The lotus flower bloomed in regret (3)
“Are you saying you want to build a wall?”
At my words, Roder looked at the protective wall being built and asked back as if he was absurd.
The construction of the wall for the purpose of temporarily deterring the enemy and the defense against invasion are distinctly different.
Even the size was the same.
And that was a fact well known to the Dwarves who were building the barriers.
“Building something requires design. Unfortunately, the ancestors who knew about the construction of the wall have already returned to the bosom of the earth.”
Surt argued the impossibility, citing the loss of construction technology.
Because they lived underground for a long time, there was no need to build huge walls.
He said that he had no idea how to make a castle wall, if it was just stacking bricks.
But I just shook my head at his words.
“The wall must be built.”
Aside from the raids of large monsters, this land was a place where one day they had to face the conflict with the Federation Empire head-on.
It is said that the future is changing even at this moment due to my actions, but the dirty desires of the Federation Empire were not changed.
If it wasn’t now that they were fighting a war with the barbarians, there was no chance to prepare.
“And this land is a place for you to live. If you have to parasitize on others even for the minimum safety, is there any difference between a slave and a slave?”
“… … .”
“This is your minimum duty so that you do not live as slaves.”
My cold gaze turned to the Knights of the Sun.
“The Sun Knights distribute their personnel and divide them into a vigilance team and a search team. The search team should take the lead in subjugating monsters right now.”
“insect!”
After saying that, I moved to the temporary shelter.
Surtur and George followed behind me.
“It wouldn’t be that simple to build a castle wall.”
“exactly. It’s embarrassing for us dwarves to say, but everything is lacking. Not only its own load, but also structural mechanics that receive magic attacks. close to impossible… … .”
tall-
I stopped walking at those words.
“Kak!”
Because of this, George, who couldn’t secure enough distance, bumped into my back and knocked me on the butt, but my gaze was fixed on Surd, who was passive.
“Were you guys born holding a hammer?”
“… … .”
“The reason you think it’s impossible is because you don’t have that kind of resolve.”
It’s a lame excuse.
Life is threatened by survival, and if there is no one to help.
Will I be able to maintain the same passive attitude I have now?
before regression. Just like the time when the clan was captured by barbarians and forced to build a wall… … .
“I have no intention of making you do the impossible.”
One of the plans I’ve been thinking about ever since I returned.
It’s time to show you the answer.
I turned around and hurried my steps again.
“Follow me.”
* * *
“This, this… … !”
As the grayish dough was sprinkled with an unknown liquid, the dough that was about to lose its shape and collapse quickly hardened.
Surt, who had been standing in a daze, approached with an expression of disbelief and kneaded the hardened dough.
“steel? No, it’s softer than that… … .”
Likewise, George, who was kneading hard dough, pushed up his glasses and said,
“… … It is much harder than normal rock.”
Its appearance was in the form of materials to be used in construction.
However, that wasn’t the end.
“Gye, keep getting stronger!”
Previously, it had strength enough to outperform rocks, but now, after a while, it has become even harder and has turned into iron-like strength.
All of the dough has hardened to the inside.
Surtur, who was shocked by the bricks created in an instant, hurriedly looked at me.
“Dae, what the hell is this? Because what have you done… … .”
“The stones around here were ground together with water and mixed with clay. By pouring reagents used in magic on it, I activated its strength.”
“What is that… … .”
Looking closely, the gray dough must have been the rocks that formed the walls of the mine.
So, did you really mean that you made something like this with only the overflowing and overflowing stones in the plain?
“Isn’t what you’re talking about the recipe for Kaimentum?!”
“Hoo. Did you already know?”
Are you saying that it is also a dwarf?
After all, if you were a blacksmith fairy who had lived for hundreds of years, you would have known about Kaimentum, a public corporation that had already been abandoned.
Of course, George couldn’t have known this.
“Caymen… … tom? What is that?”
“It’s an architectural technique that was popular hundreds of years ago. It means that a rock that is highly inflammable, such as volcanic ash, is ground and shaped to be used as a building material. It’s hard as it is, but if you use the reagent like before, it will become harder.”
“Accurate.”
It was a material that was common everywhere on the continent, and the recipe for reagents was so simple that it was once used in most of the buildings.
Coincidentally, the rocks around here also have that characteristic.
But when he saw me shrugging my shoulders, he tapped my chest in frustration.
“One, this is not Kaimentum! I have never seen a kaimentum of such intensity!”
“okay?”
“Especially the ones made with that technique have almost no resistance to mana. Because of this, from the time magic began to develop, it became a being inferior to ordinary stone. But this… … .”
The face gradually began to come to mind.
The reason why Kaimentum died was that the development of magic that could interfere with an object’s mana was the biggest reason.
Since there is no magic resistance, the structure collapses instantly with simple magic.
No matter how cheap it was, it was more expensive than other materials, and there was no point in using building materials that easily collapsed even with magic.
George’s brow furrowed.
“Then isn’t it unnecessary? A wall that cannot block magic.”
