Year 7444, Month 9, Day 1
After confirming the date had changed, Miduchi and I, the two of us stepped foot into the fairy village. While Miduchi was surprised I brought her along as we crossed over to the island in the pond.
"Karl! I brought along some fish!"
After calling out a response came from above the tree.
"Just as I wondering who it was, so it was you Al? Wait just a moment. I"ll head over now."
After flying out of a hole in the tree Karl quickly flew into a different hole near the base and then came out soon after before calling out to his allies with a high voice "Pirurururu". Several fairies flew over to Karl"s side before dragging the stove magic tool out of the hole in the tree. What, if you would have just said something I"d have pulled it out for you right away.
The stove magic tool which a number of fairies were dragging out was properly cleaned and it didn"t even have the oil from last remaining. I took a magic stone out of the bag on my hip and tried setting in the magic tool. A flame came out with no problem. I take out the grill that was in the same hole and then took then seeing me take the dried fish from my bag all of the fairies let out a cheer.
"By the way, I see you"re not alone today...Dark elf huh? So you"re Midu~ritto.Chizumagurol-san. Welcome, I"m Karl.Milais."
Miduchi"s eyes went a bit wide having her name said without status open used but she remembered right away that I told her about the special skill Fairy Sight, so without panicking she was able to greet him normally.
"Ah, that"s right. I"ll call out Mila. She"s awake today."
Come to think of it, I"ve heard that name before. If I"m certain she was Karl"s older sister. I decided to wait while grilling the dried meineiji. However, in a matter of just 30 seconds Karl returned with a female fairy with long hair. If I see her from close by she certainly seems to resemble Karl somehow. Though it"s just a feeling and I can"t really tell. They"re small after all.
"Now, Al. I"ll introduce you. This is Mila."
Karl pushed the woman he brought along out while introducing her. She has the same honey blonde hair as Karl.
"I"ve heard that you"re always bringing along fish. I heard from Karl. I"m Mila.Milais. I"m the head of this place. Also, since you"ve already come here more than twice I don"t mind teaching you the method to teleport here from the 3rd floor. I"ll teach you later."
Ue, come to think of it I did say something like that. I"ve already done it.
Since Mila started from greetings I"ll say it after I give my name as well.
"Ah, that is, as a matter of fact today we teleported from the 3rd floor. I heard the method from Lilus so I already know it."
After hearing my remarks Mila looked to the side at Miduchi and,
"For you to call Lilus-sama without honorifics.. I won"t say anything to you, but do you approve of that?"
and she confirmed not with me but Miduchi. Come to think of it she was a {Demi-G.o.d}.
"There"s a reason for it and her majesty has approved of him as well. There"s no problem."
"Ho~ n!? For a {Demi-G.o.d} to have recognized you them self! Doesn"t that make you quite the person! Let"s see..Ho? N, you have two Unique Abilities I see..But I don"t think it"s to the point that Lilus would recognize over..Well it"s fine though. Since you brought plenty of fish today as well. It doesn"t particularly matter."
and said with a complacent smile on her face.
Eh? When I came at the start of May I thought I brought enough that you all couldn"t even finish though.
"Since the fish that Al brings are delicious. Mila has still only eaten just a bit of them."
I see, then eat lots.
"Ah, I brought along a lot today as well. Feel free to eat. And, you know."
"I already know. It"s about magic right? It"s fine since I"ve already talked to Mila about it. I think she knows more than me."
Oh~ even though he"s just a Karl the talk is quick today. It"s a good trend.
"I"ve heard from Karl. If you"re fine with just the level I know then it"s fine to teach you."
I"m saved that Mila is understanding as well.
"Yeah, thanks. Karl would you to Miduchi..Miduchi is referring to her but would you please teach her? I"ve already talked to her about the basics so please teach her something that you haven"t taught me. Also, Mila-san. I would like if Mila-san would teach me."
Rather than being taught the same things at once it"s more efficient to have us taught separately and then teach each other later after all. Making it even more ideal, Miduchi can use all elemental magics and has quite a bit of mana as well.
She should be the best choice from my party.
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We spent almost an entire day and had them teach us quite a bit of magic. We took several short breaks along the way but each time we discussed it so that the details Mila and Karl teach us don"t overlap. When I was taught the spell {Regenerate} by Mila, I had a bit of hopes that I could fix the cuts on Miduchi"s face. Since Miduchi"s magic special skill levels are low she can"t learn any spells that are too advanced but even then there"s a lot of spells that I don"t know so it"s extremely useful.
