Mission No.6 Greed (2)
“What is twisted?”
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Stunned, Ewald listened to what the mad dwarf was saying.
“Dragon!”
Ebalt looked down at Dvahurr with an expression asking, “What nonsense are you talking about?” Ebalt tried to ask again, but he shut his mouth, afraid Dvahurr would explode.
He heard clearly.
The thing called Kamache is the thing that twists the dragon.
However, Ebalt, who had heard but did not understand at all, carefully examined Dvahur’s expression and opened his mouth.
“Dragon twisted?”
“… Okay. That damn dragon.”
“Why?!”
The sunken Dvahur’s mouth opened with difficulty.
“Since it uses a dragon heart as its core, the dragon is bound to be twisted.”
Ewald made an admiring expression.
You’re a dwarf as expected. It seems like I’ve heard all the rare minerals and materials in the past month. Following Orichalcum and Mithril, is it Dragon Heart now?
However, Ewald had a completely different idea out of his mouth.
“Then, if you use that kama change or something often, can you have a fight with a dragon?”
“You crazy human bastard!!!”
Dvahur let out a sigh.
“Do you want to see the dragon run amok?”
Thinking that it wouldn’t be too bad, Balt nodded, stepped back, and opened his mouth with a serious expression.
“Hey, can you make me a Kamache too?”
Her! Dvahuru turned his clouded eyes to Ebalt and let out madness.
“… Do you want to die?”
“What materials do you need?”
“Dragon Heart!”
The most difficult item to obtain is a dragon heart. Ewald nodded and began scratching his chin with his hand.
“Hey, where do you get that?”
“What do you mean, where do you get it, you crazy bastard!”
While moaning at the end of the equipment soldier, Balt scratched his head with the hand that had been scratching his chin.
“Anything else?”
“Shut up!”
At this point, Dvahur, who really wanted to cut off his cerebral blood vessels, let out a loud scream and stood up from his seat.
Lifting the ax with his still bandaged arm, he turned his ferocious face towards Ebalt and disappeared without a word.
I still have a lot to ask. Ewald licked his lips with a regretful expression.
But Ewald felt someone pulling the hem of his dress and turned back.
It’s rapon
“… I am so sorry that I have nothing to say.”
“Well, to the point of being so sorry.”
Lafon, who was making a face that he was going to go crazy because he was really sorry, shook his head slowly with a helpless expression.
“I didn’t mean to show off Kamache…”
It seems that Lafon even feels guilty.
Feeling strange for a moment, Ewald smiled and put his hand on Lafon’s head.
The opponent is Ohisa, the religious symbol of the Dwarves. However, what was in front of Ewald was just a girl who had died.
Ewald, who judged that, said in a quiet voice, gently stroking Lafon’s soft green hair, not even recognizing that it was rude.
“If you have to do what you want to do, wouldn’t you be alive?”
Lafon’s small head lifted slightly.
Lafon, who was looking at Balt with his dark green eyes, unconsciously nodded his head with a childlike expression.
“Just make it comfortable and buy it.”
“I understand.”
Lafon, who was drawing her bright smile, held onto Ebalt’s hem and presented her cute eye smile to Ebalt.
“I hope you take good care of me.”
And Dvahur pulled an ax towards Ewald and flew up.
“Can’t I just take my hands off that head!”
* * *
“Benadium is the demon’s metal.”
Lafon, who had finally defined Beniadium, began explaining to Ewald and his friends who were sitting around the table.
“The first discovery was made two centuries ago, and a small amount was found in Nirtyn’s Demon Palace. At first glance, Benadium…”
At first glance?
“A metal that looks like feces…”
Minute what?
“Yes?”
Ewald, who couldn’t decide what that lady looked like, looked at Lafon with a blank expression.
“Minute… Why isn’t there a change?”
Unlike the members of the crew who couldn’t help but keep an eye on each other, Usbel burst out laughing and clapped his hands.
