第十四話 〈技能の書〉
俺は商店街の、冒険者向けのアイテムを扱っている店へと訪れていた。
〈ヒールポーション〉や〈煙玉〉、〈囮人形〉なんかが並べられている。
〈ヒールポーション〉......その名の通り、飲めば回復できるアイテムなのだが、〈マジックワールド〉では少々使用に手間が掛かる。
アイテムの質にもよるが、充分な効果を発揮するためにはそれなりの量を飲む必要がある。
取り出してから口に含んで飲み切るまで、ちょっとした時間が掛かる。
その時間はかなり大きな隙になる。
おまけに飲んでからのHP回復は、時間を掛けてゆっくりと行われるため、敵の与えてくるダメージに間に合わないことも多い。
要するに、戦闘中に連続使用してゴリ押すような真似はなかなかできないということだ。
回復系のスキルも同様に、どうしても隙を晒してしまうタイプのものが多い。
まあ、それでもダンジョンに潜るのに、回復手段を買っていかない理由にはならないのだが。
「〈ヒールポーション〉を三つ頼む」
「はいはい、七万二千ゴルドですよ」
なかなかいい値段をする......。
だが、ここでケチって万が一でも回復手段を切らせば、それが死に直結しかねない。
〉というのは、スキルではなく、スキルツリーを丸々獲得するためのアイテムだ。
〈重鎧の誓い〉のようなクラス専用スキルツリーの〈
もっとも保持できるスキルツリーは基本的に一人三つまでなので、どれか一つは消去することになる。
この際にスキルポイントを振っていれば、そのポイントは消滅する。
正直な話、重騎士は〈燻り狂う牙〉を手に入れるまでがチュートリアルのようなものだ。
〈重鎧の誓い〉のスキルと〈燻り狂う牙〉のスキルが奇妙な噛み合い方をして、条件さえ整えば攻撃特化クラスの数倍のダメージを叩き出せるようになるのだ。
完成された重騎士は防御特化のクラスではない。
攻撃特化のクラスと呼んでもまだ齟齬がある。
大ダメージ技を連発する人間兵器のようなものだ。
ただ〈燻り狂う牙〉を採用するクラスは少ないので、そこまでの金額にはなっていないはずだが、問題は店にあるかどうか、といったところか。
「あー......お客さん、何も知らないんですね......。もしかして、最近クラスを得たばかりの、一年目の方ですか?」
「む......?」
〉の売買は禁止されてるんですよ。手に入れた人が自分で使用するのは認められていますが、それ以外は冒険者ギルドが買い取って、貴族や教会へ流すことになっています」
俺はがくっと肩を落とした。
自力で〈燻り狂う牙〉の〈
〈マジックワールド〉でもピンポイントで欲しいアイテムのレアドロップを目指すのは苦行だとされていた。
だいたい意図していないときに偶然手に入れるものであり、狙っているときに限って落ちなくなるとは、〈マジックワールド〉に限らず何のゲームでもよくいわれていたことである。
特に現実となったこの世界では、体力的な問題で日に何度も〈
ゲームから貴族の力が異様に強くなっているのは感じていた。
おのれ、貴族共め。
いや、俺もその一員なのだが。
なんなら都市ロンダルムで徴収された〈
「あー......仕方ないですね。やたらめったら教えるのはご法度なんですが、特別ですよ。〈ヒールポーション〉のオマケってことで。ここへ行くといいです」
女店主はくすりと笑い、紙に簡単な地図を描いて俺へと渡した。
「これは......?」
「非合法なのか......」
剥ぎ屋はわかる。
要するに冒険者の死体漁りである。
ただ、本来はその手の遺品は、冒険者ギルドに報告して届ける必要がある。
「半ば暗黙の了解ですよ。冒険者ギルドも、この手の闇店の存在を知って放置しています。あんまり堂々と表沙汰になったら、取り締まらざるを得ないでしょうが......。剥ぎ屋でもやらないと生きていけない冒険者の方もいますし、ちゃんと手続したって遺族の手に渡るというより、大半は貴族の懐に入るだけです。〈
「そ、そんなものか......」
......聞いていて胸が痛い。
そういった形態になっているとは、十五年間全く知らなかった。
剣の鍛錬ばかりやってきたためか、とんだ世間知らずになってしまっていたようだ。
前世の記憶が戻るまであの傲慢クソ親父に心酔していたのは、間違いなく俺の価値観が狭かったためだろう。
今思えば、エドヴァン伯爵家は、当主以外は奴隷のような状態であった。
もし前世の記憶が戻らず順当に剣聖になっていたら、俺も自然と父親のようになっていたのかもしれない。
そう考えると少しぞっとする。
この世界では貴族家の当主の横暴を受け入れるのが普通のことなのかもしれないが、俺はあの価値観から脱せてよかったと心から思う。
「ああ、勿論この店のことは、エドヴァン伯爵家や、都市代官には内緒ですよ」
自分がその子息であるとは、口が裂けても言えなかった。
Ch 14
I visited a shop in the marketplace that handled items for adventurers.
