Magi Craft Meister - Volume 10 - Chapter 11

Chapter 11

10-11 Turmoil After All

Right then it was about lunchtime .
“Alright, let me take care of the lunch . ”
Gloria Ohlstat said and invited Jin’s group for lunch . She also invited Duston, but he refused, saying he had a lunch box his wife had made .
“When I was a child, I often went to play at Duston’s workplace and watch him make cutlery . ”
Apparently by that time already she was a pitiable beauty .
They stopped by Gloria’s house to drop off her sword and then headed to the main street . The large sun dial showed that it was about 11 . 45 . The foot traffic had increased compared to the morning .
“I’ve got a preferred restaurant . ”
Gloria said as took the lead of Jin’s group .
“Here it is . ”
The restaurant was on the main street little ways back towards the gate Jin and the others had come from .
Its sign had ‘Crystal Restaurant’ written on it, and while it appeared cramped the inside atmosphere was good .
Since the time was still a bit before 12 o’clock there weren’t many customers either .
“Welcome, Ohlstat-sama . ”
Like to a regular customer, the waitress greeted her in a friendly tone .
“Hey, Feo . I brought company with me today . Whatever you recommend for four, please . ”
“As you wish . ”
The waitress called Feo gave a bow and went to the kitchen to convey the order .
“The lunch here is famously good . Off-duty soldiers and knights also come here often . ”
Gloria explained .
“Up until the other day there were continuous battles around Tetrada west of here, but it seems to have stopped now . Yesterday a post horse arrived . It seems that Egelia Kingdom had fought with Celuroa Kingdom but it also seems to have come to an end . That’s news that came by pigeon the day before yesterday . ”
“Is it alright to tell us something like that?”
“Eh, it’s fine . You must be worried about the situation of the countries too? I thought I’d tell you as part of my thanks for making the sword for me . ”


“Why, thank you very much . ”
It was news he was already familiar with, but since she had kindly told him Jin thanked her .
“Sorry to have kept you waiting . ”
The food was brought in quite fast .
“They came up with this idea to reduce the types of foods in exchange for careful selection of flavors and reduced cooking time . ”
Gloria explained . To put it simply, it was a set meal that changed every day, but reaching that idea in this world could be valued highly . And just as she explained, the taste was rather good too .
The food was freshly baked bread, vegetable soup, dried fish stew, and grilled deer meat . In addition they had Appleles .
It wasn’t high cuisine, but being familiar and cheap it was a menu both commoners and lesser nobles could enjoy .
Incidentally, Jin was interested in the bread . It wasn’t pure white, but it wasn’t whole grain bread either . To be frank, it was exactly the same bread that was eaten in Kaina Village .
“This bread…”
Jin started to say, then Gloria began explaining with an understanding look on her face .
“Ah, it’s delicious, right? It’s become popular lately . It’s made out of wheat flour a rapidly growing company called Raglan Firm is selling . ”
I thought so, Jin thought . He felt real happiness being of use to society like this .
Hannah wanted to say something, but seemed to be engrossed in the dried fish stew .
“You’re very knowledgeable, aren’t you . ”
Jin said, thinking that she was surprisingly well-informed about things despite being a knight .
“What, it’s just that the owner’s wife is my childhood friend . ”
Gloria replied . I see, Jin thought after hearing that .

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Tea was brought in after lunch .
“So, about the compensation for the sword . ”
Before drinking the tea Gloria spoke .


“How much would you like me to pay? Name your price, is what I’d like to say but what I can pay has limits…”
Jin turned to Gloria and replied,
“Since the materials didn’t cost anything, it’s fine if you just pay whatever you think the sword is worth . ”
Jin honestly didn’t know the market prices of swords and such .
But Gloria muttered that that’s what troubles her the most, and she began pondering . Before long she raised her head as if having come to a decision and took a tiny leather bag from the leather purse on her waist and placed it in front of Jin .
“That’s all I’ve got on hand . ”
“Eh?”
Slightly confused, Jin checked the contents of the bag, and inside it there were seven gold coins and 15 silver coins . That was 71,500 Torr . That was about 715,000 yen .
“This is too much . ”
Jin said, but Gloria replied without hesitation that even 100,000 Torr wouldn’t be enough for the sword and that haggling would be blasphemous .
Jin felt a little uncomfortable, but then thought of a good line for persuasion .
“For craftsmen as long as what they’ve made is appreciated and taken good care of, it would be fine to even give the product away for free . So I’ll take just this and let’s settle it with that . ”
Jin said and took two gold coins out of the bag, then returned the rest to Gloria .
“Take good care of it, or should I say that I’m just happy that I could help . ”
Gloria then turned to Jin who said all that, replied with ‘I swear’, and lowered her head .

