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　Even though they have succeeded in cultivating magic mushrooms, they are now only able to produce a very small amount.

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　Even if the magic mushrooms are valuable, it is not enough to make a fortune with a small number of them.

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　We will have to expand our business a little more.

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　However, there is something that concerns me.

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　It is about the storage space.

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　We are a poor farmer, and we are already running out of space to store all kinds of things.

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　I have recently been piling up the harvest from the fields to make sandals out of the stalks of the hutuaca plant.

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　I need a place to keep the logs and the magic mushrooms that I have successfully cultivated.

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　Or, in this case, a building rather than a place.

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　So I decided to improve the magic that I have been using only for plowing the fields.

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　When plowing the fields, I have succeeded in transforming the hard soil into soft, fluffy, nutrient-rich soil.

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　In doing so, he has also been able to raise the soil so that it is basically leveled and ridged to make it easier for crops to grow.

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　If this is the case, then it should not be impossible to create buildings by changing the shape of the soil.

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　Based on this hypothesis, we decided to try our hand at magic for architecture.

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　* * * *

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　It has already been several years since I mastered my first magic, though I have tried new magic.

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　It does not mean that I did not try anything during that time.

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　It is just that I did not have that much magic power, and I had not developed to the point of building a building.

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　However, when I plow a field, I often feel that I have grown, such as being able to plow a larger area at once than before.

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　It is not a reckless challenge.

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　Then, I have been thinking once again about the laws of magic that are vaguely in my mind.

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　The first thing that comes to mind is that it is hard to create something out of nothing.

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　Let's imagine, for example, the kind of earth magic that is often seen in video games, in which you can make a stone fly out of the palm of your hand.

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　You reach out your hand into the empty air and stick your palm out.

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　Then, you gather the magic power you have kneaded from your whole body into the palm of your hand, create a stone pellet, and send it flying with enough speed to inflict damage when it hits the target.

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　It is not impossible to actually achieve this by vividly visualizing these processes in your mind and consuming magic power.

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　It is not impossible, but the fuel consumption is much lower than expected.

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　My personal feeling is that it is quite inefficient to create stone gravels out of nothing.

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　In any case, if you just want to plow a field, it is no problem at all to invoke magic to plow an area of several meters square at a time.

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　From this, we can understand that it is much cheaper to consume magic power by using something that already exists.

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　But for some reason, I can't use magic except for earth.

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　I try to use water or light, but I can't succeed.

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　Will I be able to do it someday?

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　Another thing that I am concerned about is that my earth magic can change earth and stones relatively easily, but not metallic substances at all.

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　It would have been nice if I could create and sell metals from the earth, but that is impossible.

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　In other words, it is not possible to make a building made by magic and harden it with metal.

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　Considering all these factors, perhaps a storehouse would be a good place to challenge.

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　In the Edo period (1603-1867), when there were many fires, the inside of a storehouse was not easily burned, and I have seen such a storehouse several times, so it would be easy for me to imagine it.

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　I imagine the storehouse firmly in my mind, and take deep breaths to develop the magic power.

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　Then I put my hands on the ground and send the magic power into the soil, just like when I plow a field.

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　...... thud.

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　Then, just as I was about to activate the magic, I fell to the ground as if I had fainted.

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　Acute magic deficiency, you might call it.

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　My mother found me passed out at the back of the house several hours after I had tried to test the magic.

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　That night, I managed to get up, but my head hurt so badly that I could not stand up and I had to go to bed.

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　The symptoms remained until the next day.

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　The next day I was able to move again, but I rested a little longer just to be sure.

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　The sudden loss of consciousness was probably due to the loss of all my magic power.

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　The strengthening magic that I often use for heavy work is realized by sending a concoction of magic power to my whole body.

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　That is to say, the magic power is involved in the movement of the body, and it may be that I lost consciousness this time because of the sudden loss of the magic power.

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　As a result, it was a failure, but I decided to consider it as a meaningful failure.

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　I could know that there is no such a thing as stopping the life activity at the moment of losing the magic power.

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　In the worst case scenario, I would have died.

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　Now, why did it lose its magical power so suddenly?

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　I think the cause is probably something like the relationship between area and capacity.

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　For example, let's say that the soil on the ground is plowed into a field of 10m in length and 10m in width.

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　The amount of magic used for this is simply 100.

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　What would happen if a building of the same size of 10 x 10 was constructed?

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　If the height of the building is 10 meters, then 10 x 10 x 10 It would be 1,000.

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　I thought maybe the amount of magic used in building a building would not be consumed by the amount of soil to be used or the total area of the walls of the building to be erected, but by the capacity of the building to occupy the space.

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　When I came to the back of the house for the first time in a few days, there was a gouge of soil left behind from the recent magical failure, but the amount of soil did not seem to be enough to drain my magic power.

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　So I decided to change my magic from building magic to building material magic.

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　The way to do this was to turn the soil into bricks, which I would later pile up by myself.

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　Later that day, the magic of bricks succeeded and I was busy making bricks.

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　But I can't give up on the magic of building because I have so many dreams.

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　I vowed in my heart to keep on trying.

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