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The topic came back to the topic, and Lily quickly organized her thoughts: "I need a stronghold close to the spiritual vein of Fuyuki City."

"Uh... Lingmai? What is Lingmai?" Steve was in a daze again.

"Lingmai...uh, how to explain...Spiritual veins are a relatively general concept. Magic power is like rain, which circulates between heaven and earth. Spiritual veins are like rivers of magic power. They are the main source of magic power circulating in heaven and earth. Main road. And the stronghold I need needs to be very close to this magical river."

"Oh, that's it! In other words, we need to build a large reservoir." Steve's understanding was concise, "Then where is this spirit vein?"

Although there are subtle differences, Lily still doesn't intend to explain too many details to this Muggle: "The entrances and exits of spiritual veins are usually in places with outstanding people. If there is a Holy Grail in Fuyuki City, it must be related to Fuyuki's underground spiritual veins... ..."

"Don't be so mysterious, tell me, what is that thing called spirit veins like?"

"Uh... an underground cave."

"Okay, I know where it is, follow me." With that, Steve stood up.

Lily was a little dazed. It stands to reason that for things like underground caves, even if people live in the local area for a lifetime, it is impossible for ordinary people to know where they are... Oh yes, the Master seems to be a miner, maybe he knows it.

With such thoughts in mind, the girl followed him in a daze.

She thought that her Master would take her to some secret place, but she didn't expect that the other party looked at the sky, seemed to calculate the position, took out the shovel and pickaxe and dug down.

...Wait, where did he get his shovel and pickaxe from? !

What happened next made the girl even more dumbfounded... Her Master quickly made a passage, and following that passage, they arrived at a three-way intersection.And one of the directions of the fork in the road leads to the underground.

"This is a simple pit I dug before trying to detect the depth of the vein, but I dug it directly into a natural mine. I was afraid that there was something strange in it, so I didn't dig deeper. Maybe it was the spiritual vein you mentioned. .”

Steve explained simply.

Steve said it easily, but for Lily, this is a rather difficult fact to accept: "No... that, Master... that, before that, I want to ask, modern people, mining underground Are they all that powerful?"

"No, it's probably only me. I'm not from this world." Steve stated the fact directly.

"No wonder..." Lily tapped her little head, "Your actions have surpassed what a person can do, but in my basic concept, I still assume that you are a person by default...that is to say , Mister... There is a rule protecting you. Let us subconsciously acquiesce to the fact that you are human, and to acquiesce in your behavior only to the extent that it feels strange..."

Steve blinked his square eyes, "...I don't understand what you're saying."

"Wait, don't talk, let me clear it up..." Lily, who seemed to have thought of something important, held her head: "Yeah, why didn't I notice at first... how can such a square-headed guy... It may be a simple human being, what on earth hinted at me? And this ability is different from ordinary people..."

Speaking of this, Lily suddenly raised her head: "Master, I want you to introduce yourself and your abilities."

"Oh, me!" The girl was about to get to know herself formally, Steve couldn't help coughing lightly, and beat his stomach slightly: "My name is Steve, and I'm a survivalist. So the things needed for survival are I I am good at making all kinds of tools, weapons, and armor; I am also good at digging, logging, collecting seeds, fruits, or catching animals, and hunting some tricky monsters, I..."

"Wait, wait, this is too general," Lily interrupted Steve's rant, "Tell me first, where did you get your pick and shovel?"

"I did it!" Steve said as a matter of course, "Why don't I cover it up for you."

With that said, Steve took out a log and began to make tool tables in the most basic way.

From Lili's point of view, this person just took out a wooden cube, and when he changed it in his hand, it became four cubes, and when he changed it again, he turned into a cube that he had never seen before.He slapped the square on the ground, and it became a strange table with nine grids.

Finally, on this nine-square grid table, visit the corresponding material according to a certain shape, and it will be directly converted into a tool.

"...Look, that's it." Steve held up his stone pickaxe, "Actually, I can make more advanced pickaxes, but it's a pity that I didn't dig iron ore..."

"That...Master, can you show me that thing of yours?" Lily pointed to the toy-like stone pickaxe in Steve's hand.

"Okay!"

After taking the pickaxe, Lily held it in her hand and tapped on the nearby rock, but found that there was no such effect as Steve had used before, which could directly knock down a cubic rock.Holding the pickaxe, she pondered for a while, then stretched out her slender hand to press it, her lips gently opened and closed...

