"No, we are not," Alros said calmly, which even surprised him from how confident he said. "Sooner or later we will clash with Astor Kingdom, so, doing it sooner would not change anything,"
His explanation earned nods from the elder witches, his committee of advisors for the witches and pretty much every human and non-human race under him.
"We should prepare though for some evacuation plans in case of the worst though," he added. Hildegard nodded, seeing where he is coming from.
"But for now, scouting and building necessary defenses is the main priority. Cedania, make sure the base become impregnatable as possible. Luen, make sure 10 miles from the base is under constant surveillance. Make sure nothing will get pass through the 10 miles mark without anyone noticing.
And for the 100 miles radius from here, make sure any movement from Astor Kingdom will be notice by at least one scout group,"
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Both elder witches nodded, understanding the importance of their task. "As for the rest, keep on doing what you did, but if any of the two asked for your help, drop the task to help them," the rest nodded, similar understanding the importance of the tasks given to the two elder witches.
Seeing them nodding, Alros smiled before walking away, planning to make some changes to the system space and see if there is any changes to it aside from increase in about everything.
-x-
When he entered the system space, Alros would have never thought the differences would be so prominent. Previously, while it is still in Tier 2, while it look boundless, there is still some limit that can be seen, like some kind of clear glass if you squint a little.
However, the clear glass is no more, so he assume the place just got bigger. Aside from that one improvement, there is also the fact it looked more vibrant. The sky is still just patches of purple and black, but now it have what looked like stars, but probably more like lights patched at the very top of the system space.
"Let see how big it get now,"
-x-
After flying for two hours straight, he finally reach the clear limit, as there are a restriction preventing him from going further. There is also the fact he could see a massive gorge in front of him, which is not the most subtle warning.
Lizardmen, Flame Ant , and, Wood Termite laid eggs with some of the unmatched eggs, likely because of magic of some kind, hatches in that instant. The Treemen also grow from little saplings into monsters, their growth stopped by the system space.
As for the Goblins, Orcs and Kobolds, since he put female clones in their Lairs, they immediately gave birth to the monsters, helping in increasing the populations.
However, since the clones are weaker than the original with limited lifespan, which likely become shorter due to giving birth, it is not a viable way to increase the populations, at least until he could create more clones as well as making sure their lifespan is at least a year.
"That will take some resources and experimentation. It would be best to hold such thing back until we have a breathing space," he muttered.
-x-
Finishing the necessary Lair upgrades, while building new ones for the monsters capping his population limit, he head towards the lab, where most of his equipments are.
He would have preferred to replace all his Middle-Grade equipment with High-Grade one immediately but similar to Lairs, High-Grade one took 25 space, so he could only have 200 equipment if he did so.
So, instead of replacing them in one go, he bought new equipment, all of them High-Grade. He plan to see the difference in effectiveness and whether it would be better to have more Middle-Grade equipment rather than High-Grade ones. A standard quality versus quantity.
50 High-Grade Mana Gathering Magic Circle, 40 High-Grade Growth Tube, and 10 High-Grade Transmutation Magic Circle. That is what he bought with the intention of seeing their abilities and how much they fare in term of effectiveness.
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"Looks like the High-Grade one is better than the Middle-Grade one, though the results is better than I thought," he said to himself, the demon staring at the brand new equipment.
The High-Grade Transmutation Magic Circle is faster in upgrading his monsters, not to mention the effectiveness also increased. Aside from that, it could now upgrade stronger monsters, or increase the chances of success.
As for the High-Grade Growth Tube, the week he spend observing is worth it as he now knew that the lifespan of clones is a lot higher if they are born from High-Grade Growth Tube. Not to mention the speed of growth is faster as well.
Then, there is the Mana Gathering Magic Circle. He was glad he bought it as the consumption of Mana for the High-Grade equipment is something Middle-Grade Mana Gathering Magic Circle could not handle, at least without many of them at once.