The Novice Alchemist’s Store

"Making... smelting equipment (artifacts)? I've never heard you can do that..."

"I asked my master for help. Not impossible '

"Oh well, with masterclass experience and skill, that's possible too...?

"However, it is not a formal smelter (artifact), but a magical aid. It's walnuts to use. '

"The walnut... the manager is through the walnut, right?

The walnut shakes his head and denies Kate's words, which he told him to confirm.

'No. The walnuts do it themselves. It's not convenient for me to be in tune when I want to use it, and even if I could, I don't have enough magic. And it's time for danger. Demon Crystal Stone'

Give me your hand at the same time as the walnut finishes writing that.

For a few moments, Iris stared at his hands, but soon looked back at the luggage that Iris had lowered to the ground as Kate hacked.

And as he panicked, if he took the magic crystal stone out of it and gave it to the walnut, the walnut immediately threw it into his mouth.

"Well, maintaining the walnut body..."

"There's a limit to magic stones."

Today, even if Sarasa and the walnuts are just in tune, the magic needed to maintain the walnut body is being consumed more and more.

Given that, it is naturally out of the question to keep in tune.

It would be difficult to even repeat a short period of tuning on a regular basis, without even knowing how many days it would take to escape.

"I don't have time for this. Materials are required to make it. Arrange the smelters (artifacts) and materials here '

"Wow, I get it!

Iris and Kate get the demonic material they've secured so far, and Nordrad arranges the experimental tools he was responsible for on the ground, and the walnut walks in between and picks up some items.

And naturally, most of them were Nordrad's smelters (artifacts).

"It breaks, okay?

"Of course I don't mind. Because, as I said, life is a priority. It hurts a lot, pursely."

"Appreciation."

That's all the walnuts wrote, hurried to work.

Flashing his nails quite luxuriously, he dismantles the smelter (artifact), combines it, sharpens it gallantly and draws a pattern.

While the Iris and the three of them were watching, the smelter (artifact) was completed after continuing the finer work that could not have been imagined from the bear's hand and consuming all three more Demonic Crystals.

"Done."

At first glance, an item that is undressingly attached to a board with intricate patterns.

I totally didn't understand the Iris, who are not alchemists, but I have no choice but to trust them more than to say that they were able to make them.

"Now... can you use it?

'I can use it. I can use it if I say' discern the way 'to walnuts. There's no strength, so carry it carefully.'

"Well, I'll carry that. I've lost my luggage."

What lies ahead of Nord's gaze is the wreckage of a demolished smelter (artifact).

There are certainly more items stacked there than the members used to pull out the trail detector, and the lost value is likely to be greater.

"Is this useless anymore?

"Garbage"

I asked Iris a little unfortunately, and the walnut response was terminal.

In fact, however, the smelter (artifact) is a delicately assembled substitute that can only destroy the entire material used if the smelter fails.

The task of removing parts that can be used from it is inherently very difficult, and closer to 'sharpening off unwanted parts of the smelter (artifact)' than to 'removing parts'.

Take out the parts you need and make sure you keep the value of what's left, for Christ's sake, it's a groundbreaking story.

"Then you should just throw it away. Thank you, Store Manager."

"I'm hanging up now. I will not be in full tune as much as I can in the future. Good luck. '

The walnut nodded at Kate's words, describing it to the ground as somewhat panicked, rolling it to the ground as it had done last time.

"Oh, already?... the manager? Did you cut it?

[incomprehensible]

As Iris responded to his words, if the walnut that stood up sounded so, Iris accidentally held up the walnut's body.

"I don't know, you were in a rush at the end... I haven't even been able to thank you."

"Probably was the limit? Considering the distance and the difficulty of the work"

"Right, you're doing something pretty advanced.... you owe the manager again."

"Right. To thank you, and to repay you, but not to return. And it says," I'm not completely in tune... "

It was Nordrad who answered Iris with a question about whether there was a tone that wasn't complete.

