Published: July 31, 2025
Today, four chapters posted simultaneously.
This is the second chapter in the series.
Day 3 of Store Construction
After thinking about it last night at the inn, I realized that with my building skill, the limit is a building with one basement floor and two floors above ground. Therefore, to experiment with my building skill, the store will be built to that limit: one basement level and two floors above ground.
However, making the entire plot a store would be too large, so half the land will be the store, a quarter will be dormitories for employees, and the remaining quarter will be a backyard.
At the planned store construction site, I used Create Block to simultaneously dig the basement and make stone materials. The stones produced were entrusted to slimes for transportation and storage.
For the large hole created by that work, I applied the earth magic I created using my building skill knowledge, called 'Pavement', to pave and reinforce it, turning the ground into a sturdy foundation. It felt like compressing the earth until it transformed into a flat, solid slab with no cracks or cavities. This essentially completed what on Earth would be the crushed stone, lean concrete, and base concrete foundation work all at once.
Back in Japan, there would have been a rebar placement step between the lean concrete and base concrete, but that knowledge isn’t present in this world’s building methods. I wonder if that’s okay? The earthquake resistance worries me.
My knowledge of Earth’s construction is vague, mostly from part-time work, and this world’s knowledge lacks that step. For now, according to this world’s construction methods, all foundation work is completed... It might be risky to leave it halfway and cause problems, so I’ll consider this acceptable for now.
Using the sticky slime’s hardening liquid as cement, I assembled and solidified the stone materials made earlier, reinforcing them further. Since this step didn’t require magic, I asked the slimes to help, speeding up the work. Then, using magic, I set up stone pillars, creating the basement and its walls, the first floor’s floor, and the parts that will become the store’s outer walls.
Magic is truly convenient. So far, I haven’t used wood or spent even one soot. The construction is simple—just stone pillars and walls inside a stone box—but I can tell it’s strong enough.
Things were going so smoothly that for a moment I thought about playfully making the pillars like those of an ancient temple I saw in a textbook back in school, but I stopped myself. There’s no point in making the store’s basement that luxurious.
I have used quite a bit of mana already; I think I’ll stop work here for the day...
Day 4 of Store Construction
On top of the first floor’s floor, I built walls and room partitions using hardening liquid and stone materials. Then I proceeded to construct the second floor. That took up the whole day.
Day 5 of Store Construction
I built the ceiling and worked on the interior. I cut down trees growing near the abandoned mine shaft and, following woodworking skill knowledge, attempted to process the wood with magic.
Using alchemy, I slowly removed moisture from the wood, and applied wind magic’s Wind Cutter to develop a new magic I imagined as a circular saw for wood processing on Earth, called ‘Circle Saw’. After producing planks, I polished their surfaces with another magic that combined wind and earth magic, called ‘Polish Wheel’.
Polish Wheel works by creating sand with Break Rock, wrapping it around the Circle Saw, and spinning it like a tire. Instead of cutting, it polishes the surface of objects using high-speed rotating sand in the wind.
Drying the wood with alchemy is good for moisture removal but often causes warping or cracking due to rapid drying. Well, it’s not for pillars, so it should be fine.
I managed to process the wood into boards and lumber but ended up spending the whole day just making wood...
Day 6 of Store Construction