Chapter 359. Materials to prepare for the audience (1)
[A new tribute < Hell Optimized Talent > has been created.]
A message came to my mind as I was leaving the Kingdom of Veneto on the Yongyong.
Seeing this, Lloyd smiled heartily.
‘haha.’
As expected, it is this kind of timing that praise rises.
It was rare for a project to open just because it was finished.
It often became popular after it was confirmed how the result of the construction would be used socially.
It was just like that now.
‘If you think about the nature of civil engineering, it might be natural. It’s a field that pursues practicality. It’s not just about building something pretty and grand, it’s a field that values how the results of that construction are socially utilized.’
Just as the Suez-Panama Canal forever changed global logistics.
Just as it has had a profound effect on the international trade of mankind.
Wouldn’t the Pantara Mountains Railway he built this time be similar?
Lloyd thought so, carefully examining the contents of the praise that floated in front of his eyes.
[Hell Optimization Talent]
[Praise Grade: Great Electric]
Guys, today is the time to study railroads built in the past.
Please open page 359 of the history of modern civil engineering.
yes. It is the famous Pantara Mountains Railway that everyone is familiar with.
The student in the front row there?
Can you tell us the background of the construction of this railroad, briefly mentioned in the last class?
yes that’s great Exactly.
As the student said, the Pantara Mountains Railway is a masterpiece built by Lloyd Frontera, who was commissioned by the Magentano royal family.
ha ha ha. Are you all tired?
Another Lloyd Frontera is here.
Even if you look at this part, Lloyd Frontera.
Even if you move on to the next part, Lloyd Frontera will appear again.
Yes, in fact, I am very sick and tired of it.
If it wasn’t for that human being, the amount of study we would have to study while sweating like this in midsummer would have been cut in half.
But what should I do?
It’s the kind of man who laid the foundations of civil engineering for our empire.
So, would it be unfair if we were the only ones who suffered?
Let’s study study.
Let’s study harder and establish new theories to annoy younger students.
Umm, so the Pantara Mountains Railway actively introduced the world’s first switchback system….
[Praise Effect: You have accomplished the feat of completing the Pantara Mountains Railway by any means necessary. During this process, you did not hesitate to manipulate and fool many people, and those who fell victim to this cunning trick trembled, and the Satans of Hell who watched it couldn’t help but admire. Thanks to this, all the inhabitants of Hell and the undead will have greater respect and affection for you in the future.]
[Caution: In exchange for the great affection of the inhabitants of Hell, you may face the King of Hell’s excessive desire to recruit. .]
[Praise area: All areas of the human world and hell]
[Praise duration: 1200 years (human world) / 750,000 years (hell)]
[The effect of a tribute is applied 24 hours within the area and period of praise. In addition, depending on your actions in the future, the area and period of praise may be expanded, extended, reduced, or shortened.] [
CP provided by tribute every month: 8]
[Currently held CP: 1648]
“….”
After reading the praise, Lloyd’s eyebrows twitched.
Everything is fine.
grandiose and nice
‘Does this feel like a trap card is hiding?’
His eyes scanned the ‘Notes’ section.
‘Can you face the King of Hell’s desire to recruit him?’
I wonder if this side will give me a place in hell after I die.
Does that mean that in the afterlife, instead of resting, we have to hit and run?
As soon as I saw it, I was a little nervous.
‘I don’t like that.’
It wasn’t that I didn’t like it.
I absolutely wanted to deny it.
Even now, as I live, I roll hard every day.
I don’t enjoy life as much as the dead skin of an ant’s toe.
If he was destined to work even after death, he would absolutely refuse.
‘Tsk. I’ll have to look into this later.’
Could it be that for nothing? What if I let go of my hand?
I felt like I was about to get stabbed in the back.
But there was something else to be done right now.
‘For now, finish the railroad work here. Go back to the capital and get summer pupils. Solving winter heart side effects. After that, we have to solve the problem of restoring destiny.’
It felt like a lot of work was piled up.
But these were tasks that could not be postponed.
‘Tsk.’
Enjoying the surge of sadness once again.
Lloyd returned to the Pantara Mountains railroad site.
