Hey . Do you know what kind of trees are good for firewood?’

I looked at the many trees outside of the town and asked the slimes .

However…

‘I don’t know!’

‘I don’t know either!’

I did not receive a good answer .

Well, it wasn’t like slimes or wolves went around burning firewood . So it was to be expected .

So I decided to just cut down a random tree .

“Uhhh…magic that is good for cutting trees…”

I searched through my inventory of magic for something that would help me .

And then I found something called ‘Axe Summon . ’

That was exactly what I needed to cut down trees .

“Axe Summon . ”

I chanted . And then a large axe appeared in front of me .

To be honest, I would have preferred a chainsaw, but there was no ‘Chainsaw Summon,’ so this would have to do .

‘This might be dangerous, so stand back . ’

‘Understood!’

‘Okay!’

I told the slimes and the wolf to move back before I started .

After all, I had never cut down a tree before .

Even if I was able to cut it down, I wasn’t sure which way it would fall .

Most people in j.a.pan don’t have the opportunity to hold an axe .

“…Like this?”

I muttered as I held it like a baseball bat .

…It didn’t seem exactly right, but hopefully, my skills would cover for me .

After all, an axe was still a weapon . Perhaps ‘Ultra Combat Art’ would give me a nice boost .

I thought about this as I swung the axe horizontally, with a baseball-like form .

And then…with a satisfying sound, the axe went one-third of the way into the tree .

…This was clearly due to Ultra Combat Arts .

The tree I was trying to cut was at least 50cm thick . It wasn’t something a novice could easily cut down .

With that in mind, I pulled it out and swung again towards the place I had just cut .

The blade of the axe went right into the gap and the trunk of the tree was severed completely .

Ultra Combat Art sure was useful…

And then the tree fell .

Thankfully, it did not fall towards me, and I quickly prepared to turn it into firewood .

The first thing to do was to cut off the branches .

“…Like this…?”

I muttered as I swung the axe without really thinking .

When using the axe, you could rely on Ultra Combat Art to take care of aiming .

It was almost scary that randomly swinging the axe worked with this skill .

And like this, the tree turned into a single log in about 5 minutes .

I continued to swing the axe without really thinking, and the log was cut into pieces of just the right size before being split vertically .

…Eventually, I had something that looked just like firewood .

I thought this would be really hard work, but it was easier than expected .

Well, it would have been hard had I not had this skill .

Now, all I had to do was dry them out .

And so I looked through my magic again .

But…I couldn’t find anything that seemed useful .

Altering magic was used mostly for changing the shape of wood or metal, and wouldn’t help dry them out .

You would think that magic to dry things would be quite common…but apparently, there hadn’t been anything like that in the books I read .

And all my knowledge of magic came from those books .

There were so many of them, that I wasn’t even aware of all of them .  

…Oh, well . I guess I could use fire magic .

If I used something like h.e.l.lfire of Death, there wouldn’t even be ashes left, but maybe there was something else that could help dry them .

That being said, it seemed a little silly to use fire magic for a long time just to acquire fuel…

Still, I searched for some fire magic I could use…

And then I had the idea of checking my Tamer Skills instead .

And then I found something at once .

— ‘Slime Water Absorption . ’

It was apparently a slime exclusive skill . And it absorbed water .

If I could use this on the firewood, then all of my problems would be solved .

‘Do you know a skill called Slime Water Absorption?’

‘No . ’

‘We have to drink water?’

‘Is the water good?’

The slimes were not aware of this skill .

They had used Slime Storage without me even telling them to, but it seemed like it was different with Slime Exlclusive skills .

Well, I guess I should try it then .