Someday Will I Be The Greatest Alchemist?

Chapter 204: Building a line of defense

Since the time I made the proposal to build forts to Margrave Volton, the trination moved quickly. From that alone, their wariness towards Triaria Kingdom and the Divine Empire Sydnia appeared strong.

Actually, Valkyra Kingdom and Lomaria Kingdom have incurred damage from the zealots of the Light God Faith, and Triaria Kingdom waged a war of aggression with Yggurle Kingdom to enslave the Elves like madmen over 50 years ago. Of course they would be vigilant.

Without delay, in the fortress town built on the east named 【Valor】, the scale and build location of the forts as well as the plan to construction of defensive walls to protect the farmers from monsters when they develop the farmland were discussed.

There, it was suggested that the forts to be constructed should also serves as a post station[1] between Valor and Wedgefort.

Currently, the distance between Wedgefort to Valor takes two days for a carriage pulled by a Demon Horse. Since it would take even longer for a normal carriage, if there is at least one, and if possible two post stations, the comings and goings of merchants would become more active and it would spur the development of the Valor which holds the role of being the hub for the three countries.

Going by my comments, it’s been decided that forts will be built in 6 locations encircling Valor.

There were six points accurately marked on the map we made of the surroundings of the Sanctuary. These six points have an important meaning.

The civil official who will be responsible for the Valkyra’s fort construction asked a question.

「Iruma-dono, must the building locations of these forts accurately and unerringly be in these location?」

「Yes, I will mark the exact spots, so please build the forts with those marks at the center. It has importance. Since I will build a tower on these marked spots, please leave ample space.」

「The locations these towers will be erected in will be important?」

「Yes.」

The six points surrounding Valor are arranged to the shape of a hexagram. I will build towers installed with a magic device in the marked spots at those forts. When those magic devices are activated, it would draw a gigantic hexagram and magic would activate.

【Wide Area Purification Magic】 , I think purification magic would be effective if what Undine and the Great Spirits were anxious about were the two countries in the center of the continent.

It shows a tremendous effect against monsters that contain miasma and people encroached by miasma. Like before, the fanatics encroached by miasma were at least greatly inhibited in movement with wide area purification magic, while there were even some that didn’t even leave dust after being purified.

「It’s just an insurance.」

「I understand. If you could show us the location and provide us the blueprints of the tower, the construction may be done by the respective country in charge of that location.」

「Understood. I will send the blueprints, so please do.」

Shaking hands with the officials of each country, I immediately moved on to marking six points.

Instead of making a conical stump marker with Earth magic on the spot drawn on the map, we built around the center of the planned construction site of the fort.

After that, we immediately began working on the three forts we’re in charge of.

Among our members, the ones with aptitude for Earth magic are Maria, Marnie, Titan, and myself, but the Rabbitkin Marnieー or perhaps I should say that the unique disposition of Beastkinー has high physical abilities, but her aptitude for magic is low, so she can’t be part of the building team. As a result, Titan, Maria, and I will be building the fort.

「Well then, we’ll split up the range.」

「Yes, I’ll do my best.」

「Ｒｏｇｅｒ， Ｍａｓｔｅｒ.」

Maria and Titan matched their timing and invoked Earth magic.

gogogogogooooo!!

The ground rose and formed into a wall.

Outside the walls, a moat was completed.

Building a 200m diameter fort and adding the facilities and magic devices inside took 5 days.

It will take 15 days to finish building forts in three places. However, even if we finished installing Water MDs, the Purifier MDs, and the like, I requested the three countries to bring in the fixtures and furnishings.

Gogogogooooo!!

We built monster-repelling walls and a dry moat from the fort south of Valor towards farther south using Earth Magic.

Sophia asked what my plans were after I finish constructing the three forts I was in charge of.

「Takumi-sama, what will you do about the inner side of the forts?」

「Hmm, I planned for it to be farmland someday, but for the time being, I’ll help construct the three countries’ share of forts. Fortifying the defense will also become a deterrent, after all.」

「I believe it would be difficult to search for reason from those two countries, but doing everything you can would leave nothing to regret, wouldn’t it?」

「……no, they are more or less still countries, so they still have some reasoning, even if minute.」

「I don’t think you should look for reasoning from a country of religious fanatics and a country of war maniacs.」

「…………that’s true.」

The wall for reclaiming farmland will be built first in the south. It’s prepared for threats coming from the south.

Countries besides the two at the center of the continent are continuing to develop. The believers of the Genesis Faith are increasing, and the believers of the Light God Faith are decreasing, with their churches closing in places outside of their own country.

I didn’t think that this situation was accelerating an outburst.

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Footnotes:

1. A post station is a place where people can rest during their journey. 

2. Honestly, I wish there was a world map so it wouldn’t be as hard to imagine all these.