This time Miduchi focused on learning spells that require a comparatively low level of magic but are still useful like, {Find.Trap}, {Detect.Snare}, {Perceive.Pitfall}, {Detect.Charm}, {Detect.Lie}, {Detect Life}, {Dispel.Illusion}, and {Dispel.Magic}.
I focused around learning magics that require a comparatively high level of magic skill levels like {Recovery}, Metal Gla.s.sification {Gla.s.s Steel}, {Suggestion}, {Charm.Person}, {Charm.Plants}, Disgust {Repulsion}, {Ma.s.s.Invisibility}, and Stupefaction {Fever.Mind}.
I stopped Miduchi several times along the way before she ran out of mana but I went without breaks. Incidentally just in case I tried confirming if there was a spell like {Identification}, but she hadn"t heard of it. I somehow had predicted it but after all it seems impossible to reproduce Unique Abilities with spells, even if it"s possible there"s no mistake it"s considerably difficult. That"s great.
We were also saved by the fact that Karl gets right to the point when Mila is around. Honestly speaking, if Karl was on his usual rhythm I think the number of spells Miduchi learned to use wouldn"t even have been half of what she did. As a matter of fact I had prepared myself for that. Since it was a pleasant miscalculation that I was able to talk normally with Mila as well my prejudice of the fairy race has just changed to prejudice of Karl him self.
"Fu~ I"m tired for doing things seriously for the first time in a while.."
Mila grumbled a bit while sighting but I really feel like lowering my head to her. I didn"t think that she would really use this many different spell in front of me. After all the only thanks I brought was dried fish. Something like the good luck of being taught spells just for bringing along dried fish, it almost never happens. Not to mention I"m having her use the spells on me so it"s big that I can actually feel the effects of them.
"Mila-san. Thank you very much. I"m grateful from the bottom of my heart."
I lowered my head while feeling it was only natural and said my thanks.
"Hn? It doesn"t particularly matter. Since I haven"t seen a person"s face other than the fairy race these past 100 years or so. Furthermore if that"s a big-shot that can call a {Demi-G.o.d}-sama without honorifics then there"s no way I can"t at least listen to their request for a day or so. In the first place, the one that came previously..What did they say it was again..compared to that one human male, you have almost nothing at all and seemed like you"d have quite a bit of trouble. Putting it frankly it"s close to pity."
I was pitied...Though that"s fine.
"In the first place unless it"s someone with a firm sense of objective then this isn"t a place that is so easy to come. It"s not as if there"s no possibility at all of wandering in here jsut by chance but since it"s something like once in countless decades it"s almost fine to say it"s impossible. Even if it was someone who just wandered in then they"ll probably try to harm us as well. The moment they try to execute it we all swarm and kill them though. As long as they"re willing to bring some gifts along from the second time on then it"s fine to do a bit of something."
Thank G.o.d I only thought it..I was about to die there.
"Ooooo~!! I see now!!"
Miduchi let out a deeply impressed and surprised voice as if she understood. What is it, really~
A, aaaaa! This b.a.s.t.a.r.d! What in the world is she doing!!
"Ahhahaha!! That"s funny! Being able to use it with a method like, isn"t Miduchi a genius!? I don"t think I"ve been this surprised in countless decades, no, in over 100 years!"
Her...newly..purchased...boots. The right foot of it has been reduced down to just the heel of it that"s being worn!
Don"t joke around with me now!!
That is you know..those boots are, something that Dianne put her greatest efforts into making!
If you treat them preciously then they"ll last a number of years.
Something like that you, did you cut them!?
Furthermore you even crushed them under the heel!
"Hey now..you.."
I"m sure that right now a vein is sticking on my temple and the capillaries in my eyes have burst.
Miduchi looks up at my with full face smile while still standing with her heel on the shortened boots and then kicks up her right leg.
"Dear, watch! "What~ is the weather~ tomorrow!!"
Ah~?!? Are you looking down on me!?
What used to be a boot flew from Miduchi"s legs and landed with a po~n, before falling over on the ground.
Ah?
The moment she sent the boot flying Miduchi"s right leg gave off a bit of light.
"Yes, here, tomorrow the weather~ forecast for the regional fairy village is.. rain~"
Seeing that Karl held his stomach and started rolling around in laughter. I reached the peak of my anger and was about to bring my hand to my bayonet but just kept watching. Magic..is it? Rather~ rain, you.
