Day 481-490/Day 483

Day 483 / The Thirteenth Day
After digging out a giant treasure and showing it to a family of five, they prostated and a lot of things have happened since then.
　Let's take a quick look at what I learned.
　First of all, the family of five are probably the gnomes known as the "spirits of the earth.
　Actually, they may not be, but they are "gnomes, gnomes. "Gnome, gnome, to Avelio gnome! "Gnome, Ravenra Folk Gnome! I tentatively decided to think so, since the word "gnome" was mentioned many times.
　They might not be a gnome in the first place, and even if they are a gnome, there was no denying the possibility that there was a special species different from the norm.
　Regardless of the truth, at the very least, the way he manipulated the surrounding terrain with simple movements like waving his hands and whistling gave me the strong impression that he was an "earth spirit" who controlled the earth.
　Perhaps the digging up of the giant treasure had a positive effect, but the gnome family of five was friendly from the start.
　The children were not afraid to come into contact with us and play with us, and if we reached out to them, they would grab me and hang on to me.
　From the very beginning, they seemed to have a high level of affection for each other, as if they were dealing with the energetic young children of their relatives.
　The man and woman, who were probably my parents, smiled at me as they quickly gathered up the ores and minerals that were lying around and made ingots for me.
　I could tell from the first bite that the ingots had been cleaned of any impurities and made purer, because the inevitable miscellaneous taste was gone. This meant that countless steps and processes had been eliminated in a matter of seconds.
　This alone was worth the effort of not antagonizing them.
　I then managed to communicate with the old man who knew the most, but it was not an easy task.
　I analyzed the meaning of the many words and body language, and activated the 【Language Learning】 and 【Automatic Translation】 that assisted us in communicating, but it still took some time for the results to appear.
　However, I can still communicate with them somewhat, and I'm sure I'm calmer now that I've had contact with a friendly being for the first time in a while.
　Leaving the mining work to the golems, I spent some time with the family of five, doing various things.
　It's important to develop relationships with friendly beings who have some kind of information.
　That's why I've been interacting with them even though I can't communicate exactly in their language, and I've been getting as much information as I can.
　Incidentally, music played a role in my communication with my family of five.
　I would tap on a stone or metal that sounded appropriate to create a rhythm. If you move your body and dance with it, you can get by without words.
　After I played the first tune, the family of five responded.
　Kanka kan, kink kink kink.
　Kan-kan, kink-kink-kink. Konkkon.
　The clear, rhythmic sounds echoed through the cave.
　It was a strange sound, different from that of stringed instruments or wind instruments, and naturally my hands, which were stretched out to the ores for breakfast, stopped to listen.
　It was music played by a family of five using a musical instrument reminiscent of a xylophone or lithophone made of sanukite, a stone that produces a clear sound when struck on my previous life.
　The lithophone was made of materials that the family of five had picked up at random from their surroundings.
　After striking it several times to check the sound, they struck the stones that were placed on it. The echoing tones reverberated and had a charm that shook the listener's body and soul and drew them into a unique world.
　After spending a leisurely morning, we moved on to our work with overflowing energy.
　Today was the end of the mining operation.
　Tomorrow, I will leave for the surface. So I had to mine as much as we could before that, and the family of five helped me out.
　Thanks to their help, I was able to obtain more ore minerals than I had intended.
　The family of five also said that their staple food was ore minerals, and magical gems were more of a luxury item.
　In the evening, I would serve them a big dinner to thank them for their help and fill their bellies.
【Ability 【Dragon Vein Mineralization】 learned】
【Ability 【Attribute Strengthening Metal】 learned】
　I went to sleep in a cheerful mood because I was able to learn the ability.
　I'm going to do my best again tomorrow.
