Build a Human Empire by Creating Clans

The appearance of trying to sing a hymn while twisting the pronunciation that doesn’t work.

Seeing a smile brighter than usual, he shook his head.

‘Anyway, God won’t even be interested in us.’

After the chants, Maya was brought in, and Rachel followed.

“Your wife is much better.”

“Is that so?”

“yes.”

Rachel wiped Maya’s runny nose with her collar.

Izzy was still a child without the slightest hint of Izzy.

“Can Maya get better?”

“sure.”

Maya smiled and Rachel responded with a smile.

“Your wife didn’t hurt her head. That’s heartbreaking. What I’ve been through is so painful that I can’t stand it when I think about it. I went back to the innocent days when I didn’t think about anything, and I didn’t care about right or wrong.”

“How can I fix it?”

“You have to wait. Until time brings oblivion and forgets the pain.”

Rachel added to the disappointed Dylan.

“Or, just accept the reality that there is no need to be afraid anymore.”

Could that be possible?

Dylan swallowed the words caught under his uvula.

“My father said. Humans are not made to be defeated. Humans can be broken, but they are not defeated.”

Father must be the lord of Olymus.

Dylan thought about him and came up with a rumor.

– The vassal of the lord is not human.

Along with the rumor that the lord was the incarnation of a god, it was a rumor that the vassal was not a human but an apostle of God.

Coincidentally, when Rachel, who had no age difference in appearance, called the lord her father, she strangely remembered the rumor.

‘no way.’

“By the way, I think my father is coming today.”

the lord?

How do you know that?

Dylan tilted his head, but Rachel only grinned.

After Rachel left, Dylan hugged Maya.

Recently, she had gained a lot of weight and was regaining her former appearance.

The scars on her face remained the same, but her hair grew a bit.

My whining was reduced, and I didn’t stay up all night.

“Wow!”

‘Does time really solve the problem?’

However, there was no sign of Maya showing Izzy.

The nightmare fades from her mind and her wounds heal, but how much time will it take for her to stand up and regain her senses.

“Maya, are you sleeping?”

Seeing her silence, who would normally have grabbed his cheek and played with her, Dylan looked down to see if he was sleeping.

Maya wasn’t sleeping.

He was quietly looking into the distance.

Dylan stopped and followed where she looked.

“It’s sunset. Isn’t it beautiful?”

“huh.”

It was an exceptionally beautiful sunset.

The sun was setting on the ground and it was casting a black shadow.

The cloudless sky was dyed orange instead of the ground.

Looking at it, I unknowingly relieved my tension and sighed.

‘person?’

There was a person in the sunset.

A man riding a horse in the wilderness.

After that, the light caught the light and the front was shaded black.

– I think my father is coming today.

Dylan shuddered.

The sunset, the orange light that shimmered dimly like a dying light spread like wings in the darkened wilderness and then faded over the horizon.

“…!”

It was a phenomenon that I don’t know if it was a moment, and it was a real thing.

However, it left a huge mark on one side of his mind.

And it left no trace in his mind alone.

“Dylan.”

Dylan felt his breath stop.

I saw my wife who called her name clearly.

The madness on her face had subsided.

Izzy was returning where madness had left.

“The sun…”

it seems like the sun is rising

Dylan knew even when she was speechless.

Because he was watching too.

The sun was shining brightly in the evening after the sunset.

Even though I know that the sun is not an entity but an illusion created by the mind, his presence has become a light so that the night does not frighten me.

Dylan felt happy again.

raise the wall

‘His name was Dylan.’

I thought of a couple lounging in a field in Olymus.

The reason I recognized one of them, Dylan, was because he was one of the few sane people in Baguku’s garrison.

Since he was a craftsman, the treatment wouldn’t have been the worst, and his mind wouldn’t have collapsed because his life as a slave wasn’t long.

I remembered how he hugged his crazy wife and cried.

‘I’ve come to my senses.’

The madness disappeared from her eyes as she looked up at me.

Instead of madness, he gave me clear eyes that were familiar to me.

‘Have you awakened your faith?’

I knew that those eyes were faith.

She had faith in me, and that is what healed her.

Realizing the cruelty of reality, he awakened his hidden heart with faith.

In the belief that my presence would ward off her fears.

‘It’s too early.’

Being the object of my faith was something that was repeated every time.

Players are completely different from NPCs.

In the process of advancing to the ending, achievements are inevitably different.

But am I still just a lord of the Great Plains?

Compared to when he started receiving praise in the previous episode, he was ugly.

‘It’s probably not because of Rachel…’

I already knew she was using the warehouse as a chapel.

I knew that I would gather freed slaves in the chapel, take care of them, and do missionary work.

‘Faith is something you make yourself.’

However, to already see me as an object of faith,

‘Is it because of the tension?’

I thought there was a reason for the iron man’s characteristics.

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[iron man]

You became the weakest to achieve your last achievement.

Your great will outweighs anything on earth.

Your rank allows you to keep your composure no matter who your opponent is.

Immune to mental interference.

Level doesn’t go up.