Once they had drunk the tea that had cooled down a little, the outside became noisy .
“Hm? What’s going on?”
Before Gloria could finish talking, there was a sound of something breaking and people screaming .
This is no trivial matter, Gloria said and rushed outside . There were knights near the area . Incidentally, the bill appeared to go on her tab .
Jin’s group also followed outside to see . Then .
“…Golems?”
“I recognize those . They’re the old type golems of the Unifiers . ”
There were three old type golems that had become the base for Gon and Gen, and they were rampaging on the main street .


“What is this!?”
Gloria asked a knight who was next to her .
“Ah, Gloria-sama . I–I don’t know very well myself, but what I can say is that at 12 o’clock those three came out of a wagon and began acting violently . ”
Indeed, ahead of the road there was a half-destroyed carriage with three racks that had fallen over .
“Can’t you stop them!?”
“N–no . Our swords can’t make a dent on them . We’ve requested the magi knight troops, but as of yet…”
“This isn’t the time to be talking about that!”
Gloria turned to the direction of the three golems . They had begun destroying the stores along the road . People were running about trying to escape .
A crowd of people rushed out of the destroyed stores . There were also people who turned back when they saw the golems .
Among them was a small child who seemed to have been separated from their parent . The child accidentally fell over in front of the golem .
“That’s bad!”
Without any hesitation, the golem seemed about to trample over the child .
“Reiko! Save that child!”
“Yes . ”
Jin ordered . Reiko replied and instantly moved .

Jin’s order was to ‘Save’ . To save the child just holding them in her arms and moving away would work, but at this time it would be difficult .
If Reiko was to quickly grab them and move, the child’s delicate body probably couldn’t handle the acceleration . After reaching that conclusion, the action Reiko took was being the shield for the child .
Reiko went on her hands and knees and covered the child to protect them . Then the golem’s foot swooped down on her .
Without time to be doubtful of Reiko who moved there in an instant, the people present saw the golem’s foot land on Reiko who was covering the small child .
Several women closed their eyes as they couldn’t bear to watch Reiko and the child who were about to be crushed in a moment .
But Reiko’s body wasn’t so roughly made as to be crushed by a golem like that .
“Ooh!?”
The eyes of Gloria who hadn’t closed them became wide .
Reiko who took the golem’s foot with her back was undaunted .
“[Wind Blow] . ”
Then the wind magic spell Elsa cast exploded . Since the golem had raised one of its legs it was easily overturned .
Reiko used the chance to take the child in her arms and got up slowly . She then ran back over to where Jin’s group was .
“Father, the child is safe . ”
Jin patted the head of Reiko who had carried back the child who was on the point of tears and praised her .
“Well done, Reiko . Your decision-making was good too . ”
“Reiko onee-chan, coo~ol!”
Even Hannah praised her, and Reiko smiled broadly . Since the child had scraped their knee, Elsa used healing magic .
“[Heal] . ”
The bleeding stopped, and the child finally stopped crying .
“Okay, you’re fine now . Does it hurt anywhere else?”
“…No . ”
That’s good, Elsa said and returned her focus to the golems .
“[Dig] . ”
Jin used the earth type magic [Dig] to make the golems fall into a pitfall and sealed their movements .
If Reiko used violence this could be quickly settled, but since he wanted to avoid being conspicuous he had Reiko move to protect the surrounding people .
“[Standstill] . ”
Jin then turned off a golem whose movements were sealed . In truth, the SP who were hidden using [Stealth] had also secretly provided support .
Jin himself was moving while protected by a [Barrier] .
Two golems were deactivated, and one remained . At that moment .

“[Flame Lance] . ”
Fire magic exploded and the remaining golem was blown away .