Pluriel smiled happily as I answered affirmatively.
Then Orto, who had heard her get such a sweet deal, came up to me with a happy look on his face.

”Are you sure! Just one gold coin this time?!”

“For Mr.
Orto, it will be three gold pieces.
Oh, you will need five gold coins for a long sword.
Seven gold pieces for anything bigger.”

“Nonsense! Except for one of the prices, none of them have gotten any cheaper!”

 Stop being so noisy, it won’t bring the prices down.

“Does a great sword sound good? I’ll make it right away.”

 When I make the order for him, with a mischievous smile, Orto quickly waves his hands.

“Wait, wait, okay! Well, I’ll take the long sword then! I’ll take the long sword!”

“Alrighty then, five gold pieces.”

“Gulp.”

 Orto handed me five gold coins in tears.
You have them.
That’s great, Orto.
You’ve become someone who easily throws away millions of yen.
You’ve embarked on a heart-stopping adventure featuring monetary ruin.

 Later, other adventurers made up their minds and also submitted orders.

 In total, the adventurers paid 20 golden coins for their new weapons.

 ”Thank you for your purchase.
Considering that you paid me so well for the swords, I will send over some furniture to your home, free of charge.”

 ”Hmm? Come to think of it, although you made us pay a lot for our swords, you made our house and furniture for free.”

 ”If anything, I think you’re over-serving us.”

 By evening, the outer defensive wall is mostly complete, even sporting a small moat around its border.

 However, no bandits came.
Well, their time of appearance was always variable anyway.

“In this situation, we have the leeway to start building defensive equipment.”

 As I muttered that, Till looked around the village.

”You have built so many houses in the blink of an eye.
But, Van-sama? Doesn’t your magic ever run out?”

“I do get tired.
When I do, I stop using my magic for the rest of the day.”

“I thought that we would be building things all day long…”

 Till gives me a puzzled look, but I just shake my head.
Most of the villagers’ houses are incredibly simple, with only two or three rooms and a toilet.
One day I will rebuild it if get access to a lot of stones, but for now, this should be enough.
(T.N.
Note: Not sure why he needs stones specifically.
Maybe for aesthetics?)

 Even so, the villagers were incredibly thankful for the homes.
They even bowed to us when we walked out and gave us crops and other assorted goods.

 Mm, I appreciate the sentiment but this isn’t exactly what I want.
Please give me money rather than your homemade sundries.

 The village houses were made in sets of four, and out into a grid pattern.
Larger streets occupied spaces in between individual grids for ease of movement and to decrease the time needed to mobilize troops within the village.

 If one looked at the village from the sky, they would find that the residential area looked like a giant square.
In the central block is the lord’s mansion.
Neighboring this block are Dee’s and the village chief’s blocks.
As Orto’s group will often need to go in and out of the village, their block was very close to the gate.

 Right now we a surplus of housing, but I think it would be a good idea to increase the number of residences in the future.

 With residential concerns taken care of, I now need to focus on raising funds, gathering materials, and making defense equipment.

 For now, I will focus on making personal equipment, such as swords and shields.
However, I also need to keep the making of larger defensive equipment in mind.

 I need manpower, but there are only a few qualified individuals in the village.

 Seeing that there wasn’t enough manpower to make a more sophisticated weapon, I had no choice but to make a simple ballista.
The string is made of monster skin instead of rubber, and the front is shaped like a crossbow, with a platform to hold a large arrow.

 The front of the ballista is equipped with a large shield made from woodblock material, which prevents enemies from attacking it and allows it to shoot its destructive, spear-like arrows with impunity.

 Incidentally, I used a lever in order to reduce the draw weight, but it was still hard to draw.

 I’ve built eight such ballistae around the village for now.
They can aim up and down, left and right, but can’t look back into the village.

 I’ve set arrows in all of them, so they can be used as soon as the enemy comes.

”Although this is nice, I still need to strengthen our defenses.”

 I’m not one to let my guard down.

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