This chapter is super long so I decided to split it into 2 parts:
12. Monster
12. Monster
Previous chapter’s synopsis:
The Hero's and Rose's embrace....
... happened while Lily was out hunting
"Ha?! Somehow I feel like I missed
an important moment?!"
12
The next day, morning.
"Good morning Master"
"Good morning"
After all it seems like I fell asleep
like that yesterday. While embracing Rose's breast I woke up and was
greeted by the strangely happy smile of Lily.
Apperently she was happy to see that
her protegee Rose managed to make some friends.
Yesterday, when Rose called her
"Lily-onesama" I wondered but it seems like she makes a
suprisingly good older sister.
***
"Changing location?! Why?!"
After breakfast, when I brought up the
topic, Lily started clinging to my arm and looking at me with her
black eyes, as if she was trying to say that here is her place.
"Is this about the story you heard
from that senpai yesterday?"
Unlike Lily, Kato understood right
away. Rose was surely listening aswell, but she didn't join the
conversation and continued to carve wood like every day.
I nodded towards Kato and started to
explain to Lily:
"If the story I heard yesterday
from Kaga is correct, then there is a possibility that a powerful
monster which is capable of even killing cheat ability users is
living in this area. It would be dangerous to stay here."
"Oh I see. The aformentioned story
about the mutilated bodys of 5 people who were members of the
Expedition Unit.
But is that realy true? I can't trust
that story"
"I can't trust it either"
I shrugged my shoulders
"However, there is no reason to
take the risk"
I replied like that to Lily who was not
able to believe, but regarding this matter I had allready determined
that Kaga said the truth.
For example another thing Kaga was
talking about : "I know more details about the Expedition Unit's
plans" that was surely a lie that he told to catch my interest.
In comparison to that saying " I
found 5 mutilated bodys of which one was a cheat ability user"
would be a lie that held no benefits for Kaga.
He had no reason to lie. Kaga was an
idiot who was faithful to his own desires, but he was not a bragger
who would spread a lie without any meaning at all.
Firstly I think it is for sure allright
to think that one of those 5 was a cheat ability user from the
Expedition Unit.
A common Warrior should be able to
defeat most of the Monsters of this forest easily with his power
A Monster that was able to kill someone
like that.
I want to get away as soon as possible
from a place where such a dangerous monster dwells
"Even though, that monsters who
could kill cheat ability users even exists..."
Even I can't believe that... I don't
want to believe that, but its a fact.
I also considered the possibility that
they were surrounded by many, but there were no corpses of other
monsters in that place. It is reasonable to think that this was a
massacre by only one monster.
"Is it that mysterious?"
"Isn't it mysterious to you Lily?
The cheat ability users who came to this world can even kill a dragon
with their bare hands. A monster that could kill them is unimaginable
to me."
"Bu.. But for monsters there is
also a ranking"
"rank?"
"yes"
Lily nodded and rubbed her face against
my arm.
"What do you mean?"
"Well"
Lily thought about it for a while and
started explaining
"What the students who were
transferred into this world are calling "monsters" are
creatures who have magic powers. You know that much right?"
"yeah"
"Basically the more magic power a
monster carries, the stronger it is."
This I understand " A big bear who
doesn't carry any magic power would not be able to win against a
mouse who carries magic power" You can think about it in extreme
examples like that.
"And the strength of an average
monster is propotional to the amount of magic power in the plot of
land, right?"
"Wait a second. What do you mean
by amount of magic power in the plot of land?"
"Hm? Oh yes master is not able to
percieve magic power."
Lily sticked out her tonge as if she
had made a joke.
" Originally the magic power
depends on the land. It flows in the atmosphere and through the rain
it is soaked into the ground and takes root in the land. Afterwards
we monsters absorb it into our bodies where it concentrates."
" Ehh . So can I imagine it like
harmful heavy metals that are discharged through waste water from big
factorys?"
"That is correct but you put it in
a very negative way"
Perhaps because of the image was too
negative Lily showed a nasty look.#
Well, certainly the image was the worst
but I think it makes the phenomen easy to understand.
Heavy metals dissolve in water and get
absorbed by plankton which gets eaten by small fish , who will then
be preyed on by bigger fish... Finally humans will be harmed by
eating them.
"The small animals and vegetation
of this forest contain very small amounts of magic. Of course there
is also some in the air. That accumulates in monsters. That is why
you should actually define monsters as "living creatures that
accumulate magic". This magic power is absorped from the land,
so of course, if the land is overflowing with magic than the monsters
will have a high amount of magic power thru that."
"So detailed"
"Well that is because it affects
our own ecology."
"Ecology?"
