Vorpal Rabbit and Fortress Uncle

The ice that Astra struggled to scratch had somehow returned to its original rough surface.

Looking firmly behind the frozen ice walls of the white trees after snow has accumulated again.

"Seonoo!

Shake down the scissors with both hands with a voice.

With the high sound of armor, the incision slightly penetrates into the ice wall, clouding the surroundings white.

"What do you think? Do you have a response?

"Honestly, I don't know."

Luna, who was watching from behind, called out and I twisted my neck and answered.

Two ways Luna suggested.

One of them was the excavation of ice masses using this Mine skill.

Wow, I thought it was a good idea.

As a result, the proponent's girl drops her shoulders and swells her cheeks.

As a precaution, I repeatedly shake the scissors and hit the ice wall several times, but it is difficult to say that it has been crushed smoothly.

Mummu, I don't think so.

"But it's much more efficient than a normal combat skill attack."

Astra says as she sees the wounds gradually healing.

I'm sure he's right.

"At this rate, how long will it take....."

I also nod to Tart's concern.

It was unrealistic to dig up a simple size of troublesome ice cubes with a small bee, even though it was resilient.

"Not if there were at least three specialist miners."

A miner is a player who specializes in mining Ore with a focus on mining skills.

Metals and their minerals are in constant demand for weapons, armor, accessories and building materials, and are a steady way to earn money that can only be sold.

That's why there are many players who specialize in it.

The Knights of the Eagles also have a mining team or a procurement department tasked with collecting items in general.

"Seriously? Large band of boulders....."

"We distribute armor with silver-wing crests as standard equipment, especially to members of the regiment. I make them myself."

"Certainly the Knights are marked somewhere in their body, so it's easy to understand."

Luna points to Astra's cloak and says.

His blue cloak was embroidered with a large winged eagle crest.

"But hateful, now all teams are busy, right? They collect rare minerals."

"Well, I guess I can't help it. Let's try the next one."

I decided to give up the ice drilling operation cleanly, and I went to the inventory.

If it goes on any longer, the situation will not go any further just because it will break.

Luna seemed to know that, and she didn't say anything in particular.

"So, what's your next move?

Astra asked, and Luna suddenly burst out disappointed.

"Let's call it" Operation Pompous Together "!

"Together."

"Pokémon"

"A grand operation...?

Luna pokes her index finger at us with her mouth wide open.

"If you want to melt the ice, it's still flame. You can liquefy it with heat!

"Yes, it is. But my art was a fire attribute....."

"I know. So I made a hypothesis."

Without cowardice to Tart's allegations, Luna explains lightly as if she had been waiting.

"Arts flames are not strictly flames. I can feel the heat, but that's the catalyst, the influence of the nanomachine vibrating with tremendous momentum, and it hardly changes outside of the nanomachine range."

Um, speaking of which, it's not cold for Lacto's art to grab his cheeks.

"Lacto-san was an ice attribute, wasn't he? Well, there's no fundamental difference in heat because it's due to the size of the vibration."

Furthermore, Luna continued.

"It's simply that Arts is not counted as a combat skill. Pickel was slightly deeply scratched, just as our attack was supposed to be more powerful than that."

"So you're adding heat to the ice and melting it with a non-combat skill?

She nodded deeply in Astra's summary.

"What do you think? Perfect operation!?

"That's right. Well, if I can't find a way to 'heat the ice with non-combat skills', I think it would be a perfect operation."

The tart says something spicy.

Perhaps the tone is polite but a little poisonous...?

"Fufufufu. That's sweet, Tart, literally as sweet as a tart!

Ehehe. I love sweetness!

"That's not true! That's where you come in, Reggie!

"Yes, yes."

Named Subi, he raised his hand honestly.

"Reggie, did you have the skill to set the camp on fire?

"Just like that," fire installation. "That's what set the fireplace on fire in the shed, by the way."

"Yes! So melt the ice!

I can do this! Luna fills her chest with confidence.

There seems to be a perfect theory in her brain.

"Well, there's plenty of room for solid fuels, so why don't we just do it?

"Please!

Luna pushed her back and stood in front of the ice wall again.

I took out the set of fire that I always use.

I was using a portable stove before because I didn't have enough space to cook, and I'm updating it to something bigger than that.

Well, here we go. Fire installation

Fires up from the solid fuel placed under the stove with the activation of the technique.

