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"Phew. We did it, master Barca. We've finished digging to the point where the magic stone is supposed to be.

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"Good work, Mr. Lassen. Well then, please start picking them out right away.

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"...... What?　How do you mean, "pick?"

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"Yes?　Can't you just do a quick manipulation with your magic power and pick it up?"

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No, no, no, you can't. You can dig a deep hole if you have enough magic power, but it is very difficult to lift up a hole in the ground. It is difficult to extract a magic stone from the bottom of the earth with magic power, isn't it?

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　Lassen, who had his hands on the ground and kept the magic flowing.

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　I watched him for a while, but I got tired of watching him and walked around to keep an eye on my surroundings, when Lassen, who had finished his work, came up to me and spoke.

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　A few days had already passed since I arrived here.

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　At first he was searching under the ground, trying to figure out the best place to make a hole, but before long he was actually working on making a hole.

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　In the corner of the secret training site that Ian showed us, we saw a hole.

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　It seemed that they had dug quite deep.

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　He reported to me that he had dug to the point where there was a reaction to the magic stone as he had searched for, but he was unable to collect the important thing.

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　It was a surprise.

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　But it is not surprising when you think about it.

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　If it were water, it might have been able to be released to the surface like a fountain, but it would be impossible to create a fountain of spirit stones.

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　It seems that the magic stone itself can't be created by magic either.

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"It can't be helped. Then, I guess we have to go down the hole and get the spirit stone.

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That won't be possible.

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"Why, Mister Lassen?　Are the vertical holes too deep and dangerous?"

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"That's one thing. We dug the hole to the magic stone in the shortest time for the sake of efficiency. If you try to climb down the straight vertical hole, you will fall to your death.

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"Well, then, do you mean I should get a string or something?"

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"Do you have a cord that long?　The vertical hole is over 1,000 meters long, right?"

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　Huh?

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　A thousand meters?

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　I was just thinking how deep it is.

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　That's impossible.

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　We don't have a string that long, and probably can't find one anywhere.

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　Ian's sword would not extend that long either.

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"Besides, even if there were such a string, there would be a problem.

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"......What's the problem?"

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You can't breathe. This hole was made for the purpose of digging a hole to the magic stone. If people want to get there, they need to dig a hole so they can breathe.

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"Breathing, huh? Breathing. That is certainly important. I mean, can we dig a hole where we can breathe if we want to?

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"I've never dug a hole this deep before, but if we were to do it, we might be able to dig a hole on the side and make a breathing space while going underground little by little, and if we had a way to feed air into it, we might be able to do it."

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　Impossible, isn't it?

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　Even after listening to Lassen's story, it seemed unfeasible to me.

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　This means that even if we expand this vertical hole horizontally in the middle of the tunnel, there is a high possibility that we will not be able to go underground where the spirit stone is located.

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　A dead labyrinth is a definite possibility.

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　At least, to get a large amount of spirit stones, one would have to dig a hole that deep.

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　But it would take too much time and effort.

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　Moreover, we will never know that there are spirit stones there unless we have a power like Lassen's, so we will have to give up in the middle of the digging.

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　Maybe the Bryllian mage nation will not start mining again in earnest in the future.

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"Well, but Norn is useful in such a situation. I'm counting on you, Norn. I'll give you my magic bag, and you can go down to the bottom of the hole and pack as much as you can."

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"I'm a magic sword by nature. Oh, well. It's a little better than a flaming pit. I'm off.

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Sorry. Thank you.

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　It is now well known that the vertical hole dug by Lassen is not something that humans can dive into.

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　Therefore, we decided not to send humans to pick up the spirit stones.

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　Instead, we asked a being who does not need to breathe to do the digging.

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　A Norn in bright red armor.

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　He would not need to breathe at all.

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　But that would be a bit of a waste, wouldn't it?

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　We may not be able to make use of the vein of sacred stone that Lassen found.

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　It's a question of capacity.

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　My magic bag is an extraordinary thing that can hold more than it looks.

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　But that doesn't mean you can put in as much as you want.

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　It just means that it can hold a lot of things.

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　I have my equipment and food in that magic bag.

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　Even if Norn tried his best to fill up all the available space with spirit stones, there is a limit.

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　It would be a good thing if it could be enough for one warehouse.

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　Still, it would be enough if we could get it.

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　We had sent Norn off and were waiting on the ground.

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　Suddenly there was a vibration in the ground and we were attacked.

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