Strange Grief Wants to Retire ~ The Weakest Hunter’s Hero Dream
148 End of Vacation ③
"You don't need to replenish your energy because you do it on your own, and you don't need maintenance because you have a self-repair function. However, I don't think it's possible for the security of this city to begin with, but the core is a precision part so it needs to be repaired if it's damaged. The output isn't that high, but unlike humans, there's no fatigue and it's great for the workforce when you have to."
"But a billion... hey. What about your combat skills?
"That's of course - lower than a hunter. But it's convenient. There's no allowance for death, and there's ranged attacks."
Credit is important for selling goods. Don't lie to me.
The clerk in charge of running the city of Sulphur looks up to Citrie's words, which were put out with a smile on his face. I lurk my voice and discuss it with other members, but the original Golem is not that strong.
No, they have enough fighting power compared to adult men who haven't absorbed the common Mana Materials, but they are very much less hostile to those who attack the city. If you want something that can beat it, you have to get ten times that out.
The defense of the city of Sulphur was an untold level from the Citries.
The outer walls are much lower than the rest of the city and are only about a meter tall. Thorny designs are applied on top to prevent them from being overcome, but those who absorb hunters and a little mana materiale will be able to jump over them lightly.
For once, lookouts exist in the four corners of the city, but security is generally unmotivated.
Originally, the city is a tourist destination, and a few hunter guests visit for Yuji. Few people stayed for long periods of time, and the majority of nature and security were probably the responsibility of their guests.
That meant the city had been at peace for years. The fact that the number of guards is still not increasing after hearing rumors about the bandits and the guests are gone is evidence that we are too used to peace. In the first place, the fact that the Hot Springs Dragon was intruding into an open-air bath itself is not normally possible.
From the many citries that have fought bandits, hunters, phantoms and demons so far, there is more to peace than that.
Well, that doesn't matter.
The more peace boggles, the more hunter jobs. When it comes to increasing security, the alchemist moisturizes by buying and selling potions. Either way, it's a business opportunity.
"Does our city need such a high level of preparation..."
I hear the vacation destination is a hot spring, a circular sphere with a gold pattern in the black I brought - rolling the core flat in my hand, telling a fat clerk who is still in a sinister face.
"Don't worry, we'll try this one. I was wondering if you might like it - let me try and activate it."
I thought the exam was necessary. I don't know if it will be useful in Citrie's main business - Hunt - without checking the performance properly beforehand.
Alchemy is a pile. Of course I'm happy with the results, but it's exciting even before I do the validation.
Feeling the height of his chest, he approaches a narrow river of hot springs running through the town. Are you a tourist, a couple of men and women like the couple you were walking with, hands on the fence, looking down at the river.
Whether new tourists came in or not, there were at some point a number of people all over town.
"Easy to start...... just drop this core into the liquid"
Drop your core into the hot spring river with a gentle grin. Make a small noise and the core will submerge.
Wearing a suit, the skinny clerk rounded his eyes.
"Isn't nothing going to happen?
"Well, well, please wait"
In true water it changed in one second. The test also includes how long it will take to change in a hot spring containing perhaps impurities.
I have eyes with a couple who were whispering and welcoming me as I looked down at the river next door. It's a couple of guys with a parked face and a beautiful girl.
Is he about the same age as Citrie? You lit it, the girl gets out of sight better, but Citrie doesn't.
Citrie Smart is a guard. We haven't grown enough to find our enemies and turn away from them.
And the time has come. Makes a small water noise and 'core' rises. The clerks' faces distort in amazement.
The look on her face is comfortable on top of this as she showed off her new work.
The nucleus that Citrie brought is a prototype of the nucleus of the water golem.
Focusing on the core, the hot springs were shaping the human form. There are no impurities in the body except for the dull and radiant core, and there are no eyes, no nose, no mouth on the face. The appearance of hot air standing from all over the body is like a joke.
A water golem already exists, but it requires a massive ritual to make it. But the new Citri model can be activated freely as long as it has a core. Besides, it's fine to have impurities in it, not real water.
I had the pride of making the perfect one, but seeing it actually activated in front of me like this, I was relieved.
"Yay! How about that? This is my special hot spring golem! Unlike the original golem, it is a breakthrough product that is portable and easy to start up!
"Hey, what, that's -!"
I can't stop my voice from playing. In front of a full smile citrie, the hot spring golem waves his arms wide. As it was, he shook his thick arm down toward the stunned couple.
Screaming. A woman pulls out a knife and slashes her arm, but there is no way the attack will pass through the body of water, and she is pushed down by the hot spring golem as it is.
