Volume 16 Chapter (1-5)

Chapter 1, Current Status of the Neighboring Towers

About half a month had passed since Haku arrived at the Tower.

During that time, Haku was mainly working with Sylvia and the others as a guard.

To perform the administration of the Tower, fighting was inevitable on each floor.

Except for Sylvia, who has very little fighting ability, the other members of the team were capable of fighting up to a certain level.

However, since they didn't know what to expect, they asked Haku to follow them.

Haku's fighting ability was almost on par with Kouhi and Mitsuki.

Although Kousuke was told that she would never surpass Kouhi or Mitsuki while he was in the Divine Realm, that didn't mean she wasn't close to them in power.

That was why he asked Haku to accompany them to the Floor of each Tower, mainly as a guard.

Of course, it was also so she could learn how administration of the Tower worked for later on.

Thanks to the fact that she was able to work with each member and move around a lot, Haku got to know them quickly.

Due to her origins, Kousuke was nervous at first about what could happen to her, but he was somewhat relieved by the result.

The first thing to do was to set up Amamiya Tower with four kinds of Fairy Stones in the same Floor as before.

The conditions for this summoning were still unclear.

However, Kousuke believed that Divine Power was definitely the last condition, as it was currently impossible to summon without his intervention.

The conditions to get there were also not known at all, so there was very little information about Fairy Stones.

As for Amamiya Tower, he hadn't set up anything other than Fairy Stones.

Except, of course, for the summoning circle for defeating the summoned monsters.

Meanwhile, aside from Amamiya Tower, there had been developments in the other Towers.

First, during this period, the Tower level of all Towers except the Northwest Tower, which had not been modified in any way, went up to LV3.

At first, the condition of increasing the level of each Tower was thought to be something different, but it seemed to be dependent on the size of the Tower.

The conditions were different in the northeast, southeast, northwest, and southwest Towers among the small types, the north and south Towers among the medium types, and the Tower in Amamiya.

Once the conditions were known, it was just a matter of gaining experience under similar conditions, and then increasing the number of tasks to do.

Divine Power separates the items obtained from Amamiya Tower, World Tree, and Vermilinia Castle into their respective Towers, so in a sense, administration could be done without considering the costs.

Furthermore, the experiments that Kousuke had requested for the northeast, southeast, and southwest Towers were also in progress.

Wraiths were being summoned in the northeast, slimes in the southeast, and goblins in the southwest.

Kousuke had not chosen them, but the members who were the Administrators of their respective Towers had.

"So? So, what's it like?"

Kousuke asked Floria, who happened to have returned from Administration.

"Floor's control rate is up to about 80%, but beyond that, it's difficult to enforce."

"Difficult, you say?"

"There are always gaps, and we can't seem to control the monsters that spawn naturally."

It would be easy if they could cover all the gaps with a barrier, but that would defeat the purpose of the experiment.

It was to see how the naturally spawned monsters were doing.

"Hmm… How do you maintain the summoned monsters?"

"We have no problem with that currently, since we can feed them with monsters from the summoning circles. And we haven't had any conflicts with other monsters."

In the southwest Tower, where Floria was in charge of administration, she was summoning small Goblins, but there was one that had already evolved into an Oni Kijin.

Their appearance had become more human-like, or rather, more like a small person.

Their intelligence was also much higher than that of goblins, which made it easier to give them instructions.

"Since Onis came out, I've been able to take control of them, so there's less wasted hunting."

The Goblins who used to hunt relentlessly, not even for food, now hunted only for what they needed.

"Hmm. Is that efficient?"

"Hm? I wouldn't say it is, but it saves us from having to summon additional ones?"

"That's true, I suppose. If we consider summoning higher tiers in the future, being hunted for food would be a problem."

If he could set up a summoning circle for intermediate monsters, he would be able to reliably generate Divine Power.

That would naturally increase the more summoning circles they could set up.

However, if the summoning monsters had lower efficiency when hunting, then their performance would be limited.

"I see that too. But you know, this isn't something that's teachable, right?"

