Chapter 44: 44

TLN: Welp. I accidentally put 2 chapters on here, so that kinda ruins the drafts' names I have yet to edit..... but, because I am too lazy to split them, I am going to post chapter 45 here as well. You can see a partition in there pretty clearly. Remember! THIS IS BOTH CHAPTER 44 AND CHAPTER 45!!!

 

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Chapter 44 — Road

　Having succeeded in creating the spell [Wall Construction], I decided to start building a road next. (TLN: Wall door questions? Read on....)

　Right now, the wall is surrounding a square-shaped piece of land with a length of 4km.

　There is a forest on the northern side and a village on the southern side.

　For the time being, I will make a road toward the doorway that is the junction between the base and the village in the wall and the doorway that connects to the designated protected forest area in the forest on the northern side.

　After having reincarnated in this world, I feel gratitude to roads.....

　Because I can't find a decent road here.

　Basically, there is a road around here that people often pass by, but that was made naturally.

　It was rough on the way from the village to the city.

　It was difficult to walk and ride in a cart on a road with just the obstacles that could cause traffic closures removed and the minimum maintenance that were needed.

　I want to make something that was a little better that that, at least.

　Actually, I thought I had already prepared something like a passage to the entrance on the wall that I am planning to create.

　I used [Soil Improvement] for the part to be used as a field, but I kept a road-like path by using [Leveling].

　But there were those who ruined that.

　They not beasts like the wild boars, but humans.

　The people who undertake work in my land, including my brother, had neglected to maintain it.

　[Leveling] makes it so that the land is clean and flat, so it is very easy to walk on it.

　However, if you are moving something by pulling a cart loaded with harvested goods, the ground will be scooped out where the wheels touch it.

　As long as that continues, the soil becomes bumpy, which makes it difficult to move the cart.

　Then what do you do?

　You then have to travel over the field as far as you need to to not be stopped by the uneven soil. The people working here decided to start moving through the field and not the road that had gotten bumpy, but were pretty careful about it at the beginning.

　I was also careful at first.

　However, it seems that human beings have a thought circuit that they think they can do something when they see other people doing it.

　Before I knew it, most people started to move on the fields as they pleased without following the route I had originally decided everyone should move on.

　They could be very careful, but there is a possibility that they will not heed that advice.

　If so, I want to secure what can be called a solid road at this time.

　That was my thought process.

　* * *

"I shouldn't worry ..."

　I tried making some roads with magic.

　At first, I thought about solidifying the road with concrete.

　However, there was something I was worried about.

　Sure, concrete and asphalt roads look pretty, but I think the people who ordered them actually had to pay for maintenance.

　It may not make sense to consider the construction and maintenance costs because the road I am making is made by magic anyway, but is it too greedy for me to want to make a long-lasting road which may be a big deal in the future?

　With that in mind, I rushed into the task of digging up memories and information that I had heard in my previous life.

　I'm not sure about everything, because I've never been involved in road building.

　However, I remember hearing that roads that were more than 1000 years old still remain today.

　One such type of roads are the cobblestone roads created by the ancient Roman Empire.

　I've heard that the ancient nations that have existed since B.C. certainly have roads they have created with their outstanding technology survive to this day.

　Regardless of how hard it was to maintain, I should have seen on TV that it certainly made a lot of sense.

　The basic method should have been like this.

　First, dig deep into the ground according to how much you want to be the the width of the road.

　Then, stones are buried in the hole, and clay and gravel are laid on that.

　After that, the cobblestone stones are neatly placed on top of the clay and gravel.

　At this time, the point to note is that when the cross section of the road is viewed from the side, the central part of the road rises slightly and becomes lower toward the end.

　This is a device that allows water to flow to the edge of the road when it rains and make sure it will not flood.

　But there are additional benefits.

　It is said that the slight inclination makes it difficult for the cobblestone stones to shift due to the weight of each other pressing on every single cobblestone.

　By doing this, it is possible to lay a road that is strong against water and heavy objects.

　However, I think that there were some drawbacks.

　Basically, it seems that this Roman road was only laid straight.

　How thorough it was was that the road was laid in a straight line to the destination by making a tunnel and penetrating it without bypassing the mountain.

　It's a scary think that you can only do it straight.

　Can you tell how much the destinations 10km and 100km away will be off by just one degree of an angle towards the destination?

　This road cannot be used without out-of-order measurement technology. (TLN: Most likely talking about how if you wanted to connect a road to another place with the Roman Empire's roads, you'd need to be precise, because if you were even 1 degree off, then after a long time, it would be really different. Like a star's light rays. The farther they get, the more spread-out they become. Example. 

