Chapter 311 The Castle (1/2)

As thanks from the owner of the inn for the deep well pump, they treated Jin and the others to a wonderful dinner.

The owner’s amazement was quite troublesome for Jin, as he came requesting Jin for pumps for kitchen use, wash use and even face-wash use.

Reinhart, who felt that things would go out of control at this rate sat down with Jin after dinner and discussed about transferring the control rights of the pump to the Magi Engineer Guild.

And they came up with two conditions.

Firstly, they would teach this technique to the Magi Engineer guild of this town.

And secondly, as soon as they do that, they will not monopolize this technique.

And that very night, the guild master of the Hatata city came to visit them.

“I am Kots Rodoit. Jin-dono, nice to meet you. Reinhart-sama, I have heard many rumours about you.”

“Nice to meet you. As we don’t have much time, let’s start right away.”

Saying that, this time, Jin built a pump using the bronze the guild provided.

“Hohoh, that’s a very interesting structure.”

As expected of the guild master, his skills as a magi engineer were quite high.

“I see. The essential parts are the cylinder and the piston, am I correct?”

“That’s right. At the very least, it would be good to harden the sliding portions and then coat them with adamantite. If that’s not possible, routined check-ups and maintenance will be needed.”

“I understand. However, adamantite is out of the question so I will make do with just hardening.”

He made Kots Rodoit make a pump as well and as he was able to make it without any problems, Jin was quite impressed.

Later when he asked Reinhart, he got to know that the guild master was one of the top ten magi engineer of Shouro kingdom, which Jin could agree to.

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“Whew, Jin, great work!”

As Kots Rodoit also helped out, they were done installing pumps to all the wells in the inn by 1 am at midnight.

As one would expect, even Reinhart looked exhausted and so after speaking to Jin about such, he disappeared to his room. Jin was also tired. But when he was just about to enter his room, he was stopped by Matheus’ call.

“Jin-dono, great work today. It was quite frustrating for me, to not be able to do anything but watch.”

He went on expressing his thoughts out as such.

“Well then, please take a good long rest.”

“Thank you. Good night.”

Jin also replied, and this time went inside his room.

“Father, great work today.”

Reiko also said the same.

“Ah, you too. I couldn’t receive reports from Laojun, were there developments?”

To Jin’s question, Reiko answered,

“Yes, Lock-san and 4 others have safely reached the rest hut.”

“Ohh, glad to hear that.”

“Yes, Land R and S spotted them while returning to the village and guarded them in secret till the village.”

“Hmm, that’s fine. That was good of them.”

Jin was also relieved to know that the people who were enlisted as soldiers returned safely.

“And, it seems the castle has also been completed.”

“Ohh, I see.”

Jin was happy.

“Ah, I am tired today so maybe I will return tomorrow night.”

“Yes.”

As Jin was exhausted, after knowing that there were no more reports, he lied down and slept soundly till morning.

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“What?! The highway has been fixed overnight?!”

“Yes, it seems like ‘Nostalgia’ or some organization worked during the night.”

“Again Nostalgia, eh… How very annoying…”

And then, silence continued for a while.

“…Buy up the salt.”

“Yes?”

“Kaina village can’t harvest salt. The merchants take it there. Buy it all at a village on the way.”

“I hear that merchants are all about trust. Will they really sell all of it?”

“It’s fine if you leave a bit. Pay 3 times if necessary. Threaten them too.”

“…Understood.”