"Well, I don't mind that. But, I want to avoid training them to become fighting machines, so I think it's better to teach them now."

Hunting, but not for food or materials, was just a killing frenzy. Especially when it came to monsters.

"Is that how it works?"

"We don't want them to go berserk and out of control, do we?"

"Oh, I see. So, that's what you mean."

Even though he was only working in a limited area called the Tower, Kousuke didn't want any subordinates to go on a rampage.

"Also, some Oni can understand human language. Thanks to that, it's easier to communicate with them."

"Wow, is there more than one of those?"

"Yeah, it looks like there are several of them out there?"

"Then why don't you take those individuals and build a base on another Floor?"

At present, as long as the intermediate monster's summoning circle couldn't be set up, there was not much point in keeping evolved individuals around.

If that was the case, he wondered what would happen if he took them to other Floors and let them act freely.

"Well, you're the one who does the Administration, so you're free to do whatever you want. There's also the setting up of the summoning circle and stuff."

At Kousuke's opinion, Floria pondered.

She was probably thinking about many things.

"It's certainly worth thinking about. Once we have a certain number of them, we can build a base in the middle tier."

"Right, right."

If intermediate monsters could be defeated on the Floor where they naturally spawned, then Divine Power could be obtained from there as well.

As long as the deficit in Divine Power was decreased, even if only by a little, it would be a welcome addition to the Divine Power that was currently being obtained from other Towers.

"Well, you can set up a lot of summoning circles, but don't overdo it because it won't do you any good if you can't operate them."

"I know. I'll make the necessary changes."

Just as it seemed like the conversation was about to end, Peach, Sylvia and Haku came over to where the two of them were.

"Oh~? Is there something you want to discuss?"

"No, it's not really a discussion, it's more confirming the current situation."

"If that's the case, I'll report it too~"

It was Peach who said this, but Sylvia had to report at the same time.

As a result, it was found out that the same kin could only occupy about 80% of each Tower's Floor.

If it was more than that, it would inevitably lead to the situation that Floria reported earlier.

As a side note, Sylvia was summoning slimes, but it seems that the slimes that became her subjects had some sort of change that prevented them from being easily defeated.

"Hmm, so maybe it's best to keep things the way they are, but if the Tower level goes up and intermediate monsters can be summoned, the situation might change again."

The results of the three Towers suggested that no matter how hard they tried, they would not be able to suppress the number of monsters that were naturally spawned.

As long as they were getting food from the summoning circle accordingly, it would only be a matter of time before the levels of naturally occurring monsters would be increased.

If things went wrong, there was a possibility that the monsters that spawned would eliminate the low-level monsters.

From now on, it would be necessary to pay attention to the naturally spawning monsters.

I decided to leave the rest to the administration of each Tower.

This experiment was only at Kousuke's request, and each Tower's Administration was left to their own devices.

Besides, it was enough for him to know that he could not do the same thing for Amamiya Tower at this point.

The cost would be entirely different, and the risk of gaps would be even higher.

If possible, it would be better to wait until each Tower could summon an intermediate level monster, but after that, depending on the results, it might be better to disperse the followers from each Floor to other Floors.

Kousuke told them to be careful of the monsters that spawned naturally because he somehow felt that the possibility of their monsters getting exterminated could happen.

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Chapter 2, Evolution and Level-up Requirements

Shrein and Collete, the Administrators of the North and South Towers, were each starting their own unique course of action.

To begin with, the World Tree and Vermilinia Castle were cheats for their respective Towers, so there was no need to worry about Divine Power being generated from the towers where those two had been moved.

In addition, there was a surplus of Divine Power, so most of it was being sent to Amamiya Tower.

They were both happy with using the Divine Power because they were able to configure each Tower to send a percentage of the Crystal's Divine Power to Amamiya Tower.

They were using their abundant Divine Power to set up summoning circles.

Shrein in the North Tower was taking a bold approach.

She set up a summoning circle of low-level monsters in the Floor, where low-level monsters naturally spawned, and started to summon them.

