Elf Tensei Kara no Cheat Kenkoku-ki
Episode XV: Artificial Demon Stone
Starting the day after the meeting, the construction of a wall covering the entire Elsier in earnest began.
With that, the new homes of the Firefoxes also began to be prepared within Elsier. It's a lot of waste to extend the fence to where the workshop is, and you just can't live in groups outside Elsier forever.
Sometimes the firefoxes have been here for six months now and the elves and firefox walls are gone.
With me and Ku getting married these days, a couple of elves and fire foxes are starting to show up. Until now, such couples have lived separately, but it would be good to recommend living together in the future.
Even though it's such a trend, me and Kuw, the pivotal interracial couple number one, are not doing well. I'm not hated, but now that they've rejected the couple's cause, they won't tell me why. Every time Ku says no, I lose confidence as a man.
No matter how much you ask Ku,
"I'm sorry, I'm not sure yet"
I get teased when I say. Thanks to this I have a lot of buildup. Lucier doesn't refuse, but I shy away from the days when I'm tired of training in Iraq, and sometimes Yukino lives with me, and I can't really get the chance.
Yukino is adorable.
Gently stroke Yukino's head as he enters my futon.
She sleeps with a long, blocked tail passing forward from between her legs, hugging her tail. I hug Yukino like that all the time. Her body temperature and smell spread in her arms and she feels happy.
Yukino held me back asleep and rubbed my face against my chest. You really miss me. The increasing intensity conveys the softness of Yukino, which, apart from the happy ingredients, gives rise to various emotions.
"No, you can't do that as a person"
Lid on evil feelings. Yukino is a pretty sister. Don't betray me because this is how you trust me to look defenseless. I saw her pretty sleeping face and twisted my fatherhood to the full.
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As soon as it's morning, Yukino gets out of my futon and enters Lucier's futon next door.
When I go to bed, I always go into Lucier's futon and sleep, but Lucier runs into my futon in anticipation of Lucier falling asleep because he seems to have a hard time sleeping because it's something he hugs too hard.
Lucier was upset when she woke up without Yukino, so she woke up early and was moving the futon before Lucier woke up.... Yukino seems to care about Lucier as much as he cares about that.
Don't worry about Yukino.
I haven't noticed the details of my normal work a lot, and even in my everyday life, when Lucier and I feel like that, he reads the air and goes back to the Firefox workshop.
... maybe there is a problem in itself with making you care that way. I'm going to need improvement, too.
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"Klao, Lucier, I wonder how the construction is going"
I was here to check on the progress of Elsier's wall work. The commander of the scene is taken by Klao, acting chief, who makes his assistant Lucier.
At first I even gave construction instruction, but after I finished teaching the two of you how to read the drawings, I refrained from coming to the point where I came to see them occasionally like this.
"Yes, Cyril's drawings are working safely. You're about three days ahead of schedule."
Klao, acting chief, has been happy to report.
It has been three weeks since construction began. It's still far from finished, but it's taking a lot of shape.
The walls made it faster on this one, but it's weirder not to be there in the first place.
For example, there were numerous castle walls in Japan on Earth that protected the castle, but few city walls covered the entire city. That is because the Japanese archipelago is an island inhabited by a single nation, and the inhabitants there were honestly embraced by new rulers without so much change in their lives even if the rulers changed.
Residents do not need to be hurt because they are a resource to the exchangers, and they should have protected only the castle where the rulers are.
But there are still a number of barriers in the West that cover the entire city. It is not easy to accept because there are multiple ethnic groups on one continent and the inhabitants have changed their rulers. That is why they are the target of an invader's attack, and if they are invaded, they will be killed or enslaved.
It was necessary to protect the inhabitants, whose walls alone protect the rulers are not enough and are the property of the city, and it became common sense to cover the city with a whole barrier.
Elsier is of course the latter. The people of Elsier are a fascinating asset, and their enemies attack to take it away.
"Well, you're all working hard. Thankfully."
"Yeah, we're really all working on it. I'm sure Cyril loves Elsier now."
Lucier says something that makes me happy.
Wall protection is simple, but it's a terribly monotonous heavy labor. Without motivation and guts, the work will not proceed at all. I was surprised that just over a hundred people would do it this far.
