Yenica Palerover (2)
It smells like gold coins.
Lortel’s sense of smell relentlessly picks up the scent of money.
The place is the Trix Hall, where key academic personnel reside… In fact, it is the heart of the faculty and staff area.
The exterior walls are neatly stacked with black and red bricks and marbles adorn the exterior in an antique way.
The windows are shiny and shiny no matter what time you come, and the entrance is so majestic that there are almost two people on the watch at the back of the front door.
It was the gathering place of those who wielded all the final decisions at the top of the Sylvania administrative system, including managing academic finances, managing education schedules, reviewing student complaints, and making final decisions about the direction of academic policy. The offices of Principal Obel and Vice Principal Rachel are also located here.
Very few students come and go here. If you look at the people around, most of them were general staff, professors, or outsourced workers. Students, who are busy with their learning, have no reason to go to the administrative building outside the professor building.
Lortel smiled at the staff guarding the entrance and headed towards the lobby.
The smell of gold coins irritating the nose. Finally, the source has been revealed.
In the center of the main lobby of the Trix building, the treasure and the source of this school, which are carefully displayed on a glass shelf, are showing off their appearance.
From the outside, it’s not that flashy. It is just one book of magic that is scattered here and there and there are many damaged places.
However, if you name it ‘Sage’s Seal’, whoever it is, you swallow dry saliva.
A record of exploring and discussing ‘Aspect Magic’ by the great sage, Sylvania Robester, who founded this school.
Astrology, which predicts the flow of stars and uses that power to twist and break the providence of the world itself, is known to be the most incomprehensible and profound among the realms of magic.
Numerous investigators have tried to interpret and reproduce the records of that seal, but the study has not been completed. In short, it is a book that remains the ultimate challenge for academia.
Academic value aside, that book is the symbol of this Sylvanian Academy.
There is a fixed time when the book comes out from that glass shelf. Except when necessary for the study of gender studies, it is only when there are public events representing the school, such as the entrance ceremony for new students, the inauguration of the student council president or principal, and the year-end graduation ceremony.
“Hmm~.”
Lortel took a deep breath as she stood in front of the shelf and looked at the sage’s seal.
“Yeah, it smells like money.”
With a natural smile, Lortel whispered softly.
That book was the trigger that signaled the beginning of all events,
It is the heart of the Sylvania Academy,
It was the first target product of the Elte Trading Company.
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[ Life Skills Details ]
Grade: Beginner Craftsman
Specialty: Woodworking
Dexterity Lv 10
Design Lv 4
Gathering Ability Lv 8
Woodworking Lv 10
Hunting Lv 7
Fishing Lv 6
Cooking Lv 5
Repair Lv 5
He threw a box full of saws, hammers, sharp-edged axes, shovels, machetes, and nails on the floor. It was less than one gold coin.
Sylvania is an educational institution. I was a little worried about selling these woodworking products in such a living building in Sylvania, but I was able to get a lot of good quality items from the Elte company that didn’t really have anything.
So I sat on a log bench in the camp and bent my body here and there.
The final chapter of Act 1 is over, and for the time being, there is nothing important in the scenario.
By the next semester, I had less worries about tuition, so I had a lot of time to train my body and make efforts to improve my standard of living.
The proper start of the second act is from the second semester. There is a final evaluation episode before that, but nothing great happens.
It’s just a passing episode, when Taylor starts to get good grades in earnest, and learns some skills like splitting the wind and slashing elements. Originally, it should have been held before the Glaskan subjugation.
After that, it is vacation after the closing ceremony. After the first semester is over, I can use the time lost in class to take care of my camp, so I can’t waste this kind of golden time.
Above all else, we need to solve the housing stability first.
I nodded and re-examined the design of the cabin I had envisioned in my head. It would have been nice to be able to draw the blueprint properly, but even if it was planned, it could not be built as it is. Immediate problems can only be solved on a whim and build similarly.
It’s not going to be sold anywhere anyway, so even if it’s a little sloppy, it won’t be a problem. It seems that this body is quite innate in terms of the production talent, so I can only think that it will be resolved somehow.
For the time being, life will be far more difficult than it was when you first started living in the wild. Fortunately, each and every effort will be the basis for my growth, so there is no need to just suffer.
It’s not a huge consolation, but… it’s right to build up your proficiency as much as you can when you can…
With that in mind, I raised my sword and got up.
Then, he made a mark by swiping a horizontal stroke on the trunk of a large oak tree around him. It is in the shape of one letter (一).
Starting from today on the 1st day, the construction of the hut begins.
1 day.
I chose a place to build a hut.
It was too close to the river to build it. If the river even overflows, it will be a catastrophe. I started leveling by choosing a space that was moderately shady, spacious, and inconspicuous.
He removed all the weeds and removed all the large stones. The slightly sloped part was dug with a shovel to make it flat.
It was already time to sleep after we finished leveling the ground. I checked how much food was left. It had to be replenished slowly. After deciding to spend more time on hunting tomorrow, I fell asleep memorizing major events in the history of magic for the written exam.