"Well, but do I want to try it with this thing?"

　However, I dared to build this Roman road.

　The reason is simply because.... it's my hobby.

　That was the only reason I had a longing for cobblestone roads.

　To be honest, I don't know how much effort it will take to maintain it, but once it's spell is patented, it won't be that much of a pain if I have my Familiars help me.

　With that in mind, I started to work on the image in my head to create a new road.

 

 

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Conversation With Younger Brother — Chapter 45

 

TLN: We finally know that there is a younger brother! So, as of now, there are 3 children in Ars' family! I think that Ars' brother wasn't introduced yet, because he had still yet to pass the Baptismal ceremony and didn't have a name before that.....

 

 

 

"Nii-san, what's with your difficult-looking face?"

"Hmm? Kyle? No, I'm just thinking about something."

　My younger brother, Kyle, talked to me as I was thinking about the road.

　The boy who finished the baptismal ceremony this year.

"Actually, it seems that the window panes I made aren't selling at all."

"Oh, that transparent and beautiful item? Mom said it was a hindrance to the other things piled up in the warehouse."

　That's right.

　I had came up with a new product, glass panes for windows, when I went to the city.

　I thought it would definitely sell, but it didn't sell at all.

　All the buildings I saw in the city were made of brick and had no windows.

　They're so closed in that the buildings feel like prisons.

　That's why I thought that if more houses with windows were added as new buildings, more people would be happy.

　However, those window panes didn't sell at all.

　The reason is simple.

　This is probably because the residents are not dissatisfied with the current situation.

　No matter how much I say, "This is a good thing," no one wants to try something they've never seen before.

　I was reborn in this world and have been keenly aware of it.

　What this means is that what I think of as necessary and beneficial things might not sell.

　It is the fact that some people wanted an item that could be sold as a product, and not all convenient products may be sold that trade and selling even works.

　By the way, I think I heard that in countries and regions where economic power was low, even in my previous life, only simple and hard-to-break products were sold compared to high-quality and high-performance products, and many Japanese products had some difficulties selling there.

　Isn't there anyone spending money on things they don't need even more in this area where people are bartering in the village?

"I don't think they're going to sell."

"Is it really that unlikely to sell? I would certainly want some of the other items, though."

"Eh? Kyle, do you want something?"

"Yeah. I'm always admiring the beautiful furniture in Ars-nii's new house, thinking that they look really good."

　Is it furniture ...

　By the way, when I recreated the inn with magic, there was nothing, so I asked the lumberjacks to help make me some furniture as well as the door.

　I had them make chairs and shelves on the reception counter by looking over them working.

　I also like the new bed because it has a nice scent of wood.

"If people want that type of furniture, not many lumberjacks make and sell furniture. Why is it that?"

"Isn't it because the wood that'll be used is heavy when carrying it?"

"... I see. It may be possible."

　Certainly, Maddock-san seems to have said that the wood cut by the lumberjacks is most often sold as firewood.

　There are several reasons.

　This is because there is little demand for large timber because there are few wooden buildings to watch out for fires because there is a spell called [Ignition] in life magic.

　All you need may be furniture materials and firewood.

　However, there is not much demand for furniture in the village because old ones are used carefully.

　On the other hand, the city is far away.

　It takes three days to walk.

　A peddler who makes a decent amount of money may be able to buy and get a Familiar that can pull a cart.

　However, the lumberjacks don't have that much reserved funds, so they can't buy a Familiar.

　As a result, only the firewood loaded on the back of the carrier can be carried.

　There may be such a situation.

"It's an interesting idea. Let's see if furniture sells by putting some up for one test run."

"Yeah. I hope it sells, nii-san."

"If it sells, it's Kyle's credit. Let's buy a feast from a peddler and eat it."

"It's a promise, nii-san!"

　Yeah, it might be a good idea.

　And to be honest, I wanted to sell something other than what my magic makes.

　My magical power may be greater than that of humans, but it is not infinite.

　It's also not econimically good that only the items I make sell.

　At the extreme, my absence would cause an economic collapse in the village.

　My land has expanded to a certain extent, and it may be time to create an environment where not only myself, but also the people around me can make money.

　Shall we make something like a company?

　Apparently, there is a tendency for peddlers to buy things that are made in each indivisual household from people that are essentially working at home, but it seems that there is no system in which many people work together to make common products.

　If furniture sells to some extent, it may be interesting to work hard to build a building like a factory and hire people to make products.

　From the conversation with my brother, I came up with something I wanted to do.

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