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"This is it. This is where they keep the tusks of the big boar."

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　Mr. Gran, a traveler who came to the village.

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　He told me that the boar I had killed could be used as material for weapons.

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　So, I immediately led him to the warehouse where the tusks were kept.

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"Excuse me. Let's take a look, that we may.

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　After saying this, Mr. Gran followed me into the warehouse and went to the fangs he wanted.

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　After saying a few words, he gently reached for the tusk on the shelf.

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　He handled it gently as if it were a valuable antique.

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　It was like an appraiser I had seen in a previous life.

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"It's wonderful. It is indeed the fang of a magical creature, that it is. And it seems to have been seized while it was working its magic. I can feel the residue of magic power, that I can.

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"Residue of magic?　What good does that do?"

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"Yes, that it is, Mister Ars. If possible, when hunting animals that use magic, it is better to kill them while they are using their magic, that it is easier to make a good material. The magic power will flow through it differently when it is made into a weapon, that it will."

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"Then, the tusks of the big boar there can be made into strong weapons, right?"

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That is correct, that it is. But it is not always possible to fulfill the wishes of Lord Ars, that it is not. ......"

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"What?　Why not?　You mean you won't make me a weapon?"

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"I'm not saying that to be mean, that I'm not. To make weapons from magical creatures, you need the right equipment and catalysts, that you do. We don't have them in this village, that we can't make it, that we can't."

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"Equipment and catalysts?　What does it take?"

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Yes, that's right. We need a furnace that can manipulate high heat and a catalyst that can be used as a magical nucleus for magical creatures, that we need.

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I know what a furnace is, but what is a magic nucleus?

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The magical core is a body part that is necessary for magical creatures to use magic. Which parts are necessary for each creature is different, that it is impossible to explain in a word, that it is not. However, they are all rare and hard to obtain, that they are.

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　I wonder if that is the body part needed to use magic.

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　When I heard Gran-san's story, I immediately had an idea.

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　The horns of my Valkyries.

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　Valkyries are able to use magic, and cutting off their horns would make it impossible for them to use magic.

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　I'm not sure if they are magical creatures or not, but I'm pretty sure that they have at least some of the same characteristics as a magical nucleus.

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　I quickly ran around the warehouse and picked up the horn of the messenger beast that was piled up in one of the corners of the warehouse and showed it to Mr. Gran.

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"Couldn't this be a substitute for the magic nucleus?　If so, the only other problem would be the high-temperature furnace. ......"

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"I'll have a look at ......, that I will."

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　Mr. Gran looked surprised when he saw the horns of the messenger beast I handed him.

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　He immediately returned his expression to normal, and began to observe the horns of the beast as if he were devouring them.

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　He looked at the surface of the horns for a while, then he put his hand on the horns and touched every corner of the horns, looking at them until there was a hole in them.

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"I can only say that perhaps, that I think it can be used as a catalyst as a magic nucleus, that it can be used as a catalyst.

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"I knew it. That's what I thought, too.

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Could it be that the messenger beasts in this land have these horns?

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Yes, that's right. How did you know?

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"I have heard such stories, that I have. Some of the servants of the beast are able to use magic, and some of them procure magic nuclei stably by extracting magic nuclei from them. I never expected to see such a scene in this village, that I have not."

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"Wait a minute. Some of these beasts can use magic?

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Yes, that it is. You didn't know that, that you didn't know?　Magic-type messenger beasts are treated as a super-premium commodity, that they are."

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　Seriously.

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　I wonder if the peddler didn't know.

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　Doesn't that mean that the current price is too low?

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　We need to renegotiate the price.

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　If they intentionally hid the information from us, we might want to reconsider our future relationship with the old peddler.

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"Thank you for your help. I had no idea. That's good to know."

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Is that so? I am glad that I could be of help to Mr. Ars, that I am.

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"So, all we need is a furnace that can produce high temperatures, right?"

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"Strictly speaking, we need other materials and tools, but a furnace is a must, that it is. You don't mean to say that there is such a furnace in this village, that there is?

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"No, I don't. No, we don't. But I'll try to make one.

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　I don't know what kind of temperature you mean by "high temperature.

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　However, the bricks I will make are not the type of bricks made by simply hardening clay, but heat-resistant bricks that can withstand higher temperatures than usual.

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　That is what I assumed when I first magically made the bricks.

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　We do not know at what temperature it is actually effective in resisting heat.

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　But let's make a furnace out of these bricks.

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　With the chance to acquire a weapon in front of my eyes, my motivation was soaring through the roof.

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