Chapter 203: Level 4 Town Center
The reconstruction of the ruins will take at least three to five years, and this is taking into account the territory’s development speed. Otherwise, with the territory’s current manpower and resources, it would take ten to twenty years to repair an underground city that can accommodate tens of thousands of people plus a nearly completely abandoned industrial area. You can’t just have thousands of people doing nothing but moving bricks.
As a long-term development and construction plan, it’s not a matter of urgency at all. Moreover, with the development of the territory, there will definitely be changes in the middle, especially under Owen’s cheat-like development, sufficient room for maneuver must be reserved.
Based on these considerations, Owen only asked Maya and Flame Empress to come up with a general master plan, and then a relatively detailed first-phase reconstruction plan.
Owen set a framework for the first phase of the plan, which was to not use the power of Autumn Field Town.
Owen has been trying to separate Autumn Field Town from Green Shade Town. He doesn’t dare to say that it’s a clean break, but at least on the surface, it can confuse the enemy, so the two should avoid getting involved with each other as much as possible.
Actually, he did a good job. Even the merchants who come here often subconsciously distinguish the two.
Even the Black Hand only thinks that the two sides are in a cooperative relationship, especially after they found out that there is a Legendary Witch here, which further confirmed this guess.
As for the relationship between Owen and the Legendary Witch, the Black Hand doesn’t think it will play any important role, because witches are known for valuing women over men. Girls are the inheritance, boys are just accidents, so they can be partners, but there is no superior-subordinate relationship.
Although Owen didn’t know about this, he instinctively guarded against it.
Besides, there are too many people staring at Autumn Field Town, making it unsuitable to enter and exit the relatively closed Green Shade Town.
After drawing the framework, Owen didn’t interfere with the rest of the matter. He also gained a lot in the ruins and was eager to digest it.
However, before going into seclusion, Owen had people build a temple in Green Shade Town, dedicated to Dragon Mother Daenerys, the red dragon. The temple was prepared for collecting faith for her.
Daenerys can be said to be a pitiful mother dragon. When she was young, she was captured by a group of people with bad intentions and taken into the secret chamber of the underground city to be experimented on. After she finally escaped, her body was broken beyond repair. In the end, she had to submit herself to Owen to get a chance at rebirth.
Although Daenerys sold herself out completely, she left all the trouble to Owen. Now, it’s not so easy for him to obtain a complete Demigod.
Nowadays, Owen took out the heart of Daenerys’ original body and placed it in the Domain, using the Shikigami method to nurture her body.
But Owen wants a Demigod, not an ordinary Shikigami, so simple nurturing is far from enough, he must rely on the power of faith.
But the power of faith is not so easy to borrow, because a Demigod is not a God. Although they can gather faith, it is difficult to efficiently absorb and transform it into divine power. What’s more, the fact that incense is poisonous also exists in other worlds.
For a Demigod, a small amount of pure faith is okay, but if the amount is too large, it will inevitably be mixed. At that time, it will be like a chaotic meeting in the mind. After a long time, one will either go crazy or become stupid.
This is also the significance of the Divine Scripture and priests, to unify the prayers of believers, reduce impurities, and turn the chaotic voices into one voice, which can make it a little easier.
However, unless it is a fanatic, the faith provided will always be mixed with a lot of impurities, which is equivalent to pollution for a Demigod who has not ignited the divine fire. There are not just one or two Demigods who have gone crazy because of this, and even if they eventually survive to ignite the divine fire, they will inevitably become mad gods.
This is also the reason why Owen placed Daenerys in the Domain. After all, although the Authority is broken, the Domain’s owner is the powerful God of Reality and Illusion, so there is no problem with filtering and purifying faith.
As for Owen, who helped Daenerys rebuild her body, collect faith, and provide the Domain, will he lose both his wife and his soldiers? After all, he is just a mortal, and the other party is a Demigod.
In fact, this is Owen’s brilliance, because he also accidentally discovered that the Domain is actually attached to the system, so if you want to seize the Domain, you must have higher authority than the system.
If someone or a god can really deal with the system, Owen doesn’t need to resist, just lie down and die peacefully.
The Domain, which is covered by the system, has become a divine prison that Owen built for Daenerys. Let alone not having recovered her Demigod strength, even if she recovers or even becomes a god, under the power of the system, she can only kneel down and sing conquest. She is just that confident in the system daddy.
Before going into seclusion, Owen also upgraded the town center, because the current population of the territory is not far from the population limit of 10,000, and the goblins can reproduce, so just in case, upgrade first.
The level 4 town center has a population limit of 50,000, which is enough to build a city. In addition to farmers, civilians, and citizens, nobles can now be recruited.
Compared to citizens who have only received simple education, nobles have obviously received better education and can serve as middle-level managers, which is a great help to Maya. Unfortunately, there are not many people in the entire territory who can be converted to nobles.
Owen could only exchange a few with Progress Value to be Maya’s helpers to reduce her burden. After all, she has more and more things to worry about, especially after the town center is upgraded, there are a lot of new buildings to be built, and the overall It also needs to be re-planned. After all, it now has all the conditions for building a city, and all of these require a lot of energy to operate and prepare. It’s not something that one person can do just by patting their head.
However, the biggest change in the town center being upgraded to level 4 is not something else, but the appearance of firearms, which means that the territory has now entered the age of firearms, and musketeers and artillery can be recruited and trained.
The question is, can Owen, who can already manufacture bolters and power armor, still like musketeers who can’t fire a few shots a minute and primitive firearms such as artillery that are bulky and can only fire iron balls.
The answer is yes, because the former cannot be popularized, and those who only talk about quality but not output are bastards.
Even with the help of Bryan and Flame Empress, electronic muscle bundle power armor still requires a lot of energy and time, and some key materials need to be exchanged with Progress Value. The overall cost is still higher than that of the Teutonic Knights, and it is not possible to mass-produce it.
Even the simplified mechanical power armor and the vehicles and equipment used by the Goblin Mechanical Army, 80% of the parts still need to be hand-polished by gremlins. Small-scale production is fine, but mass production is still not possible.
Under such circumstances, primitive firearm armies that even blacksmiths can build and farmers can be trained have an undeniable value.
So although Owen doesn’t like it, firearms are still necessary.
Moreover, cold weapon combat has high requirements for warriors. Being strong and physically fit is the standard, and one must be proficient in combat skills and the use of armor and weapons, not to mention battle formations and cooperation, otherwise, they are not considered qualified soldiers.
But firearms are different. Whether it is Wu Dalang or Wu Song, when holding a firearm, they are equal. Anyone who gets shot will die. The requirements for physical fitness are not so high, and it is easier to popularize.
As for artillery, although it is bulky and has a low hit rate, it can play a huge role in sieges and defense. In addition, Owen had produced and stored a batch of firearms before, so Owen left this matter to Maya and let her handle it herself. See if she needs to train a batch of firearms troops.
After leaving the matter to Maya, Owen couldn’t wait to go into seclusion. Now he has too many ideas in his mind. If he waits any longer, he is afraid that he will forget, which would be a pity. Inspiration is priceless.
