Arisa, Ami, and Tesshin gathered at the mansion. Tesshin was interested in the new version of Elmore, which he had helped create last time.

Today we're going to build Elmore a new body. Help us."

　Ami raised her hand.

What about the new face of Elmore?"

He says, "I like it just the way it was. He says this face is what Elmore is."

　It's Metis I'm talking about, but he's used to the moai face and doesn't see the benefit of any other face. For shadow puppets, it seems that it is good enough to be able to distinguish between faces.

　Move to the workroom and order Elmore's magic core to stop. Then, dismantle Elmore's body and retrieve the sorcery three-piece set, magic core, storage ring, and magic battery that he was using.

　I took out one hundred and fifty kilograms of shadow clay with D-particles kneaded into it and put it on the workbench. At first, Chika and Tesshin worked together to shape it roughly. This kind of work is best left to those who have been empowered by magic-armor magic.

　Then, fine-tune the shape as you go. The face is left to Ami and Yukari. These two are the most dexterous. I make a hole on the inside of the arm for the magic circuit core.

　The core attachment hole was made so that the magic circuit core can be attached and detached. This is because we thought it would be more practical to change the magic that can be used by judging the opponent.

　Once shaped, it incorporates a fast combat-ready sorcery eye, sorcery ear, sorcery voice, magic core, storage ring, and magic battery.

What about color?"

　Amane asked. I asked Métis what she wanted to do about that, and she said she wanted to be like Toshizo. Métis wants Elmore to put on makeup and go shopping.

　After masking the hair, eyebrows, and tail, the shadow puppet was sprayed with spray paint for shadow puppets. After the paint dried, I put the final touches. I poured magic into Elmore's new body.

　Elmore opens his eyes and starts to move. First we had to dress Elmore, then we had to go to the underground practice area to check Elmore's movements. Since we have basically the same body shape, there seems to be no problem with his movements.

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Now, let's test it in fast combat mode."

　As I instructed him, Elmore approached the place where about five logs were standing, closed his eyes once, took out his Kikuchi spear, and began to move at high speed.

　He moved around among the logs and thrust the spearhead into the logs. Repeating fine steps, he turns his body around and thrusts the Kikuchi spear into the log. His movements begin to seem to disappear in places.

Wow, he's moving fast.

　Tesshin couldn't help but let out a yelp. Elmore had never moved so quickly in combat. This was because the performance of the sorcery eye could not keep up with this movement, which meant that he was moving blindly.

'Dr. Grimm, how fast is Elmore?

　Amane asked.

I guess so. I'd say he's six times faster. He is originally a power type. This is my limit.

Okay, we're done.

　At my command, Elmore stopped moving. I checked Elmore's body and there seemed to be nothing wrong with it.

　I then let him use the magic circuit core only once. When I let him use the triple crush lance, a D-particle lance flew out from the tip of Elmore's hand and hit the concrete procs.

　It was confirmed that with the magic circuit core, even shadow puppets can be multiply activated. However, I think it succeeded because Metis is controlling it.

If you can make this many shadow puppets, there are going to be a lot of people who want them."

　Tesshin said.

Because I don't intend to do business with this."

　When I say that, Tesshin says, 'It's a waste.

I've got an apprentice who says he's going to do business with Shadow Puppets instead of me, so that's good enough for me."

　Ami smiles.

If you're Tesshin, I'll give you a discount."

'No, no, no, I can do the magic of life too. I can make it myself."

　Ami cowered her shoulders. There would be no business inside this batallion.

Speaking of which, I heard that Mr. Ishibashi and his team broke through the slug meadow in the Narukami dungeon."

　Ishibashi is a class C attack magician, but he is also a senior who founded Battalion earlier.

How did they break through?"

I heard they put armor on their four-wheel drive vehicles and ran through without the running slugs catching up to them."

What's up with the running slugs in the direction of travel?

He said he leaned out of the sunroof and blasted it with his attack magic."

Wow, that's bold."

　A difficult way to go solo. No, it's just a matter of me or Elmore learning to drive a car. But doing the same thing as someone else doesn't guarantee success. Attack magic may be different from life magic because many of them have a long range.

What's there to do when you break through that slug meadow?"

　Amane asks.

They say there was a forest of coiled peach trees."

　The coiling peach is a flattened peach with a slight hollow in the middle. In the story of the Monkey King, there is a story about a coiled peach garden managed by the Queen Mother of the West, and it is said that if you eat the peaches, you will live a long life and become a hermit.

　Unlike the coiled peach in Seiohbo, the coiled peach in Dungeon does not have an immortality effect, but it is said to regenerate hardened or damaged blood vessels when eaten.

If he brought home such peaches, didn't Mr. Ishibashi make a fortune?"

　Tesshin laughs bitterly.

I heard that there is a demon that is like the guardian of the coiled peach forest.

Heh, what kind of demons?"

It is said that it is a demon that looks like a mixture of a chameleon and a hedgehog, and attacks anyone who approaches the coiled peach tree with its poisonous needle."

　The demon "Needle Chameleon" is said to change its body color at will and assimilate with the coiled peach trees, making it difficult to detect. Adventurers who carelessly approach it will be sent flying with its poisonous needles, which will hurt them.

I'd love to try those peaches."

　Yukari said, and everyone else nodded. Incidentally, Ishibashi seemed to have brought back sixteen coiled peaches. The dungeon's coiled peaches have the strange property that they begin to rot when the tree is cut down or the peaches fall to the ground, so it is apparently difficult to retrieve them by magic.

　Alisa and the others had already reached the seventh level, so if they worked a little harder, they would be able to reach the tenth level. How to break through the slug meadow is a problem, but there must be a way that is typical of living wizards.