A Caster could certainly build a house faster than a construction crew. However, Casters tired as well and needed a long rest after finishing a single building.
These individuals from the Nobility and wealthy families—these Ether-wielders—were certainly more delicate. To the construction workers, a good meal was a hot grain porridge with bacon and all the bread they could eat, and a good rest was simply lying down in a tent. But in the eyes of most Mages and Apprentices born in Valuva, both the food and the resting conditions were crude. In such an environment, even the regeneration of their internal Magic Power slowed down.
Rorschach and François worked well together, building houses that were level and sturdy. But their task from the team leader today was to complete three single-story homes before the evening bell. Without proper rest for François, both the speed and quality of his Earth Wall Technique castings would suffer.
