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　Maybe we should build a hideout.

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　I was thinking about it as I was injecting the eggs with magic power.

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　I remembered the other day when I was being lectured by my mother.

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　Needless to say, I am still a child and under the protection of my parents.

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　Therefore, it is basically wrong to spend money without permission as my parents told me to do.

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　But there was a bigger problem.

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　That is because the customs in this area are very old-fashioned.

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　The father, the patriarch of the family, is in charge of the house, and all decisions are his.

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　This is no exception in the poor farming family where I was born.

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　The father's decisions are absolute, and the eldest son inherits them.

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　Mothers and children are, at worst, the property of the patriarch, the father, and are subordinate to him.

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　And I am not the eldest son in this family.

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　I cannot take over the house.

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　The second and younger sons of farmers have no choice but to work all their lives as the hands and feet of their father or older brothers, or to somehow become independent.

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　Of course, I'll end up like them.

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　The quickest way to make a living is to join the war as a soldier and take the credit.

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　Since I was going to be taken to the war anyway, someway by force, I started to save up money to get a good weapon.

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　However, when they had enough money, there was a possibility that the money would be confiscated, saying "This is my family's money".

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　Then, I thought it would be a good idea to start thinking about what to do after I become independent.

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Well, the sooner the better, as they say.

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　Thus, I immediately started to take action.

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　* * * *

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　The village where I was born is surrounded by a wooden fence.

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　Outside the fence was a forest.

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　There were no mountains, and the land was basically flat.

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　From my memory of my previous life, I had a strong impression that forests were located in the mountains, but it seems that this is not the case here.

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　It is said that this village was once cut down as a pioneer village.

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　Trees in the dense forest were cut down and cultivated to make fields.

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　It is said that the reign was stable at that time.

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　They succeeded in cutting down the trees and cultivating the fields with the help of a large number of people sent from other countries.

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　However, as times change, so do the circumstances.

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　Nowadays, wars are fought constantly, the area of the fields is smaller than before, and the village is barely able to maintain the status quo.

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　The village has to manage to keep its livelihood while preventing the forests from spreading.

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　However, it is said that the land outside of the village does not belong to anyone at present, and if it is cultivated, it will be recognized as the land of the one who has achieved it.

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　I went to the forest outside the village and looked around to see where I could cultivate the land.

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"For the time being, I think I'll build a hideout around here.

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　The land chosen was near a stream that runs through the forest.

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　We managed to get through the tall trees and grass and found a little open space.

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　This is where we will build our house.

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"Strengthening."

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　I mutter a spell to strengthen my entire body.

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　Even though my body is still a child, I can use magic to strengthen it to a certain degree.

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　Using this power, I wrap the rope around the surrounding trees.

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　I wrap the ropes around the trees around the place where the house is to be built, and then tie the ropes to the trees far away.

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　The ropes were placed in such a way that they pulled the trees with reinforced force.

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　Then he crouched down at the base of the tree and sent his magic power into the ground.

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　Trees grown in the forest have roots that go deep into the ground in many directions.

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　All the soil that the tree's roots extended through was transformed into soft and fluffy soil.

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　The tree, which had been firmly rooted to the earth, is now crushed from underfoot.

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　Slowly but surely, the tree began to lean against the rope that had been tied to pull it down.

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　Finally, the tree fell to the ground with a loud thud.

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　I pulled out the tree by its roots from the land where it was to be built.

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"Land clearing."

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　A space left empty in the forest after a tree has fallen.

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　The trees were put together at the edge and then another magic was used.

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　This is the same magic that was used to clear the field, and the name of the spell remains the same.

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　A 10-meter square area of land changes into a completely flat area all at once.

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　The soil is covered with fragments of roots and various weeds growing in the soil, as well as stones and rocks that are strewn about.

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　All of these things were turned into a flat ground.

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　I am amazed at how I have created a very useful magic.

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　And then, after changing the location several times, I have secured a spacious plot of land.

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"Now, what should we do from here?

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　So far, so good.

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　However, I am wondering what to do from here.

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　If it is a building, I have built a shed before.

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　It would be enough to build a shelter based on it.

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　However, it is not interesting to mass-produce bricks again.

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　No, it's not that interesting, but it's quite hard.

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　My bricks are beautiful rectangles, and I can build a solid building just by piling them up like building blocks.

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　However, it is very difficult to magically create a huge number of bricks and stack them into a building.

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　If possible, we would like to have a magic that can make a building appear with a single shot.

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　But I can't do anything bad, remembering the time I once fainted because I ran out of magic power.

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　Because we are not in the back of the house where my family lives, but in the forest outside the village.

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"I see. I don't even have to build a house. ......"

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　I thought about it for a while, and suddenly my mind cleared up.

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　Thinking back, the reason why I had failed in my previous attempt to build a storage room was simply because I had tried to build a storehouse all at once.

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　My hypothesis is that the amount of magic power used for magic is related to the volume of the object to be made.

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　In other words, if you try to build a building with a single magic, even the interior space is involved in the consumption of magic power.

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　Naturally, in the case of a house or a storeroom, the inside is hollow, and it would be a waste to consume magic power for that purpose.

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　Then, the story is simple.

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　Instead of building a building at once, why don't we build it wall by wall?

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　It is simple, but that alone should reduce the consumption of magic power.

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　I put my hands on the ground and close my eyes.

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　I take deep breaths and let the magic in my body build up.

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　As I do so, I visualize in my mind's eye the finished product.

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　The basic idea should be based on the bricks I have made so far.

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　I build them up in a regular pattern, and imagine them as a single wall.

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　Mortar should be placed between the bricks to hold them in place and prevent them from collapsing.

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　And the moment the image was completed, I let the magic power in my body flow into the soil of the ground, and activated the magic.

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　Thus, in a very short time, I succeeded in building a hideout in the forest.

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