Transported to a hyper-realistic RPG.
Episode 357 Trap (2)
"What are you going to do?"
"Here comes Nil."
Nil looks up at me like a jiotto.
"Could you cool down the hard skeleton bones as much as you can?"
"Is cooling ice magic?"
"Ah, it seems that when the hard skeleton bones are cooled, they become brittle enough to shatter with a hammer.And when you mix the crushed stuff with acid, the calcium dissolves. "
"Um... calcium is a shell!"
Recently, I've taught Nil about chemistry to the best of my knowledge.Atomic theory is impossible on boulders, but the world understands that it is made of a combination of various components.
"Exactly. I think it was calcium phosphate… but either way, it dissolves in acid.Mix it with the mucus of the acidslime, melt the calcium, and it seems to be the ingredient left. "
It does not become a complete single component, but it is not particularly problematic, so I will break it down here.
"Once separated from the melted liquid and only the ingredients are present, wash, dry, and melt in the furnace once.And paint it on the surface of the wood. "
"I think they told me that hard skeleton bones can't be solved by heat, but can they melt just by using that ingredient?"
"I'm not talking about Sena.I don't know if we're going to make it, so let's try it. "
Yes!
In this way, Nil and I will proceed with our work.
It's not that difficult, so the work goes smoothly...
Now it's dry.
"Yes, you're going to melt this, right?"
Ah.
Heat dry ingredients in the furnace.
A few minutes later.
"It melted, but it melted..."
"It's going to be hard to paint the tree..."
Although the melted ingredients were in liquid form, they only dissolved at fairly high temperatures, with a melting point almost unchanged from iron.
If you try to paint the tree, the tree will burn up and become ash.
"I wish I could paint the tree... but let's make a spear-shaped stone with earth magic and paint it."
"Why was the tree better?"
"There aren't any high-ranking monsters around here, and the trap doesn't have to be that solid.
When it's a stone trap, it's heavy and hard to build and install, so it's usually a tree trap. "
"If you ask me, I'm sure it is..."
"Well, even if the material is stone, I don't feel that uncomfortable, and it'll be fine.The question is, is this really strengthening it? "
Even if I look at the stone spear after coating, there is no change in color, is it slightly flattering?It's about a change in appearance.
"How much has changed? Try a lot."
"Yes."
Simply break the spear, hit it with a hammer, stab it into a stone... and check its strength.
"The strength seems to have gone up considerably."
"Ah. Compared to the hard skeleton bones, the strength seems to have dropped, but it's hard enough.However, when I see the coating peeling off due to the blow, it feels like it's just sticking. "
"Do you want to combine with sand to consolidate?"
"Well, let's give it a try."
Instead of applying it to stones, I'll try mixing it with sand...
"I can't... I'm going to fall apart."
"This is useless."
For the time being, I also mixed the ordinary skeleton bones and tried to solidify them, but the results were the same.
I applied it to a metal spear or mixed it with metal, but it was worse than the stone. When I applied it, it peeled off without sticking, and when I mixed it, it didn't solidify as it was in the first place.
"It seems best to apply it to a stone spear."
"That's right. Well, with this strength, we'll be fine.I'm going to mass produce this. "
"Okay, I'm going to apply the melted ingredients to the spear."
"Please, I'll melt the next one."
In this way, while sharing the work, we make stone spears with ingredients one after the other while sandwiching lunch.
Continue to work, and a considerable amount of stone spear will be completed by the time the sun sets.
"Well done,"
"Yes, we'll just have to connect this later.If that's all you can do at night, why don't you try making one after dinner? "
"Got it."
After Nil and I have finished eating properly, we move on to internal work.The first trap is completed without hassle because it is simply tied together by rope.
"It's a little awkward, but I'm sure there's nothing wrong with the performance."
I made a trap that was larger in size but shaped like a bear.
"How do you make this responsive?"
"It's a simple story.Place the rope under the weapon to be fed and lift it to remove it, stretching the rope from the ground to the trunk and branch of the tree.
Put this trap on top of it, and once the trick is activated, it will simply fall towards the position where the weapon was placed using the pendulum principle. "
"It's not a common trap when hunting, is it?"
"That's right. If it's a trap of this size, it won't work on small animals.A big animal or a trap like the one used to hunt monsters. "
"If so, what is the meaning of the ingredients applied to the surface?Even a regular stone spear seems capable of killing as many people as possible... "
"Do you think wearing armor is enough?"
"Ah! I forgot to mention bandits, but if you lived in a castle like that, you would have plenty of money and armor!"
