Letter to Okane wrote:Sir,
I will be starting the process of creating your palace this morning. If you wish to employ your sealing techniques so that the structures will stand in my absence, please meet me down at the designated area.
-Ashitaka
On the face of it, creating a palace was a truly major undertaking, even with the ability to create buildings more or less instantly. Deep down inside, however, creating a palace was a massive undertaking that was going to require all that Ashitaka had in terms of ability regarding the creation of buildings. He steadied his breath as he walked to the corner of the empty lot furthest into the island and focused on the image of how he wanted the place to look from the outside. First, he would start with the outermost wall, which would serve as the first line of defense against potential attackers. It would also look pretty nice once he was done with it. He had drawn a massive septagram over the empty lot that would provide a general guideline for the arrangement of said wall.
Gathering Doton chakra into his hand, he placed his palms against the earth and spawned a series of walls that traced the outside of the septagram in a pair of layers a meter thick, 30 high, 50 long, and 5 apart. Each corner was rounded and grown into a tower. Then he switched to Mokuton and formed the necessary hand seals to create a series of support beams, stairs, decks, and other various structures designed to facilitate the mobility and advantageous positioning of a potential defending army. This was also the point of the particular shape of these walls, as it provided archers the maximum potential range and overlapping fields of fire with no blind spots. Back to Doton, he cordoned off the areas which were not intended for travel with smaller walls that seamlessly connected the two layers and filled the gaps with mud, forming hand seals as proved necessary.
By this point though, he is already beginning to tire, having burned a ton of chakra in the creation of the perimeter wall alone. So he forms a last few hand seals and generates a wall of trees that leads out from the side of the gate at which the deer statue had been planted, on top of the main wall. The trees resemble the ones in his garden, yet look more intimidating than inviting, perhaps due to their sheer height off the ground. Their branches occupy most of the space which their trunks do not, making effective arrow slits with what little space is provided. With much greater effort, he moves to the other side of the gate and duplicates the effect. These walls only manage to cover and fill two sections of the greater walls below them, but Ashitaka intends to fix that as soon as he gets his energy back.
It didn't look especially artistic at the moment, but in his mind defensive structures were intended to serve pragmatic purposes. The art would be saved for the inside, when he had more luxury to toy around with his creative process. He looked around for Okane and wondered what the man thought of what he'd made so far. The walls looked pretty good to him, and practically speaking, would be able to withstand all but the most unspeakably powerful attacks
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Techniques used:
Multiple Earth-Style Walls -20CP
Serial Pillar Houses Technique -10 CP (Affinity)
Earth-Style Wall x 10 -100CP
Sticky Earth Drop x 7 -70 CP
World of Trees Wall -10 CP (Affinity)
CP remaining: 15/235 (Exhausted)