Wood Joinery

February 15th, 0001:

I woke up early today, thanks to my deciding to go to sleep early yesterday.

After all, I had to get as much done as possible today if I wanted to start working on the house by tomorrow.

Not only did I still have to do my workout somewhere during the day, but I also had to go on a hunt today to get enough food for two days which usually took around two hours.

It was currently 7 AM, and based on when everyone else woke up yesterday; I had about two hours at the very least to make the remaining axes left for everyone else. (After my workout, I spent the rest of the day making axes, so I only needed two more).

As I was sharpening the stones, I began to think about how the houses were to be made, initially going down the route of making houses the same way Peruvian jungle tribes used to make them back then.

They were basically a wall of tree logs tied together and buried into the ground with roofs made out of sticks and leaves to deter rain from getting anywhere near the inside of their houses.

This not only served the purpose of being a rainproof room but was also incredibly easy to build as you just had to get the logs to fall into place before tying them to the rest.

Thankfully though, before I set that plan in motion, I began to think about the implications of using such a building style in the future.

For one, not only would it take a very long time to upgrade the village into using new architecture, but it would also make it harder to incorporate new architecture in the future as people would start basing their future designs on the already existing ones.

After some reconsideration, I considered the possibility of using the normal architecture used to make wooden cabins back then. And although it would definitely take longer, it would be better in the long term.

The one thing that didn't cause me to immediately change my plans, though, was that I didn't know if I could afford to waste the amount of time it would take to make stone nails.

It was then that I remembered wood joinery.

When I was going through a carpenter phase (I was a weird kid), I remembered that I had come across Japanese joinery, which amazed me, as the name suggested it was the practice of getting two pieces of wood and carving them in such a way that when they were joined together, they can either create a new item or connect to pieces of wood as well as nails could.

I did still find it weird that I had forgotten that, though. As I recalled that I was really amazed and obsessed with it back then, meaning that the only way I could forget it would be if I subconsciously suppressed it to the back of my mind, but why would I do that?

Well, I suppose it's best to just leave it at that.

Regardless, with a solution at hand, I immediately opened the pocket watch and requested to enter the shop, once again being sent to the abandoned library again.

However, this time, the system seemed to be waiting there for me with a prideful aura, which I found odd as nothing had happened between the two of us for it to be this way.

"So host, looks like you couldn't hold yourself back and came crawling back here; it's a good thing that you know your own limits, and hey, if you beg for forgiveness for your insolence, you might still get a discount, so host, what will it be? :D"

'I was actually just here to buy some technology using my remaining RP….'

Suddenly I could feel like the entire room had frozen with the system as it just 'stood' there blankly as if it had never even considered the possibility of me just coming back to buy technology with my RP.

I, for one, was actually enjoying the moment; after all, I was probably never going to be able to be in this position ever again.

*cough**cough**cough* "Right this way, host," the system said as it moved over to the side in what seemed to be an almost embarrassed tone.

Unlike the previous time, this time I was able to buy the knowledge quite easily by selecting the Construction subsection under the technology sector of the library; from there, I just did the same thing as last time and bought the knowledge on wood joinery, but only the basic one priced at 40RP as the others were too expensive.

For some reason, though, the book glowed a lot less than before.

Initially, I just assumed that it was because it was only the basic version, but once I was back in reality, there was less 'lag' than usual, and I felt a less potent pain than before in my head, leading me to ask the system what was going on.

"Well, host, it is actually quite simple, the reason why your brain feels a slight pain and you are suffering from less 'lag' than before, as you like to put it, is because your brain has to absorb the knowledge you just received at a swift rate while also turning it into permanent knowledge.

It really takes a toll on your brain, this time though, as you already knew about wood joinery, your brain had to do less work."

There was an obviously annoyed tone as he talked; I suppose that just like me, it hadn't yet forgotten about what happened in the library; either way, now was not the time for reminiscing as I still had to finish these axes before 9 AM. Still, it was nice to be able to get back at the system for last time.