519 [Bonus chapter] A Pleasant Surprise
As for the food problem, I already thought of a solution a long time ago, since the early hours of the apocalypse.
But I had no chance before to execute this plan. Right now I was holding a lot of land, enough to be used as a base to plant crops.
“Show me,” as I finished after five hours, I reached the chariot and stood in front of the all silent Isac.
“I know about the privilege of getting loot from the dead, but I never saw someone taking things from the bodies of the dead before.”
She stood there watching me grabbing bones, and seemed to grow curious about this.
“Didn’t you notice before that you are seeing too much of my power?” I rolled my eyes before adding, “now let’s get straight to business. Show me what you did.”
“Follow me then,” she led the way down the stairs where we entered a room there. I left the door open so she wouldn’t get any funny thoughts.
At this moment, even if she removed her male mask off her face, I wouldn’t get to think about her at all.
It wasn’t Hilary who stood between me and other girls at the moment, but Karoline.
This girl… I thought I was able to uncover what happened to her during my time here. But she just left fast, leaving me behind burdened with guilt.
What just happened to this girl? Sigh! Since that bastard appeared, many mysteries began roaming around me.
“Here,” Isac took out many papers from her inventory. They were milky white semi-transparent looking papers that had a very smooth surface.
“These…” I looked at the small lines drawn over the bunch of papers, “can you explain them?”
“This is the layout of the capital…” she started flipping through the papers before grabbing two out.
Each sheet of paper was almost three metres in length and two in width. And they were filled with tiny little lines that gave me a headache to just check them.
“You have a magnifying skill, right?” she asked and I nodded, “use it. I drew these in such small and tiny drawings so it could fit the papers I had.”
“Hawk Eye,” I instantly used the skill without speaking about my doubts towards what she said. Yet when I checked the drawing with my skill, a new world opened in front of me.
She really drew these blueprints to be seen with a Hawk Eye skill. I looked at wide streets, drawings of big buildings, even decorations like fountains and defences like walls and towers.
Each building was demonstrated in layers, in such a magical way for me to see each layer if I focused on it.
Just seeing this drawing for almost an hour, I got a melancholic feeling of visiting the big bustling capital back in my days. It was a very big city, filled with such things like statues and fountains.
It also had an organised layout, not close to such a masterpiece here.
“You…” I closed my eyes and relieved myself, “you drew it yourself?” ρꪖꪕᦔꪖꪕꪫꪣꫀꪶ
“Who else did it then?” she rolled her eyes, “what do you think now? Will I be able to execute this task?”
“Sure… You are… Just perfect!”
“Hahaha! Admit it now! My lessons in designing clothes worked out best for you, hahaha!”
Just mentioning this ruined what I initially felt towards her. I gave her a long gaze before sighing. This girl… She was way beyond saving.
“What about the rest?” I pointed at other papers. After all, I only checked two papers, and there were around ten more.
“I took liberty in drawing other stuff,” she said in such a happy tone like a little kid proud of doing her homework, “see this?” she grabbed another paper and extended it over the bed, “this is the part outside the capital. You know the size of the capital isn’t bad as a city, but for a kingdom capital you need more space, right?”
“That’s correct.”
“That’s why I took advantage of the entire terrain around, used it to expand the capital. See, this is the part east of the capital, extending for ten miles around.”
I used my Hawk Eye skill again and examined the drawing. Like she said, she expanded the capital and linked the east part of it with this part.
I started to examine this, then compared it with the initial drawings of the capital. To be honest, she did a marvellous task here.
The streets were aligned together like there was no barrier. Her arrangement of the living blocks was great, forming five angled star shaped blocks at this part of the capital.
“These are also parts related to areas around us. As for the defences…” She started shuffling the papers like they were nothing important, “this one here is related to the defences of the capital.”
As I examined it, I saw a general view of the capital. “You arranged the entire capital in the form of a hexagonal star?” I raised my head and asked. And she nodded.
“Your kingdom is called the kingdom of heaven. I recall that you, humans, tend to refer to heavens as stars. Is it weird to use such a design for the capital?”
She… Even thought about this! Impressive… Truly impressive!
“That’s cool,” I returned to check the design. It showed what she stated before, the general places of defences starting from those triple giant walls around the capital.
It also included many towers, armour places, army camps, and even training grounds. “Tell me, what do your race see in heaven?” I asked while checking the details of her drawings.
“Our heaven is our shrines,” she said with such a logical answer, “we see heaven in the signs of the shrines scattered in the universe and belonging to our race.”
“Nice concept,” I said.
“The nicer one actually is the one belonging to the Toranks,” she sighed, “they see heaven in the form of the beautiful cosmos, constellations and star dust.”
“Toranks? Are they a strong race?”