Chapter 29
Work on the second through fourth floors is complete.
The fourth floor has been divided into two huge spaces.
It was one space at first, but it was too large, so I built a wall down the middle.
For now, they're something like bedrooms.
Everyone sleeps together in one room, but for now, there are two rooms.
I wanted windows, so I tried making holes in the rock.
But since I couldn't install doors, they couldn't really be called windows.
Leaving them as holes would let rain and insects in.
I'd given up, but while practicing magic with ore, I managed to make something unexpected.
It was something like glass.
I managed to flatten the silvery ore from underground into thin sheets.
What's more, I could make it translucent, allowing light through.
I was just trying various things for fun, so this surprised me.
For some reason, Crow had been staring intently at me from right beside me the whole time. Can Crow use magic?
...Wait, can Crow use it?
I'll find out next time.
Magic passes through the silvery ore more easily than through the gold-colored ore.
Rock is the easiest material to reshape with magic. It's number one.
Could the ease with which magic passes through it be linked to its strength?
Its strength is also lower than the gold-colored ore's, but higher than rock's. Strange.
Gold-colored ore > silvery ore > rock
I tried fitting the glass-like material I'd made into the hole in the rock.
The window for letting in light was complete. It was fairly large, and the glass-like material was sturdy despite its size.
I tried making a very large window to let in light.
I got carried away and added windows to every floor.
Even on the stairs.
It was just for my own satisfaction, but the house leveled up.
...
I thought about working on the second and third floors, but I couldn't think of a floor plan.
The rooms I wanted were a bedroom, a kitchen, a cooking area, a toilet, and a bath.
The fourth and first floors now had rooms for all the functions I needed.
For the rest... for now, I'd completed a huge open space.
I used the rock removed while creating the space to make pillars.
Huge pillars in a huge space—it had turned into something like a ruin.
An ancient ruin... I got carried away and made the windows tall and narrow to create the right atmosphere.
Once I took a good look, I'd created a creepy space.
It was definitely unnecessary work.
...
I want flooring.
Living on polished rock wasn't a problem, but
I miss the warmth of wood.
The forest is right outside the house.
Materials wouldn't be a problem.
Next, I should prepare to lay the flooring.
At the same time, I needed to look for ingredients.
Ever since we came here, Hio, Shion, and the others have been hunting for me.
So I haven't had any trouble with food, but it's all meat.
It's about time I seriously looked for some vegetables.
I wonder if there are any vegetables in the forest?
I had my doubts, but there had to be something.
I'll look for things that could be used as seasonings, too.
It's about time the meat had some flavor.
For now, even just salt will do!