As Daki explained her limitations Frost was forced to ponder the outlined problems.
"For labour the Niflheim gnomes I'm designing should be able to settle right in when it comes to basic forge work perhaps even being able to help with the more advanced processes without much aid." His Niflheim gnomes were slated to be far more skilled and talented than any of his ice dwarves, a boon that came at an expense of weak combat capabilities.
"In regards to materials, whatever we can exhume from the Dungeon's mines either Calder will provide, or we can purchase outright with DP -as long as our reserves holdout." Though they'd managed to produce a significant war chest of several hundred thousand DP that had to cover a whole range of areas not just materials.
Therefore the main problem Daki highlighted and one that Frost strongly agreed with was the lack of forges. Even if they had the labour and the materials if the devices used to transform those raw materials into something useful were few in number it didn't matter how many people or how much materials they had.
Why don't you just build more forges then? You might ask. Well that's not as easy as you might think. To produce Daki's main forge alone cost tens of thousands of DP even without the extra additions she's added over the following months.
Readymade buildings and workshops cost an arm and a leg through the Dungeon menu thus with the war chest already spread thin over the many other areas Frost couldn't wantonly spend it on a couple basic forges. No the only option was to build them from scratch one brick at a time.
"Building additional forges will take up labour, time and speciality materials..."
"If you want the wall done on time you're going to have to find a way to get me that labour, the time needed as well as the necessary materials."
"Haaaaa I'll ask Calder if he can add forge supplies to the list of materials and hope for the best. In the meantime do what you can with the forges we have available to us."
"Will do...seems we won't be getting much sleep over the next couple ways and not in the good way..." Daki stared at Frost in a particular manner, a suggestive look in her eyes which Frost quickly caught on to.
"Loki you did very well tonight, I'm proud of you." Frost quickly moved over to the young boy who was resisting the urge to fall asleep.
"Master." Loki became alert upon hearing Frost's words doing his best to cover up his tiredness appearing rather adorable.
"It's ok we've been here for a while, discussing some rather boring topics plus it's past your bedtime, it's no wonder you're tired."
"Head to bed Loki, you've earned a good rest."
Loki yawned at that moment and rubbed his eyes, no longer feeling the need to fight the urge now that Frost had spoken. Following that he smiled, waved goodbye to Frost and Daki before teleporting into the private space and heading to his bedroom where Nanna was already fast asleep after her own work filled day.
Now with Loki out of the room Frost finally responded to Daki's gaze.
Frost's and Daki's debauchery slowly corrupted the innocent maiden of ice, it's likely that like Khuno pretty soon she'd be seeking out a worthwhile partner that could help curb her growing desires.
Once their little session was over Daki returned to her bedroom for a solid rest, the last she'll likely be having for quite some time.
Frost however was still rejuvenated, his spirits and mental faculties set ablaze by his union with Daki as well as the bountiful level of DP flowing into his core, granting him untold strength, strength which he funnelled into quickly finishing off his latest design the Niflheim gnomes.
Shortly after the sun had risen on the territory and the council members had awoken and started the long list of tasks they had been given Frost finished his work and sent the design off to his father for the final approval, but he was already 100% certain that his father would approve.
During the last family gathering after interacting with several of his siblings he learned that quite a fair few had had their submissions rejected for various reasons such as being impractical, too strong, lacking in detail and such.
Dungeon cores like himself, Yami and Indra were one of the few who took their time with their design rather than ham hocking something together and hoping for the best.
Though the Ronsos would always be his true pride and joy due to being the first monsters he ever designed and ones that he spent a substantial amount of time designing his heart already had a soft spot for his little gnomes.
Not expecting his father to give his approval right away Frost set off to work with both Khuno and Findley in tow.
"Have you finished arranging the required manpower and tabulated how more we need?"
"Pretty much given the base estimation of the amount of sapient labourers available to us." Frost and his cohorts were no longer restricting the activities of the sapient labourers instead truly accepting them as part of his territory forever more.
It was far more efficient for him to utilise the vast troves of gold coins sitting in his vaults to pay sapients over, using DP to purchase monsters solely for laborious tasks. He still needed to run the Dungeon during this large development plan after all.
"Good, try to air on the side of excess though, I won't be that fussed about a little wastage if it means reaching our target on time."
"Understood. We've left a large chunk of the quota to be allotted to these Niflheim gnomes was it?"
"Yes that's the name I'm giving the species, I'll mostly be needing the D-rank lesser variants, but a few C-rank true bloods will also be required, have you accounted for that?"
"I believe so, under your advisement we have aired on the side of excess after all, the Dungeon's current reserves as well as daily perhaps even hourly income for the foreseeable future is pretty much accounted for.
"Hopefully it's enough."