♣
The finishing work at the railroad site was carried out in a snap.
Railway operation system to be operated in the future.
and railway maintenance plans.
It was because I had all of these things in mind beforehand.
“It runs twice a day. Divided into morning and afternoon sessions. Up to 4 times a day when the transport volume is crowded and pushed. I think so.”
“Even though there are dozens of long trains, how can the transport volume be pushed back?”
“Oh, of course.”
Lloyd immediately answered Xaviel’s question.
“Probably, almost all areas in the southwest, including the Kingdom of Veneto and neighboring countries, will send logistics through this railroad. Conversely, logistics from Magentano to the southwest will also be crowded. Just not going around the mountains will save you months of transport time.”
In addition, the advantage of not having to take risks such as various monsters or bandits is given as a bonus.
“So even if there is a lot of transportation, everyone will use this place. Even if it takes about a month to receive a train service assignment due to the high volume of goods. It would be more economical to pay a little logistics fee to the warehouse here and wait for about a month than risking several months of detours around the mountains.”
Of course, so as not to push the stock as much as possible.
If necessary, up to 6 round trips per day are possible.
It was the bar that designed the railroad from the beginning.
“That’s it. The departure point of the train on this side and the arrival and return point of the kingdom of Veneto on the other side. Building large-scale warehouses on both sides is not just a crap thing.”
“You seem to have even had a plan to digest the quantity in mind.”
“uh. That’s why I made a simple station at the top of the canyon pass.”
Lloyd nodded.
It was true.
Was it after the first test run of the train going up?
He was the one who pushed ahead with the construction of the simple station at the top of the gorge at the same time as the construction of the outbound line.
“Because you never know when an unexpected situation might happen while driving a train. In addition, we need a facility where people who manage the railroad will reside.”
“I guess so.”
It is important to build railroads, but the management afterward was just as important.
With that fact in mind, Lloyd said.
“The resident staff is about 30 orc warriors and 10 elven archers? We will check the railroad condition regularly every day, and if necessary, we will make sure that repair work is possible immediately. The spirits will also join them.”
At the end of his words, Lloyd let out a chuckle.
spirits.
It was an unexpected reinforcement that I hadn’t thought of when I first planned it.
Thanks to this, it was possible to significantly reduce the number of personnel who would reside here and be in charge of railway maintenance.
Because they are spirits without bodies.
This was because they would be able to walk around the tracks every day without restrictions and check their condition.
“…Isn’t that labor exploitation?”
After hearing all of the plan, Xaviel asked back, feeling absurd.
Lloyd shrugged.
“What? Even so, there are a lot of low-level spirits.”
“There are many.”
“When I gathered the high-ranking spirits and asked them, they said the number of people was over 60,000. Thanks to that, they said that it wouldn’t be too much of a burden if they did a good job dividing the work time among themselves.”
“…You mean for free?”
“What is free?”
Lloyd smiled and replied.
“Why are you doing this when you clearly know my iron rule that nothing is free in the world? I don’t like it when I give it away for free, but I don’t much prefer to eat it for free either? This is all labor with a price.”
“What if it’s a price?”
“Except for the area where the railroad was built, the entire mountain range will not be visited by humans. It was also an area where few people went in and out anyway, so I’m going to make a direct request to His Highness there and set it up as a kingdom law.”
That was the condition presented when first gathering the higher-ranking spirits.
However, upon hearing the condition, Xaviel slightly furrowed his eyebrows.
“It seems that your negotiating skills are getting more vicious with each passing day.”
“Um why?”
“People’s footsteps weren’t originally in this mountain range, were they? However, when you see that the spirits have damaged a part of the daily life that they originally enjoyed, and then profess to protect it and offer it as a condition. Is this a shameless person or is it just plain mean?”
“I won’t deny anything. Let’s say both.”
“…If you can’t even talk, you won’t hate me.”
“I have to pay that much as karma, so what can I do?”
In the end, Lloyd also smiled bitterly.
In fact, becoming the Spirit King was unexpected.
However, he wanted to use the spirits as long as they had been.
At the same time, he thought that keeping his promise not to further damage nature was the maximum concession he could show to the spirits.
