Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 250 Construction of Cabins

When the rainy season passed, Claude suddenly found himself busy. He had to arrange logistical supplies for the cantonment sites, mainly food and ammunition reserves, and all material application documents required his verification and signature. At the same time, he had to start building defensive installations and positions in the cantonment camps, urge his soldiers to dig trenches and artillery bunkers, and allow soldiers to fill the mud baskets woven by squirrel villagers into mud walls. He also had to order soldiers to cut logs from the mountain forest to reinforce the positions...

Sergeant Markci was very uncomfortable with Claude's busy schedule, and he did not think it necessary for soldiers to waste their energy in these civil engineering constructions. Because Squirrel Village, a manned mission at the triple crossing, is likely to be taken over by a later guard battalion, everything Claude does now is likely to be dowry for others. He thought Claude might be better off letting the soldiers fix the road down the hill if he had the leisure time to do so, so he might be able to charge a few extra tolls.

Fortunately, McJackie became a good assistant, and his cooperation and supervision with Big Grimes enabled Claude to accomplish all the tasks he had arranged for the soldiers. Until mid-April, when everything was on track in the cantonment camp, Claude led Marquette through several defensive exercises and placed him in charge of the day-to-day training of the soldiers, freeing himself up time to begin preparing the cabin promised to the magician girl.

After the rainy season, the Teenage Mage left the cantonment camp. Although falling in love with Claude made the Teenage Mage unwilling to be separated, the cantonment camp was full of soldiers and it was not always convenient for the Teenage Mage to live here. So she asked Claude to set up a camping tent for her in the Witch Forest as her temporary home. It is also convenient for her to cut the wood she needs in the mountain forests as the main building material for her cabin.

The style of the cabin refers to Claude's double-storey cabin at Normanly Forest Farm in White Deer City, which is also double-storey, the only difference is that the exterior walls are logs, and Claude believes that the exterior walls of the logs are thick and strong enough to provide a sense of security for the young wizard in her own life. There is also an extra balcony in front of the door that highlights six or seven squares where you can arrange a lounge chair and a small coffee table for the young wizard to read and enjoy afternoon tea.

At the end of March, when the Maiden lived in Claude's bedroom, the two of them began designing the cabin. Claude is in charge of drawing plans, architectural and exterior drawings for the cabin, and the Junior Mage is in charge of cheering him up. Given that the Junior Wizard will be living alone in the Witch Forest for another five or six years, Claude was designed with maximum comfort and safety in mind, and he did not want his beloved Junior Wizard to be brought to grievance again.

The completed cabin has a living area of about seventy or eighty square feet, two floors above and below, which is a lot bigger than the old shack under the oak tree. The young wizard is very happy and hopes to move into the new house as soon as possible. Unfortunately, when April arrived, Claude was busy on official business and had to leave logging to the young wizard. With the help of spells, the task is still very simple.

When Claude arrived in the Witch Forest, he laid a probing eye again, avoiding the poisonous cigarette trap set by those young wizards in the dense woods and entering the woods. Now the open spaces deep in the woods have become piles of logs, and hundreds of 40-50cm diameter logs have become seven or eight hills on the open spaces.

The young wizard threw herself into Claude's arms like a swallow. Nearly a week later, after a warm kiss, Claude caressed the girl's hair and sighed with pity: “Thank you for your hard work this time and cut down so many trees...”

“There were two hundred and thirty-seven of them, which I remember very well.” The young wizard replied arrogantly: "Not hard, with the help of magic, very easy work, the black wind can run back with a log...”

Claude looked at the big black wolf surrounding herself, and imagine the look on the face of the big black wolf when the young wizard dragged it back onto the big black wolf with a rope tied to a log that was more than 10 meters long. He wonders if his owner has committed foolishness. How could he pull such a large piece of wood with his small plate...

In fact, with the help of magic, the big black wolf can actually pull a big log back to the Witch Forest. Just like that time Claude accompanied the Junior Mage to the Stone Hole to collect the book, killing the three big black bears who took over the Stone Hole. When returning to the cantonment camp, it became a major problem to bring back the bodies of the three giant black bears weighing more than 1,800 kilograms.

