Journey to the Ice Crystal Dragon's Nest

Meanwhile, Akasaka Ryunosuke had arrived once more at Lindarth on the 48th Floor.

Upon reaching Lisbeth's weapon shop, he first tossed her the ore that had dropped from the boss they had just defeated.

Lisbeth hurriedly caught it with both hands, her face full of delight.

"With this ore, I can forge quite a few more weapons to sell."

Lisbeth truly loved forging weapons. She had even neglected her main class, devoting herself wholeheartedly to maxing out her blacksmith subclass. That alone showed just how much she enjoyed weapon forging.

More importantly, forging weapons was relatively safe. She did not have to risk her life fighting monsters out in the wild, yet she could still earn enough Col to support herself.

Lisbeth picked up a glittering golden gemstone—or rather, a piece of ore—held it up before her eyes, and even gave it a kiss.

Without even looking at her, Akasaka said, "Time to split the loot..."

That was the real reason Akasaka had come here. Why else would he come if he had nothing to do?

Lisbeth rolled her eyes at him. "Wait here. I'll go check the ledger."

Lisbeth returned to the shop to look over the accounts.

After all, they had agreed to split the money fifty-fifty, so everything had to be calculated clearly.

Not a single bit more or less.

Akasaka stood at the entrance with his arms folded, leaning against the wall as he waited patiently, with no intention of going inside.

Before long, Lisbeth came back out carrying the ledger and began dividing the loot.

More precisely, dividing the money.

The two sat in the gazebo outside on stone benches, spreading the ledger open and carefully calculating each share.

"These are the sales from the previous two weeks. The weapons brought in nearly 2.37 million