“So, mother-in-law.”
“Hnn. W-what is it?”
I don’t think she’s used to that yet, because she responds kind of oddly every time I call her mother-in-law.
It’s kind of funny.
“There is someone I want to introduce to you, mother-in-law.”
“…The blue one on your shoulder.”
‘Popo!’
“I’m pretty sure our dungeon doesn’t have a monster like this… Can I take a closer look?”
“Go ahead.”
I can feel magic energy flow in her eyes.
Oh? Is this the effect of Perception Strengthening and Magic Energy Detection? If I level them up further, can I predict when monsters are about to use magic…!?
“…I see, a new golem. A hybrid of wind and lightning?”
Ah, come to think of it, I haven’t checked them after compressing their skills.
‘Gogo.’
‘Popopo.’
Name: Enki
Grade: Unique
Core: Golem core IV
Material: Multi-layered rock
Magic energy: 1600
Skills (8/8): Physical Resistance III, Super Strength III, Rampart IV, Shield Techniques Lv2, Automatic Recovery IV, Iron Sand Control Lv1, War Cry II, Earth Shaking
Name: Enril
Grade: Unique
Core: Golem core IV
Material: Wind and lightning magic armor body
Magic energy: 1600
Skills (7/8): Physical Resistance III, Automatic Recovery II, Fast Run III, Swift III, War Cry II, Pursuer IV, Storm Control Lv1
Enki’s body composition doesn’t change even if it gets a power up. Enril on the other hand is now ‘wind and lightning magic armor body’. I don’t really get it but it sounds cool.
“Good grief… How do you even make a golem like this?”
“By being Shouta.”
“It’s Shouta ya know?”
“You say that every time you try to explain something unbelievable he did. I complained about you giving up on explaining, but I’m starting to understand why.”
“That means you’re one of us!”
“We have a new comrade, lady.”
Hn? Is there some sort of rude alliance being formed here?
“Suffice to say, I mean it as a compliment, master.”
Are you sure about that?
“Oh, about the videos I just watched. I noticed that you didn’t fight Orc Kings up close. The contents… Also caught my attention, but is there a reason why it was so short?”
“Ah, about that…”
“Mom, take a look at its skills again.”
“Skills? So it had a skill that made you hesitate to fight it up close… I see, I assume it’s this Stench. Was it that bad?”
“It had the power to make a regular person run away even if it was thirty meters away. If one were to fight it up close, I believe it would have the same potency as tear gas.”
Aira calmly states her analysis.
After the first one, I either sniped it or let Enki handle it. We didn’t come up with a way to handle it up close.
“That… Sounds harsh.”
“This is the skill in question. We have five of them, but anyone who’d learn it wouldn’t be able to stop it once activated. It would stay active until the user’s magic energy was drained. We figured you could send it to the appropriate organization to take care of it, mother-in-law.”
“…Understood. Aki and Maki, did you make a report about this?”
“Of course!”
“We will deliver it along with the other reports.”
“All right. Leave it to me.”
They wrote reports? When… I was with them all the time and didn’t notice.
They look at each other, and smile.
“We’re pros, ya know?”
“We do it here and there while you shower, and during breaks when we are editing.”
“I see…”
“Anyway, is there anything else to report?”
“Hum…”
We tell her about the inter-dimensional waist bag and our idea to bring a house to the dungeon, and she approves. That part shocks her more than the rare monsters or Enril.
Next we tell her that Swordsmanship levels up if someone uses twenty-one Sword Knowledge, and she falls from her chair.
“…You really are something else, Amachi. You only started coming here days ago, and you keep bringing back new information.”
“No, haha. I saw on my smartphone that the value of Swordsmanship was unknown, so does this even matter?”
“Does it matter? Swordsmanship is a very precious skill. It’s fifty million at its cheapest. Sometimes it goes for a hundred million at auction.”
“Uwah… I guess every rare monster with Swordsmanship was a rare II. And they were all superior versions of goblins. It makes sense for it to be precious.”
“That alone is enough for this information to rock the world.”
“The price of Sword Knowledge will go up, and the price of Swordsmanship will go down.”
“I wonder. The drop rate of Sword Knowledge went up thanks to you, and Swordsmanship is way too rare. The supply and demand are too unbalanced.”
“I see.”
But I can imagine no one will stash it away because it’s an inferior version of Swordsmanship anymore.
“When is the next auction?”
“Tomorrow.”
“Then I’m putting up four Libido Boost Lv3 and five Valor. And maybe we should sell three War Cry and five Command, since we probably won’t use them for a while.”
“…I know it’s none of my business, but wouldn’t Libido Boost be useful to you?”
“No, I’m already at LvMAX…”
“Ah, I-I see…”
She awkwardly looks away, and instead glares at her daughters, who promptly look away.
I used that skill out of my own volition, but it was them who pushed me into a situation where I had to do it. I’m not giving them a hand here.
“Good grief, who do you take after…”
““…You, mom.””
They grumble in response to my mother-in-law’s grief.
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Thanks for the treat.
The only other things you could do is give the libido boost to the girls. One for each of them! But that’s probably not a good idea.