Chapter 78: building project
"Alright, let's start. The first point, we will need four outposts re-constructed. Three of them are the ones you seen destroyed. The other is a larger construct, around twice to three times the size of the others. The guild wants to use the given occasion to enlarge the facilities. The smaller ones were able to house four peoples, and the larger eight. We want them doubled.
For the general shape, you will be relatively free in its construction. The fixed pre-require are three floors. The main open and able to house the maximum capacity at once. The second as living quarter and the last as lookout an armoury.
We would be thankful if you could use the surrounding trees as building materials. Winter will be on us in around three months, and the outpost needs to be ready for it. Any required materials not available here could be requested and delivered if the order is judged logical."
"I have several questions; first, what about the payment? What about the furniture? I can provide bedframes, wardrobe and shelves, but anything else is out of my expertise area. What about the doors? Do you want me do create something similar to the one here?"
Rehmer nodded internally, happy that he was showing so much interest in details. "For the payment, the guild will pay you a starting fee of two million per buildings, four for the larger. If you can furnish furniture, we will take them in the final payment. Creating sturdier doors would be appreciated; we don't want something similar to happen again. Like the rest, it would be taken into account when inspected.
Since you will most likely need them, we will leave the horses with you for now. Once you finish the construction project, the prices will be at the discretion of our investigators."
The message was clear, the better he took care of them, the higher the guild would give them.
"Alright, would it be better for me to ask for the concrete now or later?"
"The powder can be delivered now, as long as it keeps dry. If you waste what we send, the guild will deduct it from the final bill. We can arrange a first convoy for you in three days. After the first outpost, it should give you an idea of how much you need. If possible, ask for it in advance, so we can bring it to you and not stop the construction."
"Sure."
After the contract signed, Eina and Rehmer left for Orario to prepare and send the convoy. The horses would remain in Alex possession until money exchange hand. Using them, Alex immediatly departed to the first site.
With the horses and the pathway to the outpost, Alex only needed a half-hour ride. Leaving the one holding the backpacks, Alex made a quick journey to the first lair he found. Thank his previous action, the lair was still empty; Alex had finally clear any immediate threat to the settlement and its surrounding.
While the last eighteen days had been the most dangerous and exhausting he had in a long time, he couldn't dismiss the windfall it brought. With the previous outpost destroyed, the Mother Dungeon finally dead, Alex gathered 28 cores. All in all, the Dungeon had brought him 34 Dungeon cores, multiple cores and gems, along with a large amount of money.
When the guild's duo had departed, they take with them the cores he gathers before his blessing to exchange them as money, along with eight skins. If it weren't for their large number and the suspicion it would arise, Alex would have given them all the fifty plus skins to process, but he knew better than to aim for short-term gains. Along with the upfront payment, Alex would receive 10.022.770 Valis and sixteen metres squares of processed leather, more than enough for now.
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Once Alex was back to the outpost, he took the severity of the damages. The door was blown apart, the same for some external wall. The structure had been made with a thin layer of concrete on a wooden frame on both sides.
"Since I'm here, let's starts."
Entering the outpost, Alex could see that no wild animals had started to use the place as a nest. The odour of death and monster was still lingering, warding them off. Climbing first to the highest floor, he opens his storage and throws everything inside it.
Processing in the same way with the floor below, he rapidly cleaned the place. He created a ladder using the different wood splitters from the bunk beds and collapsed table and chair. Climbing on the roof, he only shakes his head at the mostly rotten wooden tiles.
Working from top to bottom, Alex passed most of the day morning on the structure. Tearing apart the roof tiles, he deconstructs a section of the basic framework. Scrapping the interior and external layer, Alex rapidly formed the brick of the concrete. After that, it was even easier. Floor by floor, he cut the wood beam, erasing the structure in only five hours of work.
Gathering the shattered wood of the different shields, wardrobe and structure, he creates several crates, storing the still somewhat usable mattress. As one would expect from the era, those were nothing more than large sack stuffed with smaller ones full of wool. They were packed so full that the mattresses were hard and uncomfortable, at least for Alex perception.
For the guards far from Orario, this was a luxury that didn't even exist in the casern. Those beds were made of a bundle of dried straws, covered by a thick blanket. This was a typical bed, as the straw was cheap here in the grassland.
Besides the mattress, Alex stored the little kitchenware available, the broken arrows, or woodblock. Alexcleard the place before the day end, and all materials transformed into blocks. Only the mark on the ground gives away its past presence. On the side, Alex left a small stack of crates to avoid suspicion should someone pop out unannounced.
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Now that the structure was cleared, Alex started to dig on a meter deep. This was one of the first weak points he found; the building had no foundation, directly put on the ground, as the loose earth floor proved.
Using a large amount of rock available nearby, Alex first cleared a direct track from the outpost to the goblin outpost. Rather than cutting trees down, he removed the earth around the root, easily uprooting them. As the outpost had a wide-open space of a hundred meters in radius around, he used the place as storage.
Alex 'only' had to carry them here. Even with his strength, he was far from raising and carrying those trees, weighing several tons. Thankfully for him, he had magic and a rather useful spell for this.
A simple feather-light charm later, and large trunks were shrunk to toothpick size and promptly transported to the clearing. After looking through his grimoire, he food an andy carpentry spell that would shave branches and bark, making the tree ready to be processed. With its use, Alex rapidly accumulates a log of wood. He could have used his craft magic, but once again, constant vigilance won over him.
