Foreign Land Reclamation By a Vegetable-growing Skeleton-Chapter 779 - : 445

Chapter 779: 445

Ange organized those who had cooperated with him earlier, continuing to maintain order, luring more people with combat capabilities to join using the vegetable buns he had.

The group that had initially maintained order was promoted on the spot to manage the rest, forming a crude management system.

This structure had food, combat power, and organization. With this, the chaotic Rapids Fortress surprisingly settled down.

It was indeed incredible, after all, this was a city with tens of thousands of inhabitants, but that’s what happened.

There were those who wanted to do something, those who were unpleased with how a group of outsiders had mysteriously taken over the city where they used to fight for survival.

Unfortunately, none of them warranted Lord Durken’s attention—they were swiftly dealt with, none of them even reached Ange.

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The next morning, all of the Doralite Clan arrived.

The Doralite Clan, who had now become loyal followers of Lord Durken, initially believed their founding ancestor was a powerful Alchemist. Now they see Lord Durken as a god—the God of Alchemy.

Initially, it was enough for their alchemical prosthetics to meet the living standards that their damaged limbs couldn’t provide. But under Lord Durken’s enhancements, their alchemical limbs became powerful weapons.

Leite can easily crush a gold bar with his alchemical arm, Luona’s legs are like spring-loaded swords, everyone else had received different kinds of enhancements.

With these alchemical prosthesis, they could easily defeat mid-tiers swordsmen, and even surprise attack enemies stronger than themselves.

“If we had had these before, our clan would not have been wiped out, and we wouldn’t have fled like kobolds.” Leite would always mutter such words whenever he tinkered with his alchemical arm.

In reality, his arm did not need maintenance, the interior mechanisms were lubricated with a graphite coating, which would not lose its effect until the arm was completely worn out.

Further, the outer shell was seamlessly integrated, he couldn’t even touch the components inside and could only polish the surface with elk hide till it shone.

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But this maintenance habit was formed from half a lifetime of experience. Previous alchemical prosthetics would creak and rattle without maintenance after just a few days.

Therefore, when idle, to rebuild the Doralite Clan, Leite began to adopt orphans with limbs disabilities, planning to raise them into loyal students of Lord Durken..

However, as his intake progressed, it expanded beyond ‘orphans’. He took in anyone with limb disabilities, whether adults or children.

Based on each person’s specific loss, Lord Durken custom designed different prosthetics, then instructed Leite, Luona, and the others to process them. The completed works would be taught and reviewed by Lord Durken who would correct errors and refine the works into final products.

During this period, the alchemy skills of Leite, Luona and the others made great strides. Because of their specialization in alchemical limb manufacturing, the standard of limbs they were able to create increased, and their power grew as well.

Now, the group was summoned to the rapids fortress.

Feiwo also delegated some experienced people to assist in managing the situation.

The next day, Ange provided the food again. The previous day, Ange had taken over the granary and seized all the food.

But there was only a fifteen-day supply of food in the granary. Under current circumstances, they needed to ration it, or they would starve after fifteen days.

Having Ange provide the food made things much easier. They hadn’t finished yesterday’s bag of elf beans, today they continued eating the vegetable bun, but added flour, turning it into a vegetable pancake.

“But, the quantity doesn’t add up, isn’t it one per meal? One bag of elf beans, at most, is about thirty thousand. Three meals a day should finish it in one day, why does it last for another day?” Negris asked, puzzled.

Ange replied, “No one will die from eating only one meal a day. Eating too much might actually cause disruption. Letting them go hungry will, first, leave them without the energy to cause trouble, and second, they won’t lose their motivation. If they want to eat, they have to work. I’m planning to recruit people to dig for Life gems and fix the bridge tomorrow.”

“…Why do I feel that you’re not here for disaster relief, but to make a profit? A few vegetable buns, and you’re planning on recruiting people to dig for gems and repair bridges?” Negris said, somewhat speechless.

If things continued this way, Ange’s rescue operation wouldn’t be a loss, but rather a profit. Both gem mining and bridge repair were dangerous jobs, and therefore, should have high pay, but now a few vegetable buns could recruit enough people.

Ange shrugged helplessly, “There’s no other way. There aren’t many jobs here that require large amounts of labor, leaving them idle could cause trouble. It’s a loss if I pay them too much. We originally came here just to sell vegetables, but now we can’t sell our vegetables. Moreover, we’ve already lost so many elf beans. It’s a loss.”

While complaining, Ange loudly announced as everyone lined up for broccoli cakes:

“Buying, buying, Life gems, ten soul crystals each, will buy as many as there are!”

“Recruiting, recruiting, recruiting people to dig for Life gems, full meals provided, will buy the mined Life gems for ten soul crystals each, will take as many as there are.”

“Recruiting, recruiting, recruiting people to repair roads and bridges, full meals provided, pays twenty copper coins a day.”

“Recruiting, recruiting, recruiting textile workers, those with experience with silk spinning and cloth weaving will be given priority, full meals provided, will buy the cloth made at the market price.”

After the broccoli cakes were distributed, Ange also exchanged then for ten Life gems.