Otoko Nara Ikkokuichijou no Aruji o Mezasa Nakya, ne?

Year 7444, Month 8, Day 19

Since we managed to get our hands on a {Magic Item}, I decided to cut our plans short and return to the surface. Honestly speaking, I just want to get rid of this {Bracelet.Of.Dead.Body.To.Water} as soon as possible. Either way I already know it's effects using Identify so it's the point where I don't even care to investigate the small details. I don't want for there to be anything even small that makes me like it or think it's useful, is my strongest feeling. I don't want to be in possession of it.

We returned back to the teleport crystal on the 6th floor and teleported into the teleport room on the 5th floor. After telling Giberuti who was waiting for our return, about the item we found this time and he was happy and cheerfully started cleaning up the camp.

While glancing at that from the side I started discussing with Zenom and Toris. The details of the discussion are only obvious. What to do with the {Bracelet.Of.Dead.Body.To.Water}, the treasure we found on our exploration of the dungeon this time. Zenom and I had the opinion of selling it off but Toris said we should wait to sell it. I already know what Toris is trying to say. I understand but you know...

It's certainly a bracelet that can be pretty useful but honestly speaking I don't want to think that it will be useful at all. I already know about it's effects thanks to Identify. It doesn't have any ability other than to change a certain amount of corpses to water. In the past, I've actually used after all. Even as a final method to obtain water it's almost completely useless because there's my water magic. I'm sure it's certainly useful in situations like a couple months prior when I had my mana absorbed or scattered from the trap but even if you held this bracelet and jumped into that trap I feel like it would absorb the mana from the bracelet as well and either way you'd end up having to wait a full day.

In the past I thought a variety of methods that it could come in handy. Though the most conspicuous of those wouldn't be of much use until after my country is made. For example, cleaning up after a war. Before the dead enemy soldiers end up becoming the source for disease you can completely clean them up without a trace. Though if it's once in 10 days then it's not a very large number but even then it will reduce the amount of work needed to do be done burying them. It's not something that's very necessary to me right now but I'm sure it's one effective method of using it.

If they were a spy or assassin then there's also the merit of leaving almost no evidence from a corpse but I don't think this one is very necessary to me right now as well. There is the method of handing it to Miduchi when she returns and having her assassinate someone, but it would be fine if I just conduct myself so something like that isn't necessary. She isn't suited to being an assassin. Probably if I were to tell her to do it, she'd give me an immediate reply. However, regardless of what her own thoughts are on it, I don't like it.

If I have something like this on hand, then I might end up feeling like relying on Miduchi. In that case it's best if it's not around in the first place. I'm sure I feel like that somewhere in my heart and that's why I want to sell it.

"In any case, we should hold on to it for a short while and properly confirm it's abilities. Al-san you said you saw the same {Magic Item} in the past but do you already know to what degree and frequency that would could be used? Also, even if you do know that there's no guarantee this {Magic Item} has the same level of abilities."

The things Toris said were just as I imagined, a completely reasonable opinion. Even the abilities are considerably powerful on this compared to the one that Myun had. It doesn't restrict the user and it can be used more frequently. I think that the amount it can convert to water was the same though. It can't be helped...

"..That's right, it's just as Toris says. It would probably be good to experiment with it a bit to raise the price up...And..I think it's important to know the limits of the abilities of a {Magic Item}. For starters, I'll talk about the similar {Magic Item} that I know about."

"Fumu, if you're going to say that then I'm sure that's true. Certainly there's no need to hurry."

While I was hesitating a bit as I responded, Zenom showed admiration and changed his opinion after hearing what Toris said and found it strange how I was glaring a bit.

"..First off, the bracelet I know could only be used once in 10 days...And then..it doesn't matter if there's magic stones included in the corpses or not. If you don't take the magic stone out then that gets converted as well..That's why, it shouldn't be useful to omit the need for disassembling them.."

The tone of my voice dropped a bit. Suddenly, I remembered Balk the adventurer who came to Bakuddo in the past to get into contact with Myun. As expected Toris noticed that my state was different from usual. He was looking strangely at me. I just continued pretending not to notice that. In addition, I though it wasn't necessary to say that it was restricted on who could use it and didn't require a command word to activate.

"The amount that could be converted at once was limited. Just going off my intuition and it was an amount equal to about 10 times the amount you can make with level 4 elemental magic..about 1/3 of the amount of level 5..and, I guess that's difficult to understand. An amount equal to the normal size of..I guess so, it can change about 100 people the same size as me into water. If all of the corpses are in contact it should regard them as one large corpse...I said it just now but the only thing that is converted to water is just the corpses. The clothes and armor that the corpses are wearing remain just like that..the definition for a corpse is whether it's listed as a corpse on {Status Open}..that's why, it probably can't be used to kill undead. It has no relation to the degree of damage to the corpse...it can be used while the individual's name is still appearing or even after it changes to just their race it still has effect."

Well, there's no way I'd feel guilty over Balk at this point but he was still the opponent of my first time. I probably won't forget him for the rest of my life.

".."

Zenom and Toris exchanged glances while listening to my dry speech. They're reaching to the part about the individual name. It seems I caused a bit of a misunderstanding. Though that's fine as well.

"The items that we can to confirm are, I guess, the frequency of use and the amount it can convert. It's fine to test if it can be used against undead as well but since I don't want to touch ones still moving, you do it since your the one who suggested it Toris."

I laughed while saying.

After cleaning up the camp and returning to the surface it was past 4 and getting close to 5 in the afternoon.

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Year 7444, Month 8, Day 20

Just in case, we went to the 1st floor and tested the bracelet out. The bracelet of Myun I mentioned could be used with a frequency of once in every 10 days but since it was worth trying we tried waiting one day and entered the dungeon soon after eating. Since I just want to finish this and sell it off right away, and I already know it will be possible to use it again by this evening, I said we should confirm it's abilities right away. Since there's no real enemy for us on the 1st floor the members were me, Zenom, Toris, and Zulu, just the four of us.

I gave the women the day off today. Use times like this to conveniently all have your periods. Since we didn't have the special skill Super Sense of Smell we couldn't find monsters at all.

I used the spell {Audible Clamor} and lured over monsters. After repeating that 10 times, we had monsters gathered up like a small hill. If we're going to do it, it's more efficient to investigate the limits on how much can be converted as well.

Goblins, Gnolls, Orks, Hobgoblins we piled up over 100 of these stinky corpses, and managed to gather an amount that I think probably won't completely be converted and have some left over. I can handed Zulu the bracelet and had him use the magic infused in it. Obviously, since we don't want to become like wet rats, we're watching over from quite a distance away. Zulu came along knowing he'd get wet so he isn't wearing his armor from the start. Zulu looks considerably foolish with only the lower party of his body in under armor.

Of course, since we had the time we made sure to take the magic stones from all the corpses we placed together other than the goblins. Well, there were Orks as well, so we needed to at least gather enough money to pay for the entry tax for today.