"yes"
Lily nodded
"If you have accumulated a certain
amount of magic... That is to say there is a magic capacity for every
individual and if you have lived for long enough you can do
reproductive activities in fixed intervals. To say it plainly to
produce children."
"Oh.."
Whats that.
When you hear a cute girl like Lily say
"reproductive activities" it becomes a very complicated
feeling.
I understand that it is a serious
topic.
"I wonder if it is asexual
reproduction. A monster that is born that way has a slightly
different magical capacity and I don't know if everything is correct.
Sorry I don't really understand that part. Anyway for Slimes like me
and Magical Puppets like Rose it works that way. I don't know how it
works for animal type monsters like the Fire Fang."
"So that means... If the amount of
magic stored in the land is too big wouldn't the amount of monsters
increase as well?"
"Yes the strength of monsters is
dependend on the amount of magic in the land. However that is only
the story for normal monsters"
"Normal monsters?"
So that means there are also abnormal
monsters?
"For clarity I will divert some
knowledge from a game from Miho Mizushimas memory... In contrast to
common monsters there are monsters who perform reproductive
activities like I mentioned before they are like Queen Monsters."
"They would be stronger than
common monsters of course?"
"Considerably. However, since the
magic power drops every time they reproduce their strength is not
constant. Next there are monsters like me, which you would call...
that's right " Unique Monsters".
"When you say unique you mean
there is only one?"
"Thats right. An irregular born
thru asexual reproduction... A mutation. Well I think it is something
curious. Just because it is a unique monster doesnt mean it is
particularly strong. Especially me since I'm just a slime type Unique
Monster."
Certainly Lily originally does not
posses a lot of battle power.
However her mimicry ability is a one
and only so the name Unique Monster fits her perfectly.
"And Rose would be a Rare Monster"
" What? Rose isn't a normal
monster either?"
Suprised I instinctly turned around to
Rose
She only bowed modestly.
"Didn't you realize that Rose is a
little stronger than a normal Magic Puppet?"
"Now that you say it there were
instances were I felt that she is exceptional."
"It doesnt measure up to
Lily-onesama's excellence"
Rose cut into the conversation. But I
don't agree with her.
Lily also gave a little troubled laugh
looking at Rose and continued her story.
"And then above the Rare Monster
would be... You would probably call them High Monster."
"What about them is different to
the Rare Monsters?"
"Just about everything"
Lily stated with a determined voice.
"This might be harsh to Rose but
the ones I call Rare Monster are actually of the same class as Normal
Monsters just that they are a little superior. Even though suiting
the name, they are pretty scarce, there is about one in thousand. At
one point they can even become Queen Monsters. Hower High Monsters
are in a class of their own."
Lily's expression was so serious it was
almost scary.
"They are outside of the
ecosystem. They don't perform reproductive activities like the Queen
Monsters. I wonder if they even have a limit on how much magic power
they can store."
"So the amount of magic power
decides the strength of a monster?"
"Thats right. That is why we are
definetly no match for them. Fighting would be useless. If you oppose
them you will be killed. Even fleeing would depend on your luck. For
example a long time ago I saw a group of around 100 Fire Fangs
annihilated by one individual. That was a true "Monster"(T/N:
written in Kanji as opposed to the the normal Monster which is
written in romaji).
"A monster among monsters huh?"
Fighting against a thing like that
doesn't sound very appealing.
If we were found we would have to run
immediatly. Afterall it is safer to just change our location so that
we don't meet one.
Before we could decide on our plan from
now on there was one thing that still bothered me.
"Hey Lily"
"What is it?"
"Would a High Monster be able to
kill a cheat ability user?"
"Yea I think it could."
That kind of half assed answer was
given.
"It depends on the situation, but
I think in a face to face battle it would be difficult"
"difficult huh?"
"yea"
I sighted, not being able to reply
anything to Lily's reply
I wonder how far outside the norm cheat
ability users really are.
As I thought the really dreadful ones
would be the humans.
"However there could also be
powerful Monsters that I don't know about. Since I'm just a Slime my
range of activities wasn't really far. Rose might know of others
though."
"No even I did not see anything
aside from the Unique Monsters and Rare Monsters that you talked
about, onee-sama."
After listening to those two it seems
that the propablility of meeting a so called High Monster is pretty
low.
"Anyway, since this is a place
were we could meet such a monster, we should leave as soon as
possible. Too bad for Kato-san though."
When I summarized the story I lastly
glanced at Kato-san.
If Kato-san were to wait here, it would
be pretty likely that the Expedition Unit would find her here.
But if we moved from here the situation
would be back to square one.
When I mentioned this Kato-san looked
down, playing with her braided hair with her fingers.
She didn't seem too disappointed.
I mean, like always, I couldn't tell
her feelings at all.