“Thanks to that, the spirits seem to be quite satisfied. I am also satisfied because I was able to reduce the number of resident management personnel. For once, we were satisfied with each other.”
I spent a few more days in the field like that.
The railway operation and management system was organized.
He also supervised the operation of four trains with 10 cars each.
Basic training for management personnel to be residing has also been completed.
“You all know, right? In a few days from now, the management staff sent by the Magentano royal family will be recruited, so please take good care of us in the meantime.”
“Leave it to me!”
“Please tell me to bring more meat instead.”
Orc warriors and elven archers left in the mountains responded with trustworthy smiles.
With their sending off, the evacuation of workers began.
in reverse order to when they came.
Dwarf Engineers, Territory Engineers, White Lancers, Elven Archers, 350 motorists, and the rest of the Orc Warriors except for the Sandman. Lastly, the Bone Troopers left the scene one by one riding dragons. I went back to the Prontera estate.
After successfully completing the withdrawal of the work group.
“Now, to His Highness the King!”
Lloyd turned Yongyong’s flight direction to the royal road Magenta.
As soon as we arrived at Magenta, we headed for the Royal Castle.
I put in a request for an audience with wild scab.
“I understand, Countess Prontera Youngsik. Then, I will submit a request to Her Highness, so please wait here for a while.”
I waited in the waiting room following the guidance of the chief chamberlain.
how long did you wait for that
The chamberlain finally returned.
“Fortunately, His Highness granted the audience request. Come on this way.”
I walked down the hallway following the chamberlain.
In the meantime, the overwhelming sense of reward bloomed in my heart.
‘Whoa. finally got here Now, only the finalization of the plan remains.’
Was it the first time he went up to heaven and had a discussion with the archangel?
From then on, the big picture I drew became a reality like this.
I was finally on the verge of getting the results I wanted.
I was proud again.
‘So now, as promised, we’re going to get summer’s eyes. So for now? He will never come to the royal capital. There’s no need to ask the king’s sister for anything. So let’s not come here from now on.’
I didn’t want to get too close to the king.
Of course, the king is taking advantage of this side.
Thanks to you, I am receiving a lot of support.
If you ask me if that would make me closer?
‘Absolutely never.’
It is a refusal.
It was almost like, ‘Since the boss pays well, would you like to move next door to the boss?’ It felt like a question called.
‘It’s good to have a good salary. But if you get your nose stuck there, the story will be different. It’s burdensome. why do i do that The jar of honey has already been filled to the brim, and all measures to maintain it have been prepared. Now I just need to stop the restoration of fate.’
So, what if you only get summer’s eyes?
For the time being, I’ll have to keep my distance from the king’s sister.
Lloyd made a promise to himself.
Then all of a sudden.
He realized that the direction the chief chamberlain was guiding him was strange.
‘What is it?’
Lloyd looked around.
It was on the way to pass the complicated passages and corridors and stairs unique to the royal castle.
However, I was used to that direction in a bad way.
‘This is the direction of the king’s sister’s dedicated training ground?’
It’s not the audience room or the office.
This is the way to the training ground prepared in the villa.
The moment he realized that, Lloyd felt a tingling sensation.
Unknowingly, I asked the chamberlain.
“Hey, Chief Chamberlain?”
“Yes, Count Youngsik of Prontera. Any questions?”
“yes. I wonder. Why are we going to His Majesty’s training ground?”
“ah. Even so, I was just about to tell Count Youngsik of Prontera. The preparations that His Highness the King specially asked Count Young-shik to prepare.”
“materials…What do you mean?”
Lloyd unconsciously swallowed dry saliva and asked again.
The chamberlain turned around and smiled meaningfully.
“He specifically told me to prepare a sturdy shovel, tough training clothes, and a firm resolve.”
“….”
yes?
wait a minute?
‘Is this sparring with the king’s sister? sparring? I just asked for an audience? Why? Why?’
So this is it.
‘Eat ramen while I’m here…No, do you want to do a punching bag cosplay? That’s what I mean.’
Realizing the situation, Lloyd went into the training ground, enjoying the resentment of being complicated to the root of his soul.
and there.
I made an unexpected discovery.