“Poop? Does it look like sh*t?”
Ewald’s face contorted.
However, Usbel, who couldn’t understand her mood, smiled and said something she couldn’t do to Lafon.
“I hope it’s not diarrhea!”
Baek!
“Agogok, agogogok!”
“… A child?”
You take pleasure in peripheral things. Ewald grabbed Usbel’s head and looked back at Lafon.
“Please continue.”
“… Yes. Benyadium comes from a metal that looks like feces.”
The atmosphere, which had been quite serious until the word demonic metal came out, was completely messed up. Along with that, the crew’s perception of Benyadium began to hit rock bottom.
A metal that resembles feces.
“It looks like it, but according to what has been investigated so far, it is a metal that has six times better magical strength than Orichalcum and ten times better mana conductivity than Mithril. It also has its own mana stores, and above all, it is a very light and tough metal that is stronger than steel.”
“… Wow!”
Ewald gave a heartfelt exclamation.
Higher magical strength than Orichalcum and higher mana conductivity than Mithril? Moreover, if it is light and strong, it is the icing on the cake.
“But.”
Lafon let go of that rhyme and put on a somewhat darkened expression.
“Because it has the property of absorbing the surrounding mana, there is an investigation result that the environmental mana around Benyadium is sparse.”
“… A quality that absorbs mana?”
This is the first time I hear it Ewald made an expression full of curiosity at the unexpected story.
“Are you saying that the metal itself has those properties?”
“It is. We don’t know much about magic, but it has happened several times that the elves who participated in the investigation collapsed with all their mana sucked.”
“… Suck mana until you collapse?”
“Should I call it a mana core? It seems to have absorbed even the mana inside it.”
There’s a bit of a problem with this. Ewald twisted his head violently and looked down at the table.
Having high magical strength and good mana conductivity is very helpful in making magic items or weapons.
However, absorbing mana is a fatal weakness.
Magic is a power that is realized and materialized as the flow of mana is entangled with the will of the caster.
However, if mana is drawn from the surroundings, the mana that needs to be injected into the magic becomes rarer, and therefore the power of the magic is inevitably weakened.
Besides, it’s honestly creepy that it sucks mana not only from the environment mana, but also from the mana core.
Is that why it is called the devil’s metal?
“If mana is absorbed, isn’t it not usable for manufacturing magic items?”
“That is…”
Lafon rummaged through the paper in his hand, found something and nodded his head.
“Benadium has been investigated for continuously absorbing and releasing environmental mana over and over again. Just like living things breathe. It is known that when a certain amount of mana is absorbed from a Haona creature’s mana, that is, the mana core itself, Benyadium’s characteristics change.”
“You say your personality changes?”
“It is.”
Turning over the back page of the paper, Lafon quickly opened his mouth.
“Since it is an explanation of the magical part, I will read it as it is. It is inferred that a certain amount of mana is accumulated according to the mass of Benyadium. It seems to store vital mana that pulsates like a creature’s mana core. Discussions on whether a mana core can exist in an inanimate object should continue, but we have no choice but to admit that Benyadium has the characteristics of a mana core. With the current knowledge of magic, it is impossible to derive further results.”
That’s absurd. Ewald thought so.
“… An inanimate object with a mana core.”
However, Lafon’s story soon followed, and Ewald had to doubt his ears.
“As a result of calculations, Benyadium stores 10 million polumens of biological mana per cubic meter.”
“10 million?”
Ewald jumped up from his seat involuntarily. Even manadium, which has the best mana storage capacity among the known magic minerals, has less than 100,000 mana storage capacity per cubic meter. But 10 million polumens?
It means that 1 cubic meter of Benyadium has enough capacity to store all the mana accumulated in Ewald’s mana core.
“It has been reported that you can extract five times more mana than you have accumulated from Benyadium filled with living mana.”
Ewald’s eyes began to glow sharply.
It means that if you absorb living mana from a creature’s mana core and it is full, you can draw five times more mana than the mana you have accumulated.
