Greatest Alchemist? Chapter 116

116: Large orders going every which way

A few days after returning from Bohd village, we made Akane-san’s armor and Lulu-chan changed into the maid uniform made from Kaede’s Spider Silk.

Maria and Laeva completed requests everyday to increase Marnie’s rank, as well for Akane-san and Lulu-chan who hadn’t registered at the Adventurers Guild until now. It was also to raise the levels of the two who were no longer able to in the areas around Bohd village.

 

On a day we thought our daily lives would continue with nothing happening, Prime Minister Simon-sama expressly visited me from the royal capital of Valkyra Kingdom.

「I came here today because I have a matter I must request of you, Iruma-dono.」

Once he was let into the mansion and sitting on the sofa in the living room, Simon-sama explained his reason for suddenly coming here.

「A request?」
Umu, I came to Volton with a request not many people should be involved in.」
「…… That is a matter about me that you don’t want the world to know about, is it?」
「As an A rank adventurer, Iruma-dono might not need to be secret any longer, but Iruma-dono as an artisan must be kept concealed.」

His Majesty, Margrave Volton, and Simon-sama have made it difficult identify the person who made the Purifier MD. Nevertheless, the zealots had targeted and attacked me, but it didn’t mean that they were sure it was me when they did. They are people who persecute when in doubt.

「A troublesome matter had occurred, hasn’t there?」

From there, the matter shocked not only me, but also Akane-san.
Someone had attacked a village of believers of the Genesis Faith in Samandour Kingdom, slaughtering men and women of all ages. From the traces and modus operandi, the culprits were deduced to be the zealots of the Divine Empire of Sydnia and two heroes.

「It can’t be, those two doing such a thing……」
「Iruma-dono, you had an argument with Sydnia’s heroes in the royal capital, didn’t you?」

I didn’t have sentiments for the change of the two until quite recently.

「Not really, but what is their purpose for doing something like that?」
「Iruma-dono, as far as the Light God Faith is concerned, simply mentioning the Genesis Faith is a sin. Furthermore, when it comes to Beastkin and the like whom they say are below domestic animals, they likely believe the persecution of heretics to be just.」
「Ridiculous………」
「Akira and Yamato have………………」

The shock Akane-san, who was their classmate at the same school, had received was even greater than mine when we heard the story.

「And so, this is about the consultation. I was wondering if it would be possible for you to mass produce the security golems you’ve made in Bohd Village, Iruma-dono.」
「Eh, you are already aware of that?」

It was surprising that, even though it happened just recently, it had already reached the ears of Simon-sama, the royal capital’s prime minister.

「It does not have to be in the caliber of the golems of Bohd Village and golems protecting Iruma-dono’s mansion, but we are in need of performance that would buy time for the people time to evacuate.」
「………… you are well informed.」

He even knows about the golems in my house.

「I would greatly appreciate it if you have other ideas besides the golems. As one would expect, the number of golems needed for all villages and towns would be too great even if they are mass produced. Because even the country and the royal family have a budget.
Hence we would like for you to devise a method to protect the people of our country from zealots and evil doers. Even so, we aren’t telling you that you must do so without fail. I just thought that you might think of something we haven’t.」

After that , I gave it some thought. Distributing a magic item that would form a magic barrier to everyone is unrealistic. It would be my own creation, but originally it would be a magic device that could only be obtained as a drop item in dungeons or an artifact from ruins. It would be too unreasonable to distribute it to all villagers. For our party, I tried to make the best equipment I could at that time without restraint, but equipment for the entire nation is still financially and workably improbable.

「By the way, how many golems should we make?」
「………… We’d like 100 of them. We’ll collect as much of the materials as we can, however, for what is insufficient, we would like for you to gather it by placing requests out at the Adventurers Guild. In relation to the cost, separating the price of the materials, we wish to request the price of each golem unit to be at 50 gold.」

5 million yen to simply create a golem and inscribe a magic formula, huh. Is 5 million solely for the labor expensive? Or cheap? I never sold a golem so I don’t know.

「Understood. Regarding the magic device besides the golem, I’ll give it some thought after this. So I can begin the golem production, please prepare ores, ingots, and magic stones. For the magic stones, it doesn’t matter what size it is as long as it isn’t a scrap magic stone so please gather some.」
「Ooh, I’m truly grateful that you accept.」

Simon-sama took my hand with both of his and shook it up and down.

