"...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