Claude didn't want to come back the next day with a hairy rain, and it wasn't that easy to walk back and forth on the mountain for six or seven hours. The young wizard suddenly wondered that the lightweight flying technique just engraved into the basic spell was applied to the body of the black bear, and found that the body of the black bear had also become lightly drifting, so the bodies of the three big black bears were piled together on the back of the horse they had brought. A wolf walked back with a horse.

On the way back that time, the young wizard had been torturing this lightweight flying technique. In less than half an hour, he had to give two men and a big black wolf, and the horse and the bodies of three big black bears were given a lightweight flying technique. The road was also tested on large rocks and trees, and it was found to be effective in reducing the weight of the object itself, both dead and alive. This allowed Claude to find the answer to the question of transport of building materials considered for the construction of a wooden house for a young woman magistrate.

It was not until near the back of Squirrel Village that Claude removed the bodies of the three big black bears from the horses and threw them on the ground. When the magic effect was eliminated, they returned to the cantonment camp, and the maiden magician returned to her room with the great black wolf, while Claude went to recruit a team of soldiers and took the three horses back to the back of Squirrel Village and returned the cloud of the bodies of the three great black bears to the camp.

Nearly all the villagers and camp soldiers from Squirrel Village came out to see the buzz, hunting three big black bears at a time, each shot dead, which was a heroic gesture that increased Claude's prestige among the soldiers. Claude did not kill the three big black bears himself this time, but handed them over to Markzi, instructing him to peel off the skins of the two big black bears that had been shot in the heart and nitrate them. He was prepared to send one to his top boss, Major Ledfank, the battalion commander of the first Battalion of the Rangers, to thank him for his care.

Then Claude and the Junior Mage went to the Witch Forest twice, once to set the spot for the cabin, and the second to teach the Junior Mage how to cut trees and find the right wood in the mountain forest with Claude's handles. The second time was also the day when the young wizard left the cantonment camp and went back to the witch woods to build a tent. The rainy season is over, the sunshine is clear. The young wizard feels a little embarrassed not to go out in Claude's room again. At the same time, she also goes to the Back Rock Cave library to continue the study plan her mother arranged for her...

Cutting trees with spells is really very simple, and Claude now finds out how much the spell hand and precise control of these two grammars can help him in life. A large tree more than a dozen meters tall and 40 centimeters in diameter can be cut to the ground in less than 10 minutes before the hand of the spell changes into a false saw, and then the hand of the spell changes into a sharp axe, quickly chopping off the branches. The Teenage Mage gives this naked log a light flying technique so that one hand can easily drag it back to the Witch Forest.

Claude just needs to stay still, not even sweat, and as long as he can provide his own magic to sustain both spells, he can easily watch a big tree become the logs that meet his requirements. So before he returned to the cantonment camp, he handed over the cutting of trees in search of building timber to the young wizard, who had no idea how much timber had been cut in a week.

“Too much, we don't think we'll be able to use so much wood to build a cabin. Perhaps we can expand the cabin some more, so that the remaining logs can give you a circle of fences, give you an extra yard for the cabin, and even if the beast can enter the Witch Forest in the future, it won't be easy to get close to your cabin.” Claude walked up to the camp tent with the young wizard, and he had to return some books he had borrowed from the stone hole library left by her mother.

Claude was delighted that half of Sheila's mother's books in that stone cave library were about some of the magical discussions of the ancient magical civilization era, magical mysteries, alchemy trial records and historical legends. Because these books are usually not found at all in the bookstore, which fills the void in his knowledge of the history of the ancient magical civilization era and allows him to understand some of the real situations of the magicians of that period.

The Teenage Mage said that these books were reproduced by his mother and stored in this library, and Claude counted them, on the left side of this large shelf of seven magazines, nearly two hundred and eighty books on the age of magical civilization, and it was conceivable that the Teenage Mage's mother had worked hard to reproduce them.

