Meats Name and Making the Ring

In the end, it appears that it was decided that [Cave of Desires] was a derivation from [Flame Cavern] through Hero Watarus report.

Before heading to Wakoku, hell be returning to the imperial capital for a while to do several jobs in order to pay back his debt.

Taking the occasion to gather, he made a promise with Gozoh and Roppu to go to Wakoku together with them.

[No more drinking until I repay my debt!]

He said that, but can he really keep it up? Definitely something to worry about.

Then again, Haku-san would probably just shoulder his debt if hes late on payments so its no problem for us really.

Weeell, the heros heading back, looks like we can go back to being carefree.

Kehma, even without the hero here you shouldnt be that carefree

I looked away from Rokukos remark right, come to think of it I have to give Meat a new name huh. I just remembered.

It was a good time for it, so I had brought her to the room and was using her as a hug pillow.

Meat. Your name.

I-its fine as is. I-Ill become a good Meat so

When I said name, Meat trembled like a puppy that someone was trying to take their important blanket from.

Right, Ill think about that in at least five years. So for now lets think of a name. [1]

Heeey, whats Meat mean anyways? I missed the chance to ask

Aah, I was going to explain it to Rokuko just there, but Im finding myself at a loss for words.

I cant say something like it means sex toy. Thatd definitely be hard to say to this person that knows nothing.

And so, I decided that I didnt hear her.

Your new name is Meat Blackdog. Ill call you Black outside. Sound good?

When I said that, Meat was surprised that Id be leaving Meat as her name, so she blinked her eyes.

In the end, I decided for it to be Blackdog since she is a black dog. It has the feeling that shell be proud of her black hair-ness. Im definitely not cutting corners here. Definitely not.

Id asked Ichika concerning what to name her, but beastkin really do place an extreme importance on their name, to the point that it seems more so than their life. The story is that once they learn their name, it will stick with them for life no matter whats said and done. Hearing countless examplesto the extent that schoolkids would seriously say things like Will you stake your life on it?I got the impression that trying to change it was no good.

In short, [Its useless even if I changed it, I wouldnt know what would happen even if I tried to forcibly do it. Or rather, its already too late. Like a field mine laid years ago.] I decided to postpone purposely blowing up the bomb.

Well, when it comes to having a name that describes her precisely, even if its by instinct, Blackdog should be more or less satisfying for her Yeah. Im not cutting corners at all. Im being serious. Serious I said!

I just hope that Meat doesnt explode until shes an adult at least.

So, lets go to the guild to try and register your new name tomorrow It should take some money, but its no problem. Even if it took gold coins. Understand?

Y-yes

Meat answered while gladly wagging her tail back and forth.

Heeey, so what does Meat mean?

Ask Ichika.

I decided to leave it to Ichika to explain it to Rokuko.

Even though we were changing Meats registered name with the guild, it took thirty silver coins. We were able to easily go through the procedures at the branch office though.

It was cheaper than I thought itd be.

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Since Rokuko had deepened her friendship with Redra while I was sleeping, I thought of something.

When I sleep so much, it feels like Im useless.

Well, even so I dont really mind and could just keep sleeping, but doesnt it feel like Im just a mascot? I dont want to be put in the mascot box! I dont want to be the mascot with a bad expression that gets caught between two futons like some dorayaki! [2]

Thus, even though I dont really want to I decided that I would do some work.

To speak accurately, I would make more magic sword blade golems. Theyre something that only I can make after all.

Oh iron, become a magic sword, [Create Golem]ah.

I made a blade golem with a considerably suitable chant. The magical power consumption is curbed remarkably compared to not using a chant I dont really need to bother though since its not like Ill run out of magical power though. Even though I definitely remember feeling fatigued back when I first used the life magic [Cleanup] wonder if its something like growing up?

For now lets resupply the [Treasure Chests] and make the same kind of magic swords the hero took.

As for what these [Treasure Chests] are, they are boxes that replenish the items in them after a certain period of time. At a cost of 100 DP.

Other than having them use DP to resupply by choosing from a list if you let it happen automatically, you can also replenish them with items chosen beforehand.

Haku-san said that its a popular item among dungeon masters that find restocking to be troublesome.

Id like to make more powerful magic swordserr, golems, but I dont have a good way to Even our most powerful piece, the iron golem, turned out to be useless and got sliced up by the hero.

Although the hero that came this time was relatively friendly, there might be a day that a hero fully intending to crush the dungeon core comes.

Its probably best to upgrade its materials after thinking about it, so I took a look at the raw materials I could get with DP.

Oh, come to think of it I promised Rokuko a ring huh. Lets make it before I forget.

It should need just about as much needed to make a coin, so it shouldnt cost too much.

And so I bought [Orichalcum (1 MM Diameter, 10 CM Length: 10,000 DP)].

Suddenly expensive! But it cant be helped, it looks great!

Orichalcum has a golden tint with a silvery sheen, with a slightly rainbow-colored luster. It really does feel like a fantasy metal.

Its extremely expensive even though its just ten centimeters, and in addition I couldnt bend it even though I tried to with everything I had. Even when I used pliers, it didnt look like it was even near yielding at all. The heck is this, is it really a metal?

For the time being I started processing it with [Create Golem] but it consumed a considerable amount of time and magical power even though I was just turning ten centimeters of it into the shape of a ring. This is the first time in a while Ive felt tired from using magical power, it took everything I had even though I properly used a chant. In this case I was able to shape it how I wanted even better than iron by filling it with enough of my magical power, but normally how would someone turn this into a sword?

I took another look at the orichalcum loop It cost enough DP to use up ten gold coins, how luxurious. Isnt this a ten million yen ring? It might have been better to quietly make it out of money.

Next, I purchased [Synthetic Ruby (Unprocessed Boule: 30 DP)]. Its really cheap compared to the orichalcum. Moreover a huge gem the size of a finger came out what the hecks a boule? [3]

I thought about using a tiny natural gem, but like this the synthetic ruby is cheaper and has a much better color to it. Moreover since its synthetic it barely has anything inside it (impurities), so in a meaning it could be called even more pure than a true ruby.

Itd probably be deemed heresy from a jewelers point of view though. At any rate, I have no relation to its composition since Ill be kneading and kneading it with [Create Golem] Oh, its really easy to do. It feels like my magical power just sticks to it.

Well, I wrapped the orichalcum loop in the ruby Theres a lot of ruby left over, maybe Ill make some hair ornaments?

At any rate, I made an orichalcum ring with a ruby coating. The orichalcum shined inside the transparent rubys red brilliance. Its a simple design, but it suits Rokuko.

Lets make a box that suits it Ah, handing her this will be a bit embarrassing

I was able to make the ring, so lets think about how to power-up the dungeon again.

I thought about it when I was touching the orichalcum, but wouldnt it already be the strongest if I made an orichalcum golem where its whole body is orichalcum?

Lets ignore how much DP that would take. A little wire was 10,000, so the amount needed for a full golem might be ridiculous. And then itd be a story of magical power too.

How do people usually process orichalcum?

Footnotes:

The original wording might be implying that hes not serious about that statement, just saying it to soothe Meat due to her trembling.

Heres a dorayaki. Two pancakes with sweet bean paste filling between them.

Synthetic unprocessed boule image here.