253 – Raid (2)
When I go back, even if I go back, I want to see the end of what I started with.
That was Monia’s answer. In other words, he wanted to see the end of the Kingdom of the End, which was caused by the pitiful love story between Monia, the princess of the duke, her prince Jordi, and Tiara, a commoner.
Even if I give an answer, I want to see it and give it down. That’s Monia’s answer.
Chester nodded at that answer, and decided to return to the continent where the kingdom of Biend was located first.
After that decision, Chester secretly rubbed the grace of the top on his wounds every night for treatment.
It would be easier and faster to recover if the grace of the top was ground into powder, but I didn’t want the water people to suspect it and reveal the existence of the grace of the top.
Rubbing the boon of the top on the wound can be passed as speedy recovery, but drinking the powder is sure to be considered abnormal beyond speeding recovery.
It would make no sense to say that a seriously injured person who was about to die would wake up the next day without a scar and be active.
So, for about a week after entering the cave hideout, Chester stayed with bandages tied around his body.
I’ve suffered serious injuries many times after obtaining the grace of the top, but it was the first time I’ve had such a scar on my body for such a long time, so it was very awkward to live with a scar.
“Chester, ah~.”
When Monia offered the bread, Chester quietly opened his mouth and accepted the bread. At the same time, he carefully scratched the tickling wound because of the bandage, and was scolded by Monia.
“Don’t scratch your wounds!”
“… It’s like going back to my childhood.”
“Huh? What?”
“The scars and bandages are awkward. When I was young, it was really hard to have a broken leg and be stuck in bed, unable to move.”
Monia imagined her childhood Chester for a moment.
“When I have a baby, will I be like Chester?”
“Monia, I might look like you. I heard that the man resembles her mother a lot.”
“Really?”
“The old women in the village say that whenever a child is born.”
Monia held out her bread to Chester again.
What they eat now is called bread for convenience, but to be precise, it was a dish made with flour made by grinding the roots of a certain plant and putting various things in it.
Tongdan It is said to be a dish eaten on a daily basis in the continent, but Chester liked it because it was quick and simple to eat a meal of meat, vegetables, and bread at once, like a sandwich.
Monia also quite liked this. The dough on the outside is chewy, and the ingredients inside are steamed while locked in the dough, so they are soft enough to be crushed with the tongue.
After the meal, Chester gave the shaman a brief physical condition, followed by some light exercise.
Although the wound was stimulated, it was still easier for the body and mind to do moderate exercise without putting too much strain on the wound than to lie still.
After working out, all Chester did was think.
A safer way to use the blast of light from Anubis. Although there are very few occasions to use the explosion of light itself, wouldn’t it be better to use it properly when the moment to use it comes?
The first thing Chester came up with was special goggles used by people in the snowy area.
Goggles made of wood with thin grooves to protect the eyes from light. However, this was developed to avoid the risk of blindness due to exposure to sunlight for a long time, so I gave up because I thought it was not suitable for a moment of intense light.
However, it’s not a bad idea to use goggles to protect your eyes, so I thought about making goggles that look like an eyepatch with no grooves at all, rather than goggles with thin grooves.
That would block the light and protect your eyes.
However, perhaps the other side might be able to counter the explosion of light on our side. So completely blocking the view is a big risk, so I didn’t dare to think of actually using it even though I devised it.
“Well, why don’t you get something like glasses and paint them?”
“Glasses?”
When I was struggling like that, Monia gave her opinion.
“Yes. If you apply the color thinly, you can see the other side, and in addition, the light reaching our eyes will be reduced.”
“Hmm… Not bad.”
The solution came from an unexpected place.
While helping the water people make daily necessities in the afternoon, as usual, they brought out something they had never seen before.
“What is that?”
Chester, who quickly became accustomed to the language of the Tongdan Continent while living with water people, could now converse comfortably without Monia or Senna interpreting.
Water What the people brought out was a black glass-like mineral.
“This is from the basement of this cave. When split, it splits sharply, so it is useful for making blades.”
“Is it obsidian? I don’t think I’ve ever seen a volcano around here…….”
