After breakfast the next day, the rest of it was blocked and the walls were completed, although details still needed.

I'm planning on making it a rest day, and everyone's leaving a message. I'm coming out on my own because I'm going to be back as soon as I'm done circling the walls, too.

Satti was sewing with the cloth he bought at the fort yesterday, and Tirica helped with that. Ellie and Ann were either tired or gobbled about yesterday's logging job.

It doesn't have to be that. There's snow outside and it's cold. If they told me to stay in the warm room, I wouldn't have any objections.

Speaking of fire magic, if you add a little heat to your clothes and gear, it's always in the middle of winter or something else.

Look around from above the walls.

Would the size be enough to fit perfectly into elementary and secondary school? The walls could have been higher, but if they were any higher, they would look so prominent with a slight face out of the woods. Well, you can see the tower from pretty much anywhere, but that's not a surprising size to look at.

Or would it have been better to keep the tower itself in disguise as well? I built the walls, and now I'm doing it.

The fear of the battle in the elves led me to build a fine castle wall just because of the momentum, but I don't think it was a little too big to check what I made this way. Originally there was no such thing as settling in this place, and the main purpose should have been such a place as a return base and villa on adventure.

The neighborhood is just sprawling with woods and literally flying all the way to town, but quite lonely to consider living permanently.

First home I've ever gotten, home and emotional, but this is only a secret base. I want to live in a decent residential location for my daughter-in-law anyway.

I like to pull, but I don't want to live like a deserter. Well, with the metastasis, you can use this as a base to get to and from as many distant towns as you want.

If you're working on it, there's still some work to be done if you're trying to get it done exactly, but if you think of it as a villa, it would be too much for this already. Sometimes it's going to be more absenteeism out on adventures, and the entrance may be safer from a crime prevention point of view.

I'm never tired of building walls. It is only necessary or not, as a result of consideration. Mr. Orba and Mr. Nania came through the woods just when I concluded that it was time to go back.

Did Mr. Nania even come to see Ellie? I greet you down the walls.

"When did you get something like this?"

Mr Orba says as he looks up at the walls.

"I was making a pussy."

It's okay to talk to these two because they're telling us magic stuff from Ellie, and they keep secrets, but it's just hard to say I made it yesterday today.

"When I saw it before, it seemed like nothing..."

I shall decide not to hear what Mr Orba has to say.

He said he wanted to see the whole thing, so he took them and jumped up on the wall.

"Totally fortified."

This is what happened when I put emphasis on defense. I'm reflecting a bit on whether I've done too much.

"I've heard so much about Lord Masaru's power from Ellie, but from now on..."

"I just surrounded it with walls, no entrance, and it's still unfinished."

Even when I think about it again, the entrance still seems unnecessary. I don't have to. I don't have any inconveniences or anything about our members, and it's safer not to. I haven't seen it yet, but the demons seem to show up a little around here.

Doesn't it make sense to have an entrance or something, since this isn't even a path through the middle of the woods in the first place?

"If you don't make it, will you have trouble when your visitors come?

"It's about Mr. Orba, isn't it?

Then I guess I'll just make one small entrance. If you pull it with a hippo, even give it a ring that feels like the bell you put on the house is a karan karan. No, I just need to pick you up with a call bell. I knew I didn't need an entrance.

"It's about that. Masaru, won't you be lord?

"What? It's not about lords or anything...... but?

I got a little kidded into an unfamiliar word that came out of nowhere. Lords? Am I gonna be Lords? Is it something you can be Nori like a class commissioner?

That would be trouble in a house with no gates if I were to do something about a lord.

"Look, the farmland's going to be bigger than I thought, right? There's going to be more hopefuls, and we're not going to be able to fit in our village. It doesn't have to be. It's a long way to the farmland."

"Ha."

"So yesterday I saw the walls that you built for me, and I was talking to the village chief about how I could build a village near the farmland."

I see. You mean build a new village and become the village chief there?

Do you become a lord and run a village or do internal affairs? Me? No, Ellie seems to be able to do it.

"Is a lord that easy to do?

"The hardest part is building villages and farmland, but Massal would have made it light, wouldn't he?

Hmm. Not that I'm not interested, but I can't stop being an adventurer in case the world goes bankrupt. Besides, even if I was able to do business in combination with the transfer, I feel that there will be a lot of trouble with the Lords and so on.

"Are you going to talk to everyone for now?"

It's not something I can decide on my own, and Ellie would be familiar with these things.

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"Lordship, that's good!

When I took the two of them back to the tower and all of them attached to the dining room table, and asked them to repeat what they had just said again, Ellie immediately agreed. I think I like the idea of becoming a lord.

"What do adventurers do?"

"You can put the deputy down. Even that mayor of the village, right?

They say it's the deputies who turn to lords to represent them in their role of managing villages and collecting taxes.

