What, is today bonus day?

Karina-chan here. I love pancakes!

If you asked me my favorite foods in this life, I'd answer: pancakes and meat! Kya!

Balance: 995 SP. Don't go saying anything like "Tch, don't waste that on pancake mix!" at me either.

 

 

Ahem.

I pressed the Purchase spot in the paper catalog with a firm push, and pancake mix was delivered into my storage space. A delivery-only sub-space got created on its own.

Same-day rush shipping that would shock even a certain e-commerce site.

… And as a freebie, there were some eggs and milk tucked in. That made me feel kinda happy.

So that's one souvenir secured. Also, using the five silvers from the wand massager sales, I bought the bits I can't easily gather myself for the massager materials: ink and varnish. The palm-sized pot of ink was three silvers, the wine-bottle-sized varnish was two silvers. Yay, Shounin-chan's earnings vanished so cleanly.

Good thing I'd decided to use Healer profits for living expenses. Food and sock money can come out of that too, right? I hereby allow it.

Of course, you can't make a magic tool with just ink and varnish. So for the materials I'm short on — wood and magic stones — I'll go hunt monsters and procure some.

I should be able to get small magic stones if I hunt goblins.

"Actually, small magic stones are cheap. If I'm going to crush them anyway, I should've used those instead of a fancy big golem-grade stone…"

Golem-grade stones apparently come from fairly high-ranked monsters. (The kind B-rank adventurers mainly handle and what a C-rank party might barely manage.)

Well, I can always fuse small stones into a huge one with Spatial Magic if I want.

And a massive stone makes for great bluff fuel for the car…

Anyway, time to harvest materials for magic tools. Procurement time.

I left town by flashing my Adventurers' Guild Card.

If I head to the forest where I did lumberjack work with Spatial Magic, there are a decent number of monsters and also trees I'm allowed to fell. I'll hunt while consulting with Basic Knowledge-san.

Ooh, a Caterpillar. Big ol' inchworm. Gross. But apparently it's a beneficial monster that eats branches like selective thinning… If you don't attack, it's harmless, so I'll leave it be.

Oh, a Goblin. The classic go-ahead-and-hunt target. Proof of subjugation is the ears. Snagged a tiny magic stone too.

Oh, a Slime. I'll take the core. Pocket money. Supposedly there are sand-grain-like magic stones inside the core, but the effort to extract them isn't worth it even for me with Spatial Magic, so I'll deliver the core as-is.

Oh, an Orc. A bipedal humanoid pig. It attacks people, so it's a harmful beast, but if you can take it down, you get both meat and a magic stone! A tasty two-birds-one-stone monster. For me, that's obviously just a bonus. Thanks for the grub.

Oh! An Orc General. Not sure where it got them, but it's wearing ornaments. It's like two sizes bigger than a normal Orc. You can get golem-grade stones from these. Thanks for the grub.

The meat's apparently delicious too, with a strong mana flavor. Today's menu is Orc General steak.

Oh! Another Orc General. What, is today bonus day? Yummy.

By the way, the ornaments and equipment monsters carry are either things they made themselves to show off their smarts, or scavenged from adventurers they defeated. They sell reasonably well, so I'll collect them.

Oh, an Orc Knight. A step below General, but probably perfect for magic-tool stones. Makes a good souvenir for Dea-kun too.

Oh, there's a Goblin Shaman with them. They apparently drop relatively large stones for a Goblin. Well, it's about on par with an Orc. It's more trouble and tastes worse than an orc since it uses magic and you don't get meat. I'll just take the stone and ears. Ah, the fang necklace ornament might sell through the Adventurers' Guild too.

"If I just fell a few trees and take them back, that should wrap things up… hmm?"

I sliced through a random tree and it toppled over with a "Gyuaa!" … A Treant, huh. Well, a Treant is still wood. If anything it's quality lumber, and it drops a magic stone, so it's perfect as magic-tool material. Another tasty target.

One more… oh, this one's a Treant too? Delicious.

Oh, an Orc Archer. Bows and arrows are supposed to be a pain, but it's basically just a normal Orc holding a bow. I hear its stone is a smidge bigger than a regular Orc's, but I can't tell. I'll take the bow while I'm at it… Hey now, this is pretty well made? Cheeky for an Orc.

Oh, an Orc Assassin. Nice ambush, but that doesn't work on me. Also, moving through a forest without making a sound with that Orc-y frame is impressive. Maybe it's got a skill? I'd like it to teach me. The knife is nicely made, so I'm keeping it.

Oh, a Goblin mob. Hand over the stones and ears. Yep. Small fry, small fry.

Hm? This one's got something like a crest — it's worn, but still. Might be useful as a design reference later; I'll take it.

And another Orc… I think? Hard to tell. It's small, so maybe it's a kid?

It's got a crown on its head — was it playing king? I feel a tiny bit bad.

… Huh? That magic stone is weirdly huge. Was that actually a King, Your Majesty? Basic Knowledge-san didn't catch that, hey.

Basic Knowledge-san misses things like this sometimes. But, you know, that's kind of cute?

Oh, there're lots of Orcs…

"There are kinda a lot of Orcs. Like, a lot lot?"

There must be at least a hundred… I can't count them all.

Gasp. Maybe this area was an Orc ranch or something. Yikes, did I just poach? … Let's keep it quiet. I know nothing!

I got enough Orcs that I won't want for meat for months, so let's call it here and not come back… It's totally possible they were breeding them by taming a King, like beekeeping. Orc meat is tasty.

… I'll just report subjugations for normal Orcs and Goblins to the Adventurers' Guild!