The Greatest Architect

53. Bundle up to Panda (3)

“Master Lloyd! ”

“Because I need to do something! ”

“My lord! Please do the same for me! ”

“I have a shovel, a pickaxe, and everything I have! ”

“I brought all my sons! ”

“We are accompanied by couples! ”

“We’re here, too, cuckoo! ”

Big speeches, wax.

It was early morning.

It was originally a quiet time to prepare for the day.

I prepared breakfast in the early autumn mist, and it was also time for me to wash my body a little while.

But today was different.

The baron’s mansion is buzzing.

Hundreds of peasants gathered there.

Everyone was shouting loudly, waving shovels, pickaxes, and so forth.

At first glance, all the lords’ faces looked like peasant rebellions about to turn pale.

But it was not real.

These were farmers gathered to volunteer for construction, not rebellion.

Baron Frontera looked through the window of the Oval Office and felt a vivid emotion.

“Did you expect this? ”

“Well, I honestly didn’t expect it to be like this. ”

The baron’s question answered with a smile from Lloyd.

It was true.

I can’t believe the torture announced last night was this devastating.).

He was the one who advised the baron yesterday to write the sentence.

I advised the colonists to be objectively transparent about what despicable things Lacona had done and what she had demanded from them.

‘But the baron’s words (? It was so much better than I thought. ’

In conclusion, the baron had a tremendous aptitude for literature.

It was just an ordinary torture, but it sounded like the heart of a Eun-Kyun reader.

What if I read the torture?

My heart skipped a beat without me knowing.

I got angry, clenched my fist, and felt blue.

It was enough for me to read the cynical side of the world because I was suffering from the storm, so I couldn’t see the afterstorm when the simple farmers faced torture.

‘Maybe the baron was born with the wrong age and world. ’

Suddenly, I wondered what would have happened if the baron had been born in Korea.

Maybe he became a popular novelist in a place like Naver.

Lloyd opens his mouth, folding such complaints.

“After all, the effects of the torture are better than I thought, so I should be able to do things more easily. ”

“The one we were talking about yesterday? ”

“Yes. Construct a temporary reservoir. Let’s get started right away. ”

The atmosphere of the colonists was about to boil.

A furious sympathy arose from his manipulation.

Lose time like this.

No, faggot.

Lloyd immediately leaves the baron’s office.

You step out of the mansion and stand in front of the colonists.

I didn’t give a rhetorical speech.

I showed him the way ahead without saying anything, but with action.

He raised a steel shovel in front of everyone.

That is, let’s start construction together!

“Whoa!”

“Ooh, ooh, ooh! ”

Human Peasants and Orc Miners.

Everyone heaves their shovels.

You march along Lloyd’s territory. No, we marched.

And I went straight to work where Lloyd was pointing.

Last night.

Lloyd was a vacant lot pre-surveyed and designed.

From there, Lloyd takes out Podong first.

I fed him red sunflower seeds.

“Here, Podonga? ”

“Podong?”

“Let’s eat? ”

“Podo-dong!”

Tuang!

Podong, who ate the red sunflower seed, grew to 10 meters in size.

The colonists cheered for the appearance of the most powerful heavy equipment summoner.

In that cheer, Podong began digging the ground.

“Dodo dodo dodo dodo!”

Hobabbababat!

Podong’s poop belly twitched.

Every time, the giant front foot moves like the wind.

The ground is crumbling.

The soil explodes.

After about half an hour.

A rectangular hole of 50 metres wide, 100 metres long, and 2.5 metres deep was formed in the ordinary space.

It was like a pool.

Lloyd’s work order dropped.

“Now, the first group of engineers fine-tune the holes that Podong dug. Face flat. Corner straight. Get in!”

“Oooh!”

A group of engineers swoops down the chute and hurls it into the pit.

Lloyd’s gaze returns to the stiff-necked territories.

“Well, then, let’s get the 2nd Troops and the rest of the Flat Stones and bring them here! Bigger and wider, the better. You see this? A stone like this is the best. But you don’t want to get hurt at work, so be careful not to overdo it! ”

“Yes, Young Master! ”

The colonists have begun to move.

There were no boys or girls.

There was no job division.

Old farmer and young woodcutter.

Sheepdog Boy and Hunter Girl.

Everyone scatters across the territory and collects flat stones.

Someone brings a pile of rocks as big as a meal table, and someone brings a pile of small stones with only the palm of their hand. Even the children walking the pavement took their mother’s hands and collected marble stones in their wretched hands.

Along with those settlers, Lloyd collected and moved the stones himself.

After a few hours thanks to you.

Enough rubble is piled next to the rectangular pit.

