Chapter 76: 77

Chapter 77 - Road Maintenance

 

"Hmm, this reminds me of the old days. ......"

　The construction of the castle had been completed.

　However, in reality, it was still mostly functional only in appearance.

　From the outside, it's a solid castle surrounded by walls with high towers on all sides, but inside, it is just like the inn-like buildings that I built.

　Some people might say that they wouldn't recognize such a thing as a castle.

　Or rather, Gran did.

　He insists that the interior space should be more properly built.

　Well, I can't help but understand his feelings.

　I also want to build something good anyway, because it would be more luxurious.

　However, one problem has arisen here.

　It was about food.

　The number of people has increased from about 100 to 300.

　As a result, the amount of food consumed every day has increased.

　It is only natural that the number of people would increase, but it is chilling to see the food in the warehouse dwindling at a frightening rate every day.

　It was only when I saw the real thing that I realized how much food was consumed by just 300 people.

　The sight reminded me of the time when I had started mass-producing Familiars.

　I had started cultivating the land to feed the growing number of Valkyries.

　It never occurred to me that this would lead to a battle like this, and that I would once again be faced with a food shortage-like problem.

　This food problem was not something that would cause us to starve to death.

　We have enough to eat if we carry enough from the village.

　In the end, Barca had more than enough wheat for this year's crop, as it turned into a battle before the tax was collected.

　So what was the problem? It was about transportation.

　A castle was built between Barca villiage in the north and the noble city in the south.

　However, the road that was originally there was only minimal enough for people to pass through, and it was not a road that could be used to move things quickly.

　Even so, it would be possible to carry food.

　However, I wanted to make a few changes.

　I thought about it for a while, but then I decided to fix the road.

　It seemed that the Fontana family was moving slowly, and it didn't look like they were going to attack anytime soon.

　So I decided to build up a supply route so that we could win in a battle of endurance.

　That's what I thought and decided to take action.

　I also decided to take action in the neighboring villages as well.

　Thanks to the gathering of people from the neighboring village, we were able to receive food from there as well.

　However, the neighboring village had no protection other than a wooden fence around it.

　There was a possibility that the neighboring village would be the first to be targeted, not the castle we had built or the village of Barka.

　So we thought it would be better to leave the village with a little more defense.

　I left about 200 people in the castle and took about 100 with me to start the maintenance.

　First of all, me and the people who could use [Wall Construction] headed for the neighboring village.

　In the neighboring village, the first thing we did was to build the two towers that I had memorized using [Memory Preservation].

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　Then we built a wall to connect to the towers and surround the village.

　The purpose of the wall is not for stopping a siege, but rather to provide shelter in case of emergency and to monitor the surroundings.

　So, I just created the wall with a spell and didn't improve it so that it couldn't be climbed up and intercepted.

　I also built a single building out of hardened bricks.

　We decided to use the building as a barracks.

　This is where Vargas recommended a diligent young man should be placed.

　His role would be to go up to the tower every day to keep an eye on the surroundings, and when something happened, he would come to report to me, riding on the Valkyrie that I left in the barracks.

　If he uses the [Body Strengthening] spell, he can at least manage to hold on and move around on a Valkyrie which is at top speed.

　In this way, even if there are armies bypassing the castle north of the river without directly targeting it, the possibility of detecting them in advance will increase.

　If not, he could at least escape with the villagers in case of emergency.

　In this way, I finished raising the defenses of the neighboring village and met up with the members who had split up on the way.

　They were the ones who couldn't use 【Wall Construction】.

　Those who can't use [Wall Construction] don't have enough mana, which means they can't do [Road Laying] either.

　However, they can use 【Leveling】 as usual.

　That's why I told them to do [Leveling] on the road while I was in the neighboring village.

　Just by doing that, the road became possible to move on many times faster than before.

　However, this [Leveling] is not a panacea.

　I have experienced that the wheels of a cart in the settlement have made the leveled land uneven.

　Therefore, I decided to do [Road Laying] on this leveled land.

　It was a six-meter wide road made of hardened bricks with sidewalks on both sides.

　The speed of movement on it will be even faster than that of the land that has just been leveled.

　However, there was a drawback to this spell, [Road Laying].

　It can only be laid out in a basically straight line.

　If I'm around, I can use images in my brain instead of spells to create roads with curves and intersections.

　But I want to keep my involvement to a minimum.

　It's only natural that there are other people who can use the [Road Laying] spell, although not all of them.

　However, it is more difficult than I thought to build a road that goes exactly straight to a remote destination.

　This is because we don't have the measuring ability.

　So, what to do?

　I overcame this problem with brute force.

　I built the tower again.

　I built tall towers at several turns and at the right intervals and had the workers use [Road Laying] from tower to tower.

　Although there were some discrepancies, we managed to connect the roads and build them.

　In this way, a new road was completed, connecting the castle in the camp north of the river, Barca village, and the neighboring villages.

　The completion of this road naturally increased the speed of transportation, but it was unexpected that it also made it possible to return to one's village at night.

　Originally, it had taken a little more than a day's walk to get from the village of Barca to the castle, but now that the roads had been improved and Valkyries were pulling the carts, it was possible to make the round trip in a day.

　This allowed the villagers to return to their own villages on a rotating basis, allowing me to do my work with the ease of a migrant worker, which in turn increased the number of people who joined the group a little more.

 

CadmarLegend Well, here's the chapter~ hope you like it~ lots of thanks to the people who joined the discord server.

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