Volume 1 Chapter 9 (2/2)

“…”

The Skeletons looked at me with eye sockets that didn’t have any light.

They were but just bones so they didn’t understand things like emotions. For the time being, they held only enough intelligence to hear my orders. Issuing a response was something they were not capable of.

Teaching monsters with low intelligence was a difficult task; I almost gave up half-way through.

Nonetheless, after all my hardship, I was able to teach them three commands.

“All members, ready!”

The Skeletons readied their guns to the target I pointed at.

Before they shoot, they must first aim at the target. For this instance, the target was a wooden pole dressed in armor.

“All members, fire!”

As I uttered those words, the Skeletons started firing.

The tatatatata sounds were like music to my ears.

The MK416 the Skeletons were holding were not on full-auto mode but was instead set to semi-automatic mode.

The full auto mode was a system wherein there was an automatic operation between the reloading and firing of the bullets. In other words, as long as the trigger was pulled, the gun would continue to fire in quick succession.

In contrast, the semi-automatic mode was a system wherein only the reloading of the bullets was done automatically. The amount of bullets fired would be the same as the amount of times the trigger was pulled.

If the full auto mode was selected, the Skeletons would just exhaust through their ammunition without even giving a thought.

Ideally speaking, I wanted it to be set on full auto mode and just make them do burst fires by lifting their finger from the trigger. However, I was not able to make them remember such a complicated action and so I instead just gave up on it.

“All member, stop.”

The Skeletons released the trigger and stopped firing.

The commands I was able to make them remember was these three: ready, fire, and shoot.

I guess they’d be able to fight somehow.

It took a while for them to reach this point. In the beginning, they not only regarded the gun as a blunt weapon but they also had trouble pulling the trigger.

It took four days but they had finally learned it. Well, even to this point, they were still unable to change magazines so I have to be mindful of it in each battle.

But it was worth it. The sight of the nine Skeletons firing all at once was a magnificent. When I have my own Dungeon in the future, I will increase their number and also build an even more vicious unit.

“How is it? It’s amazing, isn’t it?”

“But Oto-san, if you’re going to have trouble teaching them such things, wouldn’t it be much better to just make a smarter monster? The Mythological Fox, a monster in the same lineage as Tenko, is smart and strong, you know? ”

“I know but they’re expensive.”

The Mythological Fox was a B rank monster. Their basic abilities were high as well as their intelligence. Learning how to use a gun was probably an easy thing to do for them.

However, each one would cost 1200 pts. I would be able to buy 60 Skeletons with that amount.

“I know… But the Skeletons seem quite inefficient to me. When they die, which they do in an instant, all the time it took to train them would then become a waste. In that case, right from the start, strong and hard-to-kill monsters should be bought, right?”

I had thought about that.

The Skeletons were cheap and I would still have the weapons anyway. Unfortunately however, the time it took to train them could never be gotten back.

No, wait.

“Wait. What if I made a monster that will train the Skeletons and then afterwards let that guy take care of the Skeletons?”

It’s simple if you think about it.

There were a lot of monsters like the Lich that made use of the undead. Those kind monsters were extremely intelligent as well as being capable of understanding speech. They might even be able to do a much better job than I did at training the Skeletons.

I’ll think about making an undead the next time I obtained an original medal.

“Thanks, Tenko. I’ve decided. I’ll think about making a ruler of the undead as soon as I obtain a medal related to the undead.”

Moreover, if I’m not mistaken, there should be a fellow among the undead that does something like using corpses and making further undead. If it used the corpses of powerful humans and monsters, then it was able to create powerful monsters at no cost.

My dream just kept on getting bigger.

“Uggggghhh. Tenko doesn’t like the undead but for Oto-san, Tenko will endure!”

“You’re admirable, Tenko.”

“Yay! ♪”

And so, the training of the Skeletons ended.

Afterwards, we reported to Marcho that we have already reached level 10. It was decided that tomorrow, Tenko and the undead equipped with the guns will towards the [Crimson Cavern].