Riding on Grape's back, Horn didn't take the main road heading east to Joan of Arc Castle but first detoured north, then followed the stream south, and finally reached Joan of Arc Castle.
This wasn't because Horn intended to reminisce about the red maple forest he and Jeanne once saw, but because he had no choice.
The dirt road from Mayo Town to Gray Furnace Town and then to Joan of Arc Castle had now been ordered by Horn to be rebuilt into a mortar road.
Arriving at the outskirts of Joan of Arc Castle, Horn glanced eastward, still able to see laborers pushing wheelbarrows, jogging to transport building materials.
Most of them only wore vests to shield from the sun, carrying baskets of soil to pile by the roadside.
Once-noble Master Knights wore iron collars around their necks, wielding wooden hammers, sweating profusely as they compacted the slag and ash-based foundation bit by bit.
