It’s an Academic Fact That Rankers Are Model Students – Chapter 83

Chapter 83: The Territory Is Developing (1)

A vast lake lay before the two.

Crescens lets out a deep sigh of admiration at the blue that’s like looking up at the sea.

“Why on earth did the Lord put such a huge lake in the territory?”

“That’s obvious.”

Fezun answered Crescens’s question in a slightly subsided voice and turned around.

Crescens asked, chasing after him with his massive body.

“Fezun. So you’re saying you know the Lord’s intentions?”

“Of course I do. Look at the location of the lake.”

“The location of the lake?”

The lake was located right next to the farmland.

But Crescens still tilted his head as if he didn’t know.

Fezun added a word with a sigh, saying there was nothing he could do.

“Look closely between the lake and the farmland.”

“Where…… By any chance, that?”

“Yeah.”

A giant plank of wood between the lake and the farmland.

There was a waterway on the left, but the right was different.

A path that was dug deep with nothing.

It led all the way to the farmland.

“This solves the problem even if there’s a drought. We can just draw water from there.”

“Come to think of it, I was a little worried about the drought because it hasn’t rained once since it rained last time…… Could it be that the Lord had this all in mind?”

“Yes. He probably had it all in mind before we even mentioned it. Isn’t he amazing?”

“Yeah, you’re right. He’s really big and beautiful. Like……. “

Crescens, who was about to say something more, stopped.

And he looked at Fezun next to him.

He’s looking at the young Lord in the distance with admiration and longing in his eyes.

Whenever he saw him like that, Crescens couldn’t help but let out a bitter laugh.

Whether Fezun knew it or not.

“Anyway.”

He kept his eyes fixed on Kyung-joon and asked Crescens next to him.

“At this point, can’t you roughly predict what Kyung-joon-nim will do next?”

“What? Why do you look so serious?”

“Remember the day we served the Lord slime cold soup?”

“Of course I do.”

“Then did the Lord ask us if we needed anything before?”

“Ah, there certainly was such a thing.”

Fezun nodded his head several times, saying, 『Then it’ll be easy』, and continued.

“At that time, I suggested to Kyung-joon-nim that he should build a waterway. I just thought we should dig a ditch to prepare for the flood. But the Lord went beyond the ditch and dug a river and a lake.”

The way Fezun originally thought was just to dig a ditch and drain the water out of the village.

He never thought of bringing the river itself.

“Huh? Wait, Fezun.”

Crescens noticed something strange.

“Wouldn’t it be worse if there’s a flood if you bring the river?”

“Of course, that’s usually the case. But the Lord wouldn’t have thought of intentionally submerging the territory in water.”

Fezun looked towards the river where Kyung-joon was in the distance.

Kyung-joon was still working.

It was always amazing to see him using spirits to adjust the ground as he pleased.

“I don’t know for sure, but…… The Lord must be thinking of controlling the water. Like you said before, Crescens, how to catch the stench of garbage with smelly pine trees, I think it’s something similar.”

“Stench with stench. Poison with poison. And you control water with water.”

“Yeah, that’s it.”

Fezun clenched his hands tightly in tension.

Kyung-joon, who looked ahead of what he had in mind and developed it several steps further.

He was very much looking forward to how the young Lord would control the water.

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[Territory Quest List (1/3)]

▶Strengthening Rivers and Lakes…… (Completable)

▶Constructing Water and Sewerage Systems…… (Not Started)

▶Constructing Wastewater Treatment Systems…… (Not Started)

Fezun’s guess was exactly right.

The reason Kyung-joon brought the river and lake into the territory was to prepare for both drought and flood.

Looking at the river and lake that Kyung-joon newly dug, the height from the surface of the water to the ground is quite high.

This is because the dug-out soil was piled up around the river and lake and reinforced with Mod’s ground reinforcement skill.

The height was calculated so that there would be no problem even if half of Korea’s average annual rainfall, 600mm, fell throughout the summer.

It’s not just that the walls were built high like a dam.

As you get farther away from the river and lake, the height gets lower and lower, making it look like a hill.

If you do this, no matter how hard it rains, there is no need to worry about it overflowing unless the ground breaks.

And it looks pretty as a bonus.

[Successfully completed the territory quest 『Building  Rivers and Lakes』.]

[You have acquired 1,000 Territory Points as a clear reward.]

But this is only half of what Kyung-joon had planned.

The real deal starts now.

[Proceeding with the territory quest 『Constructing Water and Sewerage Systems』.]

▶Constructing Water and Sewerage Systems…… (In Progress)

Kyung-joon was thinking of making an underground waterway that would spit water into the well-maintained lake and river.

