chapter04 · 108-ep108
Episode 105: <Divine Artisan> Cooking
As a means for crafting specialists to perform more precise work, beyond raising skill proficiency there exists one more method: "using your crafting skill to create the very tools used for crafting."
Just as in the world of industry one builds machine tool level 2 from machine tool level 1, then uses machine tool level 2 to build the still more precise machine tool level 3, repeating the process to raise the quality of one's creations, crafting specialists too use their skills to make superior tools, allowing them to handle materials that would be difficult to work with their intrinsic abilities alone.
Particularly in large workshops and military factories, they have built enormous furnaces and crafting tools that could fairly be called magic equipment or magic items, making it possible to work—even if imperfectly—with deep-layer materials whose mana is normally too dense to process properly... and sometimes even materials from deep-layer bosses.
Of course, since crafting specialists, generally said to be poor at combat, have difficulty raising their own levels, no matter how excellent these magic machine tools may be, they can only be used up to a point before hitting a ceiling. Even so, this lets them handle materials that would ordinarily be impossible to work.
Hence Karin's words—"If I make magic cooking utensils with <Divine Artisan>, we might be able to process meat from the lower layers and beyond that <Munch-Munch Nom-Nom>'s restriction prevents us from cooking"—did indeed carry real persuasive power.
【Ojou-sama is seriously saying she can break through the <Munch-Munch Nom-Nom> restriction!?】
【Making cooking tools with <Divine Artisan>, lmao】
【Well, it's true that's how crafting specialists handle hard-to-process special materials!】
【But this is a UNIQUE skill restriction, desu wa!?】
【Then again, this is that absurd ojou-sama we're talking about...】
【Ojou-sama's eyes are gleaming over the meat, Lmao】
But this was the restriction of a unique skill.
Unlike with <Divine Artisan>, which could not process upper- or middle-layer materials at all, meat that could at least be cut or cooked a little might offer a loophole, but the viewers were only half convinced.
"W-well, for a truly extraordinary holder of <Divine Artisan> like you, it is not impossible... b-but can you truly do it?"
Sharie too saw possibility in the hungry ojou-sama's words, but having mobilized all her crafting specialists and still failed to break the restriction for years, her words came out dubious.
However—
"I have no proof, but looking at this meat, I have a feeling that if we make full use of multiple cooking utensils, we can manage somehow, desu no! For instance... um, I don't know its name, but it's THAT, desu wa—the machine that makes ground meat! If we make a <Divine Artisan>-made meat-grinding machine, we could use it to mince the meat... and then hamburger steak seems possible, desu no!"
"Hamburger steak!?"
At Karin's declaration that she would craft a meat-grinding machine with <Divine Artisan>, and that they might go so far as hamburger steak using that delicious-just-grilled deep-layer meat, Sharie's eyes went wide.
And then—drool.
"V-very well! Nothing ventured, nothing gained! With this sort of thing, the only way is to just try it!"
"Desu wa!"
【Both of them have meat in their eyes, Lmao】
【The possibility of turning that super delicious-looking meat from earlier into hamburger steak!?】
【Of course their eyes would go all sparkly and meaty, desu wa!?】
【Isn't this basically a food-terrorism announcement????】
【C-can she really make cooking utensils that break a unique skill's restriction!?】
【J-just in case, I'm buying hamburger steak and beer from the convenience store and cooking rice, desu wa!】
【Wait, could this be... before we even get to the unique-skill restriction challenge, this might be the first stream ever to process deep-layer materials with <Divine Artisan>...?】
【And of all things, it's kitchenware. Lmao lmao Lmao】
【The stream's vibe suddenly changed, didn't it!?】
【Carnal appetite conquers all... can't be helped】
【What does it all mean...】
【Why does Karin ojou-sama's stream always blast off diagonally upward like this】
【A. Because she's an ojou-sama】
And so, as the viewers raised such voices at this supremely absurd turn of events—a unique-skill restriction challenge and the crafting of cooking utensils for the purpose of eating monsters—Karin and company, faced with the possibility of meat processing, cried "Meat! Hamburger steak!" and dashed off... beginning a rampage through the deep layers.
""""SHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!""""
GRINDGRINDGRINDGRINDGRIND!
"Uooooooooh! An amazing monster showed up, desu waaaaaaaaah! That drill on its head—if it drops, it'll be useful not just for the meat grinder but for a food processor too, desu wa!"
"Good, leave it to me, ja!"
FWOOOOOOOOOOOOH!
