Chapter 140

Chapter 140: Increasing Underground Resource

The day after we’d finished the cold bath, Hesty, Sakura, and I went down into the basement dungeon once more .

We had finished our upstairs cleaning, so now we had to do the downstairs . We basically wanted to check the source down there .
While we were at it we could also check whether the issues with the dungeon masters had ended for now, however…

「… . . n, there are no more, energy signatures . 」
「That’s right . Just as Hesty-chan says, there’s not a single one within the area . Master caught the whole herd in one throw . 」

Hesty and Sakura completed that task in an instant, so now all I had to do was the onsen check .
We walked deeper inside to reach the source, but…

「… . we’re already there . 」
「We’re here huh~」

Though it was quite deep, as I was half-synched with Sakura we were able to find our way easily and reached it quickly .
It had only taken us a few minutes .

Anyways, it’s a good thing .

「………oh, Hesty . Are you ok being this close?」

We had already gotten close to the source, but Hesty had followed us without maintaining any distance . Even though at first she felt the source was too dangerous and didn’t want to approach .

I got worried and asked but Hesty puffed up her chest and said,

「By living on, this land, and going in the, onsen, I have grown a bit . So I can more or less, get close . 」
「Oh, well that’s amazing . 」
「Well, it’s mostly thanks to you, so thanks . 」

Hesty smiled and said while squeezing my hand .
I didn’t do much of anything . However, she’s saying it with such a satisfied face…so I’ll keep my mouth shut . I thought and took a peak at the source’s hollowed out cavity .

As expected the hot water was welling out of it but…

「Doesn’t it seem like it’s increased?」

I feel like it was coming out more forcefully than the last time we were here . The cavity is now overflowing with hot water after all .

「Ara~, that’s right…… . the underground water stream may have increased in size . 」
「I see…then since we’ve gone this far already, why don’t we take a look at this underground stream . 」
「Yes, very well Master . 」

And so we began to walk further in to reach the underground stream .
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The underground stream ran down the middle of a dome shaped room .
It was similar to when I’d seen it before but,

「The water really has increased . 」

The first time I saw it, it was a tiny little stream, but the width of it had expanded . However, it wasn’t like there was an especially large amount of rain recently…

「I wonder what happened?」

I said tilting my head when Hesty murmured .

「The magic concentration, is thick………I think the magic stones, absorbed your surplus, magic, concentrating it into, water, maybe?」
「Yeah, that is very likely . After all we placed a magic stone with power that had turned to water after all . 」

Sakura and Hesty nodded and agreed but I didn’t understand .

「Magic becomes water?」
「There are magic stones, like that . If you bury them in the ground, then the, water content will, increase . 」

Magic stones have way too many uses .
They don’t stop at being useful for item creation, but can create such a phenomenon?

「Well, there usually won’t be, this large of a change… . it’s at a weird level . 」
「Could you not call things weird while staring at me like that Hesty?」
「n, sorry . But having water, increase like this isn’t normal…… . maybe once the four spirits, were placed in here, this area was improved, as well?」
That’s right, they were down here too .

「With these circumstances, together, this can be explained . 」
「I see… . . but is it ok for it to increase like this?」

If the soil became loose it would be bad .

「That is alright Master . I am already maintaining the optimal condition . A simple increase in water can be dealt with . 」

Sakura said hitting her chest .
In that case I guess I don’t have to worry too much .

「n, plus if the stream splits off, using it in a water shortage in Prussia or the Fort City would be helpful . 」
「Yeah, our house can use as much water as we want now!」

Fumu, that’s good .
There’s no need to hold back on using water, I won’t waste it, but being able to use it as I please is good .

「… . . Well then, recently I’ve been using the onsen all the time, so once I get back I’ll take a bath in my home . 」
「Alright, if you use our home (me) that much, it makes me happy!」

And so it was discovered that our water resources had become plentiful .