--The future policy announced by the Silverwing Knights and the Golden Fang Knights was as follows.

　It was decided that the treatment of the dwarves would proceed around 'rescue'.

　However, it was not unconditional.
　They would demand a quid pro quo commensurate with the cost to humanity, and if this was accepted, they would begin to provide support.

　The specifics of this quid pro quo have yet to be determined.
　The details of the quid pro quo have not yet been decided, but will be decided after consultation with the representatives of the dwarves.

　If their demands are not accepted, the policy will be changed to 'silent killing', and if there is a risk that they will be hostile to humanity, the policy will be 'defeat'.

　It may sound like a greedy all-or-nothing approach, but all in all, it's a reasonable decision.










　--and a few days after the talks.
　At the request of the Golden Fang Knights, I visited the ruins of the Demon King's Castle's castle town ...... and began to work on [restoration] of the underground farm.

　As for the conditions of support such as 'quid pro quo', I heard that both the Royal Palace and the Knights were able to obtain a satisfactory response, but the details have not been disclosed to the outside world.

　Accompanying them were Sakura and Garnett as guards, two knights of the Golden Fang, and one dwarven youth as a guide.

　The dwarven youth looked terribly nervous and looked back repeatedly as he led the way through the rubble of the city.

　For him, it's a situation where he's leading a group of armed adventurers and knights all by himself.

　You can't help but be anxious about what might happen if something were to happen.

I'm here. This is the entrance to the underground farm.

　In the alleyway next to the rubble of the building, a staircase to the basement gaped open.

There are a total of twenty underground farms, and this is the first one. There are four entrances and exits per location, but the other entrances have collapsed. ......
'I've been briefed. We'll [repair] the other stairs later. We'll start from the inside.

　As per the preliminary meeting, Garnett and one of the knights went down the stairs first.

''Tch, it's even darker and smaller than I expected.
Wait a minute. I'm turning on the lights.

　The knight activated his skill and generated a light ball, then bent down and walked around the underground farm, placing the light ball in the four corners.

　In the midst of this, the remaining four also descended the stairs and descended into the underground farm, which was illuminated by the light ball.

　...... This is indeed a small place.
　Everything is built to dwarven standards, about two-thirds the scale of human standards.

　The same is true for the steps of the stairs, so it was hard to just get down without falling down.

　And the ceiling of the basement is only just barely enough to allow the relatively small Garnett of us to stand upright, and even Sakura had to bend over a little.

　Naturally, the men taller than them couldn't stand upright, and I had to crouch down from the start, having given up on standing.

'We used to grow edible mushrooms here. The first five are mushroom farms, the sixth to tenth are plant farms, and the rest are the staple food, marimo farms.
It's not so much a farm as it is a warehouse or a storeroom.

　As Sakura mentioned, the first underground farm had an atmosphere that was the exact opposite of the imaginary picture that the name conjured up.

　First of all, there were signs that the floor and walls were covered with stone material without any gaps.

　It had already been destroyed by the Demon King's army and collapsed without a trace, but it was evident that it was originally a carefully constructed cellar.

　Inside the basement, there were so many stone-cutter shelves and the remnants of the mushroom cultivation containers that it was impossible to walk through them without stepping over the wreckage.

'Here's a refresher on what we've been meeting about. Today, you will be restoring two of the three different farms in two different locations.

　The other knight read the material in one hand, which he held in the other.

'Cultivation racks, floors and walls, stairs, and a large scale magical lighting fixture. This one is said to be a technology acquired from the buried ruins. Once again, I'd like to confirm that ...... is really possible to [restore]?
Yeah, that's right. I don't think they'll be able to fix it after it's been destroyed like this.

　The leading dwarf youths had been skeptical of the [Restoration] of the underground farm since before they left.

　He didn't seem to believe in the slightest that it was possible to restore a destroyed farm to its original state.

''It's fine. There were devices that run on magic power in other dungeons, and we've [restored] them many times before.''

　A common pattern is a door that opens automatically when the mechanism is unlocked.

　There are occasionally cases where it's built with a purely physical mechanism, but most of the time it works with a mechanism that uses the magic power flowing through the earth's veins as its energy source.

　Rarely is that system malfunctioning, and making it possible to [repair] and pass through it was really one of the few times I was able to play an active role in a dungeon.

''Even if you don't understand the mechanism, the strength of [Repair] is that you can fix it as long as you can pull out the memory of the shape.
'It's quintessential. Providing this lighting technology is one of the 'quid pro quo', so I would have been very vulnerable if they told me they couldn't fix it.

　The knight seemed to be convinced, but the young dwarf was still skeptical.

　Whether you believe it or not, nothing I do will change.

　I tap the pouch containing the magic stone, activating the automatic supply function of magic power and placing my hand on the floor while drawing out the stored magic power.

　Floor, walls, ceiling. The remnants of the scattered cultivation shelves.
　The thoroughly destroyed magic light fixtures.

　I circulate magic power over all of them and activate 【Restoration】 based on the memory of the shape I drew out.

　The remnants of the stone shelves assemble as if they were flowing backwards through the air, the internal mechanisms of the smashed magic tools are reconfigured in the correct form, and even the deterioration and cracks in the floor and walls are filled in.

　As the light of magic disappeared, the magic tools attached to the ceiling were replaced by a faint light, illuminating the underground farm with a library-like layout.

'This is as far as I can go. I can't [repair] the dead creatures, so you'll have to grow the crops back on your own.
"Ugh, no way. ...... It's really fixed. ...... and it only took a second. ......

　The young dwarf lad sits on his buttocks on the stone floor, his voice trembling with surprise.

　Then, as if his skeptical attitude from earlier was a lie, he looked up at me with a twinkle in his eye.

'Wow!　Really, this could fix the town in a flash!
'That's not going to be a flash in the pan. We're going to be staying in this underground space for a while.
It's nothing!　It's like Master Alphasul!

　It was fortunate that they were happy to have me, but some unfamiliar words popped up.

　Just as I was about to ask the person who said it what it meant, one of the knights was quick to add an explanation.

'Alphasul is one of the objects of worship of the dwarves and is said to be the creator of this dungeon. It seems that the automatic repair mechanism of the inner walls of the Millennium Corridor of the Abyss is also believed to be the magic of Alfazul.
I see. That's a pretty good analogy.

　It came with God of all people.

　I was slightly dismayed by the exaggerated nature of the dwarf's metaphor, and decided to head to the next [Restoration] place.