Manowa

Chapter 61 - Specification Adjustment

◎ Rocky Area Near Winlard City

The second day after they came back to Winlard . Kazane was adjusting Tatsuyoshi-kun at a rocky area near the city .

「All that’s needed is the wrist and joint parts, waist and back muscles, and the thumbs and legs . 」

Currently Kazane is doing a Muscle Simulation of the Muscle Clay . It is not only for moving the Muscle Clay within Tatsuyoshi-kun, but each part’s strength can also be altered in the muscle strength simulation .

Muscle Simulation was one of the advanced modes of Creator Mode sold as DLC for use by synthetic magical chimera tamers, Muscle Clay golem users, puppeteers etc . Too many maniac details caused some doubtful voices to say「Who would use this?」but around the time that large-scale thousand person battles were implemented, the maximum fighting power a single person could bring was sought, so the usefulness of jobs like summoners, golem users, and puppeteers was reexamined . The result was that most players who could be considered high rankers decided to have partner characters who used it or copied usage data . By the way, the simulator itself re-used free 3D animation sampling data, so the development costs etc were not very high .

「What does it mean?」

Tiara was watching from next to Kazane, but Kazane’s window couldn’t be seen by anyone but her and Yumika, so Tiara was spellbound by Kazane’s esoteric magic words that her husband had acquired through study of the summoning arts, but she truly didn’t understand .

For virtually the entire time she had been working on the adjustment, Tiara had been clinging to Kazane without leaving . Tiara was also doing summoning training .

「Yosh, Tatsuyoshi-kun . Move . 」

Kazane thrust her staff and restarted Tatsuyoshi-kun . Incidentally, Yumika strongly frowned on this naming, but she ignored it .

Tatsuyoshi-kun noisily stood up . The form was different from yesterday; the circ.u.mference of the arms was much larger and the legs were short with a protruding belly . This was a result of pursuing power emphasis in what is called a dwarven physique, not out of any consciousness for the original Tatsuyoshi-kun’s body type . The face was Yumika’s work, and on Tatsuyoshi’s likeness a speech bubble was drawn with a「Boo」written inside . She really disliked Tatsuyoshi, that Yumika . Well, Kazane thought it was charming, and the face really resembled Tatsuyoshi, so she deemed it acceptable .

「Pick up this boulder, Tatsuyoshi-kun . 」

At Kazane’s words Tatsuyoshi-kun nodded, grabbed a big rock that was around 2 meters wide, and suddenly lifted it . Kazane checked the load on the Muscle Clay displayed in her window .

『What an awesome thing . 』

「Yeah」

Mefirus, who had been doing a lecture on summoning techniques for Tiara, was unable to hide his surprise at Tatsuyoshi-kun’s awesome display of power . .

『If it was used as a soldier it would be frightening . Or is the Kingdom of Thule already doing so?』

The Kingdom of Thule was the only country on this continent which still possessed golem technology . Within this continent, only a few people who came from that country could manipulate golems . Free golem users like Kazane were a considerably rare existence .

「However, Master-sama did not know of Muscle Clay . If that country has it I think they must be calling it by a different name . 」

『That may be the case . Well, it is not adjacent to our country . It may not be anything we need to worry about . 』

While looking at Kazane’s Tatsuyoshi-kun Mefirus said 「but it’s incredible” in admiration once again .

『It"s good that the name is the same as our hero king . It looks exactly like his body type』

「I do not like it much,」

It seemed disgraceful to Tiara . The reason was that it was exactly like her uncle .

『However, the Ruby Beast Ring was brought by him . The princess of that time, Mintia, did not take the throne for herself but gave the crown to the foreigner, King Tatsuyoshi . We must not forget to respect the king who received it . 』

「That"s for sure . 」

The story is usually told that King Tatsuyoshi fell in love at first sight with the princess after making the hot spring district . And afterwards the Ruby Beast Ring was brought by Tatsuyoshi . However, according to historical doc.u.ments the Ruby Beast itself was used in the front lines during the liberation of the country . Historians said this inconsistency reveals that the story was twisted from being transmitted by oral tradition and that the story of the royal family that was currently told was not the truth .

It is the story of a princess fallen to slavery and a single man living only for the princess . The truth was that all the power to take back the princess’ stolen country was brought about by one man, who had previously happened upon a slave and was thrown from his own reality himself, and Queen Mintia never forgot to tell the story of that man .

「In the end Queen Mintia took back everything with her husband . I, Tiara, will also follow the example of that pa.s.sion . 」

『In moderation . 』

「Yosh, now run---uwaaaa . 」

Tatsuyoshi-kun left from beside the two speaking people with a dash .