"I don't know the advantages of being a lord in the first place"

"Can you be a nobleman?

Nobility? I feel like we've been talking more trouble than lords.

"Don't you have to be different?

"Why not!

"No, why this one? You don't have to be noble or anything, do you?

I'll try to explain to Ellie, who's a little angry, that if he can do a tax or something with a territory, his income will be stable, but I feel a lot more trouble accompanying it. First of all, I'm not a nobleman.

"Money would keep the adventurer going, and you could make money from that, right?

It could end in 20 years. It seems more and more like a territory or something. Of course I'm willing to do something about it, but it might not help.

"Then nobility is fine on hold. I'm not talking about any time soon."

Being a lord doesn't seem like an aristocrat.

Becoming a nobleman has some kind of merit recognized by the state. In this case, it would mean a new pioneering ground, but first of all, it is necessary to successfully pioneer and put it on track. And for the first time in years I will be able to pay my taxes steadily.

"But you'll get to talk about the lord."

"Uh."

"Think about it. No thanks to an old man who doesn't even know his face, he'll be exposed from the side to the pioneering ground created by Masaru?

When you say you don't want me, you mean that the villages and farmlands you make belong to the lords here. Of course, there's no way my rights as a landlord are going to be done, but all the tax revenues and so on are going to flow that way.

"Mm... I sure don't like that"

"Isn't it? If the lord can't do it, then sell it to someone else and give it up."

"Yes, yes. That's enough if you just keep that kind of volume for now. You can decide later."

That's what Ellie and Mr Olba say, but it won't be up to me alone to decide, and you should try to talk to the other Members who have been listening so silently so far.

"What do you guys think?

"Right... I guess I agree. If I had a baby, I'd have a steady, good life."

A child. Thinking about a child, it would have been better if it had been aristocratic and territorial. A parent is a hundred times better than an adventurer.

"What about Satti and Tirica?

"If I am with Master Masal,"

"Me, too."

Agreed 2, waived 2, and my hold 1?

"If you don't like taking care of yourself, ask Orba to do it for you. We just have to keep on being adventurers."

"I don't mind that. I know how to run a village."

"I know a little bit about territorial management, too. Therefore, Lord Massal, please accept this story."

That's what Mr. Nania says with a very serious look. That's ridiculous, isn't it?

"It's my chance to serve Ellie again. Now it's time to live up to the promise I made to my father!

Mr. Nania theorizes forcefully as he embarks on himself for a long time.

The time has come for Ms. Nania to fulfill her vow to serve and defend Ellie, which she made her late father.

Keep arguing. No, it's not that I don't like it as much as I have objections just because it's troublesome, and if Mr. Orba will bear that too...

"Besides, look, if you're going to live here, let's build a town around the house. Then we'll be perfectly safe here, won't we?

It's a town around this house... a castle town. It sure would be safe if it did, and it would seem convenient.

In this state now, no matter how sturdy the walls have been built, the intrusion is just a wall. There's an extraordinary difference if you don't have someone to protect you.

"Let's also build Orba and Nania houses next door. Then we can live together forever."

"Ellie......"

Wherever you end up and whatever you do, if you're going to ruin every world, the result is with you, and if you can save it, would it be better to take it?

There's a respite for at least nineteen years, and that's all we can do about it... well, let's give up when we can't. The ruin of the world is beyond what an individual can do.

"Adventurers go on for the time being. I'm sorry for the troublesome work, but I'll leave it to Mr. Olba. If that's all right, I agree."

"That's okay. It would be more profitable for me to be a deputy, and..."

And look at Ellie and Nania, who are screwing up. Is it both with you that you can't defy your daughter-in-law's intentions?

"And then I have to talk to the lord here."

Anyway, if it's just farmland, people will spill out when it comes to creating new villages and becoming independent. Basically, the movement of people within the kingdom is neither illegal nor anything, but if there were to be fewer inhabitants of one's place, that would not be interesting.

I said, "I'm going to build a new village, so please, just go say hello."

"You don't know what I'm not talking about."

"Negotiation, negotiation. If you can't talk to me, you can either give me something or threaten me with force."

"Threatening with force is just a problem, but it might be a good idea to show strength. If the neighboring lord has a strong fighting power and will be on his side, most people will welcome him."

"Yes, let's make that dragon a gift."

Will you give me the dragon in your hand? Sure, it's a gift, and to show strength, it's an outfit material...

"Just your neck. Everything's just fine."

Seeing me look sinister, Ellie adds that.

"The neck alone is well worth it. Good idea."

"If that's what you're going to do, you can let Masar go of Meteo right in front of you."

If you do that, you'll be at war!

Eventually, we talked about saying hello later. What happens depends on the negotiations at that time.

"Then start building a town today!

What about my long winter vacation? Besides, I was going to take my time today...

"Give up."

Of course such a thing was rejected.