The Man Picked up by the Gods – Volume 3 Chapter 85: A Talented Newcomer (1/2)

“I’m home~” [Ryouma]

When I got back, all the rimel birds went out to greet me. The slimes were present too, but they couldn’t say anything.

As I let out a lifeless voice in the mines, I fed the slimes and arranged my luggage.

“Next is..” [Ryouma]

In order to feed the charcoal-eating cleaner slimes, I started building a kiln for them.

“Here should be good…” [Ryouma]

The place I chose was the wall of rocks next to my house, in an area between a tunnel entrance and the entrance.
I dug a hole right next to the existing tunnel, then gradually expanded it until it became a room shaped like an ellipse.
It was good enough for me to just use Rock to supplement the room from time to time, so it didn’t take that much effort to make.
By the time I was done, the room was high enough for a child to walk around and big enough to accommodate one or two adults as a tent.

Next up are the slimes.

I called an earth slime and a huge scavenger slime. As the earth slime rode the huge scavenger slime, the huge scavenger slime raised it up near the ceiling. When it was near the ceiling, it caused a part of the ceiling to turn into sand and collapse. Like that the slimes were able to gradually bore a hole through the ceiling.

“Good job!” [Ryouma]

After creating an entrance from the tunnel, we went a step further and created a path leading to the tunnels above.

The slimes looked like they still had a lot of energy left, so I had them reinforce the walls as they came back. With this the chimney was mostly completed, which meant that the charcoal kiln was also mostly complete.

It was so easy that I couldn’t help but wonder to myself if it was really okay like this, but the kiln works, so I guess that’s that.

There are other ways to make a kiln. There’s the traditional method which involves digging a hole for the kiln, building a frame, stuffing it with wood, then burying it with wood and dirt. There’s also the drum method which involves a drum and a fire. There’s a lot of ways to make a kiln, but the key point is to prevent the heat from escaping and to maintain the air to bake the wood.

In my case, I’m going to put a cover over the chimney to keep the heat from escaping. As for the maintenance of the air, red soil kneaded with stone and water will do.

And that’s that for the kiln. Next, I’ll go and do some rounds around the mine.

This part of the mine hasn’t been reached by the management much, so the area around my house is full of weeds. But when you think about how all these weeds can be used for fuel, it’s not so bad. The weeds have grown high enough for me to be able to hide in them, but if I trim them and place them under the sun, depending on the weather, I could use them to get material I can easily start a fire with.

Of course, I could also use them to make charcoal.

I did my rounds around the mine while trimming the weeds, but then—

“PIRORORORORO!” [Rimel Bird]
“PIIPIRORORO!” [Rimel Bird]

“Hmm?” [Ryouma]

—I suddenly heard the cries of the rimel birds. When I looked up at the sky, my rimel birds were flying together as usual, but something was different.

“A flock of birds?” [Ryouma]

The light in the backdrop made it hard to see clearly, but it seemed like there were a lot of other small living creatures flying. The rimel birds surrounded them in the air. They seemed to be using magic too, as the other flying creatures were… Ah.

“KUKEH! KUKEH! KUKEH!” [Ryouma]

When the movement of the other flying creatures were restricted, Eins let out a shrill cry, and in the next moment, all of the other flying creatures fell at the same time.

“…So they were hunting.” [Ryouma]

They’re like a pod of dolphins hunting. Even though they’re supposed to be birds…
Surround the enemy, then use the nightmare bird’s special mind-type attack.
I don’t know if their targets all fainted or not, but they all fell into the ground as if they’d lost control.
I saw some of the rimel birds eating some of those other flying creatures while still in the air, though. Were they snitching food?

“I should take a look…” [Ryouma]

As I thought that, I went to the area near the top of the mountains were those things fell.

“Found it. Hey!” [Ryouma]
“PIRO!” [Rimel Bird]
“PIRORO!” [Rimel Bird]
“Ah, never mind. Just eat.” [Ryouma]

My timing was a bit bad when I called out to the rimel birds, as a result, they ended up replying while their beaks were still full, creating a rather splattery sight.