3 days.
Started collecting wood. The skill level of the wind blade was quite full, so it was easy. However, if you use too much magical power, your stamina starts to affect it, so I did it in moderation.
The hardest part of cutting a tree was trimming it. Since there was no way to mass-produce neatly standardized timber or wooden boards, the bark was peeled off and cut.
It took more than two hours just to cut down all the twigs of a fallen tree, peel it, and turn it into wood. For the time being, I thought I would just keep doing this.
Another noteworthy thing is… I met Yenika in the class building, but she was ignored again. Seeing Yenica running away without seeing me, her friends Clara and Anise gave a refreshing expression. Now she smiles wickedly as if she shouldn’t even come close to Yenica. I didn’t even want to do that in the first place.
6 days.
After I started working on wood, my muscle pain started after a while. It has been quite a while since I first started living in the North Forest.
I thought I had gotten used to the daily life of cantering every morning and using my body every day, but as soon as I started constructing a hut, my body started screaming. This is all blood and flesh, so I decided to endure it.
11 days.
A lot of wood was piled up. But it still seems a long way off.
As I was walking through the forest with a saw, I met a low-level wind spirit that looked like a sparrow. I was worried about it, so I asked him if he wasn’t comfortable with the way I was cutting down trees these days. Then he shook his head again. He seems to be a more generous guy than I thought.
I was thinking of making a contract with this guy, but I didn’t want to waste the spirit slot recklessly, so I passed.
14 days.
As the end-of-semester evaluation approached, I stopped working on wood.
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Most of my night time was devoted to my studies. I was quite confident about the writing part, but I still feel the need to train my practical skills more.
Still, compared to the beginning when there was no magical ability at all, it was a major development. It was much better than the average of the first graders.
I met Yenica again in front of the exam hall in the professor building, but she was ignored again. Clara and Annis looked at me completely disrespected, and they were still satisfied with their faces.
18 days.
The wood work is almost finished. It seems like it will not be enough, but I think it should be cut more at that time.
The academic calendar was ahead of the closing ceremony. I got pretty good grades. It wasn’t enough to receive a scholarship, but if you grow well at this pace, you can try for a scholarship next semester.
The proficiency of the wind blade has risen one step further. Gradually, the required skill level was also very high, but when I used it to cut down trees and prune twigs on a fictitious old day, it seemed that I had been trained quite a bit.
I didn’t have enough means to move the wood, so I borrowed a wheeled wagon from the student center repair work site. Of course, it wasn’t free. I gave him some money, and he gladly allowed me to use it as much as I wanted during the time when construction was not in progress.
So, one by one, the lumber was carried around the camp.
20 days.
vacation has begun For the time being, you can devote all of your time to camp.
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Most of the students returned to their hometowns for vacation. I don’t have a hometown to return to, and I’m planning to make one from now on. First, I cut the log in two using a wind blade and started working on making a beam using a flat surface. I did it all day and I was half done.
It’s time to get food again. When I checked the noose trap that had been installed in advance, Lucy was caught and was sleeping. It is a mistake to use jerky as bait.
I just threw Lucy into the timber shelter and continued working on the beams.
23rd.
Ziggs came to the forest. He was also very disciplined and was running around.
When I asked if he wasn’t going home because it was vacation, Elka replied that he didn’t even go because he didn’t go to school. He’s pretty much the same.
He looked at me as I was building a house, and asked if I could help.
After all, building a hut is something I do for training, so even if I just wanted to say no, I thought it would be better to get some help for things I couldn’t handle alone.
I was helped in erecting and fixing one central pillar and four outer pillars. The work of adding the girder has also been completed.
After finishing it, it was so hard that both of them were lying on the floor sweating profusely. As it was getting dark, Ziggs went back to the Ophelis Hall to tell him if he needed any more help.
27 days.
It rained. The wood sucked the water and was so heavy that it was impossible to work. It won’t dry out in a day or two, but for the time being, I think I’ll have to focus on survival activities.
As night fell, the senior maid Bell Maia came and handed out some herbs and mushrooms. And when I asked him how he was doing with Yenika these days, he honestly replied that he seemed to hate her.
Bell tilted his head and went back to the Ophelis. After listening to the story, it seems that Yenika and her best friends are still at school this vacation.
30 days.
After the beam work and the column work were completed, the shape of the Eolchu began to appear. Now I had to build the exterior walls by stacking logs.
There is no way it can be fixed just by stacking it up, so I had to dig a space to serve as a seam at the end of each piece of wood.
This was really hell. Using a saw, a chisel, and a hammer to dig up a seam so that the timbers fit together, it seemed like I was going to lose my mind. Still, it ended pretty well.
32 days.
A wooden exterior wall collapsed around one of the pillars. I realized that just making a good seam and fitting it wasn’t strong enough.
like a dog
34 days.
He came up with the idea of drilling holes in the wood with a hand-turned, manual perforator, then driving a sturdy iron rod into each seam. To go buy the necessary items, I went to the general store in charge of distribution by Elte Sanghoe.
