The first step… The first step was my capital. I had to let my boys finish digging and building, training and getting stronger… I had to start building up my kingdom starting from such a small zone here.
As for the Hectors… I had to assign watching guards along the coastline. They were so damn near my capital backyard. And I had to make sure any attack coming would be detected way before it reached my shores.
According to Isac’s blueprints, the side of the shore was protected with a series of defensive posts. They were enough to secure against single raids.
However the situation had now changed.
I went back to my capital. The situation there was best described as waiting on their toes, holding their breaths to see the results.
It seed Hilary didn’t spread the word about my success to stop the incoming waves. As I appeared there, I sent a few to look for Hilary.
All the humans in the capital and around it started to cheer the mont I appeared, and kept even shouting when Hilary ca back with Angelica and Isac.
The three girls were together, seemingly in the middle of discussing their plans to rebuild the capital..
“You weren’t lying,” the first thing Hilary said was this. She ran, threw herself onto while adding, “I was sick and worried about you.”
“Liar,” I said with a chuckle while surrounding her with my arms.
“You are an,” she complained, but I didn’t comnt on her remark.
“We need to talk,” I turned instantly to Isac.
“About… What?!”
Isac seed surprised by what I did. If there were people here knowing the full scale of this disaster then they would be Hilary, the jumper, and Isac.
These three, alongside anyone from any other race other than humans, would know how deadly the rging process was.
“The Hectors are the ones holding that land,” I said, pointing towards the direction I just ca from.
“As if you didn’t kill many of their strong powerhouses so far,” Angelica said in such a light tone, telling she missed the whole point.
“That’s not the case here,” I slowly shook my head, pushing Hillary aside to fully concentrate on what I was going to say, “they got soone to help them establish a strong shield. We can’t breach it for now.”
“That ans… They can get to us fast, can’t it?” Hilary’s wide eyes told she got what I wanted to say here.
“They can take up to three hours to arrive at our shores,” I said in rough estimates.
“That’s… Too close,” Isac said, “I didn’t plan the eastern defences that much.”
“That’s why I needed to talk to you,” I nodded, “you have to go back and revise that region’s drawings. Also try to tighten the security at the northern and southern borders until we expand the rebuilding process across these parts.”
“Understood.”
It wasn’t just a remodelling in the eastern part of my capital, but also modifying things at the entire grand setting and planning of the eastern coast of my kingdom.
Once we secured this part, we would sleep assured at night from the risk from getting attacked by Hectors. Yet such a goal wouldn’t co true so fast, at least it would take months to get done.
“Why not focus on rebuilding the eastern coast first?” Angelica proposed, “we have to relieve ourselves from their nuisance as fast as possible.”
“I agree, ” Hilary said in agreent, and Isac also nodded.
“I won’t say no,” I sighed, “but to do that, we have to work fast and also have to guard against any interruptions from the Hectors.”
Of course those bastards didn’t endure such a big price to bring that higher up here to just stay within their lands.
I could feel their eyes falling over my lands, wanting to attack it day and night.
This was going to be a really challenging period. But once the eastern coast got secured, we would get rid of their nuisance for a long ti.
“We have to do it this way,” Hilary took charge of this, “Isac here can work on his drawings and plans. Leave the rest for and Angelica.”
“I got more humans to co,” I sighed, “I can’t let the two of you work on this. Also we need strong fighters to help secure and defend our workers.”
“We can… Use help from you, right?” Hilary hit with the elbow, but I didn’t nod in return or agree.
“I might not be available most of the ti,” of course we were talking about a long ti commitnt here, one that would last for months, not just days or weeks.
“Then…” she was startled for a second.
“Didn’t you get fighters from the previous human batch? Let’s do it this way then,” I thought of a solution, “let’s face strength with numbers. Send a word for Lily and her group, we need elites strong and capable to lead strong armies to be sent to you.”
“This isn’t going to help in solving any problem,” Hilary said, but I shook my head.
“They will lead all the fighters we got from those batches,” I said, “I believe their number is in millions, even in tens of millions later on. Such force will be enough to secure our eastern lands without doubt. With the help of those elites, we could survive this.”
“What if…”
“If things went south, I’d just co to help,” I shrugged, “and don’t forget, all of our top forces are here. So if anything happened, and I was away, you could ask for their help anyti you wanted.”
“If so… Then it might work,” Hilary could only accept such an arrangent. Of course human forces we could get from the slaves wasn’t going to be much.
The human forces we got this ti weren’t that good. They got experience in fighting great battles, but they lacked good stats and with no cultivation.
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