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Translator: Kazumi
Editor: Kabur & Silavin
While the North and South Towers were the Holy Beast Tower and Magical Beast Tower, the Northeast, Southeast, Northwest, and Southwest Towers were distinguished as the Four Attribute Towers.
Considering the size of the Towers, there were no members who objected to the distinction.
In addition, now that the first Golem had been created, they didn’t have to think about how long it would take to set up the summoning circle, so they were able to do even more things.
However, since they only had one golem currently, there was a fear that if they gave it too much work, it might not be able to handle it.
Since there was still time to spare, they decided to increase the number of dependents in the Four Attribute Towers.
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First, the Northwest Tower, which was untouched, started being managed by Haku.
As with the other three Towers of the Four, one of the Floors became a Mini-Dragon territory.
However, as with the other Towers, it was not possible to completely suppress the naturally spawning monsters.
The same was true for the other three Towers, which seemed to be unable to control them.
In the northeast, southeast, northwest, and southwest, the main dependents were spirit wraiths, slimes, Mini-Dragon, kobolds, and goblins.
They did the experiment with only one floor for Kousuke’s convenience, and the rest were left free for others to manage.
A little while ago, he received a report from Peach that the Tower in the northeast had reached Tower LV4.
Now that the Tower had reached LV4, it was possible to summon intermediate monsters in the summoning circle.
She said that if all the summoning circles were changed to intermediate, the current dependents might all get eliminated, so she was changing them little by little.
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“Kousuke-san, the Southeast Tower is now at LV4.”
“Whoa. Are you certain? And the intermediate monsters?”
“I’m able to summon them now. I’m going to replace them bit by bit, just like Peach.”
Since the entire Floor was set to slimes only, management took some time.
Just setting up a summoning circle for food was quite a task.
This was the golem’s purpose, but it still had difficulties in completing detailed tasks like replacing the summoning circle.
As a side note, Kouhi and Mitsuki were aiming to create a golem that could fulfill those requirements.
“I see. It’s going to be a lot of work, but if we can replace all the summoning circles, I think we’ll be able to make a good deal of profit.”
“I guess so.”
It was the same with Amamiya Tower. After they were able to install intermediate monster summoning circles, they were making a lot more profits.
But even without the circles, Amamiya Tower would still be in the black because of the World Tree and the Vermilinia Jewel.
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“Speaking of which, I was expecting to see Unique Items in Towers other than this one, but we haven’t found any, have we?”
“Unique Items?”
“Over here, it’s something like the World Tree and Vermilinia Jewel.”
Sylvia tilts her head a little and thinks.
“No, I suppose not. Speaking of those, they’re Unique Items?”
“Yes, they are. But I’m not certain how I managed to move the Floor with it. The generation of divine power is decent. It’s not like it stopped functioning like a divine stone or something, so it’s even more confusing.”
In the description of Amamiya Tower’s list of installations, the World Tree and Vermilion Castle were clearly marked as ‘exclusive to this tower’.
However, even after exchanging the Floor to the North and South Towers, they were still generating divine power and working just as they did when they were in Amamiya Tower.
“That’s certainly true.”
“Well, aside from Vermilion Castle, it’s hard to imagine that the World Tree would stop working.”
If the World Tree stopped functioning, it would mean the same thing as Esena not working.
Since Esena was still doing well after the Floor exchange, he judged that there was no problems.
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While he and Sylvia were talking, Floria joined them.
“Kousuke, the Southwest Tower is now LV4, you know?”
“… Did it catch up with the others?”
Floria’s report caused Sylvia to look slightly dejected.
The Southwest Tower was the last to be conquered, so management of it had been delayed.
Despite this, there was a difference in the ease with which dependents could be raised, which was why they were catching up on Tower levels.
Floria mainly summoned kobolds, goblins and the like in the Southwest Tower.
On the other hand, Sylvia summoned slimes, which were known to be the weakest monsters.
The ease of raising them was different.
“Don’t worry too much about it. Besides, it’s fun to watch slimes develop.”
Kousuke firmly followed up.
“The other Floor has summoned other dependents, hasn’t it? I don’t think we need to worry too much about that.”
As Floria said, the Tower in the southeast had summoned all the dependents except for the slimes to another floor.
However, as it was a ‘Water’ Tower, the aquatic monsters could not operate in areas without water, so they were unable to increase their numbers by much.
“I’m just guessing, but I think you’ll be able to use slime a lot more once you start defeating intermediate monsters and start evolving.”
This was just Kousuke’s hope.
The story of the weakest slime evolving into the strongest slime was one of Kousuke’s favorites.
However, Sylvia, who didn’t know of such a thing, had a bit of a suspicion in her expression.
“I’ll be happy if they grow up with all the hard work, right? Right?”
Kousuke, in a bit of a hurry, added a word that wasn’t really a follow-up.
Sylvia noticed and let out a sigh once.
“Well, fine. It certainly is easy for them to evolve, so… That’s why they’re so easy to defeat.”
Sylvia was right, the slime she was summoning in the Southeast Tower had already evolved into several variants.
However, even after they had evolved, they would still be defeated, which was typical of slimes.
Now that intermediate monsters could be summoned, she would like to see them evolve significantly, including their combat power.
“Yes, yes. So, what about the goblins?”
“I don’t see any evolution in globins, as expected. However, among the goblins, there are those who have started creating tools.”
“Eh…? Seriously?”
“Mm. Seriously. I mean, is it really that surprising? Ordinary goblins do that sort of thing, too, right?”
When Floria said that, Kousuke thought of Fantasy Staple’s goblin.
In that story, there were some dexterous goblins who made weapons and such. However, he didn’t think it would apply to summoned monsters as well.
“Creating tools, huh… Well, there are Ygrite people (Loli/Shota Race) in our house. Are there still dwarves?”
Kousuke confirmed something he hadn’t checked before.
It wasn’t that he had been avoiding them, but he didn’t need a particularly strong weapon, so he hadn’t bothered to ask.
Sylvia and Floria looked at each other.
Looking at them, Kousuke somehow got the idea.
“Could it be that there’s some kind of problem?”
“No… I mean, I don’t think the dwarves are going to come to the Tower.”
“Hmm? What do you mean?”
Prompted by Kousuke, Floria started to talk about the current situation of the Dwarves.
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The Dwarves that existed in this world precisely as what Kousuke had imagined them to.
Naturally, they were dexterous with their hands, especially when it came to making weapons and armor, and no one else excelled in the same way.
However, the dwarves had taken advantage of their characteristics and completely blended into human society, making them the second most populous race after humans.
They’d been able to segregate themselves so well over their long history that it was rare for them to migrate all the way to the Tower.
“I see. Well, it’s not like we need strong weapons, and if we wanted them, we could just buy them, so we don’t need them right now.”
Kousuke didn’t feel the necessity of inviting the Dwarves all the way to the Tower, since he had no reason to do so. He doubted that would change even if he wanted to start mass-producing weapons.
