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　The castle town that we have begun to build as the city of Barca.

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　After the construction of the buildings inside the outer walls was finished, they decided to start another project.

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　It was the renovation of the walls themselves.

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　When we built the castle in Kawakita, we also renovated the walls created by "wall building.

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　This is because the "wall architecture" I had developed could prevent a great boar from rushing forward, but it was not suitable for defending against an attack by a human army.

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　A mere thick wall would be broken through in a flash in a siege.

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　Therefore, it was necessary to modify the wall.

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　If it were true, I wanted to replace all the outer walls with hardened brick walls.

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　But the distance of the wall is too long.

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　Currently, the walls that can be built with the spell [Wall Building] are made of normal bricks, and the only way to make them of hardened bricks is for me to do it without relying on the spell.

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　That would be too inefficient.

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　So I have decided to limit myself to repairing the wall that is already there.

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　In the castle in the north of the river, towers taller than the wall were built at the four corners of the wall that surrounds the castle in the shape of a "L".

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　This is partly to be able to spot the enemy at a greater distance more quickly, but also because we wanted to build entrances and exits from the towers that would allow us to move out onto the wall.

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　I will build the same tower here in the city of Barca.

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　However, the castle in the north of the river was not that big as it was originally a repurposed camp for 100 people.

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　The defense capability of the castle is adequate thanks to the water dugouts, but it is more like a fortress for a few hundred soldiers at most, or more like a castle of departure.

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　If it were that large, the number of towers could have been built only at the four corners.

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　However, the city of Barca is much larger than the castle in the north of the river.

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　It is not possible to build towers only at the four corners.

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　So I decided to increase the number of towers on the outer wall.

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　Just like when you build a castle town, you place towers of the exact same structure at regular intervals.

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　A tower is added to the wall every 200 meters or so.

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　I did this work alone.

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　In the meantime, I asked other people who had free time to work on the top of the wall.

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　The top of the wall is flat, so I asked them to build a wall to hide their bodies from bows and arrows and magic using hardened bricks made by those with the family name of Barca.

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　Since I had built this wall at the castle north of the river before, I left it to Gran, Bite, Vargas, and the others without having to take the trouble to lead them.

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　Incidentally, if we were to fight a defensive battle now, the main weapon we would use would be to drop bricks from the top of the wall.

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　Of course, we could use attack magic such as [shotgun shells] or [ice spears], but human magic power is limited.

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　On the other hand, bricks can be made and stored in normal times.

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　The bricks are supposed to be placed on the wall or in a room in a tower.

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　Of course, some people use bows, but for now they will have to rely on the quantity of bricks.

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　Eventually, we will have to increase the number of bows and other weapons so that we can have a decent defense battle.

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　So, when I thought of this method of damaging the invading army by dropping bricks from the walls, I made sure that Gran had built the appropriate walls and renovated the castle in the north of the river.

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　The walls were designed in such a way that it was easy to pour bricks and bows down from the top of the walls, but difficult to hit the invaders from below.

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　It is like a bay window that protrudes slightly from the wall, leaving an opening to drop things down.

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　While I was building the tower, the others were working on the upper part of the wall.

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　While I drank the potion to recover my magic power, and when my stomach started to growl, I asked Valkyrie to supply me with magic power by injecting it into my body, while I worked on the outer wall.

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　After I finished building the tower, which I was in charge of, I started building the outer moat.

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　In the castle in the north of the river, there was a river flowing nearby, so I built a water ditch.

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　However, there is no river near the village of Barca with such a large volume of water.

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　Therefore, we have no choice but to make only an empty dugout.

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　In fact, I prefer digging with water, because it gives a better atmosphere.

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　We are digging a moat about 10 meters deep in the ground just outside the outer wall.

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　The width of the moat is wider than that of the castle in Kawakita.

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　Bridges are to be built to connect to the gates on the north, south, east and west sides of the outer wall.

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　Together with the lumberjacks, they built and installed drawbridges wide enough for carriages to pass side by side.

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　Now anyone who wants to enter the city will have to pass through this bridge, and in case of emergency, the bridge can be raised for a complete siege.

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　If the enemy attacked us, we would be able to get a good result if we gather people who can use [ice spear] here and shoot at them.

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　Thus, a city surrounded by a deep moat and walled with towers of 30 meters in height was built in Barca.

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　After consultation with the others, this new fortified city was named Vulcania and became the center of the knightly territory of Vulca.

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