Ten days after Halt and the others designed the clan house.

"Dude, seriously?
"What the heck is this ......?

　Luke and Liushin were speechless when they saw a building.

"Hmm. "Hmm... it's quite spectacular in person.
"It's amazing!
It's bigger than I thought it would be!
That's Halt.

I didn't do it alone. It's not just me, it's Tina, too.

　Halt and the others are looking up at a five-story building.

　It was their clan house.

　In just ten days, the construction of the huge clan house designed by Hurt and his team had been completed.

We just gave an extra bonus to H&T's carpenters and asked for a little help. Then, they all worked really hard.

　Tina paid in advance three times the salary a carpenter earns in a year. Tina paid the carpenters three times what they would earn in a year in advance. Nearly a hundred carpenters shouted with motivation when they saw the wads of money piled up in front of them. She also promised them an additional reward if they could finish the construction within a month.

　In addition, there was something else that motivated the carpenters.

"Hey, Elmire. Touch this pillar.
"Sayla, what's going on?　What's this?

It's nice and cool, isn't it?
It's made of a special kind of wood.

　Hurt and Tina are smiling proudly.

Halt and Tina are laughing proudly. The building material of this clan house may be...

　Rifa noticed as she touched the pillars of the clan house. The building material that makes up this building is a special kind of wood.

　It's the kind of wood that most carpenters in this world long to be involved in building with, if only once in their lives.

　The tree is called "Oukouju".

　In this world, steel trees are used to build buildings with more than two stories. The adventurer's guild in Glendale's royal capital and the main office of the H&T Trading Company also use steel trees for their frames. However, steel trees are not inexpensive enough to be used for building houses for ordinary citizens.

　Only about one in a thousand of these steel trees grows into a shimmering steel tree.
　In other words, it is an extremely rare building material.

　It was used in abundance in this clan house.

　Incidentally, even if you were to gather all of the steel trees that grow naturally in this world today, you would not be able to build a building as huge as this one.

　However, there was a wise man who made it possible to do what should have been impossible.

Ah. That's why the gnome manifested last week.
"Oh, Sylph. You noticed that?

　There is a spirit who can create trees and make them grow as he pleases. It's the Earth Spirit King Gnome. I'm not sure if it's a good idea, but it's a good idea.

I asked the gnome to grow a large number of glittering steel trees and used them as building materials for this clan house.

　When the carpenters found out that they could use these trees for construction, they started working together. When the carpenters realized that the tree could be used for construction, they began to compete with each other, and some even stayed up all night from the first day.

　Thus, the morale of the carpenters was raised to the extreme.

　Incidentally, the carpenters who tried to work all night were stopped by the excellent construction supervisor prepared by Tina.


　The reason why the construction of the Clan House was so fast was because Hurt and Tina helped directly.

　The pillars, which would normally have taken several people to build using pulleys, were pushed into the ground by Halt himself, clad in magic. The ground was solidly hardened by Tina's earth magic, and the carpenters proceeded with their work, flying in the air with the flight magic she had granted them.

　Since the workers flew, there was no need to build scaffolding.

　Most of the other time-consuming tasks were shortened by Hurt's magical power.

　In this way, he was able to complete the five-story clan house in just ten days.


"But Brother Hal, why the sparkling steel tree?

"Steel trees keep their surroundings at a temperature that humans find comfortable.

　Halt chose the steel tree as a building material just because it has a temperature control function. However, the effects of glittering steel trees are not limited to that. It is rumored among top-notch carpenters that people who live in buildings made of this tree can be protected by something.

　This rumor was true.

　The power of the gnomes resides in the gleaming steel tree, so it will be protected by the Spirit King. The gnomes had never made a contract with a human before because they were devoting so much of their power to this.

　Hurt was able to make a contract with the gnomes because it was an inherent contract.

　He summoned a gnome in the past and asked him to sign a contract. A summoned spirit cannot defy the summoner's words.

　By making a contract with Halt, the gnome should have been unable to bless the building where the glittering steel tree was used. However, this wise man with infinite magical power would always give away a large amount of magical power as a souvenir after summoning a spirit.

　It's enough to make the King of Spirits, who is supposed to be the top-ranked spirit, evolve another level.

　This is how the gnome is able to contract with Halt and maintain the blessing on the building using the glittering steel tree. Of course, this also applies to this clan house.

　Only the magic of a higher spirit class can damage it.
　The building has such strength.

　But that's only if it's a common steel tree.

I've never seen a gleaming steel tree before, is it really this black?

　Liushin wondered.
　"I've never seen a steel tree before.



"Liushin, no. I know what a steel tree really is, but it's not this black.

The steel tree I know is not this color. Halt, is this really a steel tree?

　Sylph and Chalk knew that the steel tree was a fiery red.

"Yes, sir. If this is...

　In the event that you've got a lot of time, you'll be able to take a look at the best way to get the most out of your time.

　A technique that can make a mere tree branch strong enough to break an orichalcon sword.

"Yes. All the shimmering steel trees and walls that are used as pillars are blackened.

　The pillars, walls, floors, and ceilings that support their clan houses are all stronger than Orichalcon.