Episode 190 Vector Control

After Clarisse returned to Japan, I went to the Adventurer's Guild Headquarters warehouse. There was a warehouse there that held scrolls that had not been priced at auction and had been relinquished by the sellers of the scrolls.

"This is amazing."

I raised my voice when I saw the scrolls piled up in one corner of the warehouse. There must have been over a thousand scrolls. Hearing my voice, Director Jikouji smiled.

"The scrolls that could not be priced at the auction were kept at this headquarters, but we judged that they would overflow, so we decided to store them at each branch. Therefore, most of the scrolls here were probably discovered in the early days when the guild was established."

After they were piled up, they were left unattended without being investigated. It would take a whole day to check them one by one.

"By the way, I heard that my daughter Ami became your apprentice?"

"Yeah, I'm training her in the Suigetsu Dungeon together with Taichi, one of my disciples."

Director Jikouji's eyes sparkled.

"Hou, what kind of adventurer is Taichi-kun?"

"He's a student of the same magic academy. He's a hard-working and talented boy."

Director Jikouji asked for Taichi's full name, so I gave it.

I stayed in the warehouse with the watchman staff member and started investigating the scrolls. I equipped my Appraisal Monocle and launched the Sage System to check the scrolls one by one.

Scrolls related to Life Magic were easy to notice as the Sage System reacted immediately. Next, if I examined it with the Appraisal Monocle, there was about 30% of the contents that I could understand. The Appraisal Monocle seemed to have better performance than the analysis magic 'Item Analyze'.

The remaining 70% would be investigated using the Sage System. After continuing this work for a day, I discovered 22 Life Magic scrolls and a scroll with a D-Particle secondary mutation characteristic magic circle drawn on it.

However, among the 22 Life Magic scrolls, 18 had already been registered with the Magic Agency, and only 4 were new.

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'Magic to measure the temperature of liquid', 'Magic to clear a runny nose', 'Magic to clean ears', and 'Magic to lift luggage' were the four types of magic that were not registered with the Magic Agency.

I decided to obtain those four scrolls and the special magic circle scroll. I got three as a reward for teaching Life Magic to Clarisse, and bought the remaining two with money.

When I returned to my apartment, I opened the scroll of the characteristic magic circle and checked it. As expected, it was the characteristic magic circle of the D-Particle secondary mutation.

"Hee~, this a characteristic of , is it. It says that it can control the direction in which the D-Particles exert their effect, but how exactly do you use it? I wonder if it has a characteristic that I don't understand."

Last time I got the characteristic of , but I still didn't know how to use it. I might be able to figure it out if I did intensive research, but I was currently focusing on exploring advanced dungeons to improve my achievements, so I was leaving it alone.

I used and learned the four Life Magic scrolls. The magic to measure the temperature of liquid was 'Thermometer', the magic to clear a runny nose was 'Nose Clean', the magic to clean ears was 'Ear Clean', and the magic to lift luggage was 'D-Jack', I decided to register them with the Magic Agency.

The next day, I was told that the Branch Chief was waiting for me when I went to the Adventurer's Guild.

"Branch Chief, do you need something?"

I entered the Branch Chief's office and asked.

"Director Jikouji asked me to see if you learned anything about the scrolls you got from the warehouse at the headquarters."

While wondering what to do, I decided to talk about the four Life Magics. I was going to register them with the Magic Agency anyway, so I could let them be known.

"They were scrolls of 'Magic to measure the temperature of liquid', 'Magic to clear a runny nose', 'Magic to clean ears', and 'Magic to lift luggage'. I plan to register them with the Magic Agency."

The Branch Chief nodded in admiration.

"Fumu, they don't seem to be very useful for dungeon exploration, but I think there are many people who will want to learn them."

"About Director Jikouji, why did he want to know?"

The Branch Chief smiled.

"If there were any valuable items among the scrolls he had, he was thinking of re-investigating them and putting them up for auction again."

It was probably because the Adventurer's Guild was said to be an incompetent group if I was the only one making money.

"Come to think of it, Gotou-kun's team seemed to have obtained another Immutable Bottle from the underwater shrine."

The giant moray eel had not been revived yet, and it seemed that anyone with a frog-shaped Shadow Puppet could easily obtain it.

"If the giant moray eel is revived, will the treasure chests also be revived?"

"Treasure chests with traps like that tend to respawn at the same time. By the way, it's normal for the hints to change."

"Is that so. Thank you very much."

"What are you going to do now?"

"I got a message that the ship has been repaired, so I'm going to look for a treasure chest in the sea."

"Treasure chests are good, but finding the stairs that lead down to the 4th floor is also good. Discovering the stairs will be an achievement as an adventurer."

It seemed that the staircase was more important than the treasure chests as an adventurer. And, since it would also be the first achievement of entering a new floor where no one has set foot, he seemed to recommend it as Branch Chief.

"Hee~, I didn't know. I'll think about it."

After leaving the Branch Chief's office, Metis spoke to me while I was drinking coffee in the waiting room.

[ I have a suggestion. ]

"Wait a minute, let's go to the meeting room."

Metis started talking when I entered the meeting room.

[ There is a monster called Shadow Bear on the 9th floor of the advanced Raijin Dungeon, would you like to hunt it? ]

"That looks like a Shadow Species, so are you going to make a bear-shaped Shadow Puppet this time?"

[ Yeah, I think this bear type could be an escort. ]

Metis seemed to be worried about me because I was working solo.

"But, let's find the stairs to the 4th floor first. If I don't raise my achievements, I won't be able to get to B-class."

[ I agree. Then, after searching for the stairs, let's start hunting Shadow Bears. Also, about Clarisse-sama, I think you should be careful. ]

"What do you mean?"

[ When Grimm-sensei was teaching Life Magic, she seemed to be observing you the whole time. ]

Clarisse was observing me. Why was that? I had no idea.