After creating a simple frame with trees, the walls we are building this time are the ultimate simplicity of stepping on a mixture of clay, sand and stone, and finally adding hardness by baking them with fire fox flames.
It required so much effort that just the task of transporting the soil out of the forest day and night would be distracting to secure the material that would only cover the entire Elsier.
"But Cyril. Is this a good barrier? Belle Elsier's fence was higher."
"I don't have a problem with this height. If you say it's low, if it's 4 meters, you can't get over it."
"But that's strange. You're so thick for not being too expensive."
"Height and thickness depend on what you value. Lucier, do you have any idea how to make the fence higher?
The wall I designed is about 10 meters thick, even though it's only about 4 meters tall. Imperial and Erin walls are typically about 2m thick and 20m high, so they will be doing the opposite.
"Because higher is harder to get over, and bows and arrows and stone-throwing are better ranged and more powerful to let go from high, right?
"Correct. Conversely, if you can't get over it, you don't need to be too expensive. You don't need height if you can get enough range and attack power even if you're not in a high position. And then, the higher it gets, the harder and more time it takes to build. Elsier doesn't have the technology to build more than 20 meters of walls."
I have a lot of ideas for not being tall. Instead of pure height, we plan to trapeze the structure to make it harder to get up, and further position the barbed wire at the apex so that it can run high voltage electricity in an emergency. Whether you grip with bare hands, over armor, or try to remove barbed wire with a sword, you die of electric shock. Small works such as height water increase shall also be carried out by digging around the perimeter of the wall and lowering the ground.
The battery connecting to the barbed wire made something magical, not scientific. It is a man-made demonic stone that circulates within the demonic stone so that there is no magic leaking outside, and by carving into the demonic stone itself the technique of electrical conversion used by the brave man analyzed by [I], the encrusted magic is converted into electricity at the same time as it is freed.
As it stands, artificial demon stones can only hold about five times as much magic as all of my magic, even with [my] knowledge and Dwarf's Quilo skill.
This artificial demon stone can also be used for direct weapons when fighting Ashno, but due to the time limit of [circle regression], it takes five days to make one and only two normal operations and spares can be made.
If you didn't put it out in your mouth, but there are other disadvantages and the walls are low, there is a risk that you will be easily overtaken and attacked inside the walls with attacks that draw parabolas, such as stone throwers. I'm going to deal with that outside of the fence.
"And let's give it another problem. Do you have any idea how to thicken the fence?
"To keep you from getting pierced, right?
"That's also correct. It is now thought that a thickness of about 2m would suffice, but in the near future such a wall would allow it to penetrate lightly. I'm anxious it won't be at least 10 meters."
Fortunately, Elsier will not be attacked with a siege weapon because it is not a great deal of difficulty to carry a massive siege weapon so far, thanks to the fact that the streets from the empire are not maintained up in the mountains.
But that's the story now. Immediately a highly penetrating weapon is produced that is excellent for portability.
My concern is the cannon. It's only a matter of time before you show up more than you've unleashed something called gunpowder on the world. When artillery had just been put into practice on Earth, most of the walls so far had been easily pierced and meaningless.
But if the wall is ten meters thick, we can't beat it out that way even if the cannon is put into practical use. Not only is the clay mixed with stone and sand stiff, but it also has the flexibility to absorb shocks, and the tilt to increase the difficulty of climbing produces the effect of deflecting the shock.
"Cyril or something, even if it's 10 meters long, it's going to penetrate easily."
I joked and Lucier said.
I laughed back at it.
I can actually do it. I can't keep Cyril, but there are a few of me who can do that if I [circle back].
And this time the enemy, Ashno, should have the same power as that. The big premise of this operation is for me to stop her. Am I really capable of that?
"Lucier. What would you think if I totally changed my appearance or something in front of Lucier and suddenly I was like someone else? Yeah, it's like," You know, it's like a monster of a gag. "
"Cyril, what's the sudden matter?
Lucier looked surprised at the lack of context.
"Sorry, it's nothing. It's just a joke."
That's what I said and misled.
I have never used [Circle Regression] before in front of all Elsiers, including Lucier, nor have I told them that I have gained memories of my previous life in the first place.
I was purely scared. That it will no longer be Cyril for Lucier. Sometimes I don't know if I'm really Cyril or if I've become another person distorted by [me].
"I'm sure you'll be surprised."
"Oh, well."
