CH 65

Chapter 65: Metal Coating

「AAAAAAAAAAAAH… It really dropped a magic ore…」

Aisha picked up the metal ball with a trembling hand.

「No doubt about it. It’s a magic ore of 『Iron』element.」

Aisha was grinning nonstop as she looked at the magic ore in her hands.

「Fufufufu, things are getting more and more interesting. Okay then, KILL, KILL, KILL, LET’S KILL ALL THESE MONSTER!」

Yuuma and the president ended up flinching back, seeing her maddening smile.

Though they were quite scared of her, they knew that it was already impossible to stop her at this point. Having no other choice, Yuuma and the president kept hunting monsters after that.

For the dumpling bug, Yuuma could kill them in one strike if he happened to hit their weak point, or around twice or three hits if his attack missed their weak point.

Though the earthworm-like monster could still move for a while after he sliced and diced them, they eventually died after he trampled on them.

The most troublesome opponent of all was the armadillo one.

It was tougher than Yuuma’s sword hand. No matter how many times he struck at the armadillo’s shell with his sword hand, it just couldn’t pierce through their shell.

It seems the quality of his sword transformation was quite bad since he didn’t really have a good image of the sword, causing its edge to be “Blunt”.

「Yuuma-kun, can you put coating on your pickel?」

「Eh? Coating?」

Yuuma frowned for a moment upon hearing such an unexpected suggestion. He already knew that 『Liquid Metal Transformation』 had extremely wide range of usability but, he only come to realize that it might be possible to put coating onto his weapon too after hearing this suggestion.

「I’ll try it.」

He picked up pickel that he dropped on the ground, he imagined his liquid metal flowing on its surface. Thus, the metallic gray metal started moving and covered the surface of the pickel.

It took a few seconds for the entire surface to be covered by it.

「DONE!」

「Yup… The current pickel should’ve turned into a tougher version of weapon than the monster. Can you make the angle of the head part of the pickel steeper that a pick, and bigger?」

「L-Let me to try it.」

The next moment, the metal liquid on the head part of the pickel started to move again and changed the shape of the pickel.

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The head part became twice as big as before and the sharp point became similar to a pickaxe.

And since the base for that was pickel, it was easier for Yuuma to imagine the shape.

「That’s enough, now try to hit the armadillo with that.」

「Yes!」

Yuuma raised the pickel overhead, and brandished it with its tip toward the armadillo. The tip pierced the armadillo’s shell as if it was made of tofu since he gave it his all when he swung it down.

The armadillo raised a death wail and then turned into fine sands.

「YAY!」

「Now then Yuuma, go and defeat all the monster in the 8th floor!」

「Aye aye, Boss!.」

Yuuma replied happily and went into a frenzy hunt with the president. Since there was a time restriction for metallization, Yuuma canceled his transformation every five minutes to be able to hunt as much as possible.

That’s why Yuuma and the president were running all over the place to catch the earthworm or dumpling insect and gather them in one place for the sake of efficiency.

After they felt that they gathered enough, Yuuma used his 『Metallization』 and exterminated the gathered monster along with his transformed pickel.

The pickel which weight and quality had increased due to liquid metallization, easily crushed those monsters. It was the most efficient hunting method so far.

Since even the hard shell of the armadillo could be pierced so easily by the transformed pickel, Yuuma felt like he became a machine whose job was stamping down those monsters to death with a push of a button.

And then――

「OOOOOOOOOOOOOOH, WONDERFUL! SO MANY MAGIC ORES!! IT SEEMS YOUR 100% MAGIC ORE DROP RATE IS REAL!! WONDERFUL!!」

AIsha screams in delight as she throws the magic ore scattered on the ground with gusto.

『Iron』of dumpling insect, 『Copper』 of the earthworm, 『Chrome』 of armadillo. Altogether, there were around forty of them.

――I’ve never seen Aisha-san look this happy before.

Yuuma then dropped pickel and sat cross-legged on the ground. He was sweating a lot, it seems today hunting really did tire him out.

「President, I’m so tired.」

「No wonder, you defeated that much monsters in the span of a single day after all.」

The president took a sports drink from his bag and handed it to Yuuma.

「Thanks」 Said Yuuma as he pulled the pulltab of the sports drink and bottomed up the contents of the can. He felt as if the refreshing drink seeped into his tired body.

「Ha~ah, I don’t even have the strength to swing pickel anymore. I think I’ll have a severe muscle pain tomorrow.」

「How pitiful. Me back in my youth can fight monster non-stop for a whole day!」

「Time changed, President. The current trend is work-life balance.」

「The heck is that work-life balance! Stop using that difficult english words!」

Though the president looked rather furious, maybe because he also knew just how much Yuuma worked today, he also sat by Yuuma’s side.

「Well, I guess I’ll forgive this much for today but we still have one month to go. I’ll be shouting at you starting from tomorrow if you become tired just as easily!」

「Yeah. I guess I’ll do my best in this entire month!」

Aisha was staring at the two who had such a conversation with a dumbfounded look on her face.

「What the heck you two are talking about? We still have to descend to the 10th floor after this and continue our hunt.」

「「Eeh!?」」

The two exhausted men could only look dejectedly at Aisha who said those words as if it was natural, without a hint of exhaustion on her face.

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TN: I’ll take a break from 13-19 march 2023 for rehabilitation of my neck(due to wrong sleeping posture)