Chapter 31:
Magic Weapons
Yesterday was an amazing day.
I had planned to train Serai-san in the dungeon, but to my surprise, the number of college girls had increased to three. And in the dungeon, the three college girls beat goblins to death while screaming. But I broke out in a cold sweat when Katsuhina-san went into shock.
I obtained data on the growth of a person who had never dived into a dungeon. Well, I can say that it was very significant in terms of supporting my theory.
I went to bed slowly and peacefully and woke up at 9:00 a.m. The world was not busy today. I got up at 9:00 a.m. and went out on my motorcycle, feeling a sense of superiority in my unemployed way, thinking that the world must be busy today. After finishing my routine visit to a store selling magic stones, I headed to a large home improvement center to shop.
A large home improvement center. It has a wide selection of large parts and tools for construction workers that were unavailable at the neighborhood home centers. And I was also looking for such tools.
In the end, Serai-san took the Katsuo-kun bat for some reason or another. So the only weapons I have on hand are a long stick that Serai-san gave me in place of the bat and an iron bamboo spear I made myself. The long wooden stick would easily break if I wielded it with my current arm strength, and the same was true for the iron bamboo spear. It is good for poking. But it's a hollow pipe, so if I swing it around, it will bend easily.
So we came here to buy new weapons.
And this large home improvement center has a lot of tools I could use as weapons. Among them, the one that caught my attention was a crowbar. It is hard and will not bend without breaking. It is a tool used in heavy construction sites, and it will not break in a little bit.
After all, it is a forged product. The steel is beaten hard, quenched, and processed into tougher carbon steel, so it is strong. I picked up a crowbar that looked easy to swing from the lineup of products.
The one I picked up was an L-shaped crowbar. It is an L-shaped crowbar. However, it is large and heavy. I can use the short end as a nail puller, and the long end is flat and pointed like a spatula.
(Yes. It looks easy to grip and swing)
I can buy a crowbar on the Internet, but if I use it as a weapon, I want to confirm it is comfortable. That is why I went to a large home improvement center. However, if I openly brandished the crowbar in the store, the store clerk would immediately fly out and get angry with me.
So I picked up a few items, paying attention to the grip, weight, and center gravity balance.
In my mind, I imagined myself fighting a monster with the crowbar I had chosen and chose which crowbar would be best for me. The enemy I imagined was, of course, the most formidable enemy, the Cockroach King. A half-hearted attack would not work against it. However, with his current physical abilities and powerful weapons, I felt I could defeat them.
I had been slowing down the pace of my dungeon attacks over the past few days.
There are various reasons for this. One of them is that I can now sell magic stones, which has relieved my financial worries. That is a big reason. I also thought, why don't I go to the dungeon, collect the magic stones, and live leisurely? I thought that was a good idea.
Dungeons are dangerous. When I was being chased around by king lizards, I didn't feel like living. So I felt that it would be okay to continue as I was without forcing myself to go deeper into the dungeon.
However, it does not mean I am not interested in the lower floor.
Dungeons are dangerous, but also fascinating. If I dive deeper, I may find something even more amazing. However, the level I'm currently in is the 7th floor underground. The king litter appeared at the 5th basement level. If that is the case, it is frightening to think that there will be a boss monster more fearsome than the king goki in the 10th underground level.
We need more powerful weapons for that. It is best to have an assortment of weapons. Thanks to the Bug King, I can say that my defenses are in place, so I want to strengthen my weapons here.
With this in mind, we decided to buy some tools.
The first tool I chose was a crowbar with a total length of 900 mm, made entirely of hardened high-carbon steel and claimed to be resistant to metal fatigue. The silver plating on the entire surface is also a key point. I don't want it to rust prematurely in the acid of the skill.
I am sure this is the same plating on the mini crowbar I bought before. I bought two of these, including a spare.
I also chose another crowbar. It's a straight 1500mm crowbar called "Kinteko". This one is made of all steel and hardened only at the tip, which is heavy and old-fashioned. That is because tools are becoming lighter and lighter these days. This type is lighter and easier to use, but less powerful as a weapon.
Therefore, I chose a heavy tool with an emphasis on power. The gold lever is not plated but painted, so it will rust if it goes bald. I'll use it as a short spear or a throwing spear, like a caveman hunting mammoths. So this is a purchase of six pieces.
