Chapter 215: Izgoy's Prosperity

"Alright I've got to admit. That's... a lot." Herold was amazed by our work. Well... we have been diligent.

A ten kilometer of a house filled with... monsters. The appearance is pretty ugly and big but we only made that for temporary housing. But we just caught more monsters... and more, and more until we were forced to expand again and again.

"Uh... how many... exactly?" Herold timidly asked.

"...Maybe around hundred thousand..?" Yefa answered.

"And these are just the fodders right..?'

"Yeah... We have a separate place for the stronger monsters."

"And you still have the soul bound monsters... Uh... you planning on taking the world?"

"Hah, I don't know. This is something that Zieglind asked of us so we just complied."

"Hmm... I see. So what will you do now? Will you get more monsters?"

"I think we'll take a break and help Ortov fix this ugly house."

"Hmm... alright. I'll be going now. Make sure you keep all those monsters in check."

In a span of seven months... we gathered around a hundred thousand fodder monsters and a quarter of a hundred thousand stronger monsters that are more capable.

This temporary house has scared off the villagers in Izgoy so we had to assure them for several days that everything was going to be fine. So I left them Faye and the phoenix to guard the place. Everyone was hesitant at first but they all grew fond of Faye and the phoenix.

Faye's phoenix can heal most wounds so it was a must for those who are hunting food for the people and the ones who were mining if they ever got into an accident. So Faye was immediately loved by everyone.

Next up, I put Zaref the Zombie Talisman user. Everyone mostly stays away from him but he doesn't really care. He puts up protection talisman all around Izgoy and spends most of his time researching with Lam. The both of them seems to work well.

Zaref last month put up a giant array of protection at the middle of Izgoy which took a lot of space. But it worked after countless trials. It seems that it was his first time seeing how much he redid that array of protection. But it worked. Yefa punched it once with all her might and there was already a crack. But this amazed Zaref seeing how its a hundred times more powerful than Xend material. So Yefa's strength is no joke.

I appointed other monster guards which were all around Izgoy just scouting and defending. I told them to only intervene in the fights if the people are in dire danger. I don't want to stop Afal's small elite units from becoming stronger so I just let them hunt on their own and train on their own.

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So a few more weeks pass and we've been helping Ortov get whatever he needed. Which took us at least three weeks to complete. We have...expanded. To the point that Izgoy is barely known right now. Izgoy's size went up by at least ten times. Our whole kingdom is so huge that we cut off the forest that we used as a cover for our base and replanted all of those outside.

We didn't have Helga so we had to place it all by ourselves and the help of some mages then used the healers in my army and Afal's elite units to fasten the place from growing.

Hundred thousands of monsters and I thought that it would be difficult to rule but no. Its easy. They all seem subservient and incredibly loyal so I don't need to worry about anything. So the only thing holding me back is the people. They still seem to be hesitant to get even over the gates that divided Izgoy and the homes of the slaves that we built.

They aren't really saying much about it but they seem to be incredibly scared. So I just gave up on it for now and we'll figure it out later.

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A week passed and thousands of people were coming through which was pretty weird. Apparently it was because of me and Yefa. We bought thousands worth of materials from several places. But Lam specifically told us to buy them in several places so we did. But we only bought materials from five places... And since we have so much money, we all blew it away on those five kingdoms.

Lam was pretty angry since the goal was to spend at least 5% of the money that he gave us to one kingdom then move on to the next so that we won't get noticed by royalty or nobles. I can understand it but it seems that we didn't get his message that clearly.

So we had no choice but to let them all in to the newly built Izgoy. They first went to the place where Izgoy started. But once they passed through the gates to the monsters that we enslaved, they instantly ran away. Some didn't and wanted to actually set up a shop here. I just agreed and let him do what he wanted. The townspeople didn't like it at first but they soon warmed up when they notice that the new shop established is a cooking shop.

So now, they can have more variety of food. Everyone was happy so I went on to a small journey to find more people who are able to cook and would like to cook for our place.

We really didn't care about money that much so I put up an insanely high salary fee per month of a hundred gold which thousands immediately took. But we had to pick the best one so I just asked Lam to do it for us.

In the end, we got about two hundred people cooking. So that's about... 20,000 gold per month. We're still in the millions from selling and trading, the treasury of this place when it was swarmed with undead and we still have some backup things in case everything goes hairy.

Gold isn't really much of a problem but nothing good can be really bought with gold so we aren't really focused on that right now.

Ortov and his team then began to make more houses for people to live in from the amount of people I'm just bringing in.

Yefa is the one mass hunting right now for food so that we can go away for like... something like a year and they'd still be good.

After a week, we noticed something strange. Some of the enslaved monsters weren't eating their food. So I asked Ortov to divide the place into districts so that we would know which place to distribute food to.

And Ortov moved everything easily so we no longer have that problem.

So for the next move... I had Yefa join in with the people in the mines to speed up the process. And they stopped at three kilometers down. Lam told us that the Xend materials aren't found that deep so digging straight down will be just useless effort.

It took several days for the mages to cover up the gigantic hole with dirt.

The mine got restarted in a far away place so that it won't damage Izgoy that much. Yefa helped everyone with mining and distributed the Xend materials for everyone to cash in at Lam.

All those Xend materials were then headed on to the next project.

Ortov then placed layouts of the gigantic thing surrounding the place. It was a wall. A gigantic tall wall, about twenty meters tall. A giant railroad was then forged on top of it going all around the wall and was equipped with cannons and ballista.

All they had to do was put up the wall, make a gate then finally, layer the Xend material all over the walls and on the houses of the monsters.

We're growing slowly and I'm already happy about the results. We can finally move on and do other things.

Herold then suddenly contacted me, "Precia, you there?"

"Herold?" I asked. "This is a bit out of schedule."

"I know but I need you. There's several reports. Five more monsters appeared. It was the same as Tartarus monsters but... different. I can't exactly pinpoint it but there's so many..."

"What!? It hasn't been that long isn't it?"

"I know but, I'm here right now with those white monsters. And they're raging throughout the whole place. So I know this will be much to ask but I need you here right now."

"Alright I'll be there."

"Get Yefa too. And get the other people from the sky island. Contact them. This also caught Zieglind's attention. He's here... right now."

"I see, we'll be there within an hour!"

I immediately got ready and went to get Yefa and contacted Lam to use the message skill on Yefa. Something must be going on. For Zieglind to be there without notice... this is something serious.