Someday Will I Be The Greatest Alchemist?

In the Sanctuary mansion’s practice hall, Marnie wielded the crescent blade.

「Hey, about that, wouldn’t it be better to just use a great axe?」

「……yeah, I think so too.」

Laeva and I created weapons in response to Marnie’s reluctance towards long weapons, but surprisingly, Marnie took a liking to the one-hit-kill weapon.

With that being the case, despite it being a beast of a weapon, its grip is in the middle, so I think a normal long-handled great axe was better than a short one.

It’s good that Marnie was learning the Axe Technique skill and honing it.

However, her efforts weren’t in vain.

There were advantages to being able to use that alongside Taijutsu.

「Now that Marnie has also learned the Axe Technique Skill, she should be fine with a large crescent axe, but I do think she should use it until she’s used to it.」

「Yes! Yes! I will! I want to try weapons other than the spear!」

Sophia followed up with her input as she watched Marnie’s training.

Since I was already going to try out classic to the more quirky weapons anyway, I tried encouraging everyone to do so as well, and Maria was surprisingly assertive about it.

It would seem as though watching Sophia and I use both the spear and sword had made her also want to use a weapon aside from her spear.

「If you raise all sorts of fighting skills and job levels, it might even be possible to attain a powerful superior skill, so everyone should try things out.」

「Right. I should also get more used to close quarters combat.」

Even Akane, who was mostly in the rear guard, understood the importance of close quarters combat. She must known that if she could defend herself, the overall stability of the party would rise.

Moreover, I was thinking of forging myself another sword.

I had the Cursed Sword Tsukuyomi which was the twin of Sophia’s Sacred Sword Amaterasu, and while this was effective against normal monsters and people, I couldn’t use this sword in the undead room in our most recent dungeon expedition.

Recently, I have been using Taijutsu and Alchemy when in close quarters combat, but I’ve come to want a Light attribute sword that would be particularly effective against the Undead and monsters that had been heavily encroached by miasma.

Also, it may seem like we’d be a Jack of all trades and a master of none if we dabble in too many weapons, but because of the blessings from Norn-sama, the hurdle for raising all sorts of skill and job levels is incredibly low.

I think everyone feels the same way, so I thought this was a great chance to make use of an array of weapons.

Gathering in the living room, I asked what weapons they want to try.

「I wanted to obtain the Bludgeon Technique and Hammer Technique skills. I was thinking I should focus on practicing with blunt weapons.」

「Mhmm, that sounds good. Then Sophia, I’ll make a mace and a war hammer for you.」

「Thank you very much.」

Sophia wanted to challenge herself with blunt weapons. Blunt weapons were effective against Skeletons and Golems, after all.

「I will train the sword under Sophia-san. I also want to try getting the Swordsman job.」

「Oh yeah. You’ve been fully focused on the spear, haven’t you? That’s great.」

Maria said she wanted to train in the way of the sword. Would a one handed sword be good? Or maybe a great sword? I’ll try making a variety.

「Maybe I should go with a spear too. What do you think, Takumi?」

「Akane, your area of expertise has been in the rear guard until now. Does that make you want a long-reaching weapon to feel a bit more secure to start with?」

「That’s right. Could you make me a spear or a longsword, please?」

「Gotcha. I’ll make several long weapons.」

Akane, who was using magic to attack and heal as well as support everyone from the back, seemed to want to train with the spear.

「Lulu wants the big ones nya!」

「Big ones?」

「Yes nya!」

Lulu-chan wanted a large weapon.

「Something big, huh. ……well, it’s not like you’d lose to the weight of the weapon.」

「Lulu is strong nya!」

「For sure. Okay, I’ll think of a big weapon for you.」

「Yay!」

Lulu-chan, who already had high physical capabilities as a Beastkin, was also high leveled, so she was strong despite her tiny build. That was why she was capable of swinging huge lumps of metal with ease.

「Laeva will make Laeva’s own weapon.」

「Yeah, that makes sense.」

「Indeed. It’s fun to experiment and try things out for myself.」

Laeva was also planning to try out other weapons, but since she was an artisan like me, she wanted to make it herself.

It’s enjoyable process coming up with ideas and going through experimentation, so of course that was a given.

I noted down everyone’s requests, and wondered if I needed to get ores and materials. Do I have enough in stock?

I began taking inventory of the large amounts of materials in my Item Box.

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