The Beginning Of Village Building

“Now then, first, let’s try building about ten houses.”

I said that and was about to change jobs to Celestial Carpenter, but before that, I suddenly remembered yesterday’s level-up.

“Come to think of it, a new job was added…”

I activated the Dexterous Job Change skill from Jack-of-All-Trades.

I changed jobs to the new job.

Counterfeiter was a kind of production job, but what they made was not ordinary.

As the name suggested, it was a job that made counterfeits, in short, fakes.

There was no point making fakes of nameless things, so they made valuable things such as works of art and famous swords.

Some people honestly admitted they were fakes when buying and selling them, while others sold them by falsely claiming they were genuine.

Because of that, in society, they were treated as a necessary evil, close to thieves and bandits.

It was not good to deceive people and sell them fakes, but I did not think making fakes itself was bad.

My crafting also improved while I admired things made by my predecessors and imitated them.

And Mana Counterfeiter was a job that could be called the magic-user version of a Counterfeiter.

They did not make fakes with manual dexterity, but created fakes using magic power.

Since I was the kind of person who made things with dexterity, I was interested in making things with magic power.

“I wonder what would happen if I tried making a fake house.”

Out of curiosity, I immediately decided to try it.

“If I remember right, Mana Counterfeiter has Magic Power, Intelligence, and Education as important parameters.”

I activated the Dexterous Body skill from Jack-of-All-Trades.

“For now, having 1000 each should be enough. After that, like this…”

I held my hand toward a freshly felled Gisu log whose bark had not even been stripped yet.

Then I spun the phrase that came into my head straight from my mouth.

“My brain, become ash and emerge from my sleight of hand…! Become the shadow hidden in all creation and stand in for all things…!”

…Shooooooooooh…!

An aura like ashes appeared from my outstretched palm and scattered like powder snow blown by the wind.

At that moment, the secretary pair beside me was gazing at it in fascination, saying, “It’s beautiful…”

But the instant that ash clung to the Gisu log,

…Goooooooooooooh!!

The log flew into the air and spun with a roar.

Its bark was stripped and it was processed into square lumber at a speed as if the world had been fast-forwarded.

“What!?” Monaka and Kotone cried, their eyes wide.

It was an illusion of the century, one so shocking that even I, who had done it, was surprised.

The square lumber combined in midair and drew geometric patterns, then rapidly took shape in the air as if an invisible giant were doing the construction.

The foundation, walls, roof, then the door and windows, and even furniture such as beds and shelves were completed.

Before long, when something exactly like my house was finished,

…Ruuuuuuuuuuuuuuumble!

It landed on the ground as if deeply taking root.

“Amazing…! It didn’t even take thirty seconds, and one house is already done…!”

While holding the waists of Monaka and Kotone, who were frightened and clinging to me, I went inside the house.

The inside was so identical to my house that it seemed like a complete copy, and it was hard to even look for differences.

Even when I pushed hard against the walls or bounced on the floor, it did not make a single creak.

In terms of durability, it was at a level I could give my full approval to.

When I appraised it, it even had the same level as my house, which had served as the base.

“And on top of that, it can be made with just one Gisu log…!”

This was probably thanks to the passive skill Instant.

If that was the case, then the other passive skill, Proxy, also started to interest me.

“Could it be, maybe…”

I went outside the house and began working on the second house.

Just like before, I held my hand toward a Gisu log and chanted the duplication spell.

“If my house can be duplicated with this much accuracy, then this one surely can too…!”

Perhaps my prayerful feelings reached the heavens, because a fragrant house stood before our eyes.

“Wha… whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat!?!?”

At this, Monaka and Kotone also hugged me tightly while screaming.

“L-Leo-kun!? What did you just do!? This is a Kinohi house, isn’t it!?”

“I cannot believe Gisu wood became Kinohi!?”

The secretary pair was fearfully astonished like children seeing magic for the first time.

I also could not believe that Gisu wood had become Kinohi.

I investigated it using all five senses, but this house was exactly the same as the house I had once built using an abundance of high-end lumber.

“Could this actually be an outrageous job…!?”

It needed something to serve as the original for duplication, but with this job, the meaning of making things would almost disappear.

At the same time, however, I also thought this.

“There’s no job more convenient than this for village building! I can build high-end houses like crazy!”

I somehow became happy and cast the duplication spell repeatedly.

I built houses all over the newly made grounds, and in the blink of an eye, I had made about thirty houses.

Since I was already at it, I got carried away and even built a stable made with Kinohi near the ranch.