Someday Will I Be The Greatest Alchemist?

Chapter 299: Let’s improve their living conditions

The three of usー Laeva, Kaede[1], and I would make Valzak-san and the Sky Islanders’ equipment. It was the same with Valkan-san and the Solitary Islanders, though their equipment were not at all excellent by any standards. Because they had likely been living quietly in their islands, it was dangerous to even bring them as they are for power leveling.

I asked Sophia and the girls to not let Valzak-san and the Sky Islanders fight and simply let them finish off dying monsters to level them up even just a little bit.

During that time, Laeva and I would finish their weapons and armor.

Leather would probably be enough for their armor. It would be unreasonable to wear heavy metal armor when they fly in the sky, after all.

We’re making the same number of weapons like bows and spears that we gave to Valkan-san and others.

I asked Kaede to make the underarmor like always. The underarmor made by Kaede has far higher defense than bad armor, so it would be fine against some attacks.

Once we complete the equipment for the Aligerous Tribe from the Sky Island, Laeva and Kaede will join everyone else at power leveling. During that time, I will plan out improvements on their dwellings.

「Hey hey, Oniichan, wha’cha doin’?」

「Umm, a magic device where water comes out and a toilet.」

Children from the tribe talked to me out of interest while I was working inside the caverns of the Sky Island.

Just like with Valkan-san’s community, the number of children in this community were not that many. If these two communities merge, I think things would get a bit better.

I was doing things separately from our group today. I had already established a gate and added new caverns, but frankly, this settlement had no toilets. They also only store potable water in large earthenware pots. I was providing a magic device to improve on those.

Until now, water was gathered by the people with aptitude for the Water attribute taking turns casting it into the pots. Then why not just migrate closer to a lake or river after the monsters are exterminated to a degree, instead of staying in the caverns? was what I asked Valzak-san, but he said that it was the Aligerous Tribe’s nature to live in high places. For example, even if they knew that they were safe being surrounded by walls, their anxiety wouldn’t disappear. Meanwhile, a high place calms them even if it was confined. Now that I think about it, the Aligerous Tribe used the rooms in higher floors even in the Demon Continent.

So, here I am, working to improve the parts of the building where water would circulate so they can have a comfortable time even inside the caverns, and so they wouldn’t have to go outside to simply do their business.

「Alrighty, the water issue should be fine with this.」

「Water will come out from here?」

「That’s right. Over here, try to hold onto this with your hand then push it.」

I guided the child’s hand, and we hit the Water magic device.

「Waa! Water came out!」

「Hey hey! I’ll do it too!」

「Let me do it tooooo!」

「Okay okay, let’s take turns.」

Seeing that the children were gathering around the Fountain MD and playing with spurts of water, I could tell that this place had very few forms of entertainment. I suppose magic devices were curious things.

Since it’s a magic device, they can replenish the magic power of the magic crystal even without the Water attribute. Normally, this type of magic device would use a magic stone as fuel, but that type of magic device requires a replacement magic stone when it runs out of juice. For the time being, the Gate would connect to our base in the Demon Continent, and the people of the Aligerous Tribe would take turns to live in and manage the base, but it would be a lot of trouble and danger for the tribe to go out of their way to go to the Demon Continent to secure magic stones. That’s why I used a magic crystal that could be replenished by magic power. The magic crystal was my creation anyway, so it doesn’t take me that much time to make them anymore.

I went to all the caverns and installed Fountain MDs and toilets. I made an underground waterway to evacuate the water that came out of the Fountain MD and had also been affixed with a Purifier MD, so together with the Toilet MD, it would very likely improve sanitation by a lot.

「Okay, I have to make that next.」

I started building a large cavern just below the residences of the cavern.

I thoroughly hardened the interior so it wouldn’t cave-in, then applied the diatomite prepared in advance onto the surfaces through transmutation, completing it.

「It’s important to have a countermeasure for humidity, after all.」

I transmuted a coating of diatomite from the entrance all the way to the interior.

I built four large rooms inside, and I used diatomite on the walls and floor of the forefront rooms. Then the walls and floor of the two rooms in the farther back were processed into a water-repelling stone.

「Something like this, I guess?」

What I purposely took a whole day to make was the public bathhouse.

I created segregated changing rooms for men and women, and installed a large bathtub in each.

The Aligerous Tribe, both the Sky Islanders and Solitary Islanders, basically didn’t have a custom of bathing. It only amounted to wiping their body with a wet cloth and washing themselves at a river.

「Still, they don’t hate it.」

Valkan-san and the others were crazy for the large bath built in the base in the Demon Continent. Both the men and the women were pleased by the gloss on their wings.

Keeping one’s body clean is important for leading a healthy life, after all.

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Footnotes:

1. Again, changing to Kaede from Akane. 

TL Notes:This will be my last update for 2021. Thank you everyone for the time you’ve tagged along with this novel and me this year. I hope to be able to continue this until the end, so I’d be glad if you continue riding along. I wish you all a prosperous new year! See you all in 2022!