"Here, Master, how about you look at this again."

"Wow!" Upon receiving the pickaxe handed over by Lily, Steve was startled: "EfficiencyⅦ? DurabilityⅦ?! UrgencyⅦ?! This, this, this, what did you do!"

Looking at the stunned Steve, Li Lijiao laughed: "I don't know what you're talking about, anyway, try it."

"Ah, oh, oh, I'll try." Picking up the pickaxe, Steve slammed on the rock next to him, only to see the rock turning into cubes and falling down, all over the ground.

"Wow, this is really amazing, it's even more powerful than an enchanted diamond pickaxe!" Steve, who was addicted to knocking, broke the rock vigorously while laughing loudly.

Seeing his silly look, Lily covered her mouth and smiled lightly.

She understood that it was herself who should be surprised.At first she thought that her Master was just an ordinary person, because the other party's reaction was that he was too dumb.

But when she noticed the hint rooted in instinct, she couldn't help but start to fear... This is a matter of course, even a magician in the age of gods found that she was silently distorted by others , would also break out in a cold sweat... No, it was precisely because she knew a lot that she became particularly flustered when she noticed a huge rule that she didn't understand at all.

Yes, there is a mysterious and huge rule in his own Master that he himself is not aware of.The horror of this rule is far beyond the Holy Grail War itself, and it may be compared with the two major restraining forces or even the root vortex.

So if you want to win this Holy Grail War, the only chance of winning may be that the unique characteristics of the Master cooperate with your own magic from the Age of Gods, so you can win by surprise!

The idea of ​​victory is clear. Although Lily still has uneasiness about the mysterious rules in her heart, when she thinks that her Master can choose to give up her life without hesitation and let herself escape when faced with a life-and-death choice, it seems that there is no other way. A person has treated himself like this.

In fact, she lied about one of the things she told Steve before.

Heroic spirits can obtain all information related to this world in an instant. The time difference caused by unsuccessful summoning will indeed affect their character to a certain extent and return to girlhood, but the memory is common.So of course she knew how she was treated after she was 16 years old, and what cruel things she did.

But if it's this person... Maybe you can trust him with all your heart...

The careless Steve didn't notice the girl's small thoughts. After getting the "artifact", Steve screeched and dug out half of the durability before he realized that there was still business to do.

He turned his head in embarrassment, and coughed twice: "...Well, you are really good...Well, how about I take you to the underground cave I discovered?"

"Extremely happy." The torch shone on her beautiful face. In this dark underground mine, the girl leaned forward and smiled.

The downward passage at the fork is a ladder-shaped passage leading directly to the underground. After the passage twists and turns and extends down for more than 200 meters, it suddenly becomes clear, and a dark, cold, and damp underground cavity appears in front of the two masters and servants. .

Chapter 11 The Way to Win

Things like underground caves are not as cool and beautiful as shallow caves.Especially the underground caves buried below [-] meters, because the temperature on the surface cannot reach here. Except for the part close to the lava, the low temperature in most places is comparable to that of the polar regions.

Lily carefully used magic to keep them warm, although she felt that Steve didn't seem to feel the cold here at all.

The wind circulating in the cave is a cold and warm air flow system formed by the fusion of deep geothermal heat and deep low temperature, and what is mixed in this air flow is what Lily needs, thick, fresh, and the most primitive magic power.

"I really can't believe that one day I can really be in the spiritual vein."

The girl took off her gloves and stretched out her fingers, the magic light was psychedelic and gorgeous.The light on her fingertips seemed to be the original fire, lighting up the cave, and the light spread out like a flowing galaxy, and the whole cave was lit up.

Steve was dumbfounded: "The magician is really amazing!"

"This is not some powerful magic," the girl explained while casting the spell with her eyes closed, "I'm detecting the size of this spiritual vein, so I can judge it and Fuyuki's spiritual vein... er... how come? "

"what happened?"

"The spiritual vein...is broken?" Lily frowned.

"Uh...that is to say, the spirit veins here are no longer usable?"

"No... wait a moment, let me look again, what is going on, if it is broken, the spirit vein should be exhausted, this should not be a broken spirit vein..."

The girl who closed her eyes and cast the spell frowned and remained silent for a while, then suddenly opened her eyes: "I see, I see..."

