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"My magic is very good. It's almost unbroken."

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"It is true, Mr. Ars. Perhaps it's because the bricks are of the right size and are tightly joined together. In other words, the rest of the building is rather poorly constructed.

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"Yes, Payne. Well, [the wall architecture] was built to prevent a big boar from rushing in. It's no good if it crumbles so easily.

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"Oh, we are almost at the next village. Please set up a shelter for us as soon as you arrive, Mr. Ars.

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"Yeah, okay."

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　The earthquake was followed immediately by a series of actions to rescue the victims.

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　For the time being, the knights in charge of each region had their vassals in their territories to help the victims.

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　In the meantime, they are ordered to prepare a place to receive the victims and bring firewood to the place.

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　However, I am not sure how seriously they will do it.

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　Maybe they will do it, but maybe not very enthusiastically.

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　But no one will think it is good that his territory is weakened.

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　We have promised to make concessions, to reduce taxes and to pay part of the rescue costs.

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　The rest is up to the local officials.

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　And I, who ordered the rescue, have to actually do it myself.

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　I can't just do nothing.

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　I have decided to actually take action to set an example.

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　We deploy the Valkyries in Barka and go around the towns and villages, pulling a large number of blankets on sleds.

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　We also need food, but this time we do not bring it.

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　If there are not too many fires, we may be able to recover some of the food from the collapsed buildings at worst.

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　So the priority was to bring a shelter and a way to keep warm.

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　When I arrived at the first of several villages, I immediately met the chief of the village and asked him to offer me a vacant plot of land.

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　I use magic to build a building there.

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　Well, maybe it's more accurate to call it witchcraft, since it's not a spell.

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　Well, it doesn't matter.

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　With these thoughts in mind, I formulate my magic power and exercise it.

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　The knight of Barca who came with me puts his hand on the cleared land and sends magic into it.

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　Then he transforms the magic power into the shape of the building he remembered from his memory storage, and turns the magic power into a brick building according to the shape of the building.

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　In an instant, a large building was erected.

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　Before, I could only build a two-story building with my magical power, but now I have even more magical power than before.

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　But now I have even more magic power than before.

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　The building that I made with this increased magic power was an apartment-like building made of bricks.

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　Or, perhaps, it is more like a housing complex than an apartment building.

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　In fact, I had memorized the shape of this building by [memory storage] when I had fought the Memento family before.

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　In the battle against the Memento family, three positions were built to intercept the oncoming attackers.

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　Naturally, a large number of soldiers would be stationed in those positions.

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　This meant that they needed a building for the soldiers to sleep in.

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　At that time, some of them built apartments using hardened bricks from Barca.

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　It was not a luxury building, however.

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　It was really a building that was built only for the purpose of making beds for the soldiers to sleep in.

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　Each room was small like a capsule hotel.

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　However, it boasted an overwhelming capacity for the same area, and since it was built as a building for a front-line base, it was thickly constructed and difficult to collapse.

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　It is reported that the building did not collapse and remained intact even after the recent earthquake.

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　I had memorized such a building, and in no time at all, I had built a four-story building with countless rooms in a vacant lot in the village.

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"Okay, bring in the blankets. After we get the rescuers, we will use them to collect food from the collapsed buildings in the village. Then we can restore the buildings on a clear day.

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"Ha."

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　The villagers look surprised to see me building in no time at all.

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　But the soldiers who came with me listened to my instructions without saying a word, as if they were tired of seeing me do it.

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　No matter how many buildings I can magically construct, it is impossible to restore the buildings of all the victims in the Fontana territory.

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　So after the apartments are built, I will leave some of the soldiers who came with me as caretakers.

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　It would have been easier if there had already been magic that could build buildings with a single spell.

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　But it takes a long time to create a single spell.

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　But it takes a long time just to create one spell, because you have to keep on muttering the same words and keep on succeeding in the magic that causes the exact same phenomenon.

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　When I was still just a farmer, I had time to create useful spells as I pleased, but that is not the case now.

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　I have other work to do.

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　Besides, if I made building magic, I would end up with the same buildings all over Fontana, and that wouldn't be very interesting.

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"Hmm. Well, that's enough for this village for now. Okay, let's move on.

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"Yes, Master Ars. Today's schedule calls for thirteen more towns and villages. We are running out of time, so let's hurry.

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"...... Is there that much? You still have your magic potion, right?　I'll have to let it recover a bit to make it last."

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　We get into a box sled that can move even in the winter cold and drink a warm tea-like restorative to warm ourselves up.

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　Then they immediately set off for the next village.

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　Well, maybe some lives can be saved just by being busy running around.

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　Thus, I went to the requested places and built apartments as many as I could.

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