“Teemo, convert the underground waterway blueprints into data that Mod can understand.”

<Conversing…….>

<Converting data 『Study Villa’s Underground Waterway Blueprints』 into mana.>

The blueprints for Study Villa’s underground waterway that Kyung-joon recently designed while studying Water and Sewage Engineering.

Wooong!

The mana containing the information was transmitted to Mod through Kyung-joon and Teemo.

━Huue!

[Mod says he knows how to dig everything.]

[Mod uses the Digging skill.]

[Mod uses the Ground Reinforcement skill.]

Gugugu!

The sound of Mod digging the underground waterway underground according to the blueprints!

Wowong!

At the same time, the sound of strengthening the dug hole with the Ground Reinforcement skill.

This is to prevent water from leaking or entering in reverse.

It’s like a perfect substitute for a pipe!

At the same time as the underground waterway work was in progress, this time, he asked the residents of the territory to do something else.

“Lord! We’ve finished building the buildings you asked for in every house!”

One building was added to every house in the village and throughout the territory.

Inside the building, there was always a 『white marble chair with a hole in the middle』.

The residents couldn’t figure out what this chair was for.

“Oh! This would be perfect for dipping slime in! But it’s a little big! That’s the flaw!”

“Is it okay to have a hole in the middle of the chair like this…… I’m worried that I’m always worried about this like this…….”

“Hmm…… I think I’ve seen a chair like this somewhere before, hmm.”

“Look around you~♪ It’s all chairs with holes in them~♪ We always listen! To the great Kyung-joon’s wonderful words! The world~ is a place where you have to study and live~♬”

“Huhu, you’ll find out soon.”

A little time passed.

Kyung-joon, who completed the artificial lake and river, and the underground waterway under the ground, gathered the residents in front of the lake.

To be precise, in front of the building built in front of the lake.

The building had two entrances.

One side had a blue man drawn on it, and the other side had a red woman in a skirt drawn on it.

“Now, everyone watch carefully.”

Kyung-joon pointed to the 『white marble chair with a hole in the middle』 placed in front of the building and said.

This was a symbol of this building and was made to demonstrate to the residents.

“Mod, please finish the work.”

━Huue……!

[Mod uses the Digging skill.]

[Mod uses the Ground Reinforcement skill.]

Mod connected the pipes to the chair.

Cool, cool, cool.

Then the chair began to fill with water.

It was the shape of a 『flush toilet』 that any player would recognize.

[Successfully completed the territory quest 『Constructing Water and Sewerage Systems』.]

[You have acquired 1,000 Territory Points as a clear reward.]

“Everyone. Mod just completed our territory’s toilet.”

At the word ‘toilet’, all the residents were greatly surprised.

“A toilet! But what’s a toilet?”

“I heard that toilets are only available in the mansions of nobles or the royal palace……”

“Come to think of it, I think I saw something similar to this when I was cleaning the former lord’s mansion. But it was a little more worn out than this…… This toilet is like looking at a work of art.”

“Ah…… So you don’t know. This is called a 『toilet』. I don’t know much about it either.”

In a world set in medieval times, toilets were a culture that only high-ranking nobles could enjoy.

Of course, even a nobleman’s toilet was far inferior to today’s flush toilets.

‘Of course, a toilet in medieval times was just a pipe connected to the outside of the building.’

Flush toilets began to be introduced in the late 19th century in England, the richest country at the time thanks to the Industrial Revolution.

It was a victory of civilization that could not even be dreamed of in a world of magic and fantasy and set in the Middle Ages before the Industrial Revolution.

Therefore, this was the moment when flush toilets were being introduced for the first time in the world.

“From now on, you don’t have to go to the bathroom or the river uncomfortably, you can just go to the bathroom installed in every house and throughout the territory.”

The residents’ reactions to Kyung-joon’s explanation were truly bizarre.

“Well, I’m sure it’ll work itself out! I’m going to go poop right now! I have to go!”

“Don’t be ridiculous…… You’re going to poop in front of everyone……?”

“In order for it to flow down properly, the buoyancy of the poop must be greater than 1. In my previous experience…… Hmm, I don’t know.”

“Here we are in the future~♪ Here we are in the future and it’s bright~♬”

Residents who didn’t know much about toilets but knew exactly about buoyancy.

Meanwhile, Kyung-joon’s science education created a strange picture.

“I’ll show you how to use it.”

Kyung-joon said so and sat on the toilet.

Of course, he didn’t take off his pants.

If he did, it would be censored.

“First, you sit like this and do your business.”

After Kyung-joon got up, he picked up the dirt from the floor and put it into the toilet.