The clerk, who was staring at the sight, stuffed me like he was in a panic. Citrie dropped the rest of the core he had additionally inside the hot spring.
"Hey, what are you doing!?
".................. ha. Really, you're at peace..."
I'm not going to laugh. Even Citrine was first made to relate unprepared.
Soon, those who had earlier been in sight surrounded greatly by the Citries. We know that even without being surrounded, those dressed in tourist-style outfits are not just tourists. Liz is in charge of the mourning ghost, but it's not like she can't do it with Citrine.
In taking a thousand trials, what is most needed is the ability to feel uncomfortable. The second is the power to respond ad hoc, and the third is - resistance. Each and every step of it was natural, but there were signs specific to the very few trained. And it's natural to attack with preemption when you realize it.
As the new hot spring golem rises, a very slight wind-cut noise sounds from behind. A golem holding the couple down grabs its root with both arms and breaks in between. The flying knife pierced the body, losing momentum and being taken inside the golem.
This assassin is the assassin. Physical fitness, secrecy and ability to collaborate. I'm not an amateur at any of them.
Be sure without changing your expression. Citrie showed a new hot spring golem and said in an exaggerated and bright voice.
Presentations need to be made with confidence. And it is the same in commerce.
"How about, the power is to the extent that hairy grows on average adult men, but they're good at fighting. Especially for defensive performance - I'm confident. Damage is fine, and the momentum of most flying tools can be attenuated and will stand up and cover you up! Well, it might be a useless ability to use it for watching."
"What!? What's happening!? Hey!"
"If you don't want to die, stay away"
Avoid the stuffing clerk step by step.
Apparently, there are no enemies inside. Citri's customers had an unpleasant look that did not respond to the situation. It's not an act.
On the other hand, the look on the faces of those surrounding them is extremely calm. He looked surprised for a moment, but is quickly returning to calm.
Old and young, the number is eleven. Not that many, but this one's alone. No more reinforcements, such as guards, would be expected than they have attacked so flashly. And we also have to think about the possibility that the other person will increase.
Thank you, Mr. Klee. I can't believe you have so many people ready for exams...
You no longer think of assassinations or anything, countless knives fly from all directions. The aim is all citrie, but some were aimed at the three clerks of the presenting opponent. You're the great man who runs the city of Sulphur, and you can't hurt him to facilitate future business.
Turn the unite and the newly-activated unite over there. The nucleus of the hot spring golem is thirty in all. The force of the individual is not that much, but if it can all be activated, the numerical advantage leans toward the citrie.
A one-eyed hot spring golem with two couples necks in their hands slaps the knife off as they wield a weapon of both hands and spin it wide.
Naturally, many knives pierce a weapon held in both hands, but that's not what Citrine found out. We don't need individuals specializing in this level of assassination.
"I put in the combat skills! Naturally, mixed blood doesn't interfere with golem movement."
"Hih!"
A fat clerk screams briefly when he sees a hot spring golem with a mixture of red and black colors in his body. Looks like he's losing his hips.
It was convenient. The subject of escort is good enough not to move unless he moves. It would be nice if you put it in your pocket.
The fourth and fifth golems are continuously activated. But that speed is a little slower than Citrie assumed.
One of the reasons is the mixing of impurities in the water, but the primary factor would be that the water source is not that wide. Hopefully to this extent, there may be difficulties in starting up in an emergency.
The pouring knife is fine. The biggest problem is that melee capability isn't that high.
Leave the defense to two newly activated golems to advance the golem with two people as weapons. The opponent was calm, albeit slightly distorting his expression, against the golem that had struck him with his watery footsteps.
A man dressed extremely close to the average man, not wearing armor or a helmet, jumped up with a dagger in his hands as he stepped forward large without escaping.
Hot Springs Golem tries to tap the 'weapon' in his hand for the first time, but when he jumps into his nostrils like he did against his body before that, he keeps up the momentum and kicks the ground and pushes through his body. At the end of that blade is the nucleus of the head - the hot spring golem.
There was a slightly stiff sound.
The spiked core is lightly powerless, unable to maintain its physical composition, and returns to just a hot spring. The couple, who had it in both arms, were thrown to the ground, and the deeply damaged core made a vain noise and rolled to the ground.
The core itself has not been heavily damaged, but the core is a precision part. If the engraved procedure loses its power, there's nothing more we can do.
The man who ruined the hot spring golem smiles at Citrie while getting all wet all over his body.
"Ah. Difficulties with core strength," he said....... I guess I lowered the cost too much. But all the metals you can use for coating are expensive... "
"Do it! Kill that woman! Golem's weakness is core, not stiff!
