Next is the weapons shop. It is the same weapons shop that fixed Dora’s equipment. With the shopkeeper’s good recommendations, I might have become a regular customer if this shop hadn’t been in this country.
[Welcome. …..Oh, a recent an-chan. Hey, what is the equipment’s condition?]
[It is good. Was it easy to use?]
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Dora nods. This shopkeeper is a person who can greet other parties easily in this country.
[I need you to prepare equipment for my new team members today.]
[Hmm… Who? Do you mean those two girls?]
[Yeah. A one-handed sword for that tall girl, and a bow for the short girl.]
The shopkeeper is amazed that I only brought a young girl and a little girl (the girls ?) to buy a weapon.
[Did you buy a slave in this town recently?]
[Yes. Since we are going on a trip together, I think I’ll need weapons for them…]
Well, I have a lot of weapons from those thieves, but I won’t worry if I let this shopkeeper choose.
[I don’t know the reason for an-chan to buy small children, but they usually don’t let small children fight, do they?]
[Yeah, but they can fight.]
[You are really strange, an-chan…]
Do I have to explain?
[All right. A one-handed sword and a bow. Err… How about this?]
Iron one-handed sword
Classification: one-handed sword
Rarity: Common grade
Fairy short bow
Classification: Bow
Rarity: Common grade
Remark: Hit rate is increased by fairies’ divine protection.
[I feel familiar with it in my hand.]
[It’s easy to handle. Ah… It’s easy to pull the string, too.]
If those two are fine with them, I don’t have any reason not to buy them.
[Understood. I will buy them. Next, could you choose light protective gear for them?]
[That is a good decision. Just wait a minute. I will prepare armor for them.]
Their bodies were measured easily, and protective gear will be prepared according to that.
[Thank you. I think this is a good time for Sakura to have a new weapon.]
[A weapon for that girl?]
[A staff. Do you have a magic staff that is strong enough to hit an enemy?]
[Then, how about this?]
Magic rod
Classification: Staff
Rarity: Common grade
Remarks: Increases magic power a little.
[I’ll buy this, too. Next is…]
I look around the shop and buy a few valuable weapons.
[Please take this into account, too.]
[That is a lot… You don’t look very rich. Well, it totals 280,000g, after a little discount. That’ll be 280,000g.]
[Okay, 300,000g. No change.]
[…]
The shopkeeper’s face looks a little bitter since I overpaid him after he gave me a discount. I’m sorry. Because you are in this country… This might be a lot, but I still have more than 20,000,000g from the thieves’ extermination.
I sigh.
[Okay, I’ll take it. Here is a whetstone. About 5,000g. It is used maintaining weapons.]
The shopkeeper hands me a whetstone. Uh, I’ll take it.
[Thank you. And then this…]
[Hey, please don’t be careless just because you have weapons. Humans can die easily.]
We thank the shopkeeper and then leave. I can’t put a value on this shop. I only feel regret because I won’t be returning to this country, anymore.
[It is a good weapons shop.]
[Yeah, this is the only weapons shop I use. Our weapons are ready. Let’s start fighting in the outskirts.]
[[Yes]]
We walked out-of-town for a while. It is normal not to find any monsters near the town. We start seeing monsters after walking for ten minutes. Well, we only walked in the monsters’ direction by using the map.
They are monsters that I’ve already defeated several times. I don’t have any problems handling them.
[Master! Monsters are over there! May I shoot them?]
Mio, who has the bow skill, wants to shoot. Preemptive strikes are with bows and magic. So I leave the first battle to Mio.
Goblin Swordsman x2
Goblin Knight
[Okay, since there are three of them, it’s okay to kill two of them. I will let Maria kill the last one after you’ve killed the other two.]
[[Yes.]]
For now, I need them to get used to their own fighting styles. We will practice coordination later.
[Ei~!]
Mio’s arrow hits one of the Goblin Swordsmen quietly, killing it with one arrow. The skill correction is really powerful. A little slave girl (in appearence only) who didn’t have any combat experience can kill a highly ranked goblin with one strike.
[Once more!]
She shoots at the second one. It hits the mark and kills the target. It is more than 20m away, but I’m still able to take their skill from this distance.
[Only one left. Maria, do your best!]
[Yes, let’s go!]
Maria starts running and strikes the remaining knight goblin. Her attack is aimed at the area without armor’s protection, but it’s blocked by the knight’s spear. She takes some distance from it and strikes again. The knight goblin is trying to defend in the same way, but her frontal attack is just a feint. Her real target is the leg without armor.
[Gugii!]
Knight cries and kneels down. Since it dropped the spear that was protecting its head, she cut its throat and finishes it off.
[I did it!]
Maria returns with a bright smile on her face. Uh, she can fight against monsters in close combat. More than that, she has a landslide victory against a monster that gave her a trauma. Well, I didn’t raise her status. Instead, I let her acquire actual combat experience.
The hero’s title isn’t just for show, and her combat sense is great, too.
[Well done. I will let you fight alone a few more times. We will practice our cooperation later.]
[[Yes]]
We then fought the same way several times but, needless to say, the result is the same. I think they’re good enough to let them practice cooperation.
[Now then, let’s practice our cooperation since there’s a group of monsters over there. Vanguard will be me, Dora and Maria. The rear will be Sakura and Mio. We will make a preemptive strike with long-range attacks and magic.]
[Can’t you exterminate them all with the best of your status?] Sakura asked.
[I, alone, am enough for small flies, but that isn’t the point of this practice. I will decide the upper limit of our status this time.]
[That’s right. We still don’t have enough battle experience.]
[Yeah, I want to give individual combat training to everyone. It will be a shame if you can’t fight if/when separated from the rest of the party.]
I will make them strong enough to fight on their own but stronger when we fight as a team.
[Dora will be in the front row with her shield, and she’ll move closer. Use ranged attacks with draconic magic. Counter with battle staff after blocking an attack with her shield. Maria and I will exterminate the nearby enemies.]