Death March kara Hajimaru Isekai Kyusoukyoku (WN) - Volume 1 - Chapter 3

Chapter 3: 3

1-3 . The Start of Wandering Life!

"Hello, Suzuki here . My character name is Satou, but I'm Suzuki . "

I want to talk with somebody instead of doing this monologue!

Since the dream continued with no sign of it being over, I decided to look for human habitation .

Thankfully at the edge of the wide map, there looks to be some kind of highway .

Three days since then . I've been been walking day and night yet am still only halfway there .

Stamina gradually decreases, but it's still 2800/3100 . It decreased about 100 each day .

If this was a game, I should be okay for 28 days, more but I'm at my limit already .

I'm not sure if it's because of my stat or dream, but I don't feel tired . I did get sleepy but I endured it .

Right now I'm walking, even if I run the stamina decrease rate isn't really different . If I jump around the stamina decreases faster than running but honestly, it's still within margin of error .

Then why am I walking now? That's because I'm free .

You don't understand?

Yeah .

At the start I was singing a one man karaoke while running .

Originally my repertoire is small . I ran out of song immediately .

The surrounding scenery is magnificent but unfortunately it rarely changes .

Then, I decided to read the long log .

I'm not a text mania but since it's painful to silently walk an aimless road I began reading the log from the very first entry .

Of course, it's hard to read text while running, so the I began to walk . Absorbed with reading the log, I forgot my original purpose of getting onto the highway .

The log started with [Magic Art: All Map Exploration is used], then [Defeated~] messages for defeating Lizardmen and Dragonewts until the Dragon God .

Afterwards there's [Defeated All Enemies on the Map] and lastly [Source: Conquered Dragon God Valley] . Source? What's that? Mystery words pop out .

Then the log continue with loot and level up record .

The loot records occupy 80% of the log . Common gold and equipment . Then various dragon materials like horns, fangs and scales . Up to this I can understand the quantity and quality of the loot, but in contrast the remaining ones are strange .

Lizardmen and Dragonewts corpses are stored in the storage . Is it for Necromancer's use?

The rest are probably daily goods used by the scale tribe like food and fuel . I can't lay out such items though . . . furthermore, they're all named with [Broken~] as prefix, aren't these garbage?

As one would expect, reading through tens of thousands detail would be troublesome .

Thankfully, WW storage window allow you to search and classify by item type and user tag .

I designed them as a common interface to decrease working steps needed . I'm a bit proud making it on the same level as the latest OS filer .

Of course there's also optional folder functionality, but when you tap the stored item inside the bag, the the sub-type  will expand and you can take it out without confirming .

<TLN: The run-on in this sentences is absolutely crazy, I'll appreciate help on this one . The trivia is not that important for the plot though so you can just interpret this whole geeky paragraph as : "It's awesome"> .

Of course you can also take out the item by dragging it too . In addition, you can also put user registered items on custom tab . This was added because it's annoying to input search word every time on a smartphone .

Well, the story wandered off for a bit . I can't blabber on program scheme too long .

I open two storage windows to begin organizing items . First, I create folder for each general type . Then I will create sub-folder for sub-types inside .

In the setting screen I enabled the [Automatically Stack Identical Item Type] option .

Without this enabled, the total number of item would be too much .

By the way, we call overlapping position like this as stacking in FFW and WW . The term exists in most RPG's so I will omit the explanation . I wonder if the etymology comes from piling pieces in the old simulation board game?

Anyhow

Gold loot is mostly money .

The most numerous one is [Ancient Empire Gold Coin] . It's 1 . 001 . 2000, wow . I tried taking out one, it's quite big and heavy . It's about as big as a 500 Yen coin and as heavy as five 100 Yen coins . If I remember right, it's about 30 grams . Since in real world money, the coin is about 4-7 grams, this one is too big and heavy . If we calculate, the total is 303 Tons . . . an absurd weight . In the real world,  about 2500 Tons of gold is mined a year . Hoarding so much gold like this, is very Dragon-ish .

