Orc Harem Vol 2 Chapter 17

Chapter 17: Orc-san And Orichalcum Digging

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One week had passed since the practical training started.

During that time I lived in Kururu’s house and trained her constantly.

「How is it teacher!」

「Umu, there is nothing that I can teach Kururu anymore. You pass.」

「Thank you very much, teacher!」

The way she called me teacher had stuck completely before I realized it.

Our relationship had also deepened after I spent ten whole days training and also lecturing her the whole time.

「And so, my disciple.」

「What is it, honorable teacher?」

Kururu read the mood and matched my tension.

「Don’t thee wish to be pregnant with my child already at this point?」

「Not at all, honorable teacher!」

「Tsk」

I thought that it would be possible enough after I spent ten days together with her, but it looked like I was naïve.

「Aa, Tita-san, this person clicked his tongue, tsk he said」

「Well, it’s Ork so it can’t be helped.」

Tita raised her head from the book she was reading.

Tita was also progressing steadily in her study during this week.

「Well, setting that aside, you will be able to create the real sword of oracle with this. You have obtained the knowledge and skill to do that much.」

I had compared Kaa-san’s sword of oracle and Kururu’s sword and stressed to teach her the part that she was lacking on. So it was inevitable for her to reach this level.

「I’ll work hard. I’ll finish the blueprint today and start forging from tomorrow!」

Blueprint was also needed when forging a sword.

Thickness, curve, length, center of gravity, and various other factors.

It would be a different story if she wanted to forge the same sword that she had made hundreds of times before, but this time she had to create something that surpassed the sword of oracle.

That was why she needed a detailed plan.

「Can you finish it in just one day?」

「Please leave it to me. I have continued to think in my head that I want to do this or do that while being taught. I have finished the design in my head, so now I only need to write it down and inspect it.」

「I see. Than can you show it to me when you finish it? I’ll be able to give you advice. Or rather, that’s the only thing that I can do for you at this point.」

The bloodline of the divine steel tribe was needed to process orichalcum. I wouldn’t be able to be any help for Kururu when she started forging the sword for real.

「I’ll take up your offer. ……But, the problem of material is really tough. The amount of orichalcum I can use is only from melting down this sword and reusing it, no more than that.」

「You can just obtain more orichalcum can’t you?」

「Please don’t say it like it’s so simple. We will be able to mine it if we enter the divine ore vein, but there are monsters there. That place is crowded with monsters aiming for the magic power flowing in the leyline. I can only hire skilled adventurers to mine orichalcum there but……I don’t have the money for that.」

My worry was for naught.

If it was just that then there was no problem.

「I’m here. Let’s go dig it right away. With that you also won’t need to melt down this one.」

「It’s dangerous you know?」

「You know how strong I am right?」

「……Now that you mention it. Mumumu, I don’t have enough orichalcum in order to create the ideal sword, so let’s go!」

「Yeah, leave it to me.」

I nodded and reached toward the iron ingot that was lying at the corner of the room. I transmuted it with alchemy and created a specially shaped chair.

Its features were its hooks so that it could be carried on the back like a rucksack, and how it had sliding and foldable table on its armrest.

「Here Kururu. Sit down.」

「……What is this?」

「We’re going to an ore vein where orichalcum can be mined. We won’t be allowed to enter inside such place anyway without the sword priestess accompanying us. In  that case it will be bad if Kururu doesn’t come too. But, Kururu want to finish the blueprint within today. In that case, there is only one answer. I can only carry Kururu on my back while you are sitting and drawing the blueprint.」

「Uwaa, this person, he really has a screw loose in his head.」

「This is for efficiency!」

「I already told you that there are monsters and it’s dangerous there!」

「Hahaha, there is no way I’ll be hindered just from carrying Kururu on my back. I promise you. I won’t allow you to get even a single scratch. After all you are my future wife.」

I obtained this strength in order to be able to do such thing.

I wouldn’t allow my woman to be harmed, no matter who was the opponent.

「Understood. But, please tell me if you think I’m heavy.」

「I will be alright as long as your weight isn’t more than 200 kg.」

「There is no way I’ll be that heavy!」

Kururu sat down and I lifted up the chair.

