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"Huh?　Could that have been ......?"

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　It was after more time had passed since a shed had been built behind the house that looked as if it had been piled up by amateurs with bricks.

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　One day, suddenly and without warning, I saw progress in my magic.

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　Since I was a child (and still am a child), I had been learning and using magic on my own.

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　Although I seem to use only earth magic in my lineage, I am getting more and more variations of it.

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　Unlike when I was just tending to the vegetable garden behind the house, nowadays I also help taking care of the fields where wheat and other crops are grown, which are subject to taxation.

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　I guess that our ancestors have been digging up the land desperately and have enlarged the fields over the generations.

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　However, the shape of the field has been greatly distorted by their efforts.

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　In a previous life, there would have been a mosaic of crooked fields that would have been extremely difficult for tractors and other machines to enter.

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　To be frank, they are not beautiful enough.

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　I think I am not a person who cares too much about details, but the shape of these fields was unacceptable.

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　So, I started to use magic to clear the field.

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　I tried to flatten the uneven ground as much as possible, and I cleared the paths and ruts that had formed in strange places.

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　I developed the magic to change the bumpy fields into cleared land with the stones and tree stumps that were getting in the way.

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　I was secretly proud of the fact that our field was the only one in the village that looked good.

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　In addition to such magic, I have often used magic to plow the fields and magic to strengthen all or only certain parts of my body.

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　And more recently, I have learned to make bricks.

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　But here, I have a little obsession again.

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　I think it is difficult to call it a magic to make a field or a magic to make bricks.

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　Even if I'm the only one who uses it, it bothers me.

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　But it's not like the magic for daily life that my parents use, where the magic is activated just by saying the name of the magic.

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　It would be meaningless to give it a name.

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　I also thought that it would be fine if I could use magic without chanting.

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　However, the idea of casting a spell and activating magic was a longing that remained in my mind.

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　So, even though I was a little embarrassed, I just kept on casting spells.

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　Every time I plowed a field, even though I didn't need to, I would say [soil improvement].

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　It was almost meaningless, and I had been chanting it out of habit.

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　But the moment I uttered the name of the spell I had been somehow chanting on this day, the spell was activated.

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　Until then, even though I had become accustomed to it, I had manipulated the magic inside my body to send it out of my body, and created a solid image in my mind before activating the magic.

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　But this time, the magic was activated at the moment he mumbled.

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"soil improvement" "soil improvement" "soil improvement" "soil improvement"

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　Just by invoking the magic name over and over again, the soil in the field changes on its own.

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　The soil is being transformed into nutrient-rich soil, just as I have been doing.

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"Well, finally, I've developed an original spell ......."

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　I remained for a while in a gut-pose, raising my hand into a clenched fist, looking at the field spread out in front of me.

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　Spell Creation.

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　This proved to be more effective than I had expected.

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　I no longer had to concentrate my mind to manipulate the magic, visualize the effects of the spell in my mind, and then cast it.

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　It sounds good to say that the conventional method is chantless magic, but it is simply tiring to strain your brain every time.

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　In this respect, it is very nice that the magic is activated at the moment you cast the spell.

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　The disadvantage is that the effect is now quantitative.

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　If you do not chant, you can activate the magic as it is in your mind's image, so you can freely change the area that can be cultivated by [Soil Improvement].

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　In this case, the magic power used depends on the area to be cultivated.

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　However, if the magic is invoked by casting a spell, the range of the effect will be the same every time.

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　Maybe this is because I used it to cultivate the hutka behind my house.

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　I guess it would be about 10 x 10 meters.

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　The amount of magic power consumed at the moment of casting a spell is also about the same each time.

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　I wonder how they were able to do this.

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　I think the trigger itself is that I was muttering every time I invoked the spell.

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　With that in mind, I started the experiment again.

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　I decided to mass-produce bricks, which I did not need because I had already built a building.

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　As it turned out, the experiment was a success.

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　Every time, I succeeded in producing bricks of the same size and mass just by casting a spell.

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　And the experiment revealed something.

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　Perhaps this is what is called Pavlov's dog.

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　If you make a whistle sound every time you feed a dog, the dog will salivate at the sound of the whistle.

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　When a living creature eats food, it salivates.

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　By repeatedly eating food after hearing the sound of the whistle, they are conditioned to salivate just by hearing the sound of the whistle.

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　It is said that the moment one sees a dried plum, saliva flows into one's mouth in the same way.

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　In other words, a spell is a conditioning key to invoke magic.

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　That's why the first time I tried to use magic, I mumbled some words like a spell, but the magic didn't work at all.

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　It must be that the order was wrong.

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　Thus I have acquired a new skill of spell chanting.

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　I should also be able to cast strengthening and grounding spells.

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　After that, the villagers thought I was a strange child who mumbled the same words all by himself.

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