Global Game: Developing a Knight Clan-Chapter 112 - 110: Dawn City Completed, Giant Demons Attack

Chapter 112: Chapter 110: Dawn City Completed, Giant Demons Attack

Times of peace and tranquility always fly by.

Inference Day 362.

The initial construction of Dawn City was finally complete!

After round after round of expansion, the entire structure of Dawn City was divided into three layers.

The first was the core layer.

This was where the Divine Hall, the Lord’s Inner Castle, and the Demon Dragon Castle were located.

The entire core layer sat in the center of Dawn City, stretching from the mountain peak to its base. It split the city in two down the middle and covered an area of about twelve square kilometers.

Of these, the Divine Hall occupied the largest area and had the most sacred appearance.

It was built entirely from gray Rock Steel, with an exterior similar to a traditional Western temple.

It was situated on the range from the mountaintop to the mid-slope.

The Lord’s Inner Castle was to the left, below the Divine Hall, occupying the mountainside and extending down to the foot of the mountain.

The Demon Dragon Castle was to the right, also below the Divine Hall. It shared the same position from the mountainside to the foot of the mountain, but its architectural style consisted of a series of protruding fortresses, designed to house large Demon Beasts.

The Divine Hall’s grand staircase was located in the central space between the Lord’s Inner Castle and the Demon Dragon Castle. The stairs were made of thick Rock Steel, with each step being over five hundred meters long and twenty meters wide.

It was incredibly open, bright, and majestic.

The staircase extended all the way to the foot of the mountain, allowing both Demon Beasts and humans to enter and exit through the Teleportation Gate in the Temple Square, or even make pilgrimages.

Beyond the core layer were Dawn City’s Left City and Right City.

The Left City and Right City were both entirely residential areas for the Human Race.

They were built along the mountain from its base to the mid-slope, covering a total area of about sixty square kilometers.

City walls were also constructed around the Left and Right Cities.

The walls were about thirty meters high and built in a terraced formation, encircling the entirety of Dawn City from the left and right sides of the mountain base.

In addition, the inner surfaces of the walls were inscribed with a vast number of formation patterns, with a Middle Tier Magic Crystal embedded at every node.

This would allow them to be activated as an Energy Barrier during large-scale battles.

Of course, Dawn City’s Barrier still required several rounds of debugging.

After all, York currently had only about twenty Low Tier Mages under his command. Faced with such a massive project, the work was quite taxing for them.

’It was a good thing the Demon Beasts helped carve the formation patterns; otherwise, the workload of creating the patterns alone would have been enough to kill these Mages.’

Speaking of Mages...

Following the population transfer during the Beast Tide, Dawn City’s population had now reached approximately 320,000.

To support these 320,000 people, over a thousand square kilometers of land had been cultivated into vast fields in suitable locations at the foot of the mountain.

Now, nearly all of this farmland had been allocated.

This development even led to the construction of five small towns within the Mist Forest.

York assigned five of his Knight’s Squires to watch over these five towns.

With the protection of the Demon Lords currently residing throughout the Mist Forest, the humans living in the five towns had no need to worry about their safety.

Providing for the daily needs of 320,000 people truly required a lot of resources.

Furthermore, trade was not yet possible in this world.

To meet domestic demand, Lince even had York select some herbivorous, Tierless Demon Beasts from the bottom of the food chain that posed little danger to be raised in captivity.

As many as twenty-eight species of Demon Beasts were selected.

For now, this satisfied the Human Race’s need for meat.

As for the Demon Beasts under Lince’s command?

The Tierless Demon Beasts could just prey on each other, which was an old tradition within the Demon Beast Mountain Range.

However, Lince also introduced over 30,000 additional herbivorous Tierless Demon Beasts into the Mist Forest.

These creatures reproduced quickly and would serve as more than enough food for the carnivorous Demon Beasts.

He believed that within a few years, a balanced ecological system and food chain would be established for the Demon Beasts in the Mist Forest.

As for the problem of the herbivorous Demon Beasts potentially overpopulating?

This world was vast; they could be left to migrate on their own.

Lince couldn’t worry about every little thing.

He only needed to control the carnivorous Demon Beasts and keep them within a designated area, ready to defend his territory or launch a Beast Tide against outside forces at any moment.

As for the Entry Tier Magical Beasts, and even the Middle-High Tier Magical Beasts...

Lince hadn’t yet figured out how to guarantee their interests, especially since this world didn’t have a single Magic Crystal Ore vein.

But Lince did give them something to look forward to.

He had the Earth Bear return to the Demon Beast Mountain Range and bring back many precious, native Magic Plants.

Then, Lince had the Middle-High Tier Magical Beasts cultivate these plants in their own territories within this world.

This world had Magic Power, after all. Although the Magic Plants would grow more slowly without the nourishing Magic Power from a Magic Crystal Ore vein...

...it would at least give these Magical Beasts a chance to grow stronger slowly by consuming them.

As for Magic Crystal Ore, Lince himself had to be careful not to run out.

How could he possibly use it to pay his Magical Beasts a ’salary’?

’They were dreaming.’

However, Lince could still scrounge quite a bit from the Mountain Range Earth Dragon for the time being, so he hadn’t been stingy with rewards in the past.

But the supply would definitely be reduced gradually in the future.

Currently, inside the Space Dragon’s massive nest within the Divine Hall, piles of Middle-High Tier Magic Crystal Ore were stacked high.

All of it was support from the Mountain Range Earth Dragon over the past year.

It covered the floors of all the main and side chambers of the Divine Hall inside the mountain, an area of about five square kilometers.

The Magic Crystals were stacked a good three to four meters high.

