CH 58

"...Hikaru, how long are you planning to keep digging?"

"I'm sorry. I got carried away. Forgive me."

Alma looked bored as she stared at me.

I couldn't bear her gaze and profusely apologized. How'd it get to this.

No, I mean you know. I got too much into this digging magic ore business despite the fact that I should be focusing on our task of magic beast culling.

Well, thanks to this venture, we now have ten fist-sized rank C magic ore and even three baseball-sized rank B ones at least.

The rank B ones apparently fetch for 8000 en each, so this result alone is enough to cover for a few inn days. Yet I get that I was getting carried away.

By the way, I smoothly dug out these buried ore with a mana drill I made using mana control. I wouldn't have gotten these rank B ore if not for this technique.

...I can see many usages of mana control outside of combat...

We went to where I detected life forms as we delved deeper inside the cave and came across magic beasts.

They're crawling on the ground, don't seem to be slugs.

Magic Beast: Pepur Slime

Lv14

State: Normal

[Attributes]

HP: 270/270

MP: 210/216

SP: 118/141