"Let's go for the 100th time!

A metal cage dropped from a height of about twenty meters with a voice makes a loud noise on the ground.

While I was away from Photo Len on a little errand, Trapta... no, the Monster Material Mass Production Factory No. 1 was completed.

Me and Mercia were coming to see how the test was going.

"Is there distortion in the cage?

"... no change in dimensions, no problem!

"The experiment is a success!

First of all, I tried to check the strength and basic structure of the cage without putting a monster in it, but this seems to have worked.

"Finally, a monster experiment."

"I'm a little worried. I've added a lot of things...."

As Mercia said, the Monster Material Mass Production Factory No. 1 (which I would call a tower because it is troublesome) has undergone a considerable number of changes in operating the facility in small item boxes.

The biggest change would be the mechanism to lift the cage automatically.

A cage made of 100% metal lizard metal to withstand prolonged use was not very liftable by the staff.

That said, there is no way you can secure an item box that has the capacity to store such items.

To overcome the problem, the tower was built along the river and the water wheel lifted the cage.

Kaede-san, the Magic Stone.

"All right, use this."

It's an experiment called "Can I move the equipment without me?" So I'm supposed to be a no-touch person... but it's not until tomorrow that an item box arrives at Photo Len.

So, in today's experiment, I was responsible for storing the Magic Stone.

"The first set, hurry!

"I know!

The official who received the magic stone from me hurriedly put the magic stone on the pulley and pulled the rope to raise the magic stone up.

It takes a little time for the cage to go up due to the output, and putting it on will make the Magic Stone look old.

Therefore, nine cages are used for the three Magic Stones.

Technicians have had a lot of trouble with this structure... but I don't know much about it, so I won't explain it. In the meantime, I paid a lot of money.

As I watched the situation, the monster was summoned (to be precise, resurrected) from the Magic Stone, and the cage was dropped shortly afterwards to make a roar.

"Kill him!

Two E-ranked adventurers hired by the Guild threw their spears into the cage.

I could hire a higher rank in terms of cost, but I kept it at this level to make sure that I could stab him even if he was weak.

The cage seems to be working well and the end of it seems to have been stabbed smoothly.

The Adventurers remove the Magic Stone from the belly of the body and hand it over to the pulley manager, after which they send the rest of the body to the demolition manager. Now the Magic Stones are circling around.

When the strangled adventurers begin to carry the cage towards the lifting device, the next cage is dropped from the tower after the safety check, and the other two pairs strangle it.

The person in charge is 6 people in pairs of 2 × 3 + 2 reserves, for a total of 8 people.

"It's a lot bigger..."

Mercia murmured as she watched.

There are twice as many dismantlers as those in charge, and more staff to operate the equipment.

As a result, about fifty people were to work here when the tower was in operation. An equivalent number of people will be available for transportation, so if you include it, 100 people.

"When I think about the consumption of metal reserve metal, I want it to be this big... that? Isn't it too fast for the boulder?

As far as I can see, one wolf weighing about 60 kilos has been dismantled in about 30 seconds.

120 per hour, 960 in 8 hours. Even if only 30% of the food is eaten, it can produce as much as 19 tons of meat and 960 furs per day.

Building one of these will solve Photo Len's food problem in one shot... but it will almost satisfy the demand for meat.

Even if it's still good to have too much fur, the meat will rot?

I left the adjustment to Mercia, but I became worried about the boulders.

"If you want Kaede-san to keep the inventory for the time being, it is assumed that it will be exported out of Photo Ren in the future.

Oh, my God. I didn't know that was going on before I knew it.

"How do you export?

"I talked to the Chamber of Commerce about that...."

Oh, have you decided on measures yet?

"I have come to the conclusion that the returning Kaede will manage the transportation equipment.... if you can't do it, you can't do it.

You'll be fine if you reduce it. The return on your investment will be a little slower. "

Hey, no plan.

Sure, I've managed to deal with this kind of problem, but the long-range transportation of food is a little out of line.

Canned and bottled meat is tough in this world, and the consumption of dried meat may not be that high.

When it comes to other ways to enable mass transportation.....

"Like a freezer?

"You still have an idea!

Freezer efficiency increases with larger freezers.

Given the output and effect time of the artifact, it should be possible to transport a large vessel entirely in the freezer without spoiling a large amount of meat.

"There is, but it's Catherine territory. Let's go back to Photo Len."

