Aside from this frustrating jerk and his lousy performance, I got a message from Isac. And it brought great news for me.
[You finally returned! The thing you asked me to do is completed. The entire kingdom is now built into an organised net of cities and towns]
At last! Someone dependable was on my side. I didn't know if I should laugh or cry out of joy.
[Thanks for the trouble]
[Not only that, I also had extra workers and let them work over the Hector continent and the ones snatched newly from the enemy]
[Does that mean…]
[The entire eastern part of this continent in addition to all the four new acquired continents are now reformed and look as brand new]
Wow! She even went ahead of what I drew out for her and did such an amazing job!
[However… There aren't enough people to live in these places. Sigh! Even with the workers you lent me before, I could only accommodate ten percent of the entire place. And you know…]
Of course in her eyes this was something troublesome. However, for me it was nothing.
The initial plan we discussed and agreed upon before was to turn the entire kingdom into a beehive of cities and towns. In addition to the security measures in the form of defensive facilities and the army, there was one important chip that must be used as well; population.
To her, a few weeks just passed. Yet for me, years passed. Speaking about population? If I wanted, I could drown this world many times with people without feeling any pressure of doing so.
My influx of races never stopped. And we were speaking about the supply for almost three years. That was something horrifying if one thought seriously about that.
[Don't worry, in few hours I'll bring enough to suffocate these places]
[You…]
[Just come here while thinking about how to distribute them before the next quest would start. By the way, do you know how long before it will start?]
[At least two days]
[Not bad] I paused before finally asking about what mattered most and was neglected for a long time by me, [How about the stats? Did you guys solve it?]
Of course in my eyes, she was the most capable one under me for now. Even that jerk paled in comparison, and only Angelica and Lily were enough to compete with her on such prestige.
[Well, we killed a lot of enemies and won lots of battles. We massacred many monsters and built many towns and cities. So the stat problem was solved long time ago]
As expected, with a few words she summed everything up and told me the answer I was waiting for.
[By the way, what are we going to do against the upcoming zombie event? You do know how terrible it will be. Even with everything we prepared, even with the population you are bringing out of nowhere, you must have heard of the losses in the army ranks, right?]
I knew she was worried about this. And she got a point in doing so. However, she would never have imagined that solving the army problem was much easier for me than solving the population problem.
I had to go back and inform the two ladies about this. Convincing those who already settled in such a nice world to come here and face dangers wasn't easy indeed.
However, compared to this troublesome situation, the situation of the army was much smoother. With a single word, I could mobilise hundreds of millions here.
In fact, I already planned that.
[Leave these things for me to handle, you only have to work over your side and be ready to welcome the armies and people] I was able to bring tons of these two types here, however distributing them wasn't my specialty.
[Fine! Despite the vast distance we are speaking about, we can barely manage to satisfy the innermost and the middle layers of the kingdom]
[Only these?] I frowned a little before finally making up my mind, [I'll take a journey around and install many portals linking these places to here. The newly acquired continents will be the only one suffering from such danger but in two days time I believe we can handle most of them]
[Oh, you'll interfere to help? Then things are going to be fine!]
I didn't speak with her anymore, opened the market and purchased lots of portals.
I already visited most of the places in my kingdom, even the Hector continent wasn't an exception. Only the three newly acquired continents at the south of Texas were out of my reach for now.
Without wasting much time, I told everyone again to converge at the capital while I started using my staff.
Luckily the habit of storing bookmarks grew up with me in the old days. So there was no problem for me to reach many places in no time.
? Just like she said, the entire region of my kingdom was already revolutionised. I could see tons of newly built towns and cities, forming clusters around themselves while many defensive buildings appeared there.
Each cluster was determined to work as a foothold for my armies and people. So they had everything one would dream about. Be it walls, defensive towers, sentry posts, and even trenches.
What they lacked in my opinion was the aerial defences. Things like floating forts were missing. But this wouldn't greatly affect my kingdom's performance in the upcoming quest.
After all, the zombies were just a ground threat and didn't have the ability to fly until later stages.
By that time, I'd have tried the theory of dealing with these zombies. If it failed, then it wouldn't be too late to call forth for the flying legions of monsters to help.
Or perhaps I should use the newly designed weapons and suits to suppress those flying zombies. Anyway, these flying zombies weren't rare, but the time needed for each one of them to be born was long.
So in the end, each den wouldn't bring forth more than hundreds at most thousands of them. Compared to my ability, I alone was enough to eradicate such troublesome factors off the map.