第二十二話 鍛冶師ベルガ
魔石の換金と、デスアームド騒動の報告。
腕のいい鍛冶師を見つけ、適正レベル帯の新しい装備を打ってもらうためである。
元々〈百足坑道〉へ向かったのは、そのための黒鋼を集めることが目的であった。
「い、いいんですかぁ、エルマさん? アタシがこんな、高価な武器を装備しちゃって......」
ルーチェは黒い小刀を手に、そう呟く。
デスアームドのドロップアイテム......〈毒蜈蚣の小刀〉である。
〈毒蜈蚣の小刀〉《推奨装備Lv:70》
【攻撃力:+28】
蜈蚣の猛毒を帯びた小刀。
高い攻撃力に加え、稀に敵に毒を付与する。
市場価値二千八百万ゴルド。
推奨装備レベルは少々高いが、ルーチェも既にデスアームドの討伐でレベルは六十台になっている。
推奨装備に届いていなければ少々自身のステータスにマイナス補正が掛かるが、この程度のレベル差であればそこまで大きな値にはならない。
むしろしばらく装備入れ替えの必要がないため、気持ち上くらいの装備を入手するのが一番ありがたい。
「攻撃力が高く、おまけに実用性の高い付与効果まで持っている。こんな武器を売り飛ばす方が遥かに勿体ないぞ」
加えて〈毒蜈蚣の小刀〉の毒の付与はあくまでおまけ程度の低確率効果のはずではあるが......この書き方のアイテムは、なんと発動率が幸運力の値に依存するのだ。
〈マジックワールド〉において、毒は耐性のない相手に対して非常に強力な状態異常となる。
毒状態で激しく動けば毒が回り、最大HPから算出した割合ダメージが入り続けるのだ。
おまけに素早さに対して【10%】のマイナスが付く。
「で、でも......エルマさん、聞いてください! これを売ったら、毎日おいしいものたくさん食べられますよ! お腹いっぱい、しかもデザート付きで!」
ルーチェが彼女の考える、せいいっぱいのささやかな贅沢を口にする。
「......今度また、ラコリナのおいしい店でも探しに行こうか。これだけ発展している都市だ。またいいところが見つかるだろう」
〈天使の玩具箱〉と〈百足坑道〉の魔石の総額と、エンブリオの討伐報酬。
少しくらい贅沢をしても別に罰は当たるまい。
「それより俺の鎧用に黒鋼を......武器用にミスリルを使いたいんだが、構わないか? 鍛冶費用も考えると、むしろ〈毒蜈蚣の小刀〉の市場価値を超えてしまいそうなんだが」
そう、〈ミスリルのインゴット〉も〈毒蜈蚣の小刀〉に並ぶ高額アイテムなのだ。
加えてミスリルを扱えるような鍛冶師に依頼するには、それなりの金額が掛かることだろう。
〈ミスリルインゴット〉
ミスリルの鋳塊。
強いマナの輝きを帯びた魔法金属。
魔法銀と呼ばれることもある。
高価な稀少金属であり、ミスリル装備を有しているだけで冒険者として一目置かれること間違いなし。
ここに黒鋼鎧の材料費と製作依頼費まで乗ると思えば、かなりの額になってくる。
〈ミスリルインゴット〉の時点で二千五百万ゴルドの材料費だ。
黒鋼と合わせれば三千万ゴルドは確実に超えるだろう。
そういう面では、むしろ申し訳ないのはこっちの方だ。
ただでさえ〈燻り狂う牙〉の出費もあるというのに。
盾はひとまず現状のままでいいだろう。
今装備している〈狂鬼の盾〉も、〈黒鋼の盾〉も、そこまで大きな性能差があるわけでもない。
ただ、初期レベルから装備している〈鉄の鎧〉のままなのはどうにかしておきたい。
「つ、つまり......アタシ達二人の装備の総額で、六千万ゴルドになるんですね......」
ルーチェがごくりと息を呑む。
「ただ、ミスリルを加工できるとなると、それなりに高レベルの鍛冶師が必要だ。冒険者の都ラコリナと呼ばれるここでも、もしかしたら見つからないかもしれないな」
〉産の金属を加工するには、鍛冶師クラスの専用スキルツリーが必要になってくる。
死ねばそれまでのこの世界では、レベルの高い鍛冶師は〈マジックワールド〉以上に貴重な人材となっているはずだ。
その後、しばらくミスリルを加工できる鍛冶師を探して街内を散策していた。
ただ、危惧していた通り、高レベルの鍛冶師は貴族に召し抱えられていたり、王都で大きな店を構えていたりすることが多いらしく、せいぜい【Lv:45】程度の鍛冶師しか見つけることができなかった。
半日掛けて店を回って話を聞き......俺達はようやく【Lv:60】の鍛冶師の情報を得ることができた。
ただそれも、頑固で偏屈な性悪老人であるため、あまりお勧めはできない、という話であった。
面倒な性格で、一度機嫌を損ねれば、金をいくら積まれても仕事を引き受けないのだそうだ。
「一流の鍛冶師が住んでいるとは思えないところだな......」
辿り着いたのは、表通りから離れたあばら家のようなところだった。
「大丈夫ですかねぇ。いきなり不安になってきたんですが」
ルーチェが入口の扉を叩き、そうっと開く。
「あのぅ......すいません。ここに鍛冶師のベルガさんがいるって聞いたんですけども......」
「また来たのかクソガキがァ! どれだけ脅しを掛けられようとも、おどれのような性根の腐った奴に打ってやる剣なぞないわァ!」
しゃがれた怒声が飛んできた。
「ひぃっ! ご、ごめんなさいごめんなさい!」
訳が分からぬままルーチェが平謝りする。
「なんだお前らは? あのクソガキではないのか」
店の奥から現れたのは、分厚い眼鏡を掛けた白髪の老人であった。
ごわごわとした白い髭が生えており、手には大きな鎚を握っている。
急に怒鳴られたので何事かと思ったが、さすがに人違いであったらしい。
......ただ、頑固で偏屈な老人だという前評判は、どうやら間違いではなさそうだ。
Volume 2 - Ch 22
After finishing with exchanging the magic stones and reporting the incident with the Death Armed at the adventurers' guild, Luce and I proceeded to walk around La Colina.
Our goal was to try and find a capable smith and ask them to make new level appropriate equipment for us.
That was our original reason for going to the Centipede Pit and gathering all those black steel items too.
"I-Is this really fine, Elma-san? For me to have such an expensive weapon....?"
Luce muttered with a black short sword in her hand.
It was the item that dropped from the Death Armed, the Venomous Centipede's Short Sword.
<Venomous Centipede's Short Sword> <<Recommended Level: 70>> 
[(Attack:+28)] 
A short sword coated in the venom of a centipede.
In addition to its high Attack bonus, it sometimes poisons the enemy.
Its Market Value was 28 million gold.
The Recommended Level for it was a bit high, but Luce's level already rose into the sixties with the defeat of the Death Armed.
If you don't reach the Recommended Level requirements, then your Status gets a small penalty, but with a level difference this small, it won't be anything serious.
On an emotional level, getting a weapon that you won't have to replace for a while is also greatly appreciated.
"It has a high Attack bonus and also has a useful bonus effect. Selling a weapon like this would instead be the wasteful thing to do."
In addition to that, the bonus poison effect, which ordinarily should only be a small plus with its low probability of triggering, is based on the user's Luck value with items like this.
In Magic World, the poison status effect was fairly powerful against enemies that had no resistance to it.
The more the enemy moves, the faster the poison effect deals a certain percentage of the opponent's max HP as damage.
It also decreases the Agility of the opponent by [(10%)] .
"B-but....Elma-san, please listen to me! If we sell this, then we will be able to eat a lot of delicious food every day! We could eat to our heart's content, and even get desserts too!"
Luce verbalized the highest, yet still meager luxuries she could envision.
"....we should visit a nice restaurant soon here in La Colina too. With how developed this city is, we should be able to find a good one."
Even without counting the item drops which was our main source of income, with the magic stone we got from the Angel's Toybox and the Centipede Pit, also the subjugation reward for the Embryo, we should have about 24 million gold in savings.
It wouldn't hurt to splurge a little.
"That aside, I would like to use the black steel we gathered for a set of armor....and the mythril for a weapon for me. Would that be fine with you? Counting in the work fee for the blacksmith, all that may turn out to be even more than the Market Value of the Venomous Centipede's Short Sword."
Indeed, the Mythril Ingot and Venomous Centipede's Short Sword are both about equally expensive items.
Also, the money needed to hire a blacksmith that can work with mythril would also be quite a sum.
<Mythril Ingot> 
An ingot made of mythril.
A magical metal that was affected by powerful mana.
It's also sometimes called magic silver.
It's a valuable rare metal, so much so that people will respect you as an adventurer if you have some kind of equipment made out of it on you.
If we add the material cost for the black steel armor and the manufacturing costs, then it will be quite a hefty total.
With just the Mythril Ingot the material cost would already be 25 million gold.
When you add the black steel too, it will certainly exceed 30 million gold.
From that point of view, rather it's me that should be feeling apologetic.
There was already the cost of getting the [Smoldering Fang of Madness] as it is.
As for my shield, I can keep that for a bit longer.
There isn't much of a difference between my current Mad Demon Shield and the Black Steel Shield anyway.
However, I want to do something about the same Iron Armor I had on me since the very beginning.
"S-so, essentially....the total value of all our equipment is around 60 million gold......"
Luce gulped.
"Only, a Blacksmith that can work with mythril will necessarily need to be at a certain level, which we might not be able to find, even here in La Colina, the City of Adventurers."
To reforge metal obtained from a Dungeon, you need a Class specific Skill Tree of a Blacksmith.
In this world, where death means the end, high level Blacksmiths should be even more treasured than they were in Magic World.
After that, we wandered around the city for a while in search of a Blacksmith that could work with mythril.
However, just as I feared, most higher level Blacksmith were working under some nobles or had large businesses in the capital city, so we could only find at most [(Lv:45)]  Blacksmiths.
After half a day of asking around....we finally managed to find some information about a [(Lv:60)]  Blacksmith.
However, people didn't really recommend going to him, since he was apparently an obstinate, eccentric, and ill-natured old man.
Allegedly, he had a troublesome personality and if you managed to offend him once, then no matter how much money you offered, he wouldn't accept any jobs from you.
"This doesn't look like a place where a first rate Blacksmith would be living...."
We arrived at a dilapidated house far from the main street.
"Will this be really fine? I'm starting to have some doubts."
Luce knocked on the front door, then slowly opened it.
"Helloo....sorry to intrude. We heard that a Blacksmith called Berga was living here....."
"So you came here again you damn brat! No matter how much you keep threatening me, I don't have any weapons to sell to a miscreant like you!"
Someone shouted at us with an angry and hoarse voice.
"Hiiiih! I-I'msorryI'msorry!"
Luce started earnestly apologizing before we had any idea what that was about.
"Huh, I guess you aren't that damn brat."
A bulky, white-haired, and bespectacled old man appeared from the back of the store.
He had a stiff white beard and was holding a large hammer in his hand.
I was wondering what the hell happened when he started shouting at us, but it seems it was a case of mistaken identity after all.
.....however, he really seemed to live up to his reputation as an obstinate and eccentric old man.
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