""""AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!?""""
A swarm of snake-type monsters, Spiral Snakes, had tunneled up from within the dungeon walls while weakening the walls with a special mucus.
These snakes, which ought to attack after crumbling the ground beneath explorers' feet by forcibly tunneling through the dungeon walls, were instead caught in a single sweep when blast flames were poured into the very holes they had dug, before they could even finish collapsing the floor.
"Ohh! This turtle's got splendid heat, ja! Deep-layer meat is tough regardless of <Munch-Munch Nom-Nom>'s restriction, so half-hearted fire won't reach it... but look, look! It even properly cooks this bear meat I brought along so as not to waste it, ja!"
"And even if the heat falls short, we'll just hunt lots of materials, bundle them together, and push the temperature up anyway, desu wa!"
"GOAH!?"
The magma turtle, which produced and spewed lava of tremendous heat, was bewildered to have its own fire used to cook bear meat.
And then, when Karin approached the magma turtle—
"Oh! This turtle-sama sends the heat born from its shell throughout its whole body, so it damages anything it touches, desu no!? The shell can become a stove, and if the rest of it drops, it can be used for a frying pan—a great monster-sama with seemingly no dud drops, desu wa~!"
—and the turtle, whose every individual across the floor had been grasped by Karin's detection skill as she raised a cheer, went extinct.
"Ah, come to think of it, when making cooking utensils we'll need not just the blade parts but the main body as well... Yes, using the dungeon walls, which we don't need to hunt until drop materials appear, is the quickest route for now, desu wa ne! It's Famous Sword Mongolian Desu-Worm-chan's turn, desu no!"
KIN!
Karin unleashed her greatsword of tremendous cutting edge, and the dungeon walls it carved up were piled into mountains.
By the hands of these extraordinary girls (?) blinded by appetite, materials usable for crafting cooking utensils were gathered in no time at all.
【FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA—lolllll】
【The dungeon walls being just dug straight through is in a way scarier than the wyrm, isn't it!? ...is what I was thinking, but the snakes got destroyed so viciously I'm withering from Lmao】
【Literally digging their own graves, lmao】
【Even if they'd escaped the flames, the despair of Karin ojou-sama lying in wait aboveground】
【The turtle holding an impromptu guerrilla BBQ with its own attack and being super confused, lmao】
【Raw meat shield, honestly lmao】
【Meat shield (yakiniku)】
【For the turtle this has to be about as shocking as running into a flasher, lollll】
【If anything these two are doing a far more perverted dungeon conquest than a flasher would, desu wa!】
【The turtle getting hunted to extinction as a "quality monster," Lmao】
【Turtle... its whole body was built conveniently for ojou-samas blinded by appetite...】
【Wait, this dungeon has a lot of monsters that look usable for cooking utensils】
【What even is a "monster that looks usable for cooking utensils"!?】
【Just watching these two's streams mass-produces bizarre Japanese, desu wa!】
"All right then, let's get to prototyping, desu wa!"
"Umu! Leave the guarding during utensil-crafting to me, ja!"
Eventually, having gathered a satisfying amount and variety of materials, Karin dumped them out of her item box in the very middle of the deep layers, with Sharie standing guard.
This time, what she was processing were deep-layer materials.
Furthermore, to raise the probability of success as much as possible, after swiftly preprocessing each material, Karin equipped her crafting hammer, just as when she had made the anti-nuclear-missile frame.
In the deep layers, where mana far denser than the lower layers' hung thick, she activated <Divine Artisan>.
"Desu wa! Desu wa!"
Ton-ten-kan♪
In an instant—belying that airheaded chant, tremendous mana condensed. So much mana that the area around Karin's working hands warped and twisted, space itself bending.
