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"The impact of the battle," he said?

"Mm-hmm. In Salamander's crusade, the manager used ice magic. Hey, Kate?

"Yep. It was quite powerful. Because it was completely frozen on one side around here."

To Kate's words, Nordrad looks around and points to the lava.

"... is that, too, the lava over there?

"Yes, and lava"

Again staring at the lava, Nordrad sighed deeply.

"It's outrageous. That's right, there are things that the master class just disciples"

"Is that it? - Oh, no, of course I know the manager is amazing."

"That's it, yeah. Well, ice based magic works on salamanders, but it's unrealistic when you think of a place. Not to mention how much this room solidifies to lava instead. If you don't decorate it, it's unusual."

To Nordrad shrugging his shoulders, Iris and Kate face to face.

"Hmm, is that right? We don't have that long of a career as collectors either."

"I did think we were awesome too..."

The Rozze family at a level where I (...) respond (...) is aristocratic, but really only one (...) respond (...).

The territory is also a small village far from the city.

Iris, daughter of such a house, and Kate, a jury, are, in short, countrymen.

I gained experience by working as a gatherer, and my horizons were widening, and I thought Sarasa was excellent, but I didn't really understand its awesomeness.

"Alchemists and wizards, it feels like, isn't it?"

"I don't think so. She is a substantial chief graduate. Probably the best in the country compared to the same age. At least in terms of overall strength."

Just swordsmanship, magic, knowledge of a certain field.

The same age that surpasses Sarasa would also exist if conditions were limited, but when it comes to combining everything at a high level, it is very difficult.

Rather, if that's all you have, there's no way you won't be enrolled in an alchemist training school where graduation alone gives you a high social status, and it's the school's purpose to develop that kind of talent.

This means that if you can graduate there as chief, it will inevitably be the top of your age.

"Amongst other things, Sarasa, aren't you, like, one in a decade, or something like that? Masterclass wants to be his disciple."

"That's it..."

Whatever her personality, Sarasa's excellence was once again pointed out to Nordrad, who as a researcher had deep knowledge, and Kate glanced and exhaled as impressed.

"Instead, I'm wondering why such a child is in such a country... you know what?

"I don't know... but it's a secret. I don't like to talk."

Iris moaned her lips slightly, but Nordrad nodded lightly without looking concerned.

"Yeah, I'm not trying to force you to ask. I was just wondering, because I'm not going to explore the girl's secrets. - That's how insane you are, Sarasa, and you can't do it normally."

"I thought we were awesome too...... by the way, how do you usually crusade? The salamander."

"First, lure them out of the nest. This is the basics. If you fight in a place like this, no matter how hard you are on your heat protection gear, normal humans don't wear out their health. Conversely, it's comfortable over there. It doesn't matter what you think, does it? I don't know if it's true, but there's a theory that salamanders recover when they're put in lava."

"I lure you out, right? Perhaps if you ask me, but I don't think the manager said that in particular..."

"That's because the three of us can't do it, I'm sure. Normally, they are replaced by a large number of people, standing up, attacking while reducing health drag, dragging them out of the nest and fighting. That's how he's gonna die."

The cave the Iris and the others broke into. The area around its entrance is also hot enough, but still not comparable to right next to the lava.

Needless to say, which is appropriate for a fiercely moving combat operation.

Of course, the same applies to ice based magic, and how inefficient it is to freeze it, including lava.

"I mean, why did the three of us try? Sarasa, I think you understand that there's a risk."

It was a supremely natural question for Nordrad, but it was very painful for Iris, becoming tannic and bending his mouth to the letter to.

"... I can't tell you the details, but I guess it's to help me"

The time it takes to gather the number of people, the cost of having heat protection gear available for that many people, before the number of people decreases by increasing.

Considering them, Sarasa ran a salamander crusade between the three of them as an acceptable risk to help Iris.

But since those things are a scandal of nobility, Iris has no choice but to cloud his words.

"Hmm? Ma, no. As far as I'm concerned, this is how I got the experimental environment, so thank you very much."

Nordrad, who had grasped the general shape from all kinds of information, but for him, who doesn't pay much attention to anything but research, it doesn't matter how detailed it is.

As I said, while thanking Sarasa for preparing this environment, when I put the measuring instrument on the ground, I took the other survey tools out of my luggage.

"Oh, the investigation will take a while, so you two can take it easy, okay?

"Really? Then let me do so...... investigate here where there is no salamander already, does that make any sense?

"On the contrary, Mr. Iris. If you want to check the salamander, you can go where the salamander is. But it's not convenient to have a salamander to investigate the habitat of the salamander. It's dangerous. It's hard to kill."

Conveniently, and not many days after the salamander was killed, this is a valuable sample of safe habitat surveys. That seems to be the case.

"That's what I'm talking about, so wait a while."

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Three days had already passed since Nordrad began to look into Salamander's habitat.

Nordrad, who continues to even act so boring to the Iris watching that he doesn't really know what it's all about, is frequently watered down with tons of sweat, but his expression was still lively.

Iris and Kate, on the other hand, stood quietly near the entrance to Salamander's habitat and away from the lava, so it wasn't so hot that it also had the effect of heat protection gear, but they were free anyway.

I guess it would still have been good if Nordrad's investigation had been a little more discerning, but his investigation is plain anyway. It's not funny at all to watch.

Still, Iris and the others endured because they just stood and got 20 gold coins a day.

I endured better than fighting a lava lizard, but just three days later, patience also seemed to be running out of stock, and Iris threw a slightly unwieldy voice at Nordrad's back, which continued the investigation.

"Hey, Nord. How long does that last?

"Oh, I'm sorry. This is my last experiment, so wait a little longer."

Nordrad didn't even raise his face to Iris' words, he stuck his hand in his luggage and finally took out enough square boxes to be on both hands.

The whole area is black, the top of the box contains about three slits of fingers, and one of the sides is latticed on the bottom half.

When Nordrad wondered if he had placed the box on the ground, he took the leather bag out of his luggage and poured what he had grabbed out of it into the jalajara and the slit of the box.