Finally, I bought a large double-ended hammer. It is 900 mm long, and the handle is made of wood, but the head made of carbon steel for machine structure use seems to have great destructive power, and it weighs 7 kg, the heaviest of all the hammers purchased this time.
With all of them. The cost of the two crowbars, six metal trowels, and a large double-ended hammer was only 70,000 yen. It was cheaper than a grand outing at a super public bath, and I could accumulate points. Hmmm, a great home improvement center.
However, when I tried to carry them all back home in the storage room, it seemed heavy things consume more magic power, and I was in danger of losing my magic power at a fast rate. It's unfashionable to be dizzy while driving a motorcycle.
……….
As I returned to my house. I moved to the front room of the dungeon and took the tools I had purchased out of the space chamber.
"Woohoo! That was hard! I don't think I can dive into the dungeon today."
I was full of energy when he went out, but when I came, I was so groggy that he didn't want to do anything anymore. Still, I grinned as I spread out the tools I had bought on top of the cardboard boxes he spread out. He is a dangerous guy, isn't he?
"Now, gentlemen, from this moment on you will be reborn not as mere tools but as weapons! Lend me your strength to fight the monsters in the dungeon!"
I mimicked the tone of my favorite cartoon character and made a speech about the tools I had bought. I hope you don't mind. Otaku loves this kind of behavior.
Then, the letter for Kerota on the wall peeled off and landed on the tools. That is an item dropped from a fighting frog, but I don't know how to use it, but I liked its fantasy-like pattern, so I put it on the wall.
I grabbed it to pick it up and noticed the scroll was glowing faintly.
(Mwah!?!!)
I pull my hand back in a panic.
I couldn't stand it if I got blown away by this mysterious scroll. However, as soon as I removed my hand, the light subsided.
"What was that?"
There was a metal lever in the right place, so I grabbed it and tugged on the scroll. Yeah, no reaction. It seems to be just a corpse. Then I touched it with my hand to pick it up, and the scroll glowed faintly again.
"Whoa!"
But this time, I had just reached the point where I picked it up, so I let go of it, and the scroll danced and fell to the floor of the dungeon.
"Hmm? …Hmm?"
I'm a little confused as to what it means. I ‘tsk' repeatedly. Then I tried touching it with my hand. But this time, even though I touch it, it didn't glow.
"That's right. Even when I put it on the wall, I touch it with my sticky hand, and nothing happens."
I wandered around the front room with my fingertips still picking at the scroll, wondering what could have caused it. I wondered if the location or position had something to do with it. Then, after all, I brought it to the top of the cardboard box on which the first tool had fallen. I could see the scroll glowing.
"Mmmmmm."
My hand, the scroll, and the tool. What is the answer that can be derived from this?
"Is this scroll enchanted to enhance or grant some kind of magic to the weapon?
From a geek's point of view, that is the only way to think of it. I would not touch such an incomprehensible thing. The God who does not touch it is cursed.
But, I couldn't resist my intellectual desire and wanted to use the scroll.
But I was afraid that something might happen. So I changed into my Bug King Suit and decided to use the unused outer shell of the king litter as a shield for my experiment.
"If…this scroll is a weapon enhancement scroll, no wonder it reacts to weapons. And if it does, then it's a very kind design. If it doesn't react, I wouldn't have known what scroll it was."
Mumbling, I removed the weapons from the cardboard, leaving only one shiny silver crowbar.
If it has a great effect, I want to put it on my main weapon, and if something happens, I want to limit the damage to just one crowbar.
"HAHA! Then, here we go! That is probably the same as when I use a skill orb, I need to pour in some magic power. Okay, now scroll! Give this crowbar an awesome superpower!
["Kyuwawa~paaaaah~!"]
"Oh, oh, oh!"
Light overflowing from the scroll pours down on the silver crowbar. And the silver crowbar became ‘some faintly glowing silver crowbar.
"Mmmmmm! That is…"
I could feel a little magic power from the glowing silver crowbar. So I picked it up and held it up to the ceiling of the pale dungeon.
"Wow, this is a magic crowbar!"
It looks like a crowbar, but it glows faintly and looks cool! I named this shiny silver crowbar "Excalibur".