1116 undetached longitudinal hole

"Huh. We did it, Lord Barca." The mining is over to the point where the magic stone would be. ”

"Good work, Lord Lassen." Now, please pick it up. "

"... what? How do I get it?"

Is that right? You can use your magic power to manipulate it and pick it up?

"No, no, I can't." I could dig deep holes with only magic power, but it was hard to lift what was underground. It's difficult to harvest magic stones underground with magic power. "

Lassen had his hands on the ground and continued to wield his magic power.

I watched it for a while, but on the way I got tired of watching it, I walked around, and Lassen, who was watching the surroundings, approached me as I finished my work, and spoke to me.

It's already been a few days since I've been here.

At first, he was exploring under the ground and figuring out where the best place to open a hole was, but it seemed that sometime it was up to him to actually open a hole.

I saw a hole in the corner of the secret training ground that Ian showed me.

Apparently, they dug pretty deep.

So I reported that I was able to dig to the point where there was a magic stone response, but I couldn't collect the most important stones.

I was surprised.

But if you think about it, it's probably natural.

If it was water, it could have been released on the surface like a fountain, but it would not be possible to make a spirit stone fountain.

I couldn't create the magic stone itself with magic power, and it looked very similar to Brother Arthur and quite different.

"It can't be helped." Then you have no choice but to go down that hole and take the spirit stone. "

I don't think that's possible.

"Why, Lord Lassen?" Do you think the longitudinal hole is too deep and dangerous? "

"There is that too." I dug a hole up to the magic stone in the shortest time, focusing on efficiency. If you try to get down, you'll fall and die. ”

Um, so you'd better have a string, too?

"Is there such a long string? The longitudinal length is over a thousand meters."

Huh?

A thousand meters, really.

I wonder how deep it is.

Well, that's impossible.

I don't have a string of that length, but I probably don't know where to look.

Ian's sword did not extend that long either.

“Besides, even if there is a string, there is a problem.”

"... what's the problem?"

"I can't breathe. I made this longitudinal hole to dig up to the magic stone. If people want to go that far, they need to dig a hole so they can breathe.”

"Breathe, yeah. That's important, isn't it?" Does that mean you can dig a hole where you can breathe if you want to? "

"As expected, I've never dug a deep hole before, but if I'm going to do it, I'll dig a hole next to it and try to dive a little bit underground, creating a space where I can breathe, and if there's a way to pump air in, maybe I can do something about it."

It's impossible, isn't it?

Hearing Lassen's story, it seemed like nothing more than an impossible conversation.

This means that even if you expand this vertical hole horizontally along the way, it is highly likely that you will not be able to dive into the underground where the spirit stone is.

There was no doubt that it was a withered labyrinth.

At least we need to dig that deep to get a lot of Spirit Stones.

But that's too much work.

Moreover, as long as you don't have the power like Lassen, you won't be able to understand that there are spirit stones there, so you will have to give up along the way.

Probably, I don't think the Britannic Mage will make mining full again in the future.

"Well, Norns can help in times like this." Come on, Norn. I'll give you my magic bag, so go down to the bottom of the hole and pack it up as much as you can. "

"I'm naturally a demon sword." Well, I guess it's a little better than a flaming hole. I'm coming. "

"I'm sorry, I asked for it."

At present, it was well understood that the longitudinal holes digged by Lassen were not something that humans could dive into.

Therefore, I stopped letting humans go to collect spirit stones.

Instead, they asked the unnecessary to breathe.

It was Norn in bright red armor.

He won't have to breathe at all, so he'll be fine.

But that's a bit of a waste.

We may not be able to take advantage of the veins of Spirit Stone that Russell found.

It's a matter of capacity.

My magic bag can hold more things than it looks.

But that doesn't mean you can put it in as much as you want.

It was just a lot to go in.

I put gear and food in that magic bag until I got here.

Even if the Norn packs the Spirit Stone in its free space, there is a limit.

If it is about one warehouse, will it be a word of yours?

Still, it was enough to get it.

Then it was time to send Norn out and wait for her on the ground.

Suddenly a vibration ran through the ground and we were attacked.