"I don't think the people walking outside are wearing full-body armor, but it should be as likely as torso armor.Speaking of which, if you try to end it with such a crude trap, you won't be able to penetrate it with a regular stone spear. "
"You're right. The stone spear can only see the future when it loses and breaks.
That's why we strengthened it and increased its penetration. "
"Simply put, that's what happens.Nevertheless, even if it is well coated, when it is installed as a trap, I don't know if it will work as expected.Try everything tomorrow, and if it works, I'll make some of the same traps and then another. "
"Yes, I understand!"
We just got separated, so we decided to take the day off.
The next day.
"Yesterday, if it's made of iron armor, I can confirm that it's easy to penetrate, so I'll make a trick today."
Yes!
"I see... that tree looks good."
Show the trees growing in the vicinity of the horizontal hole and set the trap you tried to make.
"Here's the rope... hook it up here... OK.Looks like this. I'm an amateur, but I'd love to see if it works. "
I know how traps work, but this is the first time I've made them.
Nil holds the tip of the rope and sees what happens when he releases his hand after installation.
"Let go of me!"
Nil nodded and let go, saying that Nil could hear it from the top of the tree where the trap was placed.
Suresh, suresh, suresh!
When the rope away from Nil's hand makes a noise of rubbing against the hooked branch, the trap falls.
Boom! Boom!!
"Uh-oh?!"
However, it seems that the branch was thin, losing to the centrifugal force of the pendulum and breaking, causing the trap to fall to the ground.
"It's dangerous... Nil! Are you hurt?!"
"Yes! I'm perfectly fine!"
Nil was asked to stand away as a precaution, so there was no injury.
"The trap itself seems to be heavier than I thought.I didn't calculate the centrifugal force. "
"You have to have thicker branches."
"Oh, let's try it again with a slightly thicker branch."
Yes!
Try it again and again so that the trap moves as imagined.
If the trap is installed in a bad way, it will not fall well or the centrifugal force will be insufficient... it will be harder than I thought it would be to actually make it.
The hardest part is the mechanism that activates the trap when the feeding weapon is pulled up.
The weapon itself was not so heavy that it lost to the weight of the trap and was not well balanced.
In the end, it was after noon that the balance was struck that this would be good.
"Well, you finally made it..."
"You were a stronger enemy than I thought..."
Both of them twisted their heads and tried again and again, so I was mentally exhausted.
"I wish I could use magic and magic tools, but I don't like being noticed."
"But now that we know how to make it, we can make it right away!"
"I see. You're used to this.Well, let's see how powerful it actually is. "
Got it!
I can create a soil golem with earth magic and wear the ordinary iron armor that was in the inventory.
Around here?
A little more to the right.
Around here.
"Yes! Perfect!"
Move the Soil Golem and stand under the trap.
"Here we go."
Nil activates the trap.
Boom!!
Baca!!
"............ oh......"
"S, that's incredible power..."
I made it to pierce the armor, but all the stone spears penetrated the armor beautifully and stuck to the root.
"You've become an egg trap..."
"Surely those who are fed will die."
"However, once used, the tip is not worn out."
The stone spear is stuck, but the tip is damaged.
"I think it's enough to pierce the iron armor... but it seems better to have a spare."
"Yes, I was going to make another trap, but I'll make as much spare as I can by today."
"Yes."
After a little late lunch, Nil and I continued to make traps and prepared a considerable amount, including spare parts.
The next morning, early morning.
"I'm back..."
"Hi, Pilte. Good day."
Heine and Pilte return.
I can use magic, and there's a water field. I'm pretty, but I'm mentally tired.
"You must be tired. You should rest first."
"No, I'll tell you what I found out first."
"... okay."
He looked tired, but nodded with a serious expression.
"First of all, the castle's location is centered on the cliffs on the west, the gentle slopes on the east, north, and south, and the lush, lush trees.The main gate is on the east side, where people and things come and go.
On the gentle slopes, some bandits are standing on the sentry, dotted with things like huts.
I didn't know the total number of bandits, but there should be a lot of them there, just enough to set up a sentry. "
Heine explains the whole picture to the ground.
"If there are people and things in and out, can you manage to sneak in?"
"No, that's hard.
When I walked through the main gate, I had a pretty thorough investigation, so I would soon find out if I got mixed up. "
"I had a better physical examination than the rest of the city."
After all, it's the home of the bandits, and it's only natural to be vigilant... but I feel like I can't say anything more than the city.Though the number of people entering and leaving is different, I want the gatekeepers of the city to do their best.