“Good. First and second engineers, rest for the colonists. The engineers and the knuckleheads move the stone to the pit and flatten it against the inside floor and the wall. Get in!”

“Oooh!”

Three groups of engineers and a plaster ball move.

You place a flat stone like a tile in a pool. I’ve got it. It’s plastered with dough.

Of course, it wasn’t just any attachment.

“There! It’s too high! Keep it down! ”

It was a makeshift reservoir facility.

It was a place to hold everyone’s drinking water.

Drowning was important even because of hygiene.

So I made the floor tilt gently to one side.

The same was true when placing the stones and when creating a drainage channel for water to escape from one side of the reservoir.

‘Of course. If you don’t do this, the water will run out. ’

Dead water rots.

It’s not a memetic drip, it’s real.

There are germs and algae breeding in such rotten water.

It’s great to drink without thinking and win various diseases.

So the drainage of the reservoir was really, really important to emphasize many times.

“Well, what about Orcs? Water gate rocks inbound! ”

“I’ve been waiting for this moment, cough! ”

Lloyd, who built all the drains, cries out:

The Orcs who were waiting to drown were frustrated.

Three Orcs carry a rock as big as an elevator.

Where reservoirs and sewers run, bang! I put it down to make a sound.

Just in time, the size of the rock fits into the drain.

Like a cork stopper in a bottle of wine.

Or the rubber stopper on the bottom of the bathtub.

The rock acts as a stopper for holding the reservoir’s water.

Of course, when you drain the reservoir, you lure the athletic Orcs and apply the rocks.) Just listen and fix it.

So a 50 × 100m pool, no, temporary reservoir, was completed.

It was only half a day after the construction started in the morning.

‘Whew. Is this a true story of construction speed? ’

The cheer of the colonists.

In it, Lloyd sticks out his tongue.

But his work is not done yet.

Now that I’ve made a reservoir, it’s time to fill it with water.

“Then wait. Oh, dear. If you stay too close to the reservoir, you might hit the bottom, so everybody back off. Xaviel?”

“Yes.”

“You’re coming with me to the water. Drive the horse. ”

“I understand.”

I rode with Xaviel on his horse.

The Prona River crosses the territory to the north and south.

I ran south along the river.

Past Marez Gage, past the dictatorship of Lacona.

So I arrived upstream where the river still wouldn’t be contaminated.

I put the hammer down in a clear stream.

“Come on, Haman. You know?”

“Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! ”

From the moment I saw the river already flowing, the eyes of the hammer were dazzling. The sores are furiously twitchy.

I was ready to dive into the river just like a puppy that had been waiting for me all day.

Lloyd responded precisely to the desperate wishes of such howlers.

“Here, one shot! ”

“Howl!”

Chamberlain!

One of the hammers’ fists sank into the river.

However, Haman did not float into the river.

Instead, the surface of the river began to fall straight down.

“The hippocampus!”

Shoot!

This is literally a storm inhalation.

As the river drains, the nets grow larger in real time.

We lost and surpassed the previous maximum size of 50 meters.

It swelled to 60 meters.

‘Good. I grew my one-shot skills while making Marez Gage. ’

The Howler’s current one-shot skill level is 3.

I’ve gone up two steps.

If the old water balloon size limit was 50 meters, it would now be 60 meters.

According to the area of the sphere, it was able to contain almost twice as much water as before.

“If you’ve got it, let’s go! Yippee!”

You tapped Xaviel on the shoulder in front of the saddle.

Xaviel jumps the horse.

The horse ran blue-blooded.

Afterward, the hammer follows the deluge.

All sorts of terrain all over the place.

“The hippocampus!”

Cougar apple!

A frightening 60-meter water balloon rolling down the drain. Situation.

Perhaps that’s why Xaviel’s words are so powerful.

Thanks to this, Lloyd also had to have an experience where his pelvis seemed to be taking over on the saddle.

On the other hand, there was a ferocious impulse.

‘I’d like to rush the hammer to the order. ’

Or I wanted to lead a tribe of Steel Sand Orcs, who were blind, into their own order.

But I endured it.

The bad thing was the racona bird.

It was not the wealthy colonists who lived in the order.

I didn’t want to hurt them with my unnecessary furrows.

Moreover, realistically, if I did that, I would be behind the scenes.

Both legally and financially, it was obvious.

“Come on, this way! ”

In the back seat, you grip Xaviel’s shoulder and point him in the direction.

Unlike when it came, it was a path that turned around and went north.

I returned safely to the territory.

The colonists cheered for Haman’s immense glory.

When the water spit out by Haman filled the temporary reservoir in one queue, but it was overflowing, the cheer turned into a scream.

It was thanks to the abundance of clear water to be used for a while.

