Chapter 138. Leader of the weary (1)
“Hey there. Did you hear?”
“Did you hear? What do you mean?”
“You mean this Youngji youngster.”
“young master? You mean Lloyd?”
“okay. him Well, he said he uses great summoning magic.”
“Summoning magic?”
This is the eastern part of the Earldom of Prontera.
It was a construction site for terraced farmland at the foot of the Eastern Mountain Range.
There, a refugee worker who was carrying soil pointed to one side with his chin.
“Did you see that one over there?”
where he points.
There was a podongi there.
With a plump body of 10 meters.
Waving an overwhelmingly full bottom.
I was digging the ground hard with the recoil.
The refugee worker said.
“That big mouse. They say it was summoned by that old Lloyd.”
“Heh, you mean that?”
“It is.”
“no way. It makes no sense.”
“Why is it that it doesn’t make sense?”
the refugee man asked.
A fellow man replied.
“Brother, think about it. How big and strong that mouse is. Just looking at it, doesn’t that mean it’s an incredibly great summoner?”
“Uhm so?”
“Summoning magic doesn’t have to be that powerful to summon such an enormous summoned beast. But, Master Lloyd? He doesn’t seem to be in his thirties yet.”
“You mean he’s so young that he hasn’t mastered that kind of summoning magic yet?”
“That is my opinion.”
“Then what about that monster?”
“It must have been raised after picking up a young monster in the Eastern Mountains.”
“But I think you are a bit wrong.”
“Why?”
“What kind of monster in the world could grow to the size of a house or become smaller than a fist just by eating a single seed?”
“…Have you been drinking?”
The fellow man tilted his head.
The refugee worker burst out laughing.
“I saw it. As for the young master, he fed that mouse red seeds. Then, well, isn’t it transforming from a mouse that was smaller than a fist into a monster that big?”
“You said you saw it yourself? brother?”
“Well, is that so? There are a lot of eyes we saw together, so check it out.”
“haha. If that’s true….”
“That boy is a great person.”
“I guess so.”
Unleash a huge number of summons at will.
In addition, he designs and even directs such large-scale construction.
Various rumors spread widely among the refugee workers about Lloyd.
He must have been a genius in summoning magic since he was born.
If you just close your eyes and open them, you’ll build a building.
Or that he was the one sent down by the heavens who foretold this disaster.
All sorts of conjectures and exaggerations, conjectures and imaginations, have been added.
He tickled the earlobes of the refugees.
In fact, it did.
Pudong and Bell grow bigger when they eat sunflower seeds.
A hamang that swells up by drinking a huge amount of water.
Bibeongi, who sometimes comes down from the mountain and moves heavy objects.
There’s even a new phantom species, Kkoming.
They had never imagined that such a creature existed.
I haven’t come across it in any book or story.
Then, while participating as a worker in the construction site of this terraced farmland, I came to know the majesty of the fantasy species properly.
I also witnessed Lloyd’s free play of such fantasy species from time to time.
I couldn’t help but be surprised.
It was natural to admire.
As time went on, the attitude of the refugees towards Lloyd became more fervent.
Even the refugee worker uncles who participated in the scene had their eyes shining brightly, like girl fans who received the best idol bulletproof vest team.
So what about Lloyd?
He did not bother to correct the misunderstanding(?) of the refugee workers.
No, in a way, it made it even worse.
“That is the power of images. So, Kkoming?”
“Kkoming?”
“Shall we fly higher?”
“Kkoming!”
flutter! Whoa!
Kkomingi’s answer came.
At the same time, the three-meter-long wings moved vigorously from either side.
A blast of great momentum.
The wind rose.
At the same time, the ground jumped away.
No, Kkomingi, carrying himself, soared up to 50 meters in an instant.
“Whoa.”
Lloyd gripped Kkomingyi’s back feathers tightly.
Is this how it feels to ride a Viking without a safety device?
On the one hand, it’s dizzying, but at the same time exhilarating.
Lloyd lowered his head, enjoying the feeling of speed with his whole body.
I looked around the scene spread out below.
“Waaaa-!”
Loud cheers radiated from the scene in this direction.
Refugee workers who were moving soil were looking up this way.
Lloyd waved at them.
Then the cheers grew even louder.
A satisfied smile bloomed on his lips.
‘Now those people and all the families who will hear them will think of me as a great person.’
In fact, I don’t even have a rat.
They’re just using a secret resource called RP. In addition, thanks to reading the novel Iron Blooded Knight, I can only anticipate some situations in advance.
But people don’t know that.
I just consider this a great person.
‘Then I have to strengthen that belief.’
That is the power of images.
A power that anyone would have felt at least once in their daily life.
