Day 571-580/Day 578

Day 578 / 108th day
I had planned to keep my reunion drink with the old hunter short. However, when I told him that I had conquered the "Historia", the old hunter couldn't stop asking questions. The old hunter also had a history of challenging with his friends when he was young, and he was able to reach a good point, but turned back. The old hunter, who had lost the energy to challenge now, the youth to face the challenge with vigor, the strength to overcome the ordeal, and above all, the friends he could rely on, wanted to know where he could not go before.
Good wine and good food. What's more, the old hunter was a good listener and a good talker. The conversation got so lively that the whole day yesterday was consumed by it.
It was an unexpected road trip. It's not a bad thing, but my schedule is slipping. Well, I guess this much is okay.
The Black Flame Wolf, which has become a kind of biological armor, used to be able to glide, but now it has the ability to fly. It also seems to be able to fly at the speed of a fighter plane if you really put your mind to it. If I add magic power and even use the Black Flame Acceleration using the Black Flame Halo, it can fly even faster. I'm sure you'll be able to get home in a short amount of time if you simply want to, and this is not much of a loss considering how long it took you to plan it in the first place.
And I wasn't just enjoying myself without doing anything. I originally wanted to do some mining in the "Red Eclipse Mountains", so I did that yesterday as well. While drinking wine with an old hunter, drinking black rust tea, and talking over a good meal, we put the mining golems with 【Black Rust Coating】 into operation. The mining was going well itself. The first golem I created after becoming the 【Great Black Flame Lord】 was much more powerful than before. It's a good idea to have a good idea of what you're looking for and how you can get it.
These mining golems, while using the power of the red-rusted 【Black Rust Coating】 on the surface of the mountain range to replace the beneficial black rust, are digging into the hard bedrock underneath, which has been hidden until now, and digging in even greater numbers using the metal resources they are mining one after another. Dig with golems, and use the material you dig up to build more golems. In this way, they efficiently dug deeper and deeper to obtain a vast amount of resources, but the mining golems reached a certain underground cavity. There, hot magma flows and deadly volcanic gases accumulate. It's a harsh place that no normal creature could survive in, but it seems that even in such a place, the 【Red Erosion Fallen Clifister】can live, probably because the Red Rust Cave exists nearby.
The worm-shaped【Red Corrosion Cripple】that digs into the ground against intruders attacked the mining golems, and due to their nature, some of the mining golems were also destroyed. The red rust worm was quickly turned into a mass of black rust and killed by the effect of 【Black Rust Coating】, but it would have caused a certain amount of damage.
But the damage was enough to make up for it immediately, so it's safe to say that it didn't matter. In the aftermath of the battle, the magma seemed to have popped, causing part of the underground cavity to collapse. After the near-collapse, we decided that it was too dangerous to go any further and decided to stop mining for the time being. Although we stopped mining, there were still a good amount of resources lying around due to the collapse. It was a shame to waste them, so we picked up as many as we could and sent them away.
Then, one of the mining golems discovered something.
When it was first found, its surface was covered with red rust. When the mining golem touched it, the black rust drove out the red rust, and what came out was a huge gemstone about 50 centimeters in size, with a color that looked like a mixture of black agate, black onyx, lapis lazuli, and several other gemstones.
I let him take it home and looked at it with the old hunter, and found out that it was apparently the egg of a jewel bird. It had been removed during the battle, so it hadn't been captured, and there was no doubt that it could be appraised with the astrologer's star-reading glasses, which were still intact.
Because of the red rust, the egg spent many years in the ground without hatching, but the jewel shell seems to have prevented the 【red rust curse】 from penetrating into the inside, and the heartbeat of life can be felt inside. It seems that the jewel egg, which was exposed by replacing the red rust with black rust, can now be hatched by giving it magical power and warming it up.
However, the eggs needed to be heated to a very high temperature in order to hatch. And the higher the density and quality of the magic power, the better. The more dense and high quality the magic, the better.
The old hunter pointed to my black flame halo and said I should heat it up. The old hunter is a hunter. He's good at hunting, but he's also good at raising hounds and other animals. Based on his experience, he thought that the Black Flame Halo would be the perfect place to hatch the jewel eggs.
This was probably a good fortune, and there was also a good chance that he would be able to continuously secure some kind of material after they grew up. So, I did as I was told and threw the jeweled egg into the black flame halo. The jeweled egg enters the hexagram-like part in the center of the black flame and floats in the air, spinning in circles without falling to the ground. In the event that you have any questions concerning where and how to use the internet, you can call us at the web site.
Now, I wonder what will happen.