“… Does such a metal really exist?”
Lafon nodded his head as if it were natural.
“Of course it comes. Even though it looks like human waste.”
Now, it doesn’t seem to matter what it looks like anymore.
Ewald had been immersed in thought for a while with his head bowed like that, and finally stood up.
“Then pick it up.”
* * *
“Usbel, Fiorinir, and Ekryn remain. I am resting.”
“Yes? Yes? Why? Why?”
Usbel, who had been running around Ewald with a sullen face, was quite dissatisfied.
But having already made up his mind, Ebalt shook his head, showing no room for negotiation.
“What if you or Fiorina run out of mana faster in the mana core?”
Asmodians and wizards are beings who suffer substantial damage when the amount of mana in their mana core fluctuates rapidly.
Ewald, who excluded the two for that reason, turned away altogether.
“But, but the master is also a wizard.”
“No matter how many benyadium there are, I don’t think there will be more than one cubic meter.”
Ewald gave an answer that showed his confidence that he could only block it if he sucked it in, and Ewald laughed.
“And I can suppress mana. Can’t you guys?”
“Keugh! Chi-it!”
Ewald patted Usbel’s head lightly, keeping that smile intact.
“Just stay here. It might be dangerous.”
“Sir, why should I stay?”
There wasn’t a big change in expression, but Ekryn, who was still looking dissatisfied, asked a question.
However, Ebalt shook his head with a look of course.
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“You have a mana core too.”
“… Do you think I have a mana core?”
Eccrine, who sounded a little embarrassed, brought his hand to the vicinity of her Danjeon and turned to Balt with surprised eyes.
Ewald, who made an expression asking if he didn’t know that, made a laugh.
“When you use your sword, you increase your strength with mana.”
“Yes?”
Ekryn’s eyes widened. Thanks to this, Ewald had to raise his eyebrows.
“… Could it be that you didn’t know until now?”
“That… Is it mana?”
Ewald was quite dumbfounded, but Ekrin’s eyes were wide open with a face that said she was hearing it for the first time.
“There are cases like this.”
Ewald lightly tapped Eccrine on the shoulder and turned around.
“You are dangerous too. If a guy who uses mana to gain muscle strength quickly gets all his mana, the battle will change. If you fight in that state, you get the wrong sense and you get in big trouble.”
“But…”
“No. Come to think of it, you are the most dangerous. The size of the mana core is so small that if all of them are taken away, you could end up in a coma.”
Ewald, who had extracted so much mana from the mana core during the fight over Schheim in the Principality of Sarmus, coughed up blood and collapsed because of the backflow of mana, so there was no guarantee that such a situation would not happen to Eccrine.
It was good to go safely.
“So, the three of us, Shupea, Adele, and I are going.”
“Uh? Can I go, mister?”
“It’s a guy who is in conflict with Mana, isn’t it natural?”
“Hoo.”
It would be fine if it was Supera surrounded by divine power. Ewald judged that.
“And who else will protect me?”
Ewald laughed and teased Shupea.
Then, a creeping voice came from behind the grinning Ewald.
“Hey, hey, it’s the captain.”
The face of Ewald, who was single, hardened at once.
Ewald quickly turned around and noticed the Elif, who hadn’t even removed the bandage, standing there in a hesitant posture, and was clearly frowning.
“… Would you have told me to rest?”
“Please.”
“What?”
Where do you want to go with that body? Ewald glared at Elif with eyes full of rebuke. However, Elif managed to bring out his words even as he shrank.
“There is something I need to check.”
“Do it later!”
“It’s because if I can’t do it now, I won’t be able to do it for the rest of my life.”
With a face full of tears, Elif looked at Ewald pitifully.
“Take me with you.”
“… Oops, this.”
However, at the sight of Elif’s eyes, which he had never seen before, Ewald finally made a cheep and carried the backpack.
“Follow me carefully.”