This ti, Ryen and the others had reaped quite a harvest in the Twilight Forest.
There was no need to ntion the various materials they gathered one by one.
The most important prizes were the tools and treasures of all kinds—
the Worm Queen, the Moon Dial, the Crumble Horn, the Peacock Feather Fan, the Transformation Powder, and the Charm of Keeping…
So of them seed rather useless at first glance.
But in Albedo's eyes, every one of these items carried great significance.
Who knew? If researched through Teyvat's thods, they might reveal entirely new uses—or even be refined into sothing better.
Apart from these, there were also two advanced-class staves:
the Frostbearer and the Fla Dancer.
Two spellbooks, and three spell scrolls.
Altogether, the spoils were already quite substantial.
Compared with simply gaining ores and resources, these mysterious artifacts were far more exciting to everyone.
After a brief tally, Ryen called on the group to start chopping wood and building houses.
He decided it was best not to cut down trees inside the forest itself.
After all, this was ant to be a scenic place for Klee and the others to enjoy, so he wanted to preserve the natural beauty as much as possible.
One group stayed behind to clear out a patch of land, leveling the uneven ground.
Another group Ryen led to the forest's edge to cut timber.
It really did feel a bit like camping.
Of course…
Ryen himself couldn't be bothered to lift a hand.
With a grin, he leaned against a tree, arms crossed.
"Co on, Tartaglia, put so muscle into it! Diluc and the others have already chopped nearly a full stack of wood. Your pace is way too slow!"
With a final swing, Tartaglia felled the last block and shot Ryen a resentful glance.
He could understand leaving the won to clear the land and smooth out the ground.
But why was it that when Ryen said "let's go chop wood", what he really ant was making them chop while he didn't move a finger?
Suppressing a sigh, Tartaglia lifted his axe again and went back to work.
"We've been inside for two and a half days now."
Suddenly, Zhongli stepped up beside Ryen and spoke softly.
Ryen raised an eyebrow, curious.
"Have you contacted Madam Ping and the others?"
Zhongli gave a small nod.
"Everything is normal there. Ping spends her days farming and fishing. Skybracer and Tongque have been going out to the plains daily to observe city construction.
As for the Millelith and Knights who recently joined, they've already gotten used to traveling to the Nether and coordinating with the stationed troops there.
The original garrison has been redeployed to other regions for exploration."
Ryen thought for a mont, then nodded.
"That's good. What about the End's progress?"
"All is proceeding smoothly," Zhongli replied quietly.
"The Ender Dragon subjugation plan is unfolding step by step. As of now, nearly a hundred unhatched dragon eggs have been collected."
"And what do you intend to do with those dragon eggs?"
Ryen was silent for a mont before shaking his head.
"I haven't decided yet. A Dragon Knight Legion will definitely be ford, but overall, we should still keep so dragon eggs in reserve."
"Here's the plan: let the Qianyan Army store away one-third of the dragon eggs, just in case."
"The rest of the eggs can start hatching."
"Those Qianyan troops haven't returned yet, but we can inform them through long-distance communication."
"Ningguang's plan is five hundred elental dragons and five hundred other dragons."
"The elental dragons will handle elental reactions, while the other dragons will work with the firearms units for aerial strikes."
"In short, I'll tell Ningguang later, and she'll co up with the detailed arrangents herself."
Zhongli naturally wouldn't ddle too much in these affairs.
He had already retired, and with Ningguang and the others running Liyue in full swing, what more did he need?
After working for three thousand seven hundred years, Zhongli truly didn't want to deal with serious business anymore.
Otherwise, when the ley lines in Mt. Aocang were stirred up by Aether, he wouldn't have been forced to step in to fix them, leaving him in such a foul mood that he still bore a grudge.
Besides, he had no reason to criticize Ningguang's arrangents.
The elental dragons were tasked with elental reactions.
As for the others…
Don't think that without elental power, they're weaker just because they can't trigger elental reactions.
Whether it's the Ender Dragon or the Aether Dragon—
though their power was about the sa as elental dragons, their lack of elental reactions ant that in Teyvat, they weren't as destructive.
However…
power without attributes ant their attacks could pierce the defenses of any elental creature.
For top-tier battles, such dragon flocks might actually be even more effective.
Take Hu Tao's skeletal dragon, for example.
Ugly to look at, just a giant pile of bones—
but being a bone dragon made it the easiest to modify.
That bone dragon was currently in Albedo's lab.
Ryen had asked him to mount so firearms onto the dragon's fra.
Since its body was entirely skeletal, this was far easier than modifying other dragons.
A brand-new war machine was about to be born.
Watching the lively group chopping down trees, Ryen chuckled softly.
"Do you rember what I told you the first ti you ca here?"
The corners of Zhongli's lips lifted slightly, his gaze warm with relief.
"Forever etched in my heart…"
"Liyue will grow to a point where even I must look up to it. The future Liyue will not need my protection—on the contrary, it will beco the shield for and the adepti."
Ryen gave a small nod.
"And now?"
"Now…"
A faint smile flashed in Zhongli's eyes.
"It has already beco so…"
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