"You saw it."

Melvi said with a lonely look.

"... Was it bad?

"Yeah. I said I'd watch it all I wanted."

Melvi flies all the way to the front of the crystal.

"From now on, more than a thousand years ago. A wicked wizard attacked this town."

"Bad wizard?

"Yeah. I was just born, so I don't know much about it. But your husband let us escape and fought the wizard."

But Melvi goes on.

"... no matter how long we waited for the evacuation, I didn't hear from your husband that it was all right. We've almost returned to our homeland. Then..."

At that time, he already said, "Your husband" was in his current state.

"If you saw the status, you know it. Your husband has stopped time in this crystal. Yeah, I guess, but I think your husband stopped his time with [space-time magic] the moment he got stuck in the crystal."

Indeed, I do not believe that the presence that trapped "your husband" in the crystal deliberately brought time to a halt.

"Your husband" must have stopped time to protect himself.

"So you can't disarm this crystal?

"... I can't. At least not with my power. This crystal - I don't even know what kind of magic the peeling kingdom is made of."

Melvi nags with a dark face.

"The crystal itself isn't that hard. rather brittle."

I try to use this and scrape it, and Melvi gives me something like fleas.

I mean, where did you take it from now?

"That's a dimensional flea. It's a magic artifact that I created to sharpen this stripping knot. - Come on."

Melvi tells me I'll try to follow the crystal with fleas.

I can't scratch a scratch just because it sticks.

Now shake down the flea blade to strengthen it.

There was a slight sound and the surface of the crystal peeled off thinly.

I'll pick up that thin piece.

The surface is about the size of a smartphone, but only about a millimeter thick.

The edges are as sharp as my fingers seem to cut off.

"Is this...?

"That's all you can sharpen in one go. No matter how magical or powerful it is, that's definitely all it takes to strip it off in one go. That's why I call it the stripping kingdom."

I had the feeling that the magic power had been slightly sucked.

[Appraisal] To be sure, the MP was reduced by 1.

Is it 1 mm thick with MP1 consumption?

"There have been people who have come this far before. Some tried to unseal it. But..."

Those who were impatient at first to scrape the surface of the crystal also said it became intolerable when it lasted for months.

"But the crystal is a meter thick - a little wider than my shoulder width.

No matter how thin the fragments that peel off are, if you do it a thousand times, you'll get it in the back.

I feel like I can handle it. "

- Play it.

"Huh?"

"The crystal plays. - Look."

The shredded area emits blurred light.

After that light goes out - after all, there is the original crystal.

I can't tell without staring, but the thickness of the sharpened seems to be undone.

"... I see I can't do this"

One thin piece can be peeled off at a time in any attack.

The thin piece is also buried from the peeled end.

If it's simply a solid bond, you can break it with more force than that.

I can have that kind of hope.

But I can peel to peel, but I can never peel to peel.

This is quite spiritually tight for those who try to break the line.

I know exactly how bad the character of the guy who created this junction is, it's an insidious junction.

"I've worked with some magicians and tapped into magic in a row, but it seems like when the time comes for an attack is close together, it's considered one time - even if we all made a saturated attack with the momentum to use up the MP, we could only scrape one thin piece."

So you're saying we just have to scrape it down the tunnel?

"But for once, we know that the playback of the sharpened spot is not complete. The amount that comes together in a day - if you dig half my height, the playback will be just a little smaller."

About half the height of Melvi = approximately 10 cm.

In simple thickness, 100 sheets of thin pieces.

But if you want to make sure that the original elf woman inside is as wide as she can get through, you want an area about 10 vertical and horizontal lines of smartphones, so you need to do a hundred tasks for every millimeter you go.

A hundred times per millimeter. A hundred times, 10,000 times.

... Wait?

"Doesn't it make it a little easier if you dig tunnels as wide as the people inside can crouch through and scrape them as wide around the people inside?

"That's what I can't do.

This peeling junction seems to be a mechanism that complements each other, so digging a long tunnel towards the back can quickly block it.

The only thing that makes playback a little dull is if you scrape the boundaries on this side. "

"Just a little bit, how long?