‘Of course, this is only temporary. ’

The cheerfulness of many.

In spite of that, Lloyd does not lose his calm expression.

No, in his mind he went back more busy calculating the future.

‘The colonists were more involved than I expected, so I was able to make reservoirs in one day. That’s good, but not this. There are limits to the interim. ’

Making reservoirs and filling them with clear water.

It was a plausible way to look at it.

But there was a loophole in this method.

It was the need for self and the Howl.

‘The hallucinogenic Howl only listens to me. No one else can control it without being distracted. That means I have to stay close to Howl and regularly fill the reservoir with water. ’

In other words, we could not vacate the land for more than a few days.

And what if something happens to you or the Howlers?

So what if you can’t fill the reservoir with water?

Again, all the settlers would suffer from a headache while drinking contaminated water from wastewater.

‘So this is just a temporary solution. Let’s dig up some water. ’

Time was not on this side.

There was no reason to make a comeback.

From the next day, Lloyd immediately entered the water supply.

We started with the first step, Surveying Answer.

You climbed the Eastern Mountains with Xaviel.

The destination was clear.

“We’re going all the way to Lake Capua. ”

Sometimes, Lloyd said as he climbed up the slope of a moderate, sometimes swift mountain pass.

Lake Capua was a mountain lagoon in the middle of the Eastern Mountains.

Xaviel tilts his head as he follows.

“Lake Capua. But I have a question. ”

“Questions? What is it?”

“Why Capua? ”

“Why is that? Is there a problem? ”

“Yes, I do. Have you ever heard of King Storma? ”

“King Stoma? Of course you do. You said it was a powerful, ferocious monster. ”

“Did you know Lake Capua is King Stoma’s domain? ”

“Huh.”

Lloyd nods.

And he added.

“We also know that King Storma is now in his sleep machine. ”

“A sleep machine?”

“Yeah, I think I’ll sleep for the next 50 years or so. ”

“How do you know that? ”

“The Knight of Steel Blood did. ”

“…… A knight of Iron Blood? ”

“Huh.”

“Because that’s who. ”

Who is he?

You were the man in the novel.

Lloyd laughs instead of answering.

Suddenly, I remembered the contents of the novel Blood Knight.

‘It was when Lloyd in the novel died and Xaviel was leaving the land of God. ’

Probably would.

Xaviel was wanted at the time.

It was because the barons had slaughtered two private loan sharks at the couple’s funeral.

Later, the debt trader’s tyranny was revealed and his loyalty condemned to innocence, but at least until just after Lloyd’s death, Xaviel was a wanted man.

Even when we built Lloyd’s tomb.

A guard walks into the cemetery.

I rushed to arrest him.

Of course, Xaviel subdued them without hurting them.

You sneak into the Eastern Mountains, avoiding the pursuit.

At that time, Xaviel’s hideout was on Lake Capua.

‘And a monologue, I guess. It’s a good thing King Stoma finally got into his sleep. ’

Like the monologue, Xaviel hid safely by Lake Capua for a month.

Finally, I was able to clear the chase and cross the mountains.

“By the way, Lake Capua is the best hangar. Due to the regular melting of the high peaks, the quantities are constant throughout the year. Water quality is clear and low turbidity. Plus, the terrain is stable and soft enough to place a water conduit from the lake to the territory. ”

It was Lloyd sitting on the rocks of a recreational car.

I wiped my sweat and looked around the terrain.

Like he said, the mountain slopes he could see were generally mild.

Except for one place.

Xaviel points there.

I remembered a questionable look in my eyes.

“Then how do you intend to put the conduit there? ”

Where Silver Hair Knight pointed.

There was a valley where the topography seemed to have been cut off.

The valley is about 80 meters wide.

Cliffs ten meters high were facing each other on either side.

However, Lloyd’s hand-drawn path led to a cliff across the cliff.

Xaviel doubts.

“Through a water main up in that valley”? How?

I didn’t understand it well.

I also wondered if it was possible.

But there were no doubts.

Over and over again, it was Lloyd who showed me how to build strange structures.

From Ondol to the paved road, to the mines, to the glaciers and Marez Garrison. Lloyd was the one who showed me results I’d never imagined before.

So this time…

“Do you have a plan?” ”

I thought it might be.

Indeed, Xaviel’s guess was correct.

He heard from his former wretch, Lloyd:

“Of course. I’ll build it, monk. ”

“A monk?”

“There is such a thing. We won’t be able to draw water from here to the other side of the valley. ”

Lloyd slithers his lip.

How to overcome mountain valley topography.

And so the way he kept it in mind to keep the conduit stable across the valley.

It was a glorious product of the Roman Empire that existed in the history of the Earth, a heritage, and a Roman arcuate monk.