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"Hmmm, reminds me of the old days: ......"

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　The castle construction was completed.

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　In reality, however, most of the features were still only for appearance.

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　From the outside, it is a solid castle surrounded by walls with high towers on all sides, but inside there are only inn-like buildings that I built.

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　Perhaps some people might say that they don't recognize such a thing as a castle.

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　Or, rather, Gran did.

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　He insists that the interior space should be more properly built.

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　Well, I can understand their feelings.

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　I want to build a good one anyway.

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　But here comes a problem.

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　It is about food.

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　The number of people has increased from about 100 to 300.

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　The amount of food consumed each day has increased accordingly.

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　It is chilling to see the food in the warehouse decreasing at a frightening rate every day, as is to be expected when the number of people increases.

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　It was not until I saw the actual food that I realized how much food was consumed even by only 300 people.

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　The sight reminded me of the time when we started to mass-produce the messenger beasts.

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　They began to cultivate the land to feed the growing number of Valkyries.

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　I had no idea that this would lead to such a battle and that we would once again be faced with food problems.

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　This food problem is not of the kind that one would starve to death immediately.

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　We have enough to eat if we carry enough from the village.

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　The village of Barca has more than enough, after all, since the war broke out before the tax was collected for this year's wheat.

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　So what was the problem was the transportation.

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　A castle was built between the village of Barca in the north and the city in the south.

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　However, the original road was only a minimal road for people to pass through, and not a road that could move things quickly.

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　It would still be possible to transport food.

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　But we wanted to modify it a little if we had to.

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　After some consideration, I decided to fix up the road.

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　The Fontanas were moving slowly and did not seem to be ready to attack us at once.

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　Then, I would build up a supply route for an endurance battle.

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　With this in mind, I decided to take action.

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　And I decided to make a move on the neighboring village accordingly.

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　Thanks to the presence of people from the neighboring villages, we have been able to receive food from them as well.

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　But the next village had only a wooden fence around it to protect it.

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　There is a possibility that the neighboring village, not the castle or the village of Barca, would be the first to be targeted.

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　So we thought it would be better to leave the village a little more defensible.

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　Leaving about 200 people in the castle, I set about building it with about 100 people.

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　First, I and a man who can build walls head for the next village.

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　In the next village, we first built two towers that I had learned to build with [Memory Preservation].

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　Then, we build a wall connecting to the towers to enclose the village.

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　The purpose of these towers is not so much to serve as a fortress, but rather as a shelter in case of emergency and to keep an eye on the surrounding area.

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　Therefore, the walls were only created by spells, and no improvements were made so that they can be climbed up to intercept the attackers.

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　I also made one building out of hardened bricks.

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　I decided to use that building as a barracks.

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　Here I placed a serious young man recommended by Vargas.

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　His role was to climb the tower every day to keep an eye on the surroundings and to come to me in a Valkyrie that I left in the barracks to report any problems that might arise.

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　With the Strengthening spell, he could at least manage to move by clinging to me.

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　In this way, we would have a better chance of detecting in advance if there was an army that was bypassing the castle north of the river instead of aiming directly at it.

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　Well, if not, we would at least be able to escape with the villagers in case of emergency.

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　Thus, I finish raising the defenses of the neighboring village and meet up with the members I left on the way.

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　They are the ones who cannot use [wall construction].

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　Basically, those who can't use [wall construction] can't use it because they don't have enough magical power, which means they can't use [road construction] either.

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　However, they can use [land clearing] normally.

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　That's why I told them to [lay out] the road while I was in the next village.

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　They will [clear] the narrow roads that are already there.

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　The road can now travel at many times the speed it used to.

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　But this "leveling" is not a panacea.

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　I have experience.

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　I have experienced that the wheels of wagons in the pioneer land made the cleared land bumpy.

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　So, I decided to build a road on this cleared land.

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　A road made of hardened bricks 6m wide with sidewalks on both sides.

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　It will be even faster than just clearing the land.

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　However, there was a drawback to this [road construction].

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　Basically, it could only be laid in a straight line.

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　With me, it is possible to make roads with curves and intersections by using images in the brain instead of spells.

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　However, I would like to keep it to a minimum.

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　Of course, there are other people who can use the spell [lay a road], though not all of them.

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　However, it is more difficult than one might think to build a road that goes straight and accurately to a remote destination.

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　This is because of the lack of surveying technology.

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　Then, what should we do?

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　I overcame this problem by brute force.

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　I built the tower again.

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　I built the towers tall enough to fit around some bends and at the right intervals, and had the workers [lay out the road] going from tower to tower.

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　Although there were some deviations, we managed to connect and build the roads with this.

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　Thus, a new road was completed connecting the castle in the north of the river, the village of Barca, and the neighboring villages.

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　The completion of this road naturally increased the speed of transportation, but it was unexpectedly possible to return to one's own village at night.

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　Originally, it took a day and a bit of walking to reach the castle from the village of Barca, but with the improvement of the road, the Valkyries could pull carts and make the round trip in a day.

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　This allowed the villagers to return to their own villages on a rotational basis, and since they could do my work with the ease of a migrant worker, the number of people who joined the group increased again, albeit slightly.

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