Even if you do the same thing, someone has the subtle power to make someone cheer and admiration, and someone else gets ridiculed for being pathetic.
It was an image, Lloyd thought.
It was thanks to the fact that I already felt sick of it with my skin in Korea.
‘I was always treated like a jerk.’
It was poor.
There was no home or family.
I lived in a cramped high school.
I didn’t even have a few clothes, so I wore two or three faded sweatshirts for a year.
To save money, I went to the cheapest local hair salon only once every three or four months.
Such a scruffy appearance and impression.
His shoulders shrunk even more as his confidence shrunk.
Thanks to that, the treatment towards himself was often the worst wherever he went.
Even if you go to a convenience store to buy triangle gimbap.
Even if you go to a stationery store to buy a ballpoint pen.
Even going to the local hair salon was the same.
Whether it was a part-time job, an employee, or the boss, I often felt that I was being looked down upon and ignored.
No, the level of ignoring was rather a nobleman.
‘There was a time when I was unfairly suspected of being a petty thief.’
At the time, I was so sad that I even cried.
Now it’s just a bitter smile.
‘That’s why I need to pay attention to the image toward me. It doesn’t matter if that image isn’t true. Because people believe and believe more in what they can see than the truth. That kind of trust will give me strength at the decisive moment.’
So it was.
He deliberately flew on a twine.
The site was inspected and inspected from time to time.
In addition to image management, such actions had tangible benefits as well.
‘Whoa. It’s so comfortable to look around the site while flying.’
Kkoming, who ate red sunflower seeds and grew to 2 meters in length.
It was so much more comfortable to ride on its back and fly.
It was not so convenient to look around the vast field at a glance.
‘Because this construction site is very large. It’s about the same as Marez’s clearing.’
In addition, there was something different from Marez time-space, which was a flat lowland swamp.
It was a steep slope area.
‘What if I had to walk up and down that slope all day looking at the site? I’m sweating just thinking about it.’
Likewise, thanks to Kkomingi, Lloyd was able to reduce the experience of popping eggs in his calf.
Of course, I couldn’t do that when I was looking at the details of the scene.
“Ppodongah?”
“Ppodong?”
“This is the spot we dug up today. Isn’t it a bit uneven?”
“Podo-dong?”
“I need to dig a little more. And the 16th Corps of Engineers!”
“yes!”
“From here to there. When Podongi is leveled, you go into trimming and chopping with a shovel. You know the trick, right?”
“yes! of course!”
So many slopes and slopes were constructed as planned.
Podongyi dug out the ground with great strength and speed and grabbed a large step-shaped frame.
After that, the Corps of Engineers was sent in to level the ground. The details of the cut surface of the excavated seat were refined. In the meantime, the refugee workers moved the soil that Podongi dug up down the mountainside.
What about the large amount of soil that was moved and gathered like that?
It was left in the hands of the beaver.
“Beep! Scrub!”
It was the strongest of the fantasy species.
However, they were not mobilized for digging the hillside.
Weighing as much as 3,000 tons.
It was because there was a risk of causing the collapse of the construction site with its weight.
So, instead of digging the ground, Bibeongi was given another task.
A large amount of soil that has been dug up, moved, and collected.
It was to filter the soil through a super-large sieve.
“Byeom! Beaver!”
Chuwaaaaagh!
A super-giant body measuring 10 meters in width and 15 meters in height was caught in the hands of Vibeongi.
“Beep! Scrub!”
Pooh! Pooh!
Vibeongyi shook the extra-large sieve.
The soil on it was sifted through a sieve.
Stones, small tree roots and other miscellaneous particles were separated.
Only soil with a particle size of 19 millimeters or less fell down.
The task was to select the soil to be filled with the backfill material in the space between the cut surface of the mountain slope and the gabion retaining wall to be built in front of it.
‘This is a very important task. The stability and water drainage of the entire retaining wall is determined by how the backfill material is put in.’
Lloyd checked the backfill soil from time to time.
And Kkomingi was also mobilized.
“Come on, kid. know?”
“Kkoming?”
“Today we are going to make a big and beautiful net. Ego sortie.”
“Kkoming!”
Kkomingi, who ate the red sunflower seeds, flew up.
It crossed the air, drawing a dense lattice pattern.
At the same time, he spewed cobwebs from the bag on his back.
Chow ah!
The spewed spider webs fell along the flight trajectory.
It sat down and made a plaid net.
It completely covered the ground.
At the same time, it stuck to the ground.
At that moment, Lloyd shouted.
“Introduce the White Lancers!”
“Ooh!”
The White Lancers, who had been waiting with shovels, moved.
He showed fierce shoveling that far exceeded the speed of ordinary soldiers.
