The Novice Alchemist’s Store

"Ho, is this the cave? That's pretty big."

With the guidance of Mr. Andre and his men, we were not lost, but reached the northern cave.

He looks up at the entrance to the cave, about 20 meters wide and about 10 meters high, and raises a voice that Mr. Iris was impressed with.

"You're pretty close. This makes it easy to come... but the question is, can you hunt properly?"

"It's not strong, so it's okay. I don't know if they can attack me at the same time, because they usually don't.... normally."

"Normally?

"If it's somewhat about hunting, I'll give priority to the escape, for example, by blocking the entrance to the cave and exterminating it, or something like that, and it seems to be coming crazily over there too. In the past, some people have frozen their whole bodies to death."

Because it is a vermin for an orchard, there have naturally been instances of attempts to annihilate it.

With enough strength, there's no problem, but when you try to deal with it with halfway personnel, accidents like that can happen.

So I cautioned him for once, and Andre and the others nodded, as strange as a nose whispered.

"Oh... you can't be alarmed."

"You can't always be alarmed during sampling operations. Naturally."

"It's okay, this time. Unless you suddenly throw in even extensive magic. There's no one to use it."

"Dear Store Manager, if you can use such magic, you are using it during the raid ahead"

"Then it's okay. So shall we go? First," Wind Wall "Air Wall" "

Use supercritical magic to cover everyone and step inside the cave.

"Ugh, it stinks!

"Oh, yeah, this is pretty..."

It was Mr. Iris and Mr. Kate who immediately raised their voices.

Well, it stinks, doesn't it? The floor, it's all there.

"Mr. Andre and the others... well, they're collectors, so as arr"

"Hey, what the fuck is that?!?"

Mr. Kate sarallies through Mr. Andre's protests and peeks into my face worryingly.

"Is the manager okay?

"I'm pretty sure it stinks, but there are some pretty stinky things in the alchemy material. That's the kind of thing that loses consciousness if you don't deal with it somehow. Now, by the way, I'm using medicine to reduce the odor."

"Z, cheat! Lord Store Manager, give it to me too!

"It's a bit of a good price, okay?

"Ugh!

"Shit, I owe you..."

"It's a joke. Only this time, you can use it. Yes, sniff this"

I open the lid of the vial I took away and give it to Mr. Iris and the others.

The two people, who brought their noses closer to the vial and inhaled their breath, immediately opened their eyes to see if they felt the effect.

"It doesn't stink!... nothing, but it got so much better!

"Yep. Not at all."

"More than a certain odor is the potion, an smelling drug that cuts it. Because it's dangerous if you completely ruin your sense of smell."

Even when doing alchemy, the smell is important.

It's not stupid to smell when you change the heating time due to smell, or when you notice danger due to burning smell.

This "cut well" part is the part of the smelting drug Potion.

That's why it's expensive.

"That's the smelter potion, it's amazing."

"We can't just offer it for free every time, so we'll take care of what we do. Increase your debt or be patient."

"Mmmm... don't worry"

There's nothing unbearable about it.

"Do you also use Mr. Andre and the others?

"No, we're good"

"It's a bearable level. Some of the gatherers said, 'Since when have you not washed your body!' Cause some of them do."

"That's just how far we can go!?... at least not to the collectors of this village"

What, are you outside of this village...?

Such a gatherer, I might not want you to come to the store.

- If you're serious about this level of people, I wouldn't quit making it off-limits, either, I would.

Lorea, who has the store number, is too pathetic.

"By the way, if you cut off this floor and bring it back, it's going to be good fertilizer."

"Oh, really? Sarasa bought it for me."

"Ha, I won't. It's not an alchemy material, it's already fertilizer. If you want to sell it, you'll be dealing with the farmers, but whether the farmers in this village will buy it..."

I may have a little money right now, but I don't usually.

It would be hard to give money and buy fertilizer.

Besides, fertilizers are not effective immediately after use.

Regardless of the collectors who have stayed in this village for a long time and are somewhat trusted, Andre and the others, whether or not to buy fertilizer to be spread over important fields from collectors who do not know their characteristics.

Given the risk of adverse effects, you probably won't buy it?

"Right. Then I'll do it for free to someone I know..."

"Too much is counterproductive, so be careful. - More importantly, it's fate. Look up there."

"Up...... whoops!

Mr. Iris, caught by me pointing and looking up honestly, raises his voice.

Andre and the others, too, are opening their mouths to surprise.

"This guy... that's a lot..."

The one sticking to the ceiling was the ice tooth bat.

That, too, is so surprising that you can't see the actual ceiling.

I can't seem to count how many there are.

"Ko, from this, are you looking for individuals over the age of five? Shouldn't you be able to do that, Mr. Store Manager?

"Oh, there seems to be no way to kill him indiscriminately."

"No. It's a little difficult, but it's not impossible to tell your age even in this condition. For example... that's it."

With that said, I use magic to attack a single ice tooth bat.

Potentially picked up the ice tooth bats that fell to the ground, and showed them to Mr. Andre, but they just twist their necks.

"... no, I attacked you based on what, Sarasa"

"Oh, we have no idea."

"That's their amount of magic. Aim for ice tooth bats with more than a certain amount of magic."

"No, because I can't! We can't sense that!

