Someday Will I Be The Greatest Alchemist? - Chapter 5: First to prepare my living space

Chapter 5: First to prepare my living space

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nThe exterior of the house is complete, but as there was no bed, I slept on a plank while covered in a mantle.

n「Uugh, …… o-ouch.」

nTelling myself that today is the last time I’ll sleep on a hard plank, I loosened my body as I got up.

nAfter I washed my face and brushed my teeth at the only water well in the village, I did some light stretching, and I ate the sausage and bread that Vanga-san’s wife, Martha-san, brought over last night.

n「Now then, gotta chop down some trees first.」

nSometime yesterday, Vanga-san marked some trees needed for the periodic thinning. I will be logging those trees today, then I plan on making an assortment of furniture and tableware afterwards.

n「Hmm, its cutting edge seems to be dull.」

nLooking at the edge of the axe that I borrowed yesterday, I judged that chopping down trees with this would be difficult.

n「Come to think of it, wouldn’t Smithing magic work somehow?」

nAmong the Smithing magic, there is one that can freely manipulate the form, Craft, and another for honing, Sharp. I held the axe and invoked Smithing Magic. Since the level of my Smithing skill is low, it was sharpened roughly, but because it is an axe, that isn’t a problem.

nSo with the axe on one hand, I exited the village gate and trudged my way into the mountain to fell some trees.

nI swung the axe into the marked trees.

nKan! Kan! Kan!

nCutting down a tree 30 cm in diameter was harder than I thought.

nBut as I sweat buckets, I was able to cut down the tree.

n〈The 「Logging」 Skill has been obtained〉

n〈The 「Axe Technique」Skill has been obtained〉

n“Right after I finished cutting down that one tree, I got some skills. But in reality, getting skills can’t be this simple, right?” is what I thought as I chopped down one marked tree after the other with the skill, which increased my tree cutting speed, that I obtained.

nThe benefits of the skills were tremendous, from second to third, and from third to fourth, my tree cutting speed increased several fold each time the skill level went up.

nThe logged timber only needs to be stored in the Item Box so I reached the quota of timber much faster than planned.

nI placed the timber stored in the Item Box into the timber storage space, took some timber for the furniture, and headed back to the house.

nWith the tools I borrowed from Vanga-san, I will be making a bed.

nBut first, checking my status.

nName: Takumi Iruma

nRace: Human

nAge: 15 years old

nJob: Warrior Lv4, Mage Lv3

nLevel : 2

nCondition: Healthy

nVitality: 120

nMagic Power: 120

nStrength: 55

nAgility: 35

nStamina: 55

nDexterity: 55

nIntelligence: 75

nUnique Skills:

nAppraisal EX

nItem Box EX (Concealed)

nPassive Skills:

nActive Skills:

nSpear Handling Lv 2

nAxe Technique Lv 2

nEnemy Search Lv 1

nPresence Detection Lv 1

nMagic Perception Lv 1

nMagic Power Manipulation Lv 1

nLight Attribute Magic Lv 1

nFire Attribute Magic Lv 1

nWater Attribute Magic Lv 1

nWind Attribute Magic Lv 1

nEarth Attribute Magic Lv 2

nTime-Space Attribute Magic Lv 1

nAlchemy Lv 1

nSmithing Lv 1

nWoodworking Lv 1

nCarpentry Lv 2

nForaging Lv 2

nLogging Lv 2

nDivine Protection of Goddess Norn (Concealed)

nNext is to see if I could change the job.

nSo then,

nCarpenter | Blacksmith | Alchemist | Thief | Priest

nI saw I could select from 5 kinds of Jobs.

nTherefore, I changed Warrior to Carpenter and Mage to Blacksmith so I could get a correction for furniture making, even if just a little bit.

nLike I thought, Smithing magic is effective even if the material applied to is wood. I poured magic power into the wood, using Craft to mold it. I used the nails given by Vanga-san for the construction of the house, but thanks to my Woodworking skill, I was able to work on the furniture without having to use nails so the amount of support from nails was kept down.

n〈The 「Woodworking」 Skill has leveled up〉

n〈The 「Carpentry」 Skill has leveled up〉

n〈The 「Smithing」 Skill has leveled up〉

n〈The 「Carpenter」 Job has leveled up〉

n〈The 「Blacksmith」 Job has leveled up〉

n〈The 「Magic Power Manipulation」 Skill has leveled up〉

nOnce the bed was finished, several skills and jobs leveled up.

nInstead of a bed mattress, I was sold the fur of the village’s sole livestock, a goat-like animal called a 『Yaak』, for 10 silver coins. In addition to that, I received fabric as a substitute for a bedsheet from Martha-san.

nSince I discovered that production jobs levels up even without fighting, I am leaning more and more towards production jobs.

nI continued making a workbench, a stool, a dining table, and a chair until the sun came down.

nDinner at Vanga-san’s house became a feast since I presented the two horned rabbits that I forgot about in my item box to Martha-san.

nWhile I was learning how to dismantle it from Vanga-san, I challenged myself to dismantle one too. It would have been revolting or something in my life in Japan but I was totally fine. Is this a specification of another world too?

nThe skills of the production type jobs were improving steadily.