Chapter 115 – I want to give you a gift with sincerity
A gift is the best way to communicate and express your feelings for someone. There is.
If you have good feelings towards the other person, you will give that person something that will help them or a gift they will be happy to receive.
On the contrary, if you have bad feelings for the other person, when that person receives the gift, the reputation around you will fall or you will give the gift that can cause trouble.
As much as that, I mean that a gift is the best way to express your feelings to the other person.
In particular, wanting to give only the best things in the world to the person you love is a common feature of all things in the world.
A gift that parents give to their children will be like that, and a gift from one lover to another will be the same.
Adalbert, too, was in a deep cave to find a gift for a lovely lover whom he met again after a long time.
Since several people can enter at the same time, and not a single blade of grass can be seen at the entrance, there must be some strong creature living in this cave.
It was a cave that looked very dangerous even at a glance because the light didn’t come in properly, but it wasn’t a problem at all for Adalbert.
He came here today for only one reason: to get a present for his lover.
To be precise, I didn’t come to get a gift, but to get the materials to make the present myself.
Adalbert succeeded in reuniting with his lover, Nina, after three years.
Of course, all of that was prepared by the emperor.
Anyway, Adalbert, who had succeeded in reuniting with her lover, was contemplating what gift to give her lover.
Because of her personality, Nina would be grateful if Adalbert bought her a trinket from her market.
However, Adalbert valued her Nina even more, so he contemplated giving her a better gift of her own.
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He thought about roaming the mountains to gather herbs, and he wondered if he should bring precious jewels to him.
At that time, he remembered some fragmentary information he had heard at Hugo’s clothing store.
‘You know what? They say that the skin of a stone drake resists physical attacks better than the skin of a tolerable drake.’
‘Is that so?’
While taking measurements to make Adalbert’s school uniform, Hugo gave a speech about how good the skin of the Stone Drake was.
‘Sure. Stone Drake’s leather is a truly versatile material that absorbs any amount of shock even without hardening, and is waterproof, fireproof, and heat resistant!’
‘Is it possible to get stone drake hides around here?’
After hearing Hugo’s continuous compliments, Adalbert asked him where he could get Stone Drake hide.
The fact that Stone Drake skin is used as a material means that it is possible to catch Stone Drake.
A sword expert level is required to injure the skin of a Drake-type monster and penetrate its flesh.
Of course, the Sword Master’s Aura Blade would just cut through without it.
So, Adalbert was showing interest in Stone Drake.
If you knew the location of a powerful monster, you would have something to write about later.
Materials that can be obtained by killing strong monsters are sold at very high prices.
Aside from leather, the rest of the materials are also very difficult to obtain, so they are suitable as bribes to promote friendship.
‘Well? Customers visiting my workshop say that a cave large enough for a stone drake to live has been found in a rocky mountain far away from the Noble Academy. But there are traces, but they say there was no reaction. Well, that’s rather fortunate. Stone Drakes are said to be more vicious and ferocious than Magma Drakes.’
Adalbert, who got a crucial clue from Hugo’s words, obtained information about a rocky mountain far away from the Noble Academy, and heard a story about a rocky mountain with strangely many herbs growing there from a herbalist.
“Oh, well. That rocky mountain was so strange, right? There were a lot more herbs growing there than on other rocky mountains.”
“Is that so?”
Adalbert then headed to the rocky mountain, where he found a piece of skin that appeared to be a stone drake.
The grain-like patterns of the grains were densely engraved, matching the stone drake’s leather pattern I saw in the book.
So Adalbert started to search the mountain, and soon he found this cave.
Because Drake is basically a monster that developed from a reptile, he preferred a slightly humid and dark place like a cave.
“Ugh.”
In addition, the disgusting smell that came up from the entrance of the cave made it possible to guess that this was the cave where Drake lived.
Because Drake’s excrement contains various substances that help plants grow.
However, while it is only good for plants, it boasted a terrible smell that was toilsome for people to smell.
If I had to describe the smell, I’d say it smells like rotten garlic, onions, and chives left at room temperature for a few days.
It meant that a person with a weak stomach would have to vomit on the spot.
Adalbert had learned several magics for this.
“Air Clean.”
That was the air clean magic that filters out toxic substances in the air.
When this magic is used, harmful substances that people should not take in cannot enter the respiratory tract and are blocked in front of the mana barrier.
“Hmm~ Sigh.”
Adalbert took a few small breaths in and out, checking to see if any odors came in.
He inhaled and exhaled, but no stench entered his nostrils.
All that was left was to check if the stone drake was in the nest and start hunting.
Adalbert pulled out his sword and raised his aura to its maximum.
It was because the stone drake’s hard skin couldn’t even be damaged by Adalbert’s clumsy magic and spelling.
Instead, Adalbert had a familiar technique called Aura Blade.
So he slowly walked into the cave.
The cave that Adalbert entered showed no signs of getting narrower even though he went inside.
Naturally created caves tend to narrow at the end, but this cave had none of that.
And the walls of the cave were too smooth.
Naturally formed caves include limestone caves and lava caves. These caves are lava caves, not limestone caves.
If it were a limestone cave, water would drip from the ceiling and stalactites would form, but there was no such thing.
Instead, there were smooth cave walls, a characteristic of lava caves.
In addition, if you look closely, there are very fine marks on the smooth cave wall.
This was the mark made by the stone drake passing by.
In other words, this place meant that the stone drake used as his nest or a cave leading to his nest.
“Huh.”
Adalbert smiled at the traces of the stone drake found in the cave.
All parts of a monster as powerful as the Stone Drake were money.
Blood is used as a material for alchemy, and bones are used to strengthen armor through magical processing.
Leather was the best material for making clothes, intestines were rotted and used as fertilizer for plants, and lean meat was best processed into animal feed.
Aside from that, all parts were made up of things that could be sold, so it could be called a walking treasure trove.
In addition, there were many herbs growing around the Stone Drake’s residence due to the Stone Drake’s excrement.
It was literally a walking lump of money.
Instead of that, there was a downside to having to reach at least the level of Sword Expert or higher.
After death, the mana possessed by the creature disappears, so it can be cut to some extent with a normal sword, but when alive, it cannot damage the leather unless it has the cutting power of a sword aura.
However, Adalbert was a sword master who could deploy the Aura Blade.
In addition, since it is capable of self-healing to a limited extent, the Stone Drake living in this cave can truly be said to have met its natural enemy.
Adalbert took out his sword and slowly entered the depths of the cave.
The cave was filled with a rustling sound whenever I stepped on the dried stone drake excrement on the floor.
And then, deep in the cave, something large and brownish in color was slowly moving towards Adalbert.