A Harem in the Fantasy World Dungeon Volume 4 Chapter 5 Part 16

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Translator: DarkHeartedAlchemist  Editor: Weasalopes


「I have heard more than one tale of how wearing a「Sacrificial Misanga」 helped save the life of a Party Leader who thought that they are not going to be needing it, only to realize after the fact how lucky they were to have it. So I insist that if we ever end up making one, you should be the one to wear it, master.」

Roxanne insisted on me wearing the 「Sacrificial Misanga」 as well.

「I understand. If you ever make one of them, I will be sure to wear it during the trips to the Labyrinths.」

「Uhm. . . . . . . okay, I will try to do my very best when that time will come.」

「Of course you will, and I have no doubts that you are going to succeed with flying colors. I have absolute faith in your abilities, Sherry.」

「T-Thank you very much, but I really do not think that being a skillful Master Smith has anything to do with increasing the success rate of the 「Skill Crystal Fusion」.

Yeah, that is what I think as well, but I cannot just blurt it out of the blue like that. So instead. . .

「Is that so? Why is that?」

That is what I wanted to ask, but Roxanne has beaten me to the punch.

「Generally, it is said that the better the Master Smith, the higher the success rate of the item fusions that he or she performs, but a great old scholar once said that there is actually no correlation between those two things whatsoever.」

「Oh, is that so? I did not know that!」

Roxanne and Sherry then proceeded to have such a conversation. While we are already on the subject, then I wonder if these 「Scholars of Old」 that Sherry is talking so much about had any grounds to base their claims and theories on, or were they simply trying to pass whatever came to their minds as scientific theories without having any way of proving if what they were claiming was actually right or not? Because if they did not have anything to prove that their claims had any base in reality, then they were simply trying to scam and deceive the people while making themselves look smart and that is something of which I absolutely do not approve.

「Is 「Sacrificial Misanga」 a good item to wear not only when going against tougher enemies on the higher floors of the Labyrinths, but during the hunt for Skill Crystals and materials from monsters as well?」

「It is not strictly bad, but I would not go and say that it is the best thing that you can possibly wear either. Not to mention that in and out of themselves misangas are quite cheap, so Armor and Accessory stores will not even buy them if you tried selling it to them, and aside from their Skill, they offer next to no defensive value whatsoever.」

「But in that case, would it not be quite wasteful if it broke and you lost it, and then you would be forced to go hunt for another Skill Crystal for the purpose of fusion if you wanted to keep wearing it?」

「Of course it would be wasteful, and that is precisely why most of the people who managed to get their hands on one of them tend to never use them exactly because of the fear of losing such a helpful item to a random monster attack.」

Sherry said that the moment when 「Sacrificial Misanga’s」 Skill activates and gets expended, the whole item is going to be destroyed. That is why I was wondering if that Skill, let us call it 「Sacrifice」 for the time being, would do the same to all pieces of equipment it would be attached to. Because if so, then even if the effect itself might be useful when fighting hard battles against tough opponents, it would still be a huge waste to simply go and carelessly attach it any of our valuable pieces of equipment.

「Are misangas hard to create? Because right now, everything I have heard about it makes me think that there is an awful lot of hassle involved with practically every aspect of that accessory.」

「That is the first impression that most of the people are getting, but in actuality, misangas themselves are quite easy to make since in order to create it all you have to do is to combine a number of simple threads together, and they are usually one of the first few items that every Master Smith is taught to make at the practice table.」

「A practice table, huh? If you had one of these, would you like to try making a misanga as well, Sherry?」

「Thank you very much for the suggestion, master, however, I believe that doing this would be counterproductive and only lead to a waste of our precious money and resources. As I said, misangas cannot be sold at Armor or Accessory Stores, and I think that they would not sell well even at a General Store. Looking from a perspective of someone who just became a Master Smith, if you would keep buying threads from the Merchants Guild, you would quickly go into the red money-wise. That is why a common practice among freshly-made Master Smiths is to go into the Labyrinth in order to fight against the Green Caterpillars and collect their Silk Threads, which they can then use to try and create two misangas a day, one in the morning, and one in the evening once enough treads have been gathered.」

Only two misangas a day, one in the morning and one in the evening, huh? Well, seeing how just one item fusion consumed so much of Sherry’s MP that she must have lost all of it at once, I can definitely see how that would be a problem for the Dwarves who just became Master Smiths, but had no reliable way of replenishing their MP and had to resort to waiting until it recovers naturally. But such a strategy also had one major plus to it: while they were in the Labyrinths collecting Silk Threads from Green Caterpillars, they definitely are able to increase the levels of their Master Smith Jobs, if only by one or two. Training combined with item gathering. . . . . talk about killing two birds with one stone.

Okay, so now that I sold all of the 「Copper Swords of Obstruction」 in our possession, it would be a good idea to get ourselves some new ones as a replacement. Would you be able to make them, Sherry?」

「I am sorry, master, but I think that currently it would be impossible because I am just getting started as a Master Smith. At the current moment the best course of action for me would be to start my training as a Master Smith from making misangas, and then gradually move on into making more complex and difficult things.」

「Is that so? Well, I guess it really would be impossible to go and ask a novice to suddenly start making things that are way out of their league, huh?」

「I am truly sorry, and I hope that soon I will master the art of forging and fusing enough to be of real help to you, master.」

*Sigh* So it is just like I was afraid it would be. Just because Sherry managed to become a Master Smith, it does not necessarily mean that she will be able to do anything right from the get-go. Right now she should have her Master Smith Job at Lv.2, so I guess the only thing there is to do right now is to allow her to gain more EXP so that both the level of that Job and her maximum amount of MP both increase to such a degree where she will no longer drain herself out of MP completely after performing just a single fusion. And since I have a Bonus Skill that gives me twenty times more EXP than usual, the process of Sherry’s growth is not going to take as long as it normally would.

「Do not worry. You have already helped me greatly by learning Skill Crystal Fusion. Should we go to the Weapon Store and buy ourselves a sword or two?」

On our way back home from the Merchants Guild we stopped by the Weapon Shop to look at the swords they were offering there.

We are here because I needed a replacement sword for when I shift my build more towards using magic. Whenever that happens, I cannot just go around using Durandal all the time, because that would be a dead giveaway for other people that I am not an ordinary Mage.


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