The Dwarves

Sambaku and Karludon, who had been at the castle, came to Sakura, and the population continued to grow.

Karludon taught me how to make a motor using a golem, which meant the lumber mill's giant circular saw could be used anywhere.

With a motor, there were all sorts of possible applications—cars, motorcycles, pumps—but the magic stones used as batteries were a problem.

Huge magic stones suitable for those purposes were hard to come by, and expensive.

The large magic stones I owned came from a lesser dragon, a wyvern, and the kraken.

I hadn't properly butchered it, but perhaps there was a magic stone inside the giant worm too.

Stonecutters had also come to Sakura, and they'd begun quarrying stone from the cliff.

There were all sorts of uses for it: house foundations, sinks, waterways, and so on.

I could buy cement from Shangri-La, but when it came to building the town, I was trying to use materials from this world as much as possible.

Otherwise, the economy wouldn't circulate. But for time-consuming things like transportation, I helped out to speed up development...