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âHey. Do you know what kind of trees are good for firewood?â
I looked at the many trees outside of the town and asked the slimes.
âI donât know either!â
I did not receive a good answer.
Well, it wasnât like slimes or wolves went around burning firewood. So it was to be expected.
So I decided to just cut down a random tree.
âUhhhâŚmagic that is good for cutting treesâŚâ
I searched through my inventory of magic for something that would help me.
And then I found something called âAxe Summon.â
That was exactly what I needed to cut down trees.
I chanted. And then a large axe appeared in front of me.
To be honest, I would have preferred a chainsaw, but there was no âChainsaw Summon,â so this would have to do.
âThis might be dangerous, so stand back.â
I told the slimes and the wolf to move back before I started.
After all, I had never cut down a tree before.
Even if I was able to cut it down, I wasnât sure which way it would fall.
Most people in Japan donât have the opportunity to hold an axe.
I muttered as I held it like a baseball bat.
âŚIt didnât seem exactly right, but hopefully, my skills would cover for me.
After all, an axe was still a weapon. Perhaps âUltra Combat Artâ would give me a nice boost.
I thought about this as I swung the axe horizontally, with a baseball-like form.
And thenâŚwith a satisfying sound, the axe went one-third of the way into the tree.
âŚThis was clearly due to Ultra Combat Arts.
The tree I was trying to cut was at least 50cm thick. It wasnât something a novice could easily cut down.
With that in mind, I pulled it out and swung again towards the place I had just cut.
The blade of the axe went right into the gap and the trunk of the tree was severed completely.
Ultra Combat Art sure was usefulâŚ
Thankfully, it did not fall towards me, and I quickly prepared to turn it into firewood.
The first thing to do was to cut off the branches.
I muttered as I swung the axe without really thinking.
When using the axe, you could rely on Ultra Combat Art to take care of aiming.
It was almost scary that randomly swinging the axe worked with this skill.
And like this, the tree turned into a single log in about 5 minutes.
I continued to swing the axe without really thinking, and the log was cut into pieces of just the right size before being split vertically.
âŚEventually, I had something that looked just like firewood.
I thought this would be really hard work, but it was easier than expected.
Well, it would have been hard had I not had this skill.
Now, all I had to do was dry them out.
And so I looked through my magic again.
ButâŚI couldnât find anything that seemed useful.
Altering magic was used mostly for changing the shape of wood or metal, and wouldnât help dry them out.
You would think that magic to dry things would be quite commonâŚbut apparently, there hadnât been anything like that in the books I read.
And all my knowledge of magic came from those books.
There were so many of them, that I wasnât even aware of all of them.
âŚOh, well. I guess I could use fire magic.
If I used something like Hellfire of Death, there wouldnât even be ashes left, but maybe there was something else that could help dry them.
That being said, it seemed a little silly to use fire magic for a long time just to acquire fuelâŚ
Still, I searched for some fire magic I could useâŚ
And then I had the idea of checking my Tamer Skills instead.
And then I found something at once.
â âSlime Water Absorption.â
It was apparently a slime exclusive skill. And it absorbed water.
If I could use this on the firewood, then all of my problems would be solved.
âDo you know a skill called Slime Water Absorption?â
âWe have to drink water?â
The slimes were not aware of this skill.
They had used Slime Storage without me even telling them to, but it seemed like it was different with Slime Exlclusive skills.
Well, I guess I should try it then.
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