Hello.

Long time no see. How's it going?

　I came into Kelly's shop and told her the idea I had, and asked her if it was actually possible to produce it.

The only problem is the output of the golem core. The only problem is the output of the golem nucleus. I think this is the one thing that, no matter how much we improve it, it will be difficult to make it work the way Temma thinks it should.

　When I made Amy's golem, I first made a bone-like golem, then I added armor to the golem instead of a physical body, and finally I completed it by covering the whole body with demon skin. This method is currently the most versatile golem, but this time, he's going to equip it with even more armor on top of that.
　He had only told Kelly that he was going to make Amy's golem with armor attached to it, so she was worried about the output.

'That's it, but the armour to be fitted will also be a golem. Furthermore, I'm going to use enough demon nuclei for several wyverns, including the number of golem nuclei, for the contents and the golems in the armor.

　The nuke we used for Aimee's golem was also selected from a number of good quality golems, but this one was carefully selected for its materials (a magic core of an A-rank level demon (wyvern)), and we used it for several more.
　Even though the output of its contents alone is sure to surpass Amy's golem, if the armor's portion works well, it might be able to exert several times more power. Imaginatively, it would be like having a power suit attached to a golem, but it might not be such a simple multiplication of performance, but if you think of the armor as having auxiliary abilities, it could be stronger than the contents alone.

''Making the armor into a golem as well, does that mean you're making a single golem out of two?　Totally, you come up with some crazy stuff.

''No, I'm going to make two golems into one, but I'm going to use two nukes plus a few demon cores, so if I count in demon cores, it's like making one for a few of them?''

　I'm going to use two nukes for the inside and armor, and I'm going to crush a few magic nukes to strengthen the golem. So if we think that one golem needs one magic nucleus, then we'll need several magic nuclei for one golem this time.

'It's not a crazy thing, it's like you came up with a stupid idea. Well, it's a stupid idea that seems to have a high success rate considering all the golems Temma has made so far.

　Kelly looked dumbfounded, but if we're just talking about the total amount of nukes we used, Raiden and Gigant had more, so it could be argued that we'd already made something similar a success.

'So I guess we can say I'm in charge of making armor?

'Yeah, please. I'm sure there's nothing I can't make, but I'd rather ask my day job to do something better than to make something half-assed.

　If you only know a blacksmith who is less skilled than me, then you have to make it yourself, but fortunately I know two blacksmiths who are more skilled and trustworthy than me, so I ask the more trustworthy one of them. By the way, the other one is Master Gantz, but when he gets too excited, he goes out of control, and I can't control him. Moreover, I'm almost certainly going to be involved...and in that respect, I'm less trustworthy than Kelly.

''Well, it looks interesting, so I'll let you do it even if you don't ask me to, but when it comes to the armor dedicated to the golem, I'll have to make it to match the contents, so I'll have to wait until after Tenma makes the golem inside.

'Well, you're right, but we have to talk about materials and rewards and stuff. So, armor, full plate type, and the materials are mithril or adamantine or orichalcon.

Wait a minute!　You might be able to get by with mithril, but you can't get enough adamantine or orichalcon to make it into full body armor that easily!

　If you made a full body armor out of adamantine or orichalcon, that would be a national treasure class gem!　........So I decided to have them collect a large amount of mithril and magic iron.

''This time of year, mithril is relatively easy to collect, so it should be easy to gather about a hundred kilograms. If there are other things that could be used for a golem, I'll collect them.

　At this time of year (during the martial arts tournament), they sell a lot of things like weapons, armor, jewelry and metals to fund tournament bets and auctions. Kelly said that if she went around to people she knew or vendors who specialized in metals, she would be able to gather mithril.

'Please,'

'Oh!　I got it!　I'll gather the materials for the armor, so Temma can make the contents as soon as possible. Also, I'll bill you for the materials later.

　I don't know how much they're going to charge me later, but if Kelly says she's going to collect it, she's going to collect it out of spite, so it might be more than the market price... but I think we'll be okay with the money.

'Then you don't have to hold back.

　When he told her about the money, Kelly laughed wryly and said, "I heard good things," and ran out of the store, saying she'd leave the rest to her employees.


　A few days after my visit to Kelly's store, I

I'm tired...
In this case, I'd better take on Hydra again...
I don't like them either.

