Chapter 48
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Translator: Xrecker
Chapter: 48
Chapter Title: Uninvited Guest (1)
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Two weeks passed since we started the Poison Boar subjugation with the group.
There hadn't been any major changes during that time, but there were some minor ones.
First, as planned, the kiln for Pamela to use was installed in the group's club room.
"F-first, I'll make the air freshener!"
Pamela's method of making medicinal herbs was, how should I put it... very game-like.
I never thought I'd see a very game-like element in something like this.
Pamela's method of making medicine was like this.
First, she would prepare the kiln, fill it with a special solution, and then put in the ingredients to make the medicine.
While the kiln was boiling, she would stir it with a long spatula and use a manufacturing magic.
After repeating that process a few times, a light would shine from the solution in the kiln, and it would be complete.
All that was left was to use a large ladle to scoop out the finished product from the kiln.
"Th-the air freshener is complete!"
The air freshener Pamela first took out was a lump with a little of the special solution on it.
"Is that the air freshener?"
"Yes! If you tear off a little of this and soak it in water, it becomes an air freshener."
"I see."
I had thought that making medicine would involve a lot of painstaking effort, like grinding medicinal herbs or drying the medicine for several days, but the process was surprisingly simple.
For the record, there was steam when she was making it, but it didn't smell that much.
Still, the air freshener Pamela made had a very nice scent, to the point where I thought it would be good to spray it in the club room on a regular basis.
Besides the part of the group's club room becoming Pamela's atelier, there were other small changes.
One was that Pamela and Arsvald's stamina had increased thanks to the daily stamina training.
And as a result.
"Hmph... a good night's sleep after a refreshing workout feels good... hmph... cool...."
As I had expected, Arsvald had become a regular at the bed.
After exercising, he would take a 10-20 minute nap on the bed.
Also.
"Ishihan! Look here! Cheese!"
Click!
Yeon-hwa had recently taken up photography as a hobby.
"Oh ho ho ho ho! It came out well!"
Yeon-hwa, who had become interested in photography after we had taken our first group photo, had immediately bought her own camera.
Taking pictures of us when we were gathered as a group had become Yeon-hwa's hobby.
To go along with that hobby, we also bought an album to store the photos, and the first group photo we had taken was placed in a small frame and is currently on the weapon display case, which is still empty of weapons.
Not only were there small changes in the group, but for two weeks, we all continued to complete quests around Valendia on days when we had no classes.
We mainly hunted various monsters that could be caught in a day, in the order that I had received the game quests.
It was a shame that we didn't encounter the captain or boss monster of each monster every time we did a quest, but it wasn't like we never met them at all.
Two captain monsters.
And by defeating one boss-level monster, I was able to save up 7 points, and my fame also went up by 10.
If things continued to go smoothly, the adventurer's guild would soon introduce a quest related to the main quest.
Of course, it was also tough to do quests every day on days when we had no classes, so after listening to everyone's opinions, we took a break on the days we wanted to.
At those times, I would also have conversations with the group members, as if I were having a conversation event.
"Pamela, is the medicine making going well?"
"Ah, yes! I'm making a magic power recovery accelerator right now."
"Come to think of it, it's amazing that you can make medicine like this."
"N-no~ hehehe, it's all thanks to my master~. Ah, come to think of it, I got a letter from my master the other day! She said she was glad that I seemed to be doing well in my academy life!"
"You must be happy to have reassured your master."
"Yes! I-I've always worried my master... this is also thanks to you, Mr. Shih-han!"
"No, I didn't really do anything. You did it all yourself."
I would listen to Pamela's stories about her master.
"Come to think of it, you managed to get your family's permission quite well."
"Oh ho ho ho ho! My father knows me well. He knows that I wouldn't say I'm not joining the Flame Dragon Society without a thought! So I calmly told him what had happened with Ishihan! And I also expressed my thoughts on Ishihan's potential and got his permission!"
"I see."
"Ah, but my father might call for you soon."
"Me?"
"Yes! Who is the man whose potential I feel! Not only my father but also the people of the Shu family are curious!"
"Then I'll have to do some sightseeing in Ruong at that time."
"Oh ho ho ho ho! Leave the guidance of Ruong to me!"
I would have a conversation with Yeon-hwa that was like a preview of a special affinity event that would happen in the future.
"Arsvald, what are you doing?"
"Hmph! I'm building a new deck."
"A deck?"
"A deck for the Game King! I've decided to 'duel' with the guys from the Game King group next time, so I'm building a strategy deck."
