Volume 2 Chapter 7 (2/2)
“The two of you did your best. With this, we’ll be able to invite the humans.”
The two were able to accomplish their task without incident. I then decided to pat their heads.
They narrowed their eyes as though they were pleased.
“Master, we’ve only prepared the land. When the Golems and the Dwarf Smiths get here, I would like to ready the farmlands and build the houses. We also have to build walls to cover the city. And then, we’ll tackle the waterworks. If I could borrow Ancient Elf’s abilities, we should be able to finish all these tasks in about a week.”
Elder Dwarf and the Dwarf Smiths possessed earth magic and knowledge about public works while the dozens of Golems could function as the heavy equipment. And if they had the nature-magic-expert Ancient Elf’s assistance, it was more than possible for them to form my city in a week’s time.
They had configured the land under the assumption that they would accomplish those things.
Just when I thought Ancient Elf was making a troubled face, she hesitantly spoke.
“Master, I would like to ask you for a favor. You made the size of the land be set to the maximum which is 10 Km by 10 Km. To continually give an elf’s blessing to the whole of the city and to also control the weather is a little too much for one person.”
“Would having an assistant help?”
“Yes. If we had the High Elves which are two ranks below me, nature would always be on our side.”
I considered it for a moment.
High Elves were B rank monsters and were also quite the nature magic user.
I saw no harm in employing them especially if it helped the city’s domestic affairs.
“Alright. I’ll make them later. Can I leave their training to you, Ancient Elf?”
“Yes, of course! I’ll instruct them well! I’ll make sure they won’t just be friends of friends of nature but also fantastic snipers.”
“That sounds promising.”
Ancient Elf looked proud and delighted as she nodded her head.
But then, Kuina had a jealous look on her face.
“El-chan and now Elf-chan too, you’re both so sneaky! Kuina has always wanted to have a follower and yet…”
I smiled wryly at her. I got where she was coming from.
Elder Dwarf had the Dwarf Smiths.
And now, Ancient Elf would have the High Elves under her command.
I thought it was reasonable for her to want a follower of her own.
“I’ll think about it. After all, Mythological Foxes that could use [Transform] would be convenient to have in negotiating with the humans.”
Although this was a world where demi-humans were accepted, there were still many humans that would discriminate. I had, right from the beginning, already thought of creating Mythological Foxes who were intelligent and could look completely like humans.
“Yay ♪! Kuina will also now have followers! Oto-san, thank you! I love you!”
Kuina ran and hugged me tight so I hugged her back.
She swung her fox tail, happy from the bottom of her heart.
“Next, should I buy a [Mine]?”
Elder Dwarf furiously and repeatedly nodded her head.
As far as she was concerned, the mine was the most important aspect of my dungeon.
And so, I added a [Mine] area to the first floor. I only needed to set its size so it was quickly added to the dungeon.
The ores that could be mined from it was related to the Demon Lord’s level. The quality of the ores than could be mined here was significantly lower than the ones that could be gotten from Marcho’s dungeon but the fact those ores were important resources didn’t change. I guessed that at my current level, mithril would show up once in a while.
Afterwards, I used [Add Floor] and built a room on the new floor. It was the same straightforward stone room I used on my fight against [Wind] Demon Lord Stolas. For the moment, I only built one room.
By building this one room, the crystal room would automatically be relocated next to the straightforward stone room where it would be the innermost room of the dungeon.
I expected that after taking some kind of counter-measure against my heavy machine guns, hostile Demon Lords were bound to declare [War] on me.
I had no intention to make all three rooms on the floor be like the straightforward stone room guarded by the Mithril Golems.
That was probably enough for today.
The 30,000 DP I had quickly diminished.
100 DP for the [Transparent] entrance;
3,000 DP for the [Plain] in the first room;
2,400 DP for two High Elves;
Another 2,400 DP for two Mythological Foxes;
10,000 DP for [Add Floor];
1,000 DP for the stone room guarded by the Mithril Golems;
5,000 DP for the [Mine];
All in all, I used up a total of 23,900 DP.
If I factored in the 1,000 DP I would use for [Floor Swap], that left me with only 5,100 DP. Considering that I still had to build 2 rooms on the second floor to guard the crystal and one more room on the first floor to help my city, the 5,100 DP left was certainly not enough. I had to quickly earn some DP.
“Well then, everyone. This will be all for today. For the moment, let’s go back to Marcho’s Dungeon and bring along Wight and the others.”
“Alright, Oto-san! Let’s go pack and move here!”
There was still a lot of work to be done but at last, my city was built.
From tomorrow onwards, I shall devote myself on developing my city. And then, we’ll finally invite some humans.