Year 7445, Month 1, Day 22
Yesterday we returned from the dungeon. Since we teleported into a passage with a lot of ogres in it yesterday we ended up having to explore until quite late. But, thanks to that were able to set a new record of 34 ogres in one day so while everyone tired myself included we were feeling quite good. Although, after we returned to the surface I ate some food and then went right to sleep. Furthermore, the goblins that appear here and there are just a waste of time so we just ignore their corpses without gathering their magic stones.
In any case I guess the fatigue has built up I ended up oversleeping a bit this morning. When I finished my preparations to go running and appeared in front of "Boil Manor" and the sky was already turning red (since there's still the outer crater the sun isn't visible yet), and only the two slaves and Basutoral were waiting. Basutoral seemed to be more exhausted than anyone else but it seems he woke up through sheer guts.
Soon after everyone appeared so after we went running, I called out Zenom and Giberuti and we all went to a restaurant called "Mensato" for breakfast. They have some delicious diced olives that are pickled in olive oil and salt. If you add a small amount of mayonnaise with that to some bread with vegetables and ham on it and it somehow becomes an extravagant sandwich.
These diced olives pickled in oil aren't sold anywhere. Giberuti has been giving it best to reproduce them but it seems that due to problems with the amount of salt and time pickled he still hasn't succeeded. Giberuti trying to ask the owner of a restaurant the recipe is something commonly seen for the {Slaughterers} but since it's how they make their living they aren't willing to teach it so simply. After all it's this stores specialty. I guess that means if you want to eat it then you have to come to the restaurant.
After eating breakfast and relaxing for a bit we went to sell all of the magic stones we earned in the dungeon this time. Since we didn't make it back until late last night we ended up eating and falling asleep without selling them. When we sold 62 ogre and 21 sand shark magic stones it exceeded 52,000,000 Z (52 gold coins) by just a bit.
All of the members other than Basutoral get 1 gold coin and 4 silver coins, I give Basutoral half that amount 2 gold Shu and 2 silver coins. Since it's only been a bit over a month since he joined the {Slaughterers} and in just entering the dungeon a mere three times he's made a bit over 1.5 gold coins in compensation Basutoral was greatly pleased.
Since he seems to have been the guitar and vocalist in an indies band in his previous life, the way he's diligent betrayed my expectations based on that sort of image in a good way. Since we've still only been together for about a month I can't lightly come to a conclusion but at the very least as far as I know he's using all of his spare time to practice writing and with the spear independently. It seems the details themselves were taught by Gwine but while it's just the basics he's repeating the same forms without getting bored. I think it was during a day off just before the day of judgement, I tried asking him.
"Hey~ Basutoral. You might be bored from just continuing the same forms but when you're thrusting you shouldn't just look at the end of the spear. Even if it's vaguely you should look at the entirety of your assumed enemy. Wouldn't it suck if they threw the weapon in their hands at you in desperation?"
He was a bit surprised when I suddenly called out to him during training but he quickly turned around to me and after standing his wooden training spear on the ground with his right hand Basutoral said this.
"Ah, Al-san. I see now, looking at the entirety of the opponent is it...However, I'm not bored of it. It's the same as the {guitar}. In the past, I think it was when I was still a middle school student, I went to a guitar class in the music class. The teacher of that class was good at teaching but their reputation wasn't very good. Why do you think it was?"
"No, I have no idea~"
"Normally they teach you how to play one or two simple songs after teaching you the most fundamental basics but that teacher was the type that taught the basics thoroughly. The average six string guitar, if you include the difficult ones has 187 types of chords but among those 84 types are said to be the fundamental ones. The teacher wouldn't let us play any songs until we could remember all of those 84 fundamental types. That sort of thing is boring or isn't that unreasonable? That's why that teacher wasn't very popular. Since there was a different guitar teacher in that class, once one student switched to that teacher and in no time at all almost everyone switched over there."
"Hn, well I'm sure that's true. I can somehow understand their feelings."
"Yeah, that's right. And, I hesitated on what I should but in the end I went to the class intending to change teachers. I went to the class just a bit early intending to tell the office worker that I intended to change classes but it was at that time, it was by chance but I could hear a tremendously skilled guitar. And, I ended up saying to the office worker. I want to learn from the person playing that guitar."
"Ah, I've read the ending. That extremely skilled person was the unpopular teacher right?"
"That's right. After that I, gave it my best practicing and listening to what the teacher said. Originally I didn't have much talent at all but even then the reason I was able to reach the level where I could put out CDs with the band was thanks to that teacher. The only one who was scouted by pros in the band was just me as well. Well, in that regards I turned the offer down because I liked the other band members though. That's why I don't cut corners in practicing the basics."
"Hmn, I see."
