Chapter 106

Meat’s Name and Making the Ring

In the end, it appears that it was decided that [Cave of Desires] was a derivation from [Flame Cavern] through Hero Wataru’s report .

Before heading to Wakoku, he’ll be returning to the imperial capital for a while to do several jobs in order to pay back his debt .

Taking the occasion to gather, he made a promise with Gozoh and Roppu to go to Wakoku together with them .

[No more drinking until I repay my debt!]

He said that, but can he really keep it up…? Definitely something to worry about .

Then again, Haku-san would probably just shoulder his debt if he’s late on payments so it’s no problem for us really .

“Weeell, the hero’s heading back, looks like we can go back to being carefree . ”

“Kehma, even without the hero here you shouldn’t be that carefree…”

I looked away from Rokuko’s remark… right, come to think of it I have to give Meat a new name huh . I just remembered .

It was a good time for it, so I had brought her to the room and was using her as a hug pillow .

“Meat . Your name . ”

“I-it’s fine as is . I-I’ll become a good Meat so…”

When I said ‘name’, Meat trembled like a puppy that someone was trying to take their important blanket from .

“… Right, I’ll think about that in at least five years . So for now let’s think of a name . ” [1]

“Heeey, what’s ‘Meat’ mean anyways? I missed the chance to ask…”

Aah, I was going to explain it to Rokuko just there, but I’m finding myself at a loss for words .

… I can’t say something like it means sex toy . That’d definitely be hard to say to this person that knows nothing .

And so, I decided that I didn’t hear her .

“Your new name is Meat Blackdog . I’ll call you Black outside . Sound good?”

When I said that, Meat was surprised that I’d be leaving ‘Meat’ as her name, so she blinked her eyes .

In the end, I decided for it to be Blackdog since she is a black dog . It has the feeling that she’ll be proud of her black hair-ness . I’m definitely not cutting corners here . Definitely not .

… I’d asked Ichika concerning what to name her, but beastkin really do place an extreme importance on their name, to the point that it seems more so than their life . The story is that once they learn their name, it will stick with them for life no matter what’s said and done . Hearing countless examples—to the extent that schoolkids would seriously say things like ‘Will you stake your life on it?’—I got the impression that trying to change it was no good .

In short, [It’s useless even if I changed it, I wouldn’t know what would happen even if I tried to forcibly do it . Or rather, it’s already too late . Like a field mine laid years ago . ] I decided to postpone purposely blowing up the bomb .

Well, when it comes to having a name that describes her precisely, even if it’s by instinct, ‘Blackdog’ should be more or less satisfying for her… Yeah . I’m not cutting corners at all . I’m being serious . Serious I said!

… I just hope that Meat doesn’t explode until she’s an adult at least .

“So, let’s go to the guild to try and register your new name tomorrow… It should take some money, but it’s no problem . Even if it took gold coins . Understand?”

“Y-yes—”

Meat answered while gladly wagging her tail back and forth .

“Heeey, so what does ‘Meat’ mean?”

“… Ask Ichika . ”

I decided to leave it to Ichika to explain it to Rokuko .

Even though we were changing Meat’s registered name with the guild, it took thirty silver coins . We were able to easily go through the procedures at the branch office though .

It was cheaper than I thought it’d be .

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Since Rokuko had deepened her friendship with Redra while I was sleeping, I thought of something .

When I sleep so much, it feels like I’m useless .

Well, even so I don’t really mind and could just keep sleeping, but doesn’t it feel like I’m just a mascot? I don’t want to be put in the mascot box! I don’t want to be the mascot with a bad expression that gets caught between two futons like some dorayaki! [2]

Thus, even though I don’t really want to I decided that I would do some work .

To speak accurately, I would make more magic sword blade golems . They’re something that only I can make after all .

“Oh iron, become a magic sword, [Create Golem]—ah . ”

I made a blade golem with a considerably suitable chant . The magical power consumption is curbed remarkably compared to not using a chant… I don’t really need to bother though since it’s not like I’ll run out of magical power though . Even though I definitely remember feeling fatigued back when I first used the life magic [Cleanup]… wonder if it’s something like growing up?

For now let’s resupply the [Treasure Chests] and make the same kind of magic swords the hero took .

As for what these [Treasure Chests] are, they are boxes that replenish the items in them after a certain period of time . At a cost of 100 DP .

Other than having them use DP to resupply by choosing from a list if you let it happen automatically, you can also replenish them with items chosen beforehand .

Haku-san said that it’s a popular item among dungeon masters that find restocking to be troublesome .

I’d like to make more powerful magic swords—err, golems, but I don’t have a good way to… Even our most powerful piece, the iron golem, turned out to be useless and got sliced up by the hero .

Although the hero that came this time was relatively friendly, there might be a day that a hero fully intending to crush the dungeon core comes .

It’s probably best to upgrade its materials after thinking about it, so I looked at took a look at the raw materials I can get with DP .

… Oh, come to think of it I promised Rokuko a ring huh . Let’s make it before I forget .

It should need just about as much needed to make a coin, so it shouldn’t cost too much .

And so I bought [Orichalcum (1 MM Diameter, 10 CM Length: 10,000 DP)] .

Suddenly expensive! But it can’t be helped, it looks great!

Orichalcum has a golden tint with a silvery sheen, with a slightly rainbow-colored luster . It really does feel like a fantasy metal .

It’s extremely expensive even though it’s just ten centimeters, and in addition I couldn’t bend it even though I tried to with everything I had . Even when I used pliers, it didn’t look like it was even near yielding at all . The heck is this, is it really a metal?

For the time being I started processing it with [Create Golem] but… it consumed a considerable amount of time and magical power even though I was just turning ten centimeters of it into the shape of a ring . This is the first time in a while I’ve felt tired from using magical power, it took everything I had even though I properly used a chant . In this case I was able to shape it how I wanted even better than iron by filling it with enough of my magical power, but normally how would someone turn this into a sword?

I took another look at the orichalcum loop… It cost enough DP to use up ten gold coins, how luxurious . Isn’t this a ten million yen ring? It might have been better to quietly make it out of money .

Next, I purchased [Synthetic Ruby (Unprocessed Boule: 30 DP)] . It’s really cheap compared to the orichalcum . Moreover a huge gem the size of a finger came out… what the heck’s a boule? [3]

I thought about using a tiny natural gem, but like this the synthetic ruby is cheaper and has a much better color to it . Moreover since it’s synthetic it barely has anything inside it (impurities), so in a meaning it could be called even more pure than a true ruby .

It’d probably be deemed heresy from a jeweler’s point of view though . At any rate, I have no relation to it’s composition since I’ll be kneading and kneading it with [Create Golem]… Oh, it’s really easy to do . It feels like my magical power just sticks to it .

Well, I wrapped the orichalcum loop in the ruby… There’s a lot of ruby left over, maybe I’ll make some hair ornaments?

At any rate, I made an orichalcum ring buried inside ruby . The orichalcum shined inside the transparent ruby’s red brilliance . It’s a simple design, but it suits Rokuko .

Let’s make a box that suits it… Ah, handing her this will be a bit embarrassing…

I was able to make the ring, so let’s think about how to power-up the dungeon again .

I thought about it when I was touching the orichalcum, but wouldn’t it already be the strongest if I made an orichalcum golem where its whole body is orichalcum?

Let’s ignore how much DP that would take . A little wire was 10,000, so the amount needed for a full golem might be ridiculous . And then it’d be a story of magical power too .

… How do people usually process orichalcum?