Volume 3 Chapter 40 Sewer Construction XVI
The day after visiting the Great Deep Forest to eliminate goblins, the plan to create the [magic circle] began in earnest. The [magic circle] experiment had already been tested, and as expected, it blocked "living beings," "corpses of living beings," and "metals" from moving from the outside to the inside. Nothing could pass from the inside to the outside either. By the way, "living beings" were defined as anything larger than 0.1 mm.
Cain thought bacteria might count as living beings, but he didn't explain this to Luke and the others. Discussing bacteria without mentioning his past life would be too complicated, so he decided not to bring it up.
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A week had passed since then. During that time, Cain made twice the number of [magic circle]s needed for the old town's installation. Normally, this wouldn't be necessary, but the new town's construction was moving quickly. After returning from the Margrave Shield domain, it became clear the installation wouldn't be finished in time.
"But if I hadn't realized I could create multiple [Magic Circle Transcriptions] at once, it would have been bad. Even though it's simple work, I couldn't have prepared this many otherwise."
Cain muttered while looking at the room full of [magic circle]s he had borrowed from Luke for storage.
"And yet, I never expected the slimes I fed to the goblins to multiply so much. Nearly 300 slimes—that was a bit too much."
Cain reflected on the events from two days ago.
"Well, thanks to that, we could start today. But I've definitely been working too much..."
With the slimes multiplying, he quickly moved them to the sewer. Now, a new problem arose: food for the slimes. He decided to have the slimes wait three more days, create an outlet, and start operations from the lord's mansion today.
"I almost stayed up all night. I slept four hours yesterday, so it's not an all-nighter, right? Yeah, I'm fine! Just in case, I used [Heal], so it's okay now."
Cain repeated, "I'm fine," without knowing to whom he was speaking.
"Sir Cain, I think it's time to begin. Are you ready?"
A maid's voice called Cain from outside the door.
"Alright, I'm coming now."
Cain, changed into farming clothes, put on his hat and left the room.
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In the backyard with a bathhouse, Barvish, Gardy, and the mansion's maids had gathered. The first task was to connect the bathhouse's drainage to the sewer. The bathhouse was at the very back of Sanroze's territory, and they planned to use the leftover bathwater to drain the mansion's wastewater.
By the way, the mansion's toilets were switched from pit-style to simple flush toilets at this time. Even though they were flush toilets, the water was simply flushed after use from already collected water.
"Well then, let's connect this drain to the sewer. [Create Hole]"
As Cain cast the spell, a 20 cm hole opened in the ground.
"Did it connect properly? [Earth Scan]... Yeah, it's fine."
"Sir Cain, did it really connect properly?"
Barvish asked anxiously.
"Barvish, don't you believe what I say? Well, confirmation is necessary. I haven't sealed the entrance I made earlier, so do you want to go check?"
Cain pointed to the sewer entrance he had made. Afterward, including the maids, they went down into the sewer and confirmed the hole was connected near the bathhouse's drainage.
Of course, they also dropped a ball from above to confirm the connection, used [One-Way] magic to ensure no living things could pass through, and checked that nothing could pass from the inside to the outside via the hole.
"Alright, let's finish the mansion's drainage today! Everyone, please clean up!"
"""Yes!"""
The maids' cheerful voices echoed. From that day on, there was no more toilet pit work in the Sanroze mansion. The maids were very grateful. By the way, Cain used [Create Clay] to turn all the toilets in the mansion into western-style toilets.
By the way, Lydia was the most delighted.
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