「Hey, waaaait!」

「Hey, waaaait!」

Kazane was pursuing it at a tremendous speed . One hour later Kazane returned to Tiara and the others with Tatsuyoshi-kun (storage version) . It would seem he kept running until he crashed into a boulder and got stuck . And then Kazane limply collapsed to rest .

One hour later Kazane got up again and started adjusting it . She kept iterating until the sun went down and made several optimizations based on Knight-san’s behavioral pattern . She did the same thing the next day, and that evening everything was finished to Kazane"s satisfaction .

◎ Winlard City, Ricard Inn - Night

「I thought it would take a bit longer, but thanks to『Insight』I received a certain amount of guidance . 」

「That’s convenient . 」

It was dinner time . Yumika replied to Kazane’s words with a mouth stuffed full of hamburger .

「That reminds me, the matter in Tsuvara has become the talk of the town .   Zinro-san was talking about it . 」

「I"ve heard it too . As I heard it, Kazane defeated the guardian beast with her bare hands?」

「I didn’t do that!」

Kazane cried out with a voice like a scream . It was entirely groundless .

「Well, it was a kick . A punch would just be unreasonable . 」

Louise amended the contents of the rumor after Kazane’s words . It was also wrong .

「Ah, it seems to have been transmitted to everyone in the guild . It may be difficult to correct . 」

Again, she won’t thank you for telling her that information .

「It’s already been that way for such a long time . 」

「That’s true, it’s too late for that, isn’t it . 」

「That’s true, it’s too late for that, isn’t it . 」

Yumika nodded at Kazane"s words . She didn’t think rumors were anything to worry about, or perhaps I should say she was relieved .

「It’s fine . Leaving that aside, is tomorrow fine for Zinray-san?」

「I think there is no problem, but what are we doing?」

Kazane nodded at the words .

「I want to help Tiara reach rank C as well and was thinking of doing it by collecting core stones . It seems that a nominated request also came . 」

「Are you sure?」

「Un . I already have plenty of magical power . I think it will be good hunting . 」

Actually that was just to mask her goal of making money . Although she did not need it immediately, she had to take into consideration fundraising for Tatsuyoshi-kun . There was also the goal of testing its operation in actual combat .

「I understand . Let"s ask him tomorrow . Even if it"s no good we can manage without him . 」

「Well, it"d best if we could all go together . If I remember correctly Zinray-san said there was a place with a hot spring not too far from Conrad . 」

That got a reaction from Louise, who loved hot springs, and Tiara, who had awakened to loving hot springs .

「Eh, there is one there?」

「It seems that Zinray-san does not know the exact place, but that person is fairly well acquainted with the geography of that area, so if we search with him we should be able to find it . 」

「Well, if that’s the case we’re bringing him along even if it’s impossible . 」

Louise spoke those words with a careless air . But her eyes were serious .

The next day, there was quite a scene as Louise threatened「You better not say you can’t come」and Zinray replied in a cold sweat「No, I don’t care . 」The partic.i.p.ation of all members was settled without problems .

The party left the town in the morning and arrived at Conrad just as it became night . The improved Hippo-kun"s Fast Horse mode was quick, but the comfort of the ride was somewhat worse, and some of Kazane’s party had sore bottoms .

The party left the town in the morning and arrived at Conrad just as it became night . The improved Hippo-kun"s Fast Horse mode was quick, but the comfort of the ride was somewhat worse, and some of Kazane’s party had sore bottoms .

Name: Yuihama Kazane

Occupation: Magic Swordswoman

t.i.tle: Ogre Killer

Equipment: Staff 『White Blaze』, Two Handed Sword『Black Fang』, Silver Breastplate, Silver Gauntlets, Silver Sheep Clothes, Carapace Bull Trousers, Berserk Ogre Greaves, Indestructible Cloak, Mysterious Pouch, Crimson Saint Coffin, Spirit Summoning Ring

Level : 22

Health: 77

Magic Power: 132+300

Strength: 33

Agility: 27

Endurance: 17

Wisdom : 34

Dexterity : 20

Spell : 『Fly』 『Torch』 『Fire』 『Heal』

Skill : 『Goblin Language』 『Night Vision』 『Crushing Blow』 『Dog’s Sense of Smell』 『Golem Maker: Lv2』 『Rush』 『Fire Principle: Second Chapter』 『Healing Principle: Second Chapter』 『Air Jump』 『Killing Leg』 『Fear Voice』 『Invisible』 『Tiger Eye』 『Wall Walking』 『Insight』 『Cheat Death』

Yumika: 「There’s a lot of different things to do in ZexiaHeart . 」

Kazane: 「If you get into it deeply there’s a lot of depth to think about . Character creation alone usually takes a few hours . 」