My voice was a little turned upside down because of anxiety. This time in front of Lucier and the others, a situation may arise in which [Round Regression] has to be used. If she rejects me then, I...
"But no matter what you look like, if you look at each other and exchange words, Cyril's going to be convinced after all"
But that anxiety disappeared in the words that followed.
"Thank you. Lucier. I'm relieved to hear that."
One day, if you're going to be Lucier, you can tell me my secret. I thought so.
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Inject magic into artificial demon stones created in the workshop.
The more souls you eat, the more magic you accumulate, and the more magic you recover. But not all the magic you've used up in a day can be restored, like a game.
In my case, it would take me seventy hours to recover my once emptied magic, in ideal physical condition.
And this demon stone is about two weeks to replenish it to the maximum because it builds up magic for five of us. It would take five days to make one, so it would take a total of three weeks to calculate.
Still, I have to prepare this because it will be a trump card to fight Ashno.
The feeling tells me that eating hundreds of humans and brave men is swelling my magic capacity to the limit my soul tolerates and I can't increase it any more. The amount of magic that can be emitted at a time can only increase in training by a tiny amount.
As for skill, I have handed over my previous life's experience, so I almost hit him in the head, and it is difficult to be any stronger.
I have a weapon against Ashno like that. For example, this artificial demon stone cannot enhance the effect of attribute magic like a real demon stone, but by instantly releasing the enchanted magic, it instantly opens up all five of my magic powers and instantly converts them into electricity.
Finally [me] opens up some of Ashno's knowledge and finds out, but she's out of the standard for authenticity. Neither can this artificial demon stone be expected to do more than stop Ashno.
"It's not enough yet. I want to be strong. How to stay strong Cyril...... there you are. I want the magic of Cyril alone."
This demonic stone could only be made because of the inherent magic of Queiro.
It is only the nature as a species that Queiro is clever, loved by earth and fire mana, and has a genius sense in purifying tools.
Queiro's intrinsic witchcraft is the embedding of a general purpose witchcraft ceremony into his production. I don't support attribute magic, but I can carve almost all of the general purpose magic I can use into my own tools.
Because of this, I can make a tool that says certain sorceries are activated when magic is shed. Inherent magic of Queiro alone, the same as [circle regression], not the power of Dwarf.
Queiro's wish. "I want to keep what only I can make for future generations and make a name for myself in history," that crazy thirst gave direction to the existence of Queiro, and over the decades Queiro specialized in it and Queiro finally got [magical engraving].
Inherent magic is not something you get right away because you want it.
In fact, I don't get that much intrinsic magic. About 30% of the total.
In the first place, do you have a thirst for me, Cyril, to put all my existence on it?
I guess I don't deserve that at the time I'm thinking this way.
"Let's not screw around. Now we need to get some weapons ready."
With artificial demon stones, the range of mana-independent battles widens. Being able to handle high output electricity works pretty well.
Because of this, everyone in Elsier is making walls that are easy to build with the power of Queiro. We need to make a little bit of a chance of victory with the time and magic we got free from that.
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"Cyril, can I come in?"
After pouring all the magic into the Demon Stone, as I was putting together a draft of my weapon on paper withstanding my tiredness, Kuw knocked on the door of the workshop and called out.
"You can come in. It's been a long time since Koo's been here."
"Yes, well, it was when I came here to do something like that"
I am hesitant to extend it to the workshop I am renting to the Firefox, the village chief's house, Lucier's house, etc. So it was our rule that it was this workshop or outside that you and Ku would love each other.
"How did you get here today?
"Well, Cyril has something to tell you."
Ku looks serious and stares straight into this one's eyes. There was anxiety in those eyes. Talk to me about Ku's anxiety.
Behind my brain came a figure of myself abandoned by Ku. That's what Ku has been refusing lately, or he may have no choice. I'm saying I like you the second best in the world without being offended. Even Ku is determined to be the one who loves me the most.
"Right, Ku, I'm sorry. It's okay, don't worry. Because I'll take good care of the fire fox even if I break up with Ku. I don't hold personal feelings."
"Cyril, what are you talking about!?
Kuw bright red his face and comes stuck.
"It was just before we got married, and I figured you didn't like marrying me, did you? But I've been silent until now because the chief hates me and I'm afraid the fire fox will be treated cold. You don't have to tell me. Sorry I didn't notice."
