Chapter 069
After eating and taking a leisurely bath, I went to bed. I set my alarm to go off at seven in the morning and went to bed.
It seems I was more tired than I thought, and I slept soundly until my alarm woke me up. I harvested eggplants from the field and fried them to top my curry.
I checked outside and saw no one, so I grabbed a turtle shell and a backpack containing a magic stone and left the house. I released my spirit fox form and female form and returned to being a man, summoning my dress-up dolls.
The one-handed sword it had in both hands were beautifully repaired. The handle of the one that only had the blade had been properly regenerated.
... The dress-up dolls' cheat level had increased. It had been verified that infinite duplication was possible by intentionally damaging weapons, repairing them, and multiplying them.
However, just because this sword is made of steel, it is unclear whether the same thing could be done with magic iron, mithril, adamantite, or orihalcum.
Even if it were possible, it would be impossible to break such strong metals, and I've never heard of anyone breaking it in half while using it.
But I decided not to think about it for now. If it were known that it was a skill that could mass-produce Orichalcum or Mithril weaponry, I would be a target even if no one found out about Tamamo.
Putting the problem aside, I put the doll back on, dropped my backpack, and headed for the surface with the turtle shell. The shell was big and had no handles, making it difficult to hold, so I carried it with both hands.
I didn't encounter any monsters or explorers on the eighth and seventh floors, but on the sixth floor I came across a party of explorers fighting a blue bear.
The party consisted of two people equipped with one-handed swords and bucklers, and two with spears, and all were men in their late twenties to thirties.
The two sword wielders split into two groups and attacked mainly the legs, while the two with spears were stabbing at the upper body from the front. The spears seemed to be used for distraction rather than attacking to inflict damage.
If it tries to attack the sword-wielder, the bear will be stabbed with a spear and it will have to block it. If it were distracted by the spear, the sword-wielder would cut the leg from both sides. It may take time, but it is a solid strategy.
The wound in the leg was so deep that the blue-haired bear could not stand, and it was stabbed in the neck by a spear wielder and died. Wary of a counterattack from the arm that still cold move, he was a careful using a spear with a long reach to end it.
"Sorry to keep you waiting."
"No, I learned a lot."
The battle was blocking the shortest route to the fifth floor, so I was watching from a distance. I could have passed by them, but I wanted to avoid affecting the battle.
They seemed to notice this while they were fighting. They knew that if I passed by, the blue-haired bear would be distracted by me and take irregular actions.
"Could that be the shell of a drop turtle?"
"Yes, I hunted them on the ninth floor. It was hard to find."
"I see, this is a rare thing. This is the first time I've seen one."
There are almost no people crazy enough to try to get a fallen turtle shell, so it's not uncommon for people to have never seen one even after being an explorer for a long time.
"There was a fox beastman there yesterday, so rare things keep happening."
"Hey, you don't know if that's true, do you?"
"Well, it seems like multiple parties have seen it. I'm sure it's confirmed."
Apparently, rumors about Tamamo are already spreading. I wonder what they'll think if they find out it's me. I'll never tell them though.