To me, who answered plainly, Mr. Gill vehemently disputed, and the others nodded again and again with Unh-unh.

"Yes, I know. I'm not asking you to discern it this way. First of all, you're body length. It's bigger than the rest, you know?

I hang with my ice tooth bat leg and show its length.

Andre and the others compare that ice tooth bat to the ice tooth bat stuck on the ceiling over and over again.

But... you know what I mean?

"... if you ask me, it looks a little small"

"No, it makes little difference? I don't understand, do I?

"You can't tell from this distance..."

My hunted ice tooth bat is roughly 20cm less from toe to toe of head.

It sticks to the ceiling from about 10 cm with small objects. Not many individuals are bigger than this.

Anyway, what do you know about Mr. Kate and Mr. Gill?

Mr. Kate has a bow in the main, so is he sharp in observation?

"Well, let's take action on the appearance. The next step is to tell by fangs."

Pull open the mouth of the ice tooth bat and show its fangs.

Two fangs about two centimeters.

It just comes under the name “Ice Fang," which, given the size of your body, is pretty big.

"Color first. The deeper the blue, the older it is."

"Ho, that's kind of a beautiful color..."

"This is still thin, but beyond the age of ten, it will turn blue and blue" Konji "color, so it's even prettier."

Keep it away from Mr. Iris, who raises his voice like he was impressed and tries to touch his fangs, and keep the words going.

"Next, cooling capacity. It's well worth it if you touch it with your bare hands and get cold enough not to be touching it right away"

"Ugh."

Keep the ice tooth bat away from Mr. Iris, who honestly took off his gloves and tried to touch his fangs, again.

To me like that, Mr. Iris turns a dissatisfied face, but I shake my head no good.

"I can tell by stabbing something in my fangs. Well, if you're over five, people's fingers are about to freeze in seconds. Would you like to try, Mr. Iris?

"Yes, no, fine!

Mr. Iris shakes his head with a blurb and wears the gloves back like he panicked.

Yeah. It's dangerous to get your hands on it during the explanation, isn't it?

Even in alchemy classes, they never come close during experiments.

Until I got permission, it was the iron rule not to touch it.

"At the end of the day, here, that's a way to see the root of your fangs. Can you see there's something like a muscle?

Mr. Iris peeks in horror as Andre and the others look intrigued at the place I have shown them.

"... hey, you don't look dark"

"Oh, right." The Light ""

I have trouble making too much bright and ice tooth bats noise, so I light a slight light.

Did that make it easier for you to see, Andre and the others nod 'Hmm'?

"Sure, you have muscle. How old is this number?

"That's right. There are five of these, so you're six."

"I see. You can tell this from me, too. But if you don't shoot him, you don't know... Kate, can you handle it?

"I, too, can tell with certainty that this slight difference..."

Iris asks, and Kate twists her neck with a sinister look.

"Gil, how about you?

"I'm not sure either. In the first place, how do we kill them? Kate would have a bow."

"Right. Sarasa, is there any way?

"No, shouldn't I normally even use a net? Wormless. When you catch a feather worm, you use it, right?

"... oh, right. If you put on a slightly longer pattern and make the net a little sturdy, is that all you need?"

Ice tooth bats have almost no attack power other than fangs.

If you tangle it with a net, you can't do anything.

Clarify, if you don't even deal with it the wrong way, you're a very lame prey.

That's as much as I want to collect a ton of it myself and go home - no, I plan to collect it and go home.

"Later, if you fold these two fangs and bring them back, you're done. Carefully hold it so you don't stab it in your finger, knock it inside, and it'll break easily."

With that said, Baki, Baki and I broke our fangs, threw them into the leather bag we brought, and the body grabbed our legs and poised outside the cave.

The corpse of the ice tooth bat that flew away with the shpawn disappears into the midst of the trees.

"If you have any remaining body, discard it because it has little use. but if possible, you should throw it out of the cave. If you rot here, you'll have trouble the next time you come."

"Ooh..."

"And one more thing. In these caves, the ice tooth bat in the back is older."

"... hmm? So if you hunt in the deepest part, don't you need to worry about your age?

"There was an ice tooth bat of this age at the entrance, and it must be now."

"Now... Oh, you know what? You mean if you hunt the back, the younger ones come in the back in turn?

I nod again, too, to Mr. Andre, who gave a little thought and nodded as I was convinced.

"That's right. So it's no use being able to tell."

"Really? Even so, I don't think I can..."

"Good luck there, only"

"Right. Whoa, Gil, come on, man.

"Me?!? Well, I'll make an effort... but when an individual under five gets to live in the back, isn't it smart to pull it up, this"

"I'll take care of that area. Honestly, it's more habitat than I expected, so even if they hunt it all down, they can't buy it."

Probably because there was no one to hunt.

This number at the entrance.

The total number of ice tooth bats living in this cave is unimaginable.

If you do anything to hunt this down, the market for ice tooth bat fangs in this country will go down in itself, right?

"Ma, let's just move on back. Because I can't help talking about it here. Mr. Andre, do you know the depth of this cave?

"Um, I'm sorry. It's the first time we've actually been in there. I think our senior Mr. Drake would have known, because he's already retired."

"Is it? Well, you can tell if you go. Proceed with caution."