Three weddings are withheld three days later. He also sends invitations to Loreux, who sent him to buy food.
I guess the limit of Ku's patience came at this time.
"... what can I do to get such an out-of-the-box answer!? I'll be angry!
"No?
"No! You've said it many times. I love Cyril. I won't let someone I don't love grip my tail or forgive my body."
"If it's Qu, it's for all the Firefoxes."
"... I won't deny that, but it's not. I like Cyril, so I decided to stay with her forever."
Ku takes care of his surroundings more than he does. If Elsier's chief demanded Ku himself instead of accepting him with a bastard of the inferior kind, not me, he would have obeyed for his sisters.
"Then why refuse?"
"... I was actually going to keep quiet. Because I don't like it if it's a pleasure. But Yukino said, 'I'm depressed because I think Brother Cyril hates you, Sister Ku. Sister Ku, did you dislike Brother Cyril?' Every day, you say it with a crying face every time you train, right? So I decided to tell you everything."
... They had Yukino running behind them, who might be Elsier's best attentive. Next time, I'll spoil Yukino as much as I want.
With that said, the rewards promised during the war with the Empire have also remained intact because Yukino has not quite demanded them. I might as well make up my mind here and do something about it.
"Well, maybe I could. I haven't been here since last month."
"What?
Ku made his face even more red.
"I may have had a child. I don't get my period."
As pathetic as it was to be watching, it turned bright red to its limit and the coo leaked with a mosquito squeaking voice.
"So I wanted to avoid that for a while! Wouldn't you hate it if it had a negative impact? Besides, if I said this, and I just didn't happen to get my period, I could disappoint Cyril, and I couldn't tell you!
For a moment, I turned white in front of me.
If I noticed, I walked up to the front of the cu and lifted her up, circling around.
"Right, kid, Qu, well done"
Start circling around laughing. Khu starts panicking with his eyes open. Such a cu is cute too.
"Shiru, Shiru, Kun, stop, I'm scared"
"It's okay, I won't drop it"
"No, it's not that way that I'm afraid, it's an abortion"
The moment she releases it, she returns it to me and grates it gently.
"Well, Ku, I'm sorry"
"No, I'm glad you're happy. What I couldn't tell you was that I was worried about what Lucier had done before, and this time I was worried that she would tell me to fall or something. Cyril, you're Elsier's head, and I'm second best."
"You think me or Lucier would do such a terrible thing?
"You two are, aren't you the leader!
Sometimes standing ignores the will of the individual. But Elsier is not.
"It's okay. In Elsier, I'm the rule."
"I'm a little nervous about saying it out loud"
"I'm kidding. I'm not serious. But don't worry, no one cares about that."
Right, kid? What shall I name it? If it's a boy...
"And it just didn't come yet, so maybe not. I'm glad you're happy, but I'm really sorry if I'm not"
"I can't right now, but in half a month, I think I'd know if I checked. Shall I make a formal announcement then?"
"Please wait until critical for announcement"
"Why?"
"Maybe if I were really pregnant and all the Firefoxes found out about it, they would lock me up and keep me out too"
"Koo is loved."
"Yes. Always stick around to take care of a few people around you and make it very difficult to act. It may also stop me from training Yukino.
Yukino is the most growing period for me right now, so it's a lot of fun. Yukino is amazing. What a beautiful shot I got yesterday. Besides Cyril, my brother and Lella are the only ones who put a shot in me. "
"Ku, let's leave Yukino's training to Ku's master Lela"
"From beside what I'm saying!? Cyril, don't."
Firefox training is in action. That's just not good. If a beautiful shot hits Ku's stomach, I can't even see it.
"I'd prefer a girl if I could"
"Because girls are cuter?
"No, if it was me and Cyril-kun's kid and the Firefox boy, it would be a tremendous deal for all the Firefoxes,"
I laughed at the sight.
With that said, I also remembered that Klone and Chemin joked and said that Khu's child was the Prince of the Firefox and would be his son-in-law. I'm sure if I had a boy, more women would be waiting than me.
"Ku, I really hope you have children"
Listen to what I have to say, and Ku will shine his eyes.
"Yes!"
I nodded so.
And I hadn't snuggled with Ku in a long time to the extent that it didn't seem to affect the child.