Women's World: I am the man with the most OP auxiliary class-Chapter 74: Alchemy Master-level Artifacts

Although we arrived at the small village before nightfall, the village is already lit with torches in houses and streets.

With this atmosphere, I finally feel the feeling of having been born in a fantasy world, set in a medieval era.

Despite there still being sunlight, although orange lighting up the sky, the mantle of darkness begins to fall on the face of the earth.

Unlike the magically technological Royal City of the Human kingdom, where even in the middle of the night magical lights illuminate the streets with magic street lamps, and my own home has lights that are no less than the LED technology of my previous world, this small town, called Rice Lake Village, has the typical structure of a village from the Middle Ages.

The first thing I noticed in the distance was a wall of palisaded logs around the village and almost two meters high, but as I got closer, I could notice blood stains that were barely cleaned.

The log wall can perhaps help in the defense of wild animals, but it definitely didn’t help at all against a band of bandits.

Unlike the aroma along the way, when you arrive at the entrance of the village, I noticed a smell of damp earth and fermented straw. The gate, reinforced with uneven planks, was ajar and almost destroyed, guarded by a couple of women with tools rather than weapons: sickles on their shoulders, tired but curious looks. One of them, with a sun-weathered face, recognized Lion waving from the carriage window.

"Young Lion!"

"Huh? Is Lion in the carriage?"

"Claudia, Vesna, we brought help!" Lion waved and shouted from the window.

The two women lowered their weapons and breathed a sigh of relief. They dressed very simply, clothes with very common materials, and animal leather.

The two women, Claudia and Vesna, didn’t look very old, around 25 years old, with sun-tanned skin, blue eyes and dirty blonde hair.

Ragna stopped the carriage, and we all got out, then the two women approached the old Leonore.

While Leonore was talking and sharing information, I gave a couple of orders to the girls and Destan.

"Destan, you, Dianeira and Xifia please explore the surroundings of the village before the sun goes down, look for traps, artifacts and bandit scouts"

"Yes!" x3

Destan went with Dianeira and Xifia and they went in different directions. Send all three of them as they are the ones who have a high level of speed, agility and dexterity. They can detect abnormalities and send signals for help in case they run into something serious.

"Mm. Kara, I bother you to watch for magical fluctuations within the village, the bandits may have left spy artifacts and traps"

"...Yes" Kara replied with a monosyllable, then, in her left hand, her black magic staff appeared, and she began to look around.

"Vremya, and me? Also give me orders! Magen jumped in front of me with a serious look but eager to show off her strength and skills.

For a moment, I almost got lost in a couple of big, soft mountains that jumped in front of my eyes...

"Magen, you and Tikshna stay with me, if there is any problem, I can create a wind tunnel to get to the location quickly and I will need you nearby."

Thanks to my manly abilities to pretend to see nothing, I kept my gaze up and said to Magen and Tikshna.

"OKAY! I will be ready and on guard! YOOO!" A white and gold shield appeared on Magen’s left arm.

"I... I... also, ready..."

Thinking that she would see the huge mass in Tikshna’s hands, but she just clenched her fists and looked around...

Claudia and Vesna paid attention to my orders and saw the girls leave (and a Destan) but after hearing Leonore’s news they were happy.

Although they had very little hope, but the arrival of a hunting team from the Royal Academy of the Capital gave them a lot of peace of mind.

They never thought that Leonore would bring help so soon.

With Leonore’s order to the two guardians at the village gate, Leonore guided us to her house which was more in the center of the village.

As a village chief, she has more privileges, so her house is not only the largest in the village, but the best built.

Upon entering the village, there was a sense of fear, the houses made of wood and tamped mud were closed with a little firelight passing between the fissures in the woods.

There are no children playing or chickens clucking or digging the ground. It seems that everyone who lives in this small town has chosen to lock themselves in their homes.

On the main street that runs from the entrance of the village to its central square, I can calculate about 15 houses, with a dimension of ten meters and thirty meters each plot of house. Some are simple houses with a small orchard and a thatched hut next to the wooden and mud houses.

Others have a sign with a hammer and an anvil, as well as a needle and a thread, so I can understand that not everyone is engaged in rice farming, but it is natural, in a village, you also need someone to repair carts and farming-tools, as well as someone who can produce and repair clothes, A carpenter would also be needed for tools and house building.

Grocery stores and daily necessities, butcher shop, etc. The economy in a small town can be very scarce, but the necessities have to be taken by someone creating a closed economy.

Some houses have a second floor, but they lose out to the wooden mansion that we reach by crossing the central square of the town.

Although it is not a magnificent mansion, in this place it is considered a castle, it has a sign on the entrance gate that says "Village Chief’s Mansion".

The mansion has three floors with wooden and glass windows, has no mud as a building material, and the entire mansion is made of pure wood of a dark brown color. The land in front of the mansion from side to side may be about sixty meters and perhaps may be about sixty meters deep.

There is a small stacked stone wall surrounding the one-meter-high mansion, which more than a defense wall seems to be just for ornament, and a courtyard in front of the mansion up to the stone wall about 10 meters wide.

"In the village there is no hostel where you can stay, so I invite you to stay at my house..."

Leonore pushed open the metal gate and said while a couple of -maids(?)- men in maid uniforms came out of the house and greeted Leonore.

"... They are Zory and Svetl, please help our guests settle into a room and prepare a welcome dinner for our guests."

"Yes, Village Chief"

The two pretty boys saluted Leonore’s orders by bending their knees slightly and with their hands pinched her skirts and spread her out. More than a greeting of servants, it seems like princesses.

But I’m no longer surprised to find men working as -Maids-, I’ve gotten used to seeing men doing waitresses and assistants’ jobs. Especially when I go to the street of the Academy and buy food at food stalls such as in the ice cream parlor.

I think my house is one of the few that has female servants.

Although the village chief’s mansion is large, they only had four rooms available for guests, so we accommodated two in each room.

Leaving a sad Ragna who already savored sharing a room with me, but for obvious reasons, I stayed with Destan in a room while Ragna stayed with Tikshna.

But on second thought, I think it’s not good knowing that Tikshna has an admiration for Ragna...

In the other available rooms, they stayed with Magen sharing a room with Xifia and Dianeira sharing a room with Kara.

After an hour, when dinner was ready, Destan, Xifia, and Dianeira returned from exploration. According to their reports, there were actually traps and monitoring devices around the village.

If the whole village had decided to escape, the bandits would have known about it. Kara also managed to rescue a couple of monitoring and explosion devices hidden in the center of the village and at the entrance to the village.

According to what was found, the traps and artifacts are very advanced, although they are not the top of alchemical artifacts, they are not simple artifacts that anyone can buy, much less make.

"Then there’s a chance that the bandit team has a great alchemist among them, but that’s contradictory..."

"Why would that be contradictory? Wouldn’t it give bandits more opportunities to make money?"

"Magen, use your brain! If you are an alchemy master, you can make a lot of money selling your products! Why would a great alchemist want to be a bandit?"

"AHH! You are right! YOO! So, the bandits have money to buy these expensive gadgets!!"

"Silly!! If you have this money, why would you spend it just to be a bandit and rob in a village!"

"AHH! So?"

Not only did Magen have a mental confusion. Everyone around the table had thoughts as we looked at the alchemical artifacts and traps on the table.

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