　The djinn's audience with the king was successfully completed. As I was an attendant, I came with the djinn to the castle, but since I wasn't allowed to accompany them until the audience, I was forced to wait in the waiting room. Well, I had asked the king and the others to make sure that was the case, so I was going to be allowed to relax while the djinn and the others were struggling... but it was a bit noisy because Tida and Luna had come to visit us. However, they didn't seem to have been informed about my engagement to Primera and I, so the topic of engagement didn't come up while we were in the waiting room.

'But then again, Leena seems to have plenty of time to spare, doesn't she?　Did your old experience live on?

I'm glad my old experiences have come to life!　

　As expected of a former nobleman. I wondered if he was used to meeting with the higher-ups.

'At times like that, it's best to leave it to our representatives!　I was quietly in the air, a little behind Jin and the others!

　It seems he was just using the djinn and the others as a shield. Well, I guess the experience certainly came alive. It's heartless, but in a way it's the right choice.

''You're heartless.''
You're heartless.
''Garratt-san and Menace-san should have stayed behind Jin-san quietly. Since Jin-san is the only one among us who holds a title, albeit an honor, it's not strange to stand back.

"I see!

　With Garratt and Menace convinced, it seems that they have decided that if something similar happens in the future, Jin will sacrifice the name of his representative.

''I'll never be convinced!　Next time something like this happens, I'll make sure you guys get talked about, too!

　The djinn was a djinn too, and he didn't want to be the only one to take the brunt of the arrows, so he decided not to let Leena and the others get away with it.

'Well, so much for the ugly conflict I'm sure the djinn will continue to be busy.

　The djinn don't seem to understand what I'm talking about.

''The djinn are all bachelors, with the promise of future titles and rewards, and have enough honor even in the current situation... For a single nobleman, or a nobleman or merchant who wants honor for the sake of publicity, The Sword of Dawn is a target.

　I said, and Jin and Menace started to panic. Garratt and Leena looked disgusted, but they didn't look flustered, so I asked them.

I've got a guy back home who promised me a future.
I'm sure it will be fine.

Then I guess I won't have to worry too much about it.

　Leena's explanation made Menace look relieved, but since the conditions seemed to be similar but not the same between Menace and Leena, it was quite possible that the part that only wanted honor would throw powder on Menace. Well, since it was only conceivable, I didn't point it out.......but rather than that, a surprising statement came out of Garratt.

''Garratt you had a fiancée?''

Hmm?　Yeah, I've never told Temma that. There's one.

　After all, when he returned to his hometown a few years ago, Garratt was confessed to by a childhood friend... or rather, a woman who had taken care of him as a child.

'Shortly before I left my hometown a long time ago, she asked me to marry her when I grew up, and when I lightly replied, thinking it was a joke, I took her seriously and waited for her to not even have a girlfriend. So we're getting engaged... but I think it's time for us to start bearing fruit, because we're both of our ages...

　He says that for various reasons, the marriage has been postponed. He's not sure if he's going to call that woman to Seigen for this dungeon conquest.

''Tch!　Let it blow up!
I don't know why she chose to do this.

　Jin and Menace also knew the woman, Jin looked unamused and Menace mused curiously.

'You say you took care of her as a child, but how old is she?'
Well, we're ten years apart in age, if I recall.
So, how old was Garratt when he left his home town?
Fifteen.

　This means that Garratt was proposed to by a five year old child when he was fifteen and agreed to it.

'Jinn, Menace is that normal for your homeland?'
It's not going to happen!
It's just a regular country scene!　...Well, I'm having trouble with them using us as a promotion for the village to try to bring in customers, but it's basically a place that has the same view of love and marriage as King's Landing.

　When I heard that, I wondered for a moment if Garratt was of such a proclivity.

'If this were the case now, I'd rehabilitate Garratt even if I had to sack her, but she's a grown woman who's grown up and respectable. I may have my feelings about it, but I can't complain about it now.
'As expected, if you're saying you're trying to mess with a five-year-old girl right now, I'd cut out the nannies, bag them up and dump them deep in the dungeon, but it's all in the past now.

　Both of them muttered heartily and grasped something in their hands as if they were clutching something. When Garratt saw this, he turned blue in the face and ran behind me.

