254 – Raid (3)
“Come on, Monia. Now open your eyes.”
Chester, who received more black stones in return for lending his shield, also made goggles for everyone else.
Of course, the first thing I made was Monia’s.
Because he stroked her hair, hugged her, and looked at her every day, he didn’t have to measure her size, and even though he made the goggles with only her eyes, the goggles Chester made fit Monia’s eyes perfectly.
“Oh. I see Chester! Miraculous. It’s so black.”
“Isn’t it?”
“Yes. But doesn’t it look good? It looks blurry.”
“That’s because the cave is dark. Ruler.”
Chester took a piece of burning wood from a campfire a short distance away and placed it near Monia, who nodded her head knowingly, as the campfire light made her sight easier.
“Yes! This would look good in sunlight. How about that flash of light? Were you able to stop it?”
“Yes. I already tried it.”
“Ooh.”
Monia nodded in agreement while shaking her head.
She shook her head and suddenly saw the material of the goggles.
“Wouldn’t it be dangerous for your eyes if it breaks?”
“Yes. It’s okay because it’s only going to be used for a short time, but I still want to make up for that part. Any ideas?”
While studying her tool making, she questioned Monia, who had learned this and that, and Monia began to think seriously.
“I don’t think making a grid of wood and adding it will obstruct the view a lot……. Well. Can’t you do something similar with other materials?”
While Monia was struggling with her goggles, Chester called in Rex and Senna to measure their heads and started making goggles to fit them.
Then, a sound was heard from outside.
“Hey, Chester! The black stone is broken again! It is so difficult to use the shield!”
“You taught me the trick before.”
“Too difficult! Doing well while feeling the stone, what are you talking about!”
“I really do that, so I have nothing else to say.”
“Keuuugh… !”
The water man who borrowed a shield from Chester and crafted a black stone trembled at Chester’s words.
“We water craftsmen have been carving wood and carving stones since we were born! There’s no way we’ll ever bow down to someone outside!”
“Yes, you must not kneel!”
“I don’t need your advice, Chester! We will overcome this difficulty with our own strength!”
“After I leave, the shield will be gone too.”
“… ….”
The enthusiasm of the water people who were burning with enthusiasm at Chester’s one word died quickly. Chester’s bad luck is a tool that will eventually disappear from their hands anyway. If so, it would be useless for him to focus so much on shield handling skills.
Since there were no tools at all, there was no need for skills that could not be handed down to future generations.
“How much is this shield?”
“I won’t give it to you.”
“Keugh. You guys have a lot of shields!”
“Then would you like to trade with me?”
Monia popped out of Chester’s arms and started talking to the water-man artisans who wanted a shield.
“Monia.”
“I don’t use shields that well, huh. Will you show me what you have first? Let’s exchange that for something that can be exchanged for a shield.”
Monia disappeared somewhere with the water people holding the shield, and after a while she returned with various items.
“Chester! Let’s supplement the goggles with this!”
* * *
The thick threads extracted from the fibers of the leaves are tightly tied to the lens of the goggles in the form of a lattice.
Then, the goggle lens with the string tied was firmly inserted into the frame, and a transparent, sticky liquid was applied to the surface.
“Hmm.”
Monia closed one eye and applied the adhesive liquid to the surface of the goggles as if drawing a picture with delicate brush strokes so that the paint would not apply unevenly. I made it stick more tightly to the lens so that it sticks to it.
After confirming that the glue had dried and the thread was completely stuck to the goggle lens, I carefully cut the long protruding thread while pulling it, and gently ran it over with a lighter to finish.
Monia, who brushed off the burnt and weakened bundles of thread with her fingers, looked at the clean goggles and showed them to Chester.
“Chester, try it.”
“Yes.”
When Monia put her finished goggles on her eyes, she could confirm that although the plaid threads were a bit irritating, she had no major problems securing her vision.
“Yes. No problem.”
“Yahoo!”
As a result of various experiments with various materials she received from water people, she was finally able to develop a new goggle lens that had no problem securing vision. Monia, who was delighted with the fact, clapped her hands and cheered, and Chester, who was delighted with Monia, took off her goggles and put them on the stalagmite that sprouted from the cave floor for the next stage of the experiment.
After checking that the goggles are well secured, insert a stone into the slinger and spin the slinger round and round.