"Huh? What did you find?" Steve felt that he didn't understand anything, and it was annoying to be in a hurry here.

Lily withdrew the spell, put on the gloves again, turned around and said excitedly: "Master, I know what the Holy Grail is!"

"Uh... isn't it a treasure?" As an adventurer, Steve took it for granted.

"No, it's a spell!" The girl clenched her fists excitedly, "A spell that can be materialized through magic power."

"..." Steve scratched his head, "Can you explain it briefly?"

Only then did Lily realize that she was too excited and didn't take care of her master who was completely ignorant of magic: "Well, let's explain it this way! If the spirit vein is a river of magic power, then the Holy Grail is built on this river." Dam, let me explain it this way, Master, do you understand?"

"Of course I understand." Steve has also done things like building dams, "So the Holy Grail is the magical power that has been hoarded?"

"Yes," the girl nodded, "someone built a dam on the river of magic power, and let the river passing through this place flow into this dam. With the natural movement of the spirit veins of heaven and earth, the magic power in the Holy Grail will become stronger and stronger. More and more. But this is only the first step, even if the magic power is as thick as silt in the dam, it still cannot be formed, so there is such a thing as a heroic spirit summoning."

"The heroic spirit itself is the magical power of materialization. When the materialized heroic spirit is summoned, the attached materialization law will also be attached. At this time, the war between the heroic spirits will be carried out, and the defeated heroic spirits will be absorbed by the Holy Grail. What is absorbed is also the law of materialization. The maker of the Holy Grail uses this method to turn the Holy Grail into a magical entity that can be squeezed into any shape. According to theory, it is indeed the closest thing to the real Holy Grail."

"Oh..." Steve was still dazed, "So?"

"So, instead of fighting the Holy Grail War, we can build a summoning altar here, that is, secretly connect a mouth near the dam, and directly summon the Holy Grail, then we can win directly!" the girl said excitedly.

Sounds like cheating!But Steve turned to another question: "But, even if we get the treasure of the Holy Grail first, will those people outside disappear?"

Lily, who was asked back, froze her excited expression on her face: "...That's right, no one said that the war will end when the Holy Grail is summoned, and none of us can beat it. It’s not worth the loss if you snatch it away.”

"Well... Sure enough, what we need now is to increase our combat power." Steve still remembers the super attribute that Lily enchanted him before, "Maybe with your super enchantment, plus I can get it. If you have a set of diamond sets, you may be able to fight it, oh yes, you need to build a very powerful defensive position to attract the enemy to fight."

"But Master, the Holy Grail War is only seven days away. I should be the last servant to be summoned. Now there might be a fight from above." Lily reminded.

...Oh yes, not enough time.

"Then first build the stronghold today, and then find a way to check the situation of other servants first. Under this disadvantage, you can only take the initiative to attack at the critical moment to defeat the opponent!"

"Well, let's build a stronghold by the sea! This place is on the edge of Fuyuki's spiritual veins. They would never think that we can make an artificial spiritual vein to get here and build a magic workshop. Besides, it's not far from the coastline. If necessary, cutting off Fuyuki's spiritual veins can also avoid all detection." With Steve's engineering support, Lily is full of new ideas for her position.

Seeing how motivated she was, Steve smiled and said, "Okay, but you have to enchant me with a few more pickaxes."

"Hee hee hee, as much as you want."

The two are full of ambitions for the future, but what awaits them next is not easy.

The first problem that needs to be faced is the "iron ingot".

I thought that with Lily's magic, this kind of thing could be easily solved, but it turned out to be not as simple as imagined.

Lily replaced the iron with magic and gave it to Steve in the shape of an ingot, but Steve told her that it was not an iron ingot.Lili, who thought it was a problem with the ingredients, changed the mix ratio several times in a row, and finally got "pig iron ingots", "wrought iron ingots", "refined iron ingots", "carbon iron ingots", and "interlaced iron ingots" ...

In the end, Lily had to accept the fact that the invisible rule behind Steve only believed that what was burned in the strange furnace he made was "iron ingots", and wanted to replace an ore with an unknown formula. It is tantamount to the Arabian Nights.In this case, what Steve said, in his world, there is no way to synthesize the branch of metal items at all-this makes Lily very frustrated.

But the effort was not all in vain.

