When the rainy season passed, Claude suddenly found himself extremely busy. He had to arrange the logistical supplies for the camp, mainly the reserves of food and ammunition. All material application documents needed to be checked and signed by him. At the same time, he had to start the construction of defensive facilities and positions in the camp, supervise his soldiers to dig trenches and artillery bunkers, and ask the soldiers to fill the soil into the rattan baskets woven by the villagers of Squirrel Village to build mud walls. He also had to order the soldiers Cutting logs from the mountain forest to strengthen the position
Sergeant Major Markchi was very dissatisfied with Claude's busyness. He believed that there was no need for the soldiers to waste their energy on these civil engineering constructions. Because the garrison task at the three-way intersection in Squirrel Village is likely to be taken over by the later security battalion, everything Claude is doing now is very likely to be making wedding dresses for others. He thought that if Claude had this leisure, he might as well let the soldiers build the road down the mountain, so that he might be able to collect a few more tolls.
Fortunately, Mike became his right-hand man. The cooperation and supervision between him and the big man Germi allowed the tasks assigned by Claude to the soldiers to be successfully completed. It wasn't until mid-April that all the affairs in the camp were on track. Claude asked Markchi to lead the team for several defensive drills and asked him to be responsible for the daily training of the soldiers. Only then did he free up time. Start preparing to build the cabin promised to the mage girl.
The girl mage left the camp after the rainy season. Although she fell in love with Claude and the girl mage didn't want to separate, but the camp was full of soldiers, so it was always inconvenient for the girl mage to live here. So she asked Claude to build a camping tent for her in the Witch Wood as her temporary residence. At the same time, it is also convenient for her to cut the wood she needs in the mountain forest as the main building material for building a cabin.
The style of the cabin is a reference to Claude's double-storey wooden house in Normanli Forest Farm in White Deer City. It is also double-storey. The only difference is that the outer walls are made of logs. Claude believes that the outer walls of logs are thicker and stronger and can be used alone. The girl mage in your life brings a sense of security. In addition, there is an additional balcony in front of the door, extending out to six or seven square meters, which can be placed just right for a lounge chair and a small coffee table, for the young mage to lie on it, read a book and enjoy afternoon tea.
At the end of March, when the young mage was still living in Claude's bedroom, the two began to design the cabin. Claude is the leader. He is responsible for drawing the floor plan, architectural structure and exterior design of the cabin, while the young mage is responsible for cheering him on. Considering that the young mage would have to live alone in the Witch Wood for five or six years, Claude tried his best to consider comfort and safety when designing it. He did not want his beloved young mage to be wronged again.
After the completion of the design, the living area of the cabin is about seventy or eighty square meters, with an upper and lower two-story structure. This is many times larger than the original broken shack under the oak tree. The young mage was very happy and hoped that she could move into a new house as soon as possible. Unfortunately, when April came, Claude became busy with official duties, so he had to leave the task of felling trees and collecting wood to the young mage. With the help of spells, completing this task is still very simple.
When Claude arrived at the Witch Woods, he cast an Exploring Eye again, avoiding the poisonous smoke traps set by the girl mages densely packed in the woods, and entered the woods. Now the open space deep in the woods has become a place for stacking logs. Hundreds of logs with a diameter of 40 to 50 centimeters are stacked in the open space to form seven or eight hills.
The young mage fell into Claude's arms like a swallow. The two hadn't seen each other for nearly a week. After a passionate kiss, Claude caressed the girl's hair and sighed lovingly: "You have worked hard during this time. So many trees were cut down.”
"There are two hundred and thirty-seven logs in total. I remember it very clearly." The young mage replied proudly: "It's not hard. With the help of magic, it's a very easy job. Black Wind can even pull a log back."
Claude looked at the big black wolf circling around him, and imagined that when the young mage tied a rope tied to a large log about ten meters long to the big black wolf and let it drag it back, The big black wolf must have looked confused. It will wonder if its owner is stupid. How could it possibly pull such a big piece of wood with its small body
In fact, with the help of the spell, the big black wolf could actually pull a big log and run back to the witch forest. Just like that time when Claude accompanied the young mage to recover the cave where the books were stored, he killed three big black bears that occupied the cave. Later, when we were going back to the camp, how to bring back the carcasses of these three big black bears weighing about 1,800 kilograms became a big problem.