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‘Iron man.’

When I first saw the iron man’s characteristics, I noticed that the level did not rise and that he was immune to mental attacks.

Then, in the representative system, I went through a situation where I accepted the pressure of the powerful rather than tickle it, paying attention to the effect of equanimity, and seeing Laeragon, Vlad, and Gotava fall for my bluff, I realized the true value of dignity.

Is the representative system a people who can easily play with my words? no.

That people like Kistler and Dylan had faith in me right away.

It was clearly due to the influence of the iron man trait that I couldn’t see.

And the impact I couldn’t see was…

‘The effect is greater than expected.’

It must be because only level 1 exerted an invisible influence, such as pressuring the absolute strong and influencing monks who believed in other gods to voluntarily convert them.

“Are you unwilling?”

Calliope, who was walking beside me, asked.

They read my thoughts about the packaging called Gyeok.

“well.”

I just compared price to packaging, but in other words, it’s bravado.

My essence is just a human being, but in front of others, I pretend to be a strong person or a god.

Not happy unless you’re a natural cheater.

‘It’s true that cheaters are.’

He recalled the bluff he committed during the representative ceremony and smiled lightly.

‘If you become a cheater anyway, I’ll be a great cheater. Even being a god. If faith in me makes a human being stronger, he can do anything.’

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Upon entering the Yeongju Hall, the vassals were waiting.

I sat down in a chair and let out a long breath of exhaustion.

Calliope put the honey tea in front of me and spoke with concern.

“Let’s get rid of fatigue first and then go to work.”

“done. If you have a job, you can rest, but it is not a rest.”

I took a sip of tea and watched the attendees.

Calliope, Griff, Kistler… In addition, technicians such as Tyler and those with special tasks such as Rachel.

Among them, he looked at Griff and nodded.

The size of Olymus has grown to a certain extent, and I have become in a situation where I cannot always be in Olymus, so I entrusted the business with Griff as my agent.

It must be some kind of butler.

‘I’m anxious because he’s a smart guy, but he’s a scholar, so I can’t do everything alone forever.’

I pressed my middle finger to my temple as I watched Griff stand up alone and smile at the other attendees.

The expression ‘see? First.’ As he boasted, a sigh came out of his mouth.

‘A grown-up guy…’

There was no such thing as unexpected.

“Have you had any problems while I was away?”

“If the master is not there, there will always be problems.”

Griff answered with a smirk, so I raised my hand to warn him.

“Edar.”

“Oh… Excuse me.”

If you look at the reaction, it’s not a mistake, it’s intentional.

I saw the only human being here, Kistler.

He remained calm throughout the conversation between Griff and me.

‘I think I guessed to some extent about the family.’

Like a monk, he is a smart nobleman.

I must have felt it while accompanying me there several times.

The fact that the family is not just a vassal, but a more special existence.

‘Well, if you see a human who works non-stop even at dawn, anyone would think that he doesn’t look like a human.’

I couldn’t help it because I didn’t have enough hands.

‘It’s fortunate that the Great Emperor doesn’t interact with humans.’

If mutual exchanges were active, it would have been considered strange to stay for a few days.

Of course, it won’t be easy for that to lead to the ability to create life called family, but there is a thing if.

If the representative system knew my ability, it would rush in without giving me even a moment’s time.

So if you can hide it, it’s right to hide it as much as possible.

“First, the population of Olymus grew to 1,025. In less than two months, the population has tripled. It is a phenomenal record.”

Griff clapped his hands exaggeratedly, and everyone except Calliope awkwardly followed suit.

On the day he took office, the population of Olymus was around 200, but immediately afterward, the number of immigrants and the freeing of slaves at Baguku’s garrison increased, which was not normally possible.

“Thanks to that, we had to build hundreds of huts. Well… that’s in the past.”

Griff grumbled like a joke, but I knew it wouldn’t have ended as a joke if it was a common manor.

‘Receiving migrants four times the existing population is tantamount to suicide.’

Without his family and Turan, all the migrants could not have settled in Olymus and would have had to be scattered in each village.

And even that wouldn’t be easy.

“What did I instruct before the pilgrimage to the territory?”

“You mean farm equipment?

“hmm.”

“The supply of farm equipment is going smoothly. The craftsmanship that was captured as a slave was good, so the production increased dramatically. We will reach our target within a few days.”

“Do you remember the quantity I assigned to each village?”

“sure.”

Griff pulled a piece of wood from his sleeve.

The quantity was written in charcoal on the piece.

I clicked my tongue when I saw it.

‘I need to make paper too.’

Wooden tablets were easy to make and cheap, but bulky.

If you transfer a book from your previous life to a wooden tablet, it would be one or two carts.

Although it was possible to carry a wooden tablet for small records, it was problematic to use it for administration of a large territory.

Using parchment, papyrus, or elves instead of wooden tablets has been mentioned before, but the production and cost are formidable.

In the end, paper was the only thing that covered the price and quantity.

‘I know roughly the production process, so I’ll make it after a few trials and errors.’

“First of all, send farming tools to the village in quantity.”

