With a military order issued, the entire army swiftly sprang into action.
Thanks to the experience accumulated during the initial construction of Amnath City, the veterans quickly took over the key points of the Construction Site, leading the Ganbu people recruits as they learned the work.
Within days, the recruits began to grasp the knack of it. Stone-laying, pillar-setting, dike-building, mixing magical adhesive—each process rapidly became familiar, and defensive wall sections rose from the plains like mushrooms after rain.
Twenty days passed in a flash, and the small plain's terrain had been completely transformed.
What had once been open wasteland was now entirely enclosed by massive Stone Walls forty meters high. The fortress's outer perimeter formed a circular defensive line, covering more than twelve thousand mu. From above, it had already taken shape, like a slumbering beast lying still upon the earth.
Though the walls had been completed, construction on the interior buildings had yet to begin. At this moment, the entire fortress resembled a silent empty shell, concealing a will for war that was about to awaken.
Once the walls were complete, Ang ordered all soldiers to be released from construction duties and return to their regular military training.
The plains camp once again rang with dense commands and uniform training chants.
At the same time, the kobold population was quietly growing.
A month earlier, Black Claw, the kobold elder, had purchased ten thousand kobolds from slave traders at Fortress of Will. To pay for them, he had borrowed three thousand magic crystals from Ang, and only with the wages the kobolds had accumulated from their various jobs over the past year had he managed to cover the cost.
The new batch of kobolds led by Black Claw was laying stone slabs along the main street.
As he supervised