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n「Too slow!」

n「Eeh~~! I arrived first thing in the morning, didn’t I?!」

nThe first thing he says is “Too slow!”.. even though I ate breakfast earlier than usual and came here.

nDoganbo-san dragged me by the hand into his workshop.

n「Both mithril and adamantite are impossible to refine in my furnace. It can still bear the tempering portion of it, but without a specialized furnace for refinement, it’s impossible. So Takumi, splitting the ore equally will do so I’ll leave the refinement to you.」

n「Well, okay…………」

nThe amount that Doganbo-san had mined was much larger, so I’m grateful for that and all but I’m not in highest of spirits so early in the morning.

nI took out the mithril ore and placed it in the area that Doganbo-san had designated for it, and once all of the mithril ore was out, it turned into quite a hill.

n「Now then, I should refine these one after the other, yes?」

n「Yeah. Adamantite is my favorite but mithril can be used for armor and accessories.

nAlright, let’s refine it down to the last one!」

nYeaa, talking that way……… I’m the one refining it though.

nI made extra mana potions for today, so I’ll do my best!

nI will use 『Decomposition』 and 『Extraction』 on the mithril ore and 『Synthesis』 on the extracted mithril. Since mithril ore also contains a small amount of other elements such as aluminium and titanium, it’s necessary to use 『Extraction』 on the essential metals and 『Synthesis』 to secure it. The leftover elements and sand were hardened with Earth magic and turned to blocks.

nAfter that, while drinking mana potions, I continued to refine the small hill of mithril ore.

n「Takumi-sama, how about you take a break and have lunch?」

n「…… yeah, I’m hungry already.」

n「Then I will make preparations.」

nBecause Sophia, who had been watching over me, proposed I have a break, I decided to have lunch. Doganbo-san turned towards me with a dissatisfied look but I can’t work without eating.

nI let Kaede out of the Subspace and the four of us ate the meal that Maria had prepared. We invited Doganbo-san to join us, but he said he can’t eat leisurely when there was mithril ore in front of him then he began doing work that was piling up. …………No, if work piles up, you should do finish them before they do.

nIn the end, Maria sewed side-by-side with Kaede, and I continued the refining, all the while drinking who knows how many potions. I finished refining over half the small mountain of mithril ore that very same day.

n「Alright! Same thing first thing tomorrow morning!」

n「……yes.」

nThis.. refining until the adamantite ores, I wonder how many days this would take.

n「That manner of speech, well, anything’s fine though.」

nEarly morning the next day as well, I began refining mithril ore.

nMustering my magic power, I refined the mithril ores, and by the time I finished, the sun had completely gone down.

n「So then we’ll be doing adamantite starting tomorrow.」

n「Gya!」

nI involuntarily let out a weird voice.

n「(This is artisan work, this is the artisan work that I wanted but………… not like this!)」

nI was supposed to make things enjoyably, it’s like I was thrown into a “black” environment1. Huh? Am I being deceived?

nI complained about how I didn’t want to do it and that it was hard. Adamantite ore in particular. the magic power necessary to refine it with alchemy is higher. Chantless, I abandoned the magic formationless refinement and prepared three metal plates with the alchemy formations for 『Decomposition』, 『Extraction』, and 『Synthesis』, and just poured my magic power into what could be called a refinement assembly-line system.

nTo that extent, I was finally able to finish refining all the adamantite ores in two days.

n「Takumi, take half of the mithril and adamantite ingots. We’ll start making mithril and adamantite armors and weapons 5 days from now.」

nMithril is already usable as it is and has high affinity with magic power, but its hardness and toughness are not that high. That is why it is alloyed2,3. It is mixed with metals and those amounts are a blacksmith’s secret. That is the same for adamantite. Adamantite is much harder and tougher than steel as it is, furthermore, its affinity with magic power is also high, so a completed weapon can easily slice through steel armor. Then by keeping the blacksmith’s unique alloy mix a secret, and raising the abilities of the adamantite weapons, those weapons and armor become national treasure-grade.

nIn exchange for me refining the ores, Doganbo-san gave me an alloy recipe. Considering that, this much hardship might have been reasonable.

nThanks to that, my job levels had increased.

nRace: Human

nAge: 15 years old

nJob: Alchemist Lv64, Blacksmith Lv60

n( Magic Swordsman Lv12, Magus Lv11, Magic Bestower LV32, Carpenter Lv16, Tailor Lv40 )

nLevel: 68

nCondition: Healthy

nVitality: 730

nMagic Power: 920

nStrength: 372

nAgility: 332

nStamina: 430

nDexterity: 350

nIntelligence: 432

nUnique Skills

nAppraisal EX

nItem Box EX ( Concealed )

nPassive Skills

nSuperhuman Strength Lv3

nInsight Lv3

nPoison Resistance Lv2

nParalysis Resistance Lv2

nEvasion Lv2

nBody Control Lv2

nIncreased Magic Power Recovery Speed Lv1

nActive Skills

nSpear Handling Lv7

nAxe Technique Lv5

nSwordplay Lv7

nThrowing Lv4

nTaijutsu Lv5

nMatoujutsu Lv5

nEnemy Search Lv3

nPresence Detection Lv5

nStealth Lv4

nTame Lv1

nEnhance Physical Abilities Lv5

nMagic Perception Lv7

nMagic Power Manipulation Lv9

nLight Attribute Magic Lv7

nFire Attribute Magic Lv5

nWater Attribute Magic Lv5

nWind Attribute Magic Lv6

nEarth Attribute Magic Lv8

nice Attribute Magic Lv3

nLightning Attribute Magic Lv1

nTime-Space Attribute Magic Lv3

nBestowal Magic Lv5

nAlchemy Lv8

nSmithing Lv7

nWoodworking Lv6

nCarpentry Lv4

nForaging Lv5

nLogging Lv5

nDismantling Lv4

nMining Lv4

nMetalworking Lv5

nSewing Lv3

nCooking Lv2

nDivine Protection of Goddess Norn (Concealed)

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nFamiliars

nArachne Unique Species ( Kaede )

nTitles

nGiant Killing

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nFootnotes:

nSphy’s Note:

nHello~ We’ve finally reached 50 chapters (52, including the idle talks). Thank you very much for reading until now! I’ll continue to try my best with the future chapters~ I hope you continue to read! ^^

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nAs an aside, I edited chapter 49 a bit more because I wasn’t really satisfied with what I released. It shouldn’t be as rough, or so I hope.

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