Hmm…….

「I see. A bit less than 45 kg. Your height is less than 150 cm, so it will be healthier if you eat a bit more.」

「How do you know that!?」

「The whole body of a first class swordsman is like a sensor. If it’s something that I wear than I’ll be able to measure its weight until the unit of gram.」

Such ability was really needed in the realm of supersonic speed, no joke.

Kururu was lighter than I thought.

I would be able to fight with perfect condition even while carrying her.

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With Kururu showing the way, we entered into the inner side that was completely forbidden for the general public to enter.

Kururu was silently working on her blueprint on the chair on my back. People stared at us with astonishment along the way until here, but she didn’t really pay attention to them.

「There are a lot of houses at the inner side of the holy land. And they are all pointlessly grand.」

「Well, everyone here has quite a lot of money after all.」

「Right now Kururu is the only one who can properly process orichalcum right?」

「Yes that’s right. That’s why everyone is working in tourism business. Most of the shops that are intended for the tourists are owned by the people here. All of them aren’t running their business themselves and hire humans for it. They are making a killing from all the tourisms. Rather Okaa-sama and I are the poorest here for relying on the reward money from the country.」

The divine steel tribe was unexpectedly tough.

「Even so, the money we received was enough that we never felt troubled for our livelihood but……I won’t live in a wretched situation like this if uncle didn’t run away with that money.」

「If the people here are that wealthy then can’t you ask them to loan you money?」

「Hmmm, everyone here are greedy merchant at heart, I’m scared of what they will make me do if I’m indebted to them……they might bring me to have dinner with some rich person to act as a spectacle, or tell me to entertain some big shot who want to meet the sword princess, it will be simply troublesome.」

「The mystical image of divine steel tribe in my mind is crumbling hard you know!?」

I could hear Kururu’s sigh from behind me.

「Also they are plainly jealous to my family. In the past all members of divine steel tribe can forge orichalcum. That’s why we are divine steel “tribe”……but, the bloodline is thinning down each generation and finally my family become the only one that can forge orichalcum. It seems that’s why they are hopelessly jealous at me who can forge sword properly. Also, when I’m here I can really feel the danger to my chastity. You know, my child will likely be able to forge orichalcum too, that’s why, everyone is aiming to take me as their wife so they can make their family to be the proper divine steel tribe. That’s also one of the reasons I don’t want to get indebted.」

「You have it hard huh.」

「Yes, sometimes I wish that I was born as a man. I’m the strongest person in the village, so nothing unrecoverable has ever been done to me, but the number of time I got assaulted isn’t just once or twice. That’s why, I actually have distrust toward men.」

「I see, that’s why you won’t be swayed even though I’m wooing you this passionately.」

「……No, with Ork-san’s method, I think that even other women than me will be creeped out.」

So it would be difficult to become Kururu’s lover unless her heart was healed first.

But, when it came to love, the higher the hurdle was the more fired up I got.

「Then, did you feel scared with Ork’s approach to you?」

「Ah, unexpectedly that’s not the case. In Ork-san’s case, he always came straightforwardly at me. How should I say it, the fact he genuinely like me is at least clearly conveyed from his action, it makes me thing that this person isn’t likely to do anything horrible to me. It’s strange but, Ork-san doesn’t make me scared.」

「That’s surely mean that you love me.」

「I’m not scared but, he is really irritating when he is like this!」

「Ah, I think I also understand that.」

Stop, don’t agree with each other there, don’t get excited talking with each other about that.

It was mentally painful for me that Tita and Kururu were having fun talking with each other while ignoring me.

「Now then, we have arrived. I’ll talk with the guard for a bit.」

It was a cave’s entrance. I felt dense magic power from there.

There was leyline here, furthermore it was a super first rate leyline, no doubt about it.

Kururu got down from the chair and spoke briefly with the guard in front of the cave.

Then the permission to enter into the cave was given.

We entered into the cave.