Upon closer inspection, it did not appear to be obsidian. Unlike the shiny and beautiful obsidian, it was a bit muddy black.
Above all, it is stronger than obsidian. When water people split this unknown black mineral, they used a hammer to hit it hard and use the fragments that came out at the right place.
Since the method was so primitive, it was quite dangerous, with people nearby being hit and injured by the fragments that splattered while splitting the ore.
“Originally, you would dig up the ground, bury this black stone under it, cover it with leaves, and beat it up, but that’s not possible here.”
Water The people lamented that they knew it was dangerous, but there was nothing they could do about it.
“Hmm.”
While inspecting the ore, Chester received a knife made of black stone from the water person and examined it.
“Oh, that’s pretty sharp.”
While examining the black stone knife in the light, Chester suddenly realized that the other side of the knife was dimly lit.
“…… Can you make this thinner?”
“Huh? It would be fine if it was sliced thinly.”
“Hmm.”
Chester brought the knife close to his eye and looked at the water man.
“Can I take one or two of these?”
“It’s okay because it grows a lot, but what are you going to use it for?”
“To make something.”
Having received two pieces of ore, Chester brought a suitable piece of wood and started carving with his knife.
He learned not only to cut and carve a piece of wood with a knife, but also to vibrate the knife and rub the piece with the vibration to form a smooth shape.
A sculpting method that only Chester holding a vibrating knife can teach, which no one anywhere in the world can teach.
After cutting the wood into the rims of the goggles, Chester began rubbing the ore into the goggle rims with a knife.
“Huh? Can’t you? Does the knife lack vibration?”
Chester tried to sharpen the black stone with the vibrator, but this time he pulled out a machete when the black stone was not sharpened.
As for the vibrating metal, the more the metal is used, the stronger the vibration. Because of this, the vibration of a machete is much stronger than that of a knife.
“This doesn’t work either.”
After the machete failed, Chester took his shield and vibrated it and rubbed a black stone on it.
“Enough!”
Fortunately, the vibration of the shield was able to sharpen the black stone.
Using the sharp edge on the side of the shield, he carefully carves out the black stone so as not to break it due to the impact of the vibration.
Do not shave too much at once, but little by little, to a level where a little bit of powder comes out.
Grab a stone with your bare hands and grind it little by little while feeling the vibration of the stone.
The water people who were curious to see what Chester was doing with the black stone were amazed to see it and asked if they could borrow a shield later.
“Shield? I’ll lend it to you once I’ve finished making this.”
“Oh, thank you.”
“Anyway, this shield is so powerful! In this way, I can make as many things as I need!”
I didn’t know if that would be easy.
Now, with Chester also raising his senses to the third level, he was moving and cutting black stones very delicately and minutely, so it was clear that people with no sense as much as Chester would easily break stones with vibration.
The level of difficulty increased as the stones were carved. The thinner the stone, the weaker it is, so you have to rub it against the shield more weakly, and you have to control it with more senses.
There is a risk of breaking the black stone with just the slightest mistake, the slightest slip of the finger with sweat drops.
‘It is said that eyeglasses give a curve to the glass so that people with bad eyesight can see clearly, but this doesn’t have to be the case.’
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It would be nice if it could be a thin film that could simply block the light.
How much time had passed, Chester, who succeeded in carving the black stone into the desired thickness and shape, brought the goggle frame he had made and fitted the black stone into it.
A groove was made between the goggle frames, and the edge of the black stone was slightly curved to protrude. In addition, the black stone itself was made slightly larger than the goggles. The curves of the slightly larger black stone and the grooves of the slightly smaller goggles are exquisitely matched and tightly engaged.
“Enough.”
After tapping the lens made of black stones with his fingers, Chester taught the water people how to use the shield, took Anubis to a corner of the cave where there were no people, put black stones on his eyes, and tried to explode the light.
After bursting Anubis’s light with his eyes open, Chester smiled with satisfaction when he confirmed that the black stone lens properly blocked the light to protect his vision.
“I’ll have to make a few more.”
Starting with Chester himself, Monia, Rex, and Senna. If everyone is equipped with goggles, they will be able to use the burst of light more effectively and powerfully.