The path cleared, a similar spell for masonry would turn the targeted rock into ready to use large brick. The magic consumption would change from the stone's hardness, but on a simple rock, it was relatively small. Seeing that he would be at a disadvantage here, he extracts brink with craft magic.
Following the example of the trees, he transported the stones bricks to the site of construction. That process took him a day and a half each to complete, just in time to receive the convoy of concrete powder. It's been only two and a half-day since he started, and he patted himself on the back at his forethought as his pace would already bring suspicion as it is.
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When Josh and a small group of four guards led the cart containing several concrete powder barrels, they were utterly taken off-guard by sight in front of them. In only three days, Alex had torn apart the old outpost, made a large pathway to somewhere further in the forest.
But the most shocking was the enormous amount of wood and stone present. They could easily understand the trees, but it was mindblowing to fetch and cut stones in such an amount.
Unwilling to disrupt Alex too much, they left the barrels in a small open shed raised not too far after a brief exchange. Numbly unloading before returning to the settlement, the men were already trying to think as to what their new lookout would be. It would have nothing of the old, tattered one they inherited from their forefathers from the materials around.
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Back to Alex, He rapidly layered the hole in rocks. Using his craft magic, a unique slab of stone soon appears. The dug earth's side was coated before he raised meter-high collum every fifty centimetres squares. On one side, outside the hole, a covered fire pit was dug and linked to the wall.
Done, he covered the hole with a metre square slab of stones that would form the main floor ground. Constructed on a square' form of 6*6 metres, large beams of woods were put of the four corners before a doorframe entirely made in steel was merged in the stone below.
With the skeleton of the main floor made, Alex started to construct the walls. Entirely made of stones, he fused back four-fifth of the rocks together, leaving the cut-line apparent and give the impression of only being layered on the previous layer. All lines were then filled with concrete, giving the final illusion of a sealed block together.
With a combination of his strength and drying charms carefully used, Alex pace was ridiculously fast. By the end of the fourth day, since he started, Alex had nearly finished erecting the first floor.
The following morning, Alex finished putting the last layer of stone before sealing large beams of wood in them, creating the floor of the second story, supported by inner pillars. Using a thin plank of wood embedded in the stone surface outside, Alex delimited the second floor. This was more of an aesthetic addition, covering the external wall between the wooden limit; Alex applied a layer of concrete, coloured in a light brown.
Done with the main floor, Alex stared at the second one. Rather than packing the eight men in a single space of 30 square metres, Alex doubled the room by adding another square on the structure's left side. He extended the area supported by wood pillars and sealed in a concrete slab covering the entire surface.
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On the fifth day, the second floor was finished. The floor was divided in a simple corridor running the building's length, on the sidewall facing the door. Two-rooms of twenty metres square, each with a ten-metre square bathroom, were added. Both bathrooms shared a wall in the middle, making the two rooms at the building's side.
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On the sixth day, he started the last floor. To alleviate the strain on the structure, the floor was divided into two parts. A metre and half wide, wooden corridor, open one metre high above the floor, surrounded an internal structure. The armoury was in stone and similar to the first one, only longer and less wide. Even then, there would be more than enough space to store weapons.
Alex passed the rest of the day on the exterior and interior walls. Covered with a concrete layer before rapidly dried, he then covered the interior in light coloured wood. The flooring on the two highest floors was made and posed.
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On the seven days, Alex stared the construction of all amenities. Table and chairs, along a simple kitchen made with two firepits on a stone structure. Air vents linked to the roman heating room under the house to all floors. Each room had four beds, along with a small wardrobe. Four sinks line the wall connecting both bathrooms, along with two cubicles. He didn't go as far as making a porcelain bowl toilet, just a wooden one.
On the last floor, he copied the structure of the one he saw, only a little larger. The top floor would also serve as a cupboard. In case the outpost was attacked once again, the men would be able to retreat there and survive a few days if kept stocked.
Rather than leave the space under the extension goes to waste, he creates a stable, raising two walls of stone. He made six boxes, four metres square each, three on each side. It was two space less than men, but at this point, he wasn't willing to restart building something; he knows they would think of something if they even left so many men at the same time inside.
On the opposite side of the stable, he added a shed. Running on all the wall length, wide of three meters, he filled it with already cut wood.
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Taking a little distance from the building, Alex looked at his creation with no little satisfaction. The building, more a house than an outpost, was made with light brown walls, framed by the pale white wooden beams on the three floors.
The building was seven metres in height, each floor two metes high, with a thick floor in between. The roof had been made one-sided and relatively flat. A small gutter was running the length of the top, just under, integrated into the structure. The gathered water would be stored in a small cave for men and horses.
The front door was framed in a thick steel frame, sealed in the rock and all the windows. All furniture had been added, only waiting for their equipment. The shed was stocked full with thirty-six steres of wood to heat the outpost, ready for the winter.
Having returned to the settlement the night before, Alex waited for the team that would come to evaluate his work and fix the price of the remaining outpost. The entire work asked him seven days to complete.
Already warned before-hand, the team arrived around three hours after the sunrise. Alex had made his own cart during that time, loaded with the crates and remaining barrels of water and powdered concrete.
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