CH.30: MAGIC STONE AND MAGIC JEWEL

When I came home, I put the items I bought in my room.
I spread and look the items I bought. Especially the magic tool pendants.

Attaching 7 different pendants will get in the way.
Can’t I reduce it somehow?

Thinking that, I pick up a pendant.
I scratched it lightly with the fingernail, thinking whether I can remove the magic jewel fitted in the center, and it’s taken easily.
I didn’t think that it could be removed so easily, so I got a little flustered.
I take a look at the magic jewel and the pendant that has been removed.
The size of the jewel is about 5 mm, and the pendant had no dent in the center where the magic jewel was and it didn’t seem that the magic jewel was fitted.
I think ‘what’s going on?’, I touched the pendant but there was no dent.
I thought, perhaps by pushing the magic jewel on the center of the pendant, and the magic jewel was buried in the pendant.
When it’s buried almost half, it couldn’t be buried any further and it became the original shape.

Eh~, this is so awesome. How does it work?

While looking at the pendant that was restored, I hit on a certain thing.

Maybe, if I skilfully……
Okay, let’s try it.

I could remove the magic jewels and try them out with all the pendants.
The size of a small magic jewel is 3 mm and a big one is about 6 mm.

So far, it’s as expected.
The problem is after this.

First, I pick up the white magic jewel.
And, I press it against the topmost place of the hexagonal star drawn on the disc.
Then, the white magic jewel is buried in the disc.

Good!
Just as I thought.
Let’s put the others in the same way.

The magic jewels are buried one after another according to the hexagonal star.
I fit them the order of white, red, blue, black, yellow and green in the clockwise direction from the top, and finally the transparent magic jewel in the center.
Then what happens.
As soon as I bury the transparent magic jewel, all the magic jewels increased in brightness.
Moreover, the transparent magic jewel began to emit a light of six colors.

Wha, What is that?
What happened?

I saw the pendant for a while, but there was no further change.
I try to put and remove the magic jewels changing the place to fit, in order to investigate that whether the transparent magic jewel buried in the center had some influence on the pendant or it’s another cause.
It resulted in, only when there are 7 magic jewels fitted (if there are more than one of the same color, is not good, or isn’t enough?) and there is a transparent magic jewel in the center, something like before happens.
It seems that the position of the other 6 types of magic jewels isn’t related, and it turns out that even if their positions are other, the shine of the transparent magic jewel in the center will increase.
Next, in order to examine if the change of the physical ability increases when the shine increases, I’ll examine how the change varies whether the transparent magic jewel was attached or not.
I grab the pendant with the 7 magic jewels and go out.
First, I try to lift a big stone without the pendant.
It weights about 40 to 50 kg.
I drop my hips and put strength in my whole body and lift it at once.
Then, it was lifted very easily.

E~h?
This is so light?

I leave the stone and grab it with one hand.
Lifting like that, it’s not light enough and doesn’t go up.
I felt as much weight as I did with the iron array of 10 kg in high school days.
At that time, I felt it was too heavy to train my muscles, but now it may be fine.
I put that in mind.
For the time being, I try not to forget the feeling when I lifted and take out the pendant.
I remove the magic jewel shining in 6 colors in the center of the pendant and hang it on my neck.

Then, what will happen with this?

Again, grab the stone and try to lift it.
I lifted it, but it doesn’t feel that it has changed very much.
No, it certainly feels lighter.
However, it seems that it has become slightly lighter.
Has it gotten from 10 kg to 9 or 9.5 kg? There is almost no difference.
Perhaps, it may be less.
I couldn’t feel any difference.

That means, is the rise in power of the pendant in this state less than 5%?
Or is it a fixed numerical value?
Like +5 or 10.
If it’s applied to this world, is it an increase of 5 kg of muscle strength?
Anyway, if only this rise, will the price go cheap?
Let’s fit the transparent jewel now.

I fit the removed transparent jewel in the center.
Then all the magic jewels shine and the transparent magic jewel change to 6 colors.

Well, let’s challenge it again.

The third challenge.
I picked up the stone and lifted it.
It became light.
It became, but, hmm, how is this?
The sensation was a little lighter than before.
Does it feel like it has become from 9.5 kg to 9.4 kg or 9.3 kg?
It’s subtle.
It’s good that the effect becomes strong, but it’s really only a little.
Well, considering the price, this may be enough.
Besides, if it’s effective for the other jewels, it means that is a rising of 6% in total.
If so, it’s quite amazing, right?

By this inspection, I roughly understood the increase of the effect of the pendant.
It’s going to rise, I can’t expect much.
If I enter the dungeon, although it will increase the effect, it seems better to think about doing it calmly.
Let’s do the same process to the other pendants.

