipes; how annoying…

Well, that’s why there wasn’t much problem with food, even if I secluded myself for a while.

In addition, I temporarily stored the ingredients and other battle loots they got in their training in Norn’s [Item Box]. When I came out of my room, I moved them to my [Storage]. Besides, as long as they freeze raw meat with ice magic before storing it in Norn’s [Item Box], it would stay good for a long time.

(This chapter is provided to you by Re:Library)

(If you are reading this, that means this content is stolen. Please support us by visiting our site.)

That being said, most of the monsters that appeared in the area we secluded ourselves in were goblins and kobolds. Orcs appeared seldomly, but we didn’t have to worry too much about it.

Anyway, I updated their equipment as they trained, so now was my equipment’s turn.

Hmm, golem armor… do this and that… oh, this is bad. It’s getting more and more interesting.

References

Silva: Wow, talk about overkill!




Please report us if you find any errors so we can fix it asap!


COMMENTS