Then, when he pulled the lever behind him.

Kwagwagwa!

Like a common flush toilet in reality, the water swirled down.

When Kyung-joon quietly stepped aside, the residents gathered around the toilet like cats that had discovered an interesting object.

“Aha! That’s how it works! When you pull the lever, the water in the water tank suddenly fills the toilet bowl, and the moment h2 becomes much larger than h1, the siphon principle is applied, where the net force momentarily acts toward the inside of the drain, and the water and contents are sucked in at once! “

“Honey, if you talk too much, the readers might get mad and cut you off…….”

“Back in the day, I used to poop in the grass and wipe myself with the grass next to me, and I had a lot of friends who died from getting poisoned by the grass…… I don’t have to worry about that anymore!”

“Look, everyone! We are not only residents of Kyung-joon-nim’s territory! Kyung-joon-nim is the true god of toilets! He is ruling the realm of excretion by taking off his pants and excreting!”

Residents who were brainwashed by Kyung-joon’s teaching of various sciences, including fluid mechanics!

It didn’t take long for them to figure out how flush toilets worked.

‘This solves the problem of foreign invasion, the problem of water supply in case of drought, the problem of waterways in case of flood, and the problem of toilets.’

Kyung-joon, who put in a lot of effort to improve the hygiene of the territory while carrying out the large-scale waterway construction this time.

Studying Water and Sewage Engineering has allowed him to prevent all the big problems that could arise in the territory.

But.

‘Just because the problems are solved doesn’t mean it’s all over. I can’t keep fixing what I’ve made.’

He needed someone to continuously manage and develop the water and sewerage system he had just built.

That way, Kyung-joon could focus on his studies without being tied to the development of the territory.

It was good for both Kyung-joon and the residents of the territory if Kyung-joon started the development of the territory, but the residents themselves continued it.

Of course, it was up to Kyung-joon to decide who to appoint as the manager.

“Fezun. Please come forward for a moment.”

“Y, Yes……? Me?”

“Yes.”

“Ah, I understand.”

Fezun wondered why Kyung-joon was calling him.

Could it be that his previous suggestion to build a waterway was too presumptuous?

Considering that the Lord had gone through all this trouble because of what he had said back then, it made sense.

Fezun stood before Kyung-joon with a face full of fear.

Kyung-joon handed something to Fezun.

“Here you go.”

“T, This is……?”

“Take it. And this too. And this. Oh, and this too.”

Fezun continued to receive things from Kyung-joon with a bewildered look on his face.

They were all thick books.

[Gave 『Principles of Agricultural Production Infrastructure Development』 to Fezun (NPC).]

[Gave 『Basic Design of Agricultural Civil Engineering』 to Fezun (NPC).]

[Gave 『Irrigation and Drainage Engineering and Design』 to Fezun (NPC).]

[Gave 『Reservoir Engineering and Design』 to Fezun (NPC)…….]

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All of them were textbooks related to agricultural civil engineering.

After handing him all the books he needed, Kyung-joon publicly declared in front of the residents.

“Fezun, I appoint you as the Minister of Agriculture and Forestry of our Study Villa.”

“E, Excuse me……?”

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Even Kyung-joon, the Infinite Knowledge Seeker, couldn’t study everything by himself.

When he was making the air conditioner, he received help from Ezeri, who had a good understanding of existing scroll magic.

In the case of JellyJelly JellyPen, he borrowed a lot of slime knowledge from Limurimu, a slime sorcerer.

Like this.

Kyung-joon realized early on that he couldn’t do everything in the world alone, including research.

The same would be true of running a territory.

So he appoints a ‘deputy’ to study and move on his behalf.

[Territory Shop]

▶Position Appointment Ticket (Rare): 500 points

▶Position Appointment Ticket (Unique): 5,000 points

“Found it.”

Kyung-joon stopped scrolling down and clicked on the item he wanted, the Position Appointment Ticket.

[Purchased 4 『Position Appointment Ticket (Rare)』 from the Territory Shop.]

▶Territory Points: 2,230→230 points

He had already announced what position he would give.

Kyung-joon immediately used the Position Appointment Ticket on Fezun.

[Appointing Fezun to the Rare position 『Minister of Agriculture and Forestry』.]

“W, What?!”

Booom!

The purple light, a symbol of Rare, swirled around Fezun.

[Fezun’s job has been changed from Common Job 『Farmer』 to Rare Job 『Minister of Agriculture and Forestry』.]

[Fezun’s overall stats have been adjusted to match his new rank.]

[New skills have been generated for Fezun to match his new rank.]

[Fezun has been given a new title.]

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