Chapter 800 Beginning of the Province's Recovery?
After leading the awakening of the 7 posts of the order, Vicente turned his attention to where he was, the cultivation room in his house in Martell Village.",
After completing his breakthrough and activating the Awakening Altars in the southern and central regions of the continent, he left the room and soon found Nova and Rory waiting for him.
"Vicente, congratulations on your breakthrough!" Nova said as she hugged her fiancé, while Rory smiled at his friend.
"You've become a Mid-level Paragon! How do you feel about it? Is it as incredible as it seems to us?"
Seeing the look on the young redhead's face, Vicente smiled and said. "It is better. I just activated several altars of the order and I don't even feel tired. I'm much stronger than before!"
Rory smiled as he nodded to Vicente and patted him on the right shoulder. "I hope you become a High-level Paragon soon."
"Hmm."
They walked out of the Fuller estate and soon hit the busy streets of the central part of the city.
Martell Village was now a large agricultural city of 200,000 people, many times more than when Vicente had lived there with Nina.
Little more than a decade had passed since Vicente had left this place, but what had been a village had become a large city, visible from afar. This new city would be visible even to someone floating in the sky near Millfall.
Even though the city had exploded, the place didn't seem that disorganized. There were areas of the city where there were no brick or wooden buildings, but rather tents. Still, all these places were well maintained and organized, quite different from the situation in Ironcrest and Millfall, places Vicente had just passed through before coming to the village.
Even though many of those 2.5 million people were "safe" in their cities, they had been living in fear for several months, without much hope for the future and without even a chance to leave their cities safely.
Even though Vicente's trains were still running in the province, the number of train rides had dropped drastically before Vicente's return. With the news that monsters had destroyed railroads and trains in Diamond Province, many people no longer trusted this mode of transportation.
But with Vicente's return and his actions to strengthen the province's railroads and rail lines, the locals regained their confidence in this mode of transportation.
With more people and resources returning to the area, many of the inhabitants who had been separated into the cities by the crisis now could migrate to more interesting places for themselves.
The men of the Royal Army and the Fuller family were acting to contain certain movements and prevent migrations that would weaken rather than strengthen their cities. But within limits, the people of the province could now move about again without the substantial risk of being killed by monsters.
In addition, the order's altar in Diamond Province had become known throughout the kingdom, and word spread that every day at noon, Vicente helped young people awaken their powers.
Families were using Vicente's trains to move to this area in the north of the kingdom, a completely free train ride for those with children who were just entering the adult stage of their growth.
As positive news of the province's recovery spread, with virtually every indicator in the area improving, Vicente moved forward with his plans.
After leaving Martell Village, he took care of the surviving places that remained to be visited before beginning his journey to Saltstar City.
He had now traveled halfway to this important city for the province and his life, and was currently stuck in the middle of his journey to improve the Saltstar City & Metal City railroad.
With only Nova and Torne at his side, Vicente would reach the city in only four more days, where he would witness the monster destruction that had started the worst of the disaster for the Seidel Kingdom.