The Novice Alchemist’s Store

"Ice tooth bats are coming at me, but... it was too late."

At once the cave becomes noisy and many ice tooth bats fly towards Mr. Gill, who got their hands on their own bait.

"You idiot! Don't get your hands on me without listening to the experts!

"Shh, sorry!

Andre, who immediately followed up and cut off the ice-tooth bat, yelled at Gil.

Mr. Gill, who was yelled at, apologized while throwing away the fruit he had, pulled out his sword and joined the attack.

While working with Mr. Gray as well, he trumps the surrounding ice-tooth bats, but they are not the only ones to be attacked by ice-tooth bats.

I magically strike down the flying ice-tooth bat appropriately, while anything that flies toward me cuts off with a pulled out sword.

"Hey, why? I was asleep and suddenly... I didn't even attack you!

I tell Mr. Iris, who wields his sword a little confused, something very fundamental.

"You'll wake up if they vandalize your bait, even the ice-tooth bat."

"Naturally, right? It would be a matter of death."

Nodding as he was convinced, such Mr. Kate occupies a good time between me and Mr. Iris, leaving the response of the near-field ice tooth bat to us to target distant objects with a bow.

"I can understand! But damn, isn't that too much?!?"

While he utters his stupidity, Mr. Iris continues to wave his sword, and the more there is no foot stomping ground around him, the more ice fang bat corpses pile up.

But still, the attack will not be interrupted.

And Mr. Iris was the first person whose breath began to rise.

"Phew, phew... or not many?

"Good luck, Iris! The manager is using magic, but he's also using a sword? What are you gonna do with the sound first!

"Ke, Kate's still resting! Well, I feel sorry for losing strength to the manager..."

"Oh, no, I'm fine, right? If it's tight, should we strengthen the Wind Wall Air Wall? Ice tooth bat attacks will stop coming through, won't they?

"Oh, can you do that?

"Yes, of course"

"That said, last time, you were bouncing off an ice-tooth bat..."

This magic, this magic to prevent arrows in the first place.

Never, it's not magic to prevent falling manure.

In other words, even normal arrows have the power to divert them, and with a little reinforcement, there's no way to prevent an ice-tooth bat from storming. If you have the magic to my degree.

I didn't do it because the goal was to kill the ice tooth bat.

The fact that you can't get close means that you can't even attack with your sword.

"Ugh...... also, try harder!

"Really? Good luck, then. 'Cause I think we're gonna have a little bit more."

My perception was that a fairly wide range of ice tooth bats were attacking this way, but it feels like it's almost over too.

And Mr. Iris continued his hard work while Kate followed him, and when the able-bodied Andre's breath began to run out, the Ice Tooth Bat raid was finally interrupted.

"Oh, it's over...?

"Yeah, that's it for starters."

I nod to Mr. Iris, who looks around with his sword-held arm hanging loose.

"Ha... this time, my arms are pampered too"

Kate also exhales ho and shakes her arms blah blah blah.

I guess I was pretty tired because I kept pulling my bow until the arrow was gone and since then I've been fighting with a dagger.

"Huh! It's tight!

"There's too many of them!

"Because of your far-fetched behavior. Reflect, Gil."

"Really! Guys, I'm so sorry!

I shook my head laughing at Mr. Gill, who lowered his head with both hands together with bread.

"It's okay. Because it wasn't really dangerous."

If everyone's health is at its limit and becomes endangered, it can also be said that the actual damage is just tired because it also took a way to recover health by pulling inside the Wind Wall Air Wall for a while.

"I mean, the manager is still amazing. That's all, because it's okay to keep waving your sword while using magic."

"You're strengthening yourself with magic. Iris is no match for vegetarian strength and muscle strength. And thank you in Cinzini. I didn't point it out because the situation was there earlier."

"... Mr. Store Manager, are you going to continue? It."

"'Cause if the merchant finds out, it's funny - wasn't it, isn't it a hassle"

To my words, Mr. Andre and the others look at each other.

"Cinzini, aren't you actually having fun? This time."

"Huh?... No way, no way. What a greedy merchant, you know, crumble. You only think a little, don't you?

"You think so for a second!?"

In my honest words, Mr. Gill gives me a scratch.

But isn't that natural?

Merchants can't just make themselves happy. Others can't be happy either.

"Just a little bit." Business is honest. "That's our homework."

"Home training... was Cinzini's house a merchant?

"Yes, my parents died in an accident."

"Uh, sorry."

"No, by asking Mr. Iris to apologize. It was a long time ago."

I shake my head at Mr. Iris, who looks away from me at first sight.

Although it is sad to lose both parents, it is understandable that it is a common thing to be in an orphanage.

And you don't think I've been unhappy since.

