This Giant Dragon is So Powerful!

Chapter 149 - 17: Black Castle; Present Your Humble Loyalty_2

Shiji wasn’t displeased by this; instead, it was even happier. As long as it was working diligently and sincerely for its master, it was more joyful than even enhancing its own abilities.

In the time that followed, Wilson did not let Shiji down.

He first chose a site on the mountain valley plains for building the Dragon City Castle—a curved area against the mountain, covering an area of about a few dozen square kilometers.

The surrounding environment was also excellent. The most crucial aspect was its concealment; it was impossible to see this area from the outside. Once completed, they could further use Shielding Spells to hide the castle entirely.

Once the location was settled, the construction officially began.

The best laborers for this construction were naturally goblins, Giant Demons, and kobolds. Of course, every race in the Dragon Nest had to participate in the whole construction process.

The entire construction procedure was as follows:

First, Master Deen selected the construction site and then racked his brains thinking about how to design the Dragon City Castle.

In this design process, material selection was decided first, then transported to the construction site by the creatures that extracted them.

Meanwhile, the kobolds, skilled in excavation, began laying the foundation. Because the building design was too grand, the foundation needed to be very deep. Moreover, for future expansion of the Dragon Castle, Master Deen also planned for an underground city. The underground city could both store troops and treasures.

By the time enough materials were transported, Master Deen had also completed the design blueprints. When the blueprints were finished, tears streamed down Master Deen’s face; he was overjoyed because this blueprint was undoubtedly his most heartfelt design. Indeed, if it wasn’t made with heart, one could say he didn’t have a heart to use.

After the design was completed, the foundation of the Dragon Castle’s main structure was also laid. It must be said that the kobolds’ excavating ability was really incredible. These kobolds, generally over two meters tall, were almost as efficient as humanoid excavators. When tens of thousands of flexible excavators simultaneously dug, the foundation and the outline of the underground city were forming at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Thus, the construction work officially began.

Various types of Giant Demons, towering like giants, carried hundreds of tons of massive stones. These stones were an excellent construction material found by the kobolds—Black Gold Stone.

Black Gold Stone appeared pitch black but glinted faintly golden under sunlight, harder than steel. Moreover, this stone was very suitable for enchantments and engraving Spell Matrices. Externally, this stone is quite expensive, generally beyond the financial means of small nobility for extensive use, let alone for such an extravagant undertaking as the Dragon Castle.

After these irregular Black Gold Stones were transported, the Dragon Vein Mages conducted rough processing, using casting to neatly divide them into uniform blocks.

The neatly divided Black Gold Stones were transported and stacked by muscular goblins to designated locations, then linked and hardened by Dragon Vein Mages to maintain the overall structure’s stability.

With the assistance of tens of thousands of muscular creatures and hundreds of Dragon Vein Mages, the Dragon Castle was visibly taking shape at a speed observable by the naked eye.

However, the design of the Dragon Castle was so grand that despite appearing to build rapidly, the actual daily progress was very little.

According to the design, this was a magnificent Dragon Castle that could accommodate hundred-meter-long Giant Dragons to freely enter and reside. Although it had only one floor, its total height reached an astonishing five hundred meters.

Human nobles’ castles generally stood around forty to fifty meters high. If they were of particularly noble identity and wealthy, they might reach a hundred meters, but anything taller was rarely seen—not because it couldn’t be done, for the magical effects of spells made even a thousand meters possible if needed.

The reason castles over a hundred meters were rarely seen was due to lack of need. Additionally, the higher the castle, the more intricate the Defense Spell Matrix would be to construct.

A castle without a Spell Matrix or a Restriction isn’t truly a castle. Even the poorest nobles would try to equip their castles with at least a basic warning Spell Matrix. Nobles with deep roots lived in castles equipped with every kind of Spell Matrix—warning, defense, attack, energy restoration—arming the castle to the teeth.

The new castles constructed by the wasteland’s territorial nobles naturally lacked such extravagant Spell Matrices; a single warning effect would be considered impressive. These nobles viewed the wasteland areas merely as places to gather wealth, not as strongholds to develop.

If they regarded them as strongholds, the Centaur, Dark Nest, and Higlind family’s three forces wouldn’t have been able to conquer them so swiftly.

Time was passing.

The Yalbit Kingdom was now in a two-front war: one line with the Centaur and one with the Fish People, and it was a real headache. However, all three sides currently maintained a relatively restrained posture.

Why restrained?

Because of the fear of the Legendary.

The Legendary of the Yalbit Kingdom hadn’t been seen, but neither the Centaur nor the Fish People wished to push things too far, lest the Legendary return and cut them down as the prominent offenders.

As a result, the Centaur and Fish People very considerately, after occupying some of the kingdom’s land, voluntarily reduced the war’s intensity. While the kingdom, though angry, was simultaneously relieved—they too feared a total war with the Centaur and Fish People, fearing the chaos and severe losses it would bring them, win or lose.