【!?】
【!?】
【Eh, isn't this somehow dangerous, I say!?】
【Isn't the mana insane!?】
【The frame was already ridiculous, but this is even worse, desu wa yo!?】
【This is NOT the mana that should condense for making cooking utensils!】
【Even when she makes magic weapons, the mana doesn't get like this!】
【Even our workshop's highest-grade furnace doesn't do this, though???????】
【As always, warping space worse than a deep-layer boss with a crafting skill is way too much, desu wa yo...】
【Ojou-sama is making this with a super serious face, but this is all for hamburger steak, huh】
【Making space warp with mana while wearing a veteran master craftsman's face, all for hamburger steak, honestly...】
【Somehow this is different from the crafting skill I know!? (Chinese)】
【Wait, why are these girls making things in the deep layers!? (English)】
【Hey, translation comments! No matter how insane this ojou-sama is, there's no way she's making cooking utensils in the deep layers—translate properly! (Russian)】
【Making cooking utensils with this ridiculous mana, and in the deep layers no less? Give me a break, take a rest from the nonsense (English)】
【First-time overseas viewers getting knocked flat by in-dungeon crafting, lmao】
【Come to think of it, using a crafting skill in the deep layers was already absurd in itself, desu wa!?】
【Casually making cooking utensils in the deep layers, guard or no guard, was already abnormal, desu wa ne...】
【Before I know it, my common sense gets destroyed again, honestly... (nth time)】
【This is straight-up Elegant-mind contamination】
【Wait, hold on!? Sharie-sama is also just slaughtering the magic-reflecting insects like it's nothing, I say!?】
【The dungeon walls Karin ojou-sama carved up are being fired off at an insane rate, Lmao (white eyes)】
【That (?) long-range bombardment using wind magic not counting as a magic attack is as cheating as the shockwave bombs, I say!】
And as countless comments flowed over the abnormal scene—bwah!
As if skipping straight past any number of steps—there, where the <Spiral Snake's Rotating Horn>, <Troll Grizzly Claw>, and fragments of dungeon wall had been stacked moments before, something resembling a meat mincer had suddenly appeared. Built to efficiently process meat from the lower layers and beyond, which <Munch-Munch Nom-Nom>'s restriction prevented from being cut too finely, it was considerably larger than an ordinary one.
"Yoshaa! A good one came together on the first try, desu wa!"
【!?】
【!?】
【As always, skipping the crafting steps, lmao】
【Eh, what is this... (English)】
【Magic...? (Russian)】
【I see. Now I understand. I understand that this video is a well-made fake (English)】
¥10,000
Umm, to explain for first-time overseas viewers: this ojou-sama has perfected her crafting skill to the point that apparently the finished product just comes into being with all sorts of steps skipped (English)
【You're lying! (English)】
【If you're going to deceive us, tell a better lie (English)】
【That's not something you can make just by swinging a little hammer around! (English)】
【Don't pull fake-subtitle nonsense on a live stream! (English)】
【I can't read the comments fast enough, but I can tell the ten-thousand-yen red-superchat ojou-sama isn't being believed at all, desu wa!】
【Well, accepting this at face value on a first viewing takes an ojou-sama brain...】
"Ohh!? Cooking utensils truly have taken shape! And in such a short time! W-what an insane level of mastery...! V-very well, let us test it at once, ja!"
"Desu wa ne! Then... let us first process the bear meat Sharie-sama hunted while guarding, desu no!"
With that, Karin roughly cut the troll grizzly meat, which had remained without being absorbed by the dungeon, using Famous Sword Chupacabra-chan. "Ohh!? I tried cutting with Chupacabra-chan and it sucks out the excess blood—this works nicely, desu wa!" she discovered something new, placed the slab of meat on the intake, and—
"Then... here we go, desu wa!"
"Y-yes...!"
Both of them holding their breath, Karin poured a vast quantity of mana into that <Divine Artisan>-made magic meat mincer, which none but its creator could use.
Against meat that would normally crumble away the moment it was processed beyond a certain point, she invoked her ordinary crafting skill at full power, imagining the handling of delicate monster materials.
With delicate touches, just as in the days after she first acquired <Divine Artisan>, diligently raising her skill level with crafting tools, she turned the handle.
The instant—THUNK!
With an atmosphere as if the mana filling the deep layers were concentrating into the cooking utensil and the raw meat—nyururururururu.
The bear meat, which no ordinary explorer's weapon could so much as scratch, became finely cut ground meat.
And then—
"OHHHHHHHHH!? The meat! The meat isn't disappearing, jaaaaaaaaaa!"
"We did it, desu waaaaaaaaaaah! The ultimate hamburger steak is within reach, desu waaaaaaaaaaah!"
Beyond the restriction of <Munch-Munch Nom-Nom>—that meat from the lower layers onward would turn to ash and vanish if processed beyond a certain point—the ground meat, gleaming like gold and never turning to ash no matter how long they waited, drew a shared cry of joy from Karin and the Dungeon Queen, hands clasped together.
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↓Around here: Mitsuki-sama, awake again after fainting, watching the ojou-sama and Sharie-sama's stream and having her brain destroyed & President Inukai holding her head at the two showing unexpected synergy and getting along like a house on fire