Chapter 10

Although I managed to successfully cultivate the magic mushrooms, only a very small amount was produced.

Even if magic mushrooms are valuable, it’s not as if a small number would bring in a huge profit.

Indeed, I need to increase the scale of production.

However, there is something that concerns me.

It is the storage location.

My family is a poor farming household, and we are already short on space for storing various items.

After all, I have been piling up the things I harvest from the fields to make sandals from the stems of Hatsuca.

I need a place to store the logs and the successfully cultivated magic mushrooms.

No, in this case, it would be more accurate to say that I need a building.

Therefore, I decided to improve the magic I have been using only for plowing the fields.

When plowing, I have successfully managed to turn hard soil into soft, nutrient-rich soil.

During this process, I can also level the ground and create ridges to make it easier for crops to grow.

If that is possible, then it should not be impossible to create a building by changing the shape of the soil.

Based on this hypothesis, I decided to challenge myself to create construction magic.

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Challenging a new magic, but it has been several years since I learned my first magic.

During this time, I have not been idle.

However, due to the limited amount of magic power, I had not grown to the point where I could build a building.

But I often feel my growth, as I can now plow a wider area at once when working the fields.

It is not an unreasonable challenge.

With that in mind, I once again thought about the principles of magic in my head.

The first thing that came to mind is that creating something from nothing is difficult.

For example, let’s imagine a common earth magic in games where you create a stone pebble from your palm and throw it as an attack.

You extend your hand into the empty air and push out your palm.

You gather magic power from your entire body into your palm, generate a stone pebble, and throw it at a target with enough speed to cause damage.

By vividly imagining these steps and consuming magic power, it is not impossible to actually achieve this.

However, it is very inefficient.

Personally, I feel that creating a stone pebble from nothing is quite inefficient.

After all, when plowing the fields, I can easily plow an area of several square meters with a single spell without any problem.

From this, it is clear that using existing materials is much more efficient in terms of magic power consumption.

However, for some reason, I can only use magic effectively with soil.

I cannot successfully use water or light.

Will I be able to do it someday?

Another concern is that while my earth magic can easily change soil and stones, it cannot change metals at all.

If I could create and sell metals from the soil, that would be great, but it is impossible.

In other words, I cannot create a building made of metal using magic.

Considering these points, it might be best to challenge the construction of a storehouse.

During the Edo period, storehouses were less likely to catch fire, and I have seen them a few times, so they are easy to imagine.

I firmly visualized the storehouse in my mind, took deep breaths to refine my magic power, and sent the magic power into the ground, just as I do when plowing the fields.

...Thud.

At that moment, as I tried to activate the magic, I collapsed onto the ground, losing consciousness.

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It might be called acute magic power deficiency.

My mother found me unconscious behind the house several hours after I started experimenting with the magic.

That night, I managed to get up, but my head was so painful that I could not stand and had to lie down.

The symptoms lasted until the next day.

By the day after that, I could move, but I decided to rest a bit more for safety.

I think I suddenly lost consciousness because my magic power was completely drained.

The strengthening magic I often use for physical labor works by sending refined magic power throughout my body.

This means that magic power is involved in the movement of the body, and I probably lost consciousness because it suddenly disappeared.

Although it was a failure, I decided to consider it a meaningful failure.

I learned that the sudden loss of magic power does not stop life functions.

Thinking about the worst-case scenario, I could have died, which is quite frightening.

Now, why did my magic power disappear so suddenly?

I think the cause is probably related to the area and volume.

For example, if I plow a field that is 10 meters long and 10 meters wide, let’s say the amount of magic power used is 100.

Then, if I build a building of the same 10x10 size, but 10 meters high, the volume would be 10x10x10, which is 1000.

I think the magic power used to build a building is not based on the amount of soil used or the total surface area of the walls, but on the volume of space the building occupies.

When I came back to the back of the house a few days later, the ground was still dug up from the failed magic, but the amount of soil did not seem enough to completely drain my magic power.

With this in mind, I decided to shift my focus from building construction magic to creating building materials.

The method was to turn the soil into bricks and stack them manually later.

That day, I successfully created the brick magic and began making bricks diligently.

However, the idea of building construction magic is still very appealing, and I vowed to continue challenging it in the future.

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