"Next, let me show you the Ranged Attack Performance - Weapons"
Two new hot spring golems on the side of the citrie raise their arms. A cylinder with a diameter of several centimeters grows from above the arm.
Looking at that cylinder, the complexion of the man who got wet a lot changes. But it's too late.
Countless high-pressure hot spring bullets were ejected toward the assassin population without waiting for the signal of Citri.
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It is difficult to start. Difficulty with core strength. I have difficulty fighting. Difficulty moving speed. Ranged attacks make your body smaller, so there is a limit to the number of remnants. Stop corrosive potions when mixing poison potions in the body.
Evaluation is - not allowed. It is not a performance that can follow Hunt at this stage.
The test results were scattered but fruitful. Failure is the mother of success.
Citrie had the usual grin and looked down at the man who fell and lay down at his feet.
"No way - I'm in trouble for five bodies to get hit"
"Heh... ahhh..."
"Oh, I know what you're trying to say. If you had a numerical advantage, you could have defeated it without a problem, couldn't you? Not at all - you're right. It's a matter of deciding. You might want to plant a combination and sell it in triplets."
"Shh... shh, shh..."
"Oh, I know I don't have to tell you. I didn't expect you to attack, did I? But - because there's nothing cowardly or cowardly about the battle - folks, the ability to erase the signs is pretty good... isn't it intolerable enough?
A man who breathes roughly with a frivolous eye, hooks a gun trigger like a pink toy in his right hand to his index finger and twirls it around to show it.
The gun, shaped like a toy, was exactly like a toy. But it's not just a toy. A toy - a treasure.
A gift from a loved one in the city - a complete water cannon that will never run out of water forever.
The Best Water Gun.
Klee Andrich was just a toy. He played with it, pinpointed its non-existent 'water source', and got the art of arbitrarily changing it, which was in the air.
It is the potion worn from day to day that is ejected from the water cannon emitted by Citrie. Now that I can freely change my water sources, I'm an indispensable partner for Hunt to take.
Hot spring golems were quietly awaiting orders around the city.
The total number is twenty-four. Five bodies were hit, and the hell with Citrie's shot potion mixed up in his body and his core stopped moving.
There are thirteen unidentified raiders on the ground, unconscious and rolling. Some of them suffered a blow or bullet from the golem, some failed to destroy the core and choked in their bodies, and members of the training were the result of Citrie's poisoning with the 'best water gun'.
Perhaps the aim is not Citrie herself. If you are targeting members of The Mourning Ghost, this number is very insufficient. I can't do ten times that.
What's wrong... Citrie looks at the blue customer and thinks.
I don't know who I am. I have a few candidates, but I can't confirm them.
Maybe I should have pretended I was hit and let him swim a little, I reflect. The assassins' knives seemed poisoned, but the resistance of the members of The Mourning Ghost is perfect. It is too expensive and the poison used by Citri does not work. Naturally, Citrine is poisoning herself to make it resistant.
I have no choice, interrogate... I'm not bad at interrogation. Of course, I can torture you. It's easier to make him confess in potion though.
"They're - what the fuck!?
"You're a common assassin. I don't know which organization you belong to - but it's quite proficient. But my golem surpasses that. What do you say, now we follow long-range weapons?"
I won't forget to stay well open.
Instruct the water golem to take charge of the spasmodic assassin in front of his eyes. For this time, I didn't use poison that would kill me instantly. but you should finish the interrogation early.
As he tried to walk out, an unexpected object entered his sight, and Citrie accidentally opened her eyes wide.
Frown like trouble and look back at the customer.
"... uh, did you apply for reinforcements?
"What? There's no way you would"
Outside the city, there was a small shadow from across the horizon.
A horse. A group of people on horseback are coming this way. Not many, but not many. At least not a hundred people or there.
A merchant would use a carriage, and the speed would be too fast. I can't explain it unless it's the army, but Zebuldia's army is basically a knight.
If you look up at the sky, you can see the shadows of black bumps. Flying soldier. I don't know if what I'm riding is a flying dragon or a giant bird, but it's not normal.
Ten people can take them down, but a hundred people can't do it alone in Citrine. Citrie is an alchemist.
The clerks glance at you as you finally notice the shadow coming your way.
Once again, Citrie had a full grin, hands in hand toward her valued customer, and suggested.
"I don't know, it would be necessary at times like this. The core of the hot spring golem, now with twenty-four bodies, is firmly - 240 million geels. If you need more, it will take some time, but we can also place booking orders."