Chapter 75: 76

Chapter 76 - Building a Castle

 

　What is a castle?

　It is a symbol of authority and power, as well as a key element for defense.

　However, the most important aspect of a castle is its ability to defend itself against attacks.

　So, how can we improve our defensive capabilities?

　The most important factor is how to prevent the opponent's attack.

　In other words, the function and shape required will change depending on the attack capability of the other side.

　That is what a castle is.

　It seems that castles with ramparts are the norm around here.

　This may be because in this world where magic exists, there are no weapons such as guns or cannons.

　Perhaps there haven't been many scientific developments in this world.

　As I recall, in my previous life, the development of cannon technology had destroyed the usefulness of rampart structures easily.

　It was because the cannons could destroy the entire castle walls.

　However, I think that the magic here is usually like the flying icicles that the Fontana knights used, which were not on the scale of completely breaking the walls.

　I think it is possible to build an impregnable castle if you surround it with walls.

　So I proposed a plan to Gran.

　If anything, why don't we build a moat around the castle walls?

　There is a river nearby, which is a great source of water.

　There's no way we can't use it to improve our defense.

　On the other hand, Gran insisted on improving the walls and building towers.

　The wall that I can build with my [Wall Building] spell is 10 meters high and 5 meters thick, which is quite defensive, but its original purpose was to prevent the rush attacks of wild boars.

　It was not intended to prevent human attacks by an army.

　For this reason, we modified the wall to allow us to climb to the top of the wall built with [Wall Building] and intercept them from there.

　Stairs to climb the wall will be built everywhere inside, and a shield wall will be built on top to protect against magic and arrows.

　We will also build towers on all four sides of the wall.

　These towers are supposed to be higher than the walls so that we can see farther.

　So, we decided to build a castle with towers sticking out on all four sides of the square-shaped base, or what we call a western-style castle, as a rough image of completion.

　We began work on it immediately.

　However, we had already leveled the surrounding land with [Land Clearing] and surrounded it with walls built with [Wall Construction] as Kawakita's position.

　We decided to rebuild based on this.

　First, I decided to divide the people between me and Gran.

　I've already named all 300 people who came to me, and I'm going to divide them into those who can use 【Wall Construction】 and those who can't.

　I personally led those who could use the spell and gathered those who could not on Gran's side.

　The reason why they can't use [Wall Construction] is because they don't have a lot of mana, but they can use spells such as [Brick Creation] normally.

　Gran seemed to have the members of his team make bricks first, and then use the bricks to start building a tower.

　As for me, I'll be building a moat.

　First, I will use magic to dig into the ground.

　This is something only I can do.

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　I'm the only one who can do this because it's not a spell.

　But I'm used to it because I've made many big holes in the ground when I was hunting the boars.

　I drank a potion to restore my mana and dug more and more around the camp.

　The ground I dug up, I was afraid to draw water from the river and pour it directly into it.

　If the ground I dug collapsed under the flow of water, the walls would collapse from their foundations.

　That's why I decided to have the members of the team that I had brought with me work on the [Wall Construction] to reinforce the soil that I had dug with my magic.

　We set up the wall against the side of the hole we dug.

　This would probably make a reasonably strong foundation.

　In this way, a water moat about 10 meters deep was built around the camp.

　After building the moat around the camp, I left the work of reinforcing the foundation to Gran and went to check on him.

　Apparently, Gran's work was progressing quite well.

　He finished making the bricks in no time at all, and then piled them up to form a tower.

　Because his party uses [Body Strengthening] for this work, it progresses so quickly that it seems as if Gran is controlling a machine.

　Surprisingly, the work was so fast that it only took about three days to build a single tower.

"Phew phew. What do you think, Ars-dono? Look at this magnificent tower, desu."

"It's nice. It's got an ambiance."

"It's not just ambiance, desu. It is also very useful, that it is, desu. Now, we must build the other three towers as soon as possible, that we will, desu."

"No, that won't be necessary. I've already learned the process.

"What? What do you mean, Ars-dono?"

　A watchtower that Gran built.

　There was a spiral staircase inside the tower, with several arched windows on the way to the top.

　Basically, it was a very simple structure.

　And when the first tower was completed, I passed my magic into this tower.

　I've done this a few times before, passing mana through a structure and inputting the knowledge gained into my brain using a spell called [Memory Preservation].

　It was just a random idea, but it was a success.

　I can understand the structure of the tower perfectly.

　And from my past experience, I had a feeling that I could build it in one go with magic, just like the inn or my home.

　I walked to the remaining tower building sites.

　I drank  Mana Recovery Medicine to restore my mana to its maximum.

　In that state, I kneaded my magic power and used it to recreate the structure of the tower as I remembered it.

　I knew it.

　It seems that my mana has gone up a bit again.

　After I finished recreating the tower with my own mana, I built a brick tower according to the shape of the original tower.

　A 30-meter tall tower that could be completed in an instant.

　This was done in two other locations that day.

　Thus, a few days after the field battle with Fontana's army, I had succeeded in building a solid castle surrounded by a huge moat.

 

CadmarLegend Yosh. 3 chapters in one day. #proudofmyself. I spent less time translating now than I did when I first started. I sped up by almost 10 minutes. Still, sorry for any grammatical errors that might be here. I usually rely on others (readers) to point them out. I personally don't particularly look through the chapter after finishing it unless I was really tired the day when I translated it and later doubted if the translations were correct. Once again, I plead that you join the discord server. 

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