Chapter 138 (1/2)

Volume 2

The Simple Job of Only Perishing to the Hero Volume 4 Chapter 19

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Margaret is the number one blacksmith in the Zadark Kingdom, and currently, she is the Northern Army’s exclusive blacksmith……or so it would look like, but she was actually appointed the role of performing research and development on the arms for people at the rank of general or higher.

In that case, in regards to who was preparing the Northern Army’s arms, exclusive blacksmith workshops were set up in a separate building, and it is there that the other blacksmiths go to work.

Margaret’s special treatment might seem like it is Altejio running wildly at first glance, but there was actually a proper reason for it.

With Margaret being treated as a legendary blacksmith, there was the fear that people hoping to become her apprentice or requesting the creation of arms from her would barge in one after another.

Altejio was protecting Margaret from those kinds of people.

Incidentally, Vermudol also proactively approved of the establishment of the role of specially appointed blacksmith.

As for the reason, it was because one of the Four Cardinal Generals──the Western General Sancreed had a problem with his weapon.

Sancreed, the Mazoku Hero, handled magical power extraordinarily well.

Naturally, he could use Magic Sword which made magical power pass through the sword, but average blacksmiths were unable to create swords that could endure Sancreed’s magical power.

The idea of creating that Sancreed’s sword also complied with Margaret’s desires of wanting to create even better weapons and continuing to devote every day to it.

Sancreed would occasionally visit this workshop, and whenever he would wield and break several prototype weapons, it seemed to continue stimulate Margaret’s creative urge.

「In Sancreed-sama’s case, his handling of magical power is too good. Since he can understand a weapon’s special characteristics through feeling, he would pass magical power through it with maximum efficiency, and that makes average swords reach their limit right away.」

While saying “although that’s a satisfactory way of using it as a blacksmith, it’s probably troublesome as a swordsman”, Margaret gazed at the swords set against the wall.

What was lined up there were prototype swords for Sancreed’s use, but they were rejected as they had not reached the standard that Margaret herself had sought.

Even so, since they were nothing but swords that boasted performance much higher than the swords circulated to the general public.

Incidentally, the arms that were rejected like that would be distributed to the soldiers of every army in the future, or flow into the market through the arms stores of the royal capital.

「That is why I had hypothesized that there would be a similar problem in your case, Demon King-sama, since you possess a colossal amount of magical power……But as I examined the Holy Silver Staff that I borrowed from you before, I discovered something that seemed say that it was quite different.」

「Different?」

Hearing Vermudol reflexively ask a question in return, Margaret came to a complete stop and turned around to him.

「Yes, that’s right. At first, I simply thought that the problem that Sancreed-sama had but was made even bigger was applied to you, Demon King-sama, but that was wrong.」

After saying “it surprised me” and showing clenched fists, Margaret once again turned around and continued on into the workshop.

「The degree of wear and tear of the Holy Silver Staff that I borrowed from you, Demon King-sama, only stopped within the standard and commonplace range. Normally, this would be something impossible.」

There were two patterns to using magical power with a weapon.

First was the Magic Sword.

This was invoked by having magical power pass through the blade of the sword.

For that reason, what was sought in a sword was affinity with magical power. For example, with a simple iron sword that had low affinity, the magical power would scatter about and a Magic Sword wouldn’t be invoked, and if the magical power efficiency was really bad, the sword itself would be damaged.

That is why metals with high affinity with magical power, such as Holy Silver in mankind’s territory and Blood Metal in the Dark Continent, were preferred as sword materials.

The other pattern was in the case of invoking magic with a staff.