Jobless Reincarnation: Emiya the Great Hero Must Show His True Skills

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Moreover, Shirou has clearly felt through this journey just how much the Spelud race is hated and despised.

No one could ignore the fact that Rijel Luther Speyluds were a member of the Luther family.

If the demons act this way, one can only imagine how the Holy Parliament of Milis, which adheres to religion, would behave.

Having learned how to get to the continent of Milis and that the normal route was difficult to take, Shirou and the others had no choice but to find a place to stay and have a meal at an inn.

The hostel offers seafood dishes unique to the port city for dinner.

Since Shirou came into this world, he has rarely eaten seafood.

After all, in such an era, food preservation is often a problem, and no one would use magic specifically for food preservation.

Alice was also eating seafood for the first time. Her mouth was wide open and her toes were raised. She was very satisfied.

If she hadn't still remembered some of the aristocratic etiquette taught by the Boreas family, she probably would have gone so far as to eat it with her hands.

Shirou was also very interested, so he went to the kitchen and asked a free chef about the preparation of seafood dishes, gaining a lot of useful experience.

Unfortunately, it's unclear when these experiences will come in handy, as seafood is still too difficult to obtain in this world.

After finishing their meal, Shirou and the others held a formal meeting to discuss how to cross the sea to the continent of Milis.

Given that crossing by boat would be extremely difficult and likely to encounter problems, they had to consider other methods of crossing the sea.

Shirou pondered for a long time and could only come up with two methods.

One option is to earn a large amount of wealth to bribe the customs guards, but this undoubtedly requires a huge sum of money. After all, the exchange rate of money on the Demon Continent is problematic. No matter how much money you earn here, it is not very valuable to the human race. Shirou conservatively estimates that it will cost more than two hundred green ore coins.

Green Mine Coins are already the most valuable currency in the Demon Continent.

To earn that much money through normal adventurer commissions, one would probably have to complete several S-rank commissions, or do B-rank commissions for a lifetime.

The second method is to leave Rigelde behind, and have Shirou and Alice go to the continent of Milis alone and return to the Kingdom of Asura.

Shirou wasn't the only one who came up with this idea.

Rachel Rudd spoke silently, "I can stay, you don't need to worry about me, but you must be careful on the road."

Like an old father watching his child go far away, powerless to stop him, Rachel Rudd showed a look of disappointment.

Seeing this, Alice was speechless and could only look at Shirou.

Shirou quietly said, "Don't worry, we won't leave you behind, Rijkaard. Now that we've made the decision, we should go back together."

"Shirou..."

Rachel Rudd was deeply moved.

But the problem still exists.

Shirou's first thought was undoubtedly to earn money to bribe the guards. He planned to find the Blacksmiths' Guild in Winn Harbor (if it existed). As long as he forged weapons as a blacksmith and sold them, he could undoubtedly earn a lot of money immediately.

However, this approach still has a problem: Shirou's identity as Muramasa might be exposed, attracting the attention of the Demon Lords.

Shirou didn't want to be pursued by several demon lords at the same time.

That's not funny at all.

So Shirou came up with another possible idea: smuggling himself into the country.

As long as shipping exists, human smuggling will always be a business, and it will absolutely be impossible to prohibit it.

Because the ocean is so vast, as long as a safe and reasonable route is found, there are countless ways to bypass the tracking and reach the other side of the ocean.

Human capabilities are ultimately insufficient to cover the entire ocean.

The profits from human smuggling are enormous; as long as there are profits, there will always be people willing to do it.

However, this also carries risks, namely, it is difficult to ensure that there are truly reliable smuggling channels, and it is also difficult to guarantee that the other party can be trusted.

It can be said that Shirou and his companions are now facing a series of risky choices.

There is no such thing as a risk-free option.

Shirou then made a choice, simultaneously pursuing the options of making money and finding smuggling channels.

He plans to pursue both paths simultaneously and see which one yields results faster.

……

After making their choice, Shirou and the others officially settled into the inn.

