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ighting at a much greater disadvantage.

Even if that thing has five times as much attack as my current equipment, I would never want to equip that.

 

 

[Just because he lost to a Goblin a long time ago, he had seriously started to detest Goblins.
What’s the point of all that if it’s just to reduce a Goblin’s abilities by 10%?]

 

 

At the very least, a Movement Inhibitor-type ability would have been useful, but having this ability is nothing short of harassment.

 

 

[Don’t look down on that debuff ability though.
Look, you can equip two of them.
If you use two knives, that would be a 19% ability debuff.]

[No matter how I look at it though, it would just be faster to kill them.]

 

 

When I astoundedly said this, Rex only laughed, saying “You’re not wrong”.

 

 

 

[Well, only Goblins appear in the west of Rikushia, so you can use it if you wanna hole yourself up there.
The you can get at the far end of that cave is a rather useful item, and is a useful item in the early game.]

 

 

As he made such a follow-up, the expression on Rex’s face changed.

 

 

[It’s just, well…… The main issue is what I’m gonna do here.]

 

 

Then, he picked up the tray on which the knives were placed and without hesitation, he threw the knives into the Alchemy Pot.

 

 

[O- Oi!?]

 

 

I hurriedly tried to stop him.

 

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The Alchemy Pot is only for synthesizing items.

It’s supposed to be used to make Healing Potions or to add effects to existing Potions.

 

 

[Well, just watch.]

 

 

As I felt as if something outrageous was about to happen, his movements without hesitation in it sent a shiver down my spine.

 

 

[No way……]

 

 

I’d never heard of the Alchemy Pot being able to synthesize equipment.

If such a thing is actually possible, the world’s common sense, the history, will change.

 

 

While I watched with bated breath, Rex held his hand over the Alchemy Pot and sent his magic power.

The Alchemy Pot then vibrates……

 

 

[Weapons really could be synthesized……]

 

 

Hearing me mutter those words, Rex suddenly chuckled……

 

 

 

[No, of course, that’s not possible.]

[Ehh?]

 

 

 

With a poof, black smoke billowed out of the cauldron.

 

 

At that moment, the two words “Synthesization Failure” popped into my mind.

If your Alchemy Skill isn’t good enough or if the materials you put in are wrong, the Alchemy will fail and there will be nothing left but the trash left over by the alchemical materials.

 

 

Moved by my tremendous premonition, I rushed to the cauldron.

 

 

[T- The knives……]

 

 

I hurriedly looked into the cauldron, but I couldn’t see the silhouette of a knife at all……

There was that ill-shaped hunk of metal that bore no resemblance to the knives though.

 

 

[O- O- Oi! They just turned into scrap iron!]

 

 

No matter how much of a fail weapon that is, this is just cruel!

When I reflexively snapped towards Rex, he responded.

 

 

[Scrap iron? Where in the world are your eyes looking at?]

[Eh?]

 

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Maintaining a relaxed attitude, Rex picked up that “lump” and wiped its surface.

That lump, which had had the black soot around it removed, was glowing with a mysterious radiance that was unlike anything I had ever seen before.

 

 

 

 

 

※　※　※

 

 

 

 

 

[T- Thank you very much.]

 

 

With the weapon shop old man’s rather frightening voice calling from behind us, Rex and I moved forward at a brisk pace.

 

 

After he did that, Rex took one knife after another from his inventory and repeated the same process.

After he finished doing whatever that is, he then hurried to the weapon shop and offered the owner, who was about to close his store, the failed results of synthesizing the knives, “Orichalcon Lumps”.

 

 

Although it had not been processed in any way, Orichalcon is a rare metal whose value easily exceeds Gold.

That ill-shapen hunk of metal, the ruin of what once was an Orichalchon Knife, could be sold for a whopping five million wen each.

 

 

While my eyes widened at the ridiculous amount of money being exchanged, Rex sold the Orichalcon Lumps without hesitation.

The total amount was already over 100 million wen, although the shopkeeper finally cried out after the 22nd piece was sold.

The sight of all that happening makes me feel crazy.

 

 

(W- What the heck was that? This guy has been penniless until a moment ago, begging me for a mere 1000 wen.
This is, this is just……)

 

 

As I left the store, my head still over the clouds from that unrealistic transaction that had just taken place before my eyes, Rex abruptly stopped.

 

 

[Ahh, that’s right.]

 

 

Then, Rex, who was walking in front of me, tossed something toward me.

“”

 

 

I reflexively accepted it and found it to be a 100,000 wen Gold coin.

When I realized that it was a hundred times more than the 1000 wen I had lent him earlier, I hurriedly called out to him.

 

 

[Look, I promised you, didn’t I?]

 

 

Saying this with a grin, Rex walked away in a good mood without looking back this time.

As I looked at his back, as he seemed to be really happy with the day’s events…..

 

 

 

[……That doesn’t look like Alchemy at all.]

 

 

 

I couldn’t help but murmur helplessly to myself.