Now he had to do this task as well. At that moment, some raccoon workmen wearing helmets emerged from the crowd.
“Ark-nim, please give us some orders.”
“Damn, I don’t know!”
Ark snapped at the raccoons, causing them to flinch. They suddenly looked at Ark with worried eyes before starting to back away.
“Why all of a sudden?”
“I don’t know, but he doesn’t seem pleasant right now.”
“What do we do? The water is already drying up and we don’t know where to start working.”
“But we have to repair the damaged buildings as well.”
“We need instructions from Ark-nim to begin that work.”
“Yes, we’ll have to talk to him even if he looks unpleasant.”
The racoons finished a sneaky work meeting and approached.
“Ark-nim, do you want us to rebuild Lancel village the same way as it previously was?”
“I don’t care!”
Ark yelled and turned his body. He knew there was an audience. But despite it being a quest, wasn’t it too horrible? Telling a person expecting compensation to suddenly supervise the reconstruction? Although he could receive additional compensation depending on the percentage of compensation, Ark didn’t care about the reconstruction work. The raccoons were the ones clearing the debris of the collapsed building so what could Ark do?
‘Damn, that quest is just a waste of time!’
Ark complained and was returning to his store. Then there was an abrupt spark in his brain.
‘Wait? Reconstruction? Construction?’
Ark stopped walking and looked around with bemused eyes. The village entrance, plaza, shopping centre and residential street. Ark looked at the structure of the village before he had an idea.
‘Maybe…..this might be a chance…… No……it definitely is an opportunity!’
Ark reached that conclusion and immediately returned to the Town Hall. Then he interrupted the raccoons who were about to return to their workshop and laughed.
“I gratefully accept the positon as supervisor of the Lancel Reconstruction Project. Before starting work, please have a filling meal. You’ll need your strength for the work.”
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“Ark-nim, the wood has arrived!”
A group of raccoons arrived carrying a bunch of wood planks.
“Don’t disrupt the passage so set it down in that corner.”
“Ark-nim, the stone has arrived!”
“It’ll be used to repair the outer stone walls so please pile it up there.”
Ark flew around and issued orders. Once Ark accepted the supervisor role, the Lancel Reconstruction Project began in earnest.
Ddok ttak, ddok ttak, ssuk ssak, ssuk ssak!
Excited sounds rang out through the village.
The wreckage of the old buildings was cleared away and scaffolds for the new buildings were erected. The former thieves who had changed professions to workmen from the raccoons were hammering in nails at the scaffolds for the new buildings. The scene really looked like the construction of a new village. Once all the NPCs in Lancel were mobilized, the entrance already looked like the old one. However, Ark’s goal wasn’t to restore the ‘old look.’
‘Was I crazy? Did I really say there was no profit from this?’
Yes, previously Ark hadn’t cared about the reconstruction project. Therefore there was no need for him to help out or give individual orders.
‘Huhuhu, luckily I thought of an amazing idea!’
Ark smiled and praised himself.
“Ark-nim.”
One of the raccoons called out to him and approached.
“I’ve been looking at the blueprints distributed by Ark-nim. Those buildings over there are so damaged that we’ll have to destroy it while it is possible to restore that building. But there is a building that isn’t shown on the blueprint. Was there a mistake?”
The raccoon pointed to a building at the entrance of the village. In fact, most of the Lancel buildings damaged were in a similar style. There were several buildings which the suicide squad didn’t directly hit. Since the users stopped the suicide squad, most of the buildings had been indirectly damaged. The building the raccoon indicated had a perfect interior but several cracks on the outer walls. However, Ark shook his head.
“No, it’s not a mistake.”
“Huh? Then?”
“Destroy any buildings that aren’t listened on the blueprint.”
“Destroy? But the building can be repaired and used……”
The raccoon couldn’t understand Ark’s words.
“Can’t you understand by looking at the blueprint? The front of that building is blocking the entrance. It is the first thing that guests here will see. Of course it can be repaired but wouldn’t the marks from repairing it make it an unseemly sight? I don’t want that building to be the first image of our village. Would you want the village to be disagreeable to guests?”
“But it will look better if we repair it……”
“Are you the supervisor?”
