Isekai no Binbou Nouka ni Tensei Shita Node, Renga wo Tsukutte Shiro wo Tateru Koto ni Shimashita - Vol. 5 Ch. 18.2

[MangaDex]

 

[jvlg]

Finally, some machicolations.
At least that's what I hope they were trying to depict in pages 6-7, and not just some plain overhang that accomplishes little other than making that blindspot even worse.

 

[Nemo2342]

I'm sure building a huge fortified city won't frighten your neighbors at all.

 

[captain_crunch]

Is it me or does the scale of the houses vs the walls vs the moat seem to change throughout the chapter? Also, the image of the mc standing in the moat made me imagine mc is about 1m tall.

 

[feha]

"make lenses, except out of glass" "good idea!"

What other lenses exist in that world, for it to be a well-known concept already?

Overall, there are no downsides to a spell for making glass tbh. All that does is that you get a very standardized (and higher-quality) raw-material for the actual craftsmen to use, allowing them to operate under expectations of said materials. Will probably still exist some industry for creating glass to specific specifications (ie. glass made with different raw materials), but besides those all glassblowers will simply melt the glass made cheaply from a spell.

Will also remove any need to source the actual raw-materials for glass (since the creation-type spells seem to create materials from thing air/mana, instead of destabilizing the foundation stuff is built on by pulling them from there), making the industry - and usage - able to grow much larger than normal.

Is it me or does the scale of the houses vs the walls vs the moat seem to change throughout the chapter? Also, the image of the mc standing in the moat made me imagine mc is about 1m tall.

the image also made me realize that the moats have a huge blindspot any attackers can use once they are down inside it. Allowing them to safely tunnel past the walls.
Would need to either make the moat start much closer to the walls, have the moat be angled such that walls can see into it, or have towers on opposite side of moat (with sky-bridges that can be collapsed together with the tower if they are invaded. In a siege they will be useless and quickly abandoned and only be a liability. But when there's no siege they would allow guards to see if an infiltrator appears, or smuggling operations, or whatever).

 

[ThatNaiGuy]

Is it me or does the scale of the houses vs the walls vs the moat seem to change throughout the chapter? Also, the image of the mc standing in the moat made me imagine mc is about 1m tall.

I mean, isn't he still a preteen? He probably  is about that tall.

 

[not_yamato]

well, at least there's no Titans in this world.

 

[PrivatePublic]

For anyone else like me with trouble picturing size off of numbers alone, the castle town is a little under 5 times the size of New York Central Park or roughly 3 times the size of the Himeji Castle complex.

 

[EldritchNeko]

Will also remove any need to source the actual raw-materials for glass (since the creation-type spells seem to create materials from thing air/mana, instead of destabilizing the foundation stuff is built on by pulling them from there), making the industry - and usage - able to grow much larger than normal.

Ars' "creation spells" don't create something from nothing or "from mana or the air". The bricks are sourced from the earth, converted into their applicable form through whatever magical processes he used to make them. Remember back in the beginning, how he started out simply infusing the soil with his environmental-attuned mana, then just continued experimenting from there?
His spells became spells through repetition and mnemonic association (repeating the action and internally linking it with a phrase, conditioning himself so that he would reflexively cast the spell whenever he spoke the associated phrase), then speeding up the process with his memory boost magic. Originally his magic (not spells) was just how he was playing around/experimenting with how mana interacted with the ground and some plants.
Likewise his glass would be created by converting local dirt through magic (which is presumably a much more efficient conversion than the typical "expose the raw materials to extreme heat until they melt" method typically used today), just the same as how he creates bricks.

 

[feha]

Ars' "creation spells" don't create something from nothing or "from mana or the air". The bricks are sourced from the earth, converted into their applicable form through whatever magical processes he used to make them. Remember back in the beginning, how he started out simply infusing the soil with his environmental-attuned mana, then just continued experimenting from there?