This was an entirely different approach from Kousuke, who went out of his way to build a base so that he could make as few sacrifices as possible.

Kousuke had no intention of stopping her.

It wasn't a bad idea, as long as they had enough Divine Power and were willing to sacrifice a bit.

The reason why Kousuke didn't take the same approach was because he wanted to avoid sacrificing his Fluffy Friends.

They also didn't need to set up a summoning circle to have a food supply.

This was to prevent the level of naturally spawned monsters from rising and to save the time of setting up the summoning circles.

Furthermore, this method was perfect for finding out if the evolution of the monsters summoned as dependents had anything to do with the number of monsters that were killed by the summoned monsters.

"So? How is it going?"

Kousuke asked Shrein directly.

Collete was also there with them.

When asked, Shrein looked puzzled.

"I was actually going to tell you that I honestly don't know. I certainly feel that the number of summoned creatures evolving is less than other Towers, but they have still evolved."

"Hmm… Was it too early to assume that they were evolving by defeating the summoned monsters?"

That was what he concluded from the previous experiment he conducted on the 10th Floor, but something was starting to feel questionable.

Collete interrupted Kousuke, who appeared skeptical.

"That's not necessarily true, is it?"

"Not necessarily?"

"Because, first off, monsters summoned in Amamiya Tower and other Towers don't always evolve in the same way, right?"

"…I certainly didn't consider looking into that."

If each tower had a different method of evolution, it would be a complete mystery to figure out.

That was the best part of Tower Administration, was what he had in mind.

"Maybe it's because we are only considering things within one Tower that we get into trouble."

Kousuke turned his head to Shrein, who chuckled.

"What do you mean?"

"Monsters outside the Tower are also evolving. That means that even naturally spawned monsters fighting each other can evolve."

"Does that mean that summoned monsters have the same chance of evolving as naturally spawned monsters?"

"That's what I mean. It's just that the speed at which they evolve is different, isn't it?"

Hearing Shrein's opinion, Kousuke thought of something.

The difference was in experience.

He wondered if there was more experience that could be gained by defeating a monster that was summoned rather than a naturally spawned monster.

Of course, he did not believe that there was such a thing as experience value in this world, but something like actual experience would certainly be there.

"… But if that's the case… There's one discrepancy, isn't there?"

"Hmm? Can you elaborate?"

"I don't know how long it's been since this world was created, but I don't understand how this Tower and other Towers, which have never been attacked before, have been divided into different strengths by Floor."

Even the First Floor was rarely conquered by anyone.

If his prediction was correct, it would not be surprising to see stronger monsters coming out of the first Floor.

However, when Kousuke had conquered the lower Floor, the only monsters that had come out of it were of acceptable strength for a lower Floor.

"You have a point… Indeed, that's exactly what's happening."

"Is that even worth thinking about?"

Collete said, sounding unsure of herself.

"What?"

"Who knows how the Tower was managed before we conquered it in the first place, right?"

With those words, Kousuke understood what Collete meant.

"You mean the Tower's functions were automatically adjusted to make the levels similar?"

"There's no way to confirm that now that you have conquered it, though."

Currently, the Northwest Tower was completely untouched, so he thought it was practically the same as when it was unconquered.

However, the fact that it was already conquered meant that the Tower's automatic functions could have been lost.

Kousuke remembered the work that was done automatically when he conquered the Tower.

If those were the tasks that changed the way that Tower functioned, then Collete's point was correct.

"Hmm, I give up. I'm not going to think about the state of the Tower before we conquered it. It's more important to think about what's going to happen with the current Towers."

Kousuke quickly stopped dwelling on it.

Even if there was a Tower that had not yet been conquered, it would take more than a year to confirm what he had already mentioned.

Besides, there were no unconquered Towers on the Central Continent.

He didn't think it was necessary to go all the way to another continent just to check.

"By the way, what are the levels of the two Towers?"

"It's three."

"Mine too."

"I suppose upgrading them should be our main focus…"

When it came to Amamiya Tower, the Tower level went up to 3 quickly, but it took a long time to get it to level 4.

