Skill Extraction: Exploring Dungeons-Chapter 778 - 680: Changes and Demands

After Kane finished dealing with matters in the laboratory, he went directly outside.

The War Fortress was dismantled or rather extensively expanded three months after the battle with the Ogre.

After all, this place is no longer on the frontier, and the fortress's protection is no longer necessary.

Because this has become the center of the territory, and the entrance connecting to the Platinum Country is also here.

Naturally, this place has become the site of almost all important institutions.

And the entire governmental center of the territory is also located here.

Looking at the four-story high, pristine white building in front of him, Kane walked in and then went to his office on the third floor.

Kane's office had a decor style that was very minimalist yet not lacking in luxury.

Upon entering, Kane went to his position, the first thing he saw was today's date, August 2nd.

He turned his chair 180°, looking at the huge map on the wall behind him.

This map clearly displayed the current territorial range they possessed.

In the short term, the territory's range probably would not be expanding.

Mainly because the territory's area is more than sufficient to form a kingdom.

In the outside Mist World, this area is considered a medium level. 𝐟𝕣𝗲𝕖𝕨𝗲𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝗲𝚕.𝗰𝚘𝐦

This range is larger than Kreya's homeland by about twofold, plus the territory's sparse population makes it challenging to develop quickly.

At this time, if more land were to be occupied, it would have little practical use.

Currently, the entire territory has three cities; one is by the direction of the former military force, where the first city, City of Light, was built.

Another is Kane's current location, the City of Two Realms, so named because the entrance to the Platinum Country is also here.

The last one is the former capital of Ogre Territory, now called the Soul-Annihilating City.

There were numerous buildings once in the Ogre Territory, but now they are of little use and remain abandoned, awaiting possible future population growth for reutilization.

The comprehensive sweep through the Ogre Territory brought Kane and his group uncountable wealth.

Valuable precious metals, strange magic items, and magic equipment piled up in various buildings.

Many were from the residences of the Cannibal Elders, but under detection magic, none had hidden spaces anymore.

Part of this recovered wealth was distributed to subordinates and Explorer members, while the majority went into the Guild's treasury, greatly enriching Kane's wallet.

Kane had just started reviewing the map when he heard a knock on the door outside.

He turned his chair back and said to Polona who was knocking: "Come in."

After Polona entered, she bowed to Kane: "Your Majesty!"

"Mm, report the current status."

Polona nodded, then opened the folder in hand and began reporting the recent achievements to Kane.

"Now, the general situation in the Lantern Territory has been fully investigated.

The fertile land is mostly concentrated in the direction where the City of Light is located, and surrounding areas, which will be the base for various crops."

"Some citizens and machinery equipment supported by the Platinum Country have begun to be utilized, and the harvest season has recently arrived."

Polona then changed tone: "The land in the Ogre Territory is less promising, there is a large grassland north of Soul-Annihilating City suitable for grazing.

The southern direction is close to the snowy region Your Majesty once traversed, thus extremely cold, unsuitable for both farming and habitation."

After listening to Polona's first wave of reports, Kane nodded.

As for the permafrost south of the Ogre Territory, Kane had already seen it. After all, they conducted a raid on Ogre Territory from there, so there are no surprises.

The snowy region adjacent to it, especially the central part, has reached a law-level cold, affecting the surrounding climate significantly, leaving no solutions.

After all, with such a large territory, it can't be expected that all the land will be suitable for farming, having 1/4 of the land fertile and 2/4 plantable is already quite good.

This is just a brief survey conducted during this period; mineral resources, special plants, and various potential specialties have not yet been summarized.

Given the massive area and limited manpower, logistics on land fertility and plantability nearly ran the Druid brothers' legs to exhaustion.

Kane had to provide a multitude of vehicles for the governmental center, which took him almost a week.

Afterward, it may no longer need him to provide it, since assembling and constructing vehicles is not too hard.

They only need to let factories in the Platinum Country manufacture them.

After all, this is a world of magic, and magic technology sometimes doesn't follow logic.

Getting an iron shell vehicle to work is simply too easy.

Seeing Kane seems to have digested the first wave of information without raising any questions.

Polona paused for a moment then continued: "The territory's first cross railway has begun orderly construction, and in about a month and a half, it might connect the road between City of Light and City of Two Realms."

"We also have to thank the equipment and materials supported by the Platinum Country, if we had more workers, this time could be significantly reduced."

After all, both materials and various equipment and machinery are all carefully arranged by the Platinum Country.

