Chapter 105 (1/2)

More awkward phrasing and name changes. I changed senpu village to Battleaxe town, let's be honest the way the place was described doesn't fit the characteristics of a village, also Battleaxe sound better for a dwarf town.

I don't really get the explanation of the castle looking like a cake...

Jiiteas castle in the mid term II

At Jiiteas castle’s main tower.

A beautiful morning was pouring in my room at the top most floor.

I open the window, it’s been  awhile since I could watch over my own castle.

[Seeing it likes this, it really looks like a completely different castle...]

[No wonder, the dwarves are really hard workers]

Said Mora, the girl wearing maid clothes and cleaning after my breakfast.

The area of the castle has grown bigger in the 30 or so days I’ve been out.

It wasn’t as big at first, the castle was built on a terrain surrounded by forest that resembled a terrace half way up a steep mountain.

After that, the surface of the castle extended up to roughly 300 meters after clearing out the forest.

The original foundations of the castle were extended 10 more meters down. The castle now looked like a two layer “wedding cake” split in half vertically.

On the lower part of the “cake”, solid walls were constructed on its circ.u.mference, on the interior there were wooden buildings lined up one after another.

On the external part of the walls was an imposing guard tower, a drawbridge and a large door from which a stone road was extended.

The now inner wall, were once a quiet place and the main walls of the castle, now on the outer wall were countless humans and dwarves working on them.

About half are people of the Schultz tribe and the other half are workers, maybe?

In any case...

At first it was called a “fort”, but now it’s putting on airs of a real castle...

[No matter where you look at, it’s become an splendid castle not to be ashamed of anymore.]

[Yes! Everyone was surprised and glad... Gio-san is really amazing]!

[No, the amazing ones are the dwarves. Tough my summoned giants and stone walls helped a little]

As always Mora was praising me without hesitation.

It’s embarra.s.sing but stills feels good.

[But... I still believe it’s because you are here at the castle]

Mora was cheerfully smiling, not an ounce of fatigue could be seen on her even after serving at the banquet or cleaning afterwards, this lasted until late last night.

After seeing that, I no longer feel out of place in this greatly changed castle.

I returned to Jiiteas castle after 30 days of being on a trip, that is, I returned yesterday.

The negotiations with the dwarves and the duke of Fillsand went generally well and we agreed to establish a new trade route and to form an alliance against the dark beasts.

Furthermore, Battleaxe town dispatched some very skilful master blacksmiths, and also got new comrades, Elisabel the diplomat and Diane the warrior, from Fillsand.

That’s huge success I say.

Although, I still have that new responsibility of clearing the “Plains of Twilight” from undead within 2 years so reclamation can be possible.

What’s more, in the middle of the conflict at Fillsand, I became aware of the “Dark beast king” for the first time, that was also a big deal.

Until then we believed the dark beast were an endless natural disaster. But if there exists something like a king controlling them, then by killing him it would probably bring and end to the dark beasts invasion. Although the probability is very low, perhaps we could negotiate with him...

We really need to collect more information regarding the dark beats.

More than the new people at the castle, its expansion or the trade route,  we need to expand the alliance against the dark beasts.

There’s also dealing with the War tribe’s suspicions of me being a “focal point”.

There’s a mountain of thing to do, but I don’t feel depressed like I used to.

Rather, you could say I feel very motivated.

Is this thanks to Mora’s influence?

After breakfast.