CH 77.1

It’s still hot but according to the calendar, summer is just about to be over.

We are currently digging a hole outside Torquiva.

The site was built adjacent to the west gate of Torquiva and it was very hot with a large number of workers working together.

Shovels and pickaxes were being used to dig into the earth and stones and soil were being carried out by the workers and a hole in the ground was gradually getting bigger with everyone’s strength.

Since the job is budgeted by the school, a part time mage dispatched from the Magic Academy was stationed at the site to help with the countermeasures against behemoths and he was there, sitting on a chair, looking bored, and smoking a cigarette.

The site, which was shielded by a board fence, was surrounded by people from the security department and adventurers’ group, who were on high alert to make sure that not even a single rat, let alone a monster, could get through.

「The bottom of the hole must be flat and it must be as deep as two men standing above each other.」

「Eh! Two men standing above each other!? Isn’t that too deep?」

Jiren, the tall manager, wearing a shell helmet, took down her pencil with a look of astonishment as she looked at my face and the design blueprint at the edge of the site.

「It’s not just digging that deep, we also have to harden it like the swimming pool. It will be used to handle the material for a super behemoth magic construct.」

Yeah, what we are digging now is an experimental pool for the production of a super behemoth magic construct.

The reason why our laboratory has been going through a lot of trouble in the past year is because the Kraunia royal family’s involvement with the “Super behemoth magic construct for decisive battle project”.

There still seems to be some time left before the royal decree but there’s no such thing as too much time to spare for work and too much time to spare for life so there’s no such thing as too much time to spare.

「That’s a lot of work. That should be a very big magic construct.」

Jiren wrote “Magic Construct”on the design form and said in a voice that didn’t seem to think it was a difficult job.

That’s right, for the construction people, digging hole is their job so anything not related to that doesn’t have anything to do with them.

Let me scare you a little bit.

「Let me tell you something even more awesome.」

「What is it?」

「Eventually, you’re going to be digging a hole the size of Torquiva.」

The magic construct we’re going to make this time is, shall we say, giant class, or shall we call it cyclops class?

Anyway, this one is only around as deep as two humans.

In the “Super Behemoth Magic Construct for Decisive Battle Project”, it was decided that we would eventually create a city class magic construct that is the same size as a city.

After all, it’s a decisive weapon so there’s no such thing as being too big.

「The size of Torquiva!? How is that possible!?」

「Well, I’m going to have the magic construct help dig the hole so I don’t think it will be too hard.」

「No, I still thing that’s too much work….ah, ouch, my head is hurting……」

「Oi oi, are you okay?」

I might have scared her a little too much. I might have done something bad.

I cast a healing spell on Jiren and asked her to take care of the rest and then left the scene by riding a bicorn.

I looked back and saw that the construction site was shining brightly in the dark night.

Light cutting through the darkness.

It seemed to me that it was a symbol of sin of humans, a species that has stepped out of the animal kingdom.

In my previous life, if it were not for that light, I would have been able to leave work on time everyday and I would have not died.

No, come to think of it, the day the building lost power due to a typhoon, I was still working in the midst of the blasting noise of the gasoline generator…..

I take back my previous statement, it’s not the light’s fault.

I pay them well after all. Unlike the CEO of that black company from my previous life.

Even though it’s nonstop and continuous, you’re working in peace, right?