"... about one thin slice"

"I mean, digging at that pace only goes a millimeter a day"

At that pace, it will take a thousand days to unseal.

Continue the work for a thousand days that only goes one millimeter a day - even if you bring a painstaking monk around India, it's the first thing you can't stand.

"If I could get more pace around the day......"

"Do you need 10,000 times to dig about half my height?

Fairies can suck magic from around them, so they can manage to get as far as that in a day, but they usually run out of magic before they do. "

3000 seconds, 500 minutes, and 8.3 hours as three seconds at a time.

Indeed, it is close to the limit where you can work in a day.

No, you're totally over the limit.

A sane human can't be immersed in the task of peeling off the thin skin of a crystal for eight hours a day.

Moreover, the crystal is up to 99% the next morning.

That's crazy.

Besides, workers need to have more than 1,000 MPs or recover their magic powers as quickly as a fairy.

That would be about a handful of Big Wizards, but there's no way such a Big Wizard would devote a huge amount of time to such a frenetic task.

"If you do it while alternating with some..."

"I don't know how it works, but when more than one person's magic mixes, it plays faster."

Are you saying that only one person at a time is involved in the task of stripping down crystals?

"By the way, what's your longest record so far?

"... seven months.

He was an Elf training monk with a huge MP, with the help of Attiella, the magic god.

I kept working pale, so I thought, "What if I hurt my finger with a thin piece that peeled off one day?"

The injury itself was a common cut, but it must have accumulated a lot.

That's why I started rumbling.

At that time, I cured a state of confusion due to the total fairy talent in this town, but that trainee monk who regained his sanity, said he was going to start training again from scratch and went on a journey... "

I'm sorry to hear that.

"So you can't even try to unseal your husband, even if you're wrong.

I can't believe someone went mad for themselves. Something your husband shouldn't be happy about.

I'd like to see your husband, too. "

"-Ma, let's just do it"

"You can't ask a stranger to do that. You mean... you do it!? Oh, you, my story, were you listening properly?

I'll get to work quickly.

Hit and scrape the fleas Melvi gave me on the crystal.

Paki, and the crystal peels off as the ice cracks.

The thickness is the same as just now.

Let's explore minimal force application and subtraction to improve the efficiency of the work.

Apply lightly. This is no good.

Beat momentum first from elbow. This is a success.

A little lighter, beat like a hammer. Yeah, success.

Even lighter, knocking on the door with the same intensity as knocking. Failure.

Strengthen the knock. Success.

Then let's do it with this much strength.

Next, a survey of the spacing between beatings.

Knock, peel, knock right off. Failure.

Beat, peel, count to five seconds, then beat. Success.

Beat, peel, count to three seconds, then beat. Success.

Beat, peel, count for a second, then beat. Failure.

Beat, peel, count to two seconds, then beat. Success.

Beat, peel, beat in about 1.5 seconds. Success.

Beat, peel, beat in about 1.2 seconds. Failure.

Beat, peel, beat in about 1.4 seconds. Success.

Beat, peel, beat in about 1.3 seconds. Failure.

Conclusion, you can beat it at an approximate 1.4 second (eye mass) interval.

If you know that much, it's simple to do.

At 1.4 second intervals, as strong as a strong knock, beat fleas on the crystal.

Paki, paki, paki... and crystals peel off in a constant rhythm.

"Oh, you...?

Melvi is staring at my work with a surprised face.

I have since wielded countless fleas.

When I noticed, on the ground of the cave, a stripped thin piece stacked like a mountain.

Hmm? You don't have Melvi.

When I thought, Melvi, heavily held the tea set, fluttered back from the entrance.

"Don't pack too many roots, okay? You've been doing this for three hours!

Speaking of which, your hand with the fleas hurts a little.

I'm not tired, though small, but the recoil when tapping the crystal seems to be a strain.

"Let me see. - Spirit of life dwelling in the Son of man, now it is time to wield his power and to revive the body of the Son of man."

With Melvi's words, a pale glow covered my arm and the pain in my arm disappeared.

