Chapter 64

There didn't seem to be anyone using magic around, but as long as I conserved the magic I could use in an emergency, it should be fine to use magic for digging the hole.

To finish the hole digging quickly, I decided to try deploying a pressure magic in the ground and activating it.

It was a basic magic, with a strength of about 0.5 magic power, which I had used against thieves.

As planned, the magic, deployed about 30 cm underground, made a "pfft" sound.

Then, a little later, the soil swelled up, but it didn't blow away.

Upon careful consideration, it was only natural; there was no way a mere instant of magic could blow away a clump of soil so easily.

The explosion magic I used to blow away the soil when removing the Zunana grass consumed enough magic power to blow away hard trees on a square kilometer scale.

Using that inefficient magic wouldn't improve efficiency much, and it would be dangerous.

Alright, I'll try developing a new magic for the first time in a while.

The root cause of the difficulty in handling the external interference magic I use might be that it converts magic power into pressure or an explosion.

If I just want to move things, I should use magic that way.

So, the magic I'll use will act like gravity or magnetism over the entire target area.

In other words, it will create a "field" that interferes with all objects inside.

The concept isn't that difficult.

While gravity fields are one thing, electromagnetic fields are something that even ordinary high school students on Earth know can be easily created by humans.

I used this magic on the area I had tried to lift with magic earlier and attempted to move it to the site where the second wall was to be built.

The targeted soil moved quickly to the target location as if it were sliding upwards.

When I moved it a little further and did the same thing again, the same phenomenon occurred.

Feeling confident, I gathered magic power for about 10 seconds and activated it, digging a hole with a depth of 4 meters and a radius of 5 meters, with a steep wall, and piling up a clump of soil of the same size next to the wall.

...It ended up being a large-scale earth-moving magic, like a heavy machine. Where did the distance limit go?

In other words, I myself am the heavy machine.

If this didn't work, I had considered using hydraulic pressure to crush the ground and moving it with an item box, but that turned out to be unnecessary.

"Hey, what happened here?"

An adventurer digging a hole a little away from me, who had clearly been digging for a longer time than the hole size suggested, called out to me while continuing to dig the nearby soil.

"I was told that digging the hole would take a long time, so I decided to use magic to shorten it. I just succeeded."

This magic... I might call it an "upside-down landslide" based on its appearance.

It might also be useful for stopping multiple targets... but it would be faster to just knock them down.

"Magic for digging soil? Don't do it, don't do it."

"Why not?"

Was there a previous failure?

"Magic power is a mage's lifeline. No matter how much you have, it's basic to conserve it for emergencies. It would be counterproductive to die for the sake of saving time."

Ah, you're worried about magic power.

For me, who can use magic power to the fullest without my MP moving from its maximum, it's an unnecessary worry.

The only thing that limits my magic use is the amount of magic power used per unit of time.

Even that has increased significantly compared to the past.

"It's fine. No matter how much I use, my magic power hardly decreases. It recovers faster."

"Hey, that's a bit much..."

"Otherwise, I wouldn't have continued flying at such a height for reconnaissance."

"Hmm... That's true, I guess. It still feels a bit off."

"There's nothing wrong with it. Anyway, can I use this magic as much as I want as long as I can cover the magic power? I'd be in trouble if you said 'just digging holes is not allowed' after I've made the area full of holes."

"Ah... If you're going to use it, at least get Artem's permission from that platform over there."

The adventurer pointed, and I saw an adventurer with a small bow standing on a platform about 3 meters high, piled with soil.

He seemed to be looking at me, and our eyes met.

I waved to get his permission and flew over using magic.

"Excuse me, can I use magic for digging? It will end up looking like that."

"Yeah, I saw you doing something. I've never seen magic like that before. Where did you learn it?"

"I didn't learn it. I just made it up a moment ago."

"Made... magic? What do you mean?"

"Well, I just use magic power and imagine it. Like this."

I spontaneously created and activated a magic I had just thought of.

A magic that makes a blurry light by floating water around a fire.

It had no real purpose.

"...I've never seen that magic before."

"I just made it. Is making magic rare?"

"Not just rare, I've never heard of anyone creating magic in modern times. But let's put that aside for now, we're in the middle of a battle. You can use magic, of course, but if an order is given, please join the attack, okay?"