I went back to my room and put the magic jewels in the pendants.
All the magic jewels were filled in 4 pendants, and 24 pendants were left.
I saw the extra pendants, and I felt that it was a waste.
There is a use to them if it’s possible to obtain only magic jewels, but a magic jewel isn’t sold alone.
Because it seems to be sold with other accessories, if I buy it, I’ll have extra accessories.

Wasteful.
Can’t I do it somehow?
Can I substitute the magic jewels with magic stones?

The magic stone is brought close to the pendant with that thought, but it wasn’t buried.

As expected, it’s wrong, eh?
The appearance and the size are different, so it isn’t a substitute.

I think such a thing while looking at the magic stone in my hand.

However, magic jewels and magic stones are quite different.

I compare the magic stone with the magic jewel which I fitted in the pendant.
The size seems like the same, but the appearance is completely different.
A literal difference.
Just a stone and a jewel.
A mere stone can’t surpass a jewel, no matter how much you polish it.
The stone must have some value to surpass a jewel.
For example, if it contains unknown minerals.
While thinking about such a thing, I was comparing the pendant and the magic stone in my hand, but when I approached them to compare, a certain change was observed.
Some magic jewels that were fitted on the pendant and the magic stones shone slightly.
The shining magic jewel was blue, and the magic stone I had in my hand was also blue.
I was watching them while thinking what’s this? but there was no further change.
When the two were kept away, the light ceased.
Approaching them, they shone again.
Then, why don’t I bring them closer?
The light is getting stronger.
Then, when they got close to a certain distance, a blue haze comes out of the blue magic stone, and it’s sucked into the blue magic jewel.
The blue magic stone became smaller and disappeared a the end.
Instead, the blue magic jewel seems to have increased its brightness.
I was stunned at the event, but after a while, I regained my mind.

What on earth is it now?
Was the haze that comes out of the magic stone absorbed by the magic jewel?
What’s that?

I had no idea what the current phenomenon would be.
I want to try if this happens with the other magic stones.
I try other magic stones one after another.
The same phenomenon occurred when trying in turn with all the red, yellow, green, white and black.
What I found out about this was that the magic jewels absorbed the same colored magic stones (they didn’t react at all to the magic stones of other colors)
One conjecture came out of that.
That,

By any chance, the magic stone is a material to grow magic jewels?

was what comes out.
If so, the magic stone value appears with the magic jewel.
For example, the gas cans of the portable cooking stove.
There is the portable cooking stove, so the gas cans are useful. Otherwise, it’s only dangerous and disturbing.

I divide the 6 kinds of magic stones that I bought into 4 equal parts.
I started to absorb the magic stones that were divided, but when I absorbed some of them, I noticed that the magic jewel became a little bigger.
I noticed that and changed the way I absorb them.
First, I let other magic jewels absorb the magic stones until they became as big as the biggest magic jewel of that color.
Then, the remaining magic stones were divided into 4 and absorbed.
As a result, the size of the magic jewels became almost the same. Even if I say that it’s not so large, even the big ones are about 6 mm and the small ones have only become spheres about 5 mm.
In other words, every pendant has the same effect.
Because all the transparent jewels were about the same size, it shouldn’t be so different.
Now, they are ready to be given to Pochi and the others.
I’ll just put them around the neck.
I hang one on my neck and take out the other three.
And, the pendants are hung on the neck of Pochi, Haku, and Koku.
Then the chain of the pendant shrank and change to a length suitable for Pochi and the others.

As expected of a Magic Item.
Is there such a thing?
Then, will it become a Just Size when a magic armor which was obtained in the dungeon is worn by Pochi and the others?
This is worth checking out.
It will be after I earn money because now I can’t afford it.

Pochi and the others who got the pendant were quite pleased, so it was worth to give.
When I gave it, I stroke them as much as I could.
They become happy because they are more pleased when I stroke them.
Let’s go buy magic stones regularly until its value is found. I thought that.

Author’s Note: There are people who are aware of the relationship between magic stones and magic jewels, but there is no one who talks about the matter. The reason is to buy the magic stones cheaply as the main character.
Also, the main character hasn’t noticed, but the reason why the magic stones and the magic jewels reacted was because he gained a certain level of power b knocking down the monster, so even if you don’t defeat a monster, or even if you defeat and gain little power, the magic stones, and the magic jewels don’t react, also, you couldn’t remove the magic jewels from the accessories.
For this reason, there are only a few people who are aware of the enhancement of the pendant by the placement of magic jewels.