Plans for Ranking Up

On the third day of the inn construction I decided to make into a rest day to recover my magical power.

I didnt really need to recover it though. When I was chugging down the crazy number of mana potions to use [Create Golem] for the dungeon battle, I hardly felt my magical power being used making the golems. I felt like Id been working a ton recently, so I decided to take a break for my mental health.

Ah, itd be great if the drill golem struck a hot spring while Im resting.

Theres still something to make. Even if stocking up on ingredients to eat uses DP, I shouldnt use that as an excuse to not prepare something. Ive been thinking about making a garden. Fortunately, the beet-radish field I made with the experimental golem Tester a bit ago has been turning out well. Lets add to the vegetable garden.

Well, if I buy vegetable seeds with DP, I should just need to instruct the golems to construct a fence surrounding the field.

Since Ichika and Meat have also been cutting down an amazing number of trees these past two days, theyre also taking a break with me.

When I dried the felled trees with the life magic [Dehydrate], Ichika stared with her eyes opened wide but the trees cracked from drying out all at once from [Dry].

I used [Create Golem] to mend them back together though, so there was no problem.

Well, when I placed down my futon in the master room, Ichika started to speak with me.

Come to think about it, Goshujin-samas F-rank right? No matter how ya look at it, this is an E-Rank dungeon, and if theres magic swords its probably even D-Rank so ya cant enter right?

Didnt think about that.

Crap. Its not something uncool like I wasnt going to go back to it despite it being my dungeon. Theres also the possibility of me getting excluded in general and being unable to return. Normally, thered even be the possibility that Id get locked out and be unable to return.

Even though I havent finished the inn somehow or another.

I wonder what the quickest way to raise my rank is? The requirement to improve ranks from F-Rank to E-Rank is to complete ten or more F-Rank commissions, as well as an examination done by the guild. A practical battle exam.

Setting aside the exam, for the commissions the only F-Rank commission I know about is the goblin subjugation one.

Theres not just goblin subjugations though? I did boar huntin at that rank.

For this reason, my job is to remove the right ears from our summoned goblins as part of subjugation proof

Eh, as expected I cant do something like that to ones I summoned myself. Compared to the goblins living in the wild, summoned goblins like Gobsuke even have my gratitude from saving the dungeon core. I cant do something so brutish.

Have to search for wild goblins huh

If you want goblin right ears, why not just use DP?

Hah? Rokuko, you, thats possible?

It should be? Aret there treasures like dragon claws?

Now that you mention it, there isnt any reason for there to not be. I looked through the treasure list. But, it wasnt there. As expected, its pretty hard to call goblin ears treasures.

I looked through the other pages without giving up There it is. In the alchemy material list.

Goblins right ear. One for 6 DP. Five for 30 DP. Thirty copper each. It didnt exactly match up to the reward.

Since weve already finished one before forty-five of them huh? 270 DP

Around two days worth of our current DP income.

Ah, Ichikas here right now so our daily income is 160 DP.

That is to say, it went up by 60 DP per day. Going through the simple calculations, that meant she had the strength of around three bandits? As expected of a C-Rank adventurer, incredible!

Rather, goblin right ears are alchemy materials, what are they used for?

Hmm. It doesnt really need to be the right ear, but they get scattered across fields as fertilizer. The guild was originally troubled on how to dispose of the right ears they collected from subjugation commissions, but they came up with a recipe to get rid of em.

Adventurers could resubmit ears that were discarded as-is, so it looks like they had to use them somehow. There are people like that after all wait, Im one of those people too for trying something like this? This is a brand new right ear, but I cant really say I did the commission honestly. The original purpose of it was to root out the goblins in fields.

Well, yeah, its fine. Time is worth more than being frugal here. The only thing written on the commission ticket is goblin right ears, so it isnt fraud.

A trivial problem for my demon king Goshujin-sama?

I said Im not the demon king.

Then, it became a problem of where to hunt.

That is, I arranged goblin spawners in the dungeon. It looked like each goblin spawner could have up to five goblins at a time. It could spawn another at any time when one died if it had mana to use.

I also want to install some golem spawners in the labyrinth 10,000 DP each. Its even five for one golems are monsters that have magic stones, so thats fine. Theyre considered an income source for adventurers too, so it might be a good commodity.

And so, five goblin spawners on the first floor, with two more in the labyrinth on the third floor with three golem spawners. Now to make the fourth and fifth underground floors well, theyre still not needed. I still dont even know if customers will even come to a suspicious place like this.

20,000 DP remaining. Yeah, shouldnt I be happy theres still that much left? Losing my fortune isnt good for my mental state, even more so when Im resting.

Ichika, do you know the conditions for becoming D-Rank from E-Rank?

Certainly one hundred total commissions, as well as a guild examination. They will look at your one-on-one fighting skills. Well, itll be an easy win for Goshujin-sama and Meat-senpai.

One-on-one combat itd be bad if I didnt have a plan.

Fortunately, Ichika is a former C-Rank. If the clothes golem learns Ichikas movements in detail, itll be a considerable power up.

Ichika is skilled enough to raise her rank up to C-Rank solo huh. So that means youre pretty strong? Perhaps youre strong enough to be a knight commanding officer?

No waaay, though I think I, be stronger than an unskilled places commander. well, going head-on against a minotaur would be hard.

So you cant be C-Rank without that much No, saying it another way, you can only do it if you have the skill?

That is, skills other than magic. A strong slashing attack like [Slash] or something. Itd probably be good to learn that.

Want to practice a bit? With Meat.

What about Goshujin-sama?

Ill be watching, its an important role.

Ill make sure to watch them through Menu-sans surveillance monitor so that I can record them.

Having the golems practice and master the movements until theyre natural is an important job.

As for their one-on-one sparring partners, I just have to make a golem thats even more human like than the standard human-type golems, theres no problem.

Ah, but well ya can just go through a dungeon and dont need to go through a rank up solo or anything yknow? Its easier to go through ranking up with party rank and not solo rank. So long as everyones together ya can be recognized as that rank as long as ya have a fixed party like that, that is. We could be a C-Rank party if Im in it.

Party rank. Feels like a system with a condition attached. Ah, come to think of it, didnt Haku-san say her party were all S-Rank yesterday?

I wonder if its a system meant for mages and support-types not good at personal combat, or maybe its for aristocrats?

If a big shot person wants to dive into a dungeon but doesnt have the rank for it, they could be considered a C-Rank party if they included a guard. Something like that.

It seems the written exam also gives credit based on the party, probably for being able to bring muscle-brained warriors into dungeons.

In any case, looks like well be able to rank up easily with Ichika, whos a former C-Rank.

Well, Meat-senpais fighting strength is better than a C-Ranks~ un.

Eh, are you pulling my leg here? I had the feeling, but okay then.