Chapter 531: Chapter 531

Building a second-tier territory wasn’t as easy as Du You had imagined. He hadn’t anticipated that many buildings would require higher-level blueprints to upgrade.

Somethings like these were not readily available in his homeland.

However, some buildings could still be upgraded. First and foremost were the second-tier Rune City Walls.

Du You already had the blueprints for the second-tier Rune City Wall, but constructing the wall was somewhat challenging. It required not only workers, but also the participation of mages, regardless of whether they were professionals or not.

"It’s a good thing I trained a group of mages earlier, otherwise, the city wall couldn’t have been built. We also need magic dust. The materials from the magical beasts we hunted before are useful for creating it."

Du You delegated this task to Shaliya. The growth of the residents in the territory was slow, but Shaliya’s helpers were not the same. Mages, who already held professional ranks, partnered with artisans to work on the city wall.

The city wall continued to rise, on which the mages drew their runes.

These runes, when linked together, could mutually enhance the defense. However, the increase was minimal. Once the city gate was opened, the overall defense would significantly drop.

Moreover, once a section of the wall was destroyed in an attack, the total defense would be equivalent to having the city gate open. ɴᴇᴡ ɴᴏᴠᴇʟ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs ᴀʀᴇ ᴘᴜʙʟɪsʜᴇᴅ ᴏɴ 𝗇𝗈𝗏𝖾𝗅•𝖿𝗂𝗋𝖾•𝗇𝖾𝗍

Fortunately, the two sections of the wall on his side were not very long. Destroying a piece of the wall wouldn’t differ much from a total collapse. The construction of these two sections of the wall took several days, mostly due to the lack of sufficient mage power.

Arrow towers could not be upgraded without blueprints, snake nests naturally upgraded as the territory level increased, so individual upgrades were not necessary.

The kennel and the Giant Rock Fortress, on the other hand, could be upgraded, but needed certain materials. At this time, the two buildings were gradually being transformed and upgraded under the labor of the workers.

"These particular military strength development structures seem to be able to produce higher-level troops in advance. Hence, they can use local materials for upgrading. We should look into this when we get back. However, I am not sure if these materials will become scarcer in the future, which would make continuous upgrading not easy."

As Du You observed his territory, the giant rock fortress, all-encompassing in construction, was the first to be successfully built over these few days.

The second-tier Giant Rock Fortress upgrade was completed. It looked similar from before, just larger. The exterior and interior had not significantly changed, and it was unclear how this was achieved.

Those special materials were incorporated into the Giant Rock Fortress, they were indistinguishable on the surface.

However, the transformation inside the Giant Rock Fortress was entirely different. The troops from before had been fully unlocked.

"Now we can directly create second-tier heavily armed warriors and heavy-armored knights. It costs more if they are trained from ordinary people. However, it is less expensive to upgrade from low-level troops of the same type."

Shaliya immediately said, "Let’s still use the ordinary people for training. Although the cost will be higher, the quota will be larger. The low-level troops generated can also be trained to advance in the future. If we directly level up the low-level troops, the high-level troop quota will still be consumed, thus we will be short of some low-level troops."

Hearing this, Du You frowned slightly, contemplating, "You’re right, we do lack military power right now."

Although this was not cost-effective, for the Mountain Town that lacked military forces, it was the most worthwhile strategy.

With the advancement of the territory level, the control area has increased tenfold, and both the population limit and the military force limit increased tenfold as well. Filling up the population was not very challenging, but reaching the limit for military forces wasn’t easy.

A total military force limit of ten thousand, but now, the territory didn’t even come close to a thousand. Since they had the quota, the focus was on increasing it first. After all, low-level troops could still be upgraded to a higher level in the future.

In reality, taking a civilian, training them into a Giant Rock Heavy Armored Warrior first and then training them into a second-tier Heavily Armed Warrior would actually cost less compared to training a second-tier Heavily Armed Warrior directly. Most importantly, the strength would be much stronger when upgraded step by step.

If it wasn’t for lack of military strength, and the precarious position he was in, Du You wouldn’t have chosen this method.

"We found that even when we train ordinary people, the actual consumption varies. If we train stronger ordinary people, the crystal coins consumed will decrease."

At this point, Shaliya informed Du You of another discovery, his eyes brightening. He hadn’t thought about that before. The civilians that were previously summoned had roughly similar physical conditions, so there was no distinction.

However recently, some civilians liked to exercise and trained themselves to be far superior to others. After their training, Shaliya noticed the difference. These civilians not only cost less, but once they became soldiers, their strength would be a bit stronger as well.

"It looks like we need to re-plan the management of the civilians. Let’s do it this way, from now on, enhance the training of civilians with certain capabilities. You organize this. Try not to disturb their normal life as much as possible." Although these civilians were staunchly loyal, Du You was not going to exploit them ruthlessly.

"I understand, I will assign some soldiers to train and guide them."

Shaliya quickly recorded Du You’s command in her notebook, with an always serious attitude.

"Almost forgot, my lord, we have also made another discovery."

Du You didn’t speak, but just looked at Shalilya. Shaliya continued, "We have found out that our hunting dogs and war dogs can reproduce. Their offspring can instantly be trained to become other types of canines. If we don’t train them, they won’t occupy the quota for animals. It means no matter how many we breed, there won’t be a problem."

Du You’s eyes lit up, "I really don’t know much about my territory, do I? Then the griffins can do it too? Wait a minute. Are the hounds born from breed obedient?"

"They are more or less like ordinary dogs. In terms of strength, except for special cases, they won’t be stronger than those trained regularly."

Du You nodded: "In that case, manage these dogs as you see fit. Even if there are too many of them and they are not easy to train, we can always harvest them for meat." Du You remembered the special tag on the hunting dogs, which carried the label ’Delicious’.

Shaliya nodded slighty, as long as the lord was aware, that was enough.

"The kennel and the griffin nest should be close to finishing their upgrades, right?" There was no progress indication on the panel for this kind of information.