Slime Cement Instead of Cement? Another Gold Drop

After reviewing everyone who had registered, Lynn assigned them their tasks: those who needed to chop trees chopped trees, those who needed to make charcoal made charcoal, those who needed to dig soil dug soil, those who needed to fire bricks fired bricks, and others slaughtered adult Slimes to collect their liquid.

Once those arrangements were made, even superhuman Lynn was done for.

Just think about it—companies, businesses, class monitors, minor supervisors, all of them could regularly mess things up while managing only a dozen or a few dozen people. That showed just how capable—and exhausting—it was for Lynn to organize several hundred people into work groups within a single day.

Less than two hours after everything had been arranged, night fell.

When he returned to the Wooden Small Castle where he lived, Lynn practically collapsed into bed, ready to sleep. However, he did not hear Hamily complaining today. Instead, he heard a teacher and student studying together.

"Teacher Lilim, you're amazing! You learned everything in the book in one go!" Dania exclaimed, praising Lilim repeatedly. "Teacher, how did you manage to cast it properly on the first try?"

Lilim could not suppress the smile at the corners of her mouth. "Of course. I have an SSS-rank talent, and my adaptability is excellent!" Lilim's Tails swayed back and forth in delight.

Mm, it looked like they were getting along quite well. With that thought, Lynn still went straight to sleep.

The next day, as soon as Lynn arrived at the Fire Bronze Dwarves' house, he received their pledge of loyalty—as well as their conditions.

They would work for Lynn, and if they did well, the Dwarves would be allowed to live here and gain free status.

Lynn had originally planned to abolish slavery once the city wall was completed and the territory's economy had developed, so he readily agreed.

He then showed the Dwarves his blueprints.

A Chinese-style city wall—solid and thick. Unlike the thin stone walls favored in the West, which required enormous manpower and resources to quarry mountains for stone, Chinese-style city walls emphasized value for money. They used large amounts of earth as fill, while fired bricks were made from readily available raw materials.

The results were excellent. Since they were made with earth, historical records showed that even during the Japanese invasion, such city walls could withstand their small-caliber artillery.

In a world where magic existed, this kind of wall was even more suitable. The fantasy races of this magical world possessed greater power to destroy city walls, but people here relied on Magic Runes for reinforcement. With earthen walls, Orcs, demons, Demonic Creatures, and magical beasts would not be able to shatter the walls in a single blow.

Unfortunately, they were too obsessed with magical power and had forgotten to develop physical methods.

Earthen city walls had many advantages. Their only drawback was that they could not be built as compactly as castles.

Everything else was an advantage.

They were excellent against artillery, let alone the impact of magical beasts.

After all, if an earthen city wall was built larger, what was the difference between it and simply making an earthen mountain?

As long as there was a primeval forest, there would be as much charcoal as they needed, and bricks required only soil.

The most expensive part of a Chinese-style city wall was its distinctive cement made from sticky rice and egg white.

But that could be replaced with something else.

After looking over the blueprints, Smith clicked his tongue in amazement. "I have seen projects that carved entire mountains into castles, and I have seen city walls exquisitely carved from marble with Magic Arrays. But I have never seen a city wall like this."

Lynn asked what concerned him most. "How is it? Based on my own calculations, the defensive effect should be excellent."

"Yes, my lord. This is truly an ingenious design. You are an absolute genius. If other genius engineers saw your blueprints, they would definitely cough up blood from anger." Smith gave an affirmative answer. "Everyone has buried themselves in Magic Runes, yet no one ever considered a method like this—one that could achieve the defensive strength of a Magic Rune city wall at such a low cost."

The blueprint Lynn had drawn showed six meters of earth in the middle, with two meters of bricks on the outside forming sloped walls. It would be ten meters high and include Horse Faces and a Barbican.

The figures Lynn provided were realistic. As experts in engineering, the Dwarves naturally understood some things about city walls as well.

Ever since the Magic Rune Era began, everyone had entered an age of Magic Rune confrontation.

Everything relied on Magic Runes for reinforcement. City walls could clearly be made thicker, but thicker walls rendered some defensive Bunkers unusable, so people did not thicken them. Magic Runes could strengthen Stone bricks, allow mages to cast Super-Rank Magic, and deploy Magic shields with one hundred and eighty degrees of protection—even threats from the sky could be defended against.

Lynn had no intention of defending against the sky. He only wanted to temporarily defend against the Orcs on land, so he was building nothing more than a military fortress. Since he also wanted to save money and time, he chose this kind of city wall with a huge amount of earth packed into the middle.

"I do not know how to lay foundations. I am only providing an idea and theoretical figures. I need you to help me complete the construction of the city wall. What do you need me to provide right now?"

"I have already prepared the bricks and Slime liquid."

Smith immediately added, "My lord, Slime liquid is a little too weak as an adhesive."