Blade Online Chapter 15

The player’s gazes are painful when I go outside. Because I ran at full speed when I go to the Inn, I didn’t worry about that much before, but now I need to slowly walk to find the blacksmithery . 「Hey, That guy is in Initial Equipment moreover, a Long Sword」「There is still a Long Sword User? I heard that everyone already change their weapons」「This is the first time I saw a guy who used Long Sword」 etc, The players talked while looking at me. d.a.m.n, this is strange. Why does the management says that thing just to keep the game balance? and also, other players believe it too seriously. Why do they believe that suspicious-guy’s words?
Walking within the town looking for a blacksmithery while ignoring the players. I found a blacksmithery opened by a NPC but I ignore it. Because the skill of the players who have stores are way higher than the NPC who have a production type store. Surely there is a player that opened a store in this town.

I found a blacksmithery that it seems to be opened by a player after looking for a while. All the store of an NPC are all the same and no distinction. The blacksmith in front of me is different from the NPC store that I saw before and It considerably big so it stand out. I decided to enter this blacksmith.
When I opened the tree door to go inside, 「ra.s.shai!(welcome)」, and heard an idiotic voice. It seems that the one who opened this store is a woman judging from its voice.
Several shelves lined up inside the store also overflowing amount of protective gear and weapon were place in it.
Standing in the counter is a brown haired woman. She feels like somewhat boyish with her shortly cut hair. Face is quite regulated well and a characteristic of double edged big eyelids.

「Excuse me. I wanted you to make a complete set of protective gear 」

The woman opened her eyes widely when she saw my sluggish appearance. Apparantly, Long Sword equipments seems to be unusual. After looking my whole body as if licking it, the woman opened her mouth.

「Well. You, why Long Sword? or rather, why are you still in initial equipment?」

A questioned came out from the mouth of the woman. I don’t want you to ask me that much though. Long Sword is certainly unusual and there’s no one who’s in initial equipment anymore. I mean, I was able to leave that forest with the initial equipment really well. It must be a miracle.

「Well, a lot of things happened」

I vaguely deceive her. but I was not able to deceive her.
Though she have a dubious face, she seems to entered working mode for now. I was asked what materials I have.

Hmm. I was able to have a considerable amount of material from there. For now, I’ll take out to examine the strongest from them all, That Blue Bear ( Its name is Giant Blue Bear[Gruvajio])
I put in the counter are the Giant Blue Bear’s Bristle Fur, Giant Blue Bear’s Sharp Claws, Giant Blue Blue Bear’s Strong Bones, Giant Blue Bear’s Tail and Giant Blue Bear’s Fangs. The woman takes the fur and bring it closed to her face and examine. There is a skill for production type called 【Appraisal Eyes】, It seems that it would know the effects and the rare grades of the item just by looking at it. Does this woman also have 【Appraisal Eyes】?

「E, No way, What is this!?」

The woman leaked out a surprised voiced after looking the materials of Gruvajio that is in the counter. No matter what you say. Don’t shout suddenly.
The woman’s eyes sparklingly s.h.i.+ne like a child looking at the materials in her hand. I have no choice but to look at the situation in silence since I don’t know what she sees, 〈fuu〉, the woman closed her eyes and exhaled and look this way.

「Why do you have this rare materials? Impossible, what is this. I’ve never seen this level of materials. What is this? Boss monster of somewhere? even so, I don’t know a monster with this name…… where do you obtain this?」

The woman asked with a very interested face. Even if I sad where…… I cannot say that I went to 《b.l.o.o.d.y Forest》 because of the bug, What should I do? Hmm.

「Can you not ask that much? Its okay for me even if I go to other blacksmiths」

For the time being, I’ll try to tell the lines that I read in some novel before. I’ll seriously go to other place if I still hear it even with this. Because I don’t want to attract attention and I don’t desire it.

「Ah!, I’m really sorry. I understand. I’ll make a protective gear with this. Ah! Since I can make weapon, What would you do?」
「Then, a Long Sword please.」

The woman tried to say something with my words but immediately stop on the verge of it. I’m so glad. Because its troublesome to look for other blacksmithery.

「……I understood. It would take half a day to complete it. Is it possible to register as a friend since I’ll call you after completing it?」

I prayed Friend Register in my mind and a thing like a card appeared in my hand. The woman also take out the same thing and we exchanged cards. The Friend Registration is completed with this. It is possible to exchange and check chat whenever you want.
The name of the woman is Lencea.

「So Mr. Akatsuki, Its okay to have the cost after completing the protective gear」

I nod to Lencea-san’s words and leave the Blacksmithery. I go to the general store opened by the NPC next. Although called General Store, it does not mean that all the types of item is there. The purpose of coming is to sell the item that I got and to prepare recovery medicine and etc. Since the work of Lencea-san would complete in half a day. And Its still not yet noon, I planned to go to conquered area 《Golem Mountain》 after this. Though I think that its better to wait and come with a protective gear and weapon, I honestly can’t wait anymore. I want to quickly test how strong I became after one year. I’ve never think like this when I was in that forest, I’ve become like this when leaving it after all.

「Welcome!」

Its a general merchant stall. I was greet by the inhuman voice of a NPC when I stood in front of the store. I hand over the selected unnecessary item from the Item Box.

Red Bear’s Fur x 10, Red Bear’s Claws x 10, Red Iron Scorpion’s Hard Sh.e.l.l x 10, Red Iron Scorpion’s Pincers x 10, Red Iron Scorpion’s Poisoned Tail x 10, Paralyzing Horned Rabbit’s Fur x 10, Paralyzing Horned Rabbit’s Horn x 10, Paralyzing Horned Rabbit’s Tail x 10, Giant Killer Bee’s Wings x 10, Giant Killer Bee’s Stinger x 10 and etc, are material Item that I got in that forest and decided to sell it. I don’t need it anymore. Because you can only stacked identical item up to 10, it wasteful since it would be staggering amount if you combined all the item that I get in that forest.

「It will be 1,262,926 Taels.」
「eh」

I instictively ask back to the amount of money that came out of the mouth of the NPC. Again, The unit of the money of this world is Tael. I think that the exchange standard is not that much different than the Yen. Therefore, 1,000,000 Taels is considerably large amount of money. Its too high no matter how you look at it. Oh well, There is no disadvantage of having a lot of money. Though there is a danger of being PK’ed having a large amount of money, well, its not a problem if no one knows I have it.
After receiving the money from the NPC, with the recovery type item such as recovery medicine and stamina drink, I bought a Warp Rope that can teleport you from the Area to a Town and leave the stall. By the way, You can only possible to possess one Warp Rope different from the other items. Besides, It becomes impossible to use when a fight with the boss starts. You might say that this is insurance. It should be an easy victory with the present me.

Of course the destination is 《Golem Mountain》.

Well, Everyone. Please look carefully to my magnificent and unparalleled Long Sword.