My Apocalypse Territory-Chapter 439 - 408: A Population of Over a Hundred Thousand
Chapter 439: Chapter 408: A Population of Over a Hundred Thousand
Two blueprints. Tang Yu didn’t take them directly to the workshop but first made a trip to the research institute.
Kevin’s blueprints after all were only theoretically feasible... If Kevin attempted to make them, unexpected difficulties were likely to occur during the process, all of which need to be overcome and the blueprints refined and perfected during the manufacturing process.
Only blueprints that have been proven in practice can be considered true blueprints.
The two before him, at best, were only 90% complete semi-finished products, but for Tang Yu, they were enough.
He placed the blueprints into the research institute’s scanner, and after a moment, several lines of information appeared on the screen.
[Mother-child Crystal Ball (Mother): Blueprint completion rate 93%.]
[Mother-child Crystal Ball (Child): Blueprint completion rate 96%.]
There were additional phrases regarding whether to refine/enhance and so on.
Tang Yu chose to refine the blueprints, and the screen immediately changed.
[Inferring. Please inject Source Crystals...]
[Inferring...]
[...]
The screen kept flickering.
...
After consuming over one hundred thousand Source Crystals, the two blueprints were successfully refined and conformed to the workshop’s standard for blueprints.
Tang Yu casually clicked to enhance, and it consumed another two to three hundred thousand Source Crystals.
To this, Lord Tang seemed nonchalant, not caring in the slightest... it was roughly the income of his territory in one day or half a day.
He visited the workshop again, entered the blueprints, and instructed members of the Personal Guard to have the Logistics Department deliver the materials.
The materials required for the Mother-child Crystal Ball weren’t many, but they were all quite valuable; converting to Source Crystals, Tang Yu estimated roughly one hundred and eighty to one hundred and ninety thousand... for one set.
It could be considered quite cheap.
The only slightly troublesome part was that some of the materials were in scarce supply... at best, he could only produce five or six sets of Mother-child Crystal Balls.
But it wasn’t a big problem.
With such a vast Territory at his disposal, members of the Investigation Corps brought back various types of materials daily, and he had also established ’friendly’ exchange relationships with about twenty large Sanctuaries, to trade some materials, it was all very normal.
In the early stages of establishing his territory, Tang Yu used to worry about the scarcity of materials, but now, he left others to worry about it.
That’s the benefit of establishing a power; others, even Transcendent strongmen, might not be able to find all the various materials they need.
Not to mention Yan Dingtian, such a Transcendent, who every so often had to endure the bitter days of lacking money.
...
Time flowed like water.
After the Mother-child Crystal Balls were produced, using the territory as the base station, three sets were immediately activated, and the twenty or so child Crystal Balls were handed over to the Intelligence Department and sent to all the major Sanctuaries in Tiannan Province.
The blueprints, once enhanced, allowed the Mother-child Crystal Balls to cover the entire Tiannan Province with their spiritual power communication range. A bit further away, only in Luoxia and the Yangtze River Delta region, two sets were placed.
Communication became convenient, and the work of the various large Sanctuaries progressed even more smoothly.
The adventurer guild branches all over the region registered more and more adventurers; the Floating Airship operations also got on the right track, with survivors from the various large Sanctuaries being transported to Green Shadow on a daily basis.
The majority of these were people with some rune talent.
The production area for rune equipment had also expanded again and again, every ten days or so, a batch of goods worth several million Source Crystals would be transported to the large Sanctuaries; some were handed over to local agents for sale, while others were stored in the adventurer guild’s warehouse, waiting for adventurers to redeem.
Building, medicine, machinery, etc... all kinds of talents were recruited through negotiations and transactions with local forces.
The population of the territory kept growing, from thirty to fifty thousand, to seventy to eighty thousand, to ninety to one hundred thousand.
A month had passed, and the number of ordinary survivors living within the territory had exceeded one hundred thousand, and the number of Awakeners active around Green Shadow reached a staggering fifty thousand!
The ratio of ordinary people to Awakeners unexpectedly reached 2:1, a scene impossible elsewhere.
The Green Shadow Sanctuary also expanded continuously.
Its land area became not inferior to that of a typical large Sanctuary, and its most notable feature was the absence of a slum area. The streets were square and orderly, highly planned. Looking from the top of the castle, the neatly arranged buildings were very pleasing to the eye, and there were impressive landmark constructions such as ’adventurer guild’, ’Extreme Martial Arts Hall’, and ’Green Shadow Auction House’.
Compared to other large Sanctuaries built at the beginning, they were cramped and densely packed to utilize land and resources as much as possible... Green Shadow looked like a vibrant new city.
Currently, it could still only be considered a small town, but anyone visiting for the first time would fall in love with it at first sight.
With more people, inevitably there were clashes.
Especially for Awakeners from other regions, many didn’t pay much attention to Green Shadow’s rules and regulations before being fined so heavily they had to pawn their trousers.
On average, among every ten outside Awakeners, at least three had been punished by Green Shadow’s Guardian Team.
There were more severe cases, like killing someone within the Sanctuary’s boundaries―without a doubt, all possessions were confiscated, and they were hauled off to work in the mines.
During this time, members of the Guardian Corps suddenly found themselves busier than those in the Investigation Corps.
Luo Zhe, who managed the territory’s defense work, didn’t have a moment’s rest.
...
In the office.
Tang Yu was earnestly working, processing a stack of documents piled upon his desk.
His gaze fell upon a stack of files about Awakeners who had passed the new recruit camp assessments, many with the Armed Department high-level annotations; he only needed to glance over them.
The new recruit camp had been established just over a month before, with the aim not just for combat but for selection.
Awakeners applying to join the various Corps were required to train in the new recruit camp for a time.
It was both an opportunity to become stronger and an assessment.
Those who performed well could join any Corps according to their wishes after not too long, those who performed less well needed to train for a while longer in the camp, after which high-level officials of the Armed Department would, depending on each recruit’s situation, allocate them to the various Corps.
As for those who performed even worse, sorry, but they had to be gently refused.
"Currently there are 3,659 Awakeners in the new recruit camp, of all levels, the Investigation Corps and the Guardian Corps also have over a thousand members, and special Corps excluding the Sky Corps and the Fire Fierce Horse Cavalry Group, such as the Warg Cavalry Corps and Land Bird Support Special Team are also in the process of being formed... This all adds up to a considerable force..."
"The remnants of the cult have gone into hiding, those from the Ghost Hand Clan, I wonder where they’ve gone off to..."
"The number of Fourth Epoch Awakeners we’re hearing about is getting rarer, they’re probably hiding by now. The Ancient Spirit Dynasty, ever since their last proclamation of establishing a city, hasn’t stirred up anything major, and there’s even less news about the other two Fourth Epoch major powers, I suppose they are active in Europe or America?"
Tang Yu’s thoughts began to drift.
