I’m an Adventurer! ~Musou Skill is Plane Magic~
Episode 62 - It's similar to Spray Dry, but a little different
"Not enough salt.
"... why are you telling me?
The location is a room of the guild. Everyone said, "The last thing is our slave work," so I left my wallet to Luca and shopping and other things to everyone as I did yesterday, but because of that, Wu and I spent a lot of time snooping through the Guild's request board. That was Imelda's first voice after she found it and brought it to the other room.
"The workshop in Senna Village is no longer available. I have the stock, but I have it for at most 10 days. I asked Border Sets to send me, but it seems that I can only procure about three days to spend in this city. This is because of the war, too. The goal of rebuilding the village of Senna is still pending, and it is clear that sooner or later there will be a shortage of salt.
"... so why are you telling me? I still have one star to raise. [M]
Ask again while holding down the temples. I am an adventurer, and the procurement has finally become a star. Over the past few days, I have been ranked up by unloading the materials of monsters I hunted in the forest. Nevertheless, there is still one star. It is not a rank that can procure national strategic supplies such as salt.
Salt, which is easily available in modern Japan, was a national specialty until a long time ago. It's not that old. It was certainly some time after Heisei that the gates were opened to civilians. At that time, I remember that a commercial called "Salt of ○ ○" was flowing in full bloom. This is true even in modern Japan. As long as this feudal state is concerned, its importance goes without saying. It's a never-ending strategic asset. Originally, it's not how you can be an adventurer. If you put your hand in a loose direction, your neck will fly instead of a metaphor.
Ah, so the village of Senna was attacked. Indeed, crushing salt production areas is a great pain for the country. That's what those bandits were thinking. I guess it wasn't just an accident.
"He thinks he can trust the straw at the earliest. We have to do more than that. The whirlwind's secret child was a slight hope, but it was still difficult.
There we go again, Whirlwind! It's another kind of faith, isn't it? Nevertheless, Dantes Weissman, the village mayor of Dantes Village, owes an unparalleled favor to the whirlwind. I won't be told to defame the village mayor… but I don't want to imitate it to lower my reputation. Respond with a sigh. I can't help it.
"There is nothing I can do under the condition that 'I do not interrogate the method and route of acquisition' and 'I guarantee that I will not be disadvantaged by what I have procured and those around me'.
"Ah! Is that true!? Not a barrel or lid, 100 if you think about the future... no, you need 1000 barrels!?
"I think I can handle it. If only you could swallow the terms.
This condition is mandatory. It's like selling a fight to a country. "I've been chased away from the country because I've been asked to do so by an Alliance that is part of the power of the state," or something like that.
"Okay, I'll make it clear in the contract. Because it is a special nomination request, the rewards and points are also increased.
"My client is in the Dolton Adventurer Alliance.
"Ah!... I see, I see. Okay, let's create the contract under the deputy manager authority.
If your client is a deputy manager, Imelda will be the worst (physically) decapitated, and there may not be anyone who will come after me. With the country or the lord?
But if the Adventurers Guild, the substantive governing body of this dolton and a state-owned company, is the client, that means the country and the lord are the client. If you try to renege on the contract, the divine punishment of the God of Law and Commerce will fall on the king and the lord. Sufficient security.
Thereafter, the rewards and delivery deadlines were refined.
Deliver 200 barrels by 10 days first, and 100 barrels every 10 days thereafter, for a total of 1000 barrels. Delivery may be made in advance. I don't deliver them at once because I can't prepare a barrel. Even if we scratch empty barrels in Senna Village and Dolton, it was said that perhaps 400 barrels are the limit we can collect now. There's nothing we can do about the physical limits.
The reward is 5 Silver Coins per Barrel. There are 5,000 silver coins in total, so there are 5 large gold coins. Considering that there was a barrel of silver coins in the village, it seems quite expensive, but this time it is a premium. Points were added in the same way.
After I was seven years old, I was quite familiar with the magic contract, and I decided to act quickly. The barrels were supposed to be ready in the Alliance by three days, but it would be a waste of time until then. Maybe it's a bad habit for the modern people.
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Take Woo-chan to the forest. It's like a routine for a while. But I'm not hunting monsters today. No, I hunted a big snake for Woo-chan's food. It's about 6 meters long and is Woo-chan's food, except leather and magic stones. The meat alone will be a good amount, so you won't have to come hunting tomorrow.
Take a moment to head south through the big forest and head west to the coast. All the coastlines south of the Great Forest are cut off cliffs and rocky areas, so we can't get a boat. Occasionally large sailboats run offshore, but these are really rare, and they never get close to the shoreline where there is a risk of grounding. In other words, it's a place out of sight.
Get off the coast on a Skywalk and stand on one of the rocks that protrudes from the surface. Woo-chan comes down with us on the plane. I've already put it on several times, so I don't get into trouble in the air. I'm used to it.
This is a rock, but in fact each of the protruding rocks can be a huge rock. I had my camera swim to the sea in my spare time to make sure. Its sizes vary, but it seems to be about 20m in diameter. Today, I would like to borrow one of them, a little larger than 30 meters in diameter.
Lift the rock to sea on a flat surface. Seaweed, coral, shellfish, etc. are stuck in various places, but they are cut by rock and put back into the sea.
Next, we cut the rock into cubes. After a crisp cut in the usual extremely thin plane, it became a cube of about 15mx15mx20m. There are no cracks or holes. Looks good. It looks like granite, but I don't know the type of rock, so I don't think about it.
Slice the top part about 5cm thin. This is a lid. It will be difficult to use at this size, so I will not dare to split it it in half.
I shredded the rest and put it in a box. Considering the strength, make the mouth thickness about 5cm, and curve it round as you face the bottom. Since it only moves the curved ultra-thin plane, there is no dust or noise. Stone processing is friendly to people and the environment. If you stop being an adventurer, you'll be a masonry.