"Oh!"

"This is [Spirit Magic]. I called on the Spirit of Life living in Edgar's body to help him recover."

"Can you remember me, too?

"It's hard for humans, but it shouldn't be impossible. Clear your ears to the voices of the spirits lurking in the midst of Morula. When you hear that voice, you'll know what you're asking for."

"Hear the voice of the Spirit... hear?

"I can't explain all this. Believe in the presence of the Spirit, sharpen your spirit, and just try to hear its voice. A fairy can do it naturally even as soon as she's born, but it takes hours a day to train, and years later, it's like, finally."

Yeah. It looks handy, and we'll try it again.

You may just give up it seems like years, but with my concentration right now, I'm going to be able to do whatever it takes to keep trying to hear the Spirit at its best concentration all night.

When I finished my cup of Melvi's brewed tea, I grabbed the fleas again.

"So, are you okay...?

Melvi says worryingly.

"Oh. I'll try some more. I'd like to see Melvi's recovery dull at about half her height."

Paki, Paki, Paki......

Once again, I'm going back to the never-ending stripping operation.

There is also such a thing as getting used to simple tasks, and the critical timing, exquisite force application and subtraction, has allowed me to sift fleas.

It's troublesome when I hurt my arm, so I keep waving a thin piece aside instead of a break where I've been accumulating thin pieces under my feet, and I keep waving fleas.

How long has it been since then?

"... hey, hey!

Melvi comes around in front of me and says:

"Wow, don't threaten me."

"Don't threaten me, it's not! How long are you gonna be doing this?

"... indeed, it's time for you to dig in, Melvi, about half the time"

If you notice, the crystal is about ten centimeters thinner than it was the first time.

After watching for a while, the crystal glows blurry and the sharpened portion recovers.

... it looks almost entirely fast...

"I've measured it with proper rules, so it's okay. That's just one slice of thin."

"I see, now you finally have one set"

As the thickness of the crystal is one meter, this will have finally advanced by one millimeter.

So if you repeat this task a thousand times, this crystal will be gone.

No, how long has it been?

"... are you serious? I've been doing this for almost half a day now!

"Oh, seriously."

Con, Paki, I was comfortable with the rhythm and completely forgot about time and all.

Con, Paki, at about 1.5 seconds, when the waiting time is 1.4 seconds, fleas once for about 3 seconds.

I beat it 10,000 times, which means it's been 8.3 hours, as I calculated before.

If you did this for 24 hours, you would be able to beat it with fleas 28800 times.

Nevertheless, this is only a theoretical value.

How many times a day is the limit, because I get time for a meal or something, and I need to rest my hands?

Fairy Town says it's ten times more time than outside, so if you hit this whole day outside, you'll calculate that you can sharpen 250,000 times - 25 mm = 2.5 cm crystals.

We'll do this until we reach a meter, so if we can secure 40 days in outside time, we can sharpen this crystal.

It's a fairly long story, but there's nothing you won't be able to do.

For example, if you come to Fairy Town once a month, the calculation is that you can unseal it in forty months - three and four years.

"But that's the hardest part."

It's hard to get out of the house all day with a toddler.

Besides, for forty months, you won't be able to get very far from the entrance to Fairy Town.

Well, I'm going with my parents to King's Capital, so I can't do it in the meantime.

It is also difficult even after I have finished my errands in the King's Capital and have returned to the Mansion.

It takes half a day from the mansion's Corvette village to the nearest Liberette village in the fairy town, so there's nothing you can do to get out in the middle of the night.

Of course, there are ways to tell your parents the circumstances and get permission, but then you're going to have to tell them the facts of your reincarnation.

"... help me, will you...?

Melvi says anxiously.

"Huh? Of course I'm going to."

It feels like what now, but the previous person says he went mad, and Melvi must be anxious.

I say with a laugh to look as gentle as possible.

"- You wanted someone to help you, didn't you?

"-!"

Melvi says with her mouth that she doesn't have to help.

But Melvi's actions betray it.