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RAWS
　"百八日五■七■八目"
老狩人との再会の酒は、短く済ませるつもりだった。しかし≪時刻歴在都市ヒストリノア≫を攻略した事を話すと、老狩人の質問が止まらなくなった。老狩人も若い頃には仲間と共に挑み、良いところまで行けたが引き返した経緯を持つ。今更挑戦する元気も、勢いのまま立ち向かう若さも、試練を乗り越える強さも衰え、何より頼れる仲間を失った老狩人は、だからこそかつて行けなかった先を知りたいらしい。
美味い酒と美味いつまみ。それに何より、年の功か、老狩人は聞き上手だったし話し上手だった。話し合いはついつい盛り上がり、昨日一日が何だかんだで潰れてしまった。
思わぬ道草だ。悪い事ではないが、予定がズレていく。まあ、これくらいは大丈夫だろう。
生体武具の一種と成った黒焔狼は、以前は滑空が主だったが、現在では飛行能力を得た。それも本気を出せば戦闘機のような速度で飛べるようだ。俺が魔力を追加し、黒焔光背を使った黒焔加速まで使えば更に速く飛べる。ただ単純に帰ろうと思えば短時間で帰れるだろうから、これくらいは最初に計画した時の期間を思えば大した事はないロスだ。
それにただ何もせずに楽しんでいた訳ではない。元々≪赤蝕山脈≫の採掘もしたいと思っていたので、昨日はそれも並行して行った。老狩人と酒を飲み、黒錆茶を飲み、美味い飯を食いながら語らう傍ら、【黒錆コーティング】を施した採掘ゴーレム達を稼働させたのだ。採掘は順調そのものだった。【黒焔領中鬼大王】となって最初に作成したゴーレムは以前よりも遥かに強力になっていた。【ゴーレムコア】に使用する魔力の量も質も向上した事と、これまでで採取した上質な魔法金属の貯蔵が大きく関係してるのだろう。
そんな採掘ゴーレム達は山脈の表層にある赤錆を施された【黒錆コーティング】の力で有益な黒錆に代えつつ、今までは隠れていたその下にある硬い岩盤をゴリゴリと掘削し、次から次へと採掘していく金属資源を使って更に数を増やして掘り進む。ゴーレムで掘り、掘った素材を使ってゴーレムを増やす。そうして効率よく深く深く掘り下げて膨大な資源を得た訳だが、採掘ゴーレム達はとある地下空洞にまで達した。そこには高温のマグマが流れ、致死性の火山ガスが溜まっている。普通の生物なら生きていられない過酷な場所だが、そんな場所でも赤錆洞窟が近くに存在するからか、【赤蝕の落胤クリフィスタ】は生息しているらしい。
侵入者に対して地中を掘削するワーム型の【赤蝕の落胤】が採掘ゴーレムに襲い掛かってきて、その性質もあって採掘ゴーレムも何体か破壊されてしまった。【黒錆コーティング】の効果で赤錆ワームはすぐに黒錆の塊になって退治できたが、それなりに被害を受けた事になる。
ただすぐに補填できるくらいの被害だったのでどうでもいいと言えばいいのだが、その戦闘の余波でマグマが弾け、地下空洞の一部が崩れたようだ。崩落に近い変動が起こった後、流石にこれ以上は危険だと判断して採掘は一旦停止する事に決めた。採掘は止めたが、崩落で資源はそれなりに転がっている。勿体ないので拾えるだけは拾って撤収させた。
そしてその際、採掘ゴーレムの一体がとある物を発見した。
見つけた当初、それの表面は赤錆に覆われていた。採掘ゴーレムが触れると黒錆が赤錆を駆逐し、出てきたのは五十センチ程の大きさの、黒瑪瑙ブラックオニキスやラピスラズリなど数種類の宝石の原石が混ざったような色合いの巨大宝石だ。
それを持ち帰らせて老狩人と一緒に見た所、どうやら宝石鳥の卵だという事が分かった。それは戦闘時には取り外していたので取り込まれる事もなく、傷一つなく残っていた【天星術師の星読み眼鏡】で鑑定しても間違いない。
赤錆のせいで長い年月を卵のまま孵化できずに地中で過ごしたが、宝石殻によって【赤錆の呪詛】が内部にまで浸透していないらしく、内部では生命の鼓動が感じられる。赤錆を黒錆に代えた事で剥き出しになった宝石卵は、魔力を与え、温めれば孵化できるようになったらしい。
ただ孵化するにはかなりの高熱で温める必要がある。それに魔力も高密度で上質なモノであればあるほど良いようだ。本来であれば地中で賄うそれらを、発掘した今は俺達がどうにかしなければならない。
個人的には戻すのも何だし喰ってみてもいいとは思ったが、老狩人が俺の黒焔光背を指さし、それで温めたら良いと言う。老狩人は狩人だ。獲物を狩る事も得意だが、猟犬などを育てるのも得意だという。その経験から、宝石卵を孵化させるのに丁度いいのは黒焔光背だと思ったらしい。
これも何かの縁だろうし、成長した後は何かしらの素材が継続的に確保できる打算もある。という事で、言われるがままに宝石卵を黒焔光背に放り込む。宝石卵は黒焔の中心にある六芒星のような部分に入ると、そのまま地面に落ちる事無くグルグルと回りながら宙に浮いている。これまで足りなかった栄養を補給するように黒焔から魔力を吸収している感覚もあるので、順調にいけば確かに孵化できそうではある。
さて、どうなる事やら。
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