Wash thoroughly with sea water and sink once in the sea. Move it underwater and take it down to the cliffs in the building's garden. Confirm with signs that there are no people nearby and quickly bring them into the garden. It's good to have a museum in this location. Can I install it at the southwest end of the garden? Create a propeller on a flat surface and let it dry with the wind.
This is going to be a temporary reservoir of large quantities of salt (...). Let's make it a shiokura for now. It seems troublesome to make salt many times, so I wanted that storage facility to finish it in one go. I could have asked a carpenter or a mason to do it, but this time the schedule was tight, so I decided to prepare it myself. Anyway, it's only 10 days. If I wanted to make this size of container as normal, wouldn't it be impossible in 10 days?
Return to the reef after reversing the route that carried the salt. It's time to make salt.
Move further south than before. It wasn't well-founded, but I felt it was better to stay away from people a little.
Subsequently, equipment for making salt is created on a flat surface. This time it is a vacuum dryer. It's a pretty big facility.
When the vacuum dryer is briefly described, it is a device that separates water and others by spraying the aqueous solution in vacuo. It was in a college lab. I remember doing "Experiments to Make Instant Coffee from Dripped Coffee." I was a programmatic discipline, but I mixed organic chemistry with elective subjects that were rumored to be easy to take credit for. I think it was a good choice even now because the experiment was interesting and took credit. Science is interesting.
When the vacuum dryer is divided into large blocks, there are four types: "vacuum pump", "spray tank", "solution tank" and "separation tank". Empty the spray tank with a vacuum pump and spray the solution from the solution tank. The structure is such that the separated heavy particles fall from the bottom of the spray tank to the separation tank, and the dropped moisture is discharged from the vacuum pump as water vapor.
The prototype equipment was about 30 m tall and 10 m wide and 10 m deep. Especially the spray tank and separation tank are large. It's empty inside, but it's this size because there's a lot to make. This size of boulder may be visible from a ship passing through the coast. Camouflage with cliff texture on a huge plane.
The solution tank was not created, and the crane head used to clean the well was diverted and sucked up directly from the sea. There is a filter on the crane neck so there is no need to worry about debris or small fish getting in.
Creating a vacuum pump was the most difficult. It took time to link the piston up and down with the valve movement. It's not a mechanical system. When I tried it many times and it gradually worked properly, I suddenly had a guzzle pose.
When it is started, the separation tank is filled with harsh and fine salt crystals. Seems like a success. When I decided to continue making it, the separator tank froze and frosted. What is this!?
... Ah, there it is, Voil-Charles! Salt water, which expands rapidly and increases in volume, decreases in temperature. The separation tank was frozen with cold salt because it took away the lost calories from the surroundings. Don't be afraid to boil your face out in a vacuum dryer after the refrigerator.
If it keeps cooling, the creation efficiency may be reduced. Fortunately, today is a fine day, and the time is noon. Let's do something about this with the help of Mitendo.
Create a large number of 1m square planes and set the surface material to a mirror surface. Arrange it in a circle around the spray tank and separator to reflect the sun's light. The frost of the separation tank where the light gathers gradually dissolves. Seems like a success. Jesus Christ.
Thank you. The imitation of the modern machine that I make has a flaw or a subtle defect somewhere. It's not fatal, but it feels like it needs ingenuity to operate. After all, modern technology is amazing.
With the goal of continuous operation in sight, let's take Wu, who seems bored, for a stroll at sea and fashion.
As you can see, the opaque, slightly larger plane is appropriately spread and fixed to the sea. It's about 50 cm apart and it's like a rock.
When I run properly on top of it, Woo-chan gets caught and runs. Wu, who was scared at first, gradually got used to it and ran off cheerfully. Since the surface of the plane is smooth, it is respectful that it slipped and fell into the sea several times. Originally there was little resistance to water, so it seemed like it was a fun play to fall off.
After enjoying the water chase with Woo-chan for a while, take a break from the water bottle you brought. I'll pour plenty of it into a flat vessel, too. He was thirsty after drinking a little seawater, and started drinking with a lot of momentum. I also drink water directly from the water bottle.
Autumn is almost over, but this is the easiest time of year in a temperate climate. Would it be a bit chilly to have a short sleeve at dawn? That's enough. The wind over the sea is now pleasant.
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After a while of relaxation, the sign of a large monster caught on to the sign perception. Woo-chan also seems to have noticed, and she is suddenly moving her ears and vigilant.
The signs of the monster are getting closer and closer. Direction almost straight down, from the sea! I can already see the monsters in the sea in black. It's bigger! It's probably over 10 meters! This is the shark monster I checked on the camera before!
Probably recognized us as prey when we were doing Bashabasha on the water. They're heading towards the plane we're on at the speed of a rocket! And...
Dobchiiiiiiii!!
... I was bumping my nose into a big plane.
I fixed the plane to the sea. Considering the safety, we made a fairly hard plane. Shark monsters couldn't break through it. You blew yourself up perfectly. The plane did not move (loosen).
The shark monster slowly began to sink into the sea. Looks like he passed out. Speaking of which, I feel like I've heard that the nose is one of the weaknesses for sharks. Well, not just sharks, but most vertebrates have a weak nose surface.
You can leave it as it is, but given the safety of the neighborhood, we'd better get rid of it. I quickly surround the shark monster in a flat plane and seal the movement.
Transport the shark monster to the shoreline and unlock the plane. I'm not awake yet.
I usually cut off my neck or stick my head in the sky or heart, but I don't know the location of the shark's brain, heart, or neck. I had no choice, so I decided to cut off my head in front of my chest.
The shark monster once jumped and stopped moving.
Now... what do we do with this?