Building the Wall

"Give it a name."

"...Homecoming. Homeland Fortress."

Lu PingAn set down his book and looked at the enormous complex before him, having come up with a decent name for once.

The former mining district had become a fortress.

Golden walls stretched along the mountainside, lined with sentry posts and guards armed with Spin Force Stone cannons. What had once been a winding mountain road through a crude earth-and-stone mining area had now become an unbroken expanse of metal structures.

As the Public Channel continued broadcasting, more and more East Country People came here of their own accord.

Some sought shelter, while others wished to join the team and avenge themselves and their friends.

With so many people, the original housing was naturally no longer enough, so expansion followed.

And with war in mind, ordinary houses were not sturdy enough either. They were reinforced and expanded, gradually becoming what stood before them now.

From below, it looked like a steel dragon winding along the mountain road. From the front, the entire mountain range seemed to have been clad in Iron Sheet.

The complex was far more than what showed on the surface. The Professionals had been working overtime, digging frantically underground. The real safe zones, shelters, factories, and armories were all belowground, though they had yet to be fully activated.

The excessively high ceiling of Professionals had made everyone prepare for the worst. No one could guarantee that the Aus did not possess something even more absurd than the Divine Bone Cannon.

In fact, as far as Lu PingAn knew, they did.

"...Is the information confirmed? They have a powerful Rule-level Weapon?"

As intelligence was consolidated, and as more and more Aus either surrendered or were captured, they naturally learned more about the local Horde Company. This was no longer a