’Low Tier Magic Crystals?’

’Lince wouldn’t even bother with them now!’

You could say that the current Lince was unbelievably wealthy.

’What does it mean to be a capitalist?’ Lince felt like a true tycoon right now.

He had so many Magic Crystals he was running out of space, yet he was reluctant to ’pay’ his over five hundred Middle-High Tier Magical Beasts.

’It wasn’t that Lince was being stingy.’

’He just felt they would be needed for the large-scale war he might wage against this world in the future.’

’Therefore, to be safe, it was definitely better to hoard a little more.’

Dawn City, with its population of 320,000.

Its current level of prosperity and liveliness was no less than that of the capital city of the Silver Lion Duchy on the Oakland Continent.

Meanwhile, a year ago, after undergoing the Dragon Descendant Transformation...

...York had obtained a thin Gale Cyan Dragon Bloodline and had long since broken through to Tier Four.

After stepping into the ranks of a Middle Tier Transcendent, York was full of vigor and ambition.

During the construction of Dawn City...

...he had expanded his forces into five corps.

Each corps had a thousand men and was led by one of York’s five other family Knight’s Squires.

Additionally, for his ’Inner Ministers,’ York had also gathered fifty-two Low Tier, down-on-their-luck nobles.

York didn’t know many of these people.

But that didn’t stop him from making use of them.

York was also skilled at forming his own core team and making grand promises.

All in all, Dawn Territory was thriving.

Having left the sight of the Oakland Continent, York could have already declared himself a king.

However, there was no rush.

For one, Lince had not given the signal. For another, York felt he wasn’t strong enough and the time wasn’t right.

So, the matter was temporarily shelved.

Furthermore, because the Swamp Territory required York to make occasional appearances, his wife, Lucia, had visited Dawn Territory several times.

The two of them took turns handling and handing over affairs in Dawn Territory.

This hadn’t attracted the attention of the Bishops of Truth in the Swamp Territory.

But even if it had, it wouldn’t have mattered.

The Beast Tide was still ongoing, and besides, every time it happened, it was because Lince, their god, had summoned him.

These Bishops wouldn’t dare to ask too many questions.

In short, everything was proceeding smoothly.

However, after more than a year of fervent construction in this world, Dawn Territory naturally had a few minor problems.

The most crucial of these, for example...

...was that so-called Giant Demons would occasionally pass by overhead in their Airships.

Unfortunately for these unlucky fellows, they were all shot down by the Tier Seven Butterfly Bird and a few Middle Tier Flying Demon Beasts!

They couldn’t even discover the existence of Dawn Territory within the Mist Forest.

But after being shot down too many times...

...it finally attracted the attention and suspicion of a Giant Demon City located about two hundred kilometers outside the Mist Forest.

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「Karte World, Giant Demon Empire, Copper Hammer City.」

Inside the boisterous City Lord’s Mansion.

At this moment, seven high-ranking Giant Demons were gathered together.

"Madi!!! That’s the seventh reconnaissance Airship we’ve lost contact with!"

"They all crashed at the edge of the Mist Forest! I don’t think we should let this situation continue!"

"Those Demons that suddenly appeared on the Memory Stone and shot down the Airships are truly bizarre."

"I’ve looked through many of the Empire’s illustrated guides on the Demons of this world, but I haven’t seen any that match!"

"I seriously suspect this might be related to the revival of those fallen native gods."

An Armored Giant Demon with a ferocious face spoke to the Giant Demon in the main seat, his expression grim.

"The revival of gods? We’ve nearly wiped out all the humans in this world!"

"You’re telling me those native gods who need faith can be resurrected? You’re making a mountain out of a molehill!"

"It’s just some high-level Demons that probably migrated from other desolate regions. If necessary, we can send a fleet of Airships over to annihilate them right now."

Across from him, a Giant Demon with his feet propped up on the stone table leaned back in his chair, picking at his sharp fingernails and scoffing dismissively.

"Indeed. Those native gods were killed by the great Giant Demon God. It’s impossible for them to be resurrected without faith. Such a thing is unheard of. If it were true, the Giant Demon God would have already sent down an Oracle. There’d be no need for us to guess."

Another Giant Demon, this one wearing a Mage Robe, shook his head and chuckled, his expression nonchalant.

"You all...!!!"

The Armored Giant Demon’s expression soured with anger. He was about to curse them out, but the Giant Demon in the main seat suddenly spoke, interrupting him.

"The Giant Demon God can’t possibly be watching this world all the time. There’s nothing wrong with us being a bit more cautious."

"How about this?"

"The newly formed Third Airship Corps needs some action anyway. Chim, you lead them. Clear out those Demons that are disrupting the flight paths. I assume no one has any objections to that?"

With these words from Madi, the City Lord of Copper Hammer City...

...the Giant Demons below, though still unconcerned, all nodded in agreement.

The Giant Mage called Chim took the opportunity to speak.

"That works. The Third Airship Corps has just been formed, and it does need some action."

"Also, I’ll take three thousand ground troops with me. That way, we can also capture some of the ’little mice’ hiding in the Mist Forest."

"It’ll be good practice for the young lads’ tracking skills."

"Besides, the Mist Forest is huge. I suspect there might be human settlements hidden underground. This will be a good chance to investigate while we’re there."

Hearing the Giant Mage’s proposal, the Giant Demon in the main seat gave a slow smile.

"Fine. You can make the call!"

"But remember not to delay the trip. Sea City needs us to support them in their upcoming operation to eliminate the remaining large human forces on the overseas islands."

"That can’t be delayed!"

"Understood!"

"..."

Lord’s Mansion, Inner City, Outer City