"That's just visual or auditory tuning. Naturally, it consumes less magic, but from now on, the walnut will also need magic to use this trail detector. Probably wouldn't be in tune if it wasn't as good?

"I mean, you can't expect the manager's help anymore."

Iris shakes her head to Kate, who says it's a little too bad.

"But it's not the kind of situation where you could have help. The presence of an emergency pack and this smelter (artifact) is too much. From now on, we need to get through what we have, and on our own. You asked for walnuts, too?

"Ugh!

The walnut raised its hand vigorously to Iris, who stared at herself with a hug.

◇ ◇ ◇

Sarasa remotely created an unplugged trail detector.

Iris and I were somewhere anxious to see if that could actually be used, but the opportunity to demonstrate it soon came.

Following Sarasa's advice, Iris, who had taken a dose in an orange spring water bottle, had resumed his exploration for dozens of minutes and before them a branched path had emerged in three.

One is wide enough for Iris alone to manage to stand and walk, the other is a wide rip that seems to pass if he's sideways, and the last one is a hole that's unlikely to go ahead unless he crawls away.

"Until now, we're going down a wide road..."

"You should try it, because the manager made it for me"

"Then this is... should I put it on the ground?

When Nordrad put the pull-out trail detector on the ground and looked back at Iris and nodded, Iris nodded again to respond to it, and looked at the walnut.

"See you, walnut." Discern the Way ""

"Ha!

When he heard Iris's words, the walnut, which jumped to the ground just right, stood in front of the unplugged trail detector, put his hand on it and roared "Guru".

With that voice, the retrieval trail detector moose began to emit a pale light, and the walnut that saw it let go of its hand and immediately moved on to the next motion.

"Ha, ha, ha!

A walnut around a pull-out trail detector broom placed on the ground, as if dancing somewhere.

One, two, three weeks.

Gradually, the light became stronger.

"Ha ha!!"

A walnut that lifts both hands in a pi with a ringing voice and stops the movement.

Such a ritual (?) The Iris, who watched still, called out to explore, seeing that there was no further movement in the walnut.

"... over, huh?

"Ha!

The walnut, who answered forcefully, used both arms to mark the bat when first pointing to the widest passage.

"This road is a dead end," he said?

[incomprehensible]

The walnut nods at the iris to confirm, then shows a thin gap and the same behavior.

And at the end of the day, I show a hole where I can't proceed without crawling, with my hands up and markings... acting like one, but my arms are too short to look like marl.

"Kupu...... Are you saying you can get through this?

[incomprehensible]

A walnut nodding at Iris asking as he erupted a bit.

"Right, thanks. Thank you so much... but do we move on here?"

Nicole and I smiled, and Iris was thankful, but I looked at that little hole again and sighed depressingly.

In fact, the hole is small enough for each person to crawl through it, and narrow enough to branch with a large load on his back.

You naturally want to avoid it if you can, such as going into such a hole that you can't even see ahead.

"But you have to go. The luggage will have to be pulled with a rope."

"Right...... ha"

"Mr. Iris, what if I go first?

Nordrad speaks so to Iris, who sighs and unloads his luggage, but Iris shakes his head without getting lost.

"No, that just won't work. For once, it's an escort, we are....... Yikes!

At that time when Iris had one temper and succumbed, walnuts slapped Pong and his own chest before him, as he controlled her like that.

"Ha ha."

"Hmm? What?

"... maybe you're saying you're going first?

"Ha!

The walnut said, 'Exactly!' Pointing to Kate as though, he stepped into a narrow hole ahead of Iris.

"Damn!

The three of them looked at each other in a powerful voice that they had heard without waiting much longer.

"It's okay, sounds like it, right?

"... are you telling me to come?

"Probably is. But now I can feel a little relieved. Thank you for the walnuts."

As Iris crawled to the ground again, he followed the walnut and proceeded into the hole.