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“十三日目”　／　“四■八■三■目”
　巨大宝玉を掘り出し、五人家族の前で披露して見せた後、平伏されて色々あって今に至る。
　そして得られた情報をざっと整理する事にしよう。
　まず、五人家族は“地の精霊”として知られる“ノーム”だろう。
　本当は違うかもしれないが、本人達が『ノーム、ノーム。トゥ・アヴェリオ・ノーム！』『ノーム、ラヴェンラ・フォーク・ノーム！』などと何度も『ノーム』という単語が出ていたので暫定的にそう思う事にした。
　もしかしたらそもそもノームじゃないかもしれないし、ノームだったとしても普通とは違う特別な種である可能性も否定できないが、細かい部分まで正確には通じない今は正誤を知る事は出来ない。
　真実がどうであるにしろ、少なくとも手を振ったり口笛を吹くなどといった簡単な動作だけで周囲の地形を意のままに操る様は大地を司る“地の精霊”感がとても強かった。
　それから、巨大宝玉を掘り出した事が良い効果を発揮したのか、最初からノームの五人家族は友好的だった。
　子供達は物怖じせず遊んで欲しそうに接触してくるし、手を伸ばせば掴まってぶら下がる。
　最初から好感度も何だか高めで、親戚の元気で幼い子供を相手にしている感覚といえば分かるだろうか。
　両親だろう男女はそれを微笑ましそうに見つつ、周囲に転がる鉱石鉱物を手早く集めてそれぞれのインゴットを作ってくれた。
　インゴットは混ざっている不純物を綺麗に分離し、純度を上げた品である事は一齧りで分かった。
　どうしてもあった雑味が無くなっていたからだ。無数の手間と工程があっという間に省略された事になる。
　これだけでも敵対しなかっただけの価値はあった。
　それから一番色々知っているだろう老人と何とか意思疎通を図ったのだが、それは簡単な話ではなかった。
　紡がれる多くの言葉となどから意味などを分析し、意思の疎通を補助してくれる【言語学習】や【自動翻訳】を発動したものの、その成果が出るのはまだ少し時間がかかる。
　ただ何となく程度だが意思は通じるので、久しぶりになる友好的な存在との接触に心は落ち着いたのは間違いない
　採掘作業はゴーレム達に任せ、五人家族とは色々やって何だかんだと時間を過ごした。
　何かしらの情報を持っている友好的な存在との関係を深めるのは重要だ。
　そんな訳で言葉が正確に伝わらないなりに交流し、少しでも情報を仕入れて現在に至る。
　ちなみに五人家族とのコミュニケーションで一役買ってくれたのは、音楽だった。
　適当に響く石や金属を叩いてリズムを刻む。それで身体を動かして踊れば、言葉が無くてもどうにかなるものだ。
　最初に俺が適当に演奏した後、五人家族は応えてくれた。
　カンカカン、キンカンキンキキン。
　カンコン、キンカンコンカン。コンココン。
　リズムに乗った澄んだ音が洞窟内で木霊する。
　弦楽器や管楽器とも違う不思議な音色で、朝食となる鉱石鉱物に伸びる手は自然と止まって耳を傾けてしまう。
　それは前世、サヌカイトという叩くと澄んだ音が出る石で作られた木琴ならぬ石琴を彷彿とさせる楽器を使った、五人家族が奏でる音楽だった。
　石琴は五人家族が周囲から適当に拾ってきた素材が使われている。
　何度か叩いて音を確かめた後、配置された石を叩いている。響く音色は反響し、聴く者の心身を震わせ独特な世界に引き込む魅力があった。
　朝からゆったりとした時間を過ごし、あふれ出る元気のままに作業に移る。
　今日で採掘作業は終了だ。
　明日には地上を目指して出発する。だからその前に出来る限り採掘するのだが、五人家族も手伝ってくれた。
　そのおかげで目的以上の鉱石鉱物が得られた。
　五人家族も主食は鉱石鉱物で、魔法宝石は嗜好品みたいな感じらしい。
　夜には手伝ってもらってお礼も兼ねて大盤振る舞いして腹を満たす。
　【【龍脈鉱化】のラーニング完了】
　【能力名【属性強化金属】のラーニング完了】
　アビリティのラーニングも出来た事もあり、朗らかな雰囲気のまま眠りについた。
　明日も頑張ろうと思う。
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