Accompanied by Chapman and protected by a small team of guards hired from the Sword of Salma mercenary group, Feng Chou once again boarded the passenger ship to Modima City.
The Benedict Family had already opened a liner from Modima City to Benedict City, which used to be the town of the Arcane Tower. It left at nine in the morning and arrived at nine in the evening.
When the liner passed by New Amborite, Feng Chou saw a port that was beginning to take shape.
It was a hundred-meter-long river bank with a black alchemy rubber pad embedded every few meters on the side of the embankment. It was used to reduce the shock of ships docking at the shore. There were also iron mooring piles erected on the shore.
Behind the river bank of the harbor, there was a large cargo yard paved with alchemy cement. Behind the yard were rows of warehouses.
Behind the dock was the town center square that was being built. It would be the center of New Amborit Township.
Other than the dock and town center square, the town's streets, roads, sewers and other infrastructure were being built at the same time.
Three six-meter-tall steel constructs were busy at the town's construction site under the command of engineers and mages.
The outline of the foundation of the castle on the mountainside had also appeared, and there were also steel giants there.
Further southeast of the town, it also gave off a feeling of being in full swing, but because it was too far away, it could not be seen clearly.
What made Feng Chou so impatient to inspect the new territory was the scene of the port construction described in Nielsen's letter.
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"Goddess above, what am I looking at!
Five steel giants that were more than six meters tall were holding huge steel shovels. They scooped up sand and stones from the riverbank. The sand that each shovel scooped up could fill half a carriage. They used the sand and stones to build a neat dam on the riverbank. The work that they did in ten minutes was enough for ten workers to be busy for a day!
They held iron pillars that were several meters long, and with a light press, the pillars were deeply inserted into the dam.
In the short span of a day, the tireless steel giant had built a hundred-meter-long sand embankment by the riverbank. But what could such an embankment do? There was no need for a flood — even normal water flow could erode and collapse the embankment.
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The mages waved their magic scrolls, and the sand embankment instantly turned into hard granite. In just a few minutes, with only twenty scrolls, the mages had turned the sand embankment built by the steel giants into granite embankment. Engineer Alford told me that this was the town's harbor.
My goddess, they only used less than three days to build a stone harbor. Is this the power of magic?
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After the port was built, the steel giant quickly cleared out a flat storage area at the back. Supplies and workers were continuously sent to the port.
With the help of the Iron Giant and magic, the town's construction site changes almost every day. "
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Feng Chou was really curious about what the industrial construction in the magic world looked like.
For Baron Amborite, the liner docked at New Amborite Port for a short while.
The scale of the construction of New Amborite Town had spread the name of Baron Amborite among the many new lords of Benedict. The captain of the liner was very respectful to him.
When Feng Chou got off the ship with the butler and guards, the governor of the New Amborite project, architect and intermediate mage Mr. Abner, was already waiting for him at the dock.
After bidding farewell to the captain of the liner and watching the liner leave the port, Feng Chou followed Governor Abner through the busy town and climbed up the hill behind the town.
After climbing up the hill, the whole New Amborite appeared in front of Feng Chou.
Feng Chou saw that on the vast plains south of the hill, some huge trees were slowly moving in the forest.
Governor Abner told Feng Chou that these trees were the most vigorous trees in the forest. They were chosen by the Church of the Goddess of Agriculture.
The priests and druids of the Church of the Goddess of Agriculture used the spell "Giant Tree Guard" to animate these trees into treants. They brought them to the temple of the Church of the Goddess of Agriculture and replanted them as the outer barrier of the church.
Feng Chou looked at the vast forest on the plains and asked, "What about the rest of the trees?"
Governor Abner said, "You don't have to worry about that. The rest of the trees will be cut down and sent to Motima or Casablanca to be sold. The remaining roots of the trees can be treated with the magic scroll" Decay "that we bought from the Witherers."
The Witherers were a kind of evil druid. They corrupted and destroyed the forest to obtain great power.
Decay was a spell that greatly accelerated the decay of animals or plants. The Witherers could use the decaying soil to cultivate evil beetles.
The group followed the mountain path to the construction site of the castle on the mountainside.
There were two iron tracks on this straight, sloping mountain road. At the intersection of the mountainside, there was a magic energy winch that could pull carriages loaded with goods up the mountainside along the iron tracks.
The construction of the castle was much faster than Feng Chou had expected. With the help of magic and steel constructs, the castle's foundation was more than half completed.
Governor Abner told Feng Chou that according to his request, the castle would be built first. It would only take three months for it to be completed. By then, the castle could be used in advance.
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Three days later, Feng Chou left New Amborite with satisfaction and took the liner back to Casablanca.
In the next two months, everything seemed to be on the right track. Qiankun Pagoda collected information through the scanner, simulated the transfer of an eagle, and analyzed it with his powerful AI. He then selected the talents that Feng Chou needed from the slums.
According to Feng Chou's request, Chapman used his connections in the police station to contact some of the gang leaders in the slums. Through these gang leaders, he managed to get the people that Feng Chou wanted from the slums.
Because Feng Chou didn't need much, and the reward was very high, it wasn't difficult to do this. The gangs were also very interested. There was no risk, and the profits were great.
The only thing that puzzled Chapman was the family that Feng Chou chose. In his opinion, it was worthless. It wasn't worth spending hundreds of crowns to get them out of the slums.
Of course, Chapman didn't question the lord's decision. After a few months of contact, the lord's shrewdness had left a deep impression on him. As long as the lord looked through any account, even if it was just casually flipping through it, he would be able to point out the slightest flaw in the account.
Such a shrewd lord would of course not do a losing business. It's just that I can't keep up with the lord's thoughts, Chapman thought.
After a trip to Umborit, Feng Chou was able to set up a few dozen surveillance scanners at key locations in the construction site of the new territory. Feng Chou's biggest worry was now gone.