I don't care if you want to cut off Garratt's claws, grip them, or burn them up, but do it outside. If you do it in the city, the kings will be mad at me too.

　I decided not to mess with the 'Sword of Dawn' issue and told him to stop only in the city for now.

''So when are you going to go to the dungeon to collect the Hydra?''

　Ignoring the wary Garratt behind him, I asked Jin when he was going to Seigen and he said he wanted to go as soon as possible.

'I've left most of the material in the dust, and I'm worried, indeed. Well, I don't think my peers will take it with them, but there's a chance that the demons in the higher levels will devour it.''

　The body of a hydra is poisonous everywhere, and if an ordinary creature (including humans) were to ingest it, they would very likely die, but some creatures would not mind eating the poison, and if they were hungry to the extreme, some creatures might even eat it even if they knew it was poisonous.

"If they only ate the meat, I wouldn't mind, but not if they ate the skin, claws, and other parts of the body that would be used as ingredients.

　We have to be careful about poisoning the hydra when dismantling it, so if it reduces the amount of meat we have, it's welcome, but we'll lose money if the material is ruined, so we should do it as soon as possible.

'So we can leave tomorrow?　If we hurry up Leiden, we can get to Seigen in three or four days. Well, that won't give us much time to rest, and we'll spend most of the day traveling.

　If you use anything other than nighttime breaks for travel, you'll get to Seigen in about half the time it normally takes. I don't want to do it too much because it's tiring, but it's probably the best way to get there considering the materials.

So, please.

In exchange, I'll need you and the other djinn to help me with the chores.

　Jin and the others have also promised to help you, so as far as manpower goes, we already have enough. All that's left is.....

I'm coming with you!
If you're going, miss, then so am I.

I'd be very interested in that.
If everyone else is going, I want to go too.
Of course I do!

　It was what to do with Amur and the others who were trying to follow the request. The plan is to have only my grandfather, who claims to know how to dismantle the hydra, follow me. I thought it would be best to limit the number of people going to the bottom level of the dungeon to the minimum number, and I explained that, but Amur and the others did not agree. However.

Don't worry. As long as I'm with you, there won't be any weirdos around!

　Amur and the others finally gave up on accompanying them when they heard Grandpa's words, "I'm going to leave tomorrow morning.

'Anyway, we're leaving tomorrow morning, so I think it will be about ten days before we come back.

　The plan is to have eight days to go and return, one day to collect the hydra, and one day for a reserve day, but I told them that if something unexpected happens, it will stretch a little longer, and we will each start preparing for tomorrow and beyond.


'Well it's easier to move around when you're with Temma. Besides, we'll be more comfortable even at times like this.

　Four days after we left King's Landing, we arrived in Seigen as planned... well, just before the date changed, so even though we arrived, we were still camped outside Seigen.

'Even though we couldn't get into Seigen, we got there in less than half the time than it would have taken us to travel on our own, and thanks to our detour, we're able to get this kind of feast, so it's nothing to do with camping,'

　The reason we were going to camp right in front of Seigen was that we had chosen a spot near the river as our last stop on our way to Seigen.
　We were supposed to stop for lunch and a quick rest before we left, but just before we left I discovered the cause of the delay. It was.

''By the way, this suppon hot pot is delicious. And I've heard it's good for your skin, so it's a great dish!

　The reason for this was that we had captured a school of speckled soft-shelled turtles.
　The size of the speckles varied, but they were huge, up to over two meters in length and over 200 kg in weight. By the way, the one we cooked was one of the smallest ones we caught, and it was also nearly one meter long.
　They were sunning themselves on the river bank. Well, they seemed to be on alert for their surroundings, and as I got a little closer, some of them ran into the river, but there were still more than a dozen left, so I asked Slarin to sneak up on them while they were drawing attention to me, and I captured them all at once.
　I was able to capture a total of ten of them in Slarin's surprise attack, and while I missed a few obviously young individuals (still over fifty centimeters in length), even the six that remained were a massive amount, weighing well over five hundred kilograms in total.

It smelled a little stinky due to the lack of mud removal, but I used a lot of spices to make up for it, so that's good enough for me.