Having gotten used to traveling, Alice can now sleep in a room by herself without any problem, but she still insisted on sleeping in the same room as Shirou.

Shirou didn't complain about it and could only tolerate the other party's willfulness.

After Alice fell asleep that night, Shirou didn't fall asleep for a long time, and found himself transformed into the Heroic Spirit Emiya once again, encountering a god and a human.

"Hey, long time no see! Did you get the advice I gave you last time?"

"What nonsense are you talking about."

Shirou didn't remember ever accepting advice from a god or human, and he refuted it without hesitation.

"Oh dear, didn't I tell you back then that it would be dangerous if you stayed in that city? You certainly did encounter danger, didn't you?"

“But I managed it.”

Shirou looked at the god indifferently, still feeling repulsed by this unknown suppressive force.

The god-man, accustomed to his attitude, quietly said, "Yes, you did solve the problem, but don't you think you almost failed? The Undying Demon King Atofi is not so easy to deal with."

"..."

"And you used the power of this soul back then, didn't you? Tsk tsk, what a wondrous ability. But I sense that you don't seem to like this power. Is it because there are some side effects?"

"Have you said enough?"

Shirou's vigilance towards gods and humans reached its peak.

Because the other party actually wanted to spy on the part of him that belonged to the Heroic Spirit, this was something Shirou absolutely could not accept.

To prevent the other party from continuing, he even projected two swords directly and held them in his hands.

"Ugh, you really hate me. I've never done anything to harm you."

“Words of restraint are not to be trusted.”

"Tsk tsk tsk, I shouldn't have said that I had some kind of restraint in the first place. I ended up being blamed for nothing. Fine, fine, just keep hating me."

The god seemed speechless at Shirou and immediately started talking.

Shirou naturally didn't care about this, he just hoped that the other party would disappear as soon as possible.

The god already knew his personality well, so he could only say helplessly, "Really, if you had just listened to my advice, everything would have gone smoothly and you could have gone home safely."

"There won't be any problem without your suggestion."

"You're so overconfident it's annoying. Fine, then, if you don't listen to my advice, I'll see how much you regret it!"

"I won't regret it."

"You... hum!"

The god once again expressed his dissatisfaction with Shirou and ended this space.

……

The next day, Shirou left the inn early in the morning.

He bought a cheap cloak from a street vendor, which slightly concealed his appearance, and then walked to the Blacksmiths' Guild in Winnport.

As the largest port in the Demon Continent, it has been established by most other professions' guilds, in addition to the Adventurers' Guild.

Shirou didn't think too much about it and went straight to the Blacksmith's Guild, where he posted a request.

The request was simple: he wanted to borrow the guild's forging workshop and planned to sell the weapons forged there.

Since it was a perfectly normal request, the guild members simply had Shirou demonstrate his forging skills, and after confirming that he passed the test, they allowed him to enter the forging room.

However, although Shirou obtained a place for forging, he realized that he could not immediately forge a weapon of Noble Phantasm caliber.

Because forging weapons requires start-up capital.

The first weapon must be forged and sold before more money can be used to forge the second weapon, accumulating wealth by continuously profiting from the price difference.

Shirou's initial capital came from the vast wealth he acquired after killing the Red Dragon.

Shirou currently lacks the funds to forge his first weapon, and naturally, he cannot accumulate wealth to forge better weapons.

Let alone forging a magic-slaying spear for Rijerud, it would be difficult to even forge a Noble Phantasm-level weapon to sell.

Although Shirou had a great deal of wealth, he had generally kept it in deposits at the banks of the Kingdom of Asura.

The Demon Continent cannot withdraw money from the banks of the Kingdom of Asura.

Shirou realized that his plan to make money through forging had stalled.

Left with no other option, he had to temporarily abandon this approach and instead try to find an organization involved in smuggling.

Surprisingly, the channels for this were quite smooth.

With a little inquiry, he found a well-known illegal immigrant named Gilesculina.

When Giles learned that Shirou and his group wanted to smuggle themselves to the continent of Milis, he was initially reluctant. However, after learning that they were the famous adventurer team, "Black Wolf II," he suddenly changed his mind and offered to hire them to complete a quest. He was willing to take them to Milis if they could fulfill the quest.

