The Mighty Dragons Are Dead-Chapter 900 - 0897: Retainer Knights (First Update)
Chapter 900 -0897: Retainer Knights (First Update)
“A city shall be built here, named Dragon Valley City, then a road from Flame City will be constructed, called Dragon Cinder Road. Another road from Dragon Valley City to Estuary City, it shall be known as Dragon River Road. Flame City must also build a road to Reed Marsh, to be called Reed Cinder Road, and a city needs to be established in Reed Marsh, named Reed City!”
Liszt casually sketched on a map.
The Flame Island is essentially square in shape, albeit slightly tilted. The Holy Mountain, where the Moon Slayer Holy Tribe resides, is about at the island’s center. Slice the island diagonally and it can be divided into the northwest and southeast halves. The current range of activities for the Flame People is primarily concentrated in the southeast half.
The geographic center of the southeast half is approximately Whirlpool Mountain, making the city at the base of Whirlpool Mountain, Flame City, the transportation hub and central city of the southeast half.
Reed Cinder Road extends east from Flame City, crossing the two upper tributaries of Whirlpool River and stretching nearly to Reed City near Reed Marsh. As the guardian of Heart Reed Teleportation Formation, Reed City will inevitably become a trading city. Eastward from Reed City lies the East Coast, where a suitable port can be found to build a harbor city.
Jade Salary Avenue goes from Flame City towards the northwest, reaching Jade Mountain, a spur of the Flame Mountain Range, and connecting the under-construction Jade City. In the future, a road could extend further northwest from Jade City, reaching the position of the Holy Mountain—Liszt intends to establish a city at this central point of the island.
Dragon Cinder Road is an extension southwest from Flame City, all the way to Dragon Pit Great Mine; Dragon Valley City will be the future mining center city.
Dragon River Road is an extension due south from Dragon Valley City, reaching Estuary City at the estuary of Whirlpool River. This city will be Flame Island’s sole port city at the current stage, responsible for communication between Tulip Island and Flame Island.
Essentially,
these four roads are the development veins of Flame Island at present, with all agricultural and industrial production revolving around these four roads.
The Heart Reed Teleportation Formation has already been activated, with knights and serfs pouring into Flame Island continuously; once they arrive in large numbers, it will be time for the frenzied development of Flame Island.
“The construction of Dragon Cinder Road must be completed quickly, Emily. After it’s done, you immediately lead the Mammoth Knight Brigade to build Reed Cinder Road, and finally, Dragon River Road.”
“Understood, Your Highness!”
Having delegated the road construction and city building affairs, Liszt habitually took on the role of a detached director; he rode on the Formless Dragon Bard, circling above the Dragon Pit Great Mine a few times.
The mining area located in this valley is unimaginably vast, about 20,000 square kilometers in size.
To give a more vivid comparison, Liszt’s original home, Coral Island, was about 10,000 square kilometers, roughly equivalent to the area of an ordinary prefecture-level city. And Dragon Pit Great Mine is about equivalent to two Coral Islands or two prefecture-level cities, with five types of minerals distributed within.
Of course, averaging the mining area for each type of mineral, it didn’t seem too large.
At present, it has been confirmed that the galena is deep in the valley with a small area; mercury ore is on the right side of the valley, also small in area; Black Heart Iron is on the left side of the valley, the largest in area; copper ore is in the hinterland of the valley, also not small; and the extent of the titanium ore at the entrance to the valley is yet undecided.
The exploration magicians from the Magic Association are working together with the knights to survey and strive to determine the accurate distribution of the miner areas, as well as to formulate a mining plan—as for the reserves of the mining areas, that’s difficult to calculate, but these are shallow layer minerals, making mining quite easy.
Unlike Earth, where many minerals are deep underground, in this world, metals and gemstones originate from dragons and are buried relatively close to the surface.
Perhaps there are deep layer minerals too—after all, no one has been able to explore and mine them.
“Once this mining area is exploited, it will support the resource consumption of the Flame Kingdom for decades. Add to that the Jade Mines of Jade Mountain, and there’s no need to worry about resources… Flame Island truly deserves the praise of being rich in land and resources,” Liszt rejoiced in his heart. “But I wonder if there are Elemental Dragon bones buried under Dragon Pit Great Mine?”
This is a question worth exploring.
Mining isn’t an easy task, and to completely excavate this valley would take a considerable length of time: “Unfortunately, even though my Eye of Magic has merged with a dragon, it still can’t peer into the underground to detect magic.” The Eye of Magic is already impressively effective, yet he still feels it’s not good enough.
…
Mind Island.
Knights were supervising the serfs in their construction work, with the chief architect being Mbappe Brokenstone, who was also the teacher of Liszt’s head architect Jomaya Bangtu—Jomaya once almost met his death for sleeping with Mbappe’s daughter-in-law and was ultimately bailed out by Liszt.
Mbappe had long served as an architect for the Tulip Family. With Mind Island in urgent need of development, Liszt hired him to oversee the construction of the island’s castle.
Perhaps Mbappe harbored a grudge against Liszt for protecting Jomaya,
but he dared not show any signs of it and still worked diligently, especially with the knights from Black Horse Island supervising. No one dared to skimp on the work.
“The cement mixing is not up to standard, we must use ample amounts of cement here!” he shouted, commanding with a loud voice.
The construction craftsmen immediately brought over another wheelbarrow of cement, pouring it onto the shallow tidal flats of Mind Island. The use of high-quality volcanic or artificial cement had become another major infrastructure tool in Liszt’s hands. Once set, the cement was harder than rock.
Woo-woo-woo!
Suddenly, the sound of a horn resounded, and a fleet with the Red Tulip Flag slowly approached the hastily constructed dock of Mind Island.
A huge, pitch-black bird circled above the fleet.
The bird descended straight to the construction site where Mbappe and the others were working, and from the back of the bird, a knight clad in silver-white armor leaped down. The supervising knights immediately drew near to greet him, “Lord Marquis!”
“Just carry on with your work, I have come to take a look,” the visitor was none other than Liszt’s father, the Obsidian Albatross Knight, Marquis Li Weiliam of Bull Tail.
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“Lord Landlord,” Mbappe hurried over to greet him as well.
Li Weiliam smiled and said, “Mbappé, it must be hard working on the island.”
“It is Mbappe’s honor to serve Prince Dragon Knight; it’s not hard at all,” Mbappe quickly responded. Despite being a renowned Master Architect, in the eyes of the nobility he was not much different from a commoner, and skill could not bridge the vast gulf of class status.
“Good, keep up the good work,” Li Weiliam said contentedly with a slight raise of his hand. Although Mind Island was not his territory but his son’s, he shared the same sense of ownership, “Build the Fortress of the Mind well and strictly protect this island and the door behind it, allowing no oversights.”
“Please rest assured, Lord Landlord, Mbappe’s architectural quality has always been the best.”
“I believe that.”
He believed that Liszt would definitely grant this favor for his father!
