Lazy Dungeon Master

Then a few days later.

"Oh, Gozo! You called me well. How's Lop?

"Cantara! Well done for coming, oh, he's fine too."

Celebrate and hug a reunion with a long time friend.

Whoa, I almost forgot. I just caught you coming out of the dungeon. I think I'll introduce you to the kama.

Kama is the one you'll never be able to take off as you set up around this dungeon, The Cave of Desire.

Whatever, make him secretary to the owner of The Dancing Puppet Pavilion, and he's one of the top attackers of The Cave of Desire.

There are two pairs of parties I've been to up to four levels, but one of them is the party in this cake.

Party members are slaves except for Kama. Well, as is often the case, the slaves at Kama's party are both healthy and bright enough to forget that if they were normal, they would be slaves.

This is not much.

Well, there's something about letting slaves work in inns, but based on that, I can see they're doing better enough.

"So, Kama. This is Cantara. Do it well."

"Ahai."

That's why I finished meeting Kama and Cantara face-to-face.

Either that or you were a wizard, I thought you were a swordsman because you were hanging a demon sword.

So. It's a reunion booze coming up, but Kama left without hanging out with it. Connected or stuck. The only thing left is the egg shell that Kama gave Cantara. Apparently it will be furnace material.

"Steady, what kind of egg shell is a fire attribute?

"Oh, I was impressed and forgot to ask. … I don't really know until I look into it."

"Hmm, I don't know what a snug egg shell looks like."

"Whoa. A monster egg shell is pretty rare material. Lord Kama's pretty excited about this."

"Really?

There's no such thing as a monster out there, and I don't think it's weird to happen to pick up about the egg shell of a monster in the fire attribute...

"You've never seen an egg shell in a collection request, have you?

"That's because it's so rare that we don't normally talk about it unless we make it a B-rank request if we try to get it on a request. Gozo, you're C-ranked, right?

"Seriously. Talk to me."

Why is that so difficult? Even though it's a shell of eggs.

"Gozo. You ever see a kid's monster in a dungeon?

"Huh? That's you... that's not there. Yeah."

When you ask me, all I encounter in a dungeon is a monster of adulthood.

The kid's monster... I've seen it, but that was outside the dungeon.

"For some reason, it's rare to be a child's monster. Except for the worm system, but still, you don't see a real toddler without combat in a dungeon first. Well, as for the ingredients, I'm mostly better at parenting, so it's perfectly fine... except for the egg shell. Besides, a monster that can lay eggs eats its own egg shell after it's born."

"Well, heh. Really? I didn't know."

"An egg shell is something that parents have focused on for their children. In other words, it can be called the crystal of power. Monsters are said to get their first protection by taking this in... Well, that's why"

"That's why... hmm?

Yeah? Then how am I supposed to get the egg shell?

If you're going to eat it right after birth, there's no way you're falling in there.

"I mean, we have to find monster eggs that we don't even know where they are. And we need to do something about the parent monster. Parent monsters who die crazy to protect their children."

"I see, that's tough"

In fact, a parent who protects a child demonstrates tremendous strength. Humans, monsters. You can try to get a step or two up the rank.

"And Lord Kama still ranks low, doesn't he? Depending on how many monsters they're dealing with, it's pretty rare material even if you're lucky enough to get it. Make that comfortable, and I don't know if I'd give you one if I had a demon sword."

He's a big guy, he is. And Cantara chuckled.

*

So, the next day.

"Shit. Lord Kama. Shit. Too big."

"Hey, what happened?! Hey, Cantara!

When I woke up, Cantara was gaggling with a bright blue face.

Yesterday I was sleeping as I was after a liquor platter while watching the stars at the planned construction site of the blacksmith. Oh, the knob brought me 'thin fried potatoes' with dozens of copper coins when I asked for the cake. The crisp texture was pleasant, salty and really suited the liquor, it was delicious.

I just woke up and I can't believe that Cantara is afraid of the caima... Ha!

"Did something happen to the fried potatoes?!

"Why does that happen?! No, it was delicious!

Mm, no. I thought you could make such a delicious knob if you didn't drink.

"Then what happened?"

"... the egg shell?

"Yeah? The egg shell?

"The egg shell belonged to an immortal bird..."

Immortals.... I have heard of them as B-rank crusaders. Seriously, dude.

"... well... I mean, is that it? You mean amazing rare material? Are you sure about that?

"Yeah, I know the name of the material. I also checked it out using demonic props, so I'm pretty sure. Honestly, this shell is an epic rare item... Lord Kama, where the hell did you get this shell..."

Epic, that's awesome. So, it seems that conditioning this into bricks will be the finest performance furnace. It's a blacksmith coveted material, and a hundred pieces of gold don't seem to go down. Seriously. Hey. If that's all you got, you can drink all you want until you die, right?

"So, what do we do? That shell. You want it back?

"... I'll use it. I got it once and made a promise. If this happens, you'll have to build the Devil's Sword and give it to Lord Kama already. I mean, build a furnace out of this rare material... you're really expected... I've never seen anything like it."

Making the Devil's Sword is often treated as an "unlikely story". Now I hear that even the most advanced researchers in Imperial Capital are only able to make enough to say "I think I managed to devil the sword..."... a blacksmith like Cantara makes it all by herself or something, it's just not possible, it's supposed to be.

"... it's like talking on liquor. I can't believe a blacksmith made a demon sword."

"Oh.... yeah, I'll try as much as I can. With this shell. Or maybe we can make a demon sword."

Did you talk to me and settle down, Cantara was the face of a blacksmith at the other end (full).

"Conversely, a good opportunity to fulfill your dreams. The dungeons here also give out demon swords, don't they? Doesn't that mean you have a good example? Gozo, can you help me gather the materials?

"Whoa, for now, if it's about the iron golem we can get here."

I looked straight into Cantara's eyes and decided to support her.

... or I can't really read it, Kama. He's only starting to understand that it's not Tadamon...