The Phoenix Ape Race, a species destined to receive heaven's favor, evolved far beyond everyone's expectations.
"I, Lu PingAn, their creator, never expected them to evolve this far. These cities and fortresses truly have nothing to do with me. Do you believe me?"
One month after the birth of the new race came Lu PingAn's first comprehensive work progress inspection. Put simply, he had to submit a report to his client, proving that he had not wasted all the funding and had at least done something with the money.
Yet when the time for the "regular inspection" actually came, the changes in this region once again left the inspection team nearly unable to comprehend what they were seeing.
They saw a city. More precisely, a cluster of cities built around the former small town, consisting of six large cities and fortresses visible to the naked eye.
Phoenix Ape Race members bustled everywhere, and their numbers were astonishing. After all, they were truly a race born of heaven and earth.
But unlike before, resources still constrained them. They had begun actively controlling their population, planning land use in an orderly fashion, and had even adjusted their race's birthplaces, abandoning some of the "older models."
"Are you sure? But these are Eastern Kingdom-style buildings."
"They bought architectural and artistic knowledge from the Library themselves. I don't know who sold it to them, but it was dirt cheap. Now they have a whole bunch of artists and architects who changed professions. They seem especially sensitive to color, and quite a few outstanding painters have emerged."
There were some things Lu PingAn did not say. Perhaps because their light-sensitive systems were too unusual, their paintings looked like nothing but a sea of blood-red to ordinary humans, with some areas pitch-black. Looking at them too