“I don’t have enough horses.”

“Isn’t there a guy I rode on? Write him as a pack horse. What about clearing?”

This time, all the slaves in Baguku’s garrison were settled in Olymus as free people, and the demand for farmland increased greatly.

Giving land itself is just a matter of drawing a line and saying ‘this is it’, but the vast majority of the land in the Great Plains was unexplored.

Most of the former slaves had a lot of mental problems, and they had to start sowing at the right time, so they couldn’t finish it with a farm tool.

‘If you do, you will die of starvation, let alone clearing the land.’

So, he mobilized most of his people and clung to the clearing.

“Likewise, it is smooth. The plow you designed is quite good. Because they don’t have to do repetitive work, their labor is reduced a lot, so farmers are eager to use it.”

I nodded.

“But, as I said before, the number of words is not enough. At least two horses must be attached to one plow, but in the current situation, there are less than 10 plows that can be pulled.”

“I guess so.”

The number of horses I own is at most 50.

The remnants of the pack horses from Sudret and the extortion from Earl Dorin.

Twenty of them pulled the carriages between Turan and Olymus, and I drove a few more on my pilgrimages to the domains.

In fact, it meant that less than half of the total was used for farming.

“We should expect Gerhard to send us many horses.”

As expected, I sent Gerhard the treasure of Baguku and instructed him to buy more agricultural horses for the next giveaway.

“What else is lacking? Were the rewards from Gehard sufficient?”

“ah. In addition to horses, I would like you to send more livestock.”

“Livestock?”

“yes.”

Griff scratched his head shyly.

“The number of beasts has decreased a lot. I guess we caught too many. Even if I went hunting, it wasn’t a day or two that I wasted a day or two.”

The reason for hunting wild beasts was not only to promote the safety of the residents, but also to secure food.

Because it is a territory with extremely poor pastoralism.

I tried to get meat by hunting.

“At the current rate, it seems that sooner or later the seed will dry up to the point where hunting around Olymus will be impossible.”

I groaned and rubbed my chin.

“Why is that? Any guesses?”

“It won’t be because I caught too many.”

How vast is the Great Plains and how long it has been neglected.

Will the seeds dry up after only a few months of hunting?

“What do you mean?”

“Looks like you moved.”

“A move?”

“It seems that the representative system intervened.”

I tore off a little corner of the papyrus.

Import more livestock, he wrote on a note and attached his signature.

Griff took the note, rolled it up, tied it to the kite’s foot, and sent it flying out the window.

The kite will head to Turan where Gerhard is.

Because he was a familiar of Grif, he could fly as far as his magic power could reach.

I occasionally sent instructions to Turan in this way.

“Hilde told me that the number of beasts has increased.”

Hilde is a member of her family who has a job as a wandering poet.

He was also one of the people I instructed to become a shepherd and roam around the territory to search for anomalies.

I met her while on tour and had a report on her progress.

Griff tilted his head.

“If there are fewer beasts here and more beasts there, aren’t they just running away to avoid hunting?”

“There are too many types of beasts to see that.”

The animals that inhabited Olymus were mainly wolves and bears.

On the other hand, the beasts that Hilde witnessed were of completely different habitats, such as lions, leopards, and hyenas, as well as many animals that were not related to hunting, such as vipers and venomous insects.

This was proof that the movement of the beast was not an escape from hunting.

“It’s a method used when bullying a race you don’t like.”

unleash the beast,

Planting plants that cause crop diseases,

contaminate the water,

By disguising all these actions as natural, not intentional.

“Oh, it seems that we are hated quite a bit too? Seeing you bullied like this.”

“You deserve to be hated.”

It’s like I lost my land to a tribe that I thought were monkeys.

“Even so, I am very afraid. I want to avoid an all-out war, and I want to eat taffy as taffy. You can clearly see what’s inside.”

I laughed lightly and stirred the teacup.

“Still, this is the level of looking at the liver.”

In other words, the sound of hiding and harassing oneself also means that they view me as a burdensome being to beat me openly.

“Then are you going to leave it as it is?”

“no. Gather some of you with good eyesight and send them to Hilde. Then you will figure it out.”

“I’ll send my friends who have been successful in hunting wild beasts.”

“Um, that’s fine too.”

Afterwards, I spoke after reviewing the minor reports, such as the planting of leguminous plants in the fallow fields, how some pigs had pups, and how artisans consulted for advice.

“Let’s build a wall too.”

“A castle wall?”

It was Griff alone who asked the question, but the reaction of Kistler and the rest of his family was no different.

“I don’t have any hands left…?”

Griff, who was always quick to reply, saying, “Let’s try it, no matter what we do,” was also troubled.

It is also true that the wall was a major project that required a lot of time, materials, and labor.

Farming, patrolling, transporting, etc. Even though the family members are mobilized day and night for all kinds of work, there is a shortage of workers now.

It’s a relief that I didn’t start cursing to say that I’m going to simultaneously carry out a new work comparable to all my current work put together.

“Did you forget the treasure that the orc hoarded?”