Chapter 22 (2/2)

“Can I learn it too?”

“It’s a little difficult for humans, but it’s not impossible You have to listen carefully to the voices of the spirits that lurk a in nature Once you can hear their voices, you’ll naturally grasp how to make requests”

“Listen…… to the voices of the spirits?”

“There’s no other way to explain this Believe in the existence of spirits, hone your soul and just try listening to their voices earnestly Faeries are able to do it naturally from the moment they are born, but I suppose huet it after a few years have passed”

Oh It seems quite useful, I’ll try it next time

As expected, one ive up if they need to spend years on it, but with my powers of concentration, I could continue to try to listen to the spirits’ voices at night, when hest

After drinking the tea that Melby brewed for ain

“A-are you alright……?”

Melby asks, seely worried

“Yeah I’eneration would slon once it reaches half your height’s worth, and I want to see”

Snap, snap, snap……

I return to the never-ending work of chipping away at the barrier once more

I have accusto the chisel with the perfect ti and an exquisite moderation of power

It would be troublesos aside when they pile up atthe chisel endlessly

I wonder how much time has passed since then

“……ent, I said wait a moment!”

Melby says, cutting in front of me

“Woah! Don’t startle me”

“You shouldn’t be saying ‘don’t startledo you intend to do this for!”

“……Indeed, I’ve alht”

By the tihly 10 centimetres since I started

After looking on for a lows dimly and the shaved section recovers

…It appears to be almost a complete recovery, but……

“We’ve properly ht With this, it has decreased in thickness by one sliver”

“I see… So now it has finally been 1 set”

If the thickness of the crystal is 1 ress

If I repeat this work for a thousand times, this crystal will have been exhausted

Come to think of it, how much time has passed?

“……Are you really saying that? You’ve been doing this for half a day already!”

“Eh, seriously?”

The knocking, snapping rhythot the time

The knock-and-snap took 15 seconds and the standby tihly 3 seconds

According to my previous calculation, it would take 83 hours to strike the crystal ten thousand times

If I were to do this for 24 hours, I would be swing the chisel 28, 800 times

Nevertheless, this was just a theoretical value at best

Even for ing it 25 thousand times in a day was probably the limit

Time runs 10 times faster inside the faery hamlet, so if I spend a whole outside day on this work, I reckon I could shave the crystal 250 thousand times ― 25 millimetres = 25 centimetres

I would have to do this until I reached 1 metre, so if I maintained this for 40 outside days, I would be able to whittle down the crystal

This is quite the story of patience, but it doesn’t seem impossible to do it

For example, if I come to the faery hamlet once a month, it would take an estimated 40 months――3 years and 4 months to release the seal

“However, that’s thepart”

It’s hard to slip out of the house for a full day in the body of an infant

In addition, I wouldn’t be able to go very far away from the entrance of the faery hamlet in those 40 months

And yet I’ll be heading to the royal capital with my parents after this, so it would be too excessive to do then

It’ll still be difficult after we finish our business at the royal capital and return to our residence

It takes half a day to reach the village nearest to the faery hae, where the estate is, so I can’t slip out at ht and come here

Of course, there is also the option of explaining the situation topermission from them, but then I would have to mention my reincarnation

“……You’ll help……?”

Melby says anxiously

“Eh? Of course I intend to do so”

I felt like asking what she was going on about now, after such a long time, but she did say that the previous helpers had been driven mad, so Melby is sure to be uneasy

I smiled as tenderly as possible and said,

“――You wished for someone to help, didn’t you?”

“――!”

Melby remarked that it was fine not to help

However, Melby’s actions had betrayed her

If she didn’t want help, ould she leave a secret e?

Why did she encourage ht?

Why did she say to take a good look around the hamlet?

And―― why did she leave open the entrance of the stairs leading to this cavern?

I think Melby held some aspiration deep in her heart

That I would discover this place and say that I would save their “Master”

There was a sob

I tried to not look that way as much as possible

“……But I have some difficulties As you can see, I a I also have other things to do and can’t spend all y on this separation barrier”

If I could rescue this “Master” ― Alfecia, according to [Appraisal] ― there probably wouldn’t be anyone as reliable in the fight against the evil God

Or rather, she’s at the level where I could just leave the later matters entirely to her

But there’s the “Evil Warlock” who imprisoned this person inside the separation barrier, huh

If I ever meet him, I will have no choice but to flee with all my power

He’s a figure fro ago, but……

“――In that case, I’ll just follow you”

“Eh, Melby will?”

“I can also use [Dih it’s not at the saate to this hamlet no matter where you are”

I see In that case, I could use my free time to come here

“D-don’t beyou is all for Master’s sake, okay!”

“Yes, yes”

Making a wry smile at her attes that had piled into a heap on the ground

Each one was the size of a seously sharp edge; if one wasn’t careful, they could cut their finger

“I can use this”

I pinched it between er and threw it at the wall

The shaving easily pierced the wall

I think that [Shuriken Techniques] is probably showing effect, but I suppose this is considered part of the shuriken category

“Ah, so you can use that In that case, just take them with you because they’re also a trouble to throay”

As Melby was saying that carelessly, she stored the pile of shavings somewhere

“Just then, what did you do?”

“This? It’s a fore”

Inventory (Infinite Storage) has arrived!

“That, can I use it too?”

“I wonder… [Diht be possible if you practiced for tens of years perhaps”

Tens of years, huh

I believe I could condense that if I use [No Fatigue] well, but to learn it instantly may be unreasonable

“Now that that’s decided, let’s go”

――Like this, Melby ended up acco me

I didn’t think that Melby would show her figure outside, but it seems faeries can’t be seen by humans on the whole

Because ill be travelling together, I asked Melby to let me see her status in advance

Ta-da

《Melby (Born in Tetelutia Faery Hae》 | 《Miss Perseverance》 | 《Everybody’s Big Sister》)

?? (1119 years have passed since birth)

Faery

Level 44

HP 34/34

MP 997/997

Status: Faeries’ Oath (Cannot tell a lie intentionally Excluding desperate situations of self-defence, cannot cause harm to others However, those under the influence of the evil God are an exception)

Skills

• Legendary Class

[Telepathic Communication] 5

[Spirit Magic] 4

[Diic] 2

[Appraisal] 4

[Faery’s Eye] 4

[Diical Tool Creation] 2

• Master class

[Leadershi+p] 3

[Magical Tool Creation] 9 (MAX)

[space Magic] 9 (MAX)

[Faery’s Song] 4

[Mana Control] 9 (MAX)

• General

[Command] 9 (MAX)

[Tool Creation] 9 (MAX)

[Mana Manipulation] 9 (MAX)

[Mana Perception] 6

《Pioneer Elf’s Blessing》(Able to borrow a portion of the Pioneer Elf’s knowledge S up, srowth)》

Yeah Melby really is someone who perseveres

She handed it to me nonchalantly, but I can tell froh considerable hardshi+p to make that dimension chisel

Since it’s there, let’s use [Appraisal] on the dimension chisel too

《Diic tool An anti-separation barrier chisel produced by the faery Melby of Tetelutia after diligently studying for hundreds of years Increases the shaved depth of the separation barrier from 1 micrometre thickness to 1 millimetre thickness》

It wasn’t at the level of hardshi+p!

It’s the fruits of her blood, sweat, and tears!

I’ “so it only shaves 1 millimetre…” in my heart!