Lazy day

Next day Apollo woke up early in the morning, but instead of getting off his bed and starting working, he stayed there to review his plans for the day.

"Haaa~~~ I feel like wasting a day..."

"Well, long story short, never put rangers in the front, their close combat skills are terrible! Hmm... if we think about basic roles in the medieval battlefield, we got the melee troops, the archers and lack only the cavalry. Despite this being an over simplification, I think this is a good starting point."

"Maybe I could use the boars as a cavalry. They are kind of too fat to ride, and would be like more like war elephants than horses but... Man, what kind of crazy image am I picturing now? hahahahaha... But there is no doubt they would be effective. Maybe I should give it a try with a few of them. Actually, they are also considered servants, so, can they gain professions like the girls?"

Apollo imagines a boar wearing soldier uniform, then engineer uniform, farmer clothes, a lab coat with glasses and finally a maid uniform.

"Hahahahahahahaha! I have to try this! Even if they gain nothing, just the image of a boar in maid uniform running through the field should have an incredible effect on the enemy's Master! I doubt he will be able to think straight as he won't be able to stop laughing by himself!"

Of course that was a joke on Apollo's part.... yeah, a joke... probably...

"I should start working, but I'm feeling too lazy to get up..."

Apollo lowered his eyes and saw the bracer on his arm.

(Why not? It's not like there is a Boss or Supervisor who will scold me now...)

Apollo lazily brought bracer near his mouth and started.

"Hey, Cindy. How is the search for the herbs necessary to build the medical center?"

"Master!? Oh! The new ranger girls are trying their best! They've already found 7 mandrakes so we can create more plant girls whenever you want, but as for the Moonlight Flower and Seven Colored Grass, there has been no luck yet."

"No problem! Do we have the resources to create a few boars?"

"The resources necessary for the boars are quite easy to find. We can make as many as you want, and later if we don't have enough, with the materials we get from killing a single boar, we get enough to make five of them, so all we need is to sacrifice one of our own boars or hunt a savage one."

If instead of boar, he had to sacrifice a girl, he would never accept this idea, but because the unlucky servant WAS a boar, an animal, not a humanoid, he found the idea quite welcome.

"That's a great idea. Instead of hunting savage boars and provoking the same catastrophe that happened to that bastard, we should breed our own and get infinite meat this way! But we can't have our Lab only making boars as we will need other servants, so I think we should build another Lab... Do we have the resources?"

"For a new Lab we are still needing glass, plastic and iron. If we scavenge the ruins of the other base, we should get more than enough!"

"Nice! Make a small team with three soldiers and three farmers and send them out there to collect the material. Don't forget to make a few carriages as they won't be able to carry it all on their hands!"

"As you wish!"

"Meanwhile have Hime construct 5 boars in the Lab. Even if we aren't going to use it for this all the time, it's no problem to use it right now as we have enough servants."

"Of course!'

Having more farmers working on the Farm facility helped raise the speed food grew, but because there was still so much food due to all the boars from the tutorial, even if all farmers stopped working, there was still enough food for them to last for a whole week or maybe two. That's why Apollo thought it was fine to take them out to help carrying loot.

"How is the mine? Was it built successfully?"

"The mining camp was built two hours ago near the Silver Cave."

"Silver Cave?"

"Yeah, the one where Daisy killed the first boar. It's the name was given by Leilani who thought those metals were silver."

"Are they silver?"

"No, they are some kind of unclassified metal."

"An unclassified metal? Does that even exist in this day and age!?"

"Maybe if Alyssa can decompose them, we will find out their composition, but for now all Alyssa attempts failed and not even the factory's system is able to identify them... They are as strong as strongest steel alloy and they can resist high temperature as well, Alyssa has no idea how the hell such thing was naturally formed, she said that even a Star core would have trouble melting that thing."

"Now that's surprising, but she is probably exaggerating. Can we use them for anything?"

"If we manually craft the items, yes."

"You mean the factory can't deal with it?"

"Yes, Master. At least for now, it's impossible for the factory to deal with them..."

"How are we going to manually mold them if they are as tough and heat resistant as Alyssa said?"

"Where there is a will, there is a way!"

"I'm not kidding!"

"But it's true that there are ways to do it, or at least that's what Leilani said. The only problem is that it takes time... a lot of time. She said it's possible to slowly wear out some parts of it with acids and use a special technique to mold them as you see fit, other more vulgar alternatives are also available like hitting it until it bend..."

"It sounds like a lot of work."

"Right?"

(Is there some blacksmithing SoW out there? Or should I build a chemical lab?? I wouldn't be surprised if I found Alchemy Lab SoW in the list, but this is not a priority now, so let's leave it for later.)

"I see. What about the upgrade center?"

"Leilani said it will take another 3 hours to complete the SoW. It's construction took 6 hours longer than the other SoWs"

"No problem. A few hours won't matter much, we are not really in urgent need for it... Actually, what is Alyssa doing?"

"She is completing the research to make servants be produced faster."

"That's good. Tell her to keep up the good work!"

"Will do so... Done! She said thank you."

(Is this what having a secretary feels like?)

"Anything to report?"

"Daisy asked permission to expand the patrol route."

"Hmm, isn't she right in the border of the HQ's contact range?"

"Yes."

"Then, deny her request for now."

"All right!"

"Anything else?"

"Alice is asking permission make chocolate."

Hearing this news, Apollo reactively jumped out of his bed.

"Chocolate!?"