Claude didn't want to run in the drizzle the next day. The six or seven-hour mountain road back and forth was not that easy to walk. The young mage suddenly had a whim and cast the light body flying spell that had just been engraved as a basic spell on the black bear's corpse. It turned out that the black bear's corpse also became light and airy, so the corpses of the three big black bears were piled together on the corpse of the black bear. On the back of a packhorse. Two people and one wolf led the pack horse back.
On the way back that time, the young mage had been toying with the Light Body Flying Technique. In less than half an hour, she had to cast a Light Body Flying Technique on each of the two people and the corpses of the big black wolf, the packhorse and the three big black bears. I also tested it on large rocks and trees on the way, and found that it can effectively reduce the weight of the object itself, whether it is dead or living. This allowed Claude to find an answer to the problem of transportation of building materials when building a wooden house for the young mage.
It wasn't until he was approaching the mountains behind Squirrel Village that Claude unloaded the carcasses of the three big black bears from the packhorse and threw them on the ground. After the magic effect was dissipated, they returned to the camp. The young mage took the big black wolf back to her room, while Claude recruited a small group of soldiers and took three pack horses to run to Squirrel Village again. In the back mountain, the bodies of three big black bears were returned to the camp.
That time, almost all the villagers in Squirrel Village and the soldiers in the camp came out to watch the fun. They hunted three big black bears at one time, and each one was killed with one shot. This was simply a heroic feat, which greatly increased Claude's prestige among the soldiers. . Claude did not slaughter the three big black bears himself this time. Instead, he gave Markchi the responsibility and ordered him to peel off the skins of the two big black bears that had guns in their hearts and prepare them. He planned to give one to himself. His immediate superior, Major Leedfunk, the commander of the 1st Ranger Battalion, thanked him for taking care of him.
Next, Claude and the young mage went to the Witch Wood twice more. One time was to determine the location for the construction of the cabin, and the second time was when Claude taught the young mage step-by-step how to cut down trees and find suitable wood in the forest. . The second time was also the day when the young mage left the camp and returned to the Witch Forest to build a tent to live. The rainy season has passed and the weather has cleared up. The young mage feels a little embarrassed to stay in Claude's room without going out. At the same time, she also wants to go to the cave library in the back mountain to continue the study plan arranged by her mother.
It's really easy to cut down trees with spells. Only now did Claude discover how much these two rune spells, Spell Hand and Precision Control, helped him in life. A big tree that is more than ten meters high and forty to fifty centimeters in diameter can be cut down to the ground in less than ten minutes in front of the saw transformed by the magic hand. Then the magic hand transforms into a sharp axe and chops it down quickly. branches. The young mage gives this bare log another light body flying spell, and then she can easily drag this big log back to the witch forest with one hand.
Claude only needs to remain still during this process, and he doesn't even need to sweat. As long as he can provide his own magic power to maintain the two spells, he can easily watch a big tree turn into a big log that meets his requirements. So before he returned to the camp, he handed over the task of felling trees to find construction wood to the young mage. Unexpectedly, the young mage cut down so much wood in one week.
"It's too much. We probably won't be able to use so much wood to build a cabin. Maybe we can expand the cabin a little more. Then I can use the remaining logs to build a fence for you and give the cabin an extra yard. "In the future, even if wild beasts can enter the witch forest, it will be difficult for them to get close to your cabin." Claude held the young mage in his arms and walked towards the camping tent. He had to borrow it from the cave library left by her mother first. The few books that came were returned to the young mage.
Half of the books collected by Sheila's mother in the cave library were about magic discussions, magic mysteries, alchemy experiment records and historical legends from the ancient magic civilization era, which made Claude very happy. Because he couldn't usually find these books in bookstores, this made up for his blank knowledge of the history of the ancient magical civilization and allowed him to understand some of the real conditions of magicians during that period.
The young mage said that these books were copied by his mother and kept in this library. Claude counted and found that on the large bookshelf with seven shelves on the left, there were nearly two hundred and eighty books about the era of magical civilization. It can be imagined that the mother of the young mage worked hard to copy these books.
