v1c16 - To get the Iron, the investigation of the underground cave begins!
“Good morning, Mister!”
“Good morning, Nina. It’s still early but you’re so energetic.”
“Of course! I’ve been treated like a slave, and I was sleeping alone and lonely in a place like a cellar, you know. It had been a long time since I slept with someone’s warmth.”
Yesterday, after the catastrophe in the shower, we were just about to eat and go to bed when Nina said she didn’t want to sleep alone.
I suggested that she sleep on the same blanket as Lydia since we had two blankets, but Lydia adamantly refused.
I tried to persuade her to sleep in the same blanket as Nina, but she refused. Well, I could understand her feelings since the shower had been a disaster, but it’s not like she’s using magic ……
“Good morning, Mr. Alex.”
“Good morning, Lydia.”
I woke up with Lydia hugging my right side …… or rather my right arm.
By the way, Nina was sleeping on my left side, but she was sleeping covered over my body, whether for warmth or because she was a bad sleeper to begin with.
…… Even though we have two blankets now, what reason do you think I had Tabitha send it over ……
“Huh? I know Nina doesn’t sleep well, but Lydia slept well today. Normally, we sleep on our backs, but we always stay on opposite sides, and end up hugging ……”
“Ahem …… Mr. Alex. What would you like for breakfast today? I’ll bake some bread for starters, so can you please go pick your favorite vegetables.”
“Wow! You pick your favorite vegetables from the field and cook them on the spot!? It’s so fresh and absolutely delicious!”
Nina’s face lit up with happiness and she said, “Let’s go, Mister!” And then he takes my hand and tries to leave the hut.
Feeling somewhat dismayed about the bad sleeping habit thing, I picked up some cabbage and tomatoes soaked with morning dew and finished a delicious breakfast.
“Well …… let’s get going.”
“This is so exciting!”
Today, after putting the wall expansion aside for the day and watering the crops, we decided to go investigate the underground cave Nina found yesterday.
According to Nina, there is iron a little lower down in that cave.
“I’m a little nervous, so …… Mr. Alex, please protect me.”
“I’ll take care of it. I’ll protect both Lydia and Nina, I promise.”
“Yes! Please!”
Saying this, Lydia hugged me from behind.
No, you didn’t use your spirit magic yet, though.
“For now, let’s do a light investigation. Let’s see how big the place is and if there are any monsters.”
“Yes. I have spirit magic, but the power of the spirit of the tree that produces plants is not very effective unless it is in the sun. So, if you are going to go in earnest, we will need to prepare a lunch.”
I see. In the underground cave, Lydia cannot grow crops with her power?
So If I get hungry …… I can’t ask her to make an apple or something inside.
Well, according to Lydia, the magic that makes plants grow is just special, but she can use other magic.
“While Mister and Lydia were tending to the fields, I made the tunnel leading to the underground caverns a little bigger.”
“Oh, that helps. Frankly, it was hard to navigate inside that.”
Because your brother is big. …… she said, and Nina’s mouth gets aggravated, but from my point of view, Nina is small, but we went into the tunnel first.
She seemed to adjust to my height, so we walked normally and arrived at the stone wall at the far end.
“Okay, I’ll open it then.”
Lydia puts out the stone wall, and Nina widened the narrow cracks that shows a pitch-black space inside …….
The underground cavern seems to be quite large, after all.
“Nina. Can you grow more glowing moss around here?”
“I’m fine. But the light is too faint to illuminate the inside, okay?”
“Yeah, I wanted to make sure we could clearly see the exit from the inside.”
“If that’s what you mean, I get it! [Light moss].”
As Nina uses her skill to touch the walls of the tunnel, flapping her hands, the walls begin to glow faintly.
For a start, I think …… that we won’t lose sight of the entrance and exit now.
“But it’s dark inside, what are you going to do? Nina’s light moss can only grow in the dirt, okay?”
“No, I’ll take it from here, using my Paladin skill. [Lighting].”
When he used lighting magic on his shield, he was able to see several meters ahead in the direction he pointed his shield.
However, he could only see that it was still a large space.
“Mister. Is it a magic like Lydia’s?
“Oh. Paladins can use even the middle-level magic, a skill called sacred magic used by priests. So, they may not be able to heal serious injuries, but they can heal minor injuries.”
“Wow, that’s amazing!”
“I don’t intend to let Nina and Lydia get even a scratch in the first place, though. [Devotion].”
I decided to protect them with the paladin’s high-level defense skill and start exploring the underground caverns.