Although they were not particularly concerned about Tower level, they wanted to be able to summon intermediate level monsters as soon as possible.

It was the same with Amamiya Tower, but once the intermediate monsters were adjusted and could be summoned, the growth of the dependent monsters was visibly different.

"Well, I guess we can't be too hasty about this."

Even now, when Divine Power was in abundance, it was taking a good amount of time to get them to level 3.

The effect of not being able to install a <Godstone> was substantial.

In Amamiya Tower, things that could be easily installed were considered to be rare, if not cheats.

When they took a <Godstone> and transferred it to another tower, and placed it on a Floor, it would not be registered, and would not work the same way as it did in Amamiya Tower.

Everyone had already given up on that idea.

They tried to bring in other things too, but the Divine Power generated stuff just didn't work as well as <Godstone>.

He had no idea what was causing it, so he gave up on that option.

"So? What's going on in the South Tower?"

"So far, so good."

The South Tower that Collete was in charge of had nine Floors, including the Floor with the world tree and its surroundings.

This was a mistake that Kousuke realized later, but the Floor he had designated for the Floor exchange was the lower Floor of the southern tower, which reduced the number of Floors where lower level monsters could be found.

Therefore, Collete couldn't apply the same method as Shrein, but instead used a different approach. It was to summon multiple monsters on the same Floor.

This was also a method that Kousuke had not implemented in Amamiya Tower.

It would give him an idea of what would happen if the monsters clashed with each other on the same Floor.

Kousuke believed that there would be no conflict if they were given summoned monsters as food. Though, the outcome of this was still unknown.

Kousuke thought that Collete might move it to a different Floor before that happened, but that was fine with him, and there was no need to force them into a fight.

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Chapter 3, Strengthening Amamiya Tower

Aside from the Northwest Tower, the rest of the Towers were growing at a steady pace. So they decided to leave the rest of the work to the members again.

The Northwest Tower was going to be left to Haku at some point, but for now, she was still accompanying Shrein and the others to look after things. The Administration had made no modifications and it was going about its natural activities normally.

Eventually, they would start managing the Northwest Tower as well, but at the moment, they really didn't have the time.

As for how Amamiya Tower was doing now, it hadn't changed much.

The only thing that had changed was the number of summoned beasts, and they had not summoned anything new to the Floors.

The Fairy Stones that had been placed in the Floor had been left untouched for now.

The reason for this was to check what would happen if they were left alone for a while… So instead, they were working on other things.

But it wasn't anything too serious.

They were working on increasing the number of summons on each Floor and setting up summoning circles for food.

Other than that, Kousuke spent his time researching divine tools.

… As for the divine tools, there were no major developments.

To put it bluntly, there wasn't anything new to install, so there was nothing else he could think of to do.

It would be nice to place as many items as possible, but if he did it for no reason, he would not be able to manage the Tower effectively.

The same went for summons. The Floors of Amamiya Tower were huge, so whether they were summoning one kind of summon or multiple kinds of summons on one Floor, managing it would be difficult.

Although this was not a dead end, Kousuke's real intention was not to do anything too crazy.

In addition, Nana and Wanri seemed to be doing fine in their current Floors.

There was no need to limit it to just Nana and Wanri, but Kousuke couldn't decide who else to leave it to.

"Well, what do I do now?"

"Big Brother, are you thinking about something?"

While Kousuke was thinking, Wanri came over to him.

Incidentally, when Kousuke was thinking in a place like this where other members were also present, it was when he wanted someone to listen to him.

Otherwise, he would be in the lab endlessly worrying.

He did this only when he believed the problem could be solved from another person's perspective.

Of course, the members of the group knew this, and they accompanied him.

Rather, the other members did the same thing.

"Oh, Wanri, you're here."

Upon seeing Wanri, Kousuke immediately reached out for her head and started petting her.

Although Kousuke did it out of habit, Wanri didn't stop him either.

In fact, he once asked if he should stop, but Wanri looked very disappointed at the suggestion, so he continued to do so.

