Why don't you build a village on top of the world tree

Episode Twenty: High rise building construction begins

Bring the materials carried during the winter months into the material warehouse set up in turn on the fourth branch.

It's a warehouse that originally houses items for sale in every store in the air market, but this time of winter we can afford the capacity of the warehouse because we are also feeling discontinued from the surrounding villages and towns. I let her use it because it was just fine.

"It's huge."

Melmie, voiced by students at Tacax Basic School, who apparently came to the air market to shop, describes the hallmarks of the high-rise architecture to be built.

Big if you say so, but only if you look at the whole thing. Each building is roughly six or seven stories long and is not a skyscraper as it was in Japan in the previous life.

In the structure, six seven-story buildings at the bottom are to be used as a foundation by connecting them in an air corridor, four six-story buildings are to be built on top of them, and the ones connected in an air corridor are to be used as a foundation to construct observation decks containing hydraulic elevators that reach the cloud-no-layer.

In order to have a distorted appearance that stretches the three-stage pyramid thoughtfully in the direction of height, the aerial corridor at the base of the first step adds legs and balances the appearance apart from the building, while the second base is constructed to withstand the load while adding a refraining wall to the building for decorative properties.

I struggled with design more than design to make the whole thing out of composite materials. I want to make sure it succeeds.

"All right, we're almost there."

After checking the building materials, I close the list I was working on.

Melmie approached me when I thought my work had come to a close.

"It's gonna be a lot of construction, but how many of us are gonna do it?

"I speak to the artisans of the vacant Takakus. We're also calling for support for the Bridge family from Hedgeway Town, so I'm guessing it'll be a hundred people."

"Yes! Yes! Mr. Melmie wants to work under Amane."

I nod back to Melmie, who insists with his hands up and jumping.

Naturally, I'm not letting Melmie go.

"... that kind of dialogue please in bed"

Why is that polite all of a sudden?

"I mean, not that way!

What are you talking about where the basic school students are? Not at all.

Wait for the redness of Melmie's face to return before leaving the warehouse.

If you look up at the sky, unfortunate cloudy weather patterns will make it snow in the afternoon.

"I have to report the materials. Face the office, then go to the Devil Bug Hunter Guild."

In the spring, we have to have a demon worm extermination battle focussing on the branches of the cloud-no-layer, which is the planned construction site. This time, I won't be able to participate in the extermination battle because I'll be in command of the construction as soon as the snow melts, and I need to tell him to decide on a leader as soon as possible.

As he walked out toward the office, Melmie looked up at the branches of the cloud-no-layer.

"What kind of hydraulic elevator is that?

"Take advantage of the drop from the middle of the cloud to the bottom of the cloud to flush the water and lift the elevator."

Space will be needed for installation as it climbs diagonally rather than vertically.

It's an elliptical water wheel that's not very common in this world, but simply put people on it. As long as we can secure the amount of water, it works automatically, but we can't build an elevator that goes straight up to the no-layer on the cloud in relation to the need for a lot of water.

Because the speed is not so fast, it is only considered a device for the elderly with weak ankles.

There's just no art just relaxing and climbing up neatly. Therefore, this hydroelectric elevator is designed to be viewed from the fourth branch to the first branch like a Ferris wheel.

"It was developed in Yoinsley, wasn't it? Can you make it?"

"I've studied, but it's dangerous without a technician in the boulder, so I'll have him dispatched from Yoinsley via the Comatsu Chamber of Commerce. I hear the Jianqiao family calling from Hedgeway Town has had a few hydroelectric elevators installed, and they're supposed to ask for their opinion."

"That eater, he's quite the famous Jianqiao family, isn't he? I've never heard of him."

"He's a famous bridge-builder just like my master, Mr. Friengs. I design roads, air corridors, and bridges, so I don't have a general profile."

He doesn't have much interest in himself, although if he designs a theater, a church, etc., he will also gain public visibility from familiarity depth.

However, the name is widely known to the head of the municipality in relation to the request for road maintenance and the like. In a way, it's a name value with an elite feel like a bridge-builder. At the same time, it may be widely known about its food.

"Speaking of which, you got a letter saying you wanted wild birds. We need to talk to Markt."

"You haven't even started construction yet, but you're very busy."

"Preparation is the most important thing. Everything has to be well founded. If you like..."

"Like home."

Dialogue taken.

As such, the preparations proceeded without delay and finally the spring of construction began.

"I guess you have a reservoir installed in the cloud-no-layer?

The Jianqiao family, who asked for backup from Hedgeway Town, asks as they taste the wild bird ham covered with herbs. The gaze was up, observing the branches of the cloud-no-layer.

"Only reservoirs are installed during the winter months. After discussing the shaded fields with their owners, they are supposed to move to the sun direction, but the movement itself begins the day after tomorrow."