Although she recovered quite a bit she
is still far from her normal condition. In the first place its
doubtful that she will be able to fully recover her spirit. If there
was a some kind of motivation for her that would be great, but I
can't provide that.
"I... don't really mind"
"Is that so? Than lets hurry up
and leave this place"
Since we decided that way there was no
reason to wait.
We quickly assembled our luggage.
So far Rose has produced 3 swords, 2
spears and 2 axes. Furthermore shields and breast plates as well as
protection for the lower body.
Lily uses a spear as main weapond and a
sword as sub weapon.
Rose uses a one handed battle axe and
carries a second axe on her back.
I usually wear my sword on my waist and
another one on my back and a big shield in my hand.
Everybody is wearing breast plates, but
aside from me everybody is using a round shield because the big ones
might get in the way in case of a fight.
Honestly, since Kato-san's offensive
potential is even lower than mine, I wanted her to wear a big shield
as well, but no matter how light we made it her physical strength was
not enough. That's why we are going with this formation for now.
Aside from the weaponry Rose also
produced a lot of useful things for every day life. But since it was
inconvinient to carry those we decided to throw them away.
If we needed them Rose could just make
them again. This would take Rose some work, but she understood and
agreed.
We stuffed our clothes in the backpack
that we took from Kaga and the handback from Kato-san. We put the
smoked meat and other food in Fire Fang hide which we cut into
square shapes and tied together at the four corners. We did the same
with Rose's spare parts.
"Did we pack everything?...
Allright ! Lets go!"
Thus we left behind the cave in which
we were accustomed to live.
ty cant wait for the next one
ReplyDeleteIf this is coordinated with re:translations, then thanks.
ReplyDeleteIf it's not, i'll wait for them. They updated a chapter 6 days ago, so i don't see why you'd have to jump in and start this, there's enough inactive projects out there which time would be better spent on.
They stated in the last chapter that the next one won't be until January.
DeleteI think we're just gonna drop Master of Monster now, as sad as it is... people cannot understand author's notes at all.
DeleteThose are the author of MoM's notes, not Re:Translation's notes
Deletethank you for hard work. looking forward to next part :)
ReplyDeletefew things caught my eyes though,
braided her --> braided hair
easyly --> easily
unnormal --> abnormal
p.s : kind of agree with deathy80 in a sense
Thanks for the new chapter of Master of Monsters.
ReplyDeleteI don't agree with Deathy80.
ReplyDeleteyou can translate whatever you want since this is a hobby and nobody is paying you anything.
Anyway Thanks for the new chapter of Master of Monsters.
Yes, you can translate whatever you want there is nobody to stop you.
DeleteBut to take over someone else's work is just plain rude. There was a misunderstanding about whether Re:T was currently translating this novel and I understand that.
A lot of people don't care who does the work, they just want translations. But just as many get sour about taking over someone else's work.
From looking at their page I got the impression that they had nobody working on that project anymore (no project lead/ looking for translator). I have no intention of stepping on anyone toes, so I might consider dropping this and picking up a different project. If I find one that interests me.
ReplyDelete@betara thanks for the suggestions. I edited those in
@Deathy80 Well theirs will probably be higher quality anyway.
Anyway you are welcome to send me suggestions but I wont work on anything that I don't enjoy
Please keep this up! I really enjoyed reading this translation and I would love to see more of this. :)
DeleteHonestly, the re:translations quality isn't the best. With more copy-editing you can probably do better than them.
DeleteThanks for picking this series. Hope you can continue this series.
Delete1. I also think that ppl have the right to translate any stuff that they want. Also, the "taking over" someone else work kind of seem a bit harsh, but first the only one that can complain is the author of the light novel, no one else. If two people are translating the same novel it only means that the novel is seriously popular and the guy who is slower has to face it and endure. If their work is of better quality, many people will re-read the same chapter too.
DeleteAlso the quality of this translation is seriously GREAT. So don't worry about it Jay-sama.
If you want, it is totally possible to contact the Re:Translation when they get a new head for this project, for now as I see it, it is on total stalemate so I wouldn't care. and if they come back there is always the possibility that you guys can agree to interchange the chapters you'll be translating for even higher rate of releases for us poor plebeian leechers xD
Again, keep up the great work Jay-sama!
@Lone Hare >
Deleteimho, one thing is clear. and that is - no one is arguing of the fact "right to translate any stuff that they want" (quote from T.A.D)
however, as much as we, the leecher wants to read as much as possible, we certainly do not want to loose one, or make a translator (adept or not) loose their interest in translating. remember guys, a good translator is hard to come by. instead by doing redundant work (as recently been happening to Tate Yusha where Kookie/Yoraikun had to spent time re-edit instead of futher translating), isn't it better to 'be in touch" and get organized?
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