The next numerous one is [Saga Empire Gold Coin] of about 40K . I'm interested whether there are many empires or if it was a new empire built after the former one was destroyed by dragon . I tried taking out this one too, it's a bit smaller than 500 Yen coin but the weight is only about 7 grams .

And the third, Crimson Treasure 30K . Fantasy-like money appears! Taking it out, it's about half as heavy as the ancient gold coin with ruby-like appearance . Sometimes it let out a flash of light from inside creating cyber (chick?) feeling . A bit mysterious .

The rest are 10K of [Ancient Empire] silver and copper coin . [Saga Empire] and [Shiga Kingdom] silver, small silver, big copper, copper, pennies . [Drag Holy Kingdom] big silver, silver, copper, and various money with [~Kingdom] suffix . These are all in total 7000 . For now, I sort it by country .

Still, WW and FFW didn't have sets of money . . . In WW it was called Wol, and in FFW it's Kaane, there's no other currency beside it .

These various currencies may come from the quiz show I saw during my break, impacting this dream .

There are also jewelry, ornaments and works of art besides money . A simple silver ring, emerald fist, ornamental crown, life-sized gold figure, decorative short sword, and many valuable looking things numbered about 300K .

Most are just expensive looking normal items, however there are magic items mixed in around 5% of the total .

The detailed information for the magic items are long so I skimped on reading it . Think of it like reading internet slang that you don't understand the meaning of on a bulletin board . There was no mounted jewelry in WW and FFW . <TLN: Okay this is so abrupt, I'm not sure what's what . This guy need an editor . >

Understanding some of the explanations, there are some things that catch my attention . Able to produce 100 litres of water a day, [Hell Water Jug (Water Bottle)] .

I took out the [Hell Water Jug (Water Bottle)] when I found it and drank the water . I wanted to wash my face and hair with it but gave up since the dust from the meteor shower is still floating around .

Other things are; able to keep 1000 sheets of money, [Magic Wallet], stacking 30 varied types of up to 30 items, [30 Holding Bag] . I put those 3 things on favorite .

Since I have infinite storage, there's no point in a magic bag, but I like seeing a long sword slide in and out of the bag .

The second day ended with such feelings after organizing treasury .

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Moving on with this and that on the third day . The clock has crossed 0 . I'm not sure if it's really the third day since I slip off the clock every 4 hours .

Since I'd get tired if I sleep on this wastelands rough ground, I keep walking instead . There's a full moon tonight so there's no problem with visibility .

Having principle of saving the best dish the last, it's time to check for the weapons and armors .

I sort the type to show materials and corpses . According to the log There are only a few lizardmen and dragonewt corpses . This is most likely because of the meteorite, having received the full blow, there won't be many remains . However, there are a lot of dragon's corpse . Defeated Log shows that there are 2-3 times as many . This place become like a dragon version of an elephant's graveyard .

Most are materials from body parts, but there are also iron ingots, medicinal plants, timber, and stone . They're probably from the things crushed by the meteorites . Random body parts and scales are many . Regardless of type, there are 7 . 9600K of them . Even an old dragon skin mold and husk exist .

"Huge, if the scale is this big, wonder how huge is the body . "

Losing to curiosity, I took out an adult dragon's scale, it's about 50 cm . While I'm at it, I took out lower dragon's scale to check, it's palm size .

[Broken] item are put in specific folder . I was thinking of throwing it away but stopped since it could become a literal mountain of garbage .

Finally, it's equipment .

There are around 30K things . The Scale tribe's spears are especially abundant, things which begin with [Scale Tribe's~] are around 20K . Neither are magic items, they're all normal items made of copper or iron . There are only few strange armors .

I tried taking out a scale tribe's spear . 2 meter long wooden handle with sharpened bone tip comes out . It can't pierce when I tried it out so it probably isn't a war spear .

The magic items are such like [Dragon Skin Armor] or [Dragon Scale Armor], seems like items blessed by the dominant tribe are around 100 . Those are probably scale tribe armor .

The remaining 10K of half are [Dragon] based large swords, spears and bows . These are probably legacy from the (scale tribe) people who beat dragons .

The special effects kind are jewelry, but I don't understand the effects so let's put it off for now .