"The Game King... aren't there too many mercenary cards?"
"Hmph, you know your stuff! This is my newly developed winning deck! Its name is the Berserker Spirit Deck! Hahaha! When this is complete, every time I draw! a mercenary card will be drawn, and it will always be my turn...!"
I would see Arsvald engrossed in a card game of this world called the Game King, just like in the Lucadia Fantasm lore.
As a Lu-Fan user, I was spending a very beneficial time, but I also didn't stop my contemplation of the systems of this world, which had changed from the game.
The current stats in the status window.
Stamina, strength, agility, magic, and luck.
The other stats could be seen very intuitively.
Luck increased my luck.
Magic increased my magic.
Agility increased my speed, and strength increased my power.
However, stamina.
This was ambiguous.
Of course, I knew it meant the health pool and stamina itself, in the sense of HP and SP.
In fact, after raising my stamina, I had more leeway when I was doing my stamina training.
But I felt that the stamina stat was not just that.
Stamina.
It meant the health pool and stamina, but I also had the thought that it might be related to defense.
In Lu-Fan, there was a separate defense stat, but it wasn't in the status window's stats.
But I didn't think that the concept of defense itself had disappeared.
And I had formed a hypothesis that defense was also included in stamina and was raised with it.
That was why I had decided to conduct an experiment with the points I had obtained from defeating the captain and boss monsters.
On a day when we were taking a break from quests.
Pamela was in the middle of making medicine, and Arsvald was in the club room practicing cool card draws.
I approached Yeon-hwa, who was sipping her green tea.
"Yeon-hwa."
"Oh my. What is it, Ishihan?"
"I'm sorry, but could you help me with some training?"
"Training? Hmm, is there any training where I can be of help to you, Ishihan?"
"There is."
"Alright. I'll help you. But... what kind of help are you asking from me, Ishihan?"
Yeon-hwa, who was smiling and blinking her eyes.
It was a request to fulfill today's praise quota.
"I'm asking for help from you, Yeon-hwa, who is an indispensable and precious member of our group and is in charge of beauty."
For the record, Pamela was in charge of gloomy cuteness, and Arsvald was in charge of comedy.
[You have pierced through praise resistance.]
"Oh ho ho ho ho! I, the beautiful one, will help you, Ishihan! So what should I do?"
"First, let's go to the gym."
"Alright."
"Pamela, Arsvald. I'm going to go train with Yeon-hwa."
"Hmph, do whatever you want... draw!"
"T-take care!"
I headed to the combat school's gym with Yeon-hwa.
A few students were still left in the gym, doing some light exercise or a light spar.
"Ishihan, what should I do?"
"Hit me."
"Huh? Ah... Ishihan. How about we do that in a place with no people? Since we're in the same group, I'll respect your secret preferences. If you praise me three times more than usual, I'm more than willing to play along...."
"What are you talking about?"
Why are you trying to make me a masochist?
"Oh my, so it wasn't a collaboration on your hobby disguised as training?"
"No. It seems you've misunderstood. And I haven't finished speaking, so listen to the end."
"Alright. It seems I was getting ahead of myself. Please continue!"
I laid out the reason I had prepared to Yeon-hwa.
"Since we have you now, Yeon-hwa, we have almost no worries about defense. But we still can't be careless.
When we're surrounded by a large number of monsters, or when we're facing a monster that specializes in fast attacks, we need to be able to block or withstand their attacks until we can cast the protective talisman again."
"So you're saying you're going to do some endurance training?"
"Yes. Especially since I'm in the very front, I thought it was even more necessary."
"You could have asked someone else besides me... ah. No, that wouldn't work."
Yeon-hwa immediately judged that asking the other two to do endurance training would be inappropriate.
Both of them were magic-users.
And they didn't have any physical close-range attack skills.
In the first place, this training required stamina from the attacker as well to continue attacking, so the two with the lowest stamina would surely get tired in the middle of it.
Compared to that, Yeon-hwa had received gifted education in the Shu family and even had a skill where she would shout "Hii-yat!" and deliver a roundhouse kick.
She was the perfect person to test my defense, as she could deal a moderate amount of pain.
Yeon-hwa and I changed into our training clothes and then faced each other.
"Here I come, Ishihan. If it hurts and you want to stop, just let me know."
"Don't worry and come at me with all you've got."
"Then... ii-yat!"
Yeon-hwa, in her training clothes, did not deliver a kick but a straight punch at my abdomen.
Thwack!
"Hmph."
Ah, that hurts a bit.
It was the first heavy pain I had tasted since falling into this world.