「However, they are golems simply for defense. Will it be alright if I configure it so that it can’t be used for war?」
「Certainly. Please create golems specialized in protection.」

I felt relieved hearing that. If the 100 golems that I make are used for war, they would be immense war potential. Supposing one golem is equivalent to over 20 average soldiers, then the golems could fight against 2,000 soldiers. If the golems were to fight together, the outcome would likely improve.

A delivery date couldn’t be set, but it would be too late if harm breaks out, so Laeva and I began manufacturing the 100 security golems with the materials we have on hand.

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TAMA-MII

Thanks for the chapter~
If you want to make discord server then I’d gladly join it. There we coould haun– encourage you to translate more chapters.

Filip Dincă

[mansion and sitting on] -> {mansion and sat on}/{mansion and while sitting on}
[it difficult identify the] -> {it difficult to identify the}
[After that , I gave] -> {After that, I gave}

Time to make golems, and a lot of em. A certain magi craft meister would be proud 😀
Thanks for the chapter! Awesome translation! God bless you!

Kuzo

Discord? Yes please~

And thanks for the chappu~

KarmaTy

Thanks for the new chapter~

jose

Thank you.

This guy sold the toilets for 10 gold coins, but the fking golems for 50 gold coins. Theoretically this country can spend 100 platinum coins for having a unit of 200 golems and turn the tides of some wars. Cheeeeeaaaaaaap! Is this guy alright?

Also what is a golem specialized in defense? Say some people attack a village with golems in it. What will the golem do to defend the village besides attacking the attackers?

I’m waiting for his magic device. I’m still waiting for a detection network but I won’t hold my breath.

Purple

Shields man. Or somehow give them 0 or 1 attack power. (Shield Hero)

Kuro Alicia

Not really, Golem is pure strength so even if MC give them Shield, King can change it to Spear or Club for war
Idk if the coding can make so detailed like “protect people and don’t attack anyone”, that become useless right?

And about price, yeah it’s really cheap considering NO ONE can make Golem right now. Don’t forget about refining Adamantite/Mithril need much much magic power, and it’s 100 golems!!! 50 gold? smh…

Poliyaco

I imagine that when referring to specialized in defense he means that instead of winning the combat he can resist against several enemies at the same time, giving the villagers more opportunity to take refuge or escape, and about the price it is true that it sounds cheap but it is also taken into account He says that the country is the one who is providing him with the materials, for which the 50 gold is only for the labor to manufacture them.

John Brewington

Thabks for the uploads as always!

SFcipher

Thank you for the treat.

Hikari

Thanks for the chappu~

GreedElff

Thanks for the Chapter!!! Looking forward to the next update. ?

A.J.

50 gold coins for each high class war golem is basically the same as “Free” when the scale of work and value is considered. He is getting ripped off especially since he is also the one providing the amazing programming logic for those golems. We will buy a fully equipped aircraft carrier from you and on board will be a full load of fighter aircraft and the standard two fully fueled nuclear reactors. Total price is $5,000,000 dollars. While that is a lot of money, that too is basically the same as “Free” when the scale of work and value… Read more »

Kuro Alicia

Because MC made 2 for free on village, author really think 50 gold is good enough. Even that super luxury brand new first class subspace divin era carriage just 200 platinum
So yeah… not make sense

Coolman

Working overtime again. O boy.

Tripper

How best to protect your people from a country that you know is going to kill them? Easy. Kill them first. There’s only two countries that have gone crazy and they want to attack all of your countries. get together and throw out their priests, embargo them, dispossess the nobles who have been bought out, and meanwhile send assasins and saboteurs. Then go to war.

Arbelest

Yeah…this is pretty dumb. Not sure how a 40 year old man who has seen the news about wars and how bad they are (especially holy wars), would not want their golems to be used in war. It would end the war more quickly and there would be an overall less loss of life and families of soldiers, mercenaries, etc not having to move to the slums because their primary bread winner died. MC even KNOWS what the other side does to non-humans (enslaved and used as tools and toys), which adds to the list. Not only that but a… Read more »