Chapter 797
He could only hope Banjo get stronger and create his own faction on the other side, as long as they protect the passageway between this world and the world behind the door, Gaia’s strength would definitely increase and with him as the source, he will bring this world to the Divine Realm.
He had such a grand dream but first, he needed to increase the strength of the passageway of the worlds they have occupied, not to mention, he’ll have to increase his strength and his empire’s strength to contend against the forces from the Divine Realm.
John Mark returned with some builders, they are being escorted by the soldiers that came together with Shadowslash, Russel also returned but this time, he brought with him another person.
The elf captain, Lily, she also came with her elite division, they bowed to him and reported “Our lord Shadowslash, my division and me are prepared to guard this place, we will not let any invaders escape this world, we are willing to risk ourselves for you and the empire.”
Shadowslash was taken aback, he then shook his head and explained “You do not need to participate on guarding this place, the military base that I am planning to build will be supervised by JL, the soldiers would also be specially selected.”
Lily was about to say something but he stops her and said “The military base that I am planning to build is both a stronghold against the invaders and a rehabilitation center for the prisoners, we will pick prisoners from the empire, those that didn’t do anything that harmful.”
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Everyone looks at themselves with confused expressions, they knew that building a military base here is quite a great idea but also building a rehabilitation center, this is quite risky, most of the prisoners came from outside the empire.
They have little to no loyalty at all to the empire, Shadowslash knew what was running in their minds so he continue his explanation “The prisoners that would be picked would be given a chance to redeem themselves and become part of the empire.”
The elves were shocked, before they could say anything, Shadowslash spoke “They could also choose to be forgiven by their crime but they wouldn’t set foot in this continent ever again, their chances of survival in this place is extremely low, the amount of contribution they needed to make would reflect on how severe their crime is.”
Lily and the others finally realised what their lord is planning to do, he is training sacrificial pawns but they weren’t uncomfortable with this idea, they would be using the lives of the criminals, for them, it is already considered mercy.
Shadowslash then nodded at the builders and told them that the living environment doesn’t need to be that luxurious, other than the rooms designated for the soldiers and JL, the other rooms could be average.
The builders were actually reluctant to build the rooms for the criminals but after being pacified by Shadowslash, they became fired up, they also recalled that the criminals would suffer harsh treatment in this environment.
The rooms would become the only safehaven for them, Shadowslash nodded seeing how fast they work, especially with John Mark helping them, he then orders the elves “The builders might have great vitality but they wouldn’t be able to concentrate on their work if they are being invaded by fierce Qi.”
He pointed at one of the elite elves, the elite elf is a priest “You would be responsible for creating a life domain, the other elves would help in maintaining the domain, Lily you’ll be in scouting the surrounding with Russel and JL, write a map of the surrounding areas.”
The others quickly started moving, the builders became more motivated with their idol watching them work and at the same time were extremely nervous because they could see that he was seriously assessing their work.
The leader or the foreman was under a lot of stress, he is known as one of the top builders and artisan in the empire, even though he is a human, his artistic trait could be compared to that of the elven or dwarven artisans, he was picked by John Mark because of his remarkable achievements.
He doesn’t want to stain his reputation and the reputation of his group, this is the reason why he is under a lot of stress, one of his buddy saw that he is sweating greatly, he then approached him and patted his back, he smiled and said “Do not worry that much, overthinking would only lead to trouble, relax a little.”
The foreman let’s out a long breath and said “You are right old Liu, overthinking and worrying would only result to our group’s morale diminishing, thank you for calming me, you are really reliable during times like this.”
Shadowslash was watching everything, he saw that once the foreman have calmed down, the work actually started accelerating and it wasn’t an abrupt acceleration that would lead to a shaky foundation but a calculated rapid development.
He couldn’t help but feel a little bit impressed, the ones who are dominating this type of work were actually the dwarves followed by the elves and finally the humans, but who would have thought there was a human artisan with such a great potential hiding in his empire.
He had been always motivating his subjects to work hard not just for the empire but also for themselves and their families, as long as you have the talent or experience and you work hard, the empire would help you develop.
Status might have effect and would definitely pave many people lives but it is not everything in the empire, the justice system might have some flaws but it would always carry a fair judgment, especially since it was Amethyst revising the laws.
Amethyst would ask Shadowslash for permission to create a clone for her to inhabit, since she is able to change into any appearance and gender, she would travel throughout the empire and experience different type of lives.
She would use all the experience she had accumulated to revise some laws and would continue to do it until she is satisfied, she is actually a workaholic, she is a system devised to help it’s host.
Shadowslash have given her an entirely new purpose and even give her an opportunity to taste what it’s like to live like a real living being, she is both happy and sad at the same time, she had already expected that living is extremely hard and actually pointless because everything would die in the end.
But after obtaining the ability to experience emotion, she started dreaming about her new life, her expectations were granted, she both find living like a real living being both fun and pointless at the same time.
Meanwhile, back on fierce beast world, the scarabs have finished hunting all fierce beasts on Xiantian King Realm, the Xiantian Realm fierce beasts were left behind because Shadowslash have decided to tame them for the purpose of guarding this place.
His slots for summoning a new summoned have already refreshed after his soul underwent a metamorphosis during his stay on the void, he didn’t have any chance of using it because he wasn’t interested of summoning a weak summoned beasts.
But now that there is a threat to his empire, he decided to use it, he is planning to summon an abyssal tribe fierce beast, with how loyal a summoned creatures are, he could recklessly increased the strength of his new summon with the help of the remnant energy he had obtain from devouring the eight souls of the nine abyssal dragons.
He waited for a bit and JL and Russel returned with all the Xiantian Emperor fierce beasts inside fierce beast world, he couldn’t help but sigh in disappointment, he thought that at least some of them would surrender, JL is a fierce beast, they should have submit to him.
Too bad his expectation wasn’t met, he could only sacrifice all thirty Xiantian Emperor fierce beasts to summon a new summoned monster, he nodded at them and use Heaven Swallowing Technique to absorb all the fierce Qi in the area and the fierce Qi coming out of the nine abyssal dragon door.
[Summon]
Boom! A powerful explosion occured, the soldiers quickly blocked the aftershock, they keeled from the force, John Mark use his ability to summon an earthen wall and Russel position himself behind the earth wall in case that it might break.
The elves were also being protected, the builders stop their activities and look at what their lord was doing, as if she had a revelation, Lily quickly spoke “Lord Shadowslash is using his divine ability to summon a divine being just like Sans and Leafinia-sama.”