I’m Just a Villager, So What? - Volume 01 by Shiraishi Arata

Author:Shiraishi Arata
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hanashi Media, LLC
Published: 2025-08-24T00:00:00+00:00

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Ten hours later, a narrow ten-centimeter hole in the chamber wall now held a thick bundle of kindling, ignited and burning with a slow, focused flame.

“Are you serious? You honestly believe this will kill a Minotaur?” Lilith’s flat voice echoed beside me, tinged with faint incredulity.

“As serious as I’ve ever been,” I replied without hesitation.

I’d kept that flame lit for ten hours straight, feeding log after log into the small breach, controlling the fire with a basic utility spell. Hundreds of logs—maybe even over a thousand—had been consumed.

As for the chamber inside… it was completely starved of oxygen, choked with soot and smoke.

I kept feeding the fire, forcing combustion with magic. My nearly bottomless mana pool made it possible. And the Minotaur, bound to the room by its summoning, had no way to flee.

In short, it was a nightmare in there.

Lilith, however, still didn’t seem to grasp the chemical—and biological—horror we’d unleashed.

“Do you honestly think you can kill a Minotaur by burning some logs?” she murmured, deadpan.

“Then open the door and see for yourself,” I said, shrugging. “If this didn’t work, I might as well give up now.”

I reached for the handle and shoved the steel door open. A blast of hot air hit us like a physical blow. Acrid, black smoke belched out of the chamber, thick and stifling.

Lilith took a step back, her eyes widening ever so slightly.

“This is… almost unbelievable.”

Well, of course, she was shocked; right there on the floor, the mighty Minotaur was twitching, barely clinging to life.

Still alive after all that? Damn… this Altar of Madness isn’t playing around.

“Why… Why did this happen?” Lilith asked quietly, staring at the downed beast in disbelief.

I turned toward her with a raised brow.

“Have you ever heard of incomplete combustion?”

“‘Incomplete… combustion?’” she repeated slowly, puzzled.

“Let me put it another way. You know what happens when you keep burning stuff in a small, sealed space?”

“No.”

“To put it simply, it creates poison. And when your body absorbs too much of that poison, we call it carbon monoxide poisoning.”

“‘Carbon… monoxide… poisoning?’”

Yeah, trying to explain charcoal suicides in this world isn’t going to get me far. But my point still stands.

With a sharp breath, I flashed the twitching Minotaur a good old-fashioned middle finger.

“You muscle-brained slab of steak… Don’t ever underestimate the species that conquered Earth, you third-rate livestock.”

Name: Ryuto Maclaine

Race: Human

Class: Villager

Age: 12

Level: 1 → 12

HP: 50 / 50 → 650 / 650

MP: 12,050 / 12,050 → 13,400 / 13,400

Attack: 35 → 185

Defense: 35 → 170

Magic: 2,154 → 2,350

Evasion: 55 → 225

Enhancement Skills

【Physical Enhancement: Level 10 (MAX)】

Effect: Temporarily doubles Attack, Defense, and Evasion when activated.

【Steel Body Technique: Level 10 (MAX)】

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