I Become a Staff Officer in the Demon Army, but I Can Only Do Office Work!

If the most important job at the barracks says "replenishment," I don't think anyone can deny it.

It is obvious if you look at history and war simulation games what the end of a battle unit that has run out of supplies is.

Then we must also consider how to carry that supply to the front line, that is, how to transport it.

"What is the way the Demon King's Army transports supplies? Horses after all?"

Long live the fantasy world of sorcery, even if you don't call it medieval.

The human army is flying, so I'm sure there will be railroads. But I don't think so on the devil's side.

That's why I was familiar with it in fantasy, and even on Earth, in the World War, I thought the carriage I normally used was an important part of the transportation of supplies.

"There's that, but there's also storage magic."

"Storage magic. Is that what you have!

Here comes the most powerful sorcery. This wins.

Common in the game world, magic that lets you pack weapons, protective equipment, and consumables if you do it inside an item box, that's storage magic.

Even novels cheat on transport with it, and in some cases that solves transport problems all at once.

Dragon or Wyburn, if you put a storage magician on the flying warcraft, it's a fine tactical and strategic transporter completion.

"How much can you store?

"Right. Depending on the user, it's about 260,000 libras when you become an Elf Mage."

"... oh libra, libra... what a libra"

"A unit of weight, though?

Well, if the world is different, then the weights and measures should be different.

A libra is a unit of weight, as Mr Sophia said. Length units are Yard and Myra and Inke.

Libra is based on the weight of the wheat, and Yard is based on the body of His Majesty Hell Arche.

And they measure it with something super convenient called "identification magic" that accurately measures the weight and length of objects.

Even those who don't have a lot of witchcraft qualities if it's a rough estimate, and they can accurately measure up to decimal numbers when they're in the Demon King's class.

Identification magic is also a "dictionary" that examines the names of objects and phenomena. Provided that it is a known object/phenomenon for the Demon Nation.

gossip.

Sophia's witchcraft is there, so she asked me to do that identification witchcraft. Let's say we convert it from there to a metric method.

Well, you'll weigh more or less, regardless of your height.

"Dear Akira... you are about 1.8 yards tall and weigh about 130 libras"

"... yeah, okay. Mostly."

The Yard Pond Act. This. It stinks in many ways.

It is a weighing measure that is likely to fly the glider by incorrectly calculating the fuel to be put on the passenger aircraft.

Ma, well, let's put aside the mixing with the Metric method of the future and get back to it.

260,000 libras in inmated magic capacity used by Elf's Great Mage.

Approximately 120 tonnes when converted. Let's calculate the amount of supplies the troops need in a day from there. Think of it all as human in an easy way because the numbers vary from race to race.

I'm the only one.

The water consumed by one soldier per day is about 200 litres combined for drinking and domestic use.

There is magic to purify water, but to take advantage of it, there is a guy in the unit who can use magic and doesn't use any magic in combat. Natural water is not lubricated in some places either.

Even if domestic water is cut off and only drinking water is ensured at a minimum, humans need three litres of water a day. Even if you consume half of it with food or something, that would be quite a strain for a frontline sorcerer. I don't even want to think about troops without magicians.

And naturally, if soldiers aren't zombies, they need to eat.

The food you need for a day is about two kilometres. Combine drinking water there for about 3 to 4 km. It is only natural that you will also need preferences such as sweetness, tobacco, alcohol and coffee to increase your morale.

I need more gear and consumables to fight than I need to be a soldier.

Of course demonic stones and statues, clothing, feeding for horses and flying dragons and other servant animals, if you want to use bows and arrows and swords, you also need them, as well as tools for servicing them. If you march, you'll need to replace your boots.

And even more naturally, they are in packaged condition. There's no way an elf mage would give raw meat or swords straight to the troops on the front line with a pong. I have trouble getting it handed to me.

There can't be vinyl products or styrofoam or anything, and there's probably no canning. There are crates and bottles, so they are tense and heavy. Even if wrapped in paper or leaves, there are limits.

Calculating the required quantity by adding all the circumstances I said so...... approximate 10 km.

Maybe more, maybe less, because it's only a human calculation.

And unfortunately, this is what we need for "per capita" and "per day".

"Mr. Sophia, do you know the number of soldiers in the front line unit?

"Heels by Troops"

"Average is fine."

"... right. For example, I was wondering if there were three divisions of the Demon King's Army deploying in the Alkia Plateau. One division is about 10,000 to 12,000."

"If so, at least 30,000..."

The total amount of supplies 30,000 people need in a day is 450 tonnes.

120 tons can be transported by Elf's Great Mage using storage magic.

So if there are four of us, we can afford to carry them!

There's no way!

"Mr. Sophia, how many Elf Mages are there?"

"You're a few. I was wondering if it would ever exceed the number of fingers in one hand."

Right!

I'd be in trouble if there were so many great elf magicians like that! Elves are a lot of fantasies in the first place, aren't they? There's no such thing as an absolute number.

Mr Sophia said that there were no particular restrictions regarding the constant deployment of storage magic, so it would be considerably easier to assign this great magician to the convoy.

but it won't be a fundamental solution just to make it easier.

Plus, Elf's Great Mage doesn't exist just to use storage magic.

I'm determined to be able to handle massive sorcery far beyond my imagination. Storage magic is just one of them.

Use an elf like that for a transport mission?

No one will replace Battleship Yamato with a transporter just because he doesn't have enough transporters. There are countries that have replaced the battleship Ise with a transporter, but that is a good place to end up.

"As far as transport is concerned, we seem to have to ask the IGAD to establish innovative transport technologies while doing so in the usual way..."

"I thought it would be a good idea to do that.... By the way, Dear Akira, can I have one?

"What?

"Why are we talking about transport in the first place? We must have been arguing until yesterday about scaling down the development of the statue."

"Oh, I haven't forgotten that yet. I mean, that's why we're talking about improving transport."

"Yes?"

"I mean, I thought I'd sell my thanks to the convoy."

That meeting, all the emotional theories came forward and didn't deepen the debate.

That means I'm human too, but there will be another circumstance behind it.

In other words, it is an unspoken genuine desire to maintain the "traditional way that is (appears to be) turning around better than the unproven reform proposals".

In every world, this idea always stands before something called reform.

That's right. Because the traditional method is dozens of times easier than struggling to reform and failing, even if it hasn't worked somewhat well, without having to struggle to reform.

What do I do if I put a person (but not a human being) in front of me who says so?

Easy. You just have to make a track record.

That said, the soldier's station is not a story that can be managed overnight. It's not to say that 365 mornings and 365 evenings work.

"So overnight, I thought I'd use it as a persuasive material to increase my allies by showing my track record in something that works in about a month."

"Is that how you improve your transportation?"

Well, the old army's Heavy Soldiers wouldn't often think of a convoy of goblins and orcs who can't read or use witchcraft to get a massive job...

"I wonder if there are any means to achieve results quickly..."

Why don't you? A barracks station is a job to do in the tunnel. There is no such thing as flashy war.

"Well, let's do what we can. Ideas gush within them. Shall we start by checking the warehouse in the Demon King's Castle?"