Chapter 15— Hideaway

　Shall I make a hideout?

　I was thinking that thought while using [Magic Injection] on the Familiar Egg. 

　I remembered something the other day when my mother gave me a sermon.

　It goes without saying that I am still a child and under the patronage of my parents.

　Therefore, basically, spending money on your own if your parents told you not to, should not be done.

　But there was more of a problem.

　It is that the customs around here are really old-fashioned.

　The father, who is the patriarch, owns the house, and the father has all the decision-making power.

　It is no exception to the poor family I was born in.

　The father's decision is absolute, and the eldest son takes over it.

　To put it badly, mothers and children belong to their father/husband, who is the patriarch, and can be said to be subordinates.

　And I'm not the eldest son in this house. (TLN: Don’t know if I should add in a “yet” or not.)

　I can't take over the house.

　Those who are the second sons of a farmer have no choice but to work as limbs for their father or brother for the rest of their lives, or to become independent.

　Of course, I'm the same as those guys.

　The quickest way to gain a livelihood is to take part in a battle as a soldier and gain honor.

　In any case, I may sometimes be forced to go into battle, so I started saving money to get a good weapon.

　However, when you think about it, when you have a lot of money, there is a possibility that it will be confiscated by the patriarch of your family by saying, "This is my money."

　Then, I thought it would be okay to think about independence from now on.

"Okay, this is a good thought, but I need to hurry."

　In this way, I started to act immediately.

　* * *

　The village where I was born exists as if it were surrounded by a wooden fence.

　And there was a forest on the other side.

　There are no mountains in particular, and the land is basically flat.

　From the memory of my previous life, there was a strong image of forests being in the mountains, but apparently that is not the case here.

　It is said that this village was once opened as a settlement town.

　The trees in the dense forest were cut down and cleared to create fields.

　It seems that the reign was stable at that time.

　We had a large amount of manpower sent from outside and succeeded in cutting down the trees and creating fields.

　However, the situation changed as the times changed.

　Nowadays, the war is incessant, the area of ​​the fields is smaller than before, and the village is doing its best to maintain the status quo.

　It only keeps living while preventing the forest from spreading.

　However, to put it the other way around, the land outside the village does not belong to anyone at present, and if it is cleared, the person who did it will be recognized as the land’s owner.

　I went to the forest outside the village and looked around to see where to clear it.

"For the time being, I wonder if I should make a hideout around here."

　I chose land that was near the stream that runs through the woods.

　I managed to get through the tall trees and grass, and there was a place that was slightly open.

　Let's build a house here.

"[Body Strengthening]."

　I lightly say a spell that strengthens my whole body.

　Even if I am still a child, I can exert some power by strengthening myself with magic.

　Using that power, I wrapped a rope around the surrounding trees.

　Around the place where I want the house to be built, I wrap a rope around a tree that seems to get in the way.

　I tugged the rope to pull the tree inwards with my strengthened force.

　Then, in that state, I crouched down to the root of the tree and sent magical power to the ground.

　Trees grown in the forest are stuck deep into the ground and have roots in various directions.

　The magic I cast transformed all the soil in which its roots grew into soft, fluffy soil.

　The tree, which had been firmly rooted in the ground until then, is then destroyed from the bottom up.

　The rope, which was tied to pull it further, slowly but surely tilted the tree, making a crunching noise.

　Finally, the tree collapses to the ground with a loud noise.

　In this way, I pulled out the whole tree from the land so that my house could be built.

　* * *

"[Leveling].”

　In a space where trees are vacant in the forest.

　I put the trees together and used magic.

　The spell name remains the same as the magic used to level the field.

　The land in the area of 10m2 changes into flat land at once.

　Pieces of roots left in the soil, various weeds growing in the soil, and stones and rocks that roll around.

　I put them all together and turned them into soil for the flat ground.

　I'm impressed that it was a very useful magic.

　Then, the land was leveled several times while I changed places from where I cast [Leveling], and a large piece of land was secured.

"Well, what should I do from here?"

　So far, everything is going well.

　However, I wonder what to do with the work from here.

　If it's a building, I've made a storeroom before.

　Based on that, it will be enough to build something that will be a hideout this time as well.

　However, mass-producing bricks again is not interesting.

　No, it doesn’t really matter if it's interesting or not, because it is pretty hard to do.

　My bricks are beautiful rectangles, and I can build a fairly solid building just by stacking them like building blocks.

　However, it is very difficult to magically create a tremendous number of bricks and stack them into a building.

　If possible, I want to create a magic that allows a building to pop out at one shot.

　But, I can't do anything when I remember that I once used up all of my magical power and fainted.

　I could try, but this is not the back of my family’s house, but in the woods outside the village.

"Yes. It isn’t necessary to build a large house..."

　I thought it was a no go for a while, but suddenly my head was refreshed.

　In retrospect, the simple reason for why I failed to make a storeroom before was that I tried to make it all at once.

　My hypothesis is that the amount of magical power used for magic is related to the volume and size of what you make.

　In other words, if you try to make a building with just one magic, even the internal space will be involved in the consumption of magical power.

　Of course, in the case of a house or storeroom, the inside is hollow, so it is a very wasteful thing that consumes magical power.

　Then the solution is easy.

　Instead of building the building all at once, it would be better to build each wall, first.

　It's simple, but it may reduce the consumption of magical power.

　I put my hand on the ground and closed my eyes.

　I repeatedly take deep breaths to refine the magical power in my body.

　While doing so, I imagine the completed picture in my head.

　Basically, I should use the bricks I have made so far as a base.

　I assemble those bricks regularly in my imagination and imagine an item that becomes one wall.

　I then add mortar between the bricks to fix the bricks in place and prevent them from collapsing.

　Then, at the moment when the image was put together, the magical power inside my body was put into the soil on the ground and the magic was activated.

　In this way, I succeeded in creating a hideout in the forest in a very short time.

TLN: He basically just started by making one wall each. In layman’s terms, the cost of how much magical power is used is how much mass the final product takes up. So, even if he builds a house all at once, the amount of magic he needs to use will be the same as the space inside of the house as well as how large the house will be. Equation form: the amount of space that is in the creation + the size of the creation= the cost of magical power.