Chapter 312: Rebuilding the ruins


    I made a mistake.


    I want to punch the me from a little while back.


    Here at the heart of the Sky Ind, the ruins of an ancient civilization were in a sorry state after having been subjected to the flow of time and the encroachment of the forest.


    「Transmute!」


    <em>Zugogogoooo!!</em>


    Buildings lining the damaged stone paved streets from ancient times were being restored.


    「These areparable to today’s residences.」


    The ancient era buildings seemed to have a prerequisite of using various magic devices within them.


    I, alone, silently used alchemy to restore the historic ruins.


    The only one close by was Sophia who was standing by as my guard. The Aligerous Tribe were out exterminating monsters and wild animals from the central area with Kaede and Maria backing them up, and Titan was cutting down the trees that have grown here.


    I just had to say I’d restore the ruins. Anyway, it was a pain.


    「You’re using your nerves.」


    「It can’t be helped. These old ruin stones are all weathered down, after all.」


    They were definitely weathering down. So much so that there were stones that seemed like they would crumble at a touch. I had to return these to the state they were in when they were constructed. I transmuted the soil and stone I had on hand for each brick that wascking on top of keeping the image of the structure being built.


    「This is really time-consuming.」


    「Indeed. You have had to surmise what each and every building was in that era, study it, and transmute it based on your imagination.」


    「Yeah, I feel like an archeologist.」


    It felt like excavating ruins. Moreover, this job wasn’t for making new buildings so it wasn’t something that an Earth Mage could simply assist with.


    「Since it’s like this, I’ll work quietly on the ruins.」


    「Please do your best.」


    The houses in the residential areas were just asrge as today’s house, many of their shapes were simple too, so each one didn’t take much time, but because it was an ancient city, it was painfully simple transmuting the remains of government office-like building, businesses, craftsmen’s workshops like an assembly line.


    「Each and every residence is quite big.」


    「Couldn’t it have been that the people who lived in the Sky Ind were chosen people in the ancient era?」


    The houses in the city ruins were big enough to be called buildings and mansions. As one would expect in a city built on limitednd, the structures and gardens were smaller inparison to those in the Royal Capital or Volton City, butpared to the Royal Capital’s slums and Volton’smonfolk’s houses, what I’m restoring could be called proper mansions.


    「Leaving the garden as a space with absolutely nothing is weird.」


    「Even alchemy can’t restore that, after all.」


    「I suppose it would be impossible to guess what nts and flowers were nted before the forest creeped in.」


    Moreover, we weren’t talking about 10-20 years ago. It’s a city from how many thousands of years ago that we’re reconstructing.


    I supplemented the missing parts from the ruins with the stones and wood taken from the Item Box as I transmuted it.


    When I activated alchemy with a clear image of theplete building in mind, a two-story structure made of stone and wood was erected.


    「Would you like to take a break?」


    「Ah, yeah, should we rest up?」


    Since my magic power was running low too, I took chairs and a table out from the Item Box and set them at the garden space of the reconstructed house, and we drank tea.


    「<em>Fuu</em>, a section is finallyplete.」


    「I had been thinking about this since a while ago, but this city didn’t have a castle or the residence of a a feudal lord.」


    「Yup, I briefly investigated it, but the remains of structures that stood out were only the government office and the pyramid which was the entrance to the dungeon. Maybe their form of government was different from the present.」


    「Form of government?」


    Sophia seemed to not understand my exnation intuitively. That was because until the present day, the form of government of countries in this world was a monarchical rule, with the sole exception of the the Divine Empire Sydnia. In any case, it was in the form of a monarchy. Could it be? The ancient country that made this Sky Ind might have been a republic country.


    「A government that does not have a sovereign? I don’t understand.」


    「Well, I suppose not. Ahh, right, the Sanctuary doesn’t have a ruler or nobility, right? Aren’t the leaders chosen from its residents managing the city?」


    「Eh? The Sanctuary’s ruler is Takumi-sama. The Sanctuary residents should all think so too.」


    「Eh!? I-is that so!?」


    I didn’t know. Who would have thought that would be the case……


    I thought it was unthinkable for a happily working ruler to be going all over the Demon Continent, Volton, Sanctuary, Sky Ind, and wherever.


    「You are the Spirit Tree’s Protector and the Sanctuary’s Keeper. Perhaps everyone, even the small children in the Sanctuary, would say that if asked.」


    「……how did this happen……」


    Was it because everyone recognizes me as such that I could develop whatever I liked in the Sanctuary?


    「……by any chance, even Margrave Volton and King Valkyra?」


    「Well, you have yet to dere the founding of a nation, so I believe they wouldn’t perceive it as a simr standing to that. Conversely, the six rulers of the Demon Continentpletely consider you as a king, Takumi-sama.」


    「Oof……what the heck.」


    Sophia smiled at me as my head hung low, dejected.


    「In the Elven country, you are revered as the apostle of God. You are the protector of the Spirit Tree, after all.」


    「…………shall we head back to work?」


    I heard all sorts of shocking facts, but I decided to escape realitypletely now.


    My lower middle ss self can’t handle it.


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