The Cave King will live a Paradise Life -Becoming the strongest with the mining skill?-

Waving the pickel, a bell rang from behind.

It was a bell I had Mithril Golem hold, asking me to ring it at lunch.

I interrupt mining with my neighbors Hoole and Taran.

"You're both tired. But it's lunch already. I thought I just started digging."

"Something blunts the sense of time, doesn't it? It's the same thing all the time."

"Oh... I haven't discovered anything since I found the place I made that training ground"

The ore you can dig is much the same.

Two days have passed since Devil Hopper attacked the island.

I was expanding the freezer along the way, etc., but I have already dug for about half a day.

It should be time to discover something...

"... it's rice for now"

We decided to take the railroad and head back to the ground.

But I realize there's an unfamiliar hole on the road.

"... Did you dig this place? Stop it."

Goblin, the driver in my voice, parks the iron carriage.

I can't see anything when I go down and peek into the hole, but the sound of Cancun is slightly echoed from far away.

"Yeah? Is someone digging?

To that evidence comes a slime with a rock from across the hole.

I'm guessing you're taking out the minerals to make me collect them.

"But who? It's not a good depth to dig other than us..."

Hoole's right. Until we find the controls for safety, we're limiting where anyone but us can mine them.

Specifically, only shallow places above the training grounds should be dug.

On the other hand, this is a deeper place than the training ground, so it's a place you shouldn't dig.

In other words, there will be those who are breaking the rules.

"Sure...... I'm just going to see how it goes. There must be something going on. Everybody stay back."

"Are you sure?

"Oh. Just ask me what's going on, I'll be right back. If only Ciel would come with me as your liaison."

"Copy that. But we have to be strict, right? It's a decision."

Hoole, Taran, and Mappa went back to the ground one step ahead of me.

"So, Ciel, shall we go?

Ciel shakes her body vertically.

I started going through the hole.

The fact that the Slimes are carrying out rocks definitely means that the miners are residents of the island.

Immediately, we discovered that the miners were not the owners of a lot of magic.

From the form of magic...... one adult and two children? No, it's smaller when it comes to kids... they...

As we approached, we found out who was waving the pickel.

It's Lil and Mel.

And the person-shaped golem that stood watching over them looks back.

This guy is a golem with a demon guide stone embedded in it so he can use his shield. Looks like you're protecting us both.

"Thirty-one...... right. Thanks.... Lil, Mel. I told you you shouldn't dig unless you're with me.

To that voice, Lil and Mel put the pickel down and looked back.

Or did Mel shake a pickle too... he grabbed it skillfully with his wings and seemed to be digging with it.

Like Lil, I have a smaller Mithrill pickel. I guess the mappa made it.

You two bow your heads to my voice right away.

"No, that's fine if you two can dig enough... higher up, please"

I hadn't told these two where the mining ban was.

Likewise, he didn't say that to the Golem, so I guess nobody stopped him.

Well, since there is no magic reaction in the direction Lil is digging, he may have decided that this golem, which can detect magic, is also safe.

"Anyway, let's both have lunch first"

But Lil said, "One!," he barked, pointing beyond where he was digging.

"Yeah? Is there something buried beyond that?

"One! One!

Lil nods yeah yeah.

"Lil... looks like you got into mining too... I'm glad. But dinner's first."

If I don't, Riena will piss me off.

But why would Lil look up at me?

"Why do you want to dig here rather than...

Lil pointed at himself and Mel before pointing at me.

but I don't know what it means... it looks like Lil and Mel want to do something to me.

Speaking of which, where there were eggs where Mel was born before...... it was Lil who found the place where the bird bones were buried.

Lil stopped to smell something and instructed me where the bird bones were.

If so, it is also possible that Lil found something this time.

There's no magic reaction from me, and I don't smell anything special, so I don't know anything.

Well, if Lil says so much, I'm a little bit too...

"... you think I can dig it soon?

"One!"

Lil answered instantly.

I turn to Ciel just in case.

You may know something...

Ciel shook her body like she was a little lost, but eventually nodded naggingly.

Apparently, it's a signal that it's okay to dig.

"All right, let's dig"

I shook up Pickel and hit Lil's instructed rock wall.

Then, a blurry light leaks out of the gap.

When the rock collapsed, it was spreading before...

"... What is this place?

What was spreading in front of me was a huge circular space… where a book was inserted on one side of the wall.