A Chronicle of Life in a Different World

Four months have passed since the beginning of the development of the town known as Speranza, which is being developed under the Baron of Amendura.

Initially, winter was also a real climate, but it is gradually turning into a spring-like atmosphere. Even in the woods, about 100 meters away from the town of Speranza, fresh grass and flowers were peeking at his face.

The town of Speranza was originally a spacious plain with only “decent” artifacts like sewers, but after four months it will change.

--Too much has changed.

The empty moat surrounding the town increased in width and depth, as did the earthen walls made of soil that emerged from the excavation.

The depth of the empty moat is two meters and the height of the earth wall is two meters, so if you try to get over from outside the town, you need to get over the height of four meters. People who can't use "Enhancement" cannot overcome without a ladder, and it is difficult for monsters to jump and jump over.

It will still take some time to fully prevent intrusion.

There is an "entrance/exit" in the east, west, south and north of the town, but there is no empty moat just in front of the gate due to the carriage of materials, etc. Still, a wooden gate was set up to prevent the invasion of the outside world.

And beside the gate, and in the four corners of the city, which were made of squares, were set up wooden watchtowers about five meters tall. Currently, there are only sentinel adventurers in the four corners of town due to the small number of manpower, but if they discover a flying monster, they immediately ring the bell to let them know.

The sentry also has a cross-bow that Calvin and the others have prototyped, so if you can fly in the sky, you can chase away the haunted birds. If a monster like Griffon comes out, it rings the bell to convey the anomaly, and it is thoroughly ordered to get off the watchtower immediately.

The defense equipment of the town also took shape to a certain extent, and it became fully capable of building towns inside the town and making fields around the town. There are fields in town too, but this is the least we can do.

Around the town, the clearing of the forest proceeds within a hundred meters of the empty moat, and a flat land appears between the forest and the forest. Regarding trees that were likely to be edible, the roots were carefully digged under the leadership of the dwarf and moved into the town to replant them.

The wood obtained from felling the forest is brought to the town, processed into wood and dried. Some of the trees that were harvested during the initial construction of the town can already be used as timber, and the construction of houses will accelerate.

Until then, there were some rotten soil that had been stacked with fallen leaves for many years, so in the future you can build fields around the town.

Currently, we are building fields in the area where we used to have eye stars as a planned area for the field, and you are doing well too.

"I had the captain's permission, and I did say I needed a field... and I did... and I was checking the progress... but I want you to dare tell me..."

The plains were well within walking distance of the town of Speranza. After confirming the status of the flatland, which had been in all three places, Collard shouted with his head in his arms.

"Why is this vast field being built in about a month!?

Beyond Collard's shouting gaze, the crops were not planted, but the soil was dug back and the transformed side spread from the plains to the fields.

All the trees that had grown everywhere had been pulled out and “transformed” into fenced wood to surround the fields in the future. The weeds that were growing on the ground are also piled up in one corner of the field and are being processed into compost.

With the town's defenses in place, he was able to allocate unmanned dwarf power to the field - that's all, to put it mildly - but Collard was under the illusion that his common sense would be broken.

"I haven't made a field yet. I dug so deep that I could plant root vegetables, and I removed some of the underground stones, but when a solid crop grows, I won't make more solid soil."

Calvin stunned Collard, shouting.

It draws waterways from the nearby river to the side of the field to avoid water problems, but Calvin and the Dwarves are still far from finished.

Natalia changed her orders to "supporters”, and fertilizers and other fertilizers arrived, and the surrounding forests gave her the rotten soil, but it took time to mix them well with the soil and get used to them.

Still, seeing the whole neighborhood transform into a field, it may have been helpless for Collard to scream. If ordinary people wanted to do the same thing over the same period of time, it would have taken more than ten times as many dwarves - hundreds of people.

The dwarves told me that I could build a field as I wanted. That's all I'm talking about.

"Grandma, there's a big stone coming out. What about me?

With Collard shouting in that way, Reus shouted as he carried a stone that he had dug out of the field.

"Bring it back to town when you're done. The stone will be good if processed."

"Yes. Let's just put it on the edge...."