The experiment is going well, and a B-ranked adventurer is hired to return to Decibatole for emergencies. There's no need for us to watch.

"That's right.... Mr. Gaday, we're going back to the city, so please let us out of here."

Got it!

The tower runs through a river near Photlen (called the Photlen River). (It is a cheap name), because it is upstream from the photolen, the communication with the photolen is carried out by boat.

We don't even go into the river with large ships that can cross monster territory, so we use regular wooden ships.

It was a slightly smaller ship, so I thought it would shake, but the bow arm seemed certain, and there was not such a bad shake.

"Katrine, I've got an idea about shipping!

I knew it!

Katrine seemed to have expected me to come up with an idea about transportation, and she was already ready for the experiment and standing by.

No, maybe Mercia was expecting us to wait.

"For now, the cooling artifact is available. I want something that lasts longer."

"It's cooling! I've got it!

He thought it was cooling when it came to transporting meat, and Catherine had prepared the cooling artifact as a mountain.

"What's the spec like?

"It lasted two hours per piece… but we didn't have enough power to keep a lot of meat cool. If I had put it in a wooden box containing 50 kilometers of meat, it wouldn't have been a shortage of strength...."

Have you already tried it?

If you consume 1 magic item every 50 kilos of meat in 2 hours, you can't carry it properly.

Even Magic Stones weigh one kilometer and take four days to transport them, so the luggage and Magic Stones weigh the same.

Considering the effort of magic charging, it is not a story at all.

"All we need is insulation."

"It's because of you...?

Catherine asks. It seems to be a word unknown in this world.

"Separate the outside and inside with something that is hard to transmit heat.... for example, it's warm wearing a lot of clothes, right?

"Yes, especially furs, which are very warm."

"That's because the fur is blocking the heat transfer and trapping the body temperature.... you can say the same thing to something cold."

It is the air that contains the fur, to be exact, but there is no need to go so far.

So, can you dress the meat?

... I didn't have that idea.

So how do you cool it down?

"No, we'd better insulate the whole container. Superficial... no, basically insulation is more efficient than larger insulation. So let's insulate the entire ship and use it for transportation."

I don't think it's time to tell the magician what the surface area is relative to the volume.

If we tell them the structure, Mercia will order the ship.

"The ship will experiment when it's done... and I want a freezer on the ground. It's not good to load it raw."

Do you also use 'Nensei'?

"For now, just stuffing the monster's hair would make a big difference. For example...."

I don't remember when I put it in, but there were just a few nice pieces of iron in the item box, so I magically pressed it to make something like a box.

It seems to contain about 1.5 tons of meat and is slightly larger than that.

First place the larger one on the ground and lay down the hair of the monster (mainly green wolf).

Put the smaller one in there and stuff the hairs in between to complete it.

Quite a hurry and extremely cluttery workmanship, but it should be enough for the experiment.

"Experiment with this."

"I see.... but it's going to take some time for the results to come."

"Ah... you can make another box of the same size and experiment with the same magic stone without insulation. You can see the difference in performance compared to that, right?

With that said, I will take out additional iron nuggets and make another box of similar size.

If you look carefully, the dimensions may be different... but it won't have much impact.

"Was it that easy to mold iron...?

"Pressing is great."

If you try to make a complex shape, it will break, but you can make it as easily as a board.

It is convenient because if you bend it, the box will be made.

"I don't think it's a machining technology problem...."

So I brought the results of the experiment the next day, and I went back to the inn and fell asleep...

The next morning, shortly after I got up, the hotel door was knocked on.

It's unusual. Did something happen in the insulation experiment?

"Kaede-san, please help me....."

With that in mind, I welcomed a visitor who, surprisingly, was neither Mercia nor a member of the Maple Chamber of Commerce.

A familiar guild receptionist was crying for help.

Even the monster herd came out?

"No. It's a request....."

The receptionist took me in without knowing, and I'm in the guild.

At that moment, I felt the strange atmosphere of the Alliance.

Adventurers are crowded within the Alliance.

In addition, it was filled with a sense of urgency and war.

I don't need to know this alone. If there were circumstances such as the appearance of a strong enemy, it would be impossible. But there was something else that was fatally strange.

That sense of urgency and warfare - well, perhaps the earliest hostility - is directed inwards, not outside the Alliance.

It's like saying, "Everything but yourself is an enemy."