Chapter 402: Under Construction
“Something left by Mother?”
On the Hades City wall, the young girl stood by the wall, playing with the irregular dark crystal in her hand, murmuring to herself.
The tug-of-war with Fukada Akihiko was very successful. Not only did she obtain a series of materials urgently needed in the current stage, but she also gained a lot of information that she couldn’t access at her current stage, and… the pendant her previous life’s father gave to her mother, which was in her hand.
It was said that Fukada Akihiko found it at the place where her parents used to work. Because special crystals have the ability to carry energy, he injected his shadow energy into it for her self-defense. According to him, if she encountered danger, she could activate the energy inside and fall into the shadow space, and then she just needed to wait for him to come and get her.
Kazumi had also entered the shadow space with Fukada Akihiko once before. The environment, filled with darkness, was even more oppressive than her own territory. And the feeling of drifting in strange liquid was quite peculiar. It was better not to use such a life-saving method unless necessary.
Moreover, the commemorative meaning of this thing was clearly greater than its actual value. After all, it was a relic of her previous life’s parents. After receiving it, Kazumi could clearly feel a sense of joy from the depths of her soul.
“Let’s look over here first.”
Suppressing the series of guesses about her parents that came to mind, Kazumi knew that it was just the influence of the residual consciousness of the body. Although the young girl didn’t dislike this special emotion that made her more human, what was more important at the current stage was to improve her strength. As for nostalgia and similar things, she would do them after she had enough strength to settle down.
She put the pendant in her hand into her pocket and shifted her gaze to the open space below the surrounding wall.
Ghoul and walking corpses, like ants, were carrying various materials back and forth. The Lich floating in mid-air was like a supervisor, releasing ice spells from time to time to help these brainless low-level undead arrange the materials more neatly.
It had to be said that Lei was a trustworthy subordinate. The dutiful Lich Governor not only completed the basic reconstruction of the entire territory during the period when Kazumi was interning and unable to enter the territory, but also hunted in the Ghoul Plain in his spare time, expanding his Ghoul troops to a three-digit level. Coupled with some walking corpses produced by the [Graveyard Hill] from time to time, the troops under the young girl’s command had a slightly undead legion feel, although they looked more like a transport team now.
However, this was also the main work of the entire territory now. The [Black Coffin]’s external teleportation point had two locations: one was on the Ghoul Wasteland, far from Hades City, and the other was the central plaza next to the Great Graveyard.]
Although Kazumi and Fukada Akihiko’s relationship was indeed very close, the young girl, who never trusted anyone easily, would not easily reveal her trump cards to others, even if this person was her very kind uncle.
Therefore, the materials put into the territory from the outside Black Coffin could only land in the central plaza. And reality was not like a game where construction could begin with the numbers in the logistics bar. Kazumi could only control her troops to transport these large quantities of materials to the vicinity of the city gate.
“This position should be okay, right?”
Without looking at the seemingly endless transport team, the young girl walked down the city wall from the inner stairs and said to herself, looking at the majestic black stone city gate not far away.
Kazumi didn’t understand architectural studies very well, but her years of experience in farming games and some life experience allowed her to roughly understand what the [Ghost Gate] was.
A pass generally referred to a defense facility set up at a strategic pass or transportation hub. However, it was probably impossible to find any strategic location in the current vast territory. And if a pass was placed baldly on a flat ground, not to mention whether it could meet architectural requirements, even just purely placing it there would be a waste of its effect.
So, after repeated consideration, Kazumi’s decision was to build this spectacle on the original city gate of Hades City. If it could replace the function of the city gate, it would be the best. If not, it would not be impossible to build a barbican around it.
What needed attention now was that Kazumi could not dismantle the original city gate at the moment. She could only hope that this construction system could intelligently replace it. If it was forcefully squeezed out as a whole, it might cause the city wall at the entire gate section to collapse.
However, it didn’t matter if it collapsed. With the current abundance of materials in the territory, it would only be troublesome for Lei to work overtime to repair it. Anyway, the undead had nothing to do in their usual time, and it was not even a loss for Kazumi.
“Lord.”
As if sensing Kazumi’s arrival, Lei, who had been helping to transport materials nearby, slowly floated over. After landing, he made a standard mage’s salute to the young girl.
“Yes, Lei, what was the result of what I asked you to look at before?”
Turning to look at Lei, Kazumi slowly asked.
“Your subordinate is incompetent and unable to distinguish, please punish, Lord.”
Upon hearing Kazumi’s question, Lei immediately lowered his head again, suppressing the soul fire in his skull, and answered hoarsely and deeply.
“Eh, it’s okay, I also thought of it. How is the material transport situation now?”
Casually brushing aside the matter, Kazumi asked another question. After entering the territory, Kazumi had given the large bag of “Supreme Yin and Supreme Yang items” brought by Fukada Akihiko to this knowledgeable Lich for analysis, to see if any useful ones could be kept. However, Kazumi didn’t have much hope for it, after all, the systems were different. What Kazumi was truly concerned about was the construction situation of the current spectacle [Ghost Gate].
“Reporting to Lord, it is estimated that it will be transported in two more trips to complete the designated materials. The remaining materials have already been placed in the warehouse area.”
The nature of the undead was probably obedience. After receiving the young girl’s forgiveness, Lei stood up without any emotion and earnestly reported the current situation of material transportation again.
“Two trips, speed up!”
“Yes, Lord.”
…
A moment later, the bustling city gate returned to its usual desolation. Below the tall and majestic city wall, only two small figures remained, along with the neatly piled materials that were as high as half the city wall.
“Hu—”
Letting out a long sigh, the young girl slightly calmed her excited mood, bent over, and took out all the contents from the bag containing the special items. Since she couldn’t distinguish them, she would put them all in.
The pale white parchment scroll appeared in Kazumi’s hand again. She gently tore open the parchment scroll, and the sealed surging energy gushed out of the scroll, finally constructing a phantom of a pass even taller than the city wall at the city gate before her eyes.
The next moment, the various items in front of the young girl levitated, were pulled by a mysterious force and injected into the phantom, followed by the material pile next to it. Countless bricks, stones, wood, and iron rotated crazily in a posture that defied the laws of physics, and were finally all injected into the ethereal phantom.
And with this energy storm carrying a terrifying aura, what appeared before Kazumi’s eyes was a line of familiar small characters that made her heart beat slower by a few beats:
[Spectacle – Ghost Gate Under Construction]
