Volume 1 Chapter 14 Not Knowing Is Amazing. But, Since I Can't Grasp the 'What If,' It Is 'Regrettable
Inside the Great Mine of Gold World (Kinsekai).
There, Horace is walking, carrying a strong leather bag on his back.
It's a dungeon with a big vein, and monsters appear all the time.
When you defeat the monsters, they often drop coins and ore as drop items, and you can get metal at 'collection points', and it's a holy place for dwarves.
The dungeon has no traps.
But, the deeper you go, the stronger the monsters get.
...A ten-meter-long blue metal bird appeared in front of Horace, and it's one of those 'strong monsters'.
"...!"
Gray pressure overflows from Horace's eyes and goes towards the blue bird.
But, when a big cry echoes from the blue bird's mouth, the aura scattered.
"...At this point, only aura won't help. It's unexplored, so it's normal. Birds made of metal like you fly with 'magic only', so it would have been easy if I could intimidate your magic."
Horace puts his hand inside his jacket and takes out a weapon.
If you know, you would call it a 'gun'.
But, it doesn't seem to be as portable as a 'pistol', so it's more like a 'gun-shaped gadget'.
It's not made of iron, gunpowder, and bullets, but it's just a 'gun-shaped golem', so it looks tough and cool.
He points the muzzle and fires.
The next moment, it pierced the wing at a speed far exceeding the speed of sound.
It easily penetrates the object, which is packed with metal inside, more like an iron lump than a wing.
"It's weaker than I thought."
Horace touches the 'hemispherical part' on the thumb, which is supposed to be the hammer.
Then, he pulls the trigger.
50 magic bullets per second are fired, making the body a honeycomb.
Moreover, all of them have a bullet speed that far surpasses that of a normal gun.
But, there's no 'vibration from the gun shaking'.
In other words, it's a state of unreasonable '0 recoil'.
It's not just the bullets that are unreasonable.
The oppressive gray aura is not 'innocent' in its influence on the blue bird.
From the start, it kept up the pressure, and the magic used to move its metal body wasn't working well, so the body that should move at super speed couldn't move properly.
With such a 'malfunctioning body,' one can't avoid 'super-fast bullets.'
"Guh... Ah, Aa..."
The blue bird crashes to the ground and vanishes, leaving behind coins and minerals as dust.
"...."
Horace silently put the bag aside and touched the magic circle drawn next to it; a wind arose, and the coins and minerals inside the bag disappeared.
"Well, shall we go back?"
Seemingly satisfied with the amount, Horace turned on his heel.
* * *
"Um, this is needed. This is not. This is... not needed."
"Master, what are you doing?"
In the mansion's warehouse, he kept taking out minerals, arranging them on shelves, and stuffing them into boxes.
Moreover, 'not needed' goes on the shelf, and 'needed' goes in the box.
However, as Tiaris, he knows what he's doing, but it's 'incomprehensible.'
It's because even if they look like the same minerals, they're being arranged on shelves and put into boxes all mixed up.
"Hm? Oh, I'm sorting what's needed and what's not."
"I understand that, but..."
"To put it simply, with a good appraisal skill, you can see that 'even if they look the same, their quality is different.'"
"Huh? Then, does that mean the minerals I prepared are mixed with unwanted metals?"
Sweat is running down Tiaris's forehead...
"No, at that level, even my alchemy can manipulate and adjust them. For going deep into dungeons, 'rare minerals that appear in the middle layers' are really good for supporting the deeper minerals, but they're rare and it's a pain to go there, so..."
"So, is Master sorting the minerals he obtained this time into needed and not needed because they're at a level that can't be handled by Master's alchemy?"
"Yeah, being a Golem Master is kind of like a mix between 'earth magic,' 'alchemy,' and 'magic item crafting,' so it's not really focused on manipulating metal itself... Alright, I've made my point. I'm not needed, so I'll leave it to Tiaris and the others to decide what to do."
"Understood."
Horace, saying he was 'here,' picked up the box he had been poking around in and walked out of the warehouse.
Tiaris looked at the ore Horace had left behind, pondering something.
"...For simple metal equipment, it seems like we could make something quite high-level. But... it might take decades to master."
Lining them up on the shelves meant he was also considering calling the merchant guild that deals with ore in the Dragonstone Kingdom.
But would the merchants see their value?
"...Especially this one."
Tiaris examined a piece of ore shaped like a blue wing.
"I can't even imagine what kind of monster you'd have to defeat to get this. Heh, if I think about my master being charmed by a Demon Lord, it sends shivers down my spine."
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