NOVEL NEXT Chapter 408: Progress
From the giant zeppelin spaceship, 500 Empyrean-order slaves and 10 people leading them emerged from a big door that opened from the ship's body.
The 10 people leading them were subordinates of Rani and Bill.
Each of them took 50 Empyrean-order slaves with them and went out to capture people. More specifically, their first targets were people outside of Sanctuary Areas and the clans of various races that were transported here by Mystic Root.
On the other hand, Erix and others started working after finishing the meeting in an hour.
Erix went out in search of a good spot under the ground 1000 kilometers deep.
One of the guild leaders was a scientist and he knew about some research on Deep Earth, so he told it to Erix who had the job of finding a spot underground. Approximately 1000 kilometers deep were big boreholes with big space. The area was high temperature and rich with minerals and ores that formed from heat and other reactions.
As such, Erix expanded his senses to 700 kilometers underground with this Space Mapping ability, which was his current maximum range. He teleported to hollow spots and started searching for a place big enough to house the Blessed Island.
Not even an hour passed before he finally found a perfect place!
It was a hollow space vast enough to stretch 30 kilometers in diameter!
'Perfect,' Erix grinned and started creating a portal. After a few seconds, he formed a portal and connected it to the General Portal he had created near Dreanox Tree for people to use. General Portal was a sophisticated portal gate with a function to specifically teleport to any of the Erix's portals.
He entered inside and returned to the Blessed Island.
No one was present here as everyone was busy with the tasks.
He contacted the main team in spiritual chat, connecting to Rin, Lilith, Isabella, Aria, Lily, Maleina, Amu, Sameira, and Kenshin.
'I found the spot. I am starting to create a space formation to teleport the island directly there. I think it will take seven to nine hours.'
'Great. We've already started picking promising individuals and sending them to Aria's Spirit Training hall. We'll have to see how long it takes,' Rin said.
'Sameira and I also formed channels with guild leaders. They'll be distributing resources and creating training camps for people to finish their breakthroughs to Royal-order rank,' Isabella said. 'If all goes as planned, we'll finish the first two requirements in five days to a week.'
'Good. Let's keep the pace up. We have to finish as fast as possible,' Erix said before cutting off the call and started making formations.
Lilith and Amu were already busy creating formations and they were not going to stop until they exhausted the resources to create formations.
The top 20 rank powerhouses and those above who had reached Empyrean-order lifeform rank were required to form training camps with other leaders and train people en mass to break through to Royal-order rank.
The vibe of the kingdom changed as a whole because even though the majority of the population didn't know what was happening, the workload and efforts increased for everyone.
The warehouses filled with resources were getting exhausted speedily as potions, pills, and items, and everything was used as formation materials and crafting potions, pills, and other items.
The number of people entering dungeons and the creation of new dungeons for resources also increased. Kenshin was working in his position for that, increasing resource output as a whole.
The population also started gushing into Phoenix City as the Unfettered Kingdom further expanded every day. This was because the majority of guilds under the Unfettered Kingdom had connections to various Sanctuary Areas, and everyone was going there due to increased resources and work for rewards appearing around the Unfettered Kingdom.
Isabella was handing her Resource Manager position in World Council to build that every day!
The number of guilds under the Unfettered Kingdom that got residency on Blessed Island numbered 187, and each of them had 8 to 15 Royal-order powerhouses. Combing that with members of Heavenly Melody, Unfettered Fate, slaves, and some other people, they already had around 3.2k Royal-order residents.
Only two days passed, but everyone was working and busy as a bee all day and night.
The top powerhouses were not even sleeping, but they made sure everyone else trained and got powerful, breaking through to Royal-order.
Lily and Aria also worked all day and night to make sure the top Royal-order and those in the Empyrean-order who hadn't awakened their soul yet awakened them as soon as possible.
In the blink of an eye, three more days passed by.
During these five days, the Blue Maw Pirate group had rounded up over a million people.
In their giant spaceship had a dimensional door connected and coordinated to a private dimension as big as a planet. They sent the captured natives and people of various races there.
Their methods to snatch people could be labeled as indifferent. They forcefully brought back every single individual above the age of 10 while ignoring everyone below 10.
If a parent had a kid, they dragged away the parent and left the kid on its own.
They had no regard for anything other than their task.
After throwing those people into their private dimension, they began their training and brainwashing with Rani's devices and the dimension's functions.
It was a resourceful dimension tailor-made and arranged to nurture slaves and make them powerful, so they could do more and better work for them.
This was their modus operandi.
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On the 5th day's noon, Erix and the main group sat at a table under the Dreanox Tree.
"Our status is good at the moment," Erix said with a grin. "We have 32 clans settled and their 73 Empyrean-order powerhouses. Combining that with other Empyrean-order residents, we have a total of 108 Empyrean-order ranks."
"With 187 guild bases settled on our island, their members, clan members, and other people at 5017 Royal-order rank, two tasks for Blessed Island upgrade are finished," Isabella smiled.
"How's it going at Aria and Lily?" Rin asked.
"We are almost finished. We have 894 people with souls awakened not including us," Aria grinned.
"The next batch of top Royal-order people will come out today and I think we'll make sure over one hundred Royal-order's awaken their souls," Lily chuckled and added. "We'll be finished with our plan tonight and can make a move tomorrow."
"Bwahaha, now listen to this news," Amu said as its slimy figure sparkled and oozed out a sparkling liquid that formed a number at the center of the tale.
493.
"That's the number of formations we've built," Lilith smiled. "Each one is defensive and deceiving, filled with obstruction. They have the power to destroy multiple layers of formations at once, but we have this many and we are still continuing."
"Well add another hundred today," Amu grinned.
"They've captured over a million people and are still doing it," Sameira said. "I can observe everything on Earth, so I specifically focus on them. It seems they are not interested in us or anything as long as they finish their tasks for now."
"For now," Kenshin nodded. "So It's better if we finish upgrading Island tomorrow and start integration."
While they were in a meeting, some individuals of the Blue Maw Pirate group were approaching their island with some clear intentions that were certainly not positive.