"Based on the test just now, setting aside factors like Divine Duties and technique, it seemed the idea was correct: the higher a weapon's priority, the more durability damage it could inflict on Gigas Cedar.
But the key issue was that weapons with a lower priority than Kil's Cedar would also cause it to lose a great deal of durability when they struck it.
The Dragon Bone Axe's priority of around level fifteen was not actually low.
After all, the level-twenty-priority longsword in my hands was an excellent weapon that Father had only managed to have the town blacksmith forge after spending years of savings."
In a world modeled after the medieval West, iron goods had always been expensive, and weapons were even more so.
In a remote little village like Rulid Village, every household's farming tools were important assets.
If Seiya had not been adopted by the village chief, who had some savings, and if Seiya had not been the village's hope and a prodigy, he probably would never have gotten his hands on this Fine Steel Longsword.
The idea of using a weapon with a higher priority than the Dragon Bone Axe to cut down the tree was feasible.
But carrying it out was far too difficult. Unless they were immensely wealthy, they simply could not afford the cost of cutting down Gigas Cedar.
The village wanted to cut down Gigas Cedar precisely because it was poor.
If they had that much money, they would not be here cutting down a tree in the first place. It was a dead end.
"Maybe the village doesn't have any powerful weapons, but what about the Flaint Mountain Range?
Hasn't there always been a legend in the village? At the end of the Flaint Mountain Range, there is an enormous White