Behind Copper Furnace Fortress, Wojin quietly busied himself gathering the construction materials needed for Great Zhou's troop deployments.
However low-key he kept things, there was no way he could hide it from Balai.
The relevant news was quickly reported to Balai. Hearing his subordinate's report, Balai, who was handling military affairs at the time, did not even raise his head as he said...
"Leave him be."
The dwarves' construction industry was highly developed, and the one thing Copper Furnace Fortress did not lack was building stone.
Besides, reinforcing the defensive line was also a good thing for them, so Balai had no reason to refuse.
As for those three hundred militia...
Although he had clearly said before that Great Zhou should handle the extended section of the defensive line themselves, when faced with this mobilization of labor, Balai still chose to turn a blind eye.
Shi Lei's earlier words had made him feel embarrassed, but Balai could not deny that the deployment of those three hundred militia was indeed more symbolic than practical.
Once Great Zhou's defenses were in place, whether those three hundred militia were there or not no longer mattered.
On this point, his thoughts matched Wojin's.
He had no intention of bringing the matter up himself, nor did he intend to stop it. He would simply pretend not to know. After all, everyone understood the situation perfectly well.
Shi Lei obviously would not be foolish enough to think that Balai would not know Wojin was both moving building materials and mobilizing labor over there.
In fact, the red-bearded dwarf had already tacitly approved it. He simply could not bring himself to say so openly and would not take the initiative to speak.
Those three hundred militia were indeed extremely amateurish when it came to fighting. In the