Pioneering the Apocalyptic World - Chapter 17
Chapter 11: The first village reform
The next morning, we decided to go to the village chief’s house.
Even though it’s the village chief house, it’s just a little bigger than the other houses and there is nothing fancy, It’s not as bad like the vacant house that I was rented, but it’s more or less the same wrec??an old place.
“Village chief-san, good morning.”
“Good morning, Rion-san. It seems that Uru-san has recovered as well.”
The village chief looks at Uru and smiles like a good old man. Yeah, this village seems to be fine.
After being attacked by a monster, there were quite a few residents who became hostile to the races close to them…
Now that I know that is safe, I’ll ask something that’s been bothering me since the other day.
“By the way, village chief-san, are you a priest?”
“Yeah… but now I’m just a priest in name…”
“Why?”
“About two years ago, the statue of the Creator God was destroyed by those shark-like monsters, and there was no one to fix it…”
Waa, I put my hand on my forehead.
The fact that there is no creator statue means that it is not possible to create sanctuary deployment items such as holy water. Now i can understand why this village looks a little ragged.
Even if it looks peaceful, it’s being eroded little by little. Going too fast will only make you fail, but you can’t go too slow either.
“Can you guide me to the altar?”
“Okay. If you ladies pray too, the Creator God will certainly be pleased.”
I walk beside the village chief who is leading the way to the altar.
On the way, I was waved by the children that passed across the path and as I turned around to wave back, I suddenly remembered that there was something I wanted to ask Uru.
“Come to think of it, I missed hearing about it yesterday… how did you know that shark was ‘unmistakably a monster’?”
“Hm? umu…”
For some reason, Uru was a little nervous about the children. It was the same at last night’s banquet, but maybe she’s is not good with small children?
“It’s a feeling that’s hard to put into words, but the closest thing would be to say ‘they are different from us’ feeling.”
“I see?”
They are different from the race that is treated as a monster. So it’s a monster. I wonder if that’s what it means.
I’m a so-called human(Hyuman), so I don’t really understand that kind of feeling.
… Huh? I’m a hyuman, right?
“We arrived.”
It seems that we arrived while I was somewhat worried about myself.
When I looked up, the statue of the creator god was indeed destroyed. All that was left was the feet and both large and small pieces of stones scattered here and there. Whether it was taken away or swept out to sea, considering the size of feet, the pieces were clearly lacking in volume compared to the estimated total size of the statue.
The material is…marble, I guess.
“Hmm, I can’t repair it right now because I don’t have the materials. The grade will drop a little, but please bear with it as a simple stone for a while. I’ll upgrade it later when I get the materials.”
“……Yes?”
Without noticing the dumbfounded village headman, we start working.
“Uru, can you clear the feet for a second?”
“Umu, leave it to me.”
Rather than storing the broken marble statue as it is, returning it to a marble block is more profitable as it can be used elsewhere.
I can do it with my own pickaxe, but it’s quicker to have Uru do it, and she seems happy to be relied on on a regular basis, so I’ve decided to leave this work to her.
“Hey”
Gagon!
Even though it doesn’t look like she is putting much effort into it, but by Uru’s fist, the statue was teared apart in no time.
“Wha?…What the hell are you doing…!?”
“Ah, I’m sorry. I’ll do it quickly.”
I lightly soothe the village head whose face turned pale and use the marble shards to make blocks and throw them into the item box. Embezzlement? This is called cleaning. Hahaha.
Instead, I took out 3 stone blocks.
“!?”
“Creation (Making) [Stone Statue of the Creator God]”
I hold my hand over a stone block and activate the skill. I’m starting to get used to the sight of the rocks shining, twisting and taking up a shape.
This time too, the creation was completed in about 10 seconds, an about 120 cm??Oh, did the skill level rise??A slightly larger than the previous statue of the creator god was completed.
The village chief, who was watching my creation scene, had both eyes and mouth bulged open in surprise.