「Say, that guard, I smell alcohol from him. I think he had been drinking just before we came. Is it alright that the guard protecting the orichalcum ore vein is like that?」

「It’s fine. After all only me or someone like a hero can possibly take away orichalcum from here.」

Orichalcum was super heavy as long as it wasn’t filled with dense mana.

Bluntly speaking, as long as it wasn’t someone who could pull out the sword of oracle, they wouldn’t be able to bring out orichalcum from here. And if it was someone like that then there was no problem even if they took away some orichalcum.

「……Then why is there a guard?」

「It seems that our ancestors created some posts, anything is fine, as long as they can get money from the country through those posts. And so there are a lot of pointless jobs among the divine steel tribe. Everyone gets money from just playing around in those posts.」

「That makes those guys earning money from tourisms look decent.」

I recalled the trait of fox beastman.

They had excellent hearing, leg strength, reflexes, kinetic vision, sense of smell, and on top of that they were also smart.

This was what happened when they made use of their smart in a wrong direction.

As we got deeper into the cave, there were lights from here and there.

「The orichalcums are shining from absorbing mana huh.」

The walls were shining everywhere. It was easy to walk in here.

「Yes, that’s why it’s always bright here even though we are inside a cave.」

「Is it okay to just leave those orichalcums alone?」

「The orichalcums around here has low purity and small, so it’s better to get the orichalcum from deeper inside.」

「Then let’s proceed further.」

We kept walking.

I stopped.

There was a monster presence.

It seemed Kururu and Tita also noticed. Air of tension was coming from them.

「That monster, it’s really strong.」

「Yes, the magic power overflowing from it can be felt even from here.」

I also felt it.

A lion with a body of steel.

Most likely, it was a kind of monster that could destroy a village or city on its own.

Monster fed on magic power. That was why they got attracted to this kind of power spot. And then, they would rapidly grow stronger from feeding on abundant magic power.

In other words, the thicker the magic power was in a place, the more dangerous the monsters that lived there.

「I’ll get down from the chair. It’s my first time seeing a monster that dangerous. This place has been left alone for some years. It looks like this boss monster was born during that time.」

Boss monster was a monster that had gone through abnormal growth from devouring not only magic power, but also other monsters.

The meat of monster that grew by eating magic power was extremely nutritious. Also boss monster had accumulated terrific battle experience through the process of going through the survival of the fittest. It could be said that their strength was in a different dimension.

「There is no problem.」

「Don’t underestimate a boss monster. No matter how strong you claim to be Ork-san, that thing is dangerous.」

「I told you already before this, I didn’t even show a tenth of my true power when fighting that white rose knight. Besides……it’s already over.」

The boss monster’s head flew off at the same time when I finished speaking.

「What in the world, did you do, or rather, how did you just now」

「With magic. It was just a little trick. Let’s go deeper inside. It’s great that there was a boss. The other monsters will get scared and won’t want to approach someone who killed the boss.」

In a cave where a boss monster was living, all the monsters that were living inside it would be under its rule.

That was why, as long as you defeated the boss, the other monsters would choose to run or hide.

It wasn’t like I wouldn’t be able to defeat them, but this way would be less troublesome.

「Um, Tita-san, have you ever seen Ork-san’s full power?」

「Just once. He destroyed an existence that could destroy the world. That was how strong he was.」

「That means, if he feel like it he can also destroy the world himself isn’t it?」

「Yep, I thing that he might be able to.」

Tita thought that the power I showed in the battle against the demon bug in the elf village was my full power, but that was a mistake.

At that time, I released the seal only until the second layers.

At that second stage, my strength was only fifty percent of my full power.

Well, I wouldn’t be able to return back to normal if I let out my true full strength, so in a sense that time could be said as my full power I guess.

I stopped walking at an open space.

「So this is true orichalcum. I see, with something like this here, then indeed the tiny ores near the entrance are unnecessary.」

The room was shining, no, it was filled with light.

Huge orichalcums were clustered together here.

I understood from my skin. The weapon that was created from this would be undoubtedly the world’s strongest.

I wanted to quickly swing a sword that Kururu made from this.

I felt my blood boiling.

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