So, with enough workers, the entire railway could even be completed in a week.

But that's wishful thinking, Kane's available populace totals just thousands, spreading them here and there, with less than 200 workers available for railway construction.

Even with the assistance of various mechanical equipment and vehicles, it still requires considerable time.

Kane, frankly speaking, had no solution for this problem and had to ask: "What is the airship usage status?"

"The airship, although very convenient, is not quite suitable for Lantern Territory right now," Bonona said somewhat awkwardly.

After all, the primary use of the airship is for carrying people, but the problem in the Platinum Country at present is that goods are not easily transportable.

After all, it's mainly various foods, supplies, and building materials.

This kind of stuff takes up a lot of space and is quite heavy, using an airship to transport it would indeed be extremely extravagant.

As for carrying people, to be honest, the current territory doesn't really need it.

So it's in a somewhat awkward position.

Most of them are actually used by members of the Guild in the territory, allowing them to quickly travel back and forth around the territory.

Kane also knew of this situation and could only helplessly wave his hand, signaling Bonona to continue.

Bonona continued, "The main work in the territory, concerning the reception of people from other places, is being carried out in an orderly manner, but there is still the problem of transportation and too few staff.

The effective range is limited, which means we can only relocate people within this surrounding area who want to join us."

"Further away is too far, and the journey in between is too dangerous, so even if someone wants to come, the number who can actually arrive needs to be discounted."

"Sigh." After listening to Bonona's report, it was mostly filled with bad news.

And there's no very good way to solve these bad news.

After all, they all have one most critical need, which is population.

To have more people, there need to be more to escort them.

To have more to escort them, more people are needed.

It directly forms a closed loop.

After listening to Polona's report, Kane nodded and waved his hand to let her leave.

He leaned back in his chair and began to ponder.

During this time, Kane had already launched more patrol watchers, lighting up more of the surrounding map.

Everything in the territory is developing well, it's just lacking people.

But the lack of people is not something that can be solved in a short time, this has to curb the territory's development, with a large piece of territory and various resources left unexploited to their full potential.

Kane is also very helpless.

In the vast surrounding area, there are countless populations of various races, all of which Kane needs.

But the problem is the journey in between is too dangerous and too far, if relying only on walking, these refugees might be devoured by various magic beasts and beasts before they even arrive.

If these unaffiliated civilians recklessly intrude into the territories of other forces and are eliminated, there would be no grievances, not even the Mist would interfere much.

After all, this is not considered indiscriminate killing of innocents.

The current World Ring is not as safe as the outside world, where harmful magic beasts and beasts have long been cleared.

This is why the World Ring takes a long time before integrating with the outside world.

Because during the closed decades, all kinds of threats inside are thoroughly cleaned by various forces and explorers.

Enmity and disputes are resolved within this time, and later integrated into the outside world under relatively peaceful and stable conditions.

As long as the Mist is pressing above, forcing all forces not to oppress the ordinary intelligent lives.

Even if these forces and top levels do not change, the whole world cannot deteriorate too much.

Plus, with the characteristics of this world, it is always developing, always plundering outwards.

Or it cannot be called plundering but saving.

But this is Kane's opportunity, Kane has confirmed through magazines and various channels of information.

The forces within the World Ring did not originally have a character of treating ordinary people well.

Many large dungeon forces are expanding infinitely outward to gain more sense of security, or satisfy their ambitions.

In this, countless weak dungeon forces are cleared, but the ordinary intelligent lives left by these forces cannot be randomly killed.

If they are left to join the victorious forces, because of different races, cultures, and reasons of enmity, it would instead lead to internal instability.

Facing such a problem, these examples have adopted a very clumsy but extremely useful method, which is to drive them all away, not allowing them to enter.

Out of sight, out of mind, if these people forcibly want to enter, then they can be dealt with seizing means.

If I don't kill you, driving you away should be fine.

And these ordinary people can only find a place to settle in many uninhabited areas.

Paying a huge price to struggle against nature.

After all, it is a patchwork of dungeons.

Many low-level dungeons occupy huge areas, but do not have many people or life forms.

These form various forests, mountains, and uninhabited areas.

Others don't want these people, Kane does, but there's no way, the World Ring is so vast, Kane's efforts fall short.

The southern snow-capped mountain range has already been explored, almost cutting off Kane's area with the entire mountain range.

Kane can only seek development to the west or east.

Looking at those areas lit up on the map, Kane squinted his eyes and began to think.