At first, the small fire gradually burned and became flames.

"Oh, it's warm...."

Haa, that's nice.

Astra gathers around the fire to warm up her cold body surrounded by snow.

No matter how much cold clothing or hot ampoules we take care of, the cold ones are cold.

"Well, what do you think?

"Hmm... Oops?"

I stared at the wall lit by the orange of the flame.

A few minutes later, the surface suddenly got wet.

"Well done, Luna. Bingo!"

"Shh! Come on, I told you! I was right!!

When Luna jumps in a guzzle pose and touches the surface of the ice, the brittle part falls sharply.

It is a few centimeters, but it is a few centimeters that even Astra's attacks hindered.

"Mr. Reggie, isn't this something you can do?

I see. Let's try it. "

Follow Tart's advice to set up the groove again.

When you shake your head and hit the corners, it sticks deep with the feeling of putting a spoon in the shaved ice.

"You did it! I saw the light."

Astra also boosts her emotions with the fast forward attack.

The more interesting it is, the more ice is removed when you tap the flame-lit wall surface.

With this, we may indeed be able to reach the white tree.

But...

"Ahh!?

Suddenly, the feeling transmitted from the tip of the scissors returns to its original state.

He held his tingling and numb hand, as if he had hit steel, and fell from the depressed wall inside.

"Kuh, it hurts."

"What's wrong?

"Looks like the fire's too far. The hardness is the same as before."

Well then, let's put the fire in the back.

"That's right....."

In contrast to the optimistic Luna, I can cloud my expression.

When she realizes this, she looks at her suspicious face and asks why.

"If we remove the fire, all the solid fuel we've consumed along the way will disappear. That way, considering the state of the drilling... it's not likely to reach the white trees."

I don't know.

The margin for solid fuels does not change being finite.

Although the excavation using Tsuruhashi was as different as the attack by Astra, it is still far from the target white tree.

"Should I go back and get supplies?

"Ugh, that's why I'm here!"

While I was saying that, the ice that I was digging for was gradually being restored.

It will be back in a few minutes.

"... okay"

"Hey, Reggie!? What are you doing!?

When I cleared the fire, I put my hands on the cliffs standing on both sides of the ice.

"Climb up a bit. Wait for the three of you."

Pull your body up with your fingertips.

Climbing skills make it painful but not climbing cliffs.

"Mmm! I don't care if they tell me to wait!

"That's right. I wouldn't do it even if I was down there."

"Luna, tart...."

"Ho, ho. You can't climb without your skills."

"No, that's weird."

The three of them climb the cliff shoulder to shoulder with me.

With the exception of about one person, Luna and Tart also seem to have some [climbing] skills, so climbing the cliff seems to be fine.

"Ha, huh. Hah, that's it...."

After climbing a rather high cliff, though less than 10 meters, we managed to reach the ice mass.

Snow is piling up, but the top of the ice seems almost flat.

"So, what do you do?

"Well, we do the same thing."

Assemble the iron frame and fuel the ashtray.

"Fire Installation"

Solid fuel ignites and illuminates the surroundings red.

Of course, it's also on the ice beneath the stove legs.

"Oops!? I see, is that so?"

The first thing I noticed was Astra.

He explains it to two decent girls.

"The ice melts in the heat of the fire, right? Then the stove is lowered according to gravity. In other words, the distance between ice and fire doesn't change."

"Well, I see!

Oh yeah. I'm smart..... "

Meanwhile, the ice melts smoothly.

If you sharpen around it with a scissor, the pace will be even faster.

"Ahh!

"Whoa!? What happened suddenly?"

Astra suddenly raised her voice as she watched the shaking flame.

Turning in surprise, he says he noticed something and sends a telephone call somewhere.

A few minutes later, the first solid fuel was about to run out.

"Hello!

I heard a familiar voice under the ice.

Looking down to the edge, dozens of men and women in matching coats solidified there, and a red-haired blonde girl in light armor stood at the head.

"Eye!? Why are you here....."

The deputy commander of the Knights of the Eagles, a hard-working middle-management girl, looks up at us with a glorious look on her hips.

"I remembered that a mixed unit of Eye's First Battle Group and First Survey Group was just exploring the depths of the spiritual peak. So, we had a couple of Reggie apprentices in their unit with skills."

After that, you didn't see a group of worshippers surrounding several fires on the ice cubes that settle.