"... 'used as an energizer'?

"What? - Ah! The book!

"Plant atlas."

To Yuki, who raised his voice as if in a hurry, I poked the cover of the book I had, turned it further upside down, and showed Yuki the page I had opened.

This book covers quite a few plants.

This book is convenient enough to say that it is a must-have for collecting in the woods, but it also includes a chapter on mushrooms.

Yes, mushrooms.

I was curious about the mushroom Yuki was collecting, and I was relying on my memory to examine that mushroom, but what it said in the description of the mushroom that looked like it was in an earlier passage.

"Uh, hey, the... Nao, I thought you were tired?

"It was vague as to whether it fits, but the reaction, sounds definitely right?

"What is it about? I'm just trying to make Nao feel better, okay?

And so on, Yuki strayed from her gaze, and her cheeks are dripping with sweat.

That reaction would already be the answer.

"You... I said if you cheated on me, it'd suck, and before I even dried my tongue root..."

"I have no idea what Nao is talking about, but it's okay, I'm sure. Me and Natsuki will forgive you, I'm sure."

I sigh at Yuki, who I never admit to.

"I don't care... what happens if you don't forgive me"

"At that time... shall we fall together? To hell."

"No! Absolutely, no!!"

Looking up at me, I stubbornly poke no at Yuki laughing "hehe".

I build a warm, bright, peaceful home.

- It's a joke, a joke.

"How far?

"It's a secret there. But this mushroom."

That's what I took away a few mushrooms I looked into in the drawings earlier.

Keep that...

"Ah!?"

I threw it in.

In the pan.

"It's okay. I don't know if I only ate this mushroom, but I can't handle it to this extent. It's like eating garlic."

"… it is true that garlic is also refined"

Whatever the mood is, just because you ate one or two garlic doesn't dramatically change anything.

- Except for the smell.

"Isn't it? - If we extract the ingredients in Natsuki's [Pharmaceutical] and make it into medicine, it would be different again."

"Oi, if you ask me that, I'll be curious about my upcoming meal."

"Uh, but do you think Natsuki will do it? Things like Nao imagines. - I don't know what you're imagining."

"Say it yet. But, well, you're worried."

"Yes, yes. So Nao doesn't have to worry about the mushrooms I collect, does he?

"Okay, I got it."

"Yeah, yeah."

"Tomorrow, we'll keep a close eye on it."

"... that?

Yuki tilting her neck in my response, but why did you think that wouldn't bother you?

You're gonna care, aren't you?

The mushrooms may be fine now, but it's not necessarily without highly effective mushrooms.

Well, even with that happening.

Yuki's "mushroom juice with lots of seasonal mushrooms” was delicious.

Including that slightly nasty mushroom.

◇ ◇ ◇

The next day we continued our mushroom hunt, and it was on the evening when the sun began to fall that we reached the destination valley.

Cliffs cut apart as if they had tapped into a jar.

From the bottom to the top of the cliff, is there a condo about twenty stories tall?

With the entrance to the valley pointing southeast, the light is also hard to come in at this time when the sun is about to set to the west, quite dim.

"Is it here? Uh... the Lebright Ore."

"Yeah. I went into this gorge, a little further... but it's dark, so it's tomorrow."

"Exactly, there's no rock climbing in the dark."

- So, the next morning.

Just in time for the sunlight to plunge into the valley, we started acting.

"About 200 meters from the entrance into the back, on the right...... there, is it?

That's what Yuki pointed to was the wall to the right of the valley, the rift there.

The width is not much more than a meter.

A slightly narrow rift to walk side by side between the two of them continues towards the back.

The valley itself, which is now a little dim, and the air is limp, but its rift is once again dark.

I don't know... you say it looks good for a liver test...

There are usually skeletons, ghosts and zombies in this world, so I'm not kidding.

If I didn't have [enemy] skills, I might have butted in.

"I see. This is why the person who told me about this place said it was better to go in the summer."

"In addition to this dimness, the temperature, maybe."

In summer when the sun is high, this area will be a little brighter, and it could be a pretty good place to stay cool.

Most of all, it's just cool, and the landscape is never perfect for a summer spot, or anything like that.

"The destination location is around 20 meters climbing this wall, what... not to be seen, but a little dangerous?

The night has become brighter than before, but still, in this dimness, when an amateur like us tells us to judge safe scaffolding and clues, it is not even dangerous to think about it.

"Certainly not like this."

"What's going on?

Yuki tilts her little neck at the words that contain me, but I didn't answer it, raised one hand, and used a certain magic.

"-" Light "!

With the word, light appears in the dim valley, illuminated with brilliance.

"Behold! When..."

Raise your voice and give Yuki a serious look at me, and I'll laugh back.

"Heh heh, not me forever."

What should you do to increase your magic skill level?

As well as practicing the next level of magic, it is also important to increase the ability to manipulate magic and increase the amount of magic that can be released.

In other words, it can also be said that the level of magic is determined by the difficulty of magic manipulation and the amount of magic required when using that magic.

What you want to say is that if high level magic of one attribute can be used, low level magic of other attributes can be used relatively easily.

At least not at the elves.

Apart from humans and such.

Because you will need the corresponding magical qualities.

"That's why I barely practiced, but this is now available"

"Cheating! That's an elf!"

"Even so, Little Cure Light Cure is still subtle, right?

I think I can use it somehow, but I don't see [Light Magic Lv.1] in the status, so I guess it's not enough.

Of course, if you practice seriously, you'll be able to raise the level of light magic, but for now, I don't plan on doing that.

As a user of light magic, there are Hulka and Natsuki, and the first thing I should practice is space-time magic.

"Yuki in the first place. Because from other people, you're cheating. Because magic works in all four systems."

"Yeah, while I'm at it, I think I did well there. Plus, I used too many points, and if it wasn't for Natsuki, it would've sucked a little bit."

At first, he was barely skilled, except for [skill copy] and magical qualities.

If you were alone, wouldn't you have sucked, not kidding? Yuki.

"But even Mr. Elf like that, you can't use [dark magic], can you?

"Uh, I guess. I know there are times when there are no magic books, but I guess the other is because there is still no one close to me to use them. All the other magic, because someone else used it close to me."

Spacetime and fire could have been used originally, water, wind and light could have been used by Hulka, and soil could have been used by Yuki.

In contrast, darkness has never seen the magic of the system itself, so far, it will be impossible to remember.

"As a non-killing magic, it seems useful depending on how you use it."

"When it comes to interpersonal combat, it sounds good to have one, doesn't it? In a way, don't hesitate to use it."

"With enemy allies unknown, suddenly it's bad luck to punch in Fire Arrow."

If non-killing magic could have been used when fighting Kaji, who had become a vampire, it would have been smarter to deal with it, and it would have changed the way you deal with it if you were attacked by bandits, etc.

"" Isolation Fields "or" Stagnant Fields "can't be called non-killing restraint magic..."

"No, that's user-friendly, isn't it? And heavy consumption."

'Quarantine area' can isolate subjects by barriers, but only while the magic continues.

If you want to do it, the barriers are physically destroyable, and if you say so, magic to pull it off for safety.

I'm physically isolated, so I might be able to take the time to target acid deprivation, but it's a little far-fetched.

"Stagnant Realm" can extremely slow the passage of time in that realm, but the object of magic is not the person, but the realm.

If you put a subject into that area in an attempt to restrain them, that person will also be affected, so this can only be used to buy time again.

Well, we can use it in a way like that, stretching glue and rope around that area, capturing it at the same time as disarming it, if magic is activated successfully, too.

Without such powerful magic, unconditionally activated wax, and if you are resisted by the subjects included in that area, you can fail.