Chapter 89: The journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step Having been commissioned by Margrave Volton with the establishment of the reclamation village, I started by securing a large quant.i.ty of stones in preparation for it.
While I"m getting the stones from the rocky mountains at the undeveloped area, Sophia and Maria started the construction work of the highway with t.i.tan and Laeva guarding them. Working hard as my guard was Kaede.
「Oooh, you"ve made considerable progress. You guys sure did your best.」
「Yes, I prepared the terrain with Spirit magic, and Maria worked meticulously.」
「Tak.u.mi-sama, I did my best!」
「That"s amazing, Maria. Good work too, Laeva, t.i.tan.」
Collecting the stone took me 2 days, and during that time, half of the highway was completed with Sophia and Maria"s efforts.
Once I joined them, the work speed became much quicker and on the next day, a highway 100 km in length from the town of Volton was completed. The width of the road is one where large carriages can pa.s.s each other, and the surface was 20 cm thick stone prepared with Earth Magic. Also, that surface was processed to make it difficult to slip.
「Here, there"s definitely a river and a spring.」
The location we arrived at was a small hill with a copse surrounding it and a flowing river close by.
「If you look at just this, it would be the ideal location to make a reclamation village, wouldn"t it.」
The reason Sophia said this was because when we"ve been using Enemy Search since we arrived and we discovered there were twice the amount of monsters inhabiting here compared to the outskirts of Volton.
With breaks in between, I made the ramparts using Earth magic to enclose the town-to-be. I finished enclosing the town 2 km east to west and 3 km north to south in 10 days. It took another 3 days to erect two guard towers at each junction of the curtain walls.
Having finished the curtain wall, I worked with Maria in the construction of the sewage system and septic tanks, excavation of water wells, as well as dig a waterway for the aqueduct water into the interior of the curtain walls and up to an agricultural land.
「Sophia, can you please go to Margrave Volton to request the transfer of the pioneers?」
「Understood.」
Sophia got on Tsubaki with Kaede as their guard and headed to Volton.
When the pioneers, adventurers, and soldiers that will be stationed arrived from Volton, I had just finished mowing the gra.s.s and mixing fertilizer made from synthesized monster innards into the soil.
Coming from the drawbridge of the moat, the pioneers, adventurers, soldiers, all of them were dumbfounded with their jaws dropped.
「「「「「…………………………」」」」」
「……W-what is the meaning of this?! Irumdono!」
「Ah, it"s you, Dorn-san. Everyone of the pioneering people and escorts, thank you for your hard work.」
Quick to recover, the Knight Leader of Margrave Volton"s territory Dorn-san demanded an explanation from me, so I did.
「No no no, please wait, Irumdono! This fortress town, in this short amount of time, was completed by this number of people?!」
「No, it"s not complete yet. The buildings constructed are minimal, and there are many areas that I want to revise. As expected, the time wasn"t enough.」
We drank mana potions as we worked, but even then, we have a limit. Our levels went up and magic capacity increased, but making a town in 1 month is still impossible.
We went out in rotation to suppress monsters to relieve stress so there wasn"t enough time. But It seems we overdid the construction. But we can"t downsize it now so it"s fine.
The eternally noisy pioneers were guided to the houses, and the stationed knights were guided to the barracks.
「Dorn-san, I will guide you to the castle.」
「…………please do.」
Dorn-san seems to have abandoned thinking.
I left the guiding of the pioneers to the girls and showed Dorn-san and a part of thee soldiers to the castle.