Chapter 61 (2/2)

「At that time, it’s only a walk with Veronica. I didn’t lose out anything」

「I guess so」

Veronica got convinced.

We walked, very slow paced, we went for a walk in the bottom of the sea.

Seaweed is drifting.

Fishes are swimming around.

I made the horse I summoned with magic kick the sharks that couldn’t read the air.

A lot of things happened, but even so, we continued our walk.

「Well then, it should be around here」

「Should we go separate ways and look for it」

「Is it alright?」

Veronica smiled, and removed her hand normally.

I got a little surprised. I thought that she wouldn’t want to do that.

And that, she smiledーーand removed her hand by herself.

……she’s a good woman.

We looked around.

We looked around for a while for the thing that we’re searching for.

「Lucio!」

In a place a little far, Veronica called me.

I ran to her, and Veronica let me see the stone that she picked up.

「Is it this?」

「Right, it’s this」

「This is……」

「That’s right, a gold ore」

The thing that Veronica showed me was gold.

It’s a gold ore.

「To think that it’s really on the bottom of the sea. I wonder if it was thrown away by somebody」

「No, it’s something that’s in here」

「Even though it’s in the bottom of the sea>」

「There’s a lot of resources sleeping on the bottom of the sea. Gas, of course, there’s also many kinds of ores」

「Was that so……」

「Veronica, can you take a little distance」

「Yes」

Veronica took distance as she was said. She knew what I was going to do within an instant, and took a distance.

I reached out my hand, and used magic.

「『Golden Pick』」

I summoned a giant golden colored pickaxe, and hit the bottom of the sea with it.

The earth that whirled up muddied the emerald green sea at once.

There’s no problem since there’s the effect of『Adaptation』, but to be sure, I asked Veronica.

「Veronica, are you alright?」

「Yes, I can’t see anything though」

She seems fine from how her voice sounds.

And waiting for a while, gradually, the sea got calm and returned to its beautiful emerald green color.

She returned without me noticing, Veronica was beside me.

「Wa〜……」

The earth got peeled off, and the deposit was revealed.

「This……is all of this gold ore?」

「From how it looks, that’s right. And also……」

I looked around.

「From how this goes, it looks like there’s still a lot more. And, it’s not only gold, it feels like there’s also silver, bronze, and others」

「Those too?」

「On top of that……」

「On top of that?」

「Since hands can’t be placed on it, the amount’s probably a lot more than ground mines」

「……it’s going to be touched for the first time in the world huh. A place that has yet to be placed a hand to」

「That’s right」

「It means that it’s something that can’t be done unless it’s Lucio huh」

I don’t know about that. 『Adaptation』magic exists from the past.

I just saw in television before「There’s not only methane hydrate on the ocean floor, but there’s also minerals」, so I placed an eye here.

Thinking of it carefully, the bottom of the sea is also「ground」, so it’s natural that there would be a deposit buried under.

It’s just its difficult mining in the bottom of the sea.

Being able to read『Adaptation』Grimoire and a person who’s able to notice that can do the same thing.

Well, it seems like right now, I’m probably the world’s first.

「For the meantime, should we start from gold that can be changed into money?」

「I will gather people for mining」

「No, that’s not needed, I have something in mind that can do something about it with magic」

I can mine it, and bring it out of the sea.

「Rather than that, I want you to do something about changing the ores into gold」

I can also do something about that, but the efficiency isn’t good.

「I understand, please leave it to me」

「Can you do that? Wasn’t real powers taken away from Veronica?」

「I can do something about it. Of course, a safe one that I will be able to return where Lucio is」

「I see」

I got relieved.

I used magic again, and dug the gold ores.

The gold ores that was mined in the bottom of the sea were quickly turned into gold bullion

A tremendous amount was hidden within the unspoiled deposit, and it was estimated that there would be a hundred ton with only gold bullion.

On how that money would be used, I don’t know.

I just gave Guernica「a.s.set that is more than a hundred tons of gold bullions」.

That’s all.

That is all about it.

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