“Gulp.”
Next to Chester, I heard Monia nervously swallowing her saliva.
“Suck!”
Right after Chester fired the stone from the catapult, the hard-hit goggles spun and flew through the sky before falling to the ground.
If the impact was so strong, the goggle frame broke, and the lens also came out of the frame and rolled on the floor.
Chester approached and picked up the lens that had come out of the goggle frame, examined the condition of the lens, and nodded in satisfaction.
The goggle lens was broken, but unlike other lenses that were previously broken with a catapult as a test, the fragments did not spread and the original shape was maintained thanks to the thread attached to it.
Chester showed Monia the goggle lenses that preserved her original form in a broken state, and Monia, who saw it, raised both her hands and smiled brightly at her success.
“I did it!”
“Yes. Great.”
Chester looked at her goggle lenses while praising her Monia and nodded her head, saying that he seemed to know the principle that made this possible.
“Monia. The basic tool crafting book you were reading, can I read it too!”
“Yes. Let’s read together tonight.”
That night, Chester and Monia spent a lot of time lying on each other’s beds, reading books and exchanging opinions.
Perhaps thanks to her achievements with the skills and knowledge she had learned, Monia’s unstable mental state seemed to have regained a lot of stability.
While Chester and Monia were spending time together, Sena also spent time with Rex separately.
While Chester and Monia spend their time developing her gadgets and using what she has, Senna spends her time teaching her Rex her own skills and knowledge.
Sena is her traveler, and her physical abilities were acquired by Hope’s power, not by her training.
However, in order not to be looked down upon or ridiculed by other knights, he learned the skills to handle weapons and shields more actively and enthusiastically than anyone else.
Senna passed those skills on to Rex.
Of course, it’s natural, but Rex, who has a ruthless and powerful physical ability unique to the top, doesn’t need any trivial skills.
On the contrary, insignificant skills will become a shackle that prevents Rex from fully demonstrating his abilities.
That’s why Chester knew that throwing was the most powerful weapon of the top man, but he did not teach Rex any more than necessary throwing skills or knowledge about throwing.
He taught only very simple things and induced Rex to show his talents to his heart’s content with the rest.
However, this was a fact that Senna, who had been living with the Chester family and knew them, knew this. She also knew that it wouldn’t help if she didn’t teach her anything at all.
Just as Chester taught the basics of throwing, Sena also intended to teach Rex all the basics she knew.
If you teach me the basics, then Rex will use that body overflowing with qualities and talents to bloom his own flower.
“Rex, what did you plan to teach me today?”
“I wonder about the mace!”
“Okay. Then the withdrawal is……. Well, it would be nice to have something useful as a mace.”
“Yes! Look at this!”
Rex showed Senna something he had been hiding.
“I told my dad to give me a mace, so he taught me! A deal called the fist knot!”
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Originally, it was a technique to increase portability by making a bundle of rope knots at the end of a rope, but when Rex said he wanted a mace, Chester put a large stone, not a rope, into a huge knot made to fit the size of Rex to make the knot itself. Made of iron
“It looks like a blackjack, not a mace.”
“Huh?”
“No, nothing. That should be it. So, the basics of withdrawal are…….”
* * *
Waiting for Chester to recover, while the Chester family was living in the water people’s hideout, the invaders who captured the water people were also progressing steadily.
“Is there a hideout around here?”
Dark night. Rowan pulled the water man they had captured and showed the river flowing in front of him.
“Where is this hiding place? Huh? Were you guys fish, not water people?”
Kicking the water man to his knees, Rowan said as he trampled the head with his foot and threw it into the river.
“Actually, it was a fish, not a human, right? Then prove it right in front of my eyes.”
Surprised water The man involuntarily inhaled, drank a large amount of river water, and struggled in pain.
After pressing down on the water man’s head for a while, Rowan let go of his foot, then pulled out the half-conscious water man and asked.
“So, where is that proud lair?”
“Hey, down there, cool! To the cave, the road…….”
“Really? Then, rest a little and then guide us on the way.”
After throwing away the water man, Rowan looked at his men and said with a smile.
“Saying that, let’s take a break here. Is anyone tired or hungry?”
“No!”
“We are all fine!”
The subordinates were nervous without realizing it and answered loudly.