Through the hands of Bibeongi, the selected backfill material was spread and sprayed.
The sprayed backfill material thickly covered the spider web.
And all at once they compacted the soil.
When the compaction was over, Lloyd shouted again.
“Kkoming! Once more!”
“Komiming!”
Thanks!
Kkomingi’s plaid spider web was meticulously sprayed over the backfill material that had been compacted. Covered and stuck.
Then the White Lancers spread backfill material over it and covered it. compacted
The same process was repeated over and over again.
The twine flies up and spreads a web of cobwebs.
The White Lancers covered and compacted the backfill material with shovels.
Then spread the cobweb net again.
Thanks to this, more than 10 layers of spider webs and backfill material with a certain thickness were piled up on the steep cut surface that cut the hillside.
It looked like ten sheets of seafood and green onion pancakes were stacked thickly.
‘good. It’s being built properly.’
A cobweb net spread between the backfill soil.
That held the entire backfill together.
Thanks to this, it exerts a strong frictional force and fixes the soil so that it does not flow forward or sink down.
Lloyd put a gabion retaining wall in front of him.
Kkomingyi set up a frame of spider web meticulously woven like barbed wire.
The front side of the slope, which was piled up with backfill material, was covered with a frame.
Then the sappers moved.
The large pebbles and broken stones prepared in advance were poured into the frame.
“Come on two three! pour!”
“Eulyaap!”
Whoa! Quad Cock!
A precisely calculated amount of stone filled the inside of the gabion.
Finally, the entire gabion and backfill were woven together with spider webs once more to secure them firmly.
Thus, the first section of the retaining wall was successfully created.
‘good. It’s working just as designed.’
A satisfied smile bloomed on Lloyd’s lips.
The sweat drops of the Corps of Engineers and White Lancers refugees who were mobilized to the scene shone.
It was from then.
The same construction was done all over the hillside.
It was dug up, trimmed, sprinkled, piled up, compacted and erected.
The steep slope turned into dozens of steps.
On each horizontal surface, the space to be packed with rice fields and fields was embraced.
Its scope gradually widened.
One day it was raining heavily.
Some days were unusually warm.
Hambak-Eun one day.
Another day, a sharp wind blew.
Even so, construction did not stop.
It was a construction for myself and everyone, not for others.
It was a clearing that many refugees pack for settlement.
Everyone’s sweat and hard work pushed out the cold.
The day goes by.
ten days passed
One month, two months passed.
Finally, around the time when the eastern mountain range is colored with white magnolia and yellow forsythia.
Everyone’s shouts rang out in the first hem of early spring, which had quickly approached.
“Now, this is the last time! cheer up!”
“Errarab!”
“two! three! pour!”
“Uracha!”
Pebbles and stones were poured.
Cobweb filled the inside of the gabion to the fullest.
Vast terraced clearings planned with hundreds of thousands of plots.
The unprecedented construction and construction that has continued fiercely throughout the winter.
The retaining wall of the last compartment that concluded its completion finally stood tall.
But Lloyd didn’t relax.
Didn’t even cheer it up.
I didn’t even get excited about the finished retaining wall.
Workers in the field can be happy and excited about the completion.
In fact, that is a natural human psychology and feeling.
But you can’t do that yourself.
Even if everyone is full of joy.
Even if you are excited and cheer and laugh.
Only himself, who oversees and is responsible for all of them, should keep his cool rather than get swept away by his mood.
That way you can prevent safety accidents.
“Now pay attention! What is the most important thing when construction is over?”
“Clean up the site!”
“In which places do accidents usually occur?”
“Poorly tidy site!”
“Everybody got it right? So now it’s cleanup work. practice!”
“practice!”
It was the Corps of Engineers who had already thoroughly mastered Lloyd’s style.
They became the main axis and led the White Lancers and refugee workers.
tidied up the scene. tidied up trimmed
when the cleanup is done.
Finally, everyone felt the completion.
But even then, Lloyd did not cheer easily.
‘Not yet. Because only I have the final process left.’
A recently completed retaining wall.
A large-scale terraced farmland supported by the numerous retaining walls.
Seeing that, Lloyd’s eyes were both worthwhile and nervous at the same time.
and the next day.
Dark clouds hung over the Eastern Mountains.
Slowly, then finally shoot.
The strong rain soaked Yeongji and the eastern mountain range. Hit, poured.
It was the rainy season in spring, a guest who visits every year at this time.
At the same time, Lloyd’s eyes shone sharply.
‘Now, the verification begins.’
Retaining wall’s biggest homework.
Stability against water loss and subsidence.
The moment to verify its performance in practice is fast approaching.
