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 Having succeeded in creating the spell of "wall building," I next set about building a road.

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 The wall encircled a square of land measuring 4 km on each side.

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 There is a forest to the north and a village to the south.

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 For the time being, I will make a path towards the entrance/exit of the junction between the village and the base inside the wall, and the entrance/exit to the protected forest area on the north side.

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 Since I have been reborn in this world, I have been feeling the gratitude for the roads.

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 This is because there are no decent roads in this world.

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 Basically, the roads in this area are paths that are made by people passing through and naturally tamed.

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 The way from the village to the town was also difficult.

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 It was hard to move from the village to the town, both on foot and on carts, with the obstacles that could cause roadblocks removed, and with the river and the like minimally cleared to allow passage.

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 I would like to make something better at least.

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 In fact, I thought I had already prepared a pathway towards the entrance/exit.

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 I used the magic of "soil improvement" for the part to be used as a field, but I left the path only as a "cleared" path.

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 But there were those who ruined it.

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 Not beasts like the boar, but people.

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 My brother and the others who work on my land have neglected to do the obvious: to follow the path.

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 Cleared land is very easy to walk on because it is clean and level.

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 However, the ground becomes gouged in those areas when carts loaded with harvested goods are being pulled.

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 If this continues, the soil soon becomes bumpy, making it difficult to move the carts.

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 So what to do?

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 Some of them started to move over the plowed soil as if they were going through the field rather than over the uneven soil, as if there was not even a stone on the ground, so they could go anywhere.

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 I was careful at first.

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 But it seems that human beings have a thought process that takes it for granted when they see other people doing the same thing.

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 Before I knew it, most of the people started to move around on the field as they pleased, instead of taking the route they had first decided upon.

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 You can give them a stern warning, but there is a possibility that you will not get anywhere with them.

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 If this is the case, then let's make sure that we have something we can call a solid road at this time.

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 That's what I thought.

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 I thought that I would start to move.

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"Don't bother ......"

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 I tried to magically measure some of the roads.

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 At first I thought of using concrete to harden the roads.

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 But then something occurred to me.

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 As I recall, concrete and asphalt roads look beautiful, but they actually require a certain amount of money for maintenance, don't they?

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 It may be meaningless to think about the construction and maintenance costs since they will be created by magic anyway, but is it too much greed to think about building a road that will last for a long time?

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 With this thought in mind, I began to dig up memories of what I had heard in my previous life.

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 I don't really know what it is because I had never been involved in road building before.

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 But I remember hearing that there are still roads in existence today that are more than 1,000 years old.

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 Cobblestone streets built by the ancient Roman Empire.

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 I think I heard that there are still existing roads built by an ancient country that existed from B.C. with their outstanding technology.

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 Aside from the time and effort required to maintain them, I believe I saw on TV that they are very reasonably constructed.

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 The basic construction method should have looked something like this.

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 First, dig the ground deeply according to the width of the road.

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 Then, stones are buried in the dug area, and clay and gravel are spread on top of the stones.

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 Then, the stones of the pavement are placed neatly on top of it.

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 The road should be slightly raised in the center and lowered toward the edges when viewed from the side in the cross-section of the road.

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 This is a device to make the water flow to the edge of the road when it rains.

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 But there is an additional advantage.

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 The slight incline of the road keeps the stones of the pavement from shifting under each other's weight.

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 In this way, it is possible to lay a road that is resistant to water and heavy objects.

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 However, there seems to have been some drawbacks.

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 Basically, these Roman roads were laid only in a straight line.

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 So thorough was this that the roads were laid in a straight line to their destinations, not bypassing the mountains, but tunneling through them.

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 It is quite a frightening story that it can only be made straight.

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 Do you know how much a one-degree deviation in the angle toward the destination can shift the location of the destination 10 km or 100 km away?

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 It means that you need to have extraordinary measurement skills to use this road.

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"Well, let's try it with this."

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 But I decided to build this Roman road.

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 The reason is simply my hobby.

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 I had a yearning for cobblestone roads, that was the only reason.

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 To be honest, I don't know how much trouble it will be to maintain it, but once it's under the spell, it won't be that much trouble with the Valkyries.

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 With this in mind, I began to formulate an image in my mind to create a new road.

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