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LLVI.

A special card that emits a brilliant golden light.

“Brother!”

Both I and Arcana knew what kind of card it was. It was a card that summoned Arcana.

Until now, cards that summon Arcana have not revealed themselves like that, but are immediately revealed by the power of the Card Master.

In other words, the Arcana actively express that they have awakened from their sleep and that they can leave the cards.

So you will know by yourself that the card has been opened.

It is a sensory part, as if a finger that had not been moving is now moving, and it is like an epiphany where a forgotten memory suddenly comes back to me, and it is a feeling that cannot be ignored because it is a unique feeling of souls communicating.

But not this time.

There is no sensory feel to the card. It’s like a link card.

However, that does not mean that it is not an Arcana card. The card’s appearance, shining brilliantly in gold, was clearly an Arcana card.

Only cards that summon Arcana have such an overwhelming presence and emit light of their own.

“What the heck is this… … .”

The Arcana cards floating above the meteorite were vibrating, making a ‘humming’ sound as if they were asking for permission, whether they knew my frustration or not, or whether they knew but were ignoring it.

I was about to nod my head absentmindedly at the vibrations that made me feel the will to do something towards the meteorite if I were allowed to, but I held back because I felt like if I just nodded, something irreversible would happen.

“Can you contact the Puakans?”

So I looked for someone who could give permission to the Dean for this situation.

“Puakan? Who is that?”

“Ah… … . Lord Frey, Lord Advakiel, Lord Kanviel.”

“Ah? Oh. So, Pua-kan? Hehehe. This is funny. Pua-kan, Pua-kan.”

“So can you contact me? Or not?”

“Ah, I contacted you. Already. Everyone is already here.”

As the Dean had said, our group was all running towards us, led by Pope Judas and the Sword of Caligo. Even Uncle Joseph and Auntie Papi, who had said they wanted to rest at the inn.

“Evidence!”

Pope Judas ran up to me like a father seeing a great son, and first of all, he expressed his admiration and ran towards me.

“Do you know anyone high up here… …?”

“What’s going on!”

A being that had been hidden by Canviel’s tall stature comes forward and approaches.

A race that reminds me of the robots from the cartoon ‘Granzo’ that Confucius watched when he was young, with a tall stature and solid muscles.

Dwarves are a race of craftsmen.

There’s nothing particularly surprising about this, since we’ve already seen enough of it thanks to the two-horned creature while building the mansion.

“Who owns that ‘iron meteorite’?”

“Iron meteorite? Is that Ignorábĭlis a mineral called iron meteorite? Is it a metal? A stone?”

“Ignorabillis?”

“That strange rock you call an iron meteorite, that’s what we used to call it. From my father’s father’s father’s father’s ancestors way back when. But do you know what that is? Can you explain it to me?”

“No, I don’t really want to do that. Anyway, who owns it?”

“What? Why?!”

“Is what I say difficult?”

“Yeah. Is our Gray language difficult? Chemistry?”

“Yeah. That’s weird. Reminds me of the old days?”

“Why can’t dwarves understand something once you tell them?”

The words that came out of the dwarf’s actions, which made him waste time on useless things when the situation was urgent, were not pleasant. It was to the point where it was almost murderous.

Not only that, but the two superhumans who were watching were also excited to see what would happen.

“Ah, I see. That doesn’t belong to anyone. Ignorabillis was here before us. Maybe that strange rock you call the iron meteorite is the owner of this land.”

“I see. Then. Feel free.”

I nodded toward the card, still vibrating and emitting light from the rock.

As if it had heard me, the card emitted a bright golden light. The golden light burst out like an explosion and seeped into the iron meteorites that the dwarves called Ignoravillas.

Crispy―!

It was a small sound.

However, those present were either skilled enough to hear that sound or were craftsmen.

Phuss …

It was clearly a sound coming from inside, like a building that has been worn down for too long naturally collapsing, like the snow piled on tree branches slowly falling away, unable to bear the weight.

I clearly heard something breaking inside the meteorite.

By the time I was sure I had heard the sound, the golden glow that had been shining as brightly as the sun began to diminish.

The light was fading away more and more quickly,

Phew!

The moment of great explosion like a star that is ending its last life,

“Huh?”

The particles of light created the face of a woman. The picture of light smiling at me,

[See you soon, Master.]

It disappeared as if it was melting into the air, conveying the voice that was ringing in my head.

The card isn’t gone.

The cards returned to their proper place, in my arms, away from people’s eyes. Into the old pocket that contained the deck of cards.

The missing card is not important. What is more important now is,

“Huh?!”

“Ouch! Ignorabillis!!”

“A rock?!”

The huge rock formations that existed before the dwarves settled in this area were slowly crumbling. As if time had stopped and was flowing all at once. The huge meteorite that had started to crumble from the outside was quickly weathering and breaking apart, as if to prove that the sound of it breaking from the inside was not an illusion.

Like a scene from a science documentary showing the weathering of rocks over a long period of time in rapid succession.

“Huh?”

Through the rustling and scattering dust of the last crumbling thing, the vaguely visible remains resembled a sword.

It is not a grand divine sword like in a fairy tale or a legend.

It was an old and rusty sword that would look good even if it was in a trash heap.