Wanri just seemed to enjoy getting petted, whether in human or fox form.

It was the same for wolves and other foxes that liked getting petted by Kousuke.

"I'm wondering if we should increase the number of Floors with summoned creatures."

"More…!"

Seeing Wanri's happy face, Kousuke thought to himself.

"Huh? Should I get more?"

"Eh? I mean, we'll have a lot more friends, right?"

"Yes, but… But isn't the administration a lot of work?"

Hearing Kousuke's words, Wanri tilted her head.

"Administration… Meals?"

"No, that's part of it, but you do patrols and stuff, don't you?"

"I'm just making my rounds, you know? It's not like I'm doing anything special. I'm sure it's the same for Nana-chan."

"Is that so?"

"Yeah."

The reason why Nana and Wanri were patrolling the area where their respective kin were located was to show that they were there.

By doing so, they prevented their flocks and dependents from wreaking havoc.

In the past, Nana would assist with hunting, but now she was completely out of the picture.

In that sense, it could be said that she was simply going back and forth between the herds.

"I see… So does that mean that setting up a summoning circle will be a problem?"

"Can't it be the same monsters or animals from the Floor?"

"No, not necessarily, but is it going to be a problem?"

The current Floor with wolves and foxes was well-balanced by setting up summoning circles to secure food for them.

Of course, the reason they were set up was to make them evolve, but it also meant securing food for them.

"It's alright… I guess, but will the territory become bigger?"

"Well, yes, I suppose so. Wouldn't that make it difficult to keep the pack together as well?"

The foxes didn't seem to be as pack-oriented as the wolves, but they still acted together, which was why they weren't being hunted by monsters in the vicinity.

In a way, the current Floors were well balanced in terms of the food chain.

"It's okay… I think…"

Wanri looked down, unsure.

"No, I see. Thanks, I think I know what the issue is after talking to you."

"… Really?"

"Really, really. The point is, we just need to be able to properly set up a summoning circle for food on a regular basis."

"Can you do that?"

"I don't know. At the moment, I don't know if I can. After all, I've never tried it before."

What Kousuke was thinking was that they should make something that could allow the control panel to automatically set up a summoning circle.

He had never thought of adjusting the control panel before, so he had no idea if it was possible.

But it would be well worth the challenge.

After all, if it works, it would make managing Sylvia's experiment much easier.

In order to examine what he could do immediately, Kousuke left Wanri and headed for the laboratory.

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"So, Kousuke, what did you start doing in your cage again?"

Colette asked, as Kousuke didn't come out of his room even when it was time for dinner.

It was not the first time something like this had happened, which was why she asked.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Ever since we had that conversation a while ago…"

"Oh. No, no. I'm not blaming you, Wanri."

Today, Wanri had planned to have dinner with them, so she stayed at the Administration Floor till this late.

Wanri looked apologetic, so Colette followed up in a hurry.

"Oh, should I go get him?"

Haku said and got up from her seat.

"Haku, it's no use, you don't have to go."

Haku was stopped by Shrein.

Kousuke, in fact, was so focused on this situation that he didn't notice anyone calling out to him.

As a result, he had skipped meals once or twice.

That was why Shrein and the others were already used to dealing with this sort of situation.

"Now that this has happened, he probably won't come out for a while. We shall have our meal on our own."

"But if he skips the meal, won't Father get sick?"

"Don't worry, Kouhi and Mitsuki won't let that happen."

Shrein's words were met with emphatic nods from all the members except Wanri and Haku.

"As for Kousuke, there's no point in worrying about him for now, so let's just eat!"

Colette declared, and the other members started eating as they wished.

Haku and Wanri followed suit and started eating as well.

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Chapter 4, Isnani's Recommendation

Increasing the number of dependants meant a lot of work for the Administrators.

The main problem was the food needed for survival.

In order to take care of the dependents, they needed to have food, and the only way to prepare that food was to use naturally spawned monsters or summoned monsters on the Floor.

