Volume 16 Chapter 4, Isnani’s Recommendation

Increasing the number of dependants meant a lot of work for the Administrators.

The main problem was the food needed for survival.

In order to take care of the dependents, they needed to have food, and the only way to prepare that food was to use naturally spawned monsters or summoned monsters on the Floor.

The number of naturally spawned monsters was restrained by the size of the Floor, so of course only a certain number of dependents could be taken care of.

Using summoned monsters required Divine Power, but as long as the monsters summoned were intermediate level monsters or higher, the cost was not a concern.

Theoretically speaking, they could increase the number of dependents as much as they wanted and use summoned monsters to feed them.

However, this was not practical.

Because setting up summoning circles for summoned monsters was a manual task.

The reason why Kousuke stopped increasing the number of dependents in Amamiya Tower was because of this issue.

He had no time to spare at the moment, so even if he wanted to increase the number of dependents, he would be unable to do any other tasks apart from feeding them.

Since the ladies had started to manage other Towers, they could not leave it to others to set up the summoning circle as they did before.

In Kousuke’s case, there were Kouhi and Mitsuki, so it was easy to leave it to them, but that was not an efficient solution.

So that brought up the topic of what Kousuke and Wanri talked about the other day.

If they could set up the summoning circle and distribute food automatically, the problem would be solved in an instant.

The issue was how to automate it. It didn’t seem to be a straightforward task.

“Hmm… It’s not working as I expected it to, this thing.”

Kousuke muttered to himself in front of the control panel.

The first thing Kousuke thought of when aiming to automate the installation of the summoning circle was to create an automation tool.

Normally, the control panel was operated like a touch panel, but he wondered if it would be possible to operate it automatically inside it.

But unfortunately, the control panel was a complete black box and could not be opened.

Honestly speaking, he wouldn’t open it because he didn’t want to be in trouble if he lost control of it.

At that point, he searched for a management tool that would automatically install the system, but there was no such convenient tool.

“I guess that means it won’t be that easy.”

Isnani spoke to Kousuke, who was disappointed.

“How’s it going?”

“Well, I have no idea. I don’t even know how it works in the first place.”

“I see.”

Isnani nodded without any particular change in expression, as if she had expected it to some extent.

“So, I guess we’ll have to have an external input.”

“I guess so…”

Kousuke had hoped that it could be done internally if possible, but it was not that simple.

However, there was no point in dwelling on it forever, so he quickly switched his focus.

“So? How’s it going over there?”

“There are a few candidates. I’m thinking of either making a magic tool, making a Golem, or using slaves.”

Kousuke frowned at Isnani, who quickly mentioned using slaves.

This was not a discussion of whether slaves were ethical or not.

They already knew that Crown was utilizing a large number of slaves.

Without them, they would not even be able to maintain Crown.

Even though they were slaves, or rather, it was because they were slaves that they thought it was a waste to have them do menial tasks.

The slaves included humans and demi-humans in general.

He believed that it would be a waste to use them only for setting up the summoning circle.

“Slaves, huh… If I’m going to use them anyway, I’d rather use them for something else.”

“I see. If that’s the case, the two things we can start working on right now would be magic tools or golems, but I recommend golems.”

“Hmm? May I ask why?”

“Because a Golem is versatile, while a magic tool is limited.”

Depending on how they were made, if they were taught other tasks, they would be able to handle those tasks as well.

Of course, it takes a certain amount of materials and time to make such a versatile Golem.

“Golem…”

At the moment, Kousuke had very little knowledge about creating a Golem.

But it was certainly going to be useful in many ways if he could create one.

Kousuke didn’t know if he would be able to create something decent, but it was worth a shot.

“Huh? Speaking of which, can you create them, Isnani?”

“I have some knowledge, but it would be difficult right now.”

“I see. Well then, shall we both start studying now?”

“Yes!”

Isnani replied cheerfully, but Kouhi, who had been listening silently until then, joined in.

“Can I join in on this conversation?”

“What? But what’s the matter all of a sudden?”

Kousuke asked back, surprised by Kouhi’s unusual intervention.

“Well, actually. I was just wondering if I could make a golem that would act as a maid.”

“That’s a good idea. Can I join in?”

Mitsuki was also interested in the idea.

“What do you mean, ‘maid’?”

Kousuke’s image of a golem up to this point had been of the kind that often appeared in video games.

However, in this world, a Golem usually refers to a puppet.

Golems were designed to be able to perform certain tasks. Of course, there existed burly Golems as well.

What Kouhi and Mitsuki were interested in was to create a Golem that could manage the Administration Floor.

If they could do that, they would be able to stay with Kousuke more.

“I see… So it is a puppet type. Well, anyway, there’s no reason against it, so it’s fine.”

Kousuke was convinced and gave them permission to do so.

Thus began the creation of the golems by the four of them.

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The first thing that they had to do was to acquire the skills to build a Golem, which they got from instruction books that were available in the Administration Floor installations.

Of course, since there were four of them, there were more than one type of instruction book.

He didn’t know where the tower’s control panel got the materials, but he was grateful for what was available.

The first and foremost problem in creating a Golem was gathering materials.

Naturally, in order to make something of good quality, it would require a certain amount of materials.

But they were not worried about this.

This was because of the resources available in the Towers and Kouhi and Mitsuki’s ability to kill all the monsters inside it.

Of course, there would be some materials that they would not be able to obtain in the Towers, but for that, they would have to rely on Schmidt.

They have no idea what they would need at the moment, so they would have to think about it in the future.

Once the materials were available, all that was left was learning the techniques to create the Golem.

For this, they will have to start with the simplest ones and keep improving their skills.

Kousuke thought it would be no problem as long as he could create the desired object in the process.

At this point, Kousuke’s thoughts were deviating. It was leaning to something else but unfortunately, no one noticed.

Looking at the materials he had ordered, he thought he could make more Golems than just simple ones, which sparked Kousuke’s curiosity.

Eventually, the involvement of the four of them in the creation of Golems would lead to the further growth of the world’s stagnant technology.