The books on the bookshelf on the right were purchased by the young mage's mother when she went out. Most of them were geographical discoveries, navigation research, pharmacy knowledge, and books on biological and medicinal material identification. On the lower two grids are some folklore and popular stories, a few fairy tales and other children's books.
Claude even saw a complete set of elementary and junior high school textbooks issued by the Kingdom of Ovilas and the Kingdom of Nasseri. Now Claude understood the lessons that the young mage's mother left for her daughter when she left. What is it. It's just that the young mage was playful at the time and didn't go to the cave library to study for nearly half a year. When she remembered to study, she found that the cave was occupied by a big black bear. So now that the cave was recovered, the young mage decided to continue studying according to the plan made by her mother.
Well, the young mage admitted with embarrassment that she had only learned the textbooks for the first grade of junior high school. Next, she planned to complete the two sets of junior high school textbooks from the Kingdom of Ovilas and the Kingdom of Nasseri by herself. The study plan her mother arranged for her was mainly in the liberal arts, grammar, arithmetic, geography, nature and theology. As for history, there was no need for it. The history of the two kingdoms was mostly the same and was nothing more than bragging.
Last time, Claude borrowed several large historical books about the magical civilization period. These books were all written in the ancient Hertz language, so it didn't matter if he brought them back to the camp to read. No soldier would recognize these ancient books. Hertzian language text. Although it is said that the Hebraic language and characters popular in the eastern part of the mainland evolved from the Ancient Hertzian language, without a dictionary for comparison, most people would read the ancient Hertzian language and characters as if they were reading a book from heaven.
"I'll go back tomorrow night, and I'll stay here tonight." Claude told the young mage a piece of news that made her happy and frightened: "This way I can start working early tomorrow morning to process the wood into what it needs. , after it dries, it will be faster to build a house next time.”
Although the two of them had kissed and hugged each other for a long time, and even Claude had touched her hand, the young mage still maintained her body's last line of defense to prevent Claude from breaking through. Seeing the shy and nervous look of the young mage, Claude laughed.
"Don't worry, I will make a bed on the floor at night and I won't do anything to you." Claude pointed to the single camp bed in the camping tent: "This bed is too small and cannot withstand our tossing. Besides, if I If I want you, then I won’t be able to get up tomorrow morning and I won’t have the energy to work.”
True to his word, Claude didn't do anything to the young mage at night. Even if the young mage slept with him on the floor and nestled in his arms at night, he didn't have any bad intentions towards the young mage. Claude was unwilling to take the body of the young mage in such a crude environment because he thought it was disrespectful to the young mage and she was not ready yet.
The two of them got up early the next day. After a quick meal, Claude began the work of building a cabin, with the young mage as his assistant.
Logs that are eleven to twelve meters long are inserted into the marked ground under the control of the mage's hand, and then driven deeply into the ground, leaving only a height of about eight meters. The girl mage used the magic of turning mud into stone to turn the soil where the log was inserted into rock, so that the foundation of the cabin was very solid.
What Claude has to do today is to first build the overall frame of the cabin with logs. The sixteen main supporting logs are erected on the ground, and then the beams are inserted into the logs using a mortise and tenon structure. Under the precise control of spell changes, the magic hand constantly becomes chisels, saws, hammers and other woodworking tools. As long as you measure the location, you can easily make tenons and grooves on the logs, and then connect the beams and columns together.
This is why Claude insists that he and the young mage build the cabin alone. With the help of magic, he can do as little as a dozen experienced construction workers. Besides, he is not an amateur at carpentry and construction, so he just needs to experiment with spells a few times.
Around four o'clock in the afternoon, Claude completed his work plan for the day. Next time he comes over, he can do the exterior walls and floors as well as the siding of the inner rooms. While cooking dinner, a new homework was assigned to the young mage. In the next three days, the young mage needed to divide some logs into floor and wall panels. When he comes back in three days, he can start some fine processing directly.
After dinner and lingering with the young mage for a while, Claude kissed the reluctant young mage goodbye and set off on his way home.
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