Eh? It rains? Here.
"So that just now was the spell {Predict.Weather}..She used that with the incantation just now."
Mila explained it for me. After all that was a spell? Moreover {Predict.Weather} you say? I reflexively looked up at the ceiling. There"s a shining stone ceiling about 100m above. Is the rain that"s going to fall from there not well water?
"Hey..you.."
"No~ since it wasn"t going well I tried investigating the incantation and~ laughed..What are you angry over?"
"Those boots..are huh?"
If I look closely they look similar but they"re different. Ah, those are the cheap ones that she was originally wearing..I"m relieved.
"Ah, these? Karl taught me it. It seems it"s best to use something as a catalyst when using the spell {Predict.Weather}. It seems normally you use something like a bonfire or a gra.s.s boat floating on water but it was too difficult for me to get the image of predicting the weather based on the way the gra.s.s boat sinks so I ended up cutting my previous boots. It"s not like I have any wooden clogs after all."
"What? What are you saying? What language is that?"
Hohou~ so that"s how it was. This old man was done in good by that one. Ah, let"s just ignore the winged insect. But, why did she bring along her old boots?
"No, umm. Since we went to the trouble of making some new boots, I thought of debuting them when we"re all entering the dungeon together.."
So the ones she didn"t wear this time were the new ones. Sorry for misunderstanding.
After that, I remembered I had one thing I wanted to try asking Mila about.
"Mila-san. Do you know any spells that can be used to process dirt or rocks and take out the metals?"
"Hn? There"s one called {Trans.m.u.te.Rock.To.Mud} but can"t you use the lower rank magic of that? Don"t you know {Quagmire}?"
"I know that one. However, {Quagmire} is a magic that can only change a portion of the ground to mud?"
It was a bit strange.
"Umu, since {Quagmire} is a spell that was made by restricting the functionality and simplifying {Trans.m.u.te.Rock.To.Mad} after all. If it"s {Trans.m.u.te.Rock.To.Mud} then there"s no restriction that you can only turn the ground into mud. You can change rocks and ores into mud as well. It"s fine if you just change rock or dirt with a lot of metal minerals included in it to mud. Since it also includes water created with water magic inside of it, if you use the void magic selection to sort the water out at the same time you can easily crystallize single metals and take them out. If you use transformation at the same time then you can freely take it out the shape you want as well."
That"s it!
"Oh~ is that so. Then would you please teach me that spell {Trans.m.u.te.Rock.To.Mad}!"
I asked with the momentum of doing a dogeza. If you say it"s necessary it"s even fine if I give you one arm or leg. I"ve already learned {Regenerate} after all.
"I don"t mind teaching it to you but.."
"Ha"
"It"s already impossible today. My mana won"t last. We"ll do it next time."
"..I understand. Definitely next time...I"ll bring along a lot of even better fish."
It was so disappointing that I couldn"t help it. There"s no way I can force her after all.
Incidentally the spell {Trans.m.u.te.Rock.To.Mud} supposedly requires all of the magic special skills at least at level 8 other than wind magic. It also seems to eat a considerable amount of mana and even Mila who has about the same amount of MP as Miduchi can only use it twice. In that case, I guess that means it uses around 150 MP.
Mila looked at me like that with a lonely face.
"Everyone says that but what number is Al that"s actually made it here multiple times...There"s only been a single handful of them up until now. I"ll wait without holding my hopes up."
"It"s fine for you to hold your hopes high. I"ll definitely come again."
I grinned with a smile while saying.
"Hmph, do as you please.."
I felt like Mila smiled back behind her long hair.
I left behind the remaining fish and magic stones and then Miduchi and returned to the town of Baldukk in the middle of the night. We vacated out of our temporary inn and returned to "Boil Manor". After one more day of slow rest, we"re entering the dungeon again. Just watch, I"ll show you we can clear the 6th floor this month.
Authors Note: (Translator: some notes on the difference between {Charm.Person} and Kuro"s {Charm}, the spell {Detect.Charm} can"t detect Kuro"s {Charm} only the spell {Charm.Person} or similar spells. Also Kuro"s {Charm} makes them listen to whatever he says but {Charm.Person} only gives the target a good impression like turning them in the level of good friends. They"ll still reject things if you say something unreasonable, not to mention the duration is super short.)