If you didn't want me to help you, why did you leave a code in the eye by the village?

Why did you advise me to stay when I visited the village?

Why did you say to take a closer look at the town?

And - why did you leave the entrance to the stairs leading to this cave open?

I think Melvi was expecting it somewhere.

That I will discover this place and tell you to help your "husband".

Gushu, the sound.

I'll stop and keep an eye on you.

"... but I have a problem. I'm a child, as you can see, so I can't stay away from my parents for long. I have other things to do, so I can't get into the peeling world."

If we could help Mr. Alphesia according to this "master" - [appraisal], no one would be more reliable in the fight against evil gods.

Or is it a level where you can leave everything to yourself after that?

But was there a "bad wizard" who could trap this man in the stripping kingdom?

In case we run into each other, we'll have to do everything we can to escape.

It was a thousand years ago, and I think he's already dead...

- Then I'll follow you.

"What, Melvi?

"I'm not as good as your husband, but I can use [dimensional magic]. Wherever you are, we can make a gate to this town."

Well, then I can use my free time to come here.

"Or don't get me wrong! I'm only following you for your husband's sake!

"Yes, sir."

While I grin at the blinding words, I pick up a mountain on the ground and a pile of crystal fragments.

It was about the size of a smartphone, a millimeter thick, and the ends were so sharp that if I wasn't careful, I was going to cut my fingers off.

"You can use this."

I'll pinch it between my index finger and my middle finger and throw it against the wall.

The thin pieces were sarcastically stabbed in the wall.

Probably [Hand Back Sword moves] got the hang of it, but even something like this would treat you like a Hand Back Sword.

"Ah, use that. Then it's hard to throw it away, so take it."

Mervy, saying so all the time, lost a thin piece that turned into a mountain.

"What have you done now?

"This? It's a kind of [dimensional magic] magic called dimensional storage."

Infinite storage (inventory) is here!

"Can you use that for me?

"I don't know. [Dimensional magic] is a very advanced skill in itself, so maybe if you train for decades"

Decades.

I don't know if I can compress it if I use [hard work] well, but I guess I won't be able to do it soon.

"Well, if you decide, let's go."

◇◆◇◆◇◆◇◆

- Thus, Melvi was to follow me.

Outside, they basically don't see it from people unless Melvi herself wants to look like it.

Being a fellow traveler, I turned him down and asked him to show me Melvi's status.

Don.

Melvi (from Tetertia Fairy Township, Fairy Chief, Hard Worker, Cancer Shop, Sister for All)

??? (1119 years have passed since it was created)

Fairy

Level 44

HP 34/34

MP997/997

State Fairy Oath (Can't intentionally lie. No harm may be inflicted on another unless necessary for self-defence. except for those under the influence of evil gods.

Skills

· Epic

[Reading] Five.

[Spirit Magic] 4

[Dimensional magic] 2

[Appraisal] 4

[Fairy Eye] Four.

[Create Dimensional Demonic Prop] 2

- Masterclass

[Control] 3

[Demon Prop Creation] 9 (MAX)

[Spatial magic] 9 (MAX)

[Fairy Song] 4

[Magic control] 9 (MAX)

- Generic

[Command] 9 (MAX)

Tool creation 9 (MAX)

[Magic manipulation] 9 (MAX)

[Magic sensing] 6

Blessings of the Initial Elves (We can borrow some of the knowledge of the Initial Elves. Correction small for MP increase at level, correction small for acquisition and growth of magic-related skills.

Yeah. Melvi, seriously, cancer shop.

I've been giving it to you for a long time, but you can see from the status that I would have had a pretty hard time making that dimensional flea.

Because of this, why don't you [appraise] the dimensional fleas as well?

"Dimensional fleas: Epic Demonic Props. A flea with anti-peeling junctional action created by Melvi the Fairy Tetertia after centuries-old drilling. Increase the stripping width of the stripping junction from 1 micrometer thick to 1 millimeter thick.

Hard work wasn't on the level!

It's a crystal of blood, sweat and tears.

I'm sorry if I thought, "Can you only scrape a millimeter?"