I ran into a group of Yenica again at the bakery in the living dong. Yenika ran away as soon as their eyes met. The two best friends could still laugh with satisfaction, but Anise was the only one who laughed.
Clara stared at me and Yenica for a moment, then started to break out in a cold sweat. It looks like he had a stomach ache.
37 days.
“Like you said, Taylor was a better guy than I thought.”
The work of stacking logs in the high part and the work of the roof part were too difficult to do alone, so in the end, I called Jigs, who was jogging.
It’s a bit of a change of mind these days, but it’s good not to get too involved with important characters in the scenario… On the other hand, if you get too far away, you can’t figure out whether the story is going well. It is impossible to repeat the same mistakes as in the Glaskan subjugation. I decided to get the stories of the first graders from Ziggs to get the job done.
We sat on the roof section of the semi-finished hut and nailed each joint.
“I tried to compete at the end of the semester, and even at that moment, I did not give up and kept getting stronger. Of course, he’s not yet my opponent, but I might become a very useful swordsman in the future.”
“Is that so?”
As far as the fact that Act 1, Chapter 9 proceeded without much difficulty, it was well confirmed.
“Are you going to nail all of this?”
“Leave it there, this is where the chimney goes out.”
I’m planning on making a chimney for the fireplace, though it’s sloppy. For heating inside the cabin, a space for the exhaust of smoke was essential. Of course, it seems like you’ll need other materials besides logs, but you’ll have to think about that at that time.
40 days.
Vacation was also running towards the middle. It was too hot, so I took a day off because I thought I would get heat stroke.
42 days.
It was too hot, so I took off my top to work. The fine muscles covering the body have reached a level that can be called just muscles. Whenever it was hot, I filled the river and filled the gaps between the logs with mud.
Also, the roof could leak, so I brought a bunch of wide leaves that were used to make the wooden shelter, covered it, and covered the net left from the farm building and fixed it well with twine.
The vaguely left net was roughly tied to a nearby tree to make a hammock. If you have other uses, you can release it and use it.
45 days.
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On the tree where I had made a single stroke with a sword when I first started, I realized that there were nine straight characters drawn on it.
I lifted my head and looked ahead.
A well-finished log cabin greeted me.
[ New finished product ]
log cabin
After the logs were trimmed to the same size as possible, they were stacked according to the columns and beams. It has only the outer wall and roof, nothing inside.
Crafting Difficulty: ●●●●○
[ Crafting proficiency has increased. ]
[ Crafting proficiency has increased. ]
[ Crafting proficiency has increased. ]
[ Crafting proficiency has increased. ]
[ Crafting proficiency has increased. ]
“Whoa…”
I let out a sigh, and roughly threw the hatchet I was holding and put it down.
Then he walked towards the hut. The door is not attached, but if you use the hinges well, you can make something similar.
I went straight to the entrance and sat down in the middle of the hut.
It seems like 5 more ratings. It was built bigger than I expected because of the size of the tree, but it’s not bad because it’s wide. The heating efficiency will deteriorate a bit, but it is acceptable.
A hole for the window has been drilled, but the window is not attached yet. There is also a space for the fireplace, but it is empty for now because there are no materials to make a fireplace.
No flooring or wall coverings. There isn’t even a single piece of furniture. It was a hut made of only crude logs.
However, it has an outer wall and a roof.
When the door is closed, no insects can enter. If you prepare something that will be a light, you can study more comfortably at night. If you could find or make a desk or chair, it wouldn’t be much better.
I just wiped my face once.
got a house
The fact that it felt particularly moving… It was proof of how hard life had been in the past.
As I worked so hard to survive, I completely forgot about it.
It wasn’t until I had my own living space that I realized that fact, so I decided not to overdo it and just sit back and finish the day.
[ Life Skills Details ]
Grade: Beginner Craftsman
Specialty: Woodworking
Dexterity Lv 13
Design Lv 8
Gathering ability Lv 11
Woodworking Lv 12
Hunting Lv 8
Fishing Lv 6
Cooking Lv 6
Repair Lv 5
It is a finished product of 4 levels.
We decided to postpone checking the skill proficiency in the living system that rises like crazy, talent stats, and stamina stats that have risen a lot due to manual labor. Advanced crafting skills will be unlocked soon, but I don’t feel like checking them right away.
There is still a long way to go.
Walls, flooring, furniture, fireplace finish, and a fence wouldn’t be a bad thing, I would need to replenish some food, I’d like a small warehouse to store firewood and other junk, and I’d like to have doors and windows installed.
But for now… I just want to be under this exterior wall and roof.
So I lay quietly in the middle of the hut for a while.
“Oh oh oh oh!!”
When he arrived, Lucy, who was hanging from a hole in the window and waving her feet, was shooting stars from her eyes.
To her, this hut, the product of my hard work, appears to be nothing more than a gigantic cat tower. I’m so excited that I get on here and there.
I wanted to kick him out… but I also wanted to be drunk with this sense of accomplishment for a while.
After all, the sun was setting.
Caught a wild Kuudere