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　What is a castle?

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　It is a symbol of authority and power, as well as a keystone for defense.

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　The most important thing about such a castle is its defensive capability, that is, how well it can prevent the attack of an opponent.

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　Then, what should we do to improve the defensive power of the castle?

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　The question is how to form a castle to prevent the opponent's attack.

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　In other words, the required function and shape of the castle will change depending on the attack capability of the opponent.

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　That is what a castle is.

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　It seems that a castle with walls is common around here.

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　This is probably because there are no weapons such as guns and cannons in this world where magic exists.

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　Perhaps there has not been much scientific development.

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　If I remember correctly, in my previous life, the development of cannon technology has destroyed the walled type of fortresses.

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　The walls would have been destroyed by the cannons.

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　However, as we saw in the battle against Fontana's army earlier, the magic in these areas is like sending icicles, not the scale of collapsing castle walls. ......

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　It would be possible to build an impregnable castle by surrounding it with walls.

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　So, I have a proposal for Gran.

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　Why don't we make a moat around the castle wall and build a water moat?

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　There is a river nearby.

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　Why not use it to raise the defensive strength of the city?

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　Gran, on the other hand, insists on improving the walls and building a tower.

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　The wall that I can build with my "Wall Building" spell is 10 meters high and 5 meters thick, which is quite a strong defense, but its original purpose was to prevent a great boar from rushing into the city.

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　It was not intended to prevent human military attack.

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　Therefore, the wall is modified to be able to climb to the top of the wall built by [wall construction], and to intercept from there.

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　Stairs to climb up to the wall are to be built throughout and a shield wall is to be built at the top to protect against magic and arrows.

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　Furthermore, towers are to be built on all sides of the walls.

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　The towers are supposed to be higher than the walls so that the people can see farther.

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　Thus, we have decided to build a castle with towers protruding from the four sides of the "L"-shaped castle wall, which is a so-called Western-style castle.

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　We immediately set to work on it.

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　However, the surrounding land has already been leveled by using [Land Clearing] as the site of Kawakita's camp, and the surrounding area is surrounded by walls built by [Wall Construction].

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　We have decided to build on this basis.

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　First of all, we decided to divide the people between me and Gran.

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　I have already named all 300 people who have gathered with me, and we will divide them into those who can use [wall construction] and those who can't.

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　I led those who could use [wall construction] and gathered those who could not use it on the Grand side.

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　The reason why they can't use [wall construction] is that they don't have enough magic power, but they can use [brick making] and other magic as usual.

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　Gran first had the members he led make bricks, and then they seemed to start building a tower using those bricks.

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　I'm going to build a moat.

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　First, I dig the ground with magic.

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　Only I can do this.

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　Because I have no spells.

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　But I am used to it since I have dug a big hole in the ground many times when I killed a big boar.

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　I drank a potion to restore my magic power and dug deeper and deeper around the encampment.

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　The ground I dug, I was afraid to let the water from the river flow into it.

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　If the ground I had dug collapsed due to the flow of water, the wall would collapse from its foundation.

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　So, I decided to have the members I brought with me do [wall-building] to reinforce the soil after I dug with my magic.

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　We set up the wall against the side of the hole we dug.

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　Maybe this will be a reasonably strong foundation.

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　In this way, a moat about 10 meters deep was built around the camp.

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　After I had built a moat around the camp, I left the work of reinforcing the foundation to Gran and went to check on him.

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　It seems that Gran's work is progressing quite well.

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　After finishing the bricks in no time, Gran piled up the bricks to form a tower.

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　Since he also uses [Physical Reinforcement] in the stacking process, the work progresses so quickly that it seems as if he is using a machine.

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　Surprisingly, it took only about three days to build one tower.

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"Hmmm.... What do you think, Mr. Ars? Look at this magnificent tower, that you should."

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"Nice. It's got atmosphere.

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"It's not just about atmosphere. It is useful, that it is. Now, we will build the other three towers as soon as possible, that we should.

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No, that's not necessary. I've already learned.

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What?　What do you mean by that, Mister Ars?"

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　A watchtower built by Gran.

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　Inside the tower is a spiral staircase with several arched windows leading up to the top.

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　Basically, it was a simple structure.

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　And when the first tower was completed, I tried to pass my magic into this tower.

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　We have done this several times before, passing magic power through a structure and inputting that magic power using a spell called [Memory Preservation].

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　It was just an idea, but it worked.

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　I can understand the structure of the tower perfectly.

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　And I got the feeling from my past experiences that I could make it at once with magic, just like an inn or my home.

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　He visits the remaining sites where the towers are to be built.

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　He drinks a potion to restore his magical power to the maximum.

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　Then, he will make up his magic and recreate the structure of the tower as he remembers it with his magic power.

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　I knew it.

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　It seems that my magical power has increased a little again.

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　When I have finished recreating the tower with my magical power, I build a brick tower according to the shape of my magical power.

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　A tower about 30 meters high, completed in an instant.

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　This was done in two other places that same day.

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　Thus, a few days after the field battle with Fontana's army, I had succeeded in building a solid castle surrounded by a huge water dugout.

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