66-60 Underground facility of the Healer Guild

I thought it would be a hassle to clean up the room after eating, so I went ahead and put the beds in each room.

The room on the second floor has about ten tatami mats of space, so even if you put two beds in it, it's still enough space for you to sleep and wake up.

While being thanked by my subordinates, I head to the kitchen.

I'm not sure why Nahlia and Paula were in the kitchen, but first of all, the kitchen that I just briefly cast a purification spell on earlier, this time I'm going to cast a purification spell on every corner to sanitize it.

All the magic tools related to cooking were installed around the kitchen.

I had asked for this when I went out to shop, so all that was left was to cook, but there was something that had been bothering me since a while ago.

'What has Paula been up to earlier?'

Paula had been touching and using the magic tool since a while ago, and now she was lifting it up.

'I'm interested in magic tools. I used to make them a lot when I was in my grandfather's workshop.

Can you make a mage tool? I took out a pile of magic stones from my magic bag and cast a purification on them.

I see. But we're going to use this place for cooking now, so you'll be in the way if you stay here. Dolan is also downstairs, so I'll give you this if you swear not to do anything dangerous.

Paula nodded fast and happily went down to the basement with the magic stone in her arms.

''Well... Nahlia, I'm going to make a meal now, but before I do, do you eat quite a bit of Lionel?''

Nahlia replied with a little pretense of thought.

'Yes. 'I think I'll eat more than most people do.'

Well I thought about it and decided on a menu.

Let's make curry, rice, bread and a hot salad. Let's make twice as much as the number of people for now. Nahlia will wash the vegetables with Sparkle-kun, and when you've finished peeling the vegetables with Spaspa-kun's peeling mode, you'll be put into chopping mode next. I'll show you once.

Once you've cleaned the veggies with Mr. Glitter, put them in Mr. Sparky and peel them.

'That's right. I'm going to put these peels in this dry fertilizer boy over here and use them as fertilizer, so just put all the peels in and then start it up.

What? Why do you make this fertilizer?

I want to work in the fields someday," he said, "and when I do, I'll spread this fertilizer on the poor land. Then I'll spread this fertilizer on the barren land and plow it, and I'm sure it will restore some of its strength. It's a small dream.

I laughed and answered Nahlia and decided to take some skins, vegetables, spices, and meat out of the magic bag and prep them.

I put water from the water purifier into the skins and put the meat into the boiling water on the magic stove.

Since the meat of the demonic beasts has a lot of lye and a strong smell of blood, the food would smell bloody if it was used as it was, Gruger-san and Grunz-san had taught me and advised me to never skip this process alone.

After boiling the meat for about twenty minutes, take it out and rub the herbs and other ingredients into the meat with a fine knife.

Meanwhile, while the vegetables are simmering, mix the curry spices and remove the ash from the vegetables, then add the meat and spices and continue to simmer over low heat.

Repeat this process about five times. If there's any left over, you can put it in the magic bag, so there's no need to make too much.

The only thing left to do is to prepare the bread and rice.

''Nahlia, first go get the priest knights and healers upstairs.

Yes, sir.

Once they are finished eating, I and the two priest knights outside, and the purchased slaves, Lionel and the others, will be fed first.

I forbade the crime slaves to speak while showing them the scene.

Then we finished eating.

"There's more for you. Your last order of the day is to guard the outside of the building after the meal. You have until tomorrow morning. After that, you will have your breakfast. After breakfast, you will have a rest period of eight hours' sleep. As a general rule, you are not allowed to leave the Healers' Guild unless you are on guard duty. They are also not allowed to do anything that would be detrimental to the Healers' Guild, such as throwing away their own newsletters or any other information that would be detrimental to the Healers' Guild. As they become accustomed to guarding, they will be asked to work staggered hours. This will make your job easier. If you are sincere, I promise you that you will be treated as you are, with food and room service. But if you betray us, you'll have to be prepared to drink this.

Did everyone start shaking when I brought up object X? Huh? Is this as disgusting as it sounds to the beastmen? I questioned that and gave them permission to eat. They had all eaten their food, as if it had been to their taste buds.

'Lionel and Ketty will take turns watching them. We're going to put the Priest Knight on their watch sooner or later, but it's been a long journey, so I'd like to give them a break, as expected, at least for today.

We're slaves, so don't let them care that much about us.

Yeah. You're in charge.

"You did.

The two of them have made me swear not to betray them as well as the crime slaves, but I wanted them to trust me as much as possible, so that I could trust them as well... if I could build a relationship with them.

In the end, there was about ten servings left, and Callie packed it into a magic bag.

I started preparing breakfast again from here, and I gave Nahlia permission to make their evening meal if she wanted to.

I went back to my room first, having finished preparing breakfast.

'I'm not getting as much time to myself as I thought I would.

While muttering such an obvious thing, I meditated and reminded myself to contact the Pope with the magic ball. Then a voice echoed in my head.

''This is Furuna. Luciel, you have arrived safely in Yenis, haven't you?

It was the Pope's voice. I told him in detail about my safe arrival at the Healer's Guild in Yenis and the events of today, while discussing with the Pope about future measures and the direction we should take as a Healer's Guild, and I turned off the magic ball, obliging him to contact me tomorrow as well.

After that, I trained my magic power and then went to bed.

Apparently, I was tired from the trip, too, and soon I was in a dream world.

The next day, I woke up as usual, and just before I did, I was woken up by a loud bang.

"An attack?

I hurriedly transformed into full gear and left the room.

Similarly, from each room, my subordinates come out as well.

''I don't know what's going on, so everyone gather at once!

I immediately activate the area barriers and then give them instructions.

