Chapter 261.1

Water from the huge lake rose into the air as dozens of gigantic water droplets, looking like translucent beads. At the same time, an earth-made giant scattered back into the ground, and the surrounding area began to change.

This was a foolish thing to do. Any kind of construction work could not be finished in such a short amount of time. It was safe to say that construction work was similar to a war of attrition.

In a situation where everything was not yet prepared, Davey was already being efficient by utilizing the power of intermediate-level spirits and not the power of a Spirit King. However, based on his own judgment, moving the lake water and changing its terrain would give them a huge drawback if they chose to use an ordinary spirit’s power.

“At this rate, everything should be done in a month.”

—Summoning Spirit Kings and forcing them to do hard labor is unheard of. To think that you’re actually making it happen.

Speaking gently, Perserque handed Davey a bottle of mana potion with practiced ease. It had become a natural thing for her to periodically monitor Davey’s condition and mana, then hand over enough mana potion to supply the amount that he had consumed.

—I’m telling you that converting simple mana to spirit mana is not usually easy to do.

“That’s the first thing that I learned.”

Davey could do it as naturally as breathing now. In his case, he could convert other mana into spirit mana. So, for him, even a basic mana potion could become spirit mana.

This was also the most efficient method to make the Spirit Kings, existences who had poor fuel efficiency, work hard and do labor for a long time.

[Hey... Look, I’m obviously a king who governs nature, a Spirit King. How long do I have to do this pathetic work?]

[Give it up, Ellaim. It would be a lot easier for you.]

Gnoass, who saw Ellaim approach Davey with a look of complete and utter annoyance, created a replica of himself to speak to her calmly.

[Don’t you have any pride left in that body of yours?! Ha! It seems like the prideful and arrogant Gnoass that I know has died!]

[That’s because you don’t know how much of a lunatic our contractor is yet.]

“A lunatic? I believe you’re talking too much, Gnoass.”

[Please excuse me. Let me correct that. You’re a psycho.]

It was not an easy feat to create a dam on a huge flat land. They had to create a place where they could trap the water and stack enough architectural structures to support it. Of course, no matter how talented the dwarves were, they would still take a very long time to accomplish such a feat.

That was the reason why Davey was leaving the construction work to Gnoass.

Thud, thud, thud, thud!!!

“Ooooh!!! The ground is alive!!!”

As if alive, the ground flipped itself over, mixed itself evenly, and spat out the impurities that had been mixed among them. Then, they began forming huge structures by themselves. The moment the loose soil hardened into the shape that it was intended to be, the dwarves charged in to start on the more detailed and elaborate work.

Davey appointed the skeletons to work on the smaller and more dangerous things, since their fuel efficiency was the highest. After all, he only had to invest a bit of mana in them before they would stand up and move. They could even do that even if their bodies had been crushed a few moments prior.

Obviously, from the perspective of someone who was merely watching from the sidelines, this was a ridiculously absurd and foolish construction method. This was a never-before-seen method wherein it could cut down years of construction and finish it in a short period of time.

“Besides, I’m not too sure about that right now. If possible... I don’t want to get married any time soon.”

Even if Tanya did not mention that, Davey would never have forced her to marry either. Although he had interfered and canceled the marriage while they had been in the middle of its preparation, Tanya was still a young girl of sixteen.

By modern Earth’s standards, Tanya was at an age where she was still supposed to be a hardworking student in school.

Davey looked at his sister smiling so happily, wondering what had happened. In the past, his sister would act timid and shy in front of him, but she had changed over time. Although, her elegance and gracefulness remained the same. Davey welcomed this change in her.

“Your Highness.”

Davey could not take his own sweet time while watching the rapidly changing view of the construction site. The two Spirit Kings were discussing with the dwarves how they would proceed with the construction, but it was Davey who put in the immense effort of maintaining them.

“We have confirmed that there are still a total of three victims, two humans and one elf, that have not yet been sent home,” reported Monmider, the Captain of the guards.

“...”

“From what we could tell...they have already left the territory’s premises... Forgive us, Your Highness.”

“Did those bastards open their mouths to talk?”

“No matter how hard we torture them, it’s very hard to get information from the members of the dark organizations. We’re sure that they have already cut their tails off. And once those victims have been sold off...”

Davey nodded after listening to Monmider’s report. It would be very hard for them to find these people once they have left the territory, since their traces would disappear once outside. And Davey could not really put tracking magic on each and every single one of the citizens of his territory right now. If they were being realistic, it was safe to say that they could never find these three ever again. However...

“That’s not good.”

Turning pale at Davey’s comment, Monmider hurriedly bowed his head and shouted, “Pl-Please kill me!!!”

Davey would really kill the other person if they asked him to kill them. He stared at Monmider silently before opening his mouth and saying, “Do you know why the humans and the elves have fought?”

“That...”

“It’s because of the slave hunt. Elves are beings who naturally have flawlessly clear skin and soft features. And humans tend to favor and swarm toward mysterious beauties, whether they are male or female.”

There was no way that greedy humans would have let an elf with a very likable and favored appearance go.

With his eyes still closed, Davey slowly stood up from his seat. He said, “But in my territory, the place where I brought those elves back to the world, an elf has been captured and sold as a slave...”

“Your... Your Highness...”

“There will be guests in the afternoon. Make sure to watch the surroundings.”

“Gu... Guests, Your Highness?”

“That’s right,” Davey answered quietly as he dropped the expression on his face.

White birds would be distinguished and detected by the same white birds while black birds would be distinguished by black birds. The laws of these dark organizations? Davey did not know about that, since there were no traces left of those mighty dark organizations in his territory anymore. Still, he could check whether they had connected a line somewhere in secret.