“Is that…… mithril ore?”
“It’s beautiful.”
The brilliance of the ore is different from the surrounding walls so it is immediately recognizable even from a distance.
“Yes. I’m pretty sure it is Mithril ore.”
While being held by Fana, I reached out my hand and grabbed the mithril ore. I pulled a little harder and it popped right off.
“Eh? Is it that easy to take?”
“Yes. I’m different after all. This is true even with the power of a baby.”
“…..Don’t talk like you’re representing babies.”
However, the ore is only about the size of a baby’s fist at most. In other words, it is quite small.
“At this rate, it will take a long time to get the target amount. The monsters here are pretty strong so this is quite a difficult task……”
“Un. The remuneration amount is that much just because of that.”
Saying that, I stopped them as they tried to leave the area.
“Wait. Where are you going? We’ve already found the mithril ore.”
“Master?”
“What are you talking about? There’s nothing else here.”
The two of them tilt their heads in confusion.
“Don’t you know? It was said that if there is one mithril ore, you can think there are a hundred more.”
“Ah? What’s with that saying?”
“Are you talking about G?”
“No, that’s not it. Come here and take a look.”
I gathered magical power in my fist and vigorously punched the wall of the dungeon where the Mithril ore had been extracted earlier.
Boom!
Rumble…Crash…….
“You destroyed a dungeon wall again!”
Mixed in with the fragments of the crumbling dungeon, a few glittering things roll around at our feet. I picked up one of them and showed it to Fana and Anje.
“Mithril ore?”
“Yes, that’s right.”
“Does that mean they are inside the walls?”
“In fact, the main part of it are usually inside the wall. Only a small part of it is showing out. Come on, Oneechans can help too.”
I also urged them to help me with the mining.
“…..It’s hard.”
“Wait-, you can easily destroy something like this?!”
“The trick is to concentrate your magical power on one point as much as possible. Like this.”
Zugooooon!
rumble…….rumble…. crash.
“As expected of Master.”
“Kuuu…… Look at me! Haaaaaa!”
Dooon!
Clunk…….
“Hmm. You were able to scrape it a bit.”
“But that doesn’t mean I can’t break it at all!”
Then the three of us continued to destroy the wall. As a result, when we gathered them all, we obtained an amount of mithril ore that would be higher than my body.
“Haa-haa-…… That’s enough I think!”
“Un.”
They looked satisfied, but I looked at the mithril ore we had obtained and said,
“Well, we got it, but it doesn’t seem to be very pure. I think it’s purity is only about 40~50%. Given the magic concentration of this floor, it’s a given I guess.”
“Purity?”
“What do you mean?”
“It’s about how much mithril is in this ore. The purer it is, the better the quality.”
Of course, ore is usually not used as it is collected, but is smelted into metal, and then further refined to increase its purity. However, in the case of mithril, the process of refining it is very difficult, so the purity at the time of acquisition is very important.
“If you want a higher-quality Mithril, we have to go deeper, because the deeper we go in a dungeon like this, the higher the magic concentration, and the higher the magic concentration, the purer the Mithril is.”
“As expected of Master, you’re so knowledgeable.”
“But how far do we have to dive?”
“Hmmm……let’s see…, I don’t really know until we dive deeper, but maybe if we go over the 60th level, we’ll get more than 80% Mithril.”
““60th Floor!?””
Anje came rushing in.
“Even if we are A-rank adventurers, the recommended level is barely up to 40th floor! There is no way we can go that far!”
“Hmm, it’s certainly difficult with Oneechan’s ability now.”
“……That’s a very catchy way of saying it, isn’t it? Then are you saying that you can go there?”
“Yes, of course.”
Anyway, it’s better to create a weapon using the purest mithril possible.
Then I said,
“I’ve decided. I’ll go pick it up now.”
This is translated by Yume Neiji. Kindly read at yumeineijiworks.wordpress.com.
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