Alaric's vision for the academy was to build something akin to the one in the Harry Potter world, a castle at its core, endlessly expandable from there.
Thus, during the construction of the academy, the greatest demand was for stonemasons.
For this, the "workers" Alaric created were not infused with magic power, but based on the element of earth.
Such "workers" possessed far greater capability and efficiency when manipulating earth and stone, suffering less loss in the process.
In addition, Alaric equipped them with spells such as Mud to Stone, Stone to Mud, and Stone Shape, enabling them to control earth and stone to a considerable degree.
They no longer needed to painstakingly cut blocks of stone, ordinary sand, gravel, and soil could be transformed into bricks and stone materials as needed.
As for the source of their magic, Alaric simply connected his laboratory, or rather, a simplified mage tower, to the leyline here.
Through the core of the mage tower, he then linked these "workers."
Although the workers gained intelligence through the spell of personality imbuement, Alaric still found them lacking.
So he combined his programming knowledge from his past life with magic, writing behavioral protocols for the "workers."
This way, all Alaric and Pandora needed to do was prepare blueprints, and the "workers" would follow the designs to construct the buildings.
Soon, with the combined efforts of the two legendary mages, the "workers" were mass-produced like items on an assembly line.
Alaric gave these workers a height of three meters, rough and stocky builds, without heads or facial features, only a pair of visual monitoring devices on a raised crest as "eyes," and a simple vocal unit for sound.
Their entire bodies were formed from earth-element matter, outwardly as solid as rock.
Yet when damaged, they could regenerate their forms using magic, as long as their cores remained intact and energy was sufficient.
This, after all, was a shared trait of energy-materialized life forms.
Though they appeared as massive stone giants, the workers had dexterous hands like humans.
Being energy-based, they could also transform their hands into various tools as needed.
In terms of combat power, these stone giants easily surpassed ordinary humans. Their strength, defense, and regenerative ability alone would be a nightmare for most opponents.
However, their spell-like powers did not include offensive magic, for they were, after all, only workers.
Over several days, the pair created more than a hundred of them.
Soon, the land around the leyline was transformed into a vast construction site. Hundreds of stone giants busied themselves there.
Some felling trees, some digging foundations, others shaping stone. Dividing the work among them, they toiled away in an orderly, tireless fashion.
Overseeing their labor was Helena, the spirit bound to Ravenclaw's diadem. She acted as the central control intelligence, orchestrating the workers' efforts.
Only a magical artifact like the diadem could provide the computational power required for such complex coordination, something even many mighty artifacts could not match.
Yet, when it came to pure computational capacity, what Alaric truly desired was the Mooncell, the lunar crystal supercomputer capable of simulating the entire solar system.
That was the level of computing power he yearned for.
Still, for castle construction, Helena alone was more than sufficient.
The workers' efficiency was astonishing. In just a few days, a grand castle rose from the ground.
Within it stood a great hall for assemblies, classrooms, student dormitories, washrooms, an observatory, a basement, and much more.
With the buildings complete, furniture naturally followed.
The workers crafted stone furnishings with Stone Shape, and wooden ones by felling trees, transforming their hands into various tools.
As usual, Alaric and Pandora only provided the blueprints, or rather, often didn't need to.
Helena, as the daughter of Hogwarts' founder Ravenclaw, had grown up amidst its furnishings, and after traveling with Alaric across several worlds, she had an intuitive grasp of what a castle required.
The next tasks, however, required Alaric and Pandora's personal attention.
For instance: staircases that moved on command; everlasting flames that adjusted to maintain the right brightness in rooms; hidden doors; teleportation portals…
And of course, defenses.
Naturally, the castle's interior did not need an excess of traps. After all, it was a school, not a vault, with people constantly moving about.
But that did not mean surveillance and hidden protective measures were unnecessary.
These too, posed no challenge for Alaric.
Through the spell of energy-materialized life, Alaric created beings modeled after the gargoyles of legend.
Normally, these gargoyles remained in a dormant state, consuming no magic. But once activated, they would unfurl their wings, take flight, and attack intruders.
In addition, Alaric created a batch of animated suits of armor, akin to Hogwarts', functioning much like gargoyles, though earthbound rather than airborne.
Other surveillance measures, such as the Mage's Eye, hardly needed mentioning.
Finally, what the academy needed most was staff to handle miscellaneous chores.
Although most areas of the castle were enchanted with automatic cleaning spells, servants were still indispensable.
Items needed to be arranged, kitchens needed managing, and countless other tasks would arise in the future.
Yet Alaric could hardly hire ordinary non-magical folk for such work.
In the end, Alaric's solution was to create the academy's final and most intelligent workforce, spirit maids.
Unlike the earth-element workers or the gargoyles, these spirit maids possessed complete and autonomous intelligence, indistinguishable from humans.
Alaric imbued them with every skill befitting a maid, and established a psychic network linking their minds.
For the spirit maids, though their consciousnesses remained individual, their memories were shared.
What one maid learned, all the others instantly knew; what one maid experienced, the others also understood.
Alaric created about fifty of them, each with a different appearance.
For this, he even drew inspiration from the "2D waifus" of mobile games from his past life. Finally, he designed a "final creation" for this network, a head maid.
As the head maid, this "final creation" could hardly be some little loli. On the contrary, for his own amusement, Alaric shaped her as a tall, slender young woman with short silver hair, long legs, and, regrettably, a modest chest.
He even went further, painstakingly using the power of the Time-Space Dragon to grant her spell-like abilities to manipulate time itself.
At last, Alaric bestowed upon her the name of that elegant and flawless maid from the Scarlet Devil Mansion of Gensokyo, Sakuya Izayoi, as a mark of his expectations.
But Alaric did not realize that, the moment this name was given to the spirit maid "final creation," something in this world shifted in ways unseen.
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