"Healers, stay in reception on the first floor. You're going to have to go back to the office to check out the situation. If it's a battle, I'll hunker down in the Healer's Guild and return fire, all of you draw!

"Ha!

They snapped into action, even though they were asleep and awake.

'If Doran is here, can we get out of the basement?

I walked down the stairs, mouthing off, and headed down to the basement.

I went down to the basement and what awaited me was an amazing sight.

''Oh, Luciel-dono, was it too loud?''

It was Dolan who asked me that fluently.

His voice came from far below, but I didn't hear him.

I went to the center of the open space, looking around the expanded basement floor. Then I took in the full extent of the basement.

Yesterday, there were definitely only three rooms in the basement.

When I returned from shopping, this time the area had expanded about six times, and the area was as large as the first floor.

And now, for some reason a magic elevator and staircase had been installed in the center, and the basement had been increased by at least four more levels.

''Oi~, Luciel-dono? I've finished building the basement floor. The fifth basement floor was designed to be a prison to keep transgressors in. Next, I built the fourth basement level because Lionel-dono asked for a training ground to train Luciel-dono, so I built a training ground. On the third basement floor, I was allowed to build a blacksmithing workshop and a mage workshop because I'm sure I'll need weapons for my guards. I moved the slaves' quarters to the second basement, and I raised the ceiling in the first basement so that the horses could come down here from the stables outside to exercise. I heard from Nahlia that Luciel-dono wanted to work on a farm, so I made a farm as well. Now that the magic stone is empty, we'll have to adjust it.

Doran said so refreshingly. Paula was lying on his back with a satisfied smile on her face.

I tried desperately to wrap my head around it.

...It wasn't a raid.

That was good.

Huh? Didn't I just tell Dolan yesterday that we're going to pack up the expansion a little at a time? No, I don't care about that anymore but what is so great about dwarves? I decided to start by asking a question.

"...What did you hear this morning?

'That was the sound of Paula accidentally hitting the magic elevator where it stopped. I finished correcting it like this and then I fell asleep.

Paula's a magic elevator, that's a problem too! The composition of my grandfather laughing while looking at Paula is made, but I hear what I need to hear.

'Paula, could you build a magic elevator?'

That's great! He didn't wield hammering when he was a kid, but he was always playing with his magic tools, so he can synthesize magic stones!

Oh, I'm starting to brag about my grandchildren. But Paula is great too........

''By the way, are all dwarves capable of doing this much work?

I don't think so. Only Brother Grand and I are capable of doing this much work.

Brother Grand?

What's your brother doing here, Grand?

No, brotherhood.

I see. You were his brother's apprentice........

''You're the Eternal Master Blacksmith Grand?

'Oh! Did you know my brother?

I didn't know how to pay attention to him being so happy, but I decided to say a few words.

'First of all, thank you for the expansion. But please don't make it any bigger than it already is because it will be unmanageable.

Don't worry. We just need some tweaks.

Then the priest-knights came to report that there was nothing unusual outside, but needless to say, they froze as much as I did.

Dolan, who put Paula to sleep in her room, explained each floor in turn.

It's been a long time since I've used a magic elevator.......I didn't do that. Because as expected, it still looked dangerous. Then we went down the stairs and came to the fifth underground floor.

As I explained earlier, this is a prison to keep the prisoners in. Well, it was just made just in case, I think it can be used as a warehouse or something.

The bars were solidly built for what they said. It's a sturdy thing that doesn't falter even if I push or pull it.

But even so, ten rooms is a lot, isn't it?

I have a feeling we're going to get some big shots that we can't enslave.

'Don't say anything sinister, please.

Hmm.

It's not necessarily a joke, Doran created such an atmosphere as he walked up the stairs.

The training ground here on the fourth basement floor is a joint work with Paula, where even if the magic hits the walls, it won't hurt you unless it's very powerful.

The space, which stretched four to fifty meters square, was smaller than the Adventurer's Guild, but it was large enough to train in.

''I did ask you to train, but...''

Go downstairs to the third floor of the basement, recognizing that he's as battle-crazed as Master Brod.

I was going to ask permission for this. It's just that....

Dolan's voice was quiet. That was no wonder, there were two authentic workshops.

They were labeled [Doran Blacksmithing Armor Workshop] and [Paula Magic Armor Workshop], and they were clearly more carefully crafted than the other levels.

''Then go to the basement level two.''

"Lady Luciel! Hold on a minute.

Thus, I was dragged into his workshop and dragged into his workshop, and since it seems that he can disassemble the equipment of those who became criminal slaves, equipment that is no longer needed, as well as the holy silver sword that Mr. Grand made, I gave it to him along with the purified magic stone and his tension was breaking through the limit.

''Also, please give me Paula's magic stone! Making is what we live for!

I put down the cleansing magic stones with such force. There were hardly any magic stones left, but there was no point in keeping them, so I took out all the magic stones in the magic bag.

''I don't have any more magic stones. Go ahead and use them for the Healer's Guild.''

Thank you, Luciel.

Here I was finally freed. The slave room on the second basement floor was fitted with a warming function, so it was decided to have our room on the second floor above ground be fitted with it as well.

They finally got to the first basement level and said they had created an environment for the horses to run in, but I told them that we were going to make some improvements here.

Yambas had asked me how to make sure that Forenoir and the others were secure and not stressed out, so I asked him to create that environment.

'Okay,'

Dolan was filled with motivation, but he told himself that staying up all night was bad for his health and told him to sleep properly after he had eaten.

''It wouldn't be good if people thought this was an ordinary Healer's Guild underground facility...''

I muttered to myself about it and went straight to the kitchen, remembering to prepare breakfast.