The number of naturally spawned monsters was restrained by the size of the Floor, so of course only a certain number of dependents could be taken care of.

Using summoned monsters required Divine Power, but as long as the monsters summoned were intermediate level monsters or higher, the cost was not a concern.

Theoretically speaking, they could increase the number of dependents as much as they wanted and use summoned monsters to feed them.

However, this was not practical.

Because setting up summoning circles for summoned monsters was a manual task.

The reason why Kousuke stopped increasing the number of dependents in Amamiya Tower was because of this issue.

He had no time to spare at the moment, so even if he wanted to increase the number of dependents, he would be unable to do any other tasks apart from feeding them.

Since the ladies had started to manage other Towers, they could not leave it to others to set up the summoning circle as they did before.

In Kousuke's case, there were Kouhi and Mitsuki, so it was easy to leave it to them, but that was not an efficient solution.

So that brought up the topic of what Kousuke and Wanri talked about the other day.

If they could set up the summoning circle and distribute food automatically, the problem would be solved in an instant.

The issue was how to automate it. It didn't seem to be a straightforward task.

"Hmm… It's not working as I expected it to, this thing."

Kousuke muttered to himself in front of the control panel.

The first thing Kousuke thought of when aiming to automate the installation of the summoning circle was to create an automation tool.

Normally, the control panel was operated like a touch panel, but he wondered if it would be possible to operate it automatically inside it.

But unfortunately, the control panel was a complete black box and could not be opened.

Honestly speaking, he wouldn't open it because he didn't want to be in trouble if he lost control of it.

At that point, he searched for a management tool that would automatically install the system, but there was no such convenient tool.

"I guess that means it won't be that easy."

Isnani spoke to Kousuke, who was disappointed.

"How's it going?"

"Well, I have no idea. I don't even know how it works in the first place."

"I see."

Isnani nodded without any particular change in expression, as if she had expected it to some extent.

"So, I guess we'll have to have an external input."

"I guess so…"

Kousuke had hoped that it could be done internally if possible, but it was not that simple.

However, there was no point in dwelling on it forever, so he quickly switched his focus.

"So? How's it going over there?"

"There are a few candidates. I'm thinking of either making a magic tool, making a Golem, or using slaves."

Kousuke frowned at Isnani, who quickly mentioned using slaves.

This was not a discussion of whether slaves were ethical or not.

They already knew that Crown was utilizing a large number of slaves.

Without them, they would not even be able to maintain Crown.

Even though they were slaves, or rather, it was because they were slaves that they thought it was a waste to have them do menial tasks.

The slaves included humans and demi-humans in general.

He believed that it would be a waste to use them only for setting up the summoning circle.

"Slaves, huh… If I'm going to use them anyway, I'd rather use them for something else."

"I see. If that's the case, the two things we can start working on right now would be magic tools or golems, but I recommend golems."

"Hmm? May I ask why?"

"Because a Golem is versatile, while a magic tool is limited."

Depending on how they were made, if they were taught other tasks, they would be able to handle those tasks as well.

Of course, it takes a certain amount of materials and time to make such a versatile Golem.

"Golem…"

At the moment, Kousuke had very little knowledge about creating a Golem.

But it was certainly going to be useful in many ways if he could create one.

Kousuke didn't know if he would be able to create something decent, but it was worth a shot.

"Huh? Speaking of which, can you create them, Isnani?"

"I have some knowledge, but it would be difficult right now."

"I see. Well then, shall we both start studying now?"

"Yes!"

Isnani replied cheerfully, but Kouhi, who had been listening silently until then, joined in.

"Can I join in on this conversation?"

"What? But what's the matter all of a sudden?"

Kousuke asked back, surprised by Kouhi's unusual intervention.

"Well, actually. I was just wondering if I could make a golem that would act as a maid."

"That's a good idea. Can I join in?"

Mitsuki was also interested in the idea.

"What do you mean, 'maid'?"

Kousuke's image of a golem up to this point had been of the kind that often appeared in video games.

However, in this world, a Golem usually refers to a puppet.