Reurus uses Reinforcement to lift the stone, moving it and placing it at the edge of the field. Then he grabbed the knife and resumed the field work - just before that, Collard grabbed his shoulder.

"Why are you flat? Don't you think something's wrong?

"Huh? You've seen a lot of dwarfs work. Isn't it strange?

"That's... that's right. This is how my common sense breaks down..."

"I don't think I've ever moved on to get the work done quickly... but the monsters haven't come near the town lately, and if they don't get in the way, how about this one?

The monsters are attacking, and the work is never interrupted. I don't think the dwarfs need escorts, but it was a realuse who was there to escort them, but it's been really peaceful here lately.

Eliza and the others were escorting non-dwarf workers in the town of Speranza, but the monsters were rarely attacked there, and Meer, who was carrying the hammer, had plenty of time to deal with it alone.

"I see... am I wrong? No, no, if I think of this as“ normal ”, there's a huge error when I'm building a village... and with the help of the Dwarf face, it'll all be over soon..."

Collard murmured that the reality in front of him was unacceptable, but he smiled bitterly as to whether it was a good thing about Collard and a bad thing at the same time.

"Surprisingly, I'm sorry, but this size of field is not enough at all? There are nearly 2,000 people living in the abandoned city of Laval, right? If we don't make the fields bigger, we can't help it."

Calvin pointed out that he was stunned at Collard, who was murmuring with distant eyes. When Collard returned to me, he looked around the surrounding fields and leaned his neck.

"Captain... no, Baron Amendura is going to have more fields in the future, but how much do you need?

"At least five times as much if you're just eating in the fields... and even more if you can afford the food? If we cut down the forests around town many times now and turn them all into fields, we'll be able to do it....."

"That's a lot..."

The Reurus who was listening murmured with astonishment.

If crops with improved varieties and high yields are as good as in previous generations, they may be able to cope with the current scale, but there are no such crops in this world.

All the flatlands in the vicinity of the town have been converted into fields, and even if all the flatlands built around the town have been converted into fields, they will not be enough.

From there, the trees are cut down, the roots of the trees are dug up and removed, and the ground is laid and turned into fields. How long will it take to work?

"... hmm? Grandma, even the fields we're building now will cover one-fifth of the population of the abandoned city of Laval... which means about 400 people will be fed, right?

"We need to adapt the soil a little more, plant seasonal crops appropriately, and make it a crop failure. That way, I think I'll be able to survive the winter even if I migrate like that by the end of the year...."

Originally, he lived as a serf, but as a realuse who had just followed his superiors' instructions, he could not predict accurately. Still, if Calvin says so, it won't go far.

"Planting crops with as much harvest as possible, planting conservative crops, smoking and salting as much monsters as Reurus has ever hunted..."

"Hmm... in order to make the town attractive, should we continue the field work for the time being, leaving as much work as possible for the inhabitants of the town... write to the captain and now the livestock... No, it's better to add a few dozen workers with a sense of burden than that... Hmm, I'm lost."

Collard bothers his head when he thinks about the future. Hearing such a collard murmur, Reurus turned to the field.

(Now that we're in April... will it be about six months before everyone in town actually starts to migrate by getting a little more soil, planting and growing crops?

Not all of the abandoned towns of Laval will be able to migrate within a year or so of the start of town building.

As the number of migrants increases, the number of workers that can be allocated to the work will increase, and migration is likely to accelerate.

(It depends on how the “discussion” that Sada-san is doing falls... but we have to move forward with what we can do, right?)

If we look to the food supply, we will have to look to other industries this time. With Calvin and the Dwarves around, I think I can do a lot of things, but that's also because I started to function as a town.

(Step by step...)

It's still a long way from complete, but some of the town's defenses are still in place. All that remains is to move forward little by little.

(The town of Speranza... she said she was following the first person in her house, but I don't know what that means...)

Does it make any sense, or does it just misuse a person's name?

I don't know, but it sounds kind of good, Reurus laughs.

It will be up to you to work hard to become a town worthy of that name. At least Collard was watching, and the town was building at a high pace.

Reurus thought it was going in the right direction.

--Nobody knows what kind of future awaits from now on.