Chapter 72 The Wall
After resolving the threat of the war lizards from the underground world, the Steel Leaf Tribe returned to its former tranquility. However, compared with the past, in the newly built martial arts training ground, the soldiers who returned from the underground world were practicing.
If it were the Steel Leaf Tribe in the past, the soldiers would not be concentrated for training, because in the past, the Steel Leaf Tribe did not need to dispatch the entire tribe's warriors. In most cases, they would just assemble a group of warriors when the patriarch needed them, and they would be disbanded after completing the mission.
However, what happened recently made Geralt realize that the original system of the Steel Leaf Tribe could not keep up with the times. If there was no permanent military force, the Steel Leaf Tribe would easily fall into a passive position when an accident occurred.
After consulting Abbot's opinions and suggestions, Geralt gathered the young soldiers who had fought against the Lizards in the Underworld as the standing military force of the Steel Leaf Tribe. Not only did they provide them with unified equipment, but they also concentrated on training, and had some prototypes of the army.
Although some people in the tribe objected to this, believing that young people should not do nothing, but just trained every day, and the tribe was in trouble, and it was really delayed by withdrawing so much labor at once, most people still understood this.
However, Geralt did not stay in the martial arts training ground to train the army, but instead led several soldiers with Abel to look down on a small hill near the tribe, where the entire Steel Leaf Tribe was located, discussing the repair of the wall.
"The original wall of the Steel Leaf Tribe just blocked the entrance to the valley. Although the wooden wall made of logs uses steel wood as material, its defense is really worrying." Abel used two mechanical arms to spread a drawing, pointed to the original wall of the Steel Leaf Tribe marked on the drawing, and told Geralt his opinion.
Abel was not wearing the magical mechanical armor like a metal scorpion today, but there were still four robotic arms hanging behind him. In addition to the two robotic arms used to spread the drawings, there was another robotic arm holding a telescope to facilitate Abel to observe the distance. As for the last robotic arm, it was wearing a large parasol.
Looking at Abel's shape, Geralt couldn't help but sigh at the convenience and enjoyment of the mage again. While feeling envious, he also responded to Abel's words: "When the Steel Leaf Tribe migrated to this valley, the valley itself had only the entrance of the valley entrance, and there was no trouble for wild beasts, so he only built a wall at the entrance of the valley to block wild beasts. But now it seems that there is indeed some defence."
"So, for the repair of the wall, my opinion is to simply take this opportunity to upgrade the wall. It is too simple to rely on a row of logs to penetrate into the ground as the wall. At least one stone wall should be built and the entire Steel Leaf Tribe is surrounded." Abel said this, while clicking on the drawing in front of him. The old wall of the Steel Leaf Tribe originally marked on the drawing suddenly changed, and it turned into a stone wall surrounding the valley that surrounded the entire Steel Leaf Tribe.
Looking at the tall and sturdy stone wall depicted on the drawings, Geralt also wanted to build such a wall in the Steel Leaf Tribe. However, considering the labor required to build such a wall, his face collapsed again: "With the strength of the Steel Leaf Tribe, such a wall cannot be repaired at all. First of all, there is no place to mine so much stone."
Speaking of this, Geralt had to shook his head regretfully: "This plan is too realistic. Although it is beautiful, the Steel Leaf Tribe cannot afford the need to build such a wall. If it was not the case before, it would take a few years to slowly repair it, and maybe it could be completed in ten or eight years. But in this situation, it is hard to say that there will be wild beasts or evil races that have come out of nowhere to attack the Steel Leaf Tribe. We really don't have that long time to repair a stone wall."
Abel laughed at Geralt's rebuttal, raised his hand and clicked the drawing twice, and then explained to Geralt: "I have considered the problem you mentioned. Stone and labor are indeed the same problem, so I don't plan to let you mine the quarry yourself and build a wall with stones."
"Don't let us mine quarries by ourselves? Mr. Abbot, are you planning to use your puppet to mine quarries? If that's the case, you can draw some people from the tribe to build the wall after the beginning of spring next year. If the stone is enough, you can build the wall before winter next year." Hearing Abbot's words, Geralt quickly estimated the length of the wall to be built and the speed of the Steel Leaf Tribe, and gave an unsatisfactory answer.
"If you want to drag it until winter next year, it will be too long. For such a long time, the Steel Leaf Tribe cannot be without protection." Abel shook his head, scratched the drawing a few times, and then turned the wall displayed on the drawing into a cross section before saying to Geralt: "And, you misunderstood what I mean, I mean you don't need to repair a stone wall."
"Don't repair the stone wall?" Geralt was completely confused. He didn't understand what Abel was going to say. He just looked at the changing drawings in his hand and seemed to understand, but he couldn't figure out what Abel was going to do.
"Before winter, let the soldiers who were training go to the forest to cut enough wood, and then use the processed wood to build a wooden wall along the entire steel leaf tribe, and a trench is dug. The soil dug from the digging of the trench is piled on the inside of the trench to strengthen the foundation of the trench." Aiber no longer kept it closed and displayed the cross-section of the fence shown on the drawings in front of Geralt.
To enlarge the cross-section of the wall, Eber pointed to the structure on the drawing and explained to Geralt: "After the wooden wall is repaired, the Steel Leaf Tribe will temporarily have a reliable protection in this winter. After the earth is thawed next spring, then use earth to ram a wall of the same height as the wooden wall on the inside of the wooden wall. Finally, I will use magic to convert the earth wall into stone, so that the Steel Leaf Tribe will have a stone wall. According to my plan, this stone wall will be repaired before next summer. Then, it will be modified and processed, and this wall will have the effect on my drawing."
Chapter completed!