Today I'm riding on Kumajirou, similarly Dhammi-chan and Redhead were mounted on their respective familiars, and walking behind us were 17 kobold warriors. We are heading to the kobolds' cave.
Our purpose is to seal the hole connecting to Velvet's dungeon in the deep parts of the cave, as well as to retrieve the small amount of luggage that the kobolds left behind.
The kobolds' cave was a 40 minute walk away from our base.
After retrieving the luggage, I ordered Asue-chan to destroy the cave as she is the best suited to handle the task.
With this the first goal is completed.
Afterwards, I accompanied the kobolds to hunt. We hunted some Armored Tanukis etc., but my target is Black wolves.
In addition to being able to get more familiars, pitting them against the Black wolves who live in collaborative groups will provide them with some good experience in group tactics.
Although training is important, it is still necessary to get actual combat experience by risking your life. I have already trained them in the basics of the basics in the past two days, now it is the time to see to what extent they can leverage what I taught them.
Well, I'm aware that I'm asking too much of them, but they have assistance from the ear cuffs, moreover, if we don't do this now, we never will.
Although I didn't really expect that much of them, the kobolds did a good job. They moved as I ordered, and the group of 12 Black wolves were successfully driven into a trap laid out beforehand.
They received some injuries a little beyond the extent of regular light wounds since I imposed the unreasonable condition that they're not allowed to kill the Black wolves, but their ear cuffs' [Regeneration] buff more or less took care of these injuries.
Considering these results, the kobolds might be an unexpectedly good find contrary to my expectations.
After we caught the Black wolves, I tampered with their brains using my ability and turned them into familiars.
Afterwards, we found and succeeded in capturing another group of Black wolves in the same way, thus we managed to get twenty Black wolves as familiars today. Only, it's a pity that neither of the heads of the two groups we captured today were capable enough to be called a Leader. That said, we were able to get a satisfying number of Black wolves as familiars, so I was more or less content.
As we were heading back in high spirits due to today's achievements, we encountered a [ Stamp Boar ] with its characteristic hard skin and huge iron-shaped snout.
"Just in time for a test of strength!", said Asue-chan eagerly as she dismounted from her beloved Triple-Horned horse and charged at it from the front. Naturally, the Stamp boar, with its disposition of wanting nothing other than to crush anything that tries to stand in its way using its huge snout and eat it, charged without any intent to run away.
When Asue-chan got close enough, she swung her [Earth Goddess' War Pick] at the Stamp boar from right to left, it hit the boar's body and smashed through it. The rock-like solid body of the Stamp boar couldn't survive Asue-chan's blow and its front half got blown off. The scent of blood and viscera spread and meat pieces from the crushed half of its body flew and scattered around creating a gory scene.
Well, this is what would happen when she hit the Stamp boar while holding back, the Stamp boar's body was only as hard as rocks, so it's pretty easy to kill it for Asue-chan who can crush rocks with her bare hands, knowing that, I quickly washed off the blood and meat pieces from her face using a water ball without getting surprised by the scene.
The carcass is valuable as a food resource so I stored it into my [Item Box], after we got to the base, we ate a hotpot made out of it.
At night, I was approached by Blacksmith-san while I was busy working on various things in my workshop, she wanted me to come to the smithy. I went with her, thinking about what could she possibly want, what I saw there was the my halberd, freshly repaired.
Previously, I overused it in my life and death battle against the Red bear to the point that it became useless, so I asked Blacksmith-san to repair it.
In short, its reparations has been finally completed.
Moreover, she improved it even further, she explained the improvements she made with pride...
According to her:
First of all, the axe head which is the feature of the halberd, is made of an alloy produced by combining [ Water Spirit Stones ], wrought iron and mithril. Because [ Water Spirit Stones ] are mixed in, water gushes out when it is shaken just like the Spirit Stone knife.
However, only when swinging it at high speeds will a water blade emerge. The halberd's original range of 3 meters in diameter can be expanded greatly when using it, when I tried using it I managed to slash a far away rock in half.
In addition, the axe head's sharpness has been greatly improved compared to the Spirit Stone knife's almost blunt edge, so the axe head can be used to slash just fine.
Then, there is the spearhead, it was made out of an alloy of [ Spirit Stones], wrought iron and mithril just like the axe head. The type of the [ Spirit Stones ] used is [ Lightning Spirit Stones ] which give off lightning.
When thrust at high speed, it can fire a bolt of lightning from the tip, hitting distant enemies with an electric attack. When I tried thrusting the spearhead while using [Triple Stab], lightning bolts were fired from the invisible spearheads too, firing three lightning bolts at the same time.
How convenient.
The pick on the opposite side from the axe head was likewise made from a similar alloy, the [ Spirit Stones ] used this time are [ Fire Spirit Stones ]. As a test I took out a log from my [Item Box] and pierced it with the pick, then fire came roaring out from where the pick pierced the log.
The butt end was polished in a tetrahedral shape, it's made using the same alloy as before, the [ Spirit Stones ] used are [ Earth Spirit Stones ]. It's quite sharp so I can use it to stab enemies, it also makes it easier for me to use my earth control system abilities.
Above all, the effects of the [ Spirit Stones ] used were greatly enhanced compared to the knives. They were as strong or even stronger than the knives I enchanted before, as I was thinking about the reason, Blacksmith-san told me.
It seems like she got a new Job. She didn't tell me about it before and kept it a secret until she finished repairing the halberd because she wanted to surprise.
The only one who know this now is me, I was a little happy about sharing this secret with her.
The name of the job is [ Spirit Smith ], it seemed to be a rare job that can be obtained only by clearing some troublesome conditions such as regularly handling different types of [ Spirit Stones ] and becoming proficient at handling them.
This seems to be the main reason for the increase in the effects of the [ Spirit Stones ] used in the halberd.
I was so happy I hugged her. Recently, I've been getting used to handling my strength and started adjusting it unconsciously.
The smile that Blacksmith-san in my arms gave me was very cute.
Feeling happy, I got a little bit fired up.