　We proceeded with our meal, bragging about the quality of the Suppon pot... but we may have done a bit of a disservice to the people who were similarly camped out in the vicinity. We used a lot of spices to reduce the muddy smell, which caused the mouth-watering smell to spread over a fairly wide area. This has led to the occasional resentful glance at us. Well, it's a relief that no one comes close to us, since Shiroumaru is near us and we have a flag with the Otori family crest flying in a prominent spot on the carriage. However, even if they approached us with malicious intent, there would be no chance of that happening with these members. If it was just in case, though, there might be.

''We'll go to bed early today and dive into the dungeon early tomorrow morning. It's right next to Seigen, and if we keep the golem standing, there won't be any problems if we all sleep at the same time.

　No one would attack us in this place, and even if they did, we could take care of them as soon as we got the golem out. More importantly, since we're going to the lowest level tomorrow, I decided not to set up a lookout this time, because it's better not to get a little tired.

'Slarin, Shilomar, Solomon, you guys can sleep out of the bag today too.

　Plus, if you keep the three of them laying outside the bag in a no-good way, it will be an obvious check on them along with the golem, and if anyone comes close, Shiroumaru will notice them.

''Can I say this is perfect?　Well then, I'll go to bed first.

　I heard that Grandpa and Jin and the others were up for a bit longer, so I was the only one who got under the covers early. It was a bit noisy, as there seemed to be a drinking party going on around us as well as Grandpa and the others, but since this is how it usually goes when we're camping out in a group near the city, it wasn't anything that bothered me, although it was noisy.


''I'm really glad I brought Temma with me...''
Well....
We'd be dead on our own, for sure.
It was easy to imagine with a little thought, wasn't it?

　All four of the djinn voluntarily sat on their haunches while I worked.

"I can't be of much help under these conditions.

　Grandpa said apologetically, but he brought out a chair and table to drink tea.
　The reason why this is happening is because, to put it very plainly, the hydra was rotting. The djinn had just defeated the hydra a little over half a month ago, but the acid or some kind of enzyme in the hydra seemed to have accelerated the decomposition, and when they came to collect it, the meat was already half dissolved and emitted a terrible stench. There were rats hovering near the hydra, so it was unlikely that they were releasing poison along with the smell, but just to be sure, I distanced myself from the hydra and let the golems dismantle it (I just peeled off the skin and gutted it).

'From a distance, the skin doesn't look too damaged. I thought it was more charred.''

　From what I'd heard of the way the djinn and the others fought, I'd expected the skin to be more tattered, but from what I'd seen, a few scorch marks, holes, and cuts would be enough to make it worthy of the material. For that matter, the djinn seemed to wonder about it.

''Maybe he regenerated after he died.......Hydra is ridiculously strong in regeneration, so even if his heart and demon core were removed, he still has some regenerative power.

　When they heard Grandpa's guess that this was the case, they all agreed. After all, when he had killed the bicorn that was the basis of Raiden before, he had cast 'heal' on the bicorn's wounded skin after it died and erased the wound. Even the bicorn was able to recover magic even after it died, so a hydra with high regeneration power would not need to cast a recovery magic after it died, but on its own?　I didn't think it would be strange to recover to some extent in

　While we were talking about the Hydra's regenerative powers, I had the golems place the Hydra's skin and internal organs spread out on the ground, and I poured the flesh that had dissolved into the dirt and the poison that was attached to them with the water magic method and flushed them away.
　Hydra's internal organs, the heart, stomach, lungs, and bladder remained in a clean form, but the kidneys and liver, which were the kidneys and liver, were melted and left with very little. And, incidentally, the 'poison glands' that contained poison were also left, and they were full of poison inside. Moreover, the hydra had two places to store the poison, one was a space in its upper jaw, and the other was near its stomach (well, this hydra has nine necks, so to be precise, there are ten places). The two are connected by a thin tube, and when the venom gland in the upper jaw is emptied, it is supposedly replenished from the venom gland near the stomach pouch.

'It's pretty sticky, so I wonder if it's the original fluid of the poison?　Grandpa, there's a hundred liters of what looks like poisonous primordial fluid, what do you think I should do?

　If it was a small amount, I think we could just dump it around there and flush it down with water and it wouldn't be a problem, but with that much, I was afraid that we wouldn't be able to use this room for a while that way. So I asked my grandpa about it.

I don't know how I could possibly know that much, except that I'd have to dig a hole and pour a little bit into it.