So, those other flying creatures were cave bats, huh.

“Where did you find these critters?” [Ryouma]

“…PIRO!!” [Rimel Bird]

When I asked that, one of the rimel birds took off and came back after chirping in front of a tunnel. It seems they’re in that tunnel. It’s not to the same extent as before, but it seems some monsters have made a home for themselves again after I left for a while.

“…PIRORORO?” [Rimel Bird]

“You don’t have to bring me any.” [Ryouma]

Does he think I want some because I was staring? Drei had brought one with him, but I don’t really want to eat a bat. Still, if there are any leftovers, I’ll be sure to preserve them. How much they want to eat, however, is completely up to them. It’s their kill.

It’s a load off my back if they’re hunting the bats, so I just wished them luck and left.

…Sure was a surprise to see the rimel birds hunting together, though…

In the past, whenever I saw them hunt, they hunted alone, so it’s a bit unexpected to see them hunt together.

…Come to think of it, since they can use wind magic, I wonder if they can use Sound Bomb if I teach it to them.

If they can, then that’ll make it even easier for them to hunt. I’ll try teaching them next time.


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21 responses to “The Man Picked up by the Gods – Volume 3 Chapter 85: A Talented Newcomer (1/2)”

  1. the slime guy Avatar
    the slime guy

    i feel like ryouma wasn’t the one to yell “KUKEH! KUKEH! KUKEH!”

    thanks for the chapter

    1. Fiery Vesper Avatar
      Fiery Vesper

      that made me laugh 😸

  2. Charoshy Avatar
    Charoshy

    Thank you for the update ❤️

  3. Daiz71 Avatar
    Daiz71

    Thanks.

  4. Revilo7B Avatar
    Revilo7B

    Thanks for the chapter!

  5. twinnnn100 Avatar
    twinnnn100

    thanks for the chapter

  6. Easykill Avatar
    Easykill

    Monsters contracted to Ryouma show more intelligence, co-operation, and potential. Not a bad contract for them.

    He’s casually building himself an army, but it’s not really visible how much power he has since he chooses to fight by himself in his capacity as an adventurer. He kinda resembles a dungeon master with his heavily defended cave residence full of monsters.

  7. KuroHaruto Avatar

    Thanks for the chapter!!!

  8. awsdert Avatar
    awsdert

    and so it begins, the unintended rank up to A rank of the rimel bird race by a small act of kindness to a small group of contracted birds }:)

  9. sfcipher Avatar
    sfcipher

    Thanks for the treat.

  10. Drago Avatar
    Drago

    Teaching birds the equivalent of a sonic boom just to hunt with? Is Ryouma right in the head? Well obviously not since he’s casually breaking the world’s common sense, but it’s just basic common sense that doing that would be overkill.

  11. Kariage Avatar
    Kariage

    Thanks for the chapter! 🙂

  12. ThePlaneskeeper Avatar

    Thanks for the chapter!

  13. Giancarlo Avatar
    Giancarlo

    Jajajaja ahora va a romper a las aves rimel, creo que si le enseña a ellas, las otras (salvaje) pueden aprender también

  14. darkLoki Avatar
    darkLoki

    Thanks for the chapter , how to make a army of monsters

  15. DaiCho Avatar
    DaiCho

    The Sound Bomb is already powerful enough with HIM using it. I feel like the ducal house and the rest of the characters are gonna have headaches if they hear about this, cause I’m of the same opinion as them. Man, as if the world’s common sense needs more breaking from the other past otherworlders.

  16. Another Guy Avatar
    Another Guy

    Hahahaha, Ryouma avoided eating the bats. He avoided spreading COVID in a parallel world

  17. Jolu Samo Avatar

    fue eins el rimel oscuro o el lider rimel como lo llames

  18. Jolu Samo Avatar

    por cierto el que dicen rimel bird fue zwei el pajaro que uso para la carta

  19. Curry Ninja Avatar
    Curry Ninja

    Now that you mention it. It did seemed odd

  20. Tam Avatar
    Tam

    The Image of him yelling ist Just great xD

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