It is a unique solution to the fields of this world that fill the wooden frame with soil, moving.

As far as free shade space is concerned, it should be managed by Tacax as a cultivator of negative plants with pharmaceutically effective ingredients.

Around there, the Jianqiao family squeaks when they see the fields they plan to move.

"You're very fruitful. Good arm. I knew Takakus could taste a lot better. Let's live here, too."

"Give me a break because I'm resented by Hedgeway greats"

"When do wild bird exports start?

"I'm feeling too fast. We haven't been able to establish a breeding method yet, so we're on our way."

"Really?"

Jianqiao family, who seemed to regret the few remaining wild bird hams, tempered with a right bush on his left hand as he cheeked the last five slices with a bold bite.

Well, let's get started.

"Let's do that. I would like corridor extension work from the air market. I command the building."

"I got it."

When the Jianqiao family undertakes to do so at ease, they take the craftsmen and walk away towards the air market.

I dropped off the Jianqiao family and then looked around at the craftsmen again.

"Let's get this one started. If you have any composite material you don't know, please offer it to me. Although there are few volume changes due to heat when it comes to materials that use the liquefied yarn of the bird eater spider as an adhesive, this time the building is large, so as not to err in dimensions. Squad division as per yesterday's meeting. Let's start with the foundation work!

When the decree is issued, the craftsmen come together from squad to squad in a flowing motion and start the foundation works at a constant distance from each other.

This time the youngest is Melmie because there is not a single half servant like the former Kubesta Village Craftsman. But Melmie is a foreman at the same time, and no one disputes that. Because that's all they recognize for their strength.

Especially in this architecture, many elegant and delicate curves are used while incorporating plenty of new materials, as in the Art Nouveau style from previous life. There is a place that passes with the delicacy of Melmie's work, typical of sculpture, and there is no one else left to the foreman.

"Chicken - Chicken -"

Mermie softens the protruding part of the Devil's Nail by hanging a small amount of acetic acid on the symphony, and then screws it into a hole drilled into another building material. If I beat him with a hammer without much force, the protruding part of the Devil's Beetle was delivered into the hole.

Having checked that the joints were properly fitted, Melmie neutralized acetic acid by shaking a small amount of water dissolved in wood ash onto the protruding portion of the Devil's Beetle.

The woman craftsman, who was watching with a strange face, calls out to Melmie.

"What are you doing?

"Hmm? Oh, this is it. Some Devil's Beetle softens when you hang the acid, and when you hang the base, it goes back to normal. Even the recently developed method of processing blue beetles steams with vinegar steam to soften them, right?

"It was meant to be easier to combine."

To the admiring woman craftsman, Melmie asked, "Want to try?" and offer a vial with acetic acid.

"Yes. I'd like to try. Uh, how long does it take?

"Just a little bit. About five drops."

"That's all..."

"You just have to soften the surface."

Under Mermie's guidance, the female craftsman combines the Devil's Bug armor softened with acetic acid.

The woman craftsman, shaking the ash dissolved water to make sure the joint was in shape, apparently learned a little touching, and clapped small.

"Amazing, this"

"Right. Five hundred years ago, a demon bug hunter made it into a book. It was in Amane's room."

Some of those books remind me of my own bookcase.

In this world where guns don't exist, a demon bug covered in hard crusts is a very troublesome opponent. Something blue beetle has a tough crust that gently bounces back the arrow.

But if it's hard, we have a demon bug hunter who started researching it. The results of the study summarize information on several types of demonic worms, which are found to soften with acid, the book says. The willingness of the Devil Bug Hunter to study even how to restore hardness so as not to devalue the product value of the crust is great.

But the Demon Bug Hunter missed one. Carry acid to fight demonic bugs, see gaps, let acid bathe and finish with arrows. That I don't have time for that.

Naturally. Demon worms fly freely in the sky or move around quickly. It is difficult to expose the crust to such amounts of acid that it softens to the inside that arrows exert their power on such opponents. I know how much I could fly with a bow and arrow, so I have to get close to being bottled by a dangerous demon bug.

Even though a tactic of warfare by bow and arrow has been established in view of safety, it is the end of the line.

As a result, the research of the Warbug Hunter was turned away by his colleagues, the Warbug Hunters, while being admired by architects, bridgebuilders and, above all, artisans standing on the scene.

A little pitiful. The research is very helpful because it looks like a human being in this world with a long life span, and the data is detailed, and it also describes aging.

The female craftsman teaches Melmie to use good materials and materials that should not be used. I took my gaze off that I didn't seem to ruin the ingredients at my discretion.

Every squad is working with tremendous momentum because they've been working somewhere ever since they started as villages.

"That's a momentum that's going to end at the beginning of fall, this"