　He said he hadn't been able to do anything about it. Incidentally, when I asked him what he had done in his case, he told me that he had burned half of them and left the rest on the floor.

The poison had evaporated and we were in serious trouble. If I hadn't burned them all at once, the vaporized poison would have killed me.

　Grandpa says with nostalgia for the old days, and I felt deeply that Master Ernest's story about how Grandpa used to be a bastard in his younger days was true. Well, I didn't say it out loud, but I guess I'm one of the same kind of person when it comes to burning small amounts of stuff, even if it's just to burn it.

I'll think about how to deal with it later, but for now, let's divide it up into small portions and keep it for now. Just so you know, do the djinn ever need this poison?

　I asked them just in case, since it seemed that they would be concerned about the money there if they sold it, but they said they didn't need it when they thought about the risk after selling it, so it was decided that I would keep it all together. Incidentally, the risk after the sale is when it is misused after it leaves our hands, so we can say that we are not responsible no matter how it is used after the sale, but it will still lead to our reputation being tarnished, so we don't want to cross such a dangerous bridge.
　In the meantime, Hydra's poison is valuable, so even if we were to sell it, it would be best to only deal with people whose identity and purpose of use are clear and trustworthy. Well, since I don't have any idea who such a person would be, the safest thing to do would be to dispose of it.

　After rinsing off the excess skin and internal organs, I rinsed the body of the body as well, thoroughly rinsing off the poison and dissolving flesh with a strong stream of water, and cut it into pieces of appropriate size before tucking it away in the Magic Bag. If this were a normal prey, I'd carve the meat from the bone, and when I was done, we'd have a party with that meat!　 They say that's what they say. Granddad said that if you leave the meat in the water or soil for a long time, the meat will rot away and the poison in the bones (there is also a poison in the spinal cord and others that seep into the crevices of the bones) will also be released, so that it can be processed safely.

I think it would be better to sell the bones with their flesh still attached. Some people will complain, but it's the best way to prove it's from Hydra.

　I washed off the poison on the surface, and even if I touched it with my bare hands, as long as I didn't have any scratches or scratches on my hands for a short period of time, it would only itch a little. Well, if you grip or bite it for a long time, you could die, but that's the responsibility of the person who handles it.

The only thing left to do is to take care of the dirty parts.　I'm going to look around the area a bit after this, what about Grandpa and Jin and the others?

　I asked him if he and the other djinn wanted to look for mithril to use for their new golem, and he said he would go back to look for it, since he wanted to take care of his weapons and after a quick search. Grandpa also said he was hungry and would return, and left with Jin and the others.
　The meeting place was Amy's parents' apartment (I used to use it before, and Jin and the others are renting it), and they said that they would let me and Grandpa leave the carriage we were going to sleep in on the grounds. We didn't have a set time to meet, but at worst we could be there before we left tomorrow, so it was agreed that we would have free time until then.

'Well then, let's go out and find it.

　I covered the pools of blood and poison created when I dealt with the hydra with dirt over the pools of rotten flesh that had been washed away and let the golems trample it down to deal with it. It's a fairly appropriate method, but for now, only me, my grandfather, and the djinn can come to the lowest level, so the poison will be broken down and gone by the time the other adventurers arrive. All that's left is for us to not touch the soil where we've been trampled, and that should be enough.


'I was hoping to get some mithril if I could, but all I can find is iron.

　The lowest level was as large as a number of stadiums, as Hydra had used it as a base.

''But then again, I don't see any living creatures other than insects, what did Hydra eat to survive?

　I don't think it would be possible to maintain that huge body by eating the magic power in the air.......or something like that. It seems most likely that they are luring the demons from the upper floors in some way or another, but we don't even know the details of how those feeding demons occur in the dungeon in the first place.

''Something tells me my head is going to hurt if I think too much about it.......I guess it's time to cut it off.

　The next time I come back, I'm going to take the regular route and not the subterfuge like this one, and as I'm about to quit mining to get back to the surface... I've found a suspicious place.
　The place is opposite to the entrance, and only there it looks like a large pile of rocks. Maybe it just happened to look that way, but maybe Hydra was using it as a place to sleep, so I decided to go check it out a bit. And.

There's definitely something down here...

　The smell of rotting flesh was rising from underneath the rock, along with the damp air, and there was also the sound of something moving.