"Yeah, that's why until I get a passing grade from Gwine-san I intend to just keep practicing the movement and form from thrusting then switching to defense. According to Gwine-san if you can just do this perfectly then it's possible to continue taking on one monster without dying.."
Hearing this story I changed my opinion of Basutoral just a bit. Rather than trying to attack the opponent just focusing on defense to earn time. You can just leave attacking to someone else until you get used to it. Those who can accept this from the start, or rather, can actually manage it won't die so easily. If you can manage not to die then you'll gradually gain more combat experience. It's not just the number, you'll gain real experience. Even in my case, even though I was higher level than the average squire when I first faced off against a Horned Bear I got nervous.
In any case, it's certain that for Basutoral to go on living and get his hands on money the fastest route is for him to be with us. I'll show you what it's like earning several 1,000,000 Z in a matter of months. During the afternoon training I'll teach you until you can't stand.
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Year 7445, Month 1, Day 23
{Sun Ray} hasn't particularly made any actions since then, after that the only recent thing that I've been interested in is about Faruergaz and the others. It seems that since last week around the start of the year near they've finally started challenging the dungeon again. They listened to my warnings and bought various things. Some combat slaves were included in that as well. Two huge Laios who are larger than Zulu. Just from what I heard it seems the price was blown up to 9,000,000 Z each at Ronslail's store.
I don't know how much those two have in assets but including the equipment for those slaves it should have exceeded 20,000,000 Z. If I were to match it to my situation when I bought Zulu then it would mean they have total assets equaling around 40,000,000 Z. As expected of a wealthy Count. Well that elf madam still has a good eye for slaves so her business is still proper.
If that madam charged them 9,000,000 Z then there's no mistake to think the values were at least around 7,000,000 or 8,000,000 Z. Recently it seems she's dealt in an even larger number of combat slaves so I'm sure her eye for selecting them has gotten even more polished, and I think she can be trusted at least that much.
Today, when I was eating lunch with Miduchi when Faruergaz and Hirosukol appeared with two huge men following them I was a bit surprised. I heard at that time though. It seems they're properly hiring a guide and entering the dungeon with a total of 7 of them and exploring from morning to night, they were pleased they even managed to earn a whole 1,300,000 Z. Although, that 1,300,000 Z was something they obtained after defeating a Black Gargantuan Leech that was on the verge of death in a monster room and got from the corpses of adventurers who had died previously but it's still splendid.
Though I say that, 100,000 on the guide cost, and then 1/7 of that 1,300,000 being split up evenly between them evenly so 190,000, for a total of 290,000 Z must have been paid to the guide. If they split up the remaining amount between the four of them excluding the slaves then it's 250,000 per person. Yeah, that's plenty. It's quite something. However, in the case that they didn't find any items, the guide would have cost around 140,000 - 150,000, and the remaining four would have had to split up about 40,000. Even with that they should last a week without luxury. It should be plenty.
It seems the only ones injured were one of the slaves and either Ruttsu or Kumiru for a total of two of them. It seems that their injuries weren't anything serious so in another 3-4 days if they determine there's no problem they intend to enter the dungeon again. Also, it seems they've heard rumors of us {Slaughterers} from all over the place, so while they were showing admiration for our results and strength they also heard various things about our behavior from restaurants and bars so they were also looking down on us over that.
It was about fights that we've gotten into in the past and all of the ones started from our end were by Ralpha but if I were to try and explain that it would just sound like an excuse or pushing all of the blame on a woman and I'm sure they would say something like that so I just covered it up with a bitter smile. Although, it's not like Ralpha has intentionally picked a fight on her own even once. Usually they're talking bad that she can hear and she throws some tableware or something at that level. Everything after that is blown up by the opponent.
Particularly for the short while after Bel joined us.. things got pretty bad. That continued for about a year until we were able to make it to the 4th floor. After that along with our nickname I guess our abilities were recognized, but the number of people who picked fights with us decreased quite a bit. Recently it's quite peaceful. Around once in every couple of months some of the newcomers to Baldukk will come to greet us but for the most part no one picks any fights.
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Year 7445, Month 1, Day 24
After eating breakfast, I skipped over lunch and continued practicing the spell {Transmute.Rock.To.Mud} in the forest of the outer crater until dinner. Since I put in quite a bit of effort I was even able to practice it four times today. When I went to dinner because I had spent too much time concentrating practicing my eyes were collapsing and the capillaries in various places on my body were rupturing so I had to use healing magic to fix it before going but no one ended up being suspicious of it.
During the time I was training with magic, Miduchi was nearby using {Summon.Insect} to summon a bee or using {Inspect.Plague} to summon a swarm of over 1,000 cockroaches and screaming it seems but I didn't notice at all. Even if I'm cursed at as heartless, I don't care.
In preparation for exploring the dungeon tomorrow, after checking my equipment I went right to sleep.
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