Chapter 762: Chapter 437 Human Pile Driver_1
“I’m really sorry, I originally planned to give you some beef patties for the journey, but they ran out. Now all that’s left is some fresh vegetables, help yourself.” Negris said humbly.
Jimmy looked at the big bag of fresh vegetables on the ground, his face breaking into a smile. He tried to keep his excitement in check, but his hands and feet were moving furiously. “No, no, no, the vegetables are good, my family loves vegetables.”
Jummy quickly ran off with the vegetables, probably muttering in his heart: Apologizing for giving me vegetables? Is he an idiot?
In Northern Wind City, beef patties and fresh vegetables were not on the same level. Ordinary people rarely got the chance to eat fresh vegetables here; having some dried vegetables or radishes was already quite good.
Unlike the south, with its humid climate, you could sprout a bunch of vegetables just by scattering some seeds around your house, giving you a different type of vegetable to eat throughout the year.
This bag of vegetables was worth several months of Jimmy’s salary. He’d be a fool to choose beef patties over this.
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After sending Jimmy off, the group made their way to Desert Town. Upon arriving at the location where the Undead Tide is sleeping, Ange arched his body and issued a spiritual summoning.
Hand bones pierced through the ground one after another, as skeletons staggered to their feet.
Soon, a tide formed by tens of thousands of skeletons took shape. The Little Angel excitedly ran back and forth on the edge of this tide, shouting: “Woohoo!
“Child, you’re a Battle Angel, not a sheep dog.” Negris shouted with annoyance.
“Woohoo!
“Woohoo!” With her encouragement, the Little Zombie began to run as well.
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Cajoled by the two youngsters, the skeleton tide surged towards the lower terrain.
Durken nudged Negris with his elbow, “Is this the kind of mess you were afraid of earlier? What kind of mess were you afraid of?”
Negris gave an embarrassed laugh, “I was afraid he’d get the bright idea to disturb the skeletons at the City Defense Cemetery. Who knows if someone’s watching over those skeletons locked in the cemetery.”
The skeletons in the cemetery were very well-arranged. Essentially, each grave housed a single skeleton; a missing one would easily be noticed.
Durken dismissed his concern, “So what if they find out? Are we afraid of the Council of the Undead?”
He thought that Negris was being overly cautious. Anyway, he’s the King of Alchemy, and along with Ange’s power, the Council of the Undead would have to summon the Lord of Mourning if they ever want to bother him.
Does the Council of the Undead even has the Lord of Mourning? Even if it does, would it join His Majesty in attacking the Starburst Array?
Negris scoffed, “Am I scared of the Council of the Undead? I’m afraid of the Sorcerer Alliance. What if they adjust the direction of that damn thing in the sky and hit us with another Starburst? Sure, it can strike down gods, but it’s not limited to ‘only’ striking down gods.”
Durken jolted at the realization. Ah, yes, how could he forget about that thing?
Durken had gotten used to measuring this world by the power structure of the master plane and felt they were invincible below the level of the king. Up till now, he had continually overlooked one thing – the Starburst Array.
The Starburst Array, over an unknown distance, obliterated the Gods of Light with a single shot. What would be the consequences if it changes its direction now and fires another round at them?
Durken had no divinity, but Negris and the silver coin did. Negris had the protection of the Bronze Book, which although being a seal, also protected his divinity from harm.
The question though, is the Starburst Array ‘only’ capable of attacking divinities?
Upon realizing this, Durken looked up at the Starburst Array again, suddenly feeling as if there was a sword hanging over his head.
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With ample manpower, dam construction presented no technical challenge. Durken was the outstanding engineer across the entire plane, even the best across two planes, so he found dam construction a breeze.
As for the measurement issue, it was solved by Ange’s Ring of Balance. Who could have thought that the god’s Ring of Balance, symbolizing equality and justice, would find its best application in engineering measurements?
For any construction project, from design to construction, the most time-consuming part is measurement. From altitude, horizon, geology, earthworks, the initial measurement consumes a significant amount of time and energy, but it was simply a breeze for Ange.
Without the Ring of Balance, he wouldn’t have been able to instantly discern that the slope from Northern Wind City was ‘flat’. If the altitude was not on the same plane, it would be a miraculous spectacle to build a dam.
“We can construct the dam here, where the river is narrow, thus reducing the work. There is also a big depression, which can be used to store water. Hence, the dam would not only increase the water level but also store water to regulate water volume in the dry season.”
“Now we need to solve the problem of underground pipes. The ground here is too loose. If we store water, the water pressure will permeate and wash away the soil, creating underground cavities, then we won’t be able to hold water.”
Durken began to examine the terrain and quickly identified a problem in the project. But when he came back the next day, he found that the area with loose soil had solidified into blocks.
“Eh, what happened here?” Durken was a bit taken aback.
He pondered all night about how to solve this loose earth issue. The best solution would be to find a group of Earth Element Mages to solidify the ground, the other option was to use a binding agent and stone to block it.
But either way, the project was simply too hefty. It couldn’t be…
Durken looked at Negris aghast.
Negris shrugged helplessly, pointing at a sandpit nearby.
Soon, sand began to tumble out of the sandpit as if some enormous creature was digging its way out. Then the ground began to shake as if being hammered.
Suddenly, Ange emerged from the sandpit. With each tremor, he rose a few centimeters, until finally, he stood on solid ground.
The solid ground where he stood was a circle about the size of his body, and it was hardened by magic.
“Hiss—” Durken ran over and drew in a sharp breath: “Lord, not only did you solidify the loose earth, you also hammered stone piles into the ground?”
The surface that Ange stood on was more than just a surface. It was a stone pile driven dozens of meters deep into the ground, spaced a few meters apart. It wouldn’t crumble, not even with a Magic Egg.
Soon, Durken learned how Ange was driving stakes into the ground. He saw Ange stood on the ground, and once the Ground Cracking Technique was activated, the ground started shaking until it liquefied, and Ange sank straight down.
Only when he reached the bottom where there is a rock layer did he begin to accumulate power, solidifying and petrifying the soil beneath his feet every two seconds.
Despite being a level-one magic, he launched forty strikes in mere two seconds, which was better than forty Earth Element Mages.
“Lord, you are like a human pile driver. If you were there back then, I could have built the world transit station in half a year,” Durken commented.
Negris asked, “So, how long did it take for you to build the world transit station back then?”
“Three hundred years…”
With the help of the Ange-brand pile driver that could speed up the process by six hundred times, the dam was completed and began to hold water in just six days.
At the same time, news came from Northern Wind City that Count Feiwo had spent 1.2 million Demon Crystals and successfully won over Northern Wind City, becoming the new Northern Wind City Master.
“But some people are not satisfied. Since they couldn’t outbid us, they decided to sneak attack us without spending money. Feiwo was slashed. Lord, please come to save him.”
PS: At nine in the morning