Steve accidentally threw a carbon iron ingot into the furnace and burned it into a steel ingot. The steel ingot can be synthesized into a set of tools and weapons that are twice as durable and efficient as iron, which is also a surprise.

After solving the problem that high-grade metal mines could not be mined by accident, Steve took Lily's enchanted steel pickaxe and began to mine all kinds of common metal minerals and rare metal minerals.

Japan has been a big gold and silver mining country in history, but because of the long mining time, the main veins have basically been mined and dried up.But even so, for Steve, this output is enough to meet their needs for building magic formations and making special items.

What Lily wants to make is naturally not an ordinary thing.

In fact, it is not common. In her era, it was considered a relatively common thing, that is, Mithril.

Mithril is a product of magic that is basically extinct in this world, and magicians of the Age of Gods can use spells to replace the four metals of gold, silver, mercury, and copper to obtain the required Mithril.

According to legend, Mithril is a metal with extremely high hardness, but it is very compatible with magic. Lily hopes that if Steve's rules can accept Mithril, then the effect of magic enchantment will be greatly increased.

Just refining Mithril is not as simple as substituting metals. Steve made a huge groove device for this, which Lily called a crucible.

The magician of the Age of Gods used her pure magic flame to refine the metal inside.Since the flame can only be released from Lily's hands, she held the flame in one hand and stood under the refining table from midnight to noon.

Steve came back from the outside with the fishing rod on his shoulders, and saw Lily standing there still motionless.The burning flames crackled in the room, and the whole underground workshop seemed quiet.

Thinking of the girl standing up to now, Steve suddenly felt a little distressed.He thought for a while, threw the fish into the stove to roast for a while, and brought it to Lily: "Shall I feed you?"

"No...no need..." The girl's face was blushing. I don't know if it was tired or because of the grilled fish that had been brought to her face. Put on a drip glass, let it drip by itself, and slowly condense."

"Oh, then I'll put this on the table first!" Steve put the plate on the table, then sat cross-legged beside him, staring at Lily who was refining mithril.

Lily seemed a little overwhelmed by being stared at. After standing still for ten hours before, she squirmed a little, as if someone's gaze was hotter than the flame in her hand: "Ma...Master, It'll be fine soon, don't look at it."

"Ah, it's okay. Anyway, I'm free now. Didn't you say you were going to set up a reconnaissance point later? So I'll wait for you here!" Steve took it for granted.

"Then, that's fine... Anyway, I'm almost done anyway..."

Sure enough, after a while, a strange metallic smell emanated from the cauldron, and Steve sniffed it: "What smell?"

"It's the smell of metal particles being decomposed by magic power." Lily explained, "As long as the crucible remains heated, the metal that is decomposed by magic power will be heavier than the original gold, and it will settle to the bottom first. Let the liquid metal drip out, and after it condenses, it will be Mithril."

"What a complicated craft!" Steve said with emotion.

"Yeah, hope is worth it." After spending so much time refining mithril, Lily herself felt a little uneasy.

Chapter 12 Tsundere Battle 【Part [-]】

Mithril’s trickle time will probably take several hours, and it’s already noon at this time. According to the previous plan, the caster team that has just completed the stronghold will go out and set up some reconnaissance familiars, and the other is to go to the city to see Is there any suitable material to collect.

In fact, Steve has a difficulty going out... because his features are too distinct, and he has a record, it is really not suitable for wandering on the street in broad daylight.Fortunately, Lily is there. For the magicians of the Age of Gods, even if you are a pig, they can transform you into a human.

Lily quickly set Steve's image as a real person.

Looking at the chiseled, handsome British-style handsome face in the mirror, Steve muttered a little dissatisfied: "Hey... this is completely changed according to your aesthetics!"

"It's... not... In short, it's good, it's good like this, Master. In this world, appearance is very important. When you go out like this and negotiate with others, it will be of great benefit .”

Lily said it right.But she was also muttering in her heart, because it was completely changed according to the ideal image in her mind, so it was a bit too handsome for people to look directly at...

"Is that so?" Steve pinched his face and looked at it in front of the mirror, "By the way, why don't you dare look at me?"

...Of course it's because I'm afraid of being electrocuted accidentally!

Of course, Lily wouldn't say this: "No, no, I'm fixing your clothes for you, oops, don't move around."