Shirou, of course, would not agree to this casually, and inquired about the specific details of Giles's request.

According to the other party, Giles seems to be dissatisfied with the internal workings of the smuggling organization, believing that the organization did something it shouldn't have done on the continent of Milis: arresting someone who shouldn't have been arrested.

In order to prevent the smuggling organization from self-destructing, Giles hopes that Shirou and the others can help stop the smuggling gang's crazy actions and rescue the important person who has been captured.

Shirou was skeptical of Giles's words, but since it didn't seem like a bad thing, he reluctantly agreed.

Both parties confirmed the boarding time, and three days later, they parted ways.

Chapter 205 An unexpected encounter with the Demon Emperor; it took all my strength to feed him.

Now that a way to smuggle people to the continent of Milis had been found, Shirou quickly returned to the inn and told Rigel and Alice the good news.

When the two found out, they were very happy, and their previous low spirits were swept away.

Alice even began to take a tour of Winneport.

Ridge Rudd and Shirou naturally couldn't let the other act on his own.

After all, although Alice now possesses the strength of an advanced Sword God, her personality has not improved at all compared to the past.

Especially after Alice mastered the language of the Demon Continent, she could fully understand the words of other demons, accepting them all, whether they were kind or harsh.

That's why, in the past, Alice would sometimes refrain from overreacting because of language barriers and not understanding the meaning of other demons.

But now, if she hears any bad things said about the demons, whether it's about her or Shirou, she will immediately go berserk and beat up the person who said those bad things.

In the end, Alice earned the title of "Mad Dog," and her reputation was even the greatest among the Black Wolf II squad.

Therefore, in order to prevent Alice from suddenly clashing with other demons, at least one of Shirou and Rigel must stay by the other's side to prevent the other from provoking someone they shouldn't and ending up in a crisis that cannot be resolved by her superior sword god-style power.

In the past, it was usually Shirou who stayed by Alice's side, but this time Shirou had something to do, so he asked Rigel to accompany Alice.

As for what Shirou has to do?

Simply put, he planned to practice his forging skills.

Although we don't have enough wealth to forge weapons right now, as long as we go to the continent of Milis and enter human territory, we might have the opportunity to acquire wealth.

So, instead of waiting until we reach the continent of Milis and then rushing to start forging weapons, it's better to start preparing for forging now.

The weapon he wanted to forge was undoubtedly the reward for Rijrud: the Demon-Slaying Spear.

The so-called Spear of Exorcism is one of the two Noble Phantasms wielded by the Heroic Spirit Diarmuid. His Noble Phantasms are a pair of spears, namely the Red Rose of Exorcism and the Yellow Rose of Annihilation.

The two weapons have two different effects and look completely different.

The Crimson Rose of Exorcism is a crimson spear about 2 meters long that can nullify defenses made of magic. Its attacks are especially effective against armor made of magic. Magic enhancements and additional abilities applied to weapons will lose all effect when they come into contact with this spear, and it can even forcibly interrupt magic that has not yet been completed.

The inescapable Yellow Rose is a 1.4-meter-long yellow dagger cursed with "unhealable wounds." Being wounded by this dangerous dagger causes irreversible damage, reducing maximum stamina, and the "wounded state" cannot be removed even with healing magic or regeneration. The curse can only be removed by destroying the dagger or killing its wielder.

The two guns had different effects, and Shirou chose the Red Rose, which could ward off evil.

Because the Red Rose that breaks the curse is more suitable for Rijrud, both in terms of its appearance and its abilities.

The Demon-Slaying Crimson Rose is an amazing weapon that can only be defended against by physical means; no magic can withstand its terrifying piercing power.

Since there are many mages in this world, Shirou felt that this was a very suitable weapon that could provide good support for Rigel.

The only problem is that he currently lacks the conditions to forge the Demon-Slaying Crimson Rose, so he can only consider finding a way to forge it after he goes to the continent of Milis.