Golems were designed to be able to perform certain tasks. Of course, there existed burly Golems as well.

What Kouhi and Mitsuki were interested in was to create a Golem that could manage the Administration Floor.

If they could do that, they would be able to stay with Kousuke more.

"I see… So it is a puppet type. Well, anyway, there's no reason against it, so it's fine."

Kousuke was convinced and gave them permission to do so.

Thus began the creation of the golems by the four of them.

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The first thing that they had to do was to acquire the skills to build a Golem, which they got from instruction books that were available in the Administration Floor installations.

Of course, since there were four of them, there were more than one type of instruction book.

He didn't know where the tower's control panel got the materials, but he was grateful for what was available.

The first and foremost problem in creating a Golem was gathering materials.

Naturally, in order to make something of good quality, it would require a certain amount of materials.

But they were not worried about this.

This was because of the resources available in the Towers and Kouhi and Mitsuki's ability to kill all the monsters inside it.

Of course, there would be some materials that they would not be able to obtain in the Towers, but for that, they would have to rely on Schmidt.

They have no idea what they would need at the moment, so they would have to think about it in the future.

Once the materials were available, all that was left was learning the techniques to create the Golem.

For this, they will have to start with the simplest ones and keep improving their skills.

Kousuke thought it would be no problem as long as he could create the desired object in the process.

At this point, Kousuke's thoughts were deviating. It was leaning to something else but unfortunately, no one noticed.

Looking at the materials he had ordered, he thought he could make more Golems than just simple ones, which sparked Kousuke's curiosity.

Eventually, the involvement of the four of them in the creation of Golems would lead to the further growth of the world's stagnant technology.

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Chapter 5, First Prototype

The Golem was being prepared while the summoning circle was being set up.

Other than setting up the food for the dependents, other tasks were left alone.

Kousuke thought it was fine because there were no problems that needed to be solved in a hurry at the moment.

Kouhi or Mitsuki would go out to the Amamiya Tower and gather the necessary materials, and Schmidt would take care of the remaining materials.

Fortunately, there was nothing that would take too long to obtain, and they were able to procure materials from the Towers that would otherwise be considered difficult to gather.

It had been ten days since Kousuke and the others had started creating Golems.

Floria was having a hard time.

The others had very little knowledge of Golems, and their reaction to being given this information was "Ooooh".

However, Floria, who had been educated as a former princess of a country, knew what Golems were, for better or for worse.

Therefore, it was only natural that Floria was puzzled when she was shown the Golem that Kousuke and his colleagues had presented to her as a 'prototype'.

"Floria, what's wrong?"

"… I thought I was used to it, but when what I thought was common sense is ignored so easily, I guess I'm still naive."

Sylvia's question was answered by Floria, but everyone else still had confused expressions on their faces.

They wondered if they had done something wrong again.

At the same time, their eyes turned to Kousuke.

"Huh? Why are they looking at me like that? It's not just me this time."

"Think about what you've done so far."

Collete cut him off.

It was clear that Kousuke wasn't the only one involved in the production, but his past performance had drawn attention to him.

Kousuke felt that it was somehow unreasonable, but he decided not to argue. He felt that even if he did, he would be no match for them.

"Well, anyway, I don't think this one deviates too much from common sense, right?"

The first prototype Golem was moving in front of Kousuke's eyes.

Its shape was not human-like, but more of a craggy form.

It was their first priority to make it move rather than to mold its shape.

The first prototype was pacing back and forth in the same place.

A tray was placed on top of its hands.

The first prototype was a Golem version of the so-called tea carrying doll.

The reason it was moving back and forth was not because it could only move that way, but because Kousuke ordered it to do so.

If he wanted to, he could make it do something like "moving from this point or to that point" properly.

"And it can carry the tea without spilling it!"

Kousuke emphasized this, but unfortunately, the reactions of the people around him were not great.

"Anyway, can you please retract your words about not deviating from the norm?"

Floria, who had brilliantly brushed aside Kousuke's words, answered.

"It went far from expected?"