I got a few but good friends at school, and I was blessed with an unwanted tour of being a master class master, and I was able to be an alchemist.

And the alchemists, a little different in shape from your fathers, can't even say they're a kind of merchant.

That is why I want to be able to achieve what my fathers aspired to, and I do not intend to spare any effort to eliminate obstacles to doing so. - Not so much.

Now, growing up as an alchemist is a priority, so to the extent it doesn't affect that, right?

"There are some parts of this that are just right for you to practice magic."

"Speaking of which, you've been killing me with all sorts of magic, haven't you?

"Yeah, something I've been practicing lately, in action."

"... Speaking of which, you had a vacant lot in the back of the store. The woods are gone."

"'With the forest gone' is an exaggeration, but there you go. I was practicing."

Last time, during the Hell Flame Grizzly raid, I had a bit of a hard time, so I talked to my master, and I've been practicing some more attack magic here lately. Behind the store.

But by no means, it's such a noisy story about magically blowing up the woods.

Carefully one at a time, I just magically knocked it down.

Of course I didn't waste those trees, and I gave them to Mr. Geberg.

However, I made the remaining stump extensively magical, so, hey, the ground is getting rough, right?

"The truth is, I wanted to try extensive magic, because when I use it here, the cave gets dirty, and it makes it harder to retrieve the fangs."

"I'm so glad you did. Even if it's just the bodies rolling here, I'm sick of it..."

With a few sighs, Andre was right to look around, surrounded by massive corpses of ice tooth bats.

Though not that many are rolling away because of my magic and what I defeated with Mr. Kate's bow, the bodies around us pile up beyond the height of our hips.

"That's outrageous to see again. Why was there so much this time...?

"You didn't run away this time. Because I got my hands on the bait."

While some are hunted, others escape.

That's the ice tooth bat's, normal pattern of behavior.

But this time, I got my hands on the bait for them to survive.

For this reason, ice tooth bats also desperately resist and do not escape where appropriate.

Now is the time to get food in the woods as well, so it was done to this extent, but if this was winter, the ice tooth bat in the cave, could have been framed for dealing with everything.

"- I mean, it's Gil's fault!

"So sorry! From now on, we'll listen properly and then we'll act! Huh?"

"That's what I'm asking you to do. But now let's start processing this corpse."

"... right. It doesn't make sense if you're blaming Gil, does it? So, how do we do it?

"Uh..."

Initially planned, I'll shoot the icetooth bat here, and Mr. Andre and the others will retrieve it.

I was going to take it outside, fold my fangs, and point the body into the woods... this is obviously a huge burden on Mr. Andre and the others, isn't it?

"I'm here to collect my fangs, and I'll have the body packed in a bag and thrown away, so what do you say?

Andre and the others nod to my answer, which I gave a little thought to.

"That would be good. Gil, come on, man.

"Well, I'll do my best... because there's a limit to how much you can have?

"If you're around here, you can weigh more than a kilo."

The majority of the ice tooth bats that have been attacked are sometimes older, about 30 cm when they are hanging, and spreading the wings exceeds one meter.

Ice tooth bats that have grown so far are rare, and fangs are precious.

The selling price is also high, but given the future, you should ensure it for yourself to some extent.

"All right. That's a hundred Gill's norms per shot."

"Seriously!? You can take on that for as many hours as you want and go back and forth... at most, twice is the limit, huh?

Mr. Gill speaks out in protest at the norm presented flatly by Mr. Gray.

But that's amazing enough, isn't it?

It's over a hundred kilos of leather bags, right?

Without physical enhancement by magic, that or just being trained.

"As for Cinzini to continue collecting his fangs...... can we all go back and forth and have a thousand by the end of the day?

Five people but me make one round trip.

Eleven bags in total if I hold one bag on my way home, too.

If each can hold nearly a hundred, it will be that calculation, but naturally, that calculation is impossible.

"Well, I can't have exactly a hundred, can I?

"Wow, I'm not sure either."

Yeah, Mr. Kate deserves it, and Mr. Iris is difficult, too.

"Rust could bring back Cinzini, too, right? If you had a hundred at that time, the Iris ladies would have seventy-five."

"Oh, you're certain I'll have a hundred."

"You can do that, right?

"I can, though. With physical enhancement."

I snort at Mr. Andre as a matter of course, but whether he needs to be forced to do so.

If I'm gonna clean it up, I'll do my best, but in this amount, hey.

"Yeah. Let's just focus on retrieving the fangs today. The body will be hired by the other collectors after tomorrow."

"Is that good? Nothing. You can use Gil, right?

"Because this amount, it won't end anyway. Fortunately, it doesn't seem to be a problem as long as I've left it for a day."

Outside the cave, even a day is at stake, but the more temperatures around here, the colder your skin feels.

The body won't rot in a few days or so.