"Well... what kind of people go in and out the gates?"
"The focus is on those who carry food and essentials, and those who stood on the sentry post, but regular squad members often come and go."
"If you're aiming for them."
"We'll know as soon as the sentry is gone, when it's time to carry the luggage."
"The aim is to reduce the number, but I want to capture some people alive and get inside information, so I don't know what they're talking about.We're going to need traps to catch him alive, not to kill him. "
"So... here, here, here, here, and then here's the trap to kill."
"Why?"
"It seems that people who come and go often use the back entrance on the north side to get in and out.I think it's because every time I do a physical examination, the high-ranking people in Noble get depressed.
You don't have to worry about betraying me.
Conversely, those who use the main gate will not be given that important role, so it will be difficult to be noticed without them. "
"If you cut it from them, is that the best part you just taught me?"
Yeah.
"If we get information, we should capture people coming and going from the north, so if we set up a non-lethal trap, it's the north."
"That's right. I wonder if the traps on the north side will work... around here and here.However, there are a lot of very cautious people around here, so I don't know if they'll catch up well. "
"Well... maybe Nil and I don't know enough..."
Are you not good at trapping?
"What an amateur.Honestly, it's been quite a struggle. "
Do you have any weaknesses in Sinya?
"What do you think I am?"
"I wonder who can twist a vampire with one hand...?"
That sounds like a monster.Hey! There won't be any difference. It's too much. "
"Am I right? At least I don't feel like I can win, even if Shinya does it with one hand?"
"Because your husband is the strongest.It's not wrong. "
"Don't get in, Nil."
Nil says it with a real face and with a real face.
"Instead, I dared to make a kind of trap that could kill.Including that, let me know your opinions. "
"Okay."
"... before that... take a break.I think I'm pretty tired. "
"Well... honestly, it was crazy.I'll let you sweeten your words. "
"Nil, can I have some tea?"
"Yes, I'll bring it right away."
Because it's a smart nil, he got up faster than I said and was working on preparing the tea, but he answered with a smile.That's a good girl.
I will have Nil's brewed tea at the table made by Nil.
"Hmm... calm down..."
"woosh, I feel so tired..."
"Was it that hard?"
"It wasn't so hard not to be found by the bandits.It was the monsters who had a hard time.If this is how many trees grow, there will be so many monsters.No matter how many low-ranking monsters there are, I had to be very careful, so I got tired. "
"If you get attacked in bed, it doesn't matter what your monster ranks are... I'm sorry I pushed you around."
"I didn't mean to say that.Let's not do that. "
"... yeah, that's right. Thank you for exploring so much.We need to use it meaningfully. "
"Yes, I'm glad you did."
"Well... Nil and I are in the workshop over there, so call me if you need anything."
"Workshop?"
"Just a little expansion work.I made another room. "
"I made it... I don't think it's such a light story... okay.It would be helpful if you could get Shinya and the others to call. "
Got it.
Leaving two tired faces, Nil and I move to the workshop.
"After all, the vampire tribe is amazing.I didn't expect to get that much information in such a short time. "
"If I told them, they'd be happy."
"Ah, no... well..."
It is unusual for Nil to have a bad tooth cut.
What's wrong?
"Er... I'm embarrassed, I'm a little jealous..."
"Nil is... jealous?"
I hear back that something is unusual.
"Yes... Pilte is very beautiful and has such great abilities..."
"I think Nil is amazing enough...?"
I think Nil will win if Nil and Pilte fight, even if they don't look good.Besides, it's overwhelming.
Fighting might not be all, and Pilte may be winning over Nil.However, it is not limited to Pilte.And my face... it's beautiful, but Nil is no worse than Nil.Most men are red when stared at from the front.
This is my prediction… Perhaps because Nil feels close to Pilte, he is inspired by his rivalry.
It is not very similar in appearance, but it is an inner part, and sometimes I think it is similar to Nil.I readily accept the words of my esteemed counterpart, but I never deviate from my beliefs, and I apologize honestly when I was wrong.Basically gentle and polite with words.Pilte used vampire magic, and Nil was good at tricky ways of fighting with items.
Therefore, if she achieves something more recognizable than herself, she will become jealous.
I don't think I would dislike it, but as Nil, I don't want to lose.
The criteria for winning or losing... is probably me.If I praise you more, you will win...
It may not be a matter of winning or losing…
"This is the first time Nil has said such a thing."
"But I'm sorry..."
"No, there's nothing to apologize for.Competitiveness is not a bad thing. "