“Phew. If you pray to the statue like this, you can create holy water??”
“No way… the miko of the creator god…!?”
Ah, this pattern, did I forgot to mention it…I’m sorry~.
Basically, all the residents believe in the Creator God. Depending on the region, for example, in the vicinity of the volcano, the belief in the fire god may be stronger.
And speaking of the miko of the creator god, it means a person who was directly chosen by the creator god, sent as a emissary from heaven to the earth and is said to be the most important being after the gods.
So, well… I had to do something to calm down the village chief, who was constantly being apologetic and apologized so many times for being easy-going.
……By the way, does others mikos than me exist?
It seems that I’m the only one who made the item that the creator god wanted, so assuming there aren’t any other teleportation from another world type (perhaps there is a possibility that there will be more in the future?), is there a local miko or something like that?
In any case, I decided to reform this village over several days.
Residents can’t make everything with skills like a miko, so they all have to be done by hand and they don’t have how to teach me in detail (sorry for relying too much on skills!), It will be just a first-aid of creating and repairing tools and the village will going to grow gradually from now on.
In the village development system of the game era, the number of people increases by providing housing and food, by installing various tools the residents will gradually acquire skills on their own, and over time they can even trade items… It was like that.
By the way, since there was no currency, bartering is the basic method of trading. By handing out specific items, they gave me rare items, event key items, and so on.
The first is the automatic holy water spraying system. Fortunately, there seems to be a surplus of magic stones… or rather, there was no one who could handle them. So I’ll create it for the time being, but I’ll have to train the residents on how to use magic stones in a super express way and have them do their best in the future. It will be convenient to the everyday life if they apply them in various ways!
The damaged protective fence is also important, but it seems that the damage was caused by the frequent monster attacks from the land, so if holy water can be sprinkled, repairs could be done in time.
Unlike my base, the sea is also a problem, so we will use buoys to spread holy water on it. It seems that they are out fishing except when it is a stormy day, so I will ask them to replenish it frequently.
And the houses…… That is a delicate place to put my hands. After all ‘blocks that stick together on their own’ is a skill only for Miko. The residents must build a proper foundation and erect pillars… and so on. Again, I can’t teach the technology. Since it would be a problem if the villagers skill inheritance was neglected due my interference, so I decided to stop at providing stone and lumber.
In addition, I was told that I could use the vacant house that I rented at the beginning as i liked, so I remodeled it with my skills… or rather, it was at the level of rebuilding. It’s not so much as a the base, but when I come to see how this village is going grow in the future, I’ll be staying here.
I proceeded smoothly where technology was not so relevant. Farmland, wells and ground leveling.
Oh, I also fixed the pier that Uru destroyed.
As for the boats… unfortunately, my skill level is still a bit lacking. Gununu.
“Come to think of it, is there a ship that crosses somewhere from here? Like another continent or something.”
While fixing the fishing rod, I asked the fisherman who was by my side (the first person I talked to when I came to this village).
“Oh? Young?…Miko-sama, doesn’t know?…don’t you know?”
“Ahaha… you don’t have to change your tone.”
“Is that so?”
Once it became known that I was a miko, everyone I met was frightened and became awkward to do anything about it.
I came here??Of course, I didn’t say from another world. I got the feeling that instead of dismissing it as a hoax, people will just misunderstand it and say, “You came from the world of gods!”?recently and by using vague words evade the topic… No, it’s true that i came here recently, but I listen honestly to see if there’s anything important.
“Can’t you see something over there?”
“Hmm… That’s a…Blackish…fog?”
When the fisherman turned his gaze to the far offshore of the sea, so when i looked at that direction, I saw something like a black mist hanging over the sea. It is quite wide ranging, from a end to the other end of my visible range.
Is it fog? or is a rough weather? That’s what I thought, but I got an answer that left me speechless.
“No, it’s not. That is all miasma.”
“……yes?”