Mitsuki, who was somehow aware that this was out of the ordinary, asked Floria.

"Golems are usually made-to-order. The production only starts after receiving such an order, and the product won't be delivered to the user until six months later at the earliest."

They all finally understood what Floria meant when she said this was far from ordinary.

It was certainly strange that it only took ten days for them to make something that would normally take six months to make.

However, Kousuke and the others had an advantage in this.

"Ah. I think that's probably because of the materials we have."

"The materials?"

"Yeah. To begin with, even though they specialize in making Golems, there are some materials they can't procure."

"Don't you usually order them in the required quantities after receiving the order?"

Mitsuki added to Kousuke's words.

Collecting the materials was the job of adventurers.

It would take a certain number of days for the materials to bring it to the hands of a producer, before that, the producer would first place an order and the adventurers would receive it and collect the materials.

"Maybe if Golem production increases, and adventurers hunt for more of those materials regularly, the number of days it takes to produce them would decrease?"

"I can see where you're coming from."

Kousuke and the others' argument was finally starting to convince Floria.

"Besides, for the one I made this time, I made the most simple part of the brain, so it didn't take much time to produce."

Kouhi and Isnani were in charge of the body and power parts this time, while Mitsuki and Kousuke were in charge of the brain parts.

The division of labor was also a factor in the time saved.

"It's the same with the power part. At least we aren't building anything complicated enough to be sent out to nobility."

Isnani added about the power part.

What was made this time was a very simple Golem.

It was a reproduction of something from the early days of Golem creation.

"Umm, mmm. Well, well, I'm not that familiar with it, so it's not strange if you say so… Is it?"

Floria was slowly starting to accept the arguments of the creation team.

"Floria, wait. I'm afraid they're going to lose their momentum, but it's not right no matter how you look at it. After all, Kousuke and the others were almost amateurs until ten days ago, right?"

It was when Shrein pointed that out, alongside Sylvia and Collete agreeing, Floria's expression turned haggard.

They must not forget the fact that a group of mostly amateurs created this in just ten days… that alone was already out of the ordinary.

The four members of the creation team simply averted their gaze, as they couldn't deny it.

"So, how long do you think it will take you to create what you want?"

"Well, I don't know. It's going to be a lot more complicated than this, so… About a month?"

Kousuke checked with the other three, as if to confirm.

The other three nodded in agreement.

"… People say you're crazy because you can say things like that without hesitating, you know?"

Floria looked at Kousuke with a scowl.

"Ahahahahaha."

For the time being, Kousuke chuckled wryly and tried to cover it up.

"What about this one you made?"

Collete pointed to Golem, who was repeating the same action from earlier.

"Of course, I'll rebuild it a few times to make it more complex. Both the brain and the body."

After a few more revisions, they would create a Golem that would set up a summoning circle for each Floor, which was their initial goal.

Thanks to their first prototype, they already had a good idea of what to do with it.

For the time being, they were planning to build a first Golem for Tower administration, and after that, each of the members would be free to make their own Golems.

Kousuke was looking forward to seeing what kind of creative ideas they would come up with.

Nowadays, Kouhi and Mitsuki were more enthusiastic about creating Golems than Kousuke.

Their understanding of Golems had already surpassed Kousuke and Isnani.

He was very interested to see what they would create.

Of course, Kousuke would continue to create Golems for the administration of the Towers. In some cases, it may be necessary to make a single Golem just for distributing food.

As long as he didn't have to spend a lot of time setting up the summoning circle for bait, the Towers' administration could still be developed(?) in the future.

All of this was possible because they had some idea of how to create a Golem.

It was because Kouhi and Mitsuki were interested in Golem creation that they were able to produce results so quickly.

He did not intend to leave the creation of Golems completely to them, but it was still a surprising result for Kousuke.

Whether it was good or bad that they were interested in Golems outside his initial purpose was another matter.

Incidentally, Kousuke didn't realize that he was mistaken.

The Golem that they were trying to create was for Kousuke's benefit.

It would be some time before Kousuke would realize this.