Books on the right shelf were purchased by the teenage sorcerer's mother on her way out, mostly geographic finds, sailing research and pharmacological knowledge, as well as books on biology and drug identification. In the next two boxes are folklore and popular novels, fairy tales and other children's books.

Claude even saw a complete set of textbooks published by the kingdoms of Ovillas and Nasseri, and now Claude understands what the young wizard's mother left her daughter with when she left. Only the young wizard was greedy at the time and hadn't studied in the Stone Hole Library for nearly six months. When she remembered studying, she found that Stone Hole had been occupied by the big black bear. So now that Stone Cave has been recovered, the Teenage Mage decides to continue her studies in accordance with the plan her mother has set out.

Well, it's hard for a young woman to admit that she learned only the textbooks of the first grade of the country, and then she's ready to complete those two sets of national textbooks for herself in the kingdoms of Ovilas and Nasserley. Her mother arranged her study plans mainly in the fields of literature, grammar, arithmetic, geography, nature and theology. As for history, it is not necessary. The history of the two kingdoms is mostly the same, nothing short of bragging...

Claude last borrowed a few large copies of his history books on the period of magical civilization, all written in the Gukherz language, so it doesn't matter if he brings them back to the cantonment camp, and no soldier will recognize the Gukherz language. Although it is said that the Hebrew script prevailing in the eastern part of the continent has evolved from the Gukherz language, in the absence of dictionary comparisons, it is common for people to read the Gukherz language script as if they were reading the Heavenly Book.

“I'll come back tomorrow night and live here tonight.” Claude tells the Teenage Mage a joyous and frightening message: "So I can start early tomorrow morning, dispose of these timbers as I need them, and come back next time after the shade dries up and build the house faster. ”

Even though the two of them had kissed and hugged each other as usual, and Claude had even moved up and down their hands, the Teenage Mage maintained the last line of defense from Claude. Claude laughed at the shy, nervous look of the young wizard.

“Don't worry, I'll lay the floor at night and it won't do you any good.” Claude refers to the single marching bed in the camp tent: “This bed is too small to stand up to us. Besides, if I wanted you, I wouldn't be able to get up tomorrow morning and work hard...”

Speaking of which, Claude didn't do anything to the Teenage Mage at night, and even if the Teenage Mage slept with him on the floor at night and slept in his arms, he didn't have any bad feelings about the Teenage Mage. Claude was reluctant to take the girl magician's body in such a humble environment because he thought it was disrespectful to the girl magician and she was not ready...

The next day they got up early in the morning, and after a simple bite of food, Claude started building the cabin, and the young wizard gave him an assistant.

An 11-meter-long log was manipulated by the magician's hand and inserted into the marked ground, then hit deep into the ground, leaving a height of only about eight meters. The Teenage Mage uses the spell of turning mud into stone and turning the soil that the logs insert into the place into rock, so that the foundation of the cabin is very strong.

What Claude is going to do today is start with the whole frame of the cabin with logs, 16 main support logs standing on the ground, and then insert a beam into the logs with a tongue structure. The hand of spell, under the variation of precise control spell, constantly becomes carpentry tools such as chisels, saws, hammers, etc. As long as the position is measured, the tongue and groove can be easily made on the logs and the beams and columns can then be connected together.

That's why Claude insisted on building a cabin by himself and the young wizard alone, with the help of magic, who alone could be as low as a dozen experienced builders. Besides, he is not an outsider of woodworking and architecture, it's a big deal to experiment with a few more spells.

Around 4: 00 p.m., Claude completed the day's work plan, and the next time he came over, he could do the exterior walls and floors and the wall panels in the room. While cooking dinner, new homework was arranged for the young wizard, who needed to split some logs into floors and wallboards over the next three days. When he comes back in three days, he can do some fine workmanship.

After dinner, he got involved with the Junior Mage for a while before Claude kissed the reluctant Junior Mage and stepped on his way home.