VRMMO no Shien Shokunin ～Top player no Shikakenin～ - Chapter 54

Chapter 54 – Out of place handicraft

Regarding the quest reward, first off, it was a skill point book like a standard unique quest.

Adding to that, seems like this time we’ll get a large sum of money from Yaido-san and the government.

The recommended level of the party for it was 35 or higher, except Selene-san that was slightly lower, we barely satisfied that condition.

Anyway, we don’t have any choice but to fight it like this.

The deadline for the unique quest is short, so I don’t think we’ll have spare time to level up.

After discussing it among us, we decided to take this quest.

We had spent a lot of money on all sorts of things, so I honestly really want to earn some gold.

If we kept going like this, the probability of us not being able to make a guild home is pretty high.

「I see, so you are going to take up our request!」 (Yaido)

「Once you have completed the subjugation, please bring back the big horn on its crest. That will be proof that you have defeated the Lord.」(Yaido)

「The Basilisk has a deadly poison. Other than that, there’s also the fact that it’ll petrify its opponent with its gaze.
「It might be better if you aimed to crush its eyes first.」(Yaido)

Those were the suggestions we received.

Since there’s no need to skin in TB, we’ll probably get the crest by defeating it.

While thinking stuff like that, we decided to part ways there.

After thanking Claris-san for the inn and the meal, we headed to the rooms she prepared for us.

She was mindful and separated us in a room for females and another one for males.

I parted ways with the girls and entered the room with Tobi but…

「Ooh, this is a VIP room…」 (Hind)

There were two pointlessly big beds in the middle of the room.

Once I opened a window, there was a splendid view where you could the whole town with a glance.

The furnishing was a basic mix of brown and white, the whole room gave off a calm atmosphere.

「Hah, this feels like such a waste…the room is like this but we’ll only use it to log out.」 (Tobi)

「Not like we have a choice. No matter how much you lie down inside the game, the fatigue won’t go away.」 (Hind)

Some people say that if you sleep within the game, your stress will go down, but those are just false rumors.

There’s no scientific proof of it and the website says that you should rest properly.

From personal experience, if I play continuously for more than three hours, my body will feel heavy once I log out.

As retaliation for not being able to stay here, I sat down on the bed and enjoyed the softness of it.

Tobi seemed to have thought the same thing, so he went to the other bed and lay on his back on it.

「Nuu. this is so vexing.
「…However, today was really fun.」 (Tobi)

「Yeah, it felt like an adventure. We are close to the royal capital, but just thinking about how it’ll look like makes me feel so excited.」 (Hind)

「It’s a feeling you don’t get often nowadays since information is released on walkthrough sites really fast.
「If you said that doing stuff without looking at information was good, it would only be for that though.」 (Tobi)

「Everything has its pros and cons after all.」 (Hind)

In the age where the Internet hadn’t been spread out yet, it seems like people would exchange information about popular games at school with friends.

Strangely enough, I can still remember when my dad used to tell me about his childhood in a nostalgic manner.

The many retro games I have stored in my room’s closet are games that my dad left behind.

「Changing topics, from the information they told us, it seems like the Basilisk has plenty of weak points.」 (Hind)

「From what we heard from Yaido-dono, because it has strong poison and that petrifying ability, it also has various weak points.」 (Tobi)

「Right. So, I’d like to make some preparations for the time being.」 (Hind)

Things like the cries of a rooster, or that they dislike weasels, there are many things.

However, you can’t buy living beings from the trading BBS, it would be hard to buy them in this town.

Which means that…

「There’s only one thing that we might be able to prepare. We have some Niter left that was used on the Bo-hiya after all…」 (Hind)

「Is there any glass?」 (Tobi)

「I saw it before in the trading BBS. Since they also sold silver…yup, seems like we’ll be able to gather the ingredients.
「I’ll have to be careful when working on it, but it’ll probably be simplified in this game.」 (Hind)

「Well, in this game that kind of thing is done vaguely after all. Someone will probably make them at some point. I’ll leave everything to Hind-dono.」 (Tobi)

「Yeah. Leave it to me.」 (Hind)

I’ll come tomorrow a bit earlier to craft them.

Having enough for the party and a few spares should be enough.

「After that, I’m counting on you making my ninja tools! The bo-hiya I used today was the best!」 (Tobi)

「It’s a mystery how that gunpowder set that kind of explosion. Aren’t bo-hiyas more of an incendiary bomb type?
「They are mainly thrown at wooden things.」 (Hind)

「Don’t worry about those small details!」 (Tobi)

「In that case, guess I’ll give more importance to realism and make nasty army provisions…」 (Hind)

「Don’t! Who would benefit from that!?」 (Tobi)

The next day, I arrived thirty minutes before the time we set, opened all the windows and started crafting a certain thing.

Just in case, I wore gloves and used a cloth to cover my mouth to substitute a mask.

As always, the chemical reactions and the process of drying progressed in an instant.

「Oh…didn’t this turn out quite well?」 (Hind)

Since there wasn’t anyone that would give me a reaction, I muttered that by myself.

I held it up high and smiled with satisfaction.

What I made was a modern 「mirror」 using silver mirror reaction.

As a countermeasure against the Basilisk’s gaze, anything would have been fine as long as it was a mirror, but since I was going to make it anyway, I tried making something that didn’t exist in this world.

The total amount I made was ten of the size of a hand mirror and I placed them in suitable frames and they were done.

At that moment, I heard knocking from the door.

I made sure that there was no smell left in the room, threw the scattered materials into my inventory and replied with a 「come in」.

The one that showed her face was Claris-san.

「Hind-sama, can we talk for a bit…ara? Araara?」 (Claris)

「What’s wrong? …Ah.」 (Hind)

I followed Claris-san’s gaze and there was a mirror that I forgot to hide lying there…

She went past me, took it in her hand and her eyes were glued to it.

After staring at her own face reflected in the mirror as if she was seeing something odd, this time she used it to look around the room.

After repeating the action of comparing what she saw in the mirror and what her own eyes saw over and over, she finally opened her mouth.

「I-Is this…a mirror!? However, it is this clear…how is it possible…」 (Claris)

「Ah, ah…」 (Hind)

「Hind-sama, where did you obtain this mirror!? Please, tell me! Please, please! I beg you!」 (Claris)

「Ooooh, please calm doooown! Don’t shake meeee!
「I’ll tell you, I’ll tell yooouuu!」 (Hind)

She grabbed me from the bottom of my neck and shook me back and forth over and over.

I’m starting to feel sick from having my brain shook…

In the middle ages, mirrors are mainly made by polishing metals like copper, tin and mercury.

Obviously, they are mostly inferior to the ones we make nowadays.

The method of silver mirror reaction I used this time was something born in the 19th century after all.

In other words, this mirror is something that is out of place within the world of TB.

「This was made by Hind-sama…? Is that really true!?」 (Claris)

「Your face is too close, it’s too close Claris-san.」 (Hind)

「Ah, I’m sorry.」 (Claris)

It’s understandable that she’s excited as a merchant.

However, the NPC’s AI in TB is really amazing…to think their reactions were at this level.

That she was able to recognize that as mirror alone, would differentiate her from an average AI.

To accept something that goes beyond your understanding in a moment is something that is hard even for normal people.

However, having reached this point, I can sort of guess what she’s going to say next…

「Hind-sama, please sell me this mirror! I’ll help you distribute it! I’ll definitely not make it unprofitable, so please!」 (Claris)

Claris-san’s merchant soul was burning.

*End of the chapter*