“No, this is different.”
Surt stopped talking with a red face, put down the bricks, and grabbed the pickaxe he was carrying with both hands.
Then he stared at the bricks and inhaled vigorously.
kang!
I just hit the pickaxe down.
Surprisingly, the bricks are only slightly scratched on the outside. It wasn’t broken or chipped.
Surt continued breathing heavily.
“I don’t know what worked, but each ingredient is so tightly connected that Kaimentum is incomparable. If this is enough… … It will have at least some magic resistance.”
“Nice to see you. It wasn’t a perfect answer.”
I reached out and picked up a brick that had fallen on the floor.
And the mana accumulated in the magic imprint was released in an instant.
Like the one used in the barbarian land.
Flash-!
bang!!
The right arm hidden by the coat glowed, and with a roar, there was a vibration that everyone present could feel.
However, the bricks that were directly affected by the waves were still in their original state.
A magical power that can only be used by those who have crossed the first critical point of synchronization.
Even though it was a skill that could use the accumulated mana to scatter all the mana around it.
“This… … !”
“As you can see, this guy’s magic resistance is more than barding.”
The alloys used to make the knights’ barding were properly blended with metals with high magic resistance.
In fact, it was the same as saying that magic below the high level was completely protected.
If that is true, this is the great discovery of the century that will change all existing common sense.
“How the hell!”
“We mixed the existing ingredients with by-products left over from refining mithril here. It’s called dregs, but it’s mud that contains plenty of mithril.”
At that, the boy bowed his head deeply as if thinking about something.
“surely… … Then, under the influence of the Mithril ingredient, the dough will harden… … It does not use reagents to continuously maintain its shape, so it is not vulnerable to mana interference… … .”
“I guess you understand now.”
“Ha, how much more does Mithril itself have strength against magic attacks!”
Realizing the identity of the brick, Surt couldn’t hide his astonished face.
“This… … Nonsense… … .”
The biggest problem with building the walls was getting the right size rocks.
In order to do so, it was usually necessary to start with the process of obtaining stones from a quarry, and after that, it was common to go through cumbersome processes such as cutting rocks.
But in this way, the words were different.
“That, right… … ! Grinding stones from the mine… … All you have to do is mold it… … .”
“You mean you can get a building material that is harder than any other in any shape you want.”
“Unbelievable! A technique that only emphasized the merits of Kaimentum!”
It’s easier and faster than ever.
Since the debris from the mithril mines had to be moved to the ground anyway, it was no exaggeration to say that they had passed all the useless processes that actually took place in the quarry.
While enjoying the effect of killing two birds with one stone by recycling rubble that should be disposed of.
Surt picked up a brick and started making a fuss.
“With this, it will be possible to build the walls! You won’t have to worry about loads or magic defense!”
“Are you confident enough to build an impenetrable wall?”
“cancer! Of course! If we fuse with the know-how of our dwarves, it is not impossible to complete the wall within two years!”
The considerations that went into building a conventional wall were now out of the question.
Perhaps, a bizarre castle wall focused on more than just blocking enemies could be born.
Literally, from now on, it was the realm of art.
“I’m glad.”
As I muttered, I recalled what had happened before returning.
This technology using mithril mines was a construction technology discovered by the Federation Empire.
They use it to strengthen the walls or to build various buildings. He had been taking steps to make the empire rich and strong.
Of course, it was only natural that raw materials from the Galderde Plain were used.
“I would like you to leave this construction to my family. If it was something like this, I really wanted to try it.”
I nodded my head at the boy’s confirmation.
“If you want, I will send helpers to help with the construction. It would be nice to spend time with their cooperation.”
“Oh oh! Do you even care about that?”
“Because you guys didn’t come here to build a wall.”
This land belonged to Esteban.
They weren’t slaves, they were just ‘collaborators’ with free will.
“Securing safety is one’s own duty to live on this earth. But how you spend that time is entirely up to you.”
“Either building walls or developing mines. It means that even making weapons is our freedom… … .”
“okay.”
I said as I looked at the dwarves passing through the mine’s driveway.
“Follow me. I will now explain the walls to be built.”
* * *
I took out a piece of paper with a rough outline of the wall and put it on the table.
George and Surt looked up to check it out, then painted detailed designs over it so they could see it.
“The city wall will be built as a triple structure, separated by an outer wall and an inner wall.”
A wide, deep moat. Behind them, there was a low-rise wall that kept them in check, and an 8-meter-high inner wall took its place as if to protect it.
Finally, to the magnificent 15-meter-high outer wall that encompasses the entire battlefield.
Its structure was structured in such a way that enemies facing this wall could not but take massive damage while reaching the outer wall.
“… … It is such a sturdy structure.”
Surt stroked his long beard.
The relatively weak defense was blocked by the heavenly mountain range, and because the slope gradually became steeper, enormous power had to be poured in to penetrate it from the front.
If it went according to this design, it wouldn’t be strange to call it a ‘Fortress of Heaven’.
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