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"Well, while Gran is gone, I'll give it a try myself."

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　I've been working with Gran for days and days, and I've had enough of this, but there was one thing I wanted to try.

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　It was an idea that came to me when I saw the hard-tusk sword Gran had made.

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　A hard-tusk sword is a straight sword made from the tusks of a big boar.

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　Even in its tusk state, combined with the destructive power of the boar's thrust, it is hard enough to pierce a human without any problems.

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　It has the characteristic of becoming harder by changing it into the form of a sword and pouring more magic power into it.

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　However, it is a mysterious substance that is quite hard even without magic power.

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　To be honest, I am not sure how it works.

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　However, what is certain is that the special effect of [hardening] is produced by the material of boar tusks and the catalyst effect of Valkyrie's horn.

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　If this is the case, is it not possible to produce this effect on other things?

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　After Gran left the building, I went to the furnace alone to test this idea.

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　I have the materials in my hands.

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　My idea was very simple.

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　It was to see if I could make the bricks I was producing harder.

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　I get to the furnace and lay out the materials.

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　The heat-resistant bricks I had made with my magic.

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　Magical clay.

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　Boar tusks.

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　Valkyrie horns.

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　A potion to restore magic.

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　At first, I smash the heat-resistant bricks with the hammer I use at the forge.

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　I've heard of this in a previous life.

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　In order to make heat-resistant bricks from clay, there must have been a way to make them by crushing heat-resistant bricks and mixing them with clay.

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　It is very difficult to make heat-resistant bricks from ordinary clay, but if there is a material called heat-resistant bricks, it is easy to make them by mixing it with clay.

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　With this as a reference, I am trying to make my own bricks by mixing finely crushed bricks into clay and baking them in a furnace.

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　But, of course, I don't want to make bricks that can be made by magic by actually baking them.

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　Here I mix other things to make my idea come true.

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　I mixed the crushed tusks and horns into the clay along with the crushed bricks, and mixed the clay with the liquid restorative.

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　For the time being, he divided the quantity of each material into about 10 patterns and mixed them up.

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　The clay was then molded and baked in a furnace.

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　The process was repeated many times.

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　Almost all of the baked pieces were failures that crumbled and fell apart when touched.

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　This may have been partly because he was not used to the brick-making process itself.

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　However, he gradually became more and more familiar with the process of making bricks, and he fired the clay while adjusting the mixing pattern more and more.

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　Finally, after baking countless bricks, the desired object was completed.

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　* * * *

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"It's all sticky!"

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　The bricks I made turned out to be terribly hard.

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　The color of the bricks was different from the reddish-brown bricks I had made with magic before, probably because I had mixed tusks and horns.

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　The base color is a little whitish or milky white, but it is not all white, and there is a black pattern spreading across it.

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　The surface is so smooth that it is hard to believe that it is a brick.

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　It looks more like marble than brick.

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　This new brick is called a hardened brick for now.

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　I hit this hardened brick with a hammer that I have raised countless times in the course of my work.

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　Knock.

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　Such a sound was generated by the impact of the hammer and the brick.

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　If it had been a brick up to now, it would have shattered without a doubt.

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　However, the hardened brick had not even the slightest scratch on its surface after being hit by the hammer.

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"That's amazing. ......"

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　I never expected that with just the right materials and catalysts, something like this could be created.

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　Even with the technology of my previous life, I don't think I could have made such a brick.

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　My heart was filled with a great sense of fulfillment after developing such an amazing thing.

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　I think I can understand a little now why Gran is so absorbed in making things.

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　But this was not the end of what I wanted to do.

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　Developing hardened bricks was just the first step.

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　What I want to do is not the development of hardened bricks itself, but the creation of hardened bricks by magic.

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　I think magic is an amazing thing.

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　I think what is the most amazing is that it works completely without any scientific knowledge that I know.

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　It is possible to make bricks out of clay, but it is also possible to make glass and white porcelain out of the same materials.

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　However, it is impossible to make metallic materials that are harder than soil, stone, or rock.

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　But what about this hardened brick?

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　With my magic, can't I make bricks that are harder than normal bricks, as hard as metal?

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　I have always thought so.

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　But no matter how hard I imagine hard bricks in my mind, I can't make them any harder than before with my magic.

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　Perhaps, my knowledge and common sense were getting in the way of my imagination, saying "such a thing cannot exist".

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　That's why I wanted to actually create it.

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　Bricks as hard as metal in this world.

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　I lift the hardened brick with both hands and send magic power from my body.

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　What I'm going to do is the same thing I've done before.

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　I wrap the actual hardened brick with the magic I have concocted, and immerse it in the inner structure with a determination not to lose even a microscopic amount of its internal structure.

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　After taking my time and letting the magic soak into the brick until I was satisfied, I cast the spell of [Memory Preservation].

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　Then, with the hardened bricks memorized, he chanted [Generate hardened bricks].

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　The experiment was a success.

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　Instead of the reddish-brown bricks that had been created by the previous spell, bricks that looked like marble and were extremely hard appeared in front of his eyes when he activated the magic.

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