"Understood. I'll do that."

The permission was easily granted.

Artem gave me instructions to open the area I was digging, and I started using the "upside-down landslide" magic continuously.

The adventurers assigned to the area I dug were using the roughly shaped hole created by magic to make it usable.

The work progressed much faster than planned, and when the trench and wall were about half complete, the next order came from Artem.

"Switch! Team A to defense, Team C to trench digging, Team B to rest!"

It seemed the shift change time had come.

In the long-term (planned) Broken conquest battle, it was impossible for everyone to work continuously.

Of course, sleep time was also secured... a 3-shift system (but the working hours were not 1/3 but 2/3, and of course, it was not possible to sleep soundly) that would make even a black company blush, but it wasn't that unreasonable.

Some say that "impossible" is a word used by liars, but it doesn't seem to be widely accepted.

The reason I was transporting debris was to increase the safety of the area as much as possible.

About half of the adventurers here were sleeping in groups of six between the first and second walls, while the other half were heading towards the wall I had created.

After Team A reached the wall, Team C moved to the trench, and the shift change was completed.

However, my job didn't change.

Although it wasn't necessary at the moment, my ability was special and irreplaceable, so I was treated as a team called "Maple Team."

My position was extremely flexible, as long as I could hear the instructions.

Unless it was a special situation, my sleep and meal times were also flexible.

I was told to make sure the defense magic I used while sleeping was weak enough for the adventurers to wake me up, but my defense wasn't that strong, and my senses weren't particularly dull.

I wonder what the mayor, who gave this instruction, thinks of me.

Anyway, I continued the work of expanding the trench.

The adventurers who received the instructions moved around busily, solidifying the trench and the wall.

When the work was about 80% complete, the sound of an explosion magic, which was to be used for bombing requests, reached my ears.

It seemed something had happened on the defense line.

According to the voices coming from the front, it was a large group of monsters.

I quickly increased my altitude and searched for the target.

I saw a group of black lizard-like monsters, about 4 meters long, rushing towards the wall from a distance of 50 to 100 meters.

I carefully determined the range to avoid hitting my allies and performed a bombing with magic.

It was inevitable that I couldn't hit the front of the group, so I left it to the other adventurers.

I didn't know what kind of monsters they were, but the magic's power was consistent.

With a loud explosion, the lizards were torn apart, and those that weren't torn apart were blown away and stopped moving.

I didn't individually identify each one, but it was clear that they would die if left alone.

After blowing away a group of about 200 monsters, I looked down and saw that the lizards I had missed—identified as Black Lizards, which matched their appearance—were almost all dead, with only three left.

An adventurer with a sword slashed at one of them and dodged its counterattack by jumping back.

Sure enough, a high-ranking adventurer, jumping back about 5 meters, a movement that would be impossible for humans on Earth.

He dodged the attack of another Black Lizard near his landing point without losing his balance and put some distance between them.

However, this adventurer, while skilled at dodging, seemed to have extremely bad luck.

At his landing point, a Black Lizard, in a desperate kick while losing its balance, hit him cleanly by chance.

The adventurer was hit in the back and waist and blown away about 10 meters.

Since he was blown away backward, there was no follow-up attack, but even for an adventurer with a strong body capable of jumping over 5 meters, this was not good.

At best, he might have broken some ribs, and at worst, it could be a fatal injury.

Thinking that a healing spell might help, I descended while watching the lizard that attacked the adventurer get beaten up.

I landed on the ground and tried to call out to the adventurer.

But something was wrong.

"...Alright."

The adventurer stood up as if nothing had happened and returned to his post.

In his hand was a container of the ugly-named medicine with the seal broken.

A mysterious recovery, something that only happens in games on Earth, was happening in reality as if it were normal.

The comrades who called out to the returning adventurer didn't seem to care much.

...It seems that the adventurers in this world adapted quickly, as this happened just two days after the medicine was developed.

In the end, nothing else happened except for me bombing a few times and the adventurers recovering super-fast a few times.

The wall and trench, sufficient to protect the carpenters and other adventurers, were completed.

The climax ended much more easily than expected.

With a magic that could blow away enemies over a wide area, a recovery potion that could instantly revive the dead, and a magic that resembled a heavy machine, it was a natural result.