It also penetrates through a large, dark boulder in the middle.

“Brother?!”

When May called out to me, implying that she was asking what was going on, I could only shrug my shoulders and say nothing.

Because I really didn’t know anything about what had just happened.

Even now, I couldn’t figure out who the main character of the card, the Arcana, was as it disappeared into the light and entered my heart again.

The power of the Card Master is unknown in such cases.

But one thing I could feel for sure.

“You’ll find out soon.”

That means the situation isn’t so bad that you need to worry.

“Yeah!”

The Arcana, including May, seemed to feel the same way as they nodded with smiles.

“By the way.”

The old dwarf, who had been blankly staring at the spot where the giant iron meteorite had disappeared, blushed and was startled by my words as if he had just woken up from a dream.

“What, some kind of human!”

“Can I have that…?”

“Hmm? Hmm… … .”

Do dwarves have material desires? He looked serious as he examined the rusty old sword I pointed at.

“If necessary, I will pay the price… … .”

“This is absolutely impossible!”

“Huh?”

“This sword is absolutely unusable!! It’s not even a piece of scrap metal! Isn’t this literally trash!”

A dwarf is a dwarf.

He returned to his craftsman form, looking at the sword that remained instead of the broken unknown mineral. And the scathing evaluation was a racial trait of the dwarves, so what?

“Oh!”

The dwarf, who had been expressing his disappointment 200%, let out a gasp, drawing the attention of all the craftsmen and our group.

“This is!”

The dwarf was holding the sword with both hands, as if it were ginseng, and it was the sword he had called trash.

To be exact, what he was looking at with his eyes sparkling was a rock about twice the size of an adult’s head stuck in the middle of an old sword.

“A mineral I don’t know about!!”

Is that so surprising, you crazy dwarf?

“Ohhh!!”

“Unknown mineral!”

“Mystery!!”

As if to say that my pitiful thoughts about the dwarves were wrong, the dwarves and craftsmen who were watching around all gathered around in admiration.

Someone did.

If we, who have two eyes, enter a village that only has one eye, we will become disabled.

That’s how I feel right now.

“I don’t think that’ll end soon, right? ”

“That’s right, Master. Just like the spirits of the land, the dwarves are stupid… …no, they have a frustrating side.”

If you want to change your words, what should you do about that pitiful look in your eyes?

We left the dwarves and craftsmen who were still spouting strange exclamations like, ‘Unknown metal!’, ‘I don’t know! That’s why I’m excited!’, ‘It’s thrilling! Always new!!’ and headed back to the inn.

After he finished expressing his admiration, he left a message telling him to come and get it.

It was late that evening, after dinner and a few glasses of stout, just as I was about to fall asleep, that the dwarves came with their scrap swords.

“What is it?”

And I couldn’t help but ask that as I looked at the dwarves and the artisans.

Because they brought the mysterious mineral that they had so desperately wanted, the one that had been pierced by the sword, without separating it.

“So this is… … .”

“Yes. What is it?”

“Could not be separated… … .”

“So you’re going to break the sword now? Because it can’t be separated?”

“No. That’s impossible too.”

“I see. Impossible… …? Impossible? You mean you’ve already done that? Without my permission?”

The dwarf flinched at my words and could not continue speaking. Strictly speaking, I am not the owner of this scrap sword.

However, the iron meteorite that no one could break should be turned into dust, and it should be treated like a research team that conquered an unconquered dungeon.

So the spoils are my priority.

But you tried to destroy it without even asking my opinion?

“At this point, it’s not just that you have good concentration, but it’s also shameless, so there’s nothing to say.”

“… … .”

The dwarf seemed to want to say something in return, but the eyes of the superhumans around him were already not good. And above all,

“How dare you take the master’s belongings without permission!”

There was a toupee there.

She is the Dragon Lord.

also,

“It’s been so easy these days. Back in the old days, when we worked 23 hours and 35 minutes out of 24 hours, we couldn’t even dream of doing something like this.”

Whitey who turns around,

“Should I just make them do the work until they tell me to just take them and kill them?”

There was a red one who seemed ready to capture the dwarves of the continent and force them into labor at any moment.

“I don’t feel well. Please leave. I don’t think we’re in a position to talk.”

“… Okay. Got it.”

He left the inn with his eyes full of longing, putting the rock fragments and the scrap iron sword he was holding in his hands on the floor.

“Can I have this for now?”

“Huh? Yeah. But what is that?”

It seemed like Canviel was asking if I had taken care of it knowingly. No, it would be more accurate to say that his eyes were telling me that he knew.

“I don’t know either.”

“Huh?”

“I really didn’t know, so I just packed it. Because I didn’t know anything.”

“… What is that?”

Canviel was quickly disappointed, but it was real. It was sincere.

Even when it was just a scrap sword and a lump of metal, he still manifested his “divine eye” toward the scrap sword before putting it in his magic pouch.

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『The Light of Life』

[Information not available]

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It was the first time that only the name was provided, and in an incomprehensible language, and that information was impossible to access.

Of course, that’s why I decided to bring more of these scrap metal swords.

A scrap metal sword that even the divine eye could not detect.

But wait a minute.

“You couldn’t break it? This rusty sword?”