Leo the constructor

Soon a new business was established. It was a very new idea. An earth mage apprentice was giving services to build accommodations to nobles and commoners. It was not something seen before. Mages were a cast of people that were a mystery to the outside world. Most people did not know what they were capable of doing. Generally, those people did not like to interact with others below their status. The fact that one of them was ready to give services to commoners was mind blowing. Soon a first costumer contacted the Shmidt family for services. It was a commoner. He had a tall and muscular build. It was evident that he worked hard with his body most of his life. His name was Eduard. He was very nervous. He did not like to interact with nobles. He did not even met mages in his life, and he really did not want to. Even the nobles acted like they were the owners of all commoners. He did not even want to think about how the mages perceived the common people. When he arrived, he was received by one of the attendants of the family and was sent to wait at the first floor at the waiting area. After around twenty minutes, he was called to the meeting hall. When he arrived, he saw a few people already seated. At the top of everyone was the head of the family, Elen Shmidt. Also, Elly and Leo were present. Ally could continue and trained but she was interested in another way of making money. She could also take some amount of coins by healing people. Her father also wanted her to attend because he felt that she could benefit from this experience. 

Elen welcomed the guest: "Welcome Eduard. I heard that you are interested in building a stone hut for your family. You came to the right place! Do you have any idea what size of accommodation you are interested in?"

Eduard was taken aback. He never received such a good treatment from a noble lord. He felt good that those people treated him like a person and not a dog. He then said about the amount of money he had and that he wanted the biggest available building he could receive. He explained about the plot of land that he got. He told Elen and company about his general situation. About the fact that his family was growing steadily, and they could not fit into their previous house. He wanted to get a bigger one. For that he sold his house with the plot of land. He was lucky because of the good location of his previous accommodations. Because of that he got 25 silver coins. He used 5 silver coins to buy a bigger plot of land in a worse area in terms of geographical location. He had 20 silver coins to build a home. He heard that the 100 first commoners that will apply for the services of the Shmidt family will get half the price for their order, so he took his chance. He wished to get lucky again and get a good house for his family for decades to come. So his family won't think about the future. It was his lucky day. After discussing it for a long time they came to a conclusion. The farmer did not know anything about size measuring to it took time for him to formulate what he wanted. The idea was pretty simply. It should be a one store house with a fireplace for cooking and heating the house at winter. There should be 4 rooms in total. One for the elders. One for Eduard and his wife Hana. One for the girls and one for the boys of the family. It may sound odd but to those people it was a luxury. A lot of families just slept together because they did not have the ability to afford better conditions of life. It was agreed that the height of the walls will be around 2.5 meters and the house will have a very simple roof. The main purpose was for the construction to be sturdy and last for a long time.

After deliberating for a while and talking with Leo the head of the family agreed to do this job for 20 silver coins. It was agreed that the rooms of the girls and boys will be in a size of 25 square meters. The size of the rooms of the couple and the elders will be 9 square meters and all the rest will be set as the dining area and fireplace. No doors will be made except one for the entry to the house. It will be locked from the inside by a wood block that will rest on a the door construction that will not let anyone in until it will be removed. Keys were available only for nobles. There was no way this commoner could afford this. After it was concluded with Eduard that the pay will be after finishing the job the commoner was happy. He was afraid to be scammed by the noble and then he could not really do anything about the money lost. The empire did have rules but commoners could not win a noble in court. It was even useless to try. After that Eduard led the trio to his plot of land and showed where he wanted the building to be. After asking Eduard a few questions about where he wanted to entry of the house to look towards and other things like small windows in the rooms for breathing Leo started the construction. Everyone were interested in the process. Leo told the Schmidt's that he could do it but the quality of the product will show if they could really get into this business. First Leo erected the walls of the house without any holes. They were in the right height. All walls looked the same in width as well. The walls were thick. Around 20-30 centimeters in width. After communicating more with Eduard Leo started making the holes for the doors and windows using earth manipulation. After he removed the not needed parts he sat for a rest. He was still young and did not do constructions with such precise calculations before. It took most of his mana to complete this part of the job. It took around an hour. After around an hour of rest he started to manipulate all the walls to make them more dense and durable. after resting and manipulating the walls he saw that he could not finish today. Eduard came at noon and it was getting late. They agreed to meet tomorrow morning to finish all the process. At the next morning Leo created a roof by earth manipulation to each room and then connected all the roof parts. It was a very simple roof. It was a stone roof with a pipe of stone getting out from it for the fireplace. It was nothing fancy. The roof was parallel to the ground. It was not triangle shaped. It was agreed with Eduard before Leo started the process to lower the price. After finishing the job Leo asked Eduard if he was satisfied and the commoner almost screamed that he is. Leo was afraid the guy will try to hug him or something. For a commoner it was hard to find a home like this. Most of the time the houses were made from wood and it often was not really sturdy. The fact that it was made from thick stone made Eduard assured that this structure will not crumble in the near decades. Leo was sure of this as well. If no one will try actively destroy this construct it will hold for more then a hundred years for sure. It really costed much more then 20 silver coins for construction for sure. If not for the half price discount it would be 40 silver coins. The market price of this house will be even higher. Eduard was elated. He took a money pouch and handed it to Elen. After finishing the transaction they bid fair well to each other and the Elen family members returned to their estate. Just in one in a half days they earned a sum that it would take them almost half a month to earn. And it with a half price discount. It was insane! All the family members were really happy. Now they could have more time for cultivation and growing their powers. Leo knew that it was only the beginning.