Chapter 1206: Chapter 825: Gears
Ring Tower City · South City Outskirts
With the expansion of the Night Watchers’ buildings, the earliest built South City has been expanded to a significant degree. Moreover, since they built around the tower, the whole city forms an arc shape.
Fortunately, under the influence of Kana’s philosophy, the Night Watchers are well aware of their incredibly strong city-building capabilities.
Thus, from the initial planning stage, the city was already mapped out with a long-term construction plan for the future.
The benefit of this is that South City is not chaotic; each area has been planned from the start, including routes, zones, pipelines, and so forth.
It can be said that anyone who has spent time in Ring Tower City’s urban areas must acknowledge this advanced city-building concept.
Since Kana’s Ascension to Divinity.
The Night Watchers organization has become the global leader that everyone must follow.
Although the Night Watchers cannot afford to offend everyone by doing something reckless yet,
as long as the Night Watchers don’t actively cause trouble, everyone will give them some leeway. As long as their bottom line is not crossed, they will cooperate to some extent.
For this very reason, the Night Watchers engage in many covert and incremental plans.
However, this also allows many of the Night Watchers’ systems, philosophies, and behaviors to spread outward.
You cannot expect those nobles, those top carnivores, to fully accept everything.
But if it benefits them, they are very willing to change.
And on the edge of this city.
A military bastion area called the "Steel Ridge Zone" rumbles day and night.
This is the city’s restricted area, no one but Night Watchers is allowed entry, even Night Watchers need permission to enter.
Kana has placed a power limitation here, which can be simply termed using an interesting gaming term — air barrier.
And this military area is the lifeline to the Abyss Blood Pit Fortress.
A broad track — its surface shimmering with rune light, like silver veins embedded in a steel base — extends from deep within the city straight into the center of the military zone, connecting with a massive, constantly surging teleportation gate.
Looking over the entire military area,
it feels less like a solemn military camp and more like a highly efficient super logistical hub.
Though this area is at the city’s edge, various transport rails and action routes spread out from it.
Like a spider’s web.
It is imaginable how immense the cargo transportation demand here is.
Beneath the towering metal dome, thousands of Night Watcher logistic personnel bustle through the gigantic warehouse maze like busy worker ants.
Mountains of enchanted arrow crates occupy half the site, beside stacks of sealed energy cores, neatly arranged standard equipment, and numerous crates labeled "First Aid," "Holy Water," "Contamination-Resistance Remedies."
The air is filled with the scent of machine oil, freshly quenched steel, and unopened fiber fabric, with background noise from the humming of the transport devices, the hydraulic sounds of mechanical arms, and the never-ceasing command broadcasts.
"Look over there, Becca, Warehouse 17 is replenishing ’Blazing Armor-Piercing Arrows’ again. The throughput of this new arrowhead is simply astounding! Just two days ago, three hundred boxes were shipped!"
A young logistics recorder, Elton, stands on the second floor’s overhead walkway, pointing at the goods below being packed into specialized cabinets by mechanical arms, his tone tinged with disbelief.
Even though he knows about the transport in this area, he didn’t expect such a high demand for goods here.
After all, he’s only recently started working in this area.
His partner Becca, a young woman with freckles on her face and meticulously tied hair, is busy verifying the list on the light screen.
"What’s strange about that? Think about how many arrows are pouring out every minute over there at the Abyss... Demons aren’t made of straw," she says without looking up, "It’s said that yesterday the flow peak at the Abyss portal set another record."
"Before I came, I thought Night Watchers no longer used such old-fashioned weapons. Outside, I heard of places where Night Watchers still manufacture various crossbows and arrows, and I thought they were joking."
After all, the Night Watchers’ magic power weapons are world-famous, especially when they showcased them spectacularly during the Rat Purge War.
To the outside world, Night Watchers have virtually entirely outfitted themselves with magic power weapons of all kinds.
"In the Abyss, these arrows are still useful."
Even though suitable magic power weapons for the Abyss are already available, sometimes demons inexplicably possess magic resistance.
The effectiveness isn’t satisfying, so sometimes there’s no other choice.
Elton leans back against the railing, gazing at the teleportation gate radiating halos, his eyes gleaming with longing.
"I really want to see the front line... The books say the Abyss’s sky is sulfur-colored, the ground flows with fiery rivers, hideous and evil demons surge like tides, endlessly assaulting the fortress’s defenses.
"Kana Leader recently fought against the Abyss Evil God there! What a spectacular scene that must be..."
Becca finally raises her eyes, glancing at him with a "stop dreaming" look.
"Wake up, Elton. Your logistics sequence number G-736, during selection tests, you almost failed the most basic protection spells.
The commander assigned you to statistics instead of being a transporter because of your neat handwriting and agile mind. Abyss?"
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