But as you might remember, the houses and the walls and the towers are all massive structures that don't collapse the ground beneath them. So we know he is not actually using matter from the earth below them. Particularly the walls and towers and castles makes this abundantly clear.

His spells became spells through repetition and mnemonic association (repeating the action and internally linking it with a phrase, conditioning himself so that he would reflexively cast the spell whenever he spoke the associated phrase), then speeding up the process with his memory boost magic. Originally his magic (not spells) was just how he was playing around/experimenting with how mana interacted with the ground and some plants.
Likewise his glass would be created by converting local dirt through magic (which is presumably a much more efficient conversion than the typical "expose the raw materials to extreme heat until they melt" method typically used today), just the same as how he creates bricks.

Feels more likely that it would work the same way as the structures do, removing the need to import sand etc. to any location. This is also supported by the fact that his house spell makes glass windows.

 

[koga88]

This is great for the MC and his people, but won't this potentially cause the same issue that started the entire conflict from the beginning? He literally is making a castle town that is probably more defensible and likely larger than the capital city itself at this point and it is out in the boonies. Never mind the local tiny villages in neighboring territories, other nobility is likely going to freak out seeing the incredibly fortified position he created "just because".

 

[popinloopy]

Thank you for the translation!

 

[BoredTears]

Ars' "creation spells" don't create something from nothing or "from mana or the air". The bricks are sourced from the earth, converted into their applicable form through whatever magical processes he used to make them. Remember back in the beginning, how he started out simply infusing the soil with his environmental-attuned mana, then just continued experimenting from there?
His spells became spells through repetition and mnemonic association (repeating the action and internally linking it with a phrase, conditioning himself so that he would reflexively cast the spell whenever he spoke the associated phrase), then speeding up the process with his memory boost magic. Originally his magic (not spells) was just how he was playing around/experimenting with how mana interacted with the ground and some plants.
Likewise his glass would be created by converting local dirt through magic (which is presumably a much more efficient conversion than the typical "expose the raw materials to extreme heat until they melt" method typically used today), just the same as how he creates bricks.

He can do both, it goes over it in chapter two. His shotgun spell where he produces rocks and launches them at high speed creates them from mana, because it's supposed to be used quickly, but for most spells, and most of the time with general magic, he uses existing dirt to start with because it's vastly more efficient.

 

[Kaarme]

Dystopian copy-paste city. It would be terrifying to be actually living there. Back in those times merchants and many craftsmen regularly lived where they worked as well, so how do those clone buildings adapt to that? Does every servant, maid, and other folks making little money also need to live in a big house?

 

[Slingerman]

The technology level of this civilization seems to be equivalent to antiquity, what with the Romans producing glass 100AD.

 

[Salfaro]

What's the deal with them worrying that making glass into a spell would limit them? Was there some limitation at the start of the manga where if he made a spell out of something, he couldn't still do it manually? Seems strange that they talk about how they shouldn't make spells for glass, rather than just having Ars, for example, create a spell to mass-produce glass cups for everyday use, and spread that, while still using the previous manual method to create glass in other shapes (including fancier cups for fancier markets).

 

[seekermoc]

Why 200m tall towers? Even though they're constructed from magic, there's a lot of engineering needed to design something that will remain standing without constantly draining magic for maintenance.

Also, what's the point? You're certainly not hitting anything with a bow from that height, and with the castle surrounded by forest, you aren't seeing shit on the ground from that height either. And unless he makes magic elevators, imagine climbing all those stairs every day before you start your guard shift...

 

[lolglolblol]

Jesus...

the scale of this city is all over the place.

And those straight, wide roads may be easier to plan around, but they're also just a red carpet for any invading armies to get straight to the inner walls

 

[lowarctic]

just imagining the sewage problem he’ll have is giving me nausea

 

[IvanDFakkov]

A square 4 x 4 km with walls like that will make most medieval European cities look like a joke. This is something on the level of old Chang'an.