There are several interesting things, especially [Holy Sword] and [Divine Sword]

My long lost Chuuni heart is stimulated .

Why are these [Holy Sword]'s are named [Excalibur], [Durandal] and such?

There are also katana's named [Muramasa] and [Kotetsu]

"Tension up~"

I enjoy wielding Excalibur . It should be quite heavy but I swing it carelessly . Beautiful traces of light come out . However for physical weapons isn't sword disadvantageous? But it's popular in flashy games .

Oh yeah, there is no specific name for the Divine Blade .

I expected to get sword skill when I wielded the sword, but it didn't happen . It will likely come out if I defeat an enemy with a sword .

Unusual things also exist . Cannons and ballistas That are usually placed on fort to counter flying enemy on the sky . Skimming the descriptions, it seems that it seems that it doesn't use gunpowder, but magic power instead .

Another one, it's gun!

Handgun 100, Rifle 50 . Magic powered gun 12 . Just for the record, there are no guns in FFW . There are cannons in WW though .

I take out the smallest magic gun .

It's a Derringer sized gun with excessive ornaments . The trigger guard is attached .

In the real world, guns have safety locks, over here it's a switch with 0, 1, 3, 10 scale . I set the scale to 1 .

I aim at a rock nearby with one hand and pull the trigger .

A psshh sound comes out, yet no trace of the shot could be seen .

When I confirm the rock, a hole about as big as a 10 yen coin penetrated it . It's a 2 meter thick hard rock . MP consumption is 1 . There is no recoil, it's a laser gun like feeling . This is totally SF instead of fantasy .

With scale set at 10, the rock completely crushed . This would kill Ogre level demons in one shoot . MP consumption is 10 .

"It's way too efficient . "

It's an item that would totally break balance of a game . No one would want to use magic .

After that, I played around with the gun while moving for 1 hour .

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Finished checking items in general, I began thinking something that bugged me before .

"What is Source anyway?"

I mutter to myself .

It's about the [Source: Conquered Dragon God Valley] from the log .

. . . this is probably not related to tax withholding . <TLN: Source=Gensen, gensenchoushuu=tax withholding at the source>

Besides on the log, there's no mention of [Source: Conquered Dragon God Valley] anywhere else .

Usually I would have said "It's a dream anyway" but something is bugging me .

Having a change of pace by thinking while running, I feel like coming up with something, I'm immersed in running while feeling good, I feel like anything's good .

I'm incoherent if I do so say myself .

Spending many days without any conversation is no good after all . I'm not suited for that .

I've walked for 1 day before I knew it, and finally almost reached the highway .

There is no human habitation according to map . I can see the highway leading to west on the north west .

By the way there's no presence beside me displayed on the map .

I wonder if they ran away in fear of that catastrophe aka meteorite shower with thunderous roaring and earthquakes .

I stopped the half-baked running and began walking .

"I want to take a bath~"

As expected, not having one in 3 days make my head itchy .

It's not possible to boil water, but there is water . Thankfully the dust cloud has lessened, it's possible to wash off the dirt .

I store my clothes and shoes into storage, find a suitable rock and pour water down from the top of my head .

"It's a bit cold, but I've come back to life . "

Feeling relieved, I took out clean clothes from the loot and wipe off the water .

In order to take a refreshing nap, I take out a suitable bed with canopy from the loot and put it on the ground .

That day I slept for the first time after 3 days .

The next morning, I noticed that I could hang laundry on the canopy so I wash my clothes with bucket from storage and hang them up, side by side .

After that I lazed around on the bed while eating jerky  for half a day .

I'm expecting that someone will pass on the highway, but there's no change in radar, even untill afternoon .

"If this was a light novel or manga, I would have met a princess being attacked by thief~"

I like template ay .

"The service in my dream is so bad . "

I turn a blind eye to the fact that I easily get treasures and significant level up, cursing my luck .

A flag would occur if this was a dream or tale, but nothing happened .

After changing into the dry clothes, I began walking toward the highway .

TLN: A chapter with a lot of geeky and trivia exposition . Please bear with me for a while .

Edited by : Fate Trooper