Ark shot the raccoon an annoyed look. Then the raccoon hung his tail and hesitated.
“I have my own way of thinking. Stop chattering and just do it.”
“I understand.”
The raccoon nodded and turned around. Then Ark opened the blueprint and checked it again.
“Ah, and build a new road from the building and heading to this direction. The necessary materials for the road are prepared and flank the road on both sides with a flowerbed. The seedlings are already prepared by the Meow so you just have to put down the foundations.”
“A road?”
“Well, the village will grow in the future so we’ll have to do some readjustments to the village plan. We don’t want to be inferior to other villages.”
Ark laughed as he spoke.
‘Okay, it is gradually turning into the village I want.’
Ark looked proudly at the village that was slowly changing. Yes, the reason why Ark changed his mind about the reconstruction project was because he thought ‘this is the chance to make the village I want.’ In fact, Ark hadn’t really liked the previous structure of Lancel village. The original Lancel village was a small mountain village with 30 buildings. And it had been 1 year and 6 months. It had grown increasingly larger as more beasts and people resettled here. Therefore the 30 buildings kept on increasing as more residents moved here. Gradually stores popped up and the place where there were no buildings became the town square.
It was no different from a real growth process. Thus there were also issues that occurred in reality. Just like any old city, it wasn’t really balanced. From the beginning a large town hadn’t been planned so they just built buildings where necessary. Sometimes houses made of wood or stone were mixed indiscriminately, and sometimes lanes were blocked by a new building. It was so uncomfortable that sometimes the people living there would have to exit through their neighbour’s back door. Ark thought the reconstruction project was a good chance to fix the issue.
‘Fortunately Lancel village has abundant public funds.’
When he first thought up the plans, Ark had checked the amount of public funds available. If there wasn’t an abundant budget then it wasn’t possible to begin the construction. But the budget was really rich.
Lancel village was one co-produced and built by the ex-thieves, raccoons, Meow and the Wolrang. So the proceeds earned in the village went into the public funds. Thus the reconstruction business didn’t just involve the collapsed buildings. Anyway, thanks to that the public funds weren’t a problem. Ark also hadn’t used any of the public funds to hire users so he could invest that money back into the reconstruction projects. And the person in charge of the reconstruction was Ark! As the supervisor Ark visited the cartographer Hanson. Then he commissioned him to produce a perfect town blueprint.
“It is a good idea. The structure of the town has also been weighing on my mind. The village will have to do some maintenance if it wants to grow bigger in the future.”
Hanson strongly agreed with Ark’s idea and spent all night working on the blueprint. Then he handed the blueprint to the raccoons. However, Ark’s wicked scheme was hidden in the blueprint.
‘Huhuhu, if the village changes according to the plan……’
The appearance of Lancel village would certainly be cleaner than before. However, it was entirely for the sake of Lancel village. Once again, Lancel village was recovering from an attack by Jewel’s group. And Jewel’s main target was Ark’s store. Therefore the suicide squads had headed towards Ark’s store from the entrance. In other words, the buildings that received the most damage were between the village entrance and Ark’s store! Then couldn’t he use it as an excuse to remove all the buildings during the reconstruction project?
‘Then Ark’s store can be seen as seen as someone enters the village!’
Yes, this was the hidden motive behind Ark’s reconstruction projects. In fact, Ark had another reason not to like the structure of Lancel village. Thanks to Ark’s hard work, he had finally managed to receive a store building in the village. The building was located deep in the residential section of the village. Thus it was hard for users to find Ark’s store when they first entered the village. Even if they had visited beforehand and knew where the location was, they would have to travel through a complicated route from the shopping area to reach Ark’s store.
‘I can’t afford to have any customers stolen away by NPC stores. All the users who come to Lancel are my customers! I can’t miss even one customer.’
Therefore Ark removed all the buildings blocking his store and built a road to it.
‘Once entering the village, it will be visible within 3 minutes!’
This was Ark’s final goal with the reconstruction project. And the plan became obvious in a few days. After knocking down the buildings according to the blueprint, Ark’s shop could be seen from three village entrances.
However it wasn’t enough!
“Now lay out the road and create the flower bed!”
Ark started the 2nd stage after the building finished b