This is the first half explanation.
Floria, upon seeing the new building, seemed unable to recover for a while, much like Kousuke.
In contrast, Silvia became surprisingly lively, taking in the surroundings of the building.
Later, when Kousuke asked her the reason, it turned out that investigating divine power related items was one of the important tasks for clergy.
Moreover, buildings that were known to have been prepared by the gods themselves were not something one encountered often.
Regarding the current building, its origin was clear and beyond doubt, making it more than sufficiently valuable as a research subject.
Hearing such things, and seeing Silvia bustling around the exterior and interior of the building, Kousuke was also seized by the desire to research it.
After all, it was a building prepared by Asura.
Including the barrier covering the surroundings of the building, there were many things Kousuke needed to examine.
As Kousuke and Silvia began their research on the building, for some reason, Floria also got involved.
Floria stated, “I felt it was foolish to worry alone, so I’ll research the decorations.”
For Floria, a former queen with a discerning eye, it was a perfect subject.
Although it felt like they had somewhat forcibly found a research theme, spurred on by Kousuke, Kousuke found her surprisingly happy.
Kousuke and the others dedicated themselves to researching the building for about a week, but that wasn’t all they did.
In parallel, they also carried out the moving process to establish their new base, which did not take much time.
Even though it was a new base, they were not completely moving their living space, so there weren’t many items that the management layer urgently needed to transfer.
Initially, Kousuke had intended to move the laboratory as well, but upon seeing the scattered items piled up in the management layer’s laboratory, he immediately gave up.
He intended to build a laboratory at the new base as well, so he decided to move things little by little, aiming to be able to conduct research solely at the new base in the end.
Silvia and Floria seemed to have thought along similar lines, as they minimized the transfer of items to the new base.
Since necessities for life could always be brought back from the management layer using the teleport array, there was no problem with that.
Instead, Kouhi and Mitsuki alternated guarding the engrossed Kousuke during his building research, and frequently transported foodstuffs and Maid Golems needed to manage the building.
Especially for the Maid Golems, as they would be managing a new location, several parts needed to be re-created.
However, making golems had become a part of their hobby for the two, so they seemed to be enjoying it.
Seeing this, Floria muttered about similar master-servant relationships, but it’s a secret that Kousuke was thinking she herself was no different.
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About half a month after the new base was established, Kousuke and the others’ research enthusiasm began to settle down somewhat.
By then, Kouhi and Mitsuki’s work was also completely finished, so Kousuke decided to bring the familiars as he had originally planned.
After all, even if gods were patient, making them wait for over a month was unbearable.
“So, have you decided which familiars to bring?”
Floria asked Kousuke, who had announced his intention to bring familiars.
“Yeah. Or rather, I didn’t need to think too hard about it.”
“Oh?”
As Floria raised an eyebrow slightly, Kousuke shrugged and looked at Silvia.
“Silvia, you probably have an idea, don’t you?”
“Yes. …Rather, I understood from the way you just asked.”
Silvia replied, nodding, in response to Kousuke deliberately looking at her at that moment.
Floria, who still didn’t understand after hearing Silvia’s words, looked at Silvia with a perplexed expression.
Receiving her gaze, Silvia explained to Floria.
“You don’t need to think too hard. You’re probably bringing the three types of divine beasts, right?”
“That’s right. While the slime is one thing, wolf and fox are, after all, fundamental to me.”
Kousuke nodded affirmatively at Silvia’s phrasing, which contained a hint of certainty despite the disclaimer.
After conquering the tower, the first familiars Kousuke began to raise (?) were wolves and foxes.
In any case, for Kousuke, those two species were familiars with excellent compatibility.
As for slimes, as long as external enemies were not a concern, they were a species that could survive in any environment.
He believed that by placing wolves and foxes as guards, they would reproduce on their own.
The problem was the food for the wolves and foxes. Unlike the tower, they couldn’t prepare magic circles as substitutes for food, so they would have to hunt for it.
They would have to figure out through trial and error how much space was needed to raise familiars.
For this reason, Nana and Wanri, with whom communication was relatively easy, were indispensable.
From these aspects as well, wolves and foxes were considered the optimal familiars to bring first.
Floria nodded with a look of understanding at Kousuke’s explanation.
“Certainly, now that you mention it, it makes sense.”
“I could have done something unexpected. Well, for the time being, I plan to go with the safe option.”
While such aspects could lead to stagnation and hinder new ideas, Kousuke chose what was stable.
Furthermore, even if he brought new familiars and raised them, it would take time to distinguish whether the issues that arose were due to the environment or would occur in the tower as well.
Therefore, it was better to verify with wolves and foxes, about whom they already knew various things from the start.
Silvia added further to Kousuke’s explanation.
“Besides, if adventurers come this far, wolves and foxes are less likely to be hunted.”
Among the adventurers of the Central Continent, wolves and foxes were already widely known as Kousuke’s divine beasts.
While they would naturally fight if attacked, they were no longer creatures that adventurers would casually interfere with.
This tendency was particularly strong among high-rank adventurers who could reach the depths of the Central Continent.
“Ah, that was also a problem.”
Kousuke replied to Silvia’s words, as if finally remembering.
The new base was not a place where adventurers would absolutely not come, unlike the tower, so adventurer countermeasures would eventually be necessary.
However, it was also true that the new base was located a few days’ travel by Hiryu for Kousuke and the others, so the adventurers who could reach it were limited.
“I don’t know where this is located, but countermeasures will probably be necessary.”
Kousuke deliberately had not informed the two about the continent’s location of the new base.
It wasn’t that he thought they would leak the information, but Floria had said it would be better for them not to know if they didn’t have to.
Silvia had agreed upon hearing that, so he refrained from telling them.
Although the choice of familiars was almost entirely Kousuke’s decision, Silvia and Floria did not voice any objections.
In the first place, this matter was a request from adversaries of great importance to the world, so they did not believe they had the right to interfere.
Silvia and Floria perceived this move as merely accompanying Kousuke in changing their living space.
I intended to finish the initial explanation in a few lines, but I ended up writing more than I expected.
If I had used dialogue, it would have become even longer and more tedious, so I just wrote it all in one go.
So, next time, Nana and Wanri will appear!
And also, the tower’s idol, Sura.