Heal Potions, Smoke Bombs, and Decoy Puppets were on display.
Heal Potion was something just as the name suggested, a liquid that healed you if you drank it. Although in [Magic World] it took a bit of time to work.
It depends on the quality of the particular item, but usually you need to drink quite a bit of it for it to work properly.
It takes some time to take it out, put the bottle to your mouth, and drink all of it.
That makes you highly vulnerable during that time.
In addition to that, your HP recovery happens slowly over time after drinking it, which may not be enough to counteract the damage dealt by enemies.
In other words, you can't really just chug down one potion after the other during battle and use that to push through.
Most other recovery type Skills also work along the same vein in that they create a vulnerability when used.
Nonetheless, that doesn't mean you don't need to procure something to recover your HP with if you delve into a Dungeon.
"Three Heal Potions, please," I asked the female shopkeeper.
"Here they are. That will be 72 000 gold."
That's quite a hefty price....
And yet, if I end up penny-pinching on this and run out of recovery items, I might just end up dying because of it.
Rather than a single Skill, a Skill Book allowed you to obtain an entire Skill Tree.
Skill Books for Class specific Skill Trees like [Vow of the Heavy Armor] do not exist, but you can obtain general Skill Trees like [Beginner Swordsmanship] or [Attack Power UP].
But then, one person can only have three Skill Trees maximum, so you need to discard one to gain another.
In that case, all Skill points allocated to that Skill Tree disappear.
To tell the truth, the period until a Heavy Knight obtains the [Smoldering Fang of Madness] can be considered to be the tutorial.
Skills from the [Vow of the Heavy Armor] and the [Smoldering Fang of Madness] are weirdly compatible, so much so that in certain conditions the Heavy Knight can dish out multiple times more damage than even a DPS Class.
A Heavy Knight with a complete build is not a Tank.
It's not even correct to call it a DPS.
I want to get it as soon as humanly possible, but a Skill Book for the [Smoldering Fang of Madness] is a rare item.
However, there aren't many Classes that would use the [Smoldering Fang of Madness], so it shouldn't be that expensive. The question is whether I can find any on sale.
"Aah....customer-san, you don't know anything, do you.... Are you perhaps someone who only recently got his Class? Maybe not even a year in?"
"Hmm....?"
"The buying and selling of Skill Books are forbidden. People who obtain one are allowed to use it themselves, but the rest can only be sold to the adventurer's guild, who sells it forward to the nobility or church affiliates."
My shoulders dropped.
Trying to get a Skill Book for [Smoldering Fang of Madness] by myself is all but impossible.
In [Magic World] aiming to get a specific rare drop was considered nothing but self-flagellation.
For the most part, getting nothing to drop when trying for it, then simply picking one up when you no longer aiming for it is a common state of affairs, not just in [Magic World], but in any game.
With it now being reality, it becomes a question of stamina, which makes it impossible to run a Dungeon multiple times a day.
Compared to the game world, the power of the nobility was noticeably much higher.
Those noble assholes!
Well, I'm technically one of them.
There is a high chance the Skill Books collected in Rondalm are monopolized by my former home, the Edvan Family.
"Ah.... it can't be helped. I don't usually tell people about this, but I'll make an exception this time. Consider it as an extra for the Heal Potions. You should visit this place."
Saying that the female shopkeeper chuckled, drew a simple map on a piece of paper, which she then gave to me.
"This is....?"
"So it's still illegal...."
I know about shops dealing in stripped items.
In other words, those are items that were stripped off of dead adventurers.
However, ordinarily lost items like that are required to be turned in at the adventurer's guild.
"It's somewhat of an unspoken agreement. The adventurer's guild is aware of underground shops like that, but they leave them alone. Although if one becomes too brazen they would need to crack down on it.... There are adventurers that can't make a living without those stripped items, and even when the proper procedures are followed, those items mostly end up in the possession of a noble, rather than the deceased's family. Even the Skill Books are bought off for a minimal amount of money, then wind up being hoarded by a noble, even though they don't even end up using it. It's customary by now and they end up profiting from it, so they must have no intention of changing it. They don't care about how hard it is for an adventurer in the least bit."
"I-is that so...."
....my chest hurts from hearing this.
For the last fifteen years, I had no idea that this was the case.
Maybe it's because I focused solely on training with my sword that I ended up ignorant about the world.
The reason I admired my arrogant asshole dad up until I regained my past life's memories must've been because my sense of values was narrow.
Now that I think about it, everyone in the Edvan Household, aside from the family head, was akin to a slave.
If my memories didn't come back and I got the Sword Saint Class as expected, then I might've naturally become like that too.
I shudder just from thinking about it.
It might be normal to accept tyranny from the head of a noble household in this world, but I can't help but be thankful from the bottom of my heart that I was able to discard those values.
"Oh and of course, you shouldn't mention this shop to anyone from Count Edvan's Household or the city magistrate."
There was no way I would blurt out that I was that Count's son.
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