…I can’t stop digging now!
Before I knew it, the pickaxe was in my hands again and I was swinging it.
“Alright! I’ll continue digging! I’ll dig all the way to hell if I…huh?”
As I shouted to myself with excitement, I realized that something like blue liquid was jiggling at my feet.
“What the hell?”
As it was moving, it clearly wasn’t any normal liquid.
This thing…I believe they were monsters known as slimes.
I had never seen one before, but it had the exact features I had once read in a book.
They were monsters that preferred dark and damp places.
While they were usually mild-mannered, there were some that were more aggressive.
Would this one attack me?
No, it was just moving around me in a circle while hopping and looking in my direction.
Perhaps it had been alarmed by my wind magic and had come out to see what it was.
If it lived down here, I might be the first human its ever seen.
What should I do with it?
Well, since it wasn’t harmful, I could just ignore it and keep mining.
I doubt it would get in my way…
Or I could even think of it as a pet. It was just as I was thinking this, that the Advisor interrupted me.
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Tame?
I believe it was a skill that made monsters obey you.
All humans had this skill.
However, as almost all monsters were enemies, you were not allowed to tame them.
Furthermore, monsters were not even allowed to be brought into the kingdom of Sanfaris.
And so it was a skill that no one really used.
That being said, there was no one to blame me if I tamed a monster here…
I was a weak person.
I desperately wanted something to help me cope with my loneliness.
Of course, I doubted this slime could even talk.
…Still, I didn’t care what it was, as long as it was close by.
And so without hesitation, I gave the order.
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A name…
As this was the Sheorl Reef, I could call it Sheorl…hmm, but that was too obvious.
I could change it a little and call it Shiel?
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The voice rang. However…nothing seemed to happen to me or Shiel.
Shiel just continued hopping about.
“Nice to meet you, Shiel.”
I tried talking to it, but Shiel didn’t respond at all.
Of course.
It couldn’t understand human speech, let alone talk.
However, just having a moving creature nearby was somewhat of a comfort.
And so I left Shiel to its own devices and picked up the pickaxe again.
“Alright. Now, it’s time to get back to digging! Rocks will start falling down, so you be careful.”
After that, I continued to dig until I was exhausted.
The whole time that I was digging, I would shout with joy about getting 100 Crystals or finding an emerald.
And Shiel just watched me silently from behind.
“Ahh, it feels so good…”
I was currently sleeping near the entrance to the cave while using the slime as a pillow.
3 days had now passed since I tamed this slime…Shiel.
And during those 3 days, I did nothing but dig.
The result…
◇ Inventory
Rock x 4893
Iron ore x 71
Copper ore x 89
Gold ore x 5.8
Silver ore x 8.9
Coal x 88
Limestone 90
…
Ruby x 1.7
Sapphire 1.4
Crystal x 19
Turtle Stone x 39
Well, in short, I had about three times as much of every material as I had on the first day.
The only reason I didn’t have more of the magic increasing Crystals, was because I was using them. In fact, I had used about 500 of them already.
And so my magic had become very powerful.
Now, I could just unleash thunder magic into the sea and catch any great fish that I targeted.
And if I was using water magic, I could make it rain enough to fill 5 barrels.
The use of mid-range magic had become very easy for me.
People had mocked my ‘static electricity’ and ‘hand sweat’ before. And so it was hard to believe that I had changed so much.
Like this, my food and water problem was solved.
And there was another thing I was grateful for. Shiel learned very quickly.
While it couldn’t understand words, it could understand gestures.
Be a bed, carry me through the dungeon, Shiel did all sorts of things.
Furthermore, I was able to tame 10 other slimes aside from Shiel.
However, it seemed that it was harder to communicate with them compared to Shiel. And so currently, they were just wandering around freely.
I did give them all names…but to be honest, I couldn’t tell them apart.
It was easier with Shiel, due to the way it moved.
Well, it was possible that Shiel was just special.
“Shiel…do my shoulders here.”
I would point at the part I wanted to have massaged, and Shiel would twist its body and massage my shoulders.
“Ahh…there. Yes…”
In short. I was living rather comfortably on the island now.
I had escaped the dangers of death and had discovered a new reason to live, which was mining.
Of course, a diet consisting only of fish would get tiring very quickly, and I was considering doing something with magic…
But to be honest, I was thinking about little outside of mining.
After all, I could mine so many rare materials with just a swing of my pickaxe.
Nothing could be more fun.
Well, to be honest, it’s not like I even had any options when it came to activities on this island.
…We’ll dig again tomorrow!
And with that, I fell into a comfortable sleep on the cool bed that was Shiel.
…Hmm? What?
My eyes opened as I felt something poking my cheek.
Apparently, it was Shiel who had woken me.
I sat up and looked outside. The sky was still glowing with the colors of the morning.
The waves were calm. It was such a pleasant way of getting up.
“Shiel. Morning… Did you wake me up?”
Shiel stretched its body so that it looked like an arrow. And then it pointed in the direction of the sea.
“Did something happen? Hmm? That…”
There was a wrecked boat near the rocks.
